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.
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.
posted by Janet @ 5:51 PM
1 Comments:
At 9:07 PM,
Katie said…
Janet!! Of course I still check (I have a little computer robot, called Bloglines that checks for me). I'm SO excited you're going to go for it this month. Can't WAIT!
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