tags: internal medicine

2002

November

2002 Nov 15
Completely Shot Out

Quiet thoughts from the middle of the night.

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2002 Nov 18
Manual Disimpaction

This is what happens when you don’t get restful sleep.

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2002 Nov 20
Paper Thin

I think I am wearing down.

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December

2002 Dec 8
Post

“Are you postal today?” the on-call resident asked the post-call resident. No, I suppose none of this is really coherent at all.

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2003

December

2003 Dec 15
iBook saga continues

I miss blogging. Of course, lately I have very little to blog about, what with my life completely subsumed with my internal medicine subinternship, and interviews with med/peds residency programs, but, frankly, I'm beginning to feel pretty mentally constipated.

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2006

August

2006 Aug 9
ephemerality of happiness

My closest friends always admonish me that I think way too much, which is most certainly true. If I had the knack for shutting off my brain at least partially, I would probably enjoy life a whole hell of a lot more. Unfortunately, when I give it a try, it seems like my brain shuts off completely, and a lot of untoward and sometimes disastrous things tend to happen.

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November

2006 Nov 25
war and surgery (a metaphor revisited)

The problem with health care professional talking about the Iraq War is that we always seem to find ourselves with mixed metaphors.

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2007

October

2007 Oct 29
flashback: the unit

Love is watching someone die.

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2008

August

2008 Aug 21
dyssynchronous ventilation

Questions that had answer choices that all had something wrong with them, leaving me to pick the answer that seemed the least wrong.

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2016

May

2016 May 27
Pan-Resistant E. coli Caveat

Turns out, the E. coli isolated from a woman's infected urine isn't actually pan-resistant.

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