I’ve managed to work myself into a horrible schedule. It goes something like this: 7:03am: This is when my first alarm goes off. I’ve set it for a little over 30 minutes before the time that I actually need to be up (which, you have to admit, is an improvement over the hour’s worth of [...]
‘Life’
Insomnia
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010Teaching hospitals
Thursday, July 1st, 2010A few days ago, I overheard a conversation at work. One of the other medical students was speaking to my research mentor’s secretary, and the gist of the conversation, to which both the medical student and the secretary seemed to agree, was this: “I try to avoid going to teaching hospitals for my medical care [...]
Pictures of my brain
Thursday, June 24th, 2010I signed up as a healthy volunteer for an MRI research study a few days ago, and today, I went in to get my brain scanned. Pretty cool, right? Apparently, I have a lot of grey matter… and a lumpy, but surprisingly round head. By the way, if you live near a research hospital and [...]
