Family Medicine and Fall

10-01-06-->10-08-06
Hello to all!

Hmmm… it is quite amazing how short the weekends have become…

This week was quite interesting. Family medicine is filled with coughs, backpain, insomnia, earaches, runny noses, throat aches, headaches, fevers, elevated blood sugar, gout, rotated innominates, and all sorts of stuff! I can definitely say that I will get a good experience there filled with procedures (blood work, ultra sound treatments (not diagnostics), hernia checks, etc.) It will be a good rotation. Now having said that, I must confess that the first week in any given rotation lasts a bit longer than the rest of the rotation… it takes time to get use to a place, and to see what the expectations are. I have 3 different doctors I am under, and each one of them is different than the other. Dr. C, Dr. M and Dr. S. All very nice. I also got to meet the resident and the intern, and they are both great.

Well, besides the first week in family medicine rotations, all is well. Fall is definitely here, most of the days are chilly (at least in my desert influenced eyes), the leaves are slowly turning beautiful shades of red, orange, yellow and brown, and the air smells like rain most days now. I read somewhere (I believe it was in my daily calendar) that fall is like a second spring… each leaf is like a flower. I personally knew fall had officially walked in when I swapped my short PJ’s into long ones, and within a week I needed a sweatshirt to be comfortable during the night temperatures. I suppose the cats feel the difference too, because I find them sleeping on my bed every morning now, they are cuddling up and don’t hurry to wake up.

My weekend definitely flew by. Friday night I came home and pretty much crashed… I was so tired from the week, I just enjoyed going to bed early and getting in a good night sleep. Saturday morning was very fun—I volunteered at the animal shelter for an hour or so, enjoyed the new doggies, and had to run to the library to return some books. When I was there I happened to see Dr. R who was my psychiatry doctor—it was nice seeing him. Then I took the furry bunch to the vet. Oh man, Vega HATES the vet :o) KC of course LOVES the vet. I have such funny pets! They received all of their shots and I finally had them chipped, so if they get lost and then found they can come back to me. I came back home and attempted to take my post-psychiatry test, but for some reason my code did not work… As a result, I then changed my plans, and begun working on my honors paper. I worked on this paper the whole day today. I haven’t written a paper for school in such a long time that it took me a little bit of thinking and planning to come up with something I thought was descent. I still am not happy with it, but I’ll have Omer look at it and fix my grammar, and point to obvious problems. Then I’ll just turn it in, and will start thinking on my next paper.

That’s about sums it up…

Reut