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Choosing A Base Site (Part 2)

To follow up on last week’s post on choosing a base site, this post is on things to consider when you’re deciding where you want to go.

We mapped out all our pros and cons and initialed the ones we cared about, then tallied it all up …

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Choosing A Base Site (Part 1)

I’m not entirely sure how each medical school sends off their students to do their clinical rotations in their 3rd and 4th year, but for us, the way they did it was probably the fairest method they could think of (aka equally unfair for everyone).

They tried, they really did, but choosing a base site …

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The Fit Dish Interview

This week’s [optional] theme for the Fit Dish link up (hosted by Jill Conyers @ JillConyers.com, & Jessica Joy @ TheFitSwitch.org) is…The Fit Dish Interview: Get to Know the Amazing Women of the FitFam!

Throughout my years in high school journalism and with my research project in grad school, I interviewed …

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Appendicitis

Happy Monday, and welcome to Medical Mondays! This week’s topic is…Appendicitis!

Simply put, appendicitis is the inflammation of the appendix. It’s a tiny little organ (actual usefulness is debatable), but that wormy-looking sucker can cause a wholeee lot of pain and misery!

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Reflections on OB/GYN

OB/GYN was somewhat of a mess of semi-unpredicted hours, because unless it was a planned c-section, you never really knew when a baby would decide it was ready to come out. Mondays were my preceptor’s call days, so there was a lot of sitting + waiting. (We’d pass the time by fighting off food comas …

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