Hey everybody!
It's Saturday night.
I wanted to do a week long vlog in medicine rotation and I wanted to start it tonight
because I actually work tomorrow, Sunday, a full shift.
I actually filmed like a weekend vlog earlier today so I was talking about this in that
vlog.
Since I'm working Sunday through probably next Saturday, I thought today would be the
right time start.
I'm setting my alarm right now.
It's about 1am.
It's a little late but I end up kinda staying up late.. oh not that... so tomorrow I have
to be in the hospital by 8 AM.
So I'm planning on waking up ideally at 6:45am but realistically 7-7:15 and then I usually
get ready super fast in like 15 minutes and I leave the house by 7:30 and I'm usually
early if I leave at 7:30.
On weekends we go in by 8AM, during the week we go in 7AM and that's sort of the nice thing
about being in medicine and surgery.
You start a little later at a more humane time.
So that is my goal.
You guys know I also like to set my alarm on this thing.
So I set two alarms, so 7:05 and 7:10AM.
The reason why I set them kinda later is because they start to brighten like 30 minutes before
you set your alarm.
So for 7:05 it's gonna start brightening up at 6:35, slowly over time so it really wakes
your body up.
And then at 7:05, the time you set as your alarm is actually when it will like make noise.
I think the alarm that I have is some type of a bird noise--that's what I have.
That's my night.
I still have to wash my face and go to bed.
So I'm not getting as much sleep.
I do end up staying up on weekends because I feel like that's what makes me feel like
I have a life.
It's not like I go out or anything.
It's just I have a lot of stuff that I personally like to do that's not school related.
So whenever I get the chance to, I like to pay attention to myself in that way because
otherwise I'm gonna feel like I have no life or I'm gonna feel like I have no time for
my personal self.
I think that's what makes me burn out if I don't do that.
So sometimes, I'll sacrifice sleep so that I can do the things that I like to do, whether
that's talking to my boyfriend on the phone or doing stuff online or whatever it may be.
So anyway, I'm going to check in with you tomorrow at some point.
Probably not in the morning because I'm like in a hurry but hopefully later in the day
or actually when I get back at night.
And I'll tell you guys all about how my days are like.
Hi everyone!
It's Monday night, I didn't check in yesterday because I was too exhausted when I got home.
I had long call yesterday, like I mentioned on Saturday.
So I got home around 8:30-9pm.
It was a pretty busy day, we admitted I think like 5 patients.
And I think 5 is the cap for our hospital when you're on call.
I helped to admit a patient who has history of HIV and intractable nausea and vomiting.
She was pretty sick.
So she is admitted now.
I'm caring for about 4 patients now, which like, I think at this point at my level, 4
is probably the max I can do and really stand on top of all the patients and what's going
on.
I hope to be able to carry more patients at a time.
But 4 is, I think, my max for now.
I feel like I really lucked out in this medicine rotation in terms of my residents and my attendings
because they've all been really great, great teachers, and really nice as well and funny.
It makes time go by faster and it's like an enjoyable time.
So that was today.
Today it's about 8 o'clock, no it's like night o'clock night now.
I actually just got home because I stayed at the hospital so that I can write up my
H&P.
This is my third H&P.
I wanted to stay at the hospital so I can be a little bit more productive than coming
straight home.
A lot of times if I have a really long day and I come home like the last thing I wanna
do is do work.
So I'll just usually eat and watch a TV show and then like I don't wanna do anything after
that.
I wanted to stay at the hospital so I did, and I was very productive there.
Candy's collar is still missing so now she looks like an orphan cat.
So I just call her Candy the homeless cat.
Lets say hi!
Hi Candy!
Do you miss your collar?
You look so naked without your collar.
I know!
So that's how Candy is doing.
Anyway, plan for tonight, I've done pretty much all the work that I need to at the hospital
so I'm just gonna eat dinner, shower and go to bed early.
Plan for this week really is to get some of the questions done.
I feel like I haven't really focused on the UWorld questions for medicine just because
I'm so tired by the time I'm done with my shift.
But this week, I hope to do a little more.
I think I a realistic goal would be probably under 100 question... is probably realistic.
Doing at least 100 would be nice.
