So Long Zygapophyseal!

So now that yesterday is over (yesterday being the day of the Anatomy midterm exam), I can officially move on with my life. It's quite amazing how students can convince themselves that these exams are the most important things in the world, and that while just about anything can happen around them (like hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, wars... literally), in that moment, nothing is possibly more important than the root value of the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve of the thigh. I find it to be incredibly sad, personally. I think that is one of the reasons I am so starved for the New Yorker or the Economist at the beginning of every week. Honestly I don't know if the way the subject is taught in school is wrong-- I just think it could be a bit more balanced. I think students wouldn't be half as stressed if they realized that other things were going on around them-- and in the long run, the relevance of the semispinalis cervicis musle to our everyday lives is mininal.

I wanted to add something to my last post about specialties: while the list of specialties I used certainly covered a number of the fields of medicine, it certainly was not exhaustive. After I sent the post I thought of a few other specialties I am interested in, including infectious disease and pulmonology. I have professors in both of those two fields, and I was thinking that if I got my act together, I'd like to see if I could shadow them or at least talk to them about what the field really entails.

I also wanted to mention a neat program that Sinai's Global Health Center is putting together, and that is a Global Health Fellowship program. It is for doctors after their residencies, and I think it could be right up my alley. I could definitely see myself doing a residency in internal medicine and then a fellowship in global health. Food for thought.

Today is Stacey's birthday. We have plans of going out to a bar with 50 of her closest friends. It's also pouring rain and 50 degrees outside. Gross day for birthday plans. I guess that's not something we can do anything about. I hope she has a really good time tonight.