After so many years of hearing about blogs and some of the more interesting ones. I've decided to piece down and create one of my own. I have never though of myself as a great writer, but maybe, with a lot of practice and blogging, I will improve myself to actually be mostly coherent. It will probably mean there is no blogging while I'm just waking up, as I am now. Not bad for a start, but enough of the mindless jibber-jabber.
Presently, I am pushing my way through my first year of medical school, which is an endeavor in and of itself. The material I'm learning is overtly difficult, just a lot of it. For example, by Monday I am supposed to have memorized about 16 some odd pages of material for immunology. Most of the material is composed into lists and, to be quite honest, I hate memorizing lists. There is no point. Within 15 minutes after the test, I will have completely forgotten the tested material. Oh well, that is another subject for another time. Overall, though, I am very impressed with medical school and I have found it to be a very fun and engaging career choice.
Just the other day, we were involved with TOPS in downtown Phoenix. TOPS is a program set up by local physicians to allow high school athletes to get physicals, but also to have medical students practice on some rather unsuspecting victims. Usually, there about 2500 students who come throughout the day. It was a load of fun, I actually wished I could have stayed for more than the required 3 hours, but we have this test on Monday. I participated in 3 devisions; male and female physicals and EKG's. The EKG's were pretty much the most boring. All that was involved included attaching wires to the leads and pressing a few buttons. After about 30 seconds, the machine spit out the EKG and that was it. The physicals, on the other hand, were awesome! It was great to finally take some of my knowledge , apply it and finally interact with someone/something other than a book. The poor boys had to do testicular exams and hernia checks, but, for me at least, there was never an issue. Overall, I did about ten physicals in the 2 hours I did physicals. I know in comparison to actual doc's who have done this for years that is slow, but this is my first time ever doing this. I really look forward to next year to do this again.
5 comments:
I like your blog title. Cool that you got to do physicals.
A query for my humble brother-in-law:
When you say there were no issues for you while giving physicals, did you mean the boys didn't make too big a deal about it when you checked them? I was unclear on that.
Do you view this blog as a creative outlet, a journal, an idea collection, other, all of the above, etc.?
Nice to see you blog, Chris! Good luck with the end of your 1st year!
Pat,
Both. There wasn't an issue giving the exams, and I didn't find anything out of the ordinary. Granted, doing testicular exams and hernia checks are anything, but ordinary.
I'm thinking of this blog more as a journal than anything. I have been extremely bad at writing anything after my mission, so this is an attempt to move in the right direction. Hopefully, during the summer I'll get a better feel of how all this works.
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