Irrelevant Process

Blood just drawn from a patient with pretty extreme hypertriglyceridemia with triglycerides of near 10,000. There's more fat than blood ...

OK, now that I've got some more experience on my belt. I gotta say that sign outs really aren't that bad. First, every morning the e...

With the new work-hour rules for medical interns, the ICU is no longer a place where every 4 days an intern spends 30+ hours in the hospital...

So, I finally get a day off from the ICU today. It's not bad, but there have been a few situations where I felt like I was biting more t...

Talk about getting slammed! Working in the ICU doesn't leave much time for anything else. I should have known that when a fellow intern ...

My attending and I have a pretty good relationship. Good enough that we can have a back and forth about politics (typically a no-no in the w...

So two weeks into a non-academic community setting, I've learned what the real world is like. I'm not so surprised by fact that ther...