I guess it's not uncommon to be busy during medical school. Did I sign up for this??
Instead of giving the usual run down of past events (it's been quite a while since I last posted) I think I'll recap my awesome week.
I have a test on Monday, so I've spent most of the day studying. I went into the cadaver lab with my roommate and we quizzed each other about various parts of the thorax and abdomen. Anuj and I tried to hit up a vegan Pho place downtown, but it was closed. There have been innumerable instances of restaurants being closed when we most crave their cuisine- so frustrating! Instead we went and had lackluster Mexican. I studied for a bit at home and then we took a break to go to the REI sale! I have been trying to exhibit some restraint, both in the social world and in the consumer world, and I refrained myself from buying a really cute jacket that I didn't really need (oh, but I did!).
So this week, instead of studying every night like most of my classmates, I did some really fun stuff instead, with a little studying interspersed in between. Monday was one of the prophecied last nice days, so I went to the park and laid in the sun. A few people from my class joined me later, and we played tennis (or rather, attempted to play tennis....I've lost my touch!)....and then we played ultimate frisbee....and then I plopped on my picnic blanket for a few more hours, finally watching the sunset over Willamette River. It was a wonderful afternoon/evening, topped off with burritos from Chipotle (damn, I miss Papalote!). Tuesday evening was mostly studying, topped off with Forgetting Sarah Marshall (which I believe wasn't nearly as good as knocked up or superbad).
Wednesday, our Principles of Clinical Medicine lecture and small group session actually went quite well! Usually we talk about nothing in particular, and we don't get the hands on physical exam practice that we should be getting....but this day went very smoothly and I felt we accomplished what we were indeed supposed to. That night, the orthopedic surgery interest group and the family medicine interest group hosted a "Splinting/Casting" workshop....we partnered up and learned how to put volar and thumb spica splints on each other! It was awesome. (Oh and last week, we had a workshop about suturing - on pigs feet!) I love this hands-on stuff. After the casting workshop, my classmate Justin and I went over to OMSI - the Oregon Science Museum. Adults only, Rogue beer and spirits tasting, fancy coffee and wine samples, all intermixed with dorky (but awesome) science exhibits - my ideal date.
Thursday after class, Anuj and I made a fancy fish taco dinner for a few of our classmates. We later ventured out for "First Thursday", an event once a month in Portland where many stores and galleries host art and give out free wine and beer. We went to Adidas because I knew they had kegs there....we had a few drinks, hung out, looked at cool shoes, etc. Chris, Anuj, Justin and I headed out to the 'burbs to hit up an all night cafe....we got in a few hours of late-night studying.
Friday was class as normal, but then I rushed off to go observe my second afternoon of orthopedic surgeries! I followed Dr. Mirarchi around as he removed a mucus cyst from a woman's middle finger, and then later screwed in some hardware into a guys broken's ankle. I love this stuff!! I also observed a small part of a knee surgery, in which they were measuring the length/depth of a meniscus tear to see if a patient qualified for a clinical research project. A few weeks ago I witnessed a rotator cuff repair as well as an A1 finger ligament release.....these sort of observations really get me excited about medicine. Many more surgeries to come, I hope!
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