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Happiness and Joy

Gentle Readers;

Have you heard? Happiness is contagious!
I admit to being a little surprised by some of the feedback on my recent posts. Surgery was intense. Medicine, not without it's bumps but much better. But I don't remember feeling like I was suffering. I was intensely frustrated in medicine by some of my classmates negativity. Luckily for me, I was befriend by a fourth year medical student who was interested in medicine and who had a work ethic. She told me about her experience in her third year medicine clerkship, and how frustrated she was by the negativity around her and how depressing she found it to be around negative people. So I started spending less time around the folks who weren't happy where they are and more time with people like my fourth year friend who were. When I first got to the hospital I felt comforted by being in a big group of student, now I have found my peace and my place on my own. I feel my personal and professional confidence growing. I know I am on the right career path. It is a good place to be.

My cardiology elective was fantastic. I worked with an attending who was devoted to teaching and encouraged his student to think. He taught rigorously without condescension. I rounded with students and residents who wanted to be there, and I can tell you it was much easier to be happy. And charged up. I have to say, I have an intellectual crush on cardiology right now. It is very cool.

posted by Sa @ 6:44 PM 0 comments

City Fun

In between thanksgiving in Bay Head with the Waterburys and my brother's graduation in Knoxville, I spent a throughly lovely day with Larissa in New York


Any day that includes playing with yarn in a cute little french patisserie in the Village is a good day.



The day actually started with quality time at the Great Jones Spa, where Larissa and I both let go of our stress in the jacuzzi, sauna and steam room as well as getting fabulous massages. We then wandered around Soho for a bit, and had a PITCHER of sangria and great tapas for lunch.



Larissa proved to be an adept subway pathfinder, always pointing me patiently in the right direction after we emerged and not mocking me at all when I unerringly insisted time and again that we set off in the wrong direction. I will admit to feeling extra cool when someone asked me for directions in Soho.. obviously mistaking me for a city dweller. I am just that cool. Luckily Larissa was again able to point the stranger in the right direction... making her super cool. But we already knew that.. She is seen here dealing with a stray animal cracker that was found in her pocket while waiting for a downtown train. The threat posed by said animal cracker has indeed been neutralized.

posted by Sa @ 10:02 AM 1 comments

OR......

This actually is a pretty good depiction of what surgery was like for me....
Scutt Monkey Surgery

posted by Sa @ 4:10 PM 1 comments