Boy oh boy

I started my internal medicine rotation yesterday..so far it is okay but just not my thing. I find it completely uninteresting..ugh! what is up with starting so early in the morning anyways lol. I must make it through the next four weeks. My doc is kind of crazy anyways. He is working something like the next 21 days in a row and expects me to do the same..I know it is silly but we are not supposed to work weekends as students..we are only students. How does he expect me to work so many days in a row! It is just nuts.

Oh and why are docs so weird for the most part?? For instance, today a nephrologist on the floor was talking about how he loves to fart in the isle at grocery stores and watching people walk by? So odd.

Also, I am stilling here worried about everything in my life right now...praying to God that he help my through it! I don't know why I put myself in these positions.

Done with radiology. I am happy about that. I loved the doctors I was with just not radiology itself. It was a lot more boring than I expected. I guess it just isn't for me. My doctors did make an effort to show me more ob/gyn related topics when we had a break. We did have a TON of mammos. Thanks breast cancer awareness month!

sleep sleep

I am currently on Radiology, which is pretty awesome I must say, however, you have hardly any interactions with other people! I have fallen asleep, well almost, the last three days. It is hard to sit in a dark room like that for hours and nod off especially when you aren't doing much! The doc I am with is great. He is really funny but just not much of a people person. Today he asked me what my top five albums were since he says he can learn a lot about someone based one what music they listen. I totally agree with that since I am such a huge fan of music myself! He also keeps trying to talk me out of being an OB (in a joking way!). He says..why would you do that to yourself? They have a horrible lifestyle! I have a great lifestyle..be a radiologist! He has also told me that he really can't stand talking to patients and hearing about their problems and that third year was the worse year of medical school for him since he actually had to talk to patients...good thing you are a radiologist buddy! He is a really cool guy though. He doesn't really have social skills though! If you had more patient interaction with radiology I might actually consider it...but since you really don't, I don't think I could handle that for the rest of my life!

long day

Today was my last day of OB/GYN. It was great for the most part. However, I was traumatized from watching my first circumcision. It was horrible! I felt so bad for the little guy. Who would want their two day old baby strapped to the table and screaming like that? So sad!!

One last day...

So tomorrow is my last day of my OB/GYN rotation, which I am very sad about! It has been a really great rotation with both positives and negatives but mostly positives. I am exhausted but not wanting it to be over yet! My doc and I had a great explanation of VBACs today. He is one of the only doc's around the area that will do them (at another hospital!). A woman actually came in today with a very early pregnancy. She had drove about 45 min to come see him. Together they discussed and planned her VBAC. After she left I asked him how he feels about VBACs. He said that he has done about 200 and he has not had anything go wrong yet. He feels that he can do VBACs as long as he is really comfortable with it, which in most cases he is. He even said that in most of these cases, he felt that the first c-section was not necessary. He said this ,"Most of these sections were just done so someone could get to their golf game probably". This made me laugh but it is probably very true, which is sad.

Holy Batman!

So tonight I went and heard Gloria Steinem give a speech..it was amazing! She is so fantastic and there were so many people there which surprised me! Our little group of medical students for choice got a picture with her at the end which was great and can't wait to get a copy of it! I even got the nerve up to stand up and ask her a question. I asked something like what she thought about medicine restricting the birth rights of mothers in the country (aka blocking vbacs and vaginal breeches etc) and how important it is to support the birth rights of women in this country as well as the rights of abortion. She gave a good response, mostly I can't remember right now but she did say that it is a very important part of the feminist movement and always should be. I am so tired right now..maybe I'll right more later.

ohhhh and I did my first vaginal birth today!!! So AWESOME! The mom did a fantastic job.

pressure

Today I was in L % D with my doc checking up on a patient and another physician came in. This physician is one we assist on almost all his surgeries with because he broke both wrists in a freak racquetball accident (dont ask me!). Both of them are pretty cool but the other one, not my doc, is pretty old school about things. Both of them were looking at the monitoring of all the patients on the computer monitors and he asked my doc if he would help him do a section on one of the women there. My doc looked at the girl's strip and proceeded to talk the other doc out of sectioning her and said that she would deliver naturally and the decelerations on the strip were nothing to worry about..he was 100% sure that she would deliver vaginally if he just gave her the time to do so. He actually talked the other doc out of doing a c-section..pretty cool! However, it is kinda sad because this shouldn't be a cool or different thing to see...this should be the norm..not doing sections..ugh.

Sorry if this doesn't make sense..I am exhausted and awaiting yet another phone call which is sure to come in the middle of the night. Sad that OB/GYN is coming to an end this week!