Goodbye medicine!

Wow, so the last entry...I talked with my resident just after that day and she talked with the intern and fixed everything. Turns out, dealing with things works, despite my best efforts to not deal with my life sometimes, it always works out better when I do deal with issues that come up.
Anyways, so this past Friday was the last day of medicine, completed with the awful shelf exam. My final thoughts on medicine. Overall, very enjoyable. I liked the patients, I liked the aspect of working with medical colleagues (via consults and team stuff). I liked the working up medical illnesses, working with patients for a few days or even a couple of weeks for the acute management purposes. I actually found working with families, even when the loved one was near death, to be very fulfilling. Negative thoughts: dealing with social issues SUCKED. I have a feeling this will be an issue in all the specialties. The team dynamic could be very frustrating, especially if some members were incompetent in their role. I'm sure there is more...but overall, I found great satisfaction in IM. We shall see.
Ob is next up! Nervous and excited. What if I don't like it? Then I suppose I will do something else. What if I absolutely love it? Then I'll have to do it, and it will be super difficulty to deal with ethical battles, for my entire career. Yikes....

Arghh!

9 weeks into my 3rd year, and today was the first day that I just absolutely hated. My feeling of discontent was not caused by a patient, or some delay in a meeting, or being in the wrong place, but by the simple fact that I was trying to see patients(and for once we had patients) and trying to learn, and the intern did not really have time to even assign me a patient, or even send me in the right direction. I love this year, almost exclusively b/c I get to ask questions all the time, I get good answers back immediatley and I get to spend time with different people on a daily basis and share in part of their life story. People say 3rd year is all about adjusting to new people and new circumstances and still manage to learn how to be a doctor in the middle of everything. Dealing with frustrations is just part of the 'doctor skill set'...I guess.