So I'm gonna eat, relax and probably not gonna do any questions today but I'll head to bed
early so I can wake up early.
and hopefully tomorrow, I can do some more questions.
Hello Candy!
So today is Wednesday.
As you guys can see, it's bright out so that means I got home early.
Today is a good day because.
We had our OSCE today.
OSCE if guys don't know is sort of... basically there's like a standardized test patient or
basically like an actor pretending to be a patient.
You go in, you interview the patient, and you do the physical exam as you would on a
real patient and then you're graded on like how well you did.
So I had that today, that's why I'm home early.
Medicine has been super busy, if you guys can't tell, I haven't really vlogged at all
yesterday or the day before because I would just get home pretty late.
Yesterday I wasn't on call but I was at the hospital till like 8pm, just like writing
notes and looking up things about the patient.
I have a patient who is not very good at communicating with us, she's kinda in and out of.. like
out of it.
So she can't really communicate with us, like there is no good family member that I can
talk to so I've been contacting different hospitals to see if she's been there and to
get her records and trying to get information from her previous doctor.
So that's been taking up a lot of my time.
I think as a medical student, your greatest strength on a team is your time and the amount
of time you have.
You really have to use that to your advantage and really help out the team by looking up
background information, going to see the patient like several times a day because only you
have the time to do that.
So yeah, medicine has been pretty busy.
Today I'm super happy cause I'm home early and I've been really tired so I haven't really
had time to study either so today I'm gonna try to get some studying done, do some questions
and also like relax a little bit and maybe like make dinner, hopefully... actually I
don't think I can make dinner because I don't think I have anything at home to make.
I don't know what I'm gonna do, I'll have to figure that out.
But anyway, definitely getting some studying done today so I'll see you guys later.
Hi everyone!
It's Thursday morning.
It is 4:55 in the morning.
I'm just doing a quick check-in before I head to the hospital.
Today I'm not on call so hopefully it wont be too long of a day.
Just wanted to say hi and have a good day!
Hi everyone!
It's Sunday and it's my birthday!
So I pretty much stopped vlogging after I think it was Thursday or Wednesday that I
checked in.
The rest of the week it was pretty busy.
I had long call on Friday so I was at the hospital from about I think 6am to 10pm or
9:30pm and then Saturday, I went in for my half shift, from 8am to pretty much like 3pm
which I calculated to be 7 hours.
So it was like the whole day.
Weekends has a much lighter workload so it wasn't that bad.
Rest of Saturday, I just kind of hung out at home watching TV, I got something really
cool for my birthday...
I got this air fryer.
I'm gonna have to share it with you guys later in a video like what it does.
It's basically like a convection oven and it like fries things without any oil or with
very little oil.
So yesterday, I just spent all day trying out all these different recipes and different
types of foods.
It was really fun.
Today, we're celebrating.
We celebrate by eating and I might actually go look at some apartments, there are some
open houses today.
I'm planning on moving maybe like May or June, so it's a little early to be looking but I
might just look around at some places just to see what's out there.
So I'm gonna look at some apartments for fun.
So see you guys later.
We are here at my favorite restaurant for brunch!
Unlimited Cocktails for one hour, 25 dollars.
Birthday turnup?
Birthday mussels, birthday fries, birthday salad and birthday water.
Birthday cookies!
Found some cookies, and now heading off to see an apartment.
Candy!
You wanna wish mommy a happy birthday?
Hey guys so I'm home and I'm just gonna quickly close the vlog now.
I had a pretty busy week.
Medicine rotation has been a little more demanding time wise than some of the other rotation.
So I wasn't really able to show you guys a ton of things a ton of things I did this week.
I mostly spent it in the hospital.
But hopefully you guys got a good sense of what my week is like on medicine rotation.
I will make a video in the future kinda comparing all the different rotations now that I'm almost
done with every single one of time.
So I will do that in a future video.
As for my birthday today, I had a really good time.
I love looking at different apartments even though I would be moving for another few months
so it's a little early to be looking but I love looking at different apartments around
the city so I had a really good time today.
It's Sunday night so tomorrow is another new week.
I hope you guys have a great week and I will see you guys in the next video.
Byeeeee!