Hurry!
Hi everyone!
It's Sunday.
Today I'm going to be starting a week in emergency medicine vlog.
Today I'm just gonna be apartment hunting, just looking at a bunch of places to move
into later next month.
But I start my shift tomorrow at 2pm.
So I'm just gonna be taking you guys along for the week and I will see you guys later.
Later!
Good morning everyone!
It's Monday morning.
It's actually like 11am.
Today I have my shift from 2:30pm to 10 or 10:30pm and before I go I have a lot of time
this morning.
So I'm doing some questions from Pre-test.
My friend Dania who you guys saw in some of the other videos, she said that if I do 30
questions a day, I'll be done with the book in like 17 days or something.
So, she's also doing emergency medicine, so we're doing these questions kinda together.
Today I'm doing questions on abdominal pain and pelvic pain.
I'm hoping to finish the book halfway into clerkship so that I can have the other half
of the time to study with other resources.
So I'm doing questions now, and we'll head to the hospital in a few hours.
Hi everyone!
It's Tuesday.
Today is my day off and I'm doing a huge organizing slash donating books and crazy madness.
I called the Goodwill and they said they don't accept textbooks so I have all these textbooks
that I'm probably gonna either sell on Amazon or bring it to my school so that somebody
can use it.
Also trying to downsize and I realize I have no idea what to do with all these DVDs.
Some classics like Boy Meets World, probably my favorite show.
Some of these I'm keeping cause they are like my favorites, Mr Bean, Big Fish, Breakfast
at Tiffany's, Manhattan, Virgin Suicides, Life Aquatic, The Royal Tenenbaums, Amelie,
Garden State, also big fan of Mean Girls and Sex and the City.
So I'm keeping these, although to be honest, I don't know what I'm gonna do with them because
DVDs are like a dying technology and I don't even have a DVD player.
Only my old Macbook can play these and I think last time I tried to play a DVD on my old
Macbook it like wouldn't eject the disc after.
Or it took a really long time.
So it made me kind of nervous.
I don't know what I'm gonna do but I'm definitely not gonna keep them.
I called Goodwill and they said they'd take DVD donations so I'm gonna donate them.
Today I'm off and tomorrow I'm only, I only have lecture for a couple hours tomorrow so
I should have enough time to get some of the things organized and get donated.
So that's what I'm working on today.
I don't know if I mentioned but I found an apartment that I liked so I worked on the
application for the apartment.
That's what I did last night last night when I got back and this morning also when I got
back.
So I'm gonna get all my boxes together and head over to Goodwill.
I found some CDs, these really old CDs that I used to listen to back when CD players were
a thing.
I no longer have a CD player except for in my car so I think I'm gonna donate most of
these as well.
It's crazy all these, it's crazy all these things that you thought you would use for
a really long time but then they become outdated and then you just have no use for them anymore.
Everything is like digitalized and you listen to everything from like Spotify or like iTunes
or something.
So definitely a weird feeling but I'm ready to part with most of these stuff.
Alright, at some point today, I'll make it to the Goodwill.
So we'll see how that goes.
So I found my Governor's School Audition Recording.
I used to play the clarinet so Gov's School is like a thing you can do during the summer.
I didn't get it but I remember recording this at my teacher's house.
It was his dad's recording studio.
This is the only recording that I have of myself playing the clarinet like every I think
in existence.
So I'm gonna listen to it and see what I sound like.
Alright, my computer didn't play the CD so I'm gonna try
playing it in my car.
This is such a weird trip down memory lane right now.
I haven't played the clarinet since like 2007 maybe.
So this is like 10 years ago.
This is actually like 12 years ago because I did it during high school.
I stopped playing in college but wow crazy.
Anyway, I'm all--I don't know if you can see, but basically I'm all packed to the brim,
with all the stuff so I'm gonna head over to Goodwill and get these things donated.
Alright.
So I just dropped off everything at Goodwill and I'm here at my friends house.
My friend Jane, she's a year below me, and she's studying for her Step right now and
I have all these third year books that I wanted to give her so I'm at her house.
I'm gonna call her.
Jane: Hi Jamie!.
Jamie: Hey, are you home?
Jane: Yeah, are you outside?
Oh I see you.
Jamie: Ok, I'll see you soon.
Jane: I'm coming out.
Jamie: Ok, bye.
Doing a quick check in, I'm running to lecture right now.
Lecture today is starting at 10 o'clock which is very nice.
So today, we're talking about trauma, abdominal pain and ob-gyn emergencies, and back pain.
So I will see you guys after lecture.
Back from lecture, I had lectures from 10 to noon, had lunch with my friend Dania, and
now I'm headed out to drop off checks for my new apartment.
Yay!
So I'm headed out and probably come back later and maybe film some videos, work on some stuff
and yeah, I'm gonna do all that.
Good morning everyone!
It's Thursday today I have a shift from 9-5pm a pretty standard shift.
I'm gonna be in sort of the less urgent part of ED, ironically it's called Urgent Care.
