Category: School

A review series on various subjects/topics/lectures we've gone over in med school.

Alcohol Abuse

Happy Monday, and welcome to Medical Mondays!

I’m apologizing in advance because from here on out, things may get super technical + frighteningly detailed. I’m still making a conscious effort to weed out less pertinent information to you, but…boards are coming up in a couple months and I need to cram …

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Reflections on Psychiatry

As you may recall, save for the time I got to spend interacting with my preceptor’s patients, I did not enjoy my psychiatry rotation. At all. (Until the last 3 days, but I’ll get to that.) I took to attending the patients’ group therapy sessions to pass the …

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Compassion

Happy Monday, and welcome to Medical Mondays! Apparently, I was mistaken about the actual date of Doctor’s Day. The hospital I’m at jumped the gun and decided to celebrate it along with the kickoff to the weekend, so my apologies on any confusion, and happy …

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Reflections on Pediatrics I

I’m still super behind on my reflections on clinical rotations, so I actually finished this rotation up back in…early February. (I’m catching up, slowly but surely!)

I loved this rotation! The learning environment was super welcoming and laidback. My preceptor would ask me questions, but would never make me feel terrible …

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Acute Bronchitis

Happy Monday, and welcome to Medical Mondays! This topic was actually fairly unplanned and will be less “technical” today, but we’re gonna go with it because…I think it’s what I’ve been trying to battle out for the past several weeks!

As some of you might know, I’ve had a pretty terrible cough since …

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