the past few days have been a little slow, but fairly productive and very interesting, to say the least. i managed to watch an episode of Glee -now this was not out of an uncanny personal desire to see yet another sassy high-school-musical-genre show, but i read in the Times something about the social implications portrayed in the show; so i thought i'd check it out. maybe one episode doesn't do justice, but the singing was fairly good. i didn't really see any social implications apart from this haggard mother divorcing an abusive husband who is apparently having an extra-marital affair with a "tattooed monster", and of course you never miss a flick of this sort without teenage pregnancy and baby-adoption drama. anyway, Times probably has a point and maybe i didn't quite see it from just one episode.
boston so far has been going well. managed to go to chinatown yesterday. it was a really colorful and exotic part of the city. B and i ate at a local gourmet dumpling house which served roasted pig heart as its delicacy. i wanted to try it out really badly, but controlled my desire in eccentricities for fear of falling ill and not being able to go to work. random observation: there are a lot of asians in boston. it's pretty cool. an interesting mix.
i've also been traipsing around the campus a lot. and i love it. every time i look at those pillars, it just really makes me want to just burst inside and see what it's like. but i'll wait till i get the official tour. i have a few appointments lined up to meet a few people there, so we'll see how that goes. i use the library a lot, and it's a cool spot to just relax and read up a few articles after standing in the OR. sometimes, i managed to catch a quick nap and get back to work.
cardio wise it's going great. ICU rounds are awesome and hilarious. these attendings have a great sense of humor! Dr EK randomly asked me a series of three questions the other day about the exact location of the diverticula and i had no friggin' idea. and then VT stepped in and says he's not a medical student Dr K. he paused for about a micro-second. so wait you're not a medical student? that means you're like a student student? like those that go to college? oh like a college student? i aptly made the clarification that i indeed am an undergrad in a college in Indiana and not at H (since every mortal and microbe in the hospital conveniently assumes so) and moved on from there. ever since that colorful encounter we have discussed what is the meaning of ghee, who invented peanut butter and why i was interested in medicine.
i took some time out to read Cohn's surgery book. and it's awesome. read up two chapters on aortic aneurysms and stem-cell induced myocardial regeneration. the latter chapter was pretty old, since i know a not of new therapies have come out since the article was written, but it was still a good info-read. i've also been working on sutures a little bit, and trying to do things. oh and i forgot to mention, saturday morning was interesting. one of the resident interns, XS (calls himself X-man) didn't show up to work. we tried contacting his beeper only to be answered by some rogue who found it on the street and christened herself Roy Roberts! that's a very cheesy name. and then one of the RNs assumed that he was dead or possibly kidnapped and packaged off to the far east. also SM (who is by the way, a very attractive woman -more so because she is a surgeon) got a little worked up. i kinda giggled because i knew it was probably going to turn out to be yet another hangover story (which i later found out it was), but i didn't say much at the time.
that's pretty much how it has been. will update soon!
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