Emergency Medicine (EM) Residency

All identifying info is left out and patient details have been changed in order to protect anonymity. This blog is a fictional blog. These kinds of cases occur in Emergency Departments across the nation but the cases and details here have been changed. This blog started out to document my journey through medical school and now I continue to document my life as a resident physician in EM in a story like fictional style. I am however an actual resident in EM.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Done with Surgery

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Many students, physicians, and professors say that the most difficult rotation during medical school. The reasons for this statement is beca...
Saturday, October 18, 2008

Ophthalmology

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It has been a while as I have been working long, long hours on ophthalmology. I find it fairly interesting but I do not think that I would l...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Men can get breast cancer too!

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Today I had 2 cases in the OR and then an afternoon of surgical oncology clinic. We had a rare case of male breast cancer and performed a ma...
Sunday, October 5, 2008

The surgical ego

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After a month and 1/2 in surgery I have developed some interesting thoughts regarding the specialty. Do you know the difference between God ...
Friday, October 3, 2008

The disappearing cancer

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Today was a long day in the OR but once again I loved it. (4:30 am to 8:30 pm) Today's patient was a 54 year old hispanic male with a ch...
Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Surgery Oncology

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Yesterday I started on the Surgery Oncology service. I was thrown straight into the fire. My first 2 surgeries yesterday were 1st a mastecto...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

Appendectomy

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Today, Saturday was a great day. I added another procedure to my bag of tricks. I showed up at the hospital to at 6:30 am, my resident said ...
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