Recently, Aunt Margi entrusted me with Grandpa Buck’s stethoscope. His is the one on the left. I’m not sure if it’s the same scope they gave him when he was at Med school in St. Louis. If so, he would have received it it in 1941, taken it to China in WWII, and then brought [...]
Read MoreSo second year is already in full tilt boogie. We are already pre-clinical masters of the kidney and halfway through the GI track—in the first third of the small intestine to be precise. Second year provides much more opportunity to see what practicing medicine actually involves. I was assigned to the Palo Alto VA [...]
Read MoreOh dear, the med-student-run-around has resumed. Second year is filled with an organ by organ march through the body culminating in the first step of the medical boards. Presently the kidneys are taking over my life. And, to make things more difficult interesting, I’m applying for a Med Scholars grant in hopes that “Endosymbiont” will [...]
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