My 4 year old nephew asked me this just the other day, "what makes a baby a boy or a girl?" What a good question nephew. Well I'll save you the answer I gave him but offer a link instead.
Enter Grand Rounds last week's edition that I just got around to reading now... Zoe (I've always loved that name) is a rocket scientist from Australia that just happens to have a chromosomal abnormality. Her blog and story are both fascinating and enlightening. I spent the morning reading her blog and thinking about this. I invite you to do the same, this is the entry that got me started, They mean well (Part 1). Happy reading!
I have always been interested in ethics, maybe pediatric endocrinology isn't out of the question.
3.31.2011
3.30.2011
Pass
I haven't been able to sleep since I took Step 1. I'm not normally prone to insomnia but the anticipation of my Step 1 results has made sleep these past three weeks a difficult feat. My niece woke me at 5:30am this morning and although she crawled in bed with me and immediately fell back to sleep I was wide awake. I knew that today would bring my results.
I'm not sure how I feel about my score but I know that I will be a doctor one day and this is another hoop I've successfully cleared.
I will write more later about what I think worked and did not work for me. For now, I'm just going to await my clinical placement and start planning 3rd year. I guess I'm trading one anticipation for another. I've been doing a bit of networking and I may try to shadow a pediatric neurologist in my area. It would be nice to have options for 4th year. Time to move on. (After I enjoy the rest of my vacation that is.) Happy Wednesday!
I'm not sure how I feel about my score but I know that I will be a doctor one day and this is another hoop I've successfully cleared.
I will write more later about what I think worked and did not work for me. For now, I'm just going to await my clinical placement and start planning 3rd year. I guess I'm trading one anticipation for another. I've been doing a bit of networking and I may try to shadow a pediatric neurologist in my area. It would be nice to have options for 4th year. Time to move on. (After I enjoy the rest of my vacation that is.) Happy Wednesday!
3.27.2011
auntie love
I love being an aunt. I love the feel of little hands searching for mine in the dark theatre and not letting go, the entire show. I love the questions, the awe of a 7 year old and the smarts of a 9 year old. We had a most wonderful afternoon, just us three girls. No tears, no fighting, just a fun-filled time watching Cinderella (the girls favorite), Little Red Riding Hood (my favorite) and a few other story book characters come to life in "Into the Woods" the musical. We only stayed for Act 1 and it was perfect in length and substance. Not too long, not too scary and everyone got their happily ever after...
I love being an aunt. I love that we had to dig up bugs with big sticks. I love that during hide & seek the same hiding spot never gets old. I love that at 4 years old he wants to know when his voice will change and that I am the one he thinks to ask. Boys can be fun too.
I love being an aunt and for the next 8 days that is my sole purpose.
(I promise to return to normal med school blogging soon.)
I love being an aunt. I love that we had to dig up bugs with big sticks. I love that during hide & seek the same hiding spot never gets old. I love that at 4 years old he wants to know when his voice will change and that I am the one he thinks to ask. Boys can be fun too.
I love being an aunt and for the next 8 days that is my sole purpose.
(I promise to return to normal med school blogging soon.)
3.26.2011
one too many
So I am home (where I grew up, where my parents reside and where my sister and her three children live) for vacation.
I love being auntie to my two nieces- 9, 7 and 4 year old nephew. However three is just one too many. I can't possibly hold all three of their hands when crossing the street. I can only sit by two of them at the dinner table and no matter how hard I try someone is always left out. I just try to be mindful that it not always the same one. I try... but my iphone is often the surrogate me. Luckily my iphone is a big hit so the left out one is usually pretty happy.
I like to believe that children should not outnumber the adults. Of course I am breaking my own rule and taking the two girls to see a musical tomorrow afternoon. I hope I survive. Right now I'm off to bed because my 7 year old niece likes to get up before the sun (yawn).
I love being auntie to my two nieces- 9, 7 and 4 year old nephew. However three is just one too many. I can't possibly hold all three of their hands when crossing the street. I can only sit by two of them at the dinner table and no matter how hard I try someone is always left out. I just try to be mindful that it not always the same one. I try... but my iphone is often the surrogate me. Luckily my iphone is a big hit so the left out one is usually pretty happy.
I like to believe that children should not outnumber the adults. Of course I am breaking my own rule and taking the two girls to see a musical tomorrow afternoon. I hope I survive. Right now I'm off to bed because my 7 year old niece likes to get up before the sun (yawn).
3.25.2011
Correspondence
To: Spice Island Queen/Student
From: Clin Ed/SGU_LN
Sent by: ABC/USL/SGU_LN
Date: 03/25/2011 12:29PM
Subject: USMLE Step I Results
Hi Spice Island Queen!
At this time we still have not received the results for the Step I exam. Please email a PDF copy to clined@sgu.edu as soon as possible.
Regards,
ABC
Clinical Placement Coordinator
Dear Clin Ed,
I don't have my Step 1 results either! I am expecting them any day and will forward a copy to you just as soon as I receive them.
Fingers crossed,
Spice Island Queen
P.S. A friend who took the step 4 days before I did said he received his score report exactly 3 weeks after his exam so if that schedule holds I should receive my report on Tuesday the 26th.
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