the day started at 6am at the hospital [actually at 4:30 when i woke up and commuted to work]. myself, nicole and one other student met with the 2 interns on our service and we divided up patient progress notes. we have all morning to write their notes except we have to come back to the conference room for a case presentation lecture at 7:30. the case is presented by the student that did overnight call and he talks about the patient he admitted. today it was a 49yo M with abdominal pain for 3 weeks. there was obviously a lot more to the case but once we got to building a differential list, we went around the table each saying a disease. as we were finishing up the case and getting ready to work on our notes again, an intern stopped us and said, "for the rest of your career you are going to be asked for differentials. if you ever get stuck, say cancer or thyroid disease. they always work." good to know...
couple thoughts:
-one of my patient's today was named Dorothy. she was 86, confirming the fact that i am the only person under 80yo that has the name.
- the hospital i am in has a pretty big residency program and there are 12 interns in each year. i am still trying to figure out which of the interns are hooking up and which hate each other.
- a bunch of the interns today were talking about the christmas party they are having tonight, its gonna be fun to see them all hungover at 6am tomorrow
-i just got really excited when i found out i can download an iPhone app that is the same program that i use on my computer to study for boards. this made me really excited then made me confirm to myself that i am a huge nerd
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