Family Resident: A Day in the Life
I feel that whenever I have a story to share from the chronicles of residency or life it is typically an outlandish outlier from the day...
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JUSTIN STERETT, MD
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Apr 2, 20165 min
Returning to Residency
It’s been almost a year since my last blog. Much has happened and in some ways its been a little overwhelming to absorb all the...
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Dec 2, 20143 min
The Interview Trail
We walk many lines in life. Sometimes these lines are well structured with clear and concise paths laid out in simple steps. Sometimes...
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Feb 13, 20105 min
The White Coat Turns Black
If you think about it there is a high probability that you will someday die in the ICU. Unfortunately my month, notably my last two weeks...
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Feb 9, 20102 min
Intensive Confusion
The difference between the ICU and the medicine wards is sort of like the difference between making a microwave dinner and preparing a...
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Nov 25, 20093 min
Not a Cardiologist
Is the answer to the question what I will be when I grow up! Besides last month the last few months haven’t been all that bad. I was on...
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Jul 12, 20094 min
Updates over Pancakes
After a little over a week of night float I’m thankful to report that the first night was by far the worst night. The work load is really...
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Mar 5, 20096 min
Island Psychiatry
For my very last week of med school!! Whoohoo!! I thought I would check out the Behavioral Health unit in the hospital. Palau has one of...
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Feb 26, 20094 min
Peleliu
Peleliu marks one of the bloodiest battles in the history of the US armed forces. Peleliu is at the southern end in the Palau archipelago...
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Feb 24, 20094 min
Flying Solo
Once again I arrived at the Palau hospital on Monday morning with no plan for the week. In a way I’m glad there isn’t a structure...
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Feb 19, 20094 min
The Challenges of Micronesia
My week in the Palau hospital clinic started by working with a Doctor named Jonathan who I found out was actually a Pathologist. He was...
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Feb 16, 20096 min
Angaur
Once a month a team from the Palau hospital ventures out to one of the remote islands in the Palau archipelago know as Angaur. They do a...
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Feb 10, 20094 min
Palau National Hospital
After an exciting weekend of diving we made our way to our first day at the Palua or Belau national hospital. After riding our bikes...
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Jan 23, 200920 min
The Hurricane Katrina Journals
During hurricane Katrina I kept a journal. I posted this journal on another website and soon enough time forgot about it. By chance I...
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Dec 4, 20082 min
Derm – From Every Angle
The first two weeks of my month on Dermatology I worked in a clinic, which was actually pretty cool. I am kind of an odd ball with...
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Nov 11, 20082 min
The Pizza Chronicles: The Double Agent
When I’m out tearing up the streets delivering pizzas on my scooter (or more appropriately put, lawnmower engine with wheels), I have no...
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Oct 15, 20083 min
The Pizza Chronicles: Training Days
I got a job! Fourth year of med school is just that amazing. When I was in college the most money I made was when I did pizza delivery...
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Sep 24, 20085 min
Internal Medicine – The Compression Manifesto
“We have a pulse” These are words that are unfortunately rarely heard more than a few minutes into CPR. When the hospital operator...
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May 10, 20084 min
Surgery - Shots Fired
By the end of the third week of surgery I had still not seen a good trauma come in. There was one girl who got shot in the leg, but it...
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May 10, 20083 min
Surgery – Trauma Blues
About the second week of trauma surgery I realized that like every other rotation I have been on its pretty hit or miss depending on when...
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May 6, 20083 min
Med School: The First Month of Surgery
My first month of surgery was pretty easy, nothing compared to what would lay ahead. At Tulane we have to do one month of surgical...
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Feb 27, 20085 min
OB/Gyn – Rural Rotation
For the second half of the rotation I was in Pineville, Lousiana which is about a 4 hour drive north of New Orleans. Pineville is a town...
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Dec 4, 20074 min
Family Med- Giving Up
I have been finding the whole clinic/procedure aspect of family very rewarding so far. I enjoy all the procedures I have been able to do...
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Nov 12, 20073 min
Intro to Military Medicine
So after three years of waiting and wondering I finally get to glimpse into what that contract that I signed in blood will bring me after...
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Nov 6, 20073 min
Family Medicine Rotation
Family medicine is a six week rotation, and for the first two weeks I am in New Orleans at the Tulane clinic. For the last four weeks I...
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Oct 21, 20072 min
Internal Medicine – Likes and Dislikes
After my month of medicine at University I was went to Tulane hospital. The month was really busy more so than university. So I have...
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Sep 11, 20072 min
Internal Medicine – Wooden Wheelchairs
I have so many moments during the day when I swear to myself I read about this in some lightly humorous fiction book about modern day...
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Aug 30, 20072 min
Internal Medicine - So it Begins
The medicine clerkship is pretty much a big core of med school. Unlike the other rotations I have done, this is what I consider the real...
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Aug 25, 20072 min
Psychiatry - Inpatient
People with a mental illness especially schizophrenics come up with some bizarre hallucinations that are sometimes very entertaining, but...
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Aug 23, 20072 min
Psychiatry - Back Woods
Inpatient psyc was what I was looking forward to on this rotation. This is where I was hoping to see the real psychosis. Throughout med...
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Aug 19, 20073 min
Psychiatry– Outpatient
Psychiatry is set up so that for two weeks I do outpatient and then two weeks of inpatient. So for my first two weeks I did outpatient....
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Jul 28, 20073 min
Neuro – Conclusion
So the first rotation of third year has come and gone. Psychiatry is on que, and starts on Monday. In the last week or so I was starting...
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Jul 13, 20073 min
Neuro – Medicine Seen
Being a neurologist is kind of like being a really really smart birthday clown. You get people to do a bunch of crazy things, and you...
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Jul 4, 20073 min
Out of the Classroom
The first day of the third year of medical school was a very similar feeling to the first day of school when I was little, or what I...
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