SELF REMINDER

Change the layout of this blog, it's starting to make my eyes hurt

You know you have been gone for a while when...

the address bar on your browser doen't remember your blog's URL ...

DAMN!

And the worst thing is... I have been doing close to NOTHING this past month.

Shame on me

Moving on...

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Let's begin with the updates, shall we.

Sooooo... 2009 came with many changes. First of all I started living ind Mexico City. I'll be here as part of my first 3-month-long clinical rotation of this... my SIXTH... and last year of Medschool. Did you catch that? L-A-S-T

Huzzaah!

Anyways, I came here to rotate in Radiology, Trauma & Orthopaedics and ENT & Ophtalmology (1 month each). So far I've finished T&O, and am currently spending my last week in the Radiology department. They have been two great months, very very light compared to last year.

During January a friend of mine and I rotated in T&O, it consisted basically in shadowing an attending throughout the day. The day began at around 9 o'clock and finish about 12 hours later. It was quite tiring because every single we would wrap up very... very late... sometimes even past 11 o'clock. I would get home and just sleep until the next day. However, I have to say it wasn't at all bad. I mean, the doctor was very very nice with us. He spoiled us, you know, he would treat us with coffee breaks, dinners, breakfasts etc.
We would tag along to visit his hospitalized patients, to his appointments and his ER consults etc. It was cool in the way that you could really get an idea of how a doctor's life is, you know after medical training. It was quite eye opening.
Yet, since all this was done in a private-medicine environment, the doctor sent us to a public trauma hospital to an on call nigh every week. To get some on the field practice. That was nice too. They would let us would put casts, sutures, reduce fractures, etc, very didactic. The residents were extremely nice with us and always tried to explain us the procedures. They don't usually have interns (which here in Mexico is what they call the Medstudents who are doing their last year(s) of training, their clinical practices), so it was kind of a nice change for them to have a couple of eager girls around. Plus, they are guys, you know ortho-guys ... so girls are always welcome.
All an' all I think it is a great clinical rotation. It is not as academical as we were used to. We didn't have any classes, or exams or any "real" academic activities per se. However, it was one of those life lessons that teach you what kind of doctor you want to be, and what kind of medicine you would like to practice, bla bla. It was good.
On the down side, if you ask me which are the muscles of the forearm my answer will be nothing but a blank stare. But hey! One can't have it all. It's a small price to pay! (Besides, even if I had studied them, two months from now my answer would still be some rambling and then the same blank stare).

On february...
Arghhh I'm too tired and sleepy to go on.
I could just save the draft to finish it later and post it but... given the previous history... that could take weeks. So I'm going to post it like this and hopefully within this week I'll finish the updates.

Any complains please keep them to yourselves. I shall not hear of them

:D
heh

xox

PS: I really missed you, Internet. I'm sorry for the long absence

The longer you've been gone...

the harder it is to comeback.

I've been thinking about posting for a couple of weeks, but I kept thinking:

I haven't written for so long, my first post can not be about the hard as rock cookies my sisters and I baked, or my recently discovered claustrophobia while riding the MetroBus with a gazillion other people, or bla bla


So I decided to just post anything... and take the pressure off.

See you back soon.