I am so not happy with my neighborhood for constantly waking me up (more on why in a minute). I studied my ass off for my pathology exam only to find out that I needn’t have bothered if my objective was the highest grade I could get because 80% of the exam questions were all […]
Nothing profound will be in this post, I promise. I’m just trying to get my groove on studying. If you were to have asked me about predictions at the beginning of this semester, I would have said this is when I’d be having a blast: other than our ever-present [pre-]clinical (hands-on) classes, the […]
Today is “physician’s day” in Mexico, and we found out late yesterday that we had to go to school. What a rip! The campus was like a ghost town–even the coffee shack was closed because all the Mexican students and teachers got the day off. All the International Program students, including […]
Regarding going to school here, it seems that the more I study and learn from textbooks, the more I seem to get further away from what actually gets tested. Today’s pharmacology exam was a classic example. I did relatively well, so this isn’t a sour grapes post, but with each exam, particularly this […]
From the Bling h2O website (written with ‘h’ because the apparently the Hollywood elite don’t know that there are no lowercase letters in the periodic table):
Bling H2O [note the inconsistency of the logotype presentation] is the inspiration of Kevin G. Boyd, Hollywood writer-producer. While working on various studio lots where image is of the utmost […]
Probably one of, if not the, most common cleaning products in Mexico is Fabuloso. It used to come in only purple and had a distinctive, deodorizing scent. It was such a “fabulous” product, that family members on the border would always come back from a trip across with some before it was also […]
I don’t know why I didn’t see this sooner, but Dr. Nick Genes (of Grand Rounds fame) wrote an original piece on Medscape about the value of blogging during medical school. To quote a portion:
But perhaps even more important is that medical student blogs are useful for students themselves. It’s therapeutic to record your […]
(posted from individual writings, 14-15 October)
So I’m here on my hotel room balcony looking at the Pacific Ocean (technically, the Bahia del Manzanillo). I have never been on a true Pacific beach. The closest I got was Monterey, CA, but that was 1) way too cold (even in May) to enjoy the water, and 2) […]
I’m in Manzanillo, Mexico on a mini beach vacation. I’m writing up a storm in my beachfront hotel room because the heat and humidity is not fit for human habiation. It’s wetter in my clothes than in the ocean. I didn’t know that >100% humidity was chemically possible, but I’m proved wrong […]
For the second time in two months, Grand Rounds comes back to Mexico with today’s edition at Unbounded Medicine run by Dr. Jon Mikel Iñarritu, a recently graduated physician waiting to be accepted into a surgery residency. Read his pre-rounds interview for more. I wish my Spanish was as good as his English, but […]