Today was great. I was incharge of two patients in the ICU, followed up their progress, and then presented them to the Intensivist at rounds. One patient with COPD, and one patient with--wait for it--methanol poisoning with concurrent ethanol intoxication requiring dialysis! I was calculating Anion Gaps, Osmolar Gaps, looking up methanol toxicity levels....so great! Honestly, its like doing puzzles all day.
I didnt mind psych, it was even fun at times, but I think its an adaptive mechanism, to start to enjoy what you are doing if you have to do it for a long time--that is of course if you dont absolutely despise it. And its easier to convince yourself that you enjoy something, when its been a long time since you have been able to do the thing your really enjoy best; then you forget how good something actually is. Like a cup of coffee on Easter Sunday after having given up coffee for Lent. And likely Psych seemed quite good because it was following Obs and Gyne!
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A quote from Frederick Buechner: "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." How providential that a young woman in such dire circumstances found herself in the care of a student doctor who thrives on the challenges of just those particular circumstances! May she (the patient) also find the care she needs for the larger circumstances that brought her to this.
Already, I can hear the gladness in your heart!
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