Cardinals...no wonder everyone moved from Phoenix

I'm ticked, just tivoed my may through another disaster after a long 24 hour call. Jason your 49ers had the benefit of a massive implosion by the huddy Cardinals. How do you miss a 32 yard field goal in overtime and then a minute later fumble in your own end zone to lose the game. Because you are the Cardinals.

Weber is back :)

Hey guys,

It has been very fulfilling to hear of all your horror stories and fun adventures. I heard about some of your plots to get my pager number from Ken Bassett and then page me continously. Nice try. Anyhow, I'm currently doing ER, fixing the drunks of Toledo, and it has been fun passing patient's off to Ken who is on Trauma.

Dave, I just took step 3 Comlex today!! Not a terrible test. And yes Anderson, I did pull out my old path/pharm/micro notes- hey they were helpful in medical school...helpful in residency:)
For the most part, step 3 was just like step 2. 8 hours, 8 blocks, 50 questions each. I took a week off and studied for a total of 2 weeks using Crush and USMLEWORLD. That was plenty of time. Good to have it overwith. Happy Holidays

Somewhere in Detroit, a lady is missing a leg.

And I'm the one who has it.

Well, I took it anyway. Doing an AKA is fun, keeping the specimen as a trophy is sort of creepy. Forgive me, but I just capped 26 days straight of work with a 37 hour shift.

We started residency interviews this week. Lots of eager, bright eyed 4th years. They can't get here fast enough for me. Almost 39% done with internship.

big career move

i just got a call from the 49ers head of personel scott mccloughin and he has offered me the starting quarterback spot. he figured, and i agreed, that i could probably throw passes about as off target as alex smith but for a whole lot less money. look me up in a few years when you all need your loans repaid, i've got money to burn now!

Hey guys,

just thought I'd let everybody know I'm still alive. I have had a similar intern year that everyone has. I was on call my first night of residency, and I finished the 30 hours with the boasting that I neither wet my pants or cried. Although by the end of my first week I was only able to keep my pants dry bragging rights. I am now doing a 2nd year cardiology rotation, and I love being able to spend 3 half days at my family medicine clinic. I have been keeping busy with other things too: I tiled my entryway, I spend all my free time with my wife and kids of course, I am counselor in the EQ, and I faithfully follow the cougars march to repeat MWC champions. Go Cougs!

Austin

p.s. I was shown this funny youtube thing I don't know if I can put the link in but if the link doesn't work then you can look up Regan ER on youtube, and watch Brian Regan Emergency Room parts 1 and 2 and the doctor clip, and any others. I thought they were really funny, my wife and I watched all the clips for one of our date nights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9m2FLHlEwA

Glad I'm out of the AZ housing market...

I checked zillow.com to see what my old house might be worth in AZ nowadays. It's dropped almost $20,000 in 6 months.

Buy low sell high, I guess.

Dr. Rumblestrip

I talked to John the other day he told me of your brilliant plan to drop out of residency, don't do it its to risky. Although skys-the limit on the upside.

Good Luck

Step 3??

Anyone taken step 3 yet? If not what do yall hear on difficulty or study time required for normal people or slightly below normal? This is serious, $600.00 serious so lets go to work on getting some good info.

winter wonder land

While the subject of weather has come up. This was a couple of weeks ago. It has been in the 70's the last few days though, perfect. I'm still in shorts and t-shirts. Ski resorts are starting to open and I can't wait. The moon boots are Karie's I don't own any of my own.

On Call Halloween Night

I had probably the single busiest call night of my short internship last night. I went to the OR 3 times after 5 pm, managed a huge degloving leg laceration
in the ER, and had it out with a PACU nurse. The call pager went off more than 40 times between 5pm and 11pm (this does not count the Rapid Response pager and my personal pager).

And the beauty of it all is that I'm all call Friday and Sunday too. Q2 rocks.