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...

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...

We walk many lines in life. Sometimes these lines are well structured with clear and concise paths laid out in simple steps. Sometimes...

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...

The difference between the ICU and the medicine wards is sort of like the difference between making a microwave dinner and preparing a...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

During hurricane Katrina I kept a journal. I posted this journal on another website and soon enough time forgot about it. By chance I...

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...

When I’m out tearing up the streets delivering pizzas on my scooter (or more appropriately put, lawnmower engine with wheels), I have no...

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...

“We have a pulse” These are words that are unfortunately rarely heard more than a few minutes into CPR. When the hospital operator...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

People with a mental illness especially schizophrenics come up with some bizarre hallucinations that are sometimes very entertaining, but...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...