Since I started blogging, I had a decent idea that I wanted to go into interventional radiology or surgery. I realized that I liked procedures and I liked the physics of radiology. Interestingly enough, I was receiving feedback from my internal medicine attending and he basically told me to strongly consider cardiology. This was striking […]
A Typical Day on Medicine Rotation
“So, what exactly do you do on internal medicine?” I’ve gotten this question a fair amount of times. The surgeons do surgery, and the family practitioners see patients in clinic, so what do IM doctors do all day? To clear things up, here’s a typical day on the medicine wards. 7am: Start the day off […]
Experiences on Rotations
One of the main goals of third year is to decide on your specialty – discovering what you like or don’t like on your core rotations. Now that I’m over halfway through third year, I have found that each rotation has been unique and enlightening in its own right, but not enough for me to […]