January 2010
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Glaucoma and medical marijuana
I’m in my second week of pharmacology. Who knew there were so many drugs for glaucoma. So many that I have to forcibly memorize and come up with ridiculous mnemonics. All the mnemonics are usually memorable and dirty, yet half the time I remember the dirty mnemonics and not what it actually stands for. Cindy is Kinky So She Fs More Often… That was the TCA cycle right from biochem...
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Goodbye Conan! →
I teared up during his final farewell. But, I know he’ll be back soon and still hilarious.
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Playing doctor in the hospital with a real...
I forgot what hospitals smell like; that pungent urine, feces, rubbing alcohol, wasting smell that hits you immediately when you walk into a patient area. Just wait a few minutes to be desensitized, I tell myself. I walked into the surgical wing of St. Georges’ Hospital and braced myself for my first hospital rotation through orthopedics. Most of these patients aren’t inherently sick, they are...
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And so it begins again...
4 months left on the island. 4 months left of basic sciences. 4 months of hospital rotations, pathophysiology, pharmacology, clinical skills and basic sciences integration. 4 months left of sleepless nights and relying on caffeine and the strength of eye cream.
4 long but it’ll-go-fast months until I go on lockdown to start preparing for USMLE Step 1.
It’s pretty exciting and...
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Everything is better in 3-D →
After watching Avatar in 3-D and Imax, I’ve decided that all entertainment should be in 3-D form. I should’ve stolen those glasses.
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“So when you become a doctor, can you get me some of those blue pills? Me and...”
– Anonymous uncle (So gross!!)