The Running PA

jewsee-medicalstudent: Normal chest x ray. (Picture...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:23:34 -0400

jewsee-medicalstudent:

Normal chest x ray.

(Picture by http://www.anatomybox.com/).

Been looking for something like this for a while!

First week of OB-GYN

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:30:24 -0400

Sorry dudes for the lack of posts this past week. It was a wild ride. This past weekend I had the...

I've been considering becoming a PA. (I'm becoming a surgical tech right now) are you happy you went to PA school? Is there anything you don't like about becoming/being a PA?

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:08:33 -0400

I’m definitely happy about my decision to go back to PA school. Previously I’ve worked...

Another month, a new job

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:30:30 -0400

I’ve officially lost count of the rotation number I’m on. It’s come to that point...

Last day in the ED. I got put in the level 1...

Tue, 07 May 2013 21:30:31 -0400

Last day in the ED. I got put in the level 1 trauma/resuscitation area. Gulp. Let’s hope it’s not as crazy as last time. I’ve decided I’m not a total adrenaline junkie.

Dr. Cranquis' Mumbled Gripes: Physician Assistant (PA) Blogs

Tue, 07 May 2013 19:03:56 -0400

Dr. Cranquis' Mumbled Gripes: Physician Assistant (PA) Blogs: cranquis: Hi all, I’ve put together a...

Conversations with my ED patients (and staff)

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:30:23 -0400

Me (to pt with known drinking problem): “Sir, do you drink alcohol” Bob:...

md-admissions: experialist: Students Dissecting a Cadaver, c....

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:20:07 -0400

md-admissions:

experialist:

Students Dissecting a Cadaver, c. 1900.

Standards for dissection have changed a bit in the past hundred years. From the photograph description:

The cadaver lies on a ceramic anatomy-table. A gas lamp is above the corpse. A student has placed a book on the cadaver’s forearm as if the cadaver were holding it for him. Two of the men are smoking pipes.

Oh man. What an interesting picture. Can you believe how much has changed?

"And I advise you to never do these 2 things while in PA school: get married, or have a baby. But every year somebody does one or both!"

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:30:42 -0400

Said the program director to the group of interviewees at my first PA school interview 2 years ago....

digiti-minimi: loveyourchaos: mikelernerphotography: My...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:21:37 -0400

digiti-minimi:

loveyourchaos:

mikelernerphotography:

My Wife’s Fight With Breast Cancer
one of the saddest and most beautiful photo essays I’ve ever seen

I don’t think I could ever be this open photographically showing my wife slowly dying. I couldn’t do it, but this is beautiful.

my fucking heart.

Tears.

The second to last picture - with the stockings in the background - hits so painfully close to home.

Click the link, see the full photo set and read the story.

I had to do a pelvic in the ED the other day on a 32 year old with breast cancer and all I could think about was this photoset I’d seen the day before, and how much I hoped it didn’t end like that for her. It made me want to go into primary care, though, as before the physician left the room he accidentally made it sound like she’d gotten herpes from her partner being unfaithful (I’ve found the ED peops to generally be a little rough around the edges when it comes to bedside manner). I reassured her that the majority of the population tests positive for one form of herpes or another and likely she’d had it for a long time, only the chemo made her immunocompromised and caused it to surface at the worst possible time in her life. She felt a lot better after that.

Finding decent running trails makes me happy! Aiming for a half...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:24:27 -0400

Finding decent running trails makes me happy! Aiming for a half marathon in July.

"Patient allergies: SIMVASTATIN, DILTIAZEM, PIZZA, OXYCODONE…"

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:38:15 -0400

“Patient allergies: SIMVASTATIN, DILTIAZEM, PIZZA, OXYCODONE…” - Seen in the last...

Telling a nurse do anything in 3rd year.

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:18:00 -0400

whatshouldwecallmedschool: This just happened to me when I tried to restart my patient’s...

Teach me? Please??

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:16:50 -0400

I think it’s surprising that until this week, I had never ever worked with a PA-C during my 8...

You know it's been an interesting day when you go home and take a nap and all you dream about is getting IV access

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:00:00 -0400

Today I was assigned to work with the nurses in the trauma resuscitation bays. The same place where...

First code

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 19:41:22 -0400

Apparently I was a white cloud in the MICU because there was NEVER a real code the whole time I was...

First day in the Emergency Department

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 20:04:51 -0400

OK, blog is finally up to date now. Time for real time posts, yayy! I’m spending the next...

30 hour call

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:01:19 -0400

Eerie hospital views late at night… And trust me, at 4am in the call room a plastic...

A novel way to combat drug resistant pathogens. This R2D2-esque...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:01:33 -0400

A novel way to combat drug resistant pathogens. This R2D2-esque device is being used in the MICU as part of a study investing the potential for UV light’s use in sanitizing patient rooms after discharge, especially for patients that tested positive for drug resistant microbes. It may prove to be an important measure in decreasing the transmission of these bugs, as we are quickly running out of antibiotics to fight them with.

A month in the MICU

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:12:11 -0400

And the verdict is that taking 3 months off from real medicine WILL make you rusty in many things....