A Knack for Ancient History

My goodness, it's been a long time since I've updated here. I'm one year away from Physicianhood. I'm going into Emergency Medicine. I'm dating another Med Student from another Med School, although at the moment, it's long distance and not going great, to be honest. So it goes.

Other things going on - I've been in another city for a while, living on the coast. I've been enjoying myself, having a blast, working pretty hard, but not as hard as a lot of other people have been working. I mean, some people are just gluttons for punishment, and push themselves beyond the physical limits of human endurance. I was like that for a few weeks on Surgery, but it really started getting to me. Working that long does not seem to really improve the care the patients were getting. In some ways, your ego can get in the way of adequately caring for patients. So it goes.

I have my last SHELF exam in two days. I've not done as well on the last few as I'd have liked. I never really cracked that top ten percentile. It makes me feel bad about myself. Maybe last year's boards were a fluke. Maybe I should have tried harder on the studying this year. I've got Step 2 in less than a month, so that should give some possibility for consistency and trying to show my strengths.

For whatever reason, I find it hard to be all buddy-buddy and still respectful with my Attending Physicians. I find very few of them that are down-to-earth and still not sleazy. I don't know why that is. A lot of residents fit that description just fine, so something must happen between the learning and the teaching to make people sleazy or stuffy. Who knows.

Maybe I'll get back in the habit here, but probably not.