Good morning guys!
It's Tuesday and I'm actually running kinda late.
So, I'm just gonna talk while I walk.
So the reason why I'm in scrubs right now is cause I'm doing my nursery week in Pediatrics,
so like new born babies and it's also my very last week of my pediatrics rotations.
So, this week has been kinda busy.
Now, I'm seriously studying for my shelf, which is coming up on Friday and I don't know
if I feel totally prepared for it but I never really feel prepared for exams.
Usually, the day before I get to the point where I realize there's nothing more I can
do and I've done as much as I can and I sort of just accept that.
For the most part, I've become comfortable with being uncomfortable.
That's what a lot of people say what medical school is about.
There is no way you'll know everything you need to know about everything.
In undergrad classes, and maybe in some other situations where it is actually possible to
know everything you need to know about an exam or a topic.
I feel like in medicine a lot of the times you just have to accept that you're not perfect
and you won't know everything.
So that's kinda where I am in terms of my pediatrics shelf exams.
I'm doing everything I can, but I'm also accepting that there's going to be things I don't know
because I've only been doing pediatrics for 6 weeks and that's okay.
Anyway, got my coffee, my little lunch bag--isn't this so cute.
It's literally the cutest lunch bag ever.
Anyway, time to go!
Hey guys, so I'm off for the day.
So basically, this week is my last week of pediatrics and it's been really cool cause
I'm spending most of it in the nursery.
Lot's of healthy babies like check ups.
Yesterday, I went to my very first c-section.
I saw c-section for the first time.
Guys it's magical what a human body can do!
The amount of physical trauma the body goes through to give birth it's amazing!
And the fact that the mom is gonna recover.
This mom is a repeat c-section--meaning she's had c-section procedure before.
So, I think that's why the attendings had to pull so hard because there's a lot of adhesions
from previous surgeries.
The baby was super cute.
I saw the baby this morning again and the baby was doing well.
Overall, it was just a part that Iook forward to the most for my pediatrics rotations and
being with new-born babies.
They're so cute and they're so adorable.
It's so amazing the way they're born.
My next rotation is actually Oby-gyn.
I'm really excited about that and I think having pediatrics before was probably a really
god prime and I'm sure it works the other way too: having oby-gyn and then going to
pediatrics.
It's also a good continuity and a good learning experience.
My shelf exam is coming up on Friday so my NICU resident said that I could leave early
to go home and study so It's about 4 o'clock now and that's what I'm going home to go.
I had a bunch of lunch money left.
As I talked about it before, this hospital gave us a certain amount of lunch money.
I had like $200 something dollars left.
So I bought a bunch of Naked smoothies and some chips to take home with me.
If I can do that again tomorrow, I will but tomorrow I have lecture right after my morning
shift so I might not have time to go home.
I bought a lot of perishable stuff today but tomorrow I might just get some chips or something.
So, I'm back.
This is one of the juices that I got.
I do have to say, these look healthy but I don't think they are because everything is
blended and there's no fiber and it's basically 47 grams of sugar and even though there is
no sugar added, it's all the sugar from the fruit themselves.
And I don't actually think they're a healthy choice.
All the pediatricians that I've worked so far has discouraged moms and parents from
giving juice to their kids for this exact reason.
You don't get any fiber and it's mostly sugar.
So it's like drinking sugar water essentially.
So, I got like 6 of them.
But maybe tomorrow I'm thinking I'll get like iced teas instead like the unsweetened iced
teas.
I'll have to think about what good snacks to get.
Some of my classmates have told me that during Ob-gyn rotations, you really don't have time
to eat.
So, I should stock up on bars so that's what I might do.
Anyway, I'm gonna drink it cause I bought it and it taste pretty good so--
So over the weekend I did get these good day chocolate from Whole Foods.
They're $2.50 each, so they're actually pretty expensive considering that there's only 8
pieces inside but the one in the left is actually energy so I think it contains caffeine and
the one on the right has melatonin in it so it's supposed to help you sleep.
I just wanted to try them out and let you guys know if they are good.
A lot of the times if you're going to be in surgery or something I've heard that it's
not ideal to drink a lot of coffee even though you're waking super early because you don't
wanna be like wanting to go to the bathroom so I'm considering trying these and seeing
if it works for me.
Looks like this caffeine one actually has about 20mg per pieces and it's four pieces
per serving.
It's actually pretty big it's like the size of a peanut m&ms but there's no peanut in
it.
The flavor it taste a little bitter like you would expect with the caffeine.
I just had 2 just to have a little bit of a kick before I go and study.
This one has 1mg of melatonin per piece and 4 pieces per serving.
This will also be a good thing to try.
I'm going to try it tonight.
Okay guys, I've decided to go for a quick workout with some friends so I'm going to
go do that now.
So workout was good.
We did back day today.
Now I'm back and I'm back to studying.
I'm going to do a little bit of endocrinology and a little bit of immunology.
I'm realizing that there's a lot of stuff in here for pediatrics that was covered in
Step 1 studying so I may refer back to some of my Step 1 material.
I thought First Aid for step 1 was a very good general overview and I feel like that's
probably about the depth that I need to know for a lot of the diseases and disorders so
I'm most likely going to refer back to some of those chapters especially the bio-chem
chapter.
So, if you guys are studying for Step 1 or if you guys are M2s this thing never goes
away.
Just keep studying and if you study it well the first time it will definitely help you
out later.
Today's dinner is from the hospital caferia.
Today they had a pasta bar where you can pick your toppings and they make the pasta for
you.
So I picked the bowtie with some chicken, mushrooms, broccoli, and some cheese but no
other sauce.
They had tomato sauce and they had alfredo sauce but I just kinda like it with garlic
and olive oil so that's what I have.
So, I'm going to
end the vlog here.
I'm most like going to study until I go to bed.
Thank you--.
So I'm gonna end the vlog here.
Thank you guys so much for watching.
Let me set this down.
I'm gonna study a little longer and go to sleep but before I do that I wanted to introduce
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