How do you feel?

2 weeks of vacay, Over. Was very good and very relaxing considering that I did a whole lot of nothing. Just vegged out @ the rents' house, then off to Boston for Chris and Al's wedding, which was amazing BTW, got sick on the way back (short story made long), and did some more nothing! Except sleep. I did catch up on beautiful sleep.

And now, back to the daily grind.

Next rotation: psychiatry.
I started this last Monday. So far, it's been very interesting, although the stories behind a good deal of these patients are downright sad and disturbing (abuses of all kinds starting from when they were young and all along the way, it seems they just collect all sorts of bad luck and trouble). You look at them and think "geez, how are they ever going to get out of their miserable holes?" And unfortunately a good deal of them don't. Either they catch a really bad disease and die miserably, OD on God knows what kind of drugs they do, get murdered, or commit suicide, or get into a horrific accident...or all of the above. And the scary part to me is that at one point in their lives, they were for the most part, like any normal person, and unfortunately something or things knocked them off their even keel. Makes me wonder how closely we skate along the borders of sanity and madness. A few bad days? A few drinks? A puff? A sniff? A snort? A word? A loss? An injury? An action? An impulse?

4 weeks of psych. Lots of talking, reading, drugs, and crazy.

GO ANGELS!

Song of the day: "Crazy (Gnarls Barkley Cover)" - Ray LaMontagne

What?

2nd rotation, Done! Radiology was a trip and a half! It started out slow and non-descript (following random techs and doctors, trying to figure out people's heads from their asses and backs, and boobs, and guts...) to something absolutely interesting and downright fun. It's great to see people out there who are just good at what they do and enjoy doing what they do. Kinda makes me want to be an interventional radiologist (IR for those in the biz). The guys at IR know how to shoot the shit in more ways than one, but at the end of the day, they get the job done right, and all without taking themselves too seriously.
What do they do, you ask? They open up veins and arteries, cath and stent, do biopsies, pull out hardware, drain cysts, embolize vessels, etc, etc. and they make it all look too easy. There's definitely something to this type of gig...especially when you can do bank hours. I don't know how realistic I am with this avenue (FYI: radiology is one of the toughest residencies to get into), but it's definitely a sweet job if you can get it.

So by my count...specialties of interests: 6
1. Family Medicine
2. OMM
3. Gastroenterology
4. Physical Medicine and Rehab
5. Psychiatry
6. Radiology (sp. IR)

Stay tuned for more...

Song of the day: "Who's On First?" - Abbott and Costello