My partner and I have been incredibly social over the past few days. It's unusual for us. Both of us find being in socially heavy situations to be difficult. I know there's irony there, the woman who is going to be a doctor is uncomfortable talking to people. I think that situation will be different though since my patients will be coming to me with an agenda, and unlike our sneaky standardized patients, they will let me know what it is they want from me.I've been asked at each of these events what I want to specialize in. I DON'T KNOW!! Family medicine looks good because there are so many options available for me. If I learned nothing else this summer it's that family docs can have a wide breadth of practice. It would help my attention deficit ways.
I've also been asked about my children. Someone has been telling people in the first year class that I have kids. This amuses me but also upsets me. I hate gossip...when it's about me. It really is amazing how quickly gossip spreads around and between the classes.
In other news, I passed Endo!! Yay! I've really got to start studying for the final so I can maintain my pass. Even though we have a saying in this pass-fail program (six-oh and go) I'd still like to learn the material well before heading into clerkship and having to attempt to diagnose a real live prolactinoma. Or at least put it on the differential.
I'm still enjoying digestion, but think that I've fallen further behind in it than I would have liked. What's new. More studying is definitely on the agenda for this week.
2 comments:
I think whenever someone our age returns to school, there's this automatic assumption that the reason we're back now is that we have kids and were just waiting for them to be in school, themselves--or maybe that's just been my experience.
Congrats!
Why didn't I think of that?? It seems obvious now.
Preconceptions are fun aren't they?
Thanks J!
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