Category: Day by Day

Day in the Life: Sleep Medicine

This was my last elective in med school, and for some reason, it took a billion moons to find one.

I wanted to stay in California in the general vicinity of home for another 2 weeks. I looked for everything from Acupuncture to Occupational Medicine to Sports Medicine to Family Medicine to Nutrition to Physical Therapy …

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Ultimate Coffee Date: May 2016

This is the last Ultimate Coffee Date before I’m done with school…forever!!! *-* I boarded a plane back to West Virginia a couple weeks ago to complete my very last med school rotation (I have a week left til I’m done!). Someday, I’ll be done with all this time zone-hopping!

If we were having coffee/tea …

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Take Time For Yourself

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I get asked fairly often about what I do to stay sane when I’m always swamped with 345436657 things on my to-do list, so I figured I’d write a little about it today!

One of the reasons why I’ve been able to kindasorta blog throughout medical school is because I learned somewhat early on …

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Day in the Life: Rural Under-served Family Medicine

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The next couple “Day in the Life” posts are gonna be kinda squished together because I lagged so far behind on the last one (Peds Neurosurgery)!

I got off to a really rough start on this rotation, due in part to:

  • Breaking my dominant hand the weekend before
  • Misplacing …

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    Be True To Your Core

    Ever since I broke my hand, I’ve been unofficially banned from pretty much all the types of workouts I would usually be enjoying (e.g. powerlifting, pole, Brazilian jiu-jitsu).

    I’ve been trying to look on the bright side, but at the same time, I’ve also been pretty bummed because I was finally, finally home and had …

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