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paging dr jess: May 2007
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Thursday, May 31, 2007. Have I saved a life? Maybe now I have! What makes me think that maybe I have saved a life now? I donated blood yesterday! I've always wanted to donate blood, but there are many restrictions. However, I honestly felt ashamed that I work in healthcare but hadn't donated. Thanks to a decrease in stress and eating a healthy amount on a cruise this winter, I have crossed over that milestone. (Yes, that's the upside of gorging myself for a whole week on the boat! I took the usual precau...
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paging dr jess: On the wards .. finally!
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Friday, October 3, 2008. On the wards . finally! I'm finally a wards resident! We had a junior resident retreat a few weeks ago so that people could share the highs and lows of being promoted to resident. As I've had 6 weeks of elective and 2 weeks of vacation during the first 3 months of this year, my colleagues joked that they were trying to keep me away from the new interns! 1 I believe in the duty hours limits. Interns have to leave the hospital after 30 hours if not sooner! I am glad to hear that yo...
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paging dr jess: July 2008
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Saturday, July 26, 2008. PPD negative and cavity-free! The nice thing about being on nightfloat is that I have daytime hours free. I should be sleeping, but when else am I going to be able to run my errands? I'm pretty sure intern year had a negative impact on my health. (Those hospital cafeteria chicken wings are pretty hard to resist.) However, it's nice to know that my teeth are still intact and that those N95 masks really do keep the tuberculosis away. Sunday, July 6, 2008. Next, I will be admitting ...
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paging dr jess: June 2007
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007. Surviving to day 2. Well, I'm still alive. I didn't die of fear, which was just one of my many fears. The first day, night, and call couldn't come anywhere near the nightmares I had the night prior. When I arrived at the MICU the first morning, the intern signing out to me said, "You're on call tonight? Good luck with that! Saturday, June 23, 2007. I find this scary, but I'm keeping the link. In case I decide I want to have kids and dress them in personalized scrubs. The program c...
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paging dr jess: Google to the rescue!
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Thursday, August 14, 2008. Google to the rescue! Okay, I'll admit it: I use google to find medical information. I know I'm not the only one. Use of Google, Wikipedia, Emedicine, and other web sites is very common in the hospital among med students, residents, and attendings. I've seen you all using it! Usually I use google to confirm information I'm pretty sure I already know, but once in a while, I'm really not sure what's going on and give it a try. Labels: googling medical information.
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paging dr jess: January 2008
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Sunday, January 27, 2008. A lifetime of learning, no kidding. I'm in the last week of my month-long outpatient rotation, and I had a long list of tasks to accomplish before entering the CCU next week. In addition to seeing friends and cleaning my apartment, I also wanted to slog through the tall pile of journals that has accumulated since last time I was on an outpatient month. Flipping through the January 17th issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. I need reminders like this so that I remember ho...
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paging dr jess: October 2007
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007. At our recent intern retreat, our program directors took the liberty of flashing a picture of each intern in a slide show. Most of the pics were taken from those submitted with our residency applications, and we just had to laugh! We all look so different. Shiny, happy, and new in our best suits. Now I'm wearing T-shirts over drawstring pants covered up by my greyish white coat. However, I just started on a new wards team, and there's food everywhere! Friday, October 5, 2007.
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paging dr jess: PPD negative and cavity-free!
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Saturday, July 26, 2008. PPD negative and cavity-free! The nice thing about being on nightfloat is that I have daytime hours free. I should be sleeping, but when else am I going to be able to run my errands? I'm pretty sure intern year had a negative impact on my health. (Those hospital cafeteria chicken wings are pretty hard to resist.) However, it's nice to know that my teeth are still intact and that those N95 masks really do keep the tuberculosis away. November 10, 2008 at 11:40 AM. A Minute to Mourn.
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paging dr jess: March 2008
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Friday, March 21, 2008. Here comes the new blood! People said February would be the worst, and it was. Even my CCU attending told me he remembers February of his intern year being a lowpoint in his life. Now that it's March, my spirits are magically improved. Is it because I was in the CCU in February pulling those fun 30-hour shifts? Is it because I am on my first vacation in eight months? Is it because spring is finally in sight? Or is it because yesterday was Match Day? It seems that my Match Day.
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paging dr jess: September 2007
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Saturday, September 15, 2007. When I started internship, I knew that posting would be intermittent, but the longer it had been since I posted, the more pressure I felt to write something especially insightful. The days turned into weeks, and here we are at a whole month since my last post! I've read about this happening to other physicians-in-training with blogs. And I decided just to post about whatever comes into my head. Here we go! The last month was fantastic! Grocery shopping and cooking meals.
