So I'm anxiously awaiting the email from USMLE telling me I can register for my Step 1 test day. Several people in my class have already done it, so I'm starting to get really ancy waiting for it. I want to go ahead and get it done so all that can be out of my way. I expect to get the email in the next week. Until then, I will become a supremely compulsive email checker.
Went to Oxford this past weekend and watched the Ole Miss vs. Louisiana Monroe game. All I can say is that I haven't seen Ole Miss play so well since a Manning was on the team. They blitzed LM 59-0. I can attest, as an alumni, that the boys on the team earned their scholarship money that day. Unfortunately I couldn't stick out the entire game. It became so cold that my liver got frostbite. It began raining at first, and then it either turned to sleet or snow, we couldn't tell. My Nashville Native friend and I headed back to our tent in the grove, lowered it all the way, and made a warm coccoon of Hotty Toddy along with an awesome cheeseball. Not a figurative cheeseball, but a real one. The one you eat with crackers and is rolled around in chopped pecans. Well, when the friends who could only make it to the end of the 3rd quarter came back, they told us we looked shady sitting in the grove like that. You could only see feet, and if there was any sign of smoke then one could argue we had been in the pot patch located near the intramural field. It was such a fun time. I got to see great people. I forget how much I really miss my friends, and even Oxford to an extent. I'm much more of a city girl, but there is a certain appeal of such a small town. In fact, it's grown so much since I was there only 2 years ago. Much more to do, more dining, more stores. I'm freaking jealous. It was a long needed change for the town in general. I plan on going to at least one baseball game so that's going to be something to look forward to.
This year will be interesting as it comes to holidays. We're not doing thanksgiving at my house. I'll be going to my Aunt and Uncle's house, and my brother and sister will be going just to their father's house. Christmas I think will be different, since now we're switching to christmas eve instead of christmas day. It's really funny, because a while ago I was preparing for an impending engagment and marriage. I talked to my mother how his family also did the christmas morning thing, and how we may have to change to a christmas eve thing. Well, she would have none of that. We had always done christmas day and it was going to stay that way. I guess it took my brother getting engaged for her to switch. I'm not mad, I just think it's funny. So this year will see many changes as far as holidays go. At least I won't have to eat my mother's dry turkey for days on end. But sshhhh!! Don't tell her I said that. At least she doesn't fry it. People who fry turkeys just make me want to punch them in the face. Yeah, have fun with your atherosclerosis later in life. Bake your turkey this thanksgiving. Your arteries will thank you!
I recently read an article stating how primary care doctors are either planning on cutting back or getting out of medicine completely. I think, coming from the medicine point of view, that this has been a long time coming. Many doctors are unsatisfied in their jobs. The hours are long, the pay is becoming increasingly less, and the paperwork is enough to make your eyeballs pop out of their sockets and say "fuck you" as they walk away. There is a huge shortage of primary care doctors. We're told that almost any time they can fit it into a sentence at my medical school. But I think something that's not understood is how much work these doctors have. They are constantly swamped, and then they turn around and get sued, or Medicare/Medicaid/Insurance companies tell them that a service that costs $1 is only worth $0.20. So in reality, I can't blame a lot of these physicians either saying "screw this, I'm retiring or I'll make more waiting tables" or "I'm just working 8-5 and taking lots of vacation from now on". Now with the threat of the government stepping in to "improve medical access and care" (read: Government will eventually take over and the whole system will go to shit) it even makes some of us who haven't been able to even write a prescription yet think twice about our current career choice. Hopefully, the only thing the government will do is tell the insurance companies to stop making so much profit, for the bloodsucking lawyers to lay off the lawsuits, and put more trust in a doctor's training and clinical experience. Also, reimbursing a doctor properly for his time and training would go a long way too. But I highly doubt America is ready to do that. Medicine is going to hell in a handbasket, I agree. But the solution is not to pay doctors $40,000 a year and make them work 15 hour days. That's a great way to not have practicing doctors at all.
Ok, enough of my medical rant. I need to save some energy for my cell phone company. They've been charging for texts my mother has been getting. I'm going to see if they can block texts, since most of the time they're from a wrong number. If not, then I'll consider going somewhere else in the future for cell phone coverage. I don't agree for paying for something that I'm not using or that is not in my control. Also, I have to work up some nerve to call my ex roomate and clear some things with her. There has been some drama and even though it wasn't because of us, it was blamed on us. I'm going to be an adult and take care of this once and for all.
Until next time,
K
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