August 2012
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Birthday happenings:
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My classmates sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to me! I feel like I’ve never had that experience before, and if I have, then it was when I was in elementary school or something—because I have a summer birthday. It was so nice :)
Carrot cake cupcakes baked by a classmate
Everyone inexplicably wore green
Learned about cancer (or rather, re-learned)
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Seeing a prolapsed uterus for the first time
whatshouldwecallmedschool:
Sorry, I am trying to keep these med school posts to a minimum, but honestly this is just so relevant. Today we had a sexual history training session, where we basically practiced asking standardized patients about their sex lives (i.e., their ability to orgasm, masturbation, erectile disfunction, STI’s) in a professional way. I was nervous but I was told I...
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Wow. Made my Hippocratic Oath this past weekend. This is the thing by which I will be living the rest of my life. One thing we learned in Orientation week is that medicine is one of the three ancient intellectual professions: Medicine, Law and Theology. I have now joined a long line of people that stretches back to the beginning of civilization, a group that is devoted to an age-old goal as simple...
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So far, med school is doing the following things for me most wouldn’t expect:
Getting me really excited about public health/policy and SAVING THE WORLD lol. In a couple months, I will be learning more about social determinants of health, which I find really interesting!
Giving me a social life—recent events have been a potluck, a couple of bbqs, a movie, a county fair, a...
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