http://www.mexicomedstudent.com The [mis]adventures of an American med student in Mexico Wed, 07 May 2008 22:58:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sorry for the late posting, but my friend Ramona Bates at Suture for a Living is hosting this week's Grand Rounds, and in true "better late than never"-fashion, I ask that you go check it out for the best of the medical blogosphere this week. Dr. Bates is a plastic ... http://www.mexicomedstudent.com/2008/05/761 So the reason I haven't blogged much of any substance lately is because healthwise, I seem to be regressing from late post-op complications. At first, I was taking good strides forward and hit a setback here and there, which is to be expected. Now, 5 weeks post-op, I'm facing ... http://www.mexicomedstudent.com/2008/05/760 In honor of Dr. Sid Schwab's masterful edition of the surgery blog carnival, SurgeXperiences, I offer this humble introduction: Dr. Schwab shows a natural attraction To verse in utmost compaction.  He's written a book  So go take a look At our Limerick Laureate in action! This is the first time I participate, so I'm ... http://www.mexicomedstudent.com/2008/04/759 50 years ago this month, a lanky 23-year-old young man from the small town of Kilgore, Texas went on Soviet soil and conquered an entire nation--truly winning their hearts and minds--at the height of the Cold War, a mere six months after the Soviets launched Sputnik I to start the ... http://www.mexicomedstudent.com/2008/04/758 Blog buddy Dr. Val is hosting this week at her blog, Dr. Val and the Voice of Reason. Go check out the best of the medical blogosphere from this last week. I will be back shortly. :) http://www.mexicomedstudent.com/2008/04/757 So, as promised, here is how all my medical melodrama began. I warn in advance this will be long and in several parts, but I do think it makes for interesting reading. I've tried to really highlight the whole "medical-person-as-patient" experience because while I've had this or that done or ... http://www.mexicomedstudent.com/2008/04/756 Or more completely, the Natural Orifice Consortium for Assessment and Research, a group dedicated to investigating and exploring ways to perform surgery through natural orifices, such as the vagina, anus/rectum, and about any other opening nature provides: Using patients' natural openings (the mouth, vagina or rectum) as entry points ... http://www.mexicomedstudent.com/2008/04/755 I'm back!! I missed blogging tremendously with so many times thinking in my head, "Oh, I gotta write/share that!" but I made a commitment to let things settle down to a dull roar before I started posting again, not wanting to have this start/stop bad mojo on the blog. Thankfully, ... http://www.mexicomedstudent.com/2008/04/754 Hello...thanks for still checking in! :) It seems odd to have a post entitled "Hiatus" when I haven't posted in a couple of weeks, but I felt at least y'all deserved to know that it will still be a bit before anything really moves on here. Things have not been ... http://www.mexicomedstudent.com/2008/03/753 The title pretty much sums up what's going on right now. Things have been so crazy, by the time I'd even compose my thoughts about what to write, I'd already be just staring at the wall, comatose, or simply not coherent enough mentally to actually make it happen. I'm not ... http://www.mexicomedstudent.com/2008/02/752 OK, I think the NFL (and I'm referring to "NFL Inc." specifically, not the sport of football) has officially gone to the Dark Sidetm. The whole NFL Network vs. the rest of all other broadcast media debacle where the NFL says, "We OWN this sport; be lucky we let you ... http://www.mexicomedstudent.com/2008/02/751 The title says it all in a nutshell. The details are fodder for a movie if some screenwriter/filmmaker could work some of that Hollywood "suspension of belief" magic. So after blogging about things in December here before, as well as going on the radio about my problems with school, with the ... http://www.mexicomedstudent.com/2008/02/750 Go see the 2007 Medblog Awards at Medgadget! Congrats to the winners, the nominees, and to everyone who participated. http://www.mexicomedstudent.com/2008/01/749 This is going on in the city where I currently live, Zapopan, adjacent to Guadalajara (they're seamlessly interconnected, it's not a stark border, even on a map): A cousin of suspected killer Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean told CNN Tuesday that he saw the wanted man near Guadalajara a week ago. Juan ... http://www.mexicomedstudent.com/2008/01/748 You know, throughout the Chargers/NE game, I always felt the Chargers were going to lose even while they were up by 3 then never trailed by more than 7-10 points. Why? Because you could see the inconsistency in their playing, the fly-by-your-pants style that won them big plays, but couldn't ... http://www.mexicomedstudent.com/2008/01/746