Basically it's people who come to the ED but aren't super, super sick.
Usually a lot of people that come, come with back pain or headaches, abdominal pain, and
their vitals are more or less stable and they can wait to be seen.
I guess they don't really wait longer but they're just seen in a different part of the
ED.
I like this part because it's like very similar to family medicine and nothing is like and
nothing really needs to be done urgently, so you get to talk to them a little more,
and they all stay in this one area and I don't really have to go too far.
I get to spend a little more time with my attending cause nothing is like super serious.
Although you do try to rule out all the super serious life threatening stuff with these
people as well.
You should do that with everyone that comes to the ED.
You always think of like the top 5 or the top 6 deadly causes of you know, different
things, different presentations.
So that's my shift for today, I'm gonna be doing the same thing tomorrow.
Tomorrow my shift is in the same place but it's gonna be from 7:30am to 3:30pm.
So eating my breakfast I have my oats here.
I like to eat my oats kinda cold so I just cook it with a little bit of milk and then
I add more cold milk and then I got my coffee here as well.
Alright, I'm gonna head out in a little bit and I will see you guys later.
Hey guys I'm back!
It's 5:35pm I had my 8 hour shift today.
It was super exciting because there were a lot of like little procedures and I love procedures.
Today we had a guy with like a huge abscess on his back.
You can think of abscess as like a really big, disgusting, gross pimple.
Basically like a collection of puss under his skin.
So you basically numb it up, you take a scalpel, you cut it open and you squeeze out all the
disgusting puss and it's like super fun.
So I did that today, also another lady came in with a hand laceration.
I didn't actually do the stitching because she was a hospital staff so I think just the
attending wanted to do it so he did that.
I did an ultrasound of a gallbladder, I tried to get a nice view of the gallbladder with
stones insides.
So that was really fun too.
Overall just like a cool, fun-filled day.
I saw all different kinds of things, and I think that's really one of the things I like
the most about EM.
You don't really have the same patient over and over again like you would if you were
a super specialized internal medicine doctor, like a GI (gastroenterologist) or cardiologist,
you might see like an MI several times a day or just coronary artery disease several times
a day, a-fib, or if you're a GI doctor you might see like GI bleeds a few times a day.
In EM you see like different things like every time when somebody comes in.
So that's what I really like about emergency medicine.
I'm gonna try to do my set of questions for today.
I think today's chapter is trauma.
I already covered trauma during surgery and also we had that trauma lecture yesterday.
So I think the question should go by really fast.
Did I mention I'm watching 13 Reasons Why.
It's about a girl who committed suicide and she left all these tapes for people to listen
to after she died.
Really interesting and fun show.
So I'm watching that because I have a lot of free time during EM.
So that's what I'm gonna do for the rest of the day.
Hi everybody today is Friday!
I have to feed Candy.
Hold on one second.
It's about 4:30pm.
I just got back from shift today.
Today my shift was from 7:30 to 3:30pm.
I think I actually ended up leaving around 3:50pm.
Today I saw a few different things, I saw I guy who broke his finger at work.
It was basically like a complete transverse fracture of his third finger, his middle finger.
He was working.
I also saw a guy who had kidney stones and did I see anybody else?
Maybe like one or two---oh, I saw like a cough.
This lady had a cough for 3 months.
She came in today.
You see a lot of that too.
In the ED you see a lot of acute cases--so that's things that need immediate attention
and those are usually pretty exciting and people coming in with PE or MI or whatever.
You also see a lot of like non-acute kinda like family medicine kind of stuff too.
So you see a little bit of everything.
You get to do a little bit of everything which is cool.
So that was my day today.
I'm gonna finish that TV show today--13 Reasons Why because I only have like a few episodes
left and I'm gonna make dinner and I think that's it.
My days are simple and I like it that way.
So I will check in with you guys later.
So it's Friday night.
I decided to go out instead of staying in.
I am going out.
Good morning everyone it's Saturday!
Last night was a lot of fun.
It was nice to just go out and have fun with friends.
I have the day free but I have my shift starting at 9:30pm.
And then I'm working overnight until about 7am.
So just gonna be preparing for that probably take a couple naps if I can so I can stay
up and maybe get some studying done and really just tidy the house and find things to donate
and things like that.
So I'm gonna be closing the vlog here.
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Hopefully you guys got a good idea what emergency medicine is like.
I'm sure it's very different than some of the other rotations that I've been on.
I don't know if I was able to really accurately portray what it's like inside the hospital
because I couldn't really film inside the hospital but basically it's very intense and
fast paced and it's kind of non stop when I'm at the hospital but when I'm off, I don't
really think about what is going on inside the hospital.
So when you're on, you're on, when you're off, you're definitely off.
That's sort of the hallmark of being in emergency medicine and I'm really enjoying my experience.
So hopefully you guys got--maybe a little bit of sense of what's it's like and hopefully
you guys enjoyed the vlog.
So I'm going to sign off here.
Thank you guys so much for watching, and I will see you guys in the next video.
Bye!