Frog transfiguration

Welcome nonexistent readers to my new blog. I'm about to start a surgical internship (the first year of a surgical residency) in three days. Everyone says that this year is the most intense and the one in which a doctor learns the most about medicine out of any year of training. Therefore I thought it would be a good experience to chronicle via a blog! My plan is to write an entry the day after overnight call (24+ hours in the hospital) which right now will be every four or five nights.

Today we (the new surgical interns) learned how to use the hospital system for ordering labs and looking up lab values for patients. Of course, in order to practice we used a fake system and the patients names were all characters from Harry Potter. My patient was Ron Weasley, and I wrote a fake hospital admission note for him: "Patient is a 16 year old student who presents after accidental ingestion of potion causing frog transfiguration." Damn it, I've got to start acting more like a surgeon...

Currently reading: What to do in case of a code (medical emergency.)
Currently watching: NBA Finals (taped) Go Dwayne Wade and Miami Heat!
Next blog: Expected the evening of Monday June 26th.