Starting to like Peds!

So, after a few weeks on this peds rotation I have started to actually like it. Maybe it is because of all the babies I see! Their well child visits are so fun! Hmm...this decision on what to do with my life is getting hard!

I just read this birth story, which is great: http://lumpsandwoozles.blogspot.com/2010/06/logan-james.html.

HOWEVER..at the very end she says " Turns out also that he wasn't an OB/GYN he was a DO...". Come on..DOs are doctors and can be whatever they want. How do people not get this? I try not to let it bother me..but it does! We need more DO advocacy or something out there!

NICU?

Right now I am on peds rotation..the first few days made me decide it was not for me. Although, this week I did two days inpatient, which was really fun, and two days in the NICU. I love the NICU and I got to see births from a different side. The NICU is sad though and hard. Today, I got to watch a birth in which the mother had no epidural and it was so nice. The mom was fantastic and baby was great..well not exactly. She started bradying down and starting grunting and retracting..the nurses freaked out about it. I think she was fine and just needed time (and two of the NICU nurses agreed with me and told me they were embarrassed that the neonatologist was even called about it). I understand why they freaked out but if you are giving her oxygen and watching her you don't need to freak out about it..all her other stats were fine! Hmm...

Ahh nothing like Vacation

So, today is the last day of my vacation! How Sad! I start pediatrics tomorrow. It is the rotation that might change all my plans so I am kind of excited/worried about it! I should be studying right now but instead I am working on a presentation for education day at my hospital site. I am doing it on a patient I saw a few months ago and further going onto discussing a few derm things like erythema multiforma, pemphigus vulgaris, TEN, etc. I think it will be good board prep stuff (hopefully!). However, I have procrastinated on this and am to turn it in by tomorrow..blah.