Posted by: lavendarbliss on: January 5, 2010
*WARNING: Gross pictures ahead!* Most medical students (mostly in 2nd year, when they usually go through the different organ systems and pathologies) go through a phase that I like to term “the med school syndrome”. It all starts off innocently enough. Students start off each block excited about learning the new material. Let’s take for [...]
Posted by: lavendarbliss on: December 21, 2009
So my time as a MSIII is halfway over. What’s sad is that I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up. =( You know, I started out medical school wanting to do infectious disease because I was bright-eyed and naive and wanted to be involved in global health and “save [...]
Posted by: lavendarbliss on: August 21, 2009
I’ve been meaning to post again for awhile now, but I’ve just been busy…but more like lazy. I can’t believe that I’ve already made it so far in my med school career, time seems to have flown by so quickly! So far, I’ve done OB/GYN and am currently on Psych. OB/GYN was pretty terrible. I [...]
Posted by: lavendarbliss on: January 23, 2009
Today we had an OB/GYN lecture us on female urinary incontinence. She was pretty funny, and halfway through the lecture when she noticed that some of our eyes were glazing over, she told us quite an interesting story: One day she had a patient coming in who complained of symptoms consistent with stress incontinence. Upon [...]
Posted by: lavendarbliss on: December 27, 2008
Well first off…happy holidays! Why the depressing title to my entry? I just got my 2009 USMLE First Aid Book that I ordered off of Amazon. I think it’s a sign that I need to get off my arse and start studying for Step 1. What is Step 1, you ask? It’s the first of [...]
Posted by: lavendarbliss on: November 20, 2008
(CNN) — Nearly half the respondents in a survey of U.S. primary care physicians said that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative. Experts say if many physicians stop practicing, it could be devastating to the health care industry. The survey, released [...]
Posted by: lavendarbliss on: November 14, 2008
Yesterday I received the following e-mail: I write this with a heavy heart. Earlier today, The University of Texas System Board of Regents directed us to proceed with a reduction in force designed to align the number of UTMB employees with a much smaller clinical enterprise. (For more information, see the UT System message: http://www.utsystem.edu/News/2008/BOR-Statement-UTMB-11-12-08.html) Over the [...]
Posted by: lavendarbliss on: November 7, 2008
I don’t know what it is about the Gastrointestinal and Nutrition (GIN) course, but we’ve had some of the worst lecturers in this class. The first lecture should have clued me in to the quality of rest of the lectures. It was given by an Indian professor who had a really thick accent…and his slides [...]
Posted by: lavendarbliss on: November 1, 2008
Our school decided to put on a Halloween carnival this year-since so many families have lost their homes during the storm and because it’s still dangerous to go around Galveston at night, we wanted to give them a fun and safe alternative to the traditional trick-or-treating. There were lots of fun, games, face painting, and [...]
Posted by: lavendarbliss on: September 14, 2008
As many of you know, Hurricane Ike tore across the coast of Texas in the early morning of September 12th. Fortunately, I was already home in Dallas; us second years had a scheduled fall break at this time, and so a couple of the girls and I decided to go to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. We [...]
