Where was the hippocampus again?

I feel like I'm in a different world now. Spending three months in surgery is completely opposite from the "medical" world, which I got thrown into this week on Neurology. I'm back at the VA hospital and it's been going ok so far. I've just had to shift gears and ways of thinking of things. On surgery, you concentrate on the most obvious problem, do things only related to that problem and then move on quickly. On a medicine rotation like Neurology, you pretty much have to concern yourself with every little thing going on in the patient, which gets complicated. Thankfully, most of our patients have neuro complaints (obviously) so even then we're still narrowed down to a fairly small area. It's fun though. I really like the neuro exam. It's fun to do and think about. I don't like how most of the therapy and treatment that is involved in neurology is mostly palliative though. Meaning you can't really do much to cure your patients, you just do your best to help them understand what's wrong with them. I'm pretty sure I couldn't do that kind of work for a living, but I'm certainly glad there are people out there who can.