Hole #1 or #2

I'm a little pissed. My attending told me two days ago that we would be done Friday at noon so silly me made plans to meet friends for dinner in a town 2 hours away. Well guess what, this morning he told me that he's been so busy this week that actually we'll be working until 5pm tomorrow. Damn him, doesn't he realize that you can't renig (is this a word) on early weekend promises?

Funny story about him though. We were in the room examining a patient. He actually was doing the exam and I was watching. Well sort watching because out of the corner of my eye I saw a huge spider crawling across the floor towards us. I didn't want to say anything about it in front of the patient but it started getting closer so I did the stupid girl thing and was like "Um, Dr. M. there's a huge spider coming at me. Can you kill it?" Yeah, I actually interrupted the Dr. to ask him to kill the spider. Which he did but asked me to continue the exam with the patient. So, he goes behind the patient (who was facing away from the spider)to take care of it. Trying to be funny the patient says, "The spider's not going to crawl up my leg or anything is it?" To which Dr. M said "Oh, no" but just then I look over and the spider is crawling up Dr. M's leg. He then starts doing this little dance/leg shaking thing and then starts stomping/jumping up and down to kill the spider . I'm watching the whole thing trying my damnedest not to burst out laughing because the patient sees nothing. So after the patient leaves Dr M. was like "Yeah, I really wanted to scream as the spider was on my leg, but I tried to play it cool for the patient's sake."

I need a debate settled. This morning I was giving a friend a hard time because he wants to specialize in GI. I said, "Man, you're going to be shoving your hands up asses all the time." Since I may want to do OB/Gyn he said "well, you'll have your hands up crotches all day." (aren't we so politically correct) So, which is worse, butts or vaginas? I argue butts because poop comes out of them. Of course the other area can be gross too...

No posts tomorrow or Saturday (I'm failing the every day thing already) because I'll be out of town.

We'll try it for a month

Okay, so I've been gone for a really long time and most likely no one even checks on this blog anymore, but... Apparently there is this thing going around about blogging every day for the month of November so I thought I'd try. No guarantee it'll be everyday because I'm pretty busy. I'm not sure what I'll talk about. Probably just random tidbits.

No boring updates here but I'll mention that I have finished my 12wk internal medicine rotation and am smack dab in the middle of my 12 wk surgery rotation. Just to give you a little idea about what I'm up to. I'm not loving this surgery rotation. Surgeries are really interesting but I just don't like surgeons I guess. See, the thing with surgeons is that the field is still very male dominated. My med school class is about 50/50 male to female but the ratio for practicing physicians is much lower. Then if you look at certain fields like surgery it's lower still. As far as I know, the surgical faculty at my school has all of 1 female and she's not really a surgeon per se. She does ear/nose/throat so really just tonsillectomies and things of that nature. The rest are men. Some of them are okay but the group of surgeons I've been with are kinda like "the boys club." They make derogatory comments to nurses in the OR and pretty much ignore me unless they are trying to make me look like an idiot. Now you might say, "Isn't that what the attending doctors do to med students?" Yes and no. They all do that to us sometimes but this was much worse than I was used to. My attending would pretty much ignore me even when we were sitting in the lounge just the 2 of us. He wouldn't talk to me. But as soon as a male med student walked in, it was like they were long lost buds. I guess I shouldn't take it personally. It's not my fault I was born without a penis.

Random thought: So have you ever taken medicine twice in a row because you forgot you took it the first time? I did that earlier. I walked in the bathroom took my pill. Then used the bathroom, washed my hands and then took another pill. In the 90 seconds or so that it took to use the bathroom and wash my hands I forgot that I had already taken the pill. Good thing it's nothing that'll hurt me, but isn't sad that my memory is so bad.