I recently unearthed a super-long email (if you didn’t know before, I’m reallyreally verbose) that I sent to a friend about 2-ish years ago, so I thought I’d share the pertinent advice! This is more specific to people who want to go into medicine, but parts of it are probably relevant to a whole lot …
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Mar 31
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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Mar 30
Who inspires you to be healthy?
This week’s [optional] theme for the Fit Dish link up (hosted by Jill Conyers @ JillConyers.com, & Jessica Joy @ TheFitSwitch.org) is…
Who in your life inspires you to be healthy?”
I thought long and hard about this one, and was originally going to answer, “Myself,” because that is …
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Mar 29
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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Mar 24
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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