Planning Ahead

The end of medicine. Ahhhhh. Granted, it was better than surgery, but a 12 week rotation is just not cool. My attention span is definitely not long enough for that. Plus, it leaves me utterly exhausted. Next year's M3's will have a better time. They will only get 8 weeks of medicine and surgery, then 6 weeks of electives. But I guess the good thing is that if all goes according to plan I'll be an M4!!!! Tomorrow is senior planning day and I.CAN'T.WAIT. I've officially decided to not to an away rotation and will try to get the 4th year over with as soon as possible. It's not a residency strategy, just more of a I-need-to-move-out-of-the-house-asap-in-order-to-preserve-any-sanity-I-have-left. I want to take the least painful rotations and get the required stuff done. That's the one downside of picking pathology: all of the M4 courses are electives. But I'll manage, it'll be awesome. I'm so excited about tomorrow. Mainly because I don't have clinical duties and get to see some of my friends that have been on opposite rotations.

Oh, and may I mention that i'm PUMPED about my ob/gyn group? I think the only thing that could make it better if my medicine partner was in Group 5 as well. But I've got HemeOnc Doc and Speed Demon on my team. Bomb-diggity. We start on REI which I heard is super easy. I'll be interested to see the rotation schedule I get, esp. when I have L&D nights. But I don't have much going on in march so it'll be more for my own info than anything else. I hope I get to see some wicked tumors. And if I get to TOUCH a teratoma, omg I may just pee myself!

The thing that got under my skin the most was the whole "you should REALLY consider medicine" statements. I know it's odd for someone to be so decided on something so early in 3rd year, but honestly I'm a person that knows what I like and knows what I want. So as flattering as it SHOULD be, I just get defensive and put off. I like the basic science behind diseases. I like the disease states. I don't like treatment plans. Or what study should I order. Or what complication will I need to look out for with this medication. Just not my cup of tea. I'm so pumped that people want to do that. but not me. I don't think anyone will try to get me on Ob/Gyn or Peds. They'll be like "go away". haha.

But all in all, I enjoyed medicine okay. I think if I didn't like path, I could do medicine. It would be a job, and not something I LOVED. But I could do it.

well, since I have been on Q4 call, have had no social life, and my love life is drier than the Mohave desert, I think that's all I have to talk about. I've started wading my way through USMLE world qbank and hopefully will get some good study time during L&D.My Step 2 CK date is June 24 so I'll have to get some serious knowledge into my head!

Ok, I'll Say It...Who dat.

So I watched the superbowl, and all I have to say is that I wish I could have seen my brother's face when the Saints won the 44th superbowl. He has been a Saints fan all his life and I know he must have been so excited. Although the fact that the Saints made it to the superbowl and WON makes me a little leery of the apocalypse.

I was however very disappointed by the superbowl commercials. I think budgets must really have been that bad this year. I think the winner will be Doritos. My favorite is the guy telling the dog he has to speak for a dorito, and the dog goes up behind the man, puts on the shock collar, barks so the guy gets shocked, and then gets the whole bag for himself. I really laughed at that one. And Bud Light had just...confusing ones. I just didn't get them. And the google one was full out cheesy and sappy.

I have a little under 3 weeks until I finish my internal medicine rotation and I.AM.PUMPED. It really does not float my boat as a medical specialty. I however LOVE my team (well, the scutting  isn't my favorite, but the intern who does it is really nice so I'll just look over that part). The M4's are hilarious and my partner makes my day. Even though I don't think she knows how to take me half the time, I've really enjoyed working with her and she puts up with my little temper tantrums throughout the day.

So tomorrow will be my first day off since starting my rotation on the first. I need it like woah, but unfortunately it also comes with a test. Alas. Also, I'm starting to really think about 4th year schedules and away rotations. I'm still wavering, but I'm leaning toward not going on any away rotations merely for the fact that trying to plan one gives me a migraine.

Well, on that note I'm going to procrastinate and then go to Saigon for some pho!