Skylar None Of It Is Sexy I'm not sure why we create media around sexing up the profession of physicians. This is not a sexy job. I'm sorry to dismantle the decades of brainwashing you've allowed
Medical School Things Are Looking Up Skylar no longer has time for basic news. If I'm being honest, I'm jealous of the result, but not of the means and methods to get to that result. Medical
Medical School An Impossible Way To Live My husband, who art in heaven, hallowed be his name, decided to become an absolute terrorist two nights ago. Look. He's stressed and exhausted and exhausted and stressed and I
knitting Every Damn Day Skylar's latest rotation is in dermatology, which I've been looking forward to because of a baseless but immovable assumption that it would give him access to an entire ocean of
Medical School Physical Exam I heard it before I saw it. It was coming from the next room over. A one-sided medical based conversation by my exhausted spouse who has been working graveyard shifts
Medical School Pediatrics Skylar found out his newest rotation would be in pediatrics and this freaked him out. I was honestly surprised that he was so nervous to do this rotation. If you
Medical School Skylar's World Skylar has moved onto his second rotation now, family medicine. As I understand it, that's the same as regular medicine except it sometimes posts racist things on Facebook and Thanksgiving
Medical School Rotations Skylar started his "rotations" this week, which as I understand it roughly translates to "wander around a hospital trying to look busy so no one asks you to clean up
Medical School Zoom This morning I heard Skylar in the other room on a Zoom call with a bunch of people from school. I had slipped into the room a few times while
Medical School Quite A Lot Of Pressure Skylar is supposed to get his test scores any day now and I simultaneously need it to happen immediately and not for a while. He is antsy and it is
Medical School Micromanager Happy weekend, one and all. It's Thursday afternoon but NewYearNewMe so I'm going to start considering Thursdays part of the weekend. And maybe Wednesdays. And entire tubs of caramel pecan
Medical School Intruder On Monday night at about 3:00 AM Skylar suddenly sat up in bed and screamed. It was HORRIFYING. It obviously woke me up. "What's wrong?!" I asked him. "Eli!
Medical School White Coat Ceremony Last week I attended something called "white coat ceremony." This is where 150 grown people are dressed by other grown people on a stage in front of a crowd of
