Above: Jurassic Park truly exists, Folks. Along I-65 in Kentucky.THIS EXPERIENCE MAKES ME GO
WHOA!
I was talking to my friend Nik about not writing for 3 weeks, and I said to myself, "Wow, I went about 500 miles without letting you know where I went. That's kinda like going to Nashville and leaving you behind in Chicago."
Sorry. Let's get you caught up.
The last three weeks have been some of the busiest med schooling I've gotten so far. At a teaching hospital in Chicago, I'm currently doing Internal Medicine. The program set up is a shadowing of an intern both on the wards and in the ICU (depending on what patients are assigned to him). And I've done a lot of walking, writing, and paging (the last one's my favorite... I get to proclaim myself as a "medical student" on the phone!). I've seen some awesome cases at the hospital left and right, presented in front of interns and staff, and felt an intensity that I've been wanting to have in medicine for a while. Sometimes I get home with a load of primary literature I need to dig through!
But I'll tell you this, an intense rotation can be quite exhilarating, but it can also be more tiring too. All in all, the work here makes me love medicine so much more. My homework: get you some concrete examples of my experience this weekend. I won't leave you behind on the trip for much longer.
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