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Happy birthday to me… in the library. Pathology, PD, and other adventures.

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Quick entry this time folks – we’re in the middle of a busy 3 weeks. Pathology test yesterday, pharmacology Tuesday, and Cardiology 10/16. Doesn’t seem so bad until you actually take pharm and realize you have like 200 drugs to commit to memory – or a least 50 different classes of drugs to distinguish. At least the suffixes are similar most of the time…
And to throw a wrench in the study time = success relationship, we have started physical diagnosis. So far, the neurological and cardiological exams have been practiced in the hospital, and although time consuming, they are AWESOME. Great way to correlate classroom topics with pathologies seen in patients before your very eyes!! It has been challenging to give oral presentations of patients on the fly – mentally organizing relevant information, or as our instructor says, sifting through the wheat and chaff to arrive at the true kernels of knowledge, and then presenting them in less than 3 minutes. Adrenaline!
As the title suggests, it was my birthday Wednesday – the night before our pathology exam – and a majority of that day was spent at school, the hospital, and library. I took a picture to show my high spirits in the midst of intense review of tissue inflammation, regeneration/repair, and hemodynamic disorders. Happy 24th birthday from the library!!
Ha – yes – in the background those are just a few of the ridiculous number of stacks the Hesburgh library has to offer.  AKA this is what “Touchdown Jesus” is holding on the inside.  So in conclusion, silver lining folks – and just keep smiling :) I am in medical school – what a privilege – and I wouldn’t want to be doing anything else with my life.  So even though i was studying, keeping that in mind made it a wonderful day.


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