Now that the big exam is over, I can finally breathe again. While the holiday season ends when January starts for most people, for me the sedentary lifestyle of the holidays ends with the inservice exam at the end of January. Today I did my first workout on my exercise bike in weeks, and I […]
Archive for January, 2006
Happy Chinese New Year, everybody!
Today I took my inservice exam for general surgery. Well, it was *supposed* to be about general surgery, but it seemed like half the questions were about vascular surgery. I thought the test was very difficult, but apparently so did most of my colleagues, so I feel a little better about not knowing a lot […]
Over the weekend a patient had some Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, and he let the plastics fellow and me have some. I love Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. They’re like little chocolate crack.
I’m finally done with plastic surgery, and while the surgeries themselves aren’t the kind of cases I’ll be doing for the rest of my career, I’ll miss working with those guys. The second-year fellow on the service kept me in stitches (pun somewhat intended) with his jokes and his cutting remarks, and our slightly insidious […]
Man, this week has been crazy. On call Monday. Moonlighting Tuesday night. Wednesday I got out of the hospital at about 6:00, just enough to catch the tail end of the Indy Hub tour of the Athenaeum. From there it was on to Rock Bottom to meet the interviewees for the surgery residency program. Today […]
Last night I flushed the toilet to find that it kept refilling and wouldn’t shut off. Tripping the fill valve (it took a Google search to find out what it was called) didn’t work, so obviously I needed a new fill valve. After work today I went to Home Depot, picked up a new fill […]
I spent 9 hours at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit today. I’ve taken hundreds of pictures of the latest concept cars and production car introductions. I’ve picked up tons of brochures (at least the ones I didn’t get at the Indianapolis Auto Show). I didn’t even have to use my A.K. - […]
Whoa, my gas bill for heating the house was $146 this month! This despite that my furnace went on the fritz over Christmas, necessitating an $88 visit by the heating company and major surgery to my furnace and ductwork. Of course, they couldn’t fix the problem completely, and I was informed that a repair for […]
Home call is the great deceiver of residency. The idea is that you can relax in the comfort and tranquility of your own home, fielding an occasional phone call and only returning to the hospital in an emergency. This idea is bullshit. In reality, you’re shuttling between home and the hospital every few hours (or […]
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