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My name is Daren. I currently attend LECOM in Bradenton, FL. This is currently my 4th year of med school. I created this blog to post my thoughts about medical school. And because I rock. Boom. So please, come make yourself at home and enjoy my musings. If you are easily offended by things (ie sarcasm, being politically incorrect, etc) then I suggest you evacuate the immediate vicinity :)

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Planet Earth!

I love this series. The video captures are absolutely stunning. I don't know why I didn't watch it sooner. I've had it for over a year now and only just started watching the series. Majestic, touching, and most of all, relaxing.

One thing I will mention is that I was watching this at around 1:30am last night and fell asleep while doing so... and I still wake up at 9:30am :( Med school is preventing  me from being able to sleep in.

Current mood: chill
Current music: Mozart's 25th Symphony

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Middle of 3rd Year Optimism

Why hello there one and all.

So 3rd year of medical school is going and going... it's flying by yet seems to linger on like a mildly distasteful beer. I am currently on an Infectious Disease rotation (aka ID) and it's pretty awesome. Certainly a change from the last couple months where OB/GYN and pediatrics made me want to shoot myself in the face multiple times. Needless to say, I've already eliminated those two specialties from my future. However, ID seems very promising. I enjoy it because the consults are fairly fast paced yet interesting. It's almost like a break from Internal Medicine because you can more or less ignore a lot of the bs that interns deal with and just focus on the reason for the consult. However, as an ID specialist, you can also act as the attending physician for certain patients and manage them as a whole. Sure, you can do something similar as a cardiologist or any other specialty really... but there is something about dealing with microbes that is utterly fascinating to me. Such small things can bring down the largest beast or smartest human. It's constantly a race between us and the bugs. 

3rd year is formidable yet awesome at the same time. You win sometimes but you lose a lot. Sometimes you're brilliant and bring back a pulse from asystole, but sometimes you put the blood pressure cuff on inside out and the attending has to correct you in front of the patient. It makes the rotations go by very quickly. By the end of each shift you're likely to be dead tired and hungry, but on days where you're in the office and the drug reps bring food, you leave happy. 

Regardless, I am quite pleased with how life is going in general so far. Everyone has been so supportive of me and keeping me entertained. Word. My beer cellar has reached a fairly impressive number. I learned some new things on the guitar. I'm able to keep a beat when playing drums for longer than before. My friends have matched with their desired residencies. Woot. So there you have it.