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Tuesday, December 13th, 2005 Print Email
Wow it's been a while. So I made it back home safely yesterday. And I have to go to work at the hospital today. Updates about what I've been doing the last week or so soon!
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Monday, December 5th, 2005 Print Email
It's now official — I officially get to leave the island of Grenada and move on to St. Vincent next term. That's right, I passed today's Pathology final exam so there is absolutely nothing that can keep me in Grenada for another term. 
I didn't do as well on the exam as I would have liked (actually it was my lowest of the 3 Path exams), but I still scored well enough to get the grade I wanted, so that's all I care about. 
So 1 exam down, 2 to go (ACS/Physical Diagnosis practical Wed, and Written Fri), a weekend of working storage duty and then checking people out, and then home! 7 days! (Did I mention that yet?)
Hurricane Epsilon
Monday, December 5th, 2005 Print Email
Why can't forces of nature adhere to the arbitrary "hurricane season" that ended 6 days ago? 
In a stunning move, Hurricane Epsilon has made an unexpected left-hand turn and is heading back for the Caribbean. Hopefully it won't cause any problems for me getting out of here on Monday. (7 days- woo hoo!)
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- Employer-Backed Health Care Is Here to Stay, for Lack of a Better Choice - “Frustrations with the status quo notwithstanding, the current system of providing insurance to most working Americans through their employers is not likely to disappear, according to policy analysts and consultants in Washington and around the country. That is mainly, they say, because none of the other possibilities, like a government-run plan or some new private-sector solution, have enough support to serve as a replacement.”
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Hospital Visit
Friday, December 2nd, 2005 Print Email
For our Advanced Clinical Skills class, we went to the hospital yesterday to interview real patients. (Quite a concept, really.) Unlike our mock patient, the 19-yo female in Bed 10 actually had a chief complaint from which we could elucidate a history of the present illness.
She had been having abdominal pain, fever, and headache for the past few days. When we asked "Have you had any serious illnesses, hospitalizations, or surgeries?," she answered a resounding "no."
Turns out that she has sickle cell disease, and has been hospitalized for crises 3-4 times a year since diagnosis at age 17. She also was diagnosed with gallstones and had her gallbladder surgically removed a year earlier. How could you answer "no" to that question? People please, relating your complete medical history to your medical provider only helps them to treat you better and more completely. Don't leave anything out because you don't think it's not relevant or important. You never know, it may be…
- The terrorists strike back: Iranians hack UR Web sites - “Iranian hackers defaced nine Web sites including the Students’ Association Web site and UR’s main Web site this past Monday.”
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