Halfway through Internal Medicine

"My God man. Do you want an acute case on your hands? This woman has immediate post-parandial, upper-abdominal distention." (or in other words, cramps) Bones Mccoy

So yeah, it's been awhile since I last posted, but Medicine has been keeping me pretty busy as of late. I'm on my 2nd month of Internal Medicine and still living it up at the Taub, as much as that's possible. Things are going well though, I have a good team and it hasn't been nearly as crazy as I was led to expect. This has actually been a fairly slow month in general at the county hospital. Lots of beds on differently floors are actually vacant. It's pretty strange. Sadly, it seems that the patients that we do have all have one form of cancer or another. One of my patients has a type of bone marrow cancer called myeloma, another has severe throat cancer, and we admitted a patient today with leukemia. It's been kind of depressing. Why can't it be more run of the mill stuff that you treat and send home? I guess it's good experience though. Two more weeks here and I'll finally be changing hospitals and going back to the VA. I'm ready to be writing notes on computers again finally. My life has pretty much been hospital work lately so that pretty much covers it as far as updates go. I did manage to get away and see the Lord of the Rings movie exhibit this weekend at the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences. It was cool to see all the movie props, buildings and costumes that they used in the filming of the trilogy. Other than that, yeah, I guess my life has been pretty boring lately. ..