This is kind of my version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. You have finished medical school and been granted the MD (or DO) behind your name. Congratulations Dr. Jones! I welcome you to a very exclusive club and a very honorable profession. Quickly you will find yourself drowning in an ocean of medical knowledge as an intern, doing your best to soak up enough of it to get to the next day. However, that is a […]
Residency
Doctors are usually viewed as infallible beings… which is patently false. Having gone through the majority of our lives striving to be the best and continually trying to be correct and trying our hardest to make no mistakes… it hits us even harder when we are incorrect or make a mistake. We are only human. However, we forget this many more times than we remember. During the course of your residency and your career you will make mistakes. For many, […]
Being Human
PRIORITIES – PART ONE: INTRO I felt it is important to talk about priorities. I had a very difficult time about how to formulate this post due to its depth because I don’t want to bore people. This first post will be a primer for what NOT TO DO. I will then go into much more depth about priorities, which will be subdivided into needs and wants. As a 4th year medical student with the cruise control button […]
Priorities – Part 1 of 3
The struggle is real. Oh so real. The realest. Ok, so here’s the deal. As a doctor you have firmly established yourself as middle class, with possible candidacy for upper-middle class. The likelihood of ever being upper class is pretty low. However, as soon as you get an MD behind your name, everyone you know thinks you are ballin’ out of control and makin’ it rain in the club… and well, that is patently false. […]
“The Struggle”
What do you mean by “survival mode”? Well, once you start residency you need to learn to prioritize things very efficiently. For many of you this will be your first job. This is not the same as being a medical student where no one really cared whether you were around or not. Yes, I realize you did do some weeks of long hours as a medical student, and yes, there was your sub-I where you […]
“Survival Mode”
Here it is, my first post! This should have been posted yesterday at 3/21/2016… but for some reason my plugin to crosspost to Twitter and Facebook didn’t work. My apologies. Mistakes were made. But anyways… I’ve gone through medical school, internship, residency, and fellowship. All in all, I’ve had about 10 years of being around doctors-to-be, residents, and attendings. From my experience, I am about to make a sweeping generalization. I think there are 3 main types […]