Entries Tagged as 'medical school'

To Carve Man

Updates have been completely absent for an age now. I was distracted by a pressing need to pass the final year of “book learning” in medical school, and right around the end of November 2008 is when I began to suspect that this would be more difficult than I had anticipated. I discovered that me and Anatomy really didn’t mix very well, and between the skinning and slicing of bodies and the distractions of writing, well, something had to be sacrificed. Thankfully that has now passed and I received my final exam grade today indicating that, yes, I shall go to the ball. The Surgery Ball, that is, which is to be my first rotation, where I shall learn to carve man. I begin, however, doing an elective in poisons (“Toxicology”), which should be interesting, if possibly a little sad.

The Life Of The Flesh Is In The Blood

Started hematology today in school at 8am. By 8:15 I was already wondering, hoping really, that it was all just a very vivid dream. I like vampire movies and hungry sky gods that demand blood sacrifices as much as the next person, the blood is the life and all that, but endless pictures of indistinguishable little blood cells is a poor way to start a Monday morning after several blissful months of not really having to deal with any of this stuff at all. Eosinophils, basophils and neutrophils, oh my. On the plus side, I can now feel a small, deep satisfaction at being slightly less clueless than 134 first year medical students that started today.

Fish Are Jumpin’ And the Mice Are High

No updates for a while. I have been rather busy working in a lab investigating the molecular basis of schizophrenia and aging using oxidative mechanisms (mainly by bothering mice dosed up on ketamine and then sucking out their brains). I have also been getting Scuba certified, which is surprisingly taxing, and catching up on my summer reading before beginning Medical School Year 2: Electric Boogaloo.