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	<description>Just sharing with the world my experiences on my journey to obtaining the MD and beyond.</description>
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		<title>Another Golden Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had the entire weekend off and it was great!  My fiance came in town to visit me.  I always love when he and I get to spend dedicated time together.  We saw 2 movies, went out to eat alone and with fellow interns, and even had time just to lounge around the house.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medobsession.wordpress.com&blog=587973&post=1290&subd=medobsession&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Other Side</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s that time of year again: interview season!  It&#8217;s so odd to be on the other side of the table now.  I met my first group of applicants recently as a tour guide for our program.  It&#8217;s amazing the things that people say and do on a tour when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medobsession.wordpress.com&blog=587973&post=1286&subd=medobsession&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://medobsession.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/on-the-other-side/</link>
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		<title>Express Wedding Planning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the first half of my wonderful vacation relaxing and catching up on sleep.  The last few days were full of wedding consultations.  My fiance, mom and I managed to meet with 3 florists, 3 bakeries, 4 DJ/Entertainment companies, our photographer, the reception coordinator, the wedding planner, the pastor and a bridal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medobsession.wordpress.com&blog=587973&post=1282&subd=medobsession&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://medobsession.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/express-wedding-planning/</link>
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		<title>Rapid Response to Room 13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I get a page with 7 numbers and nothing else, no name, no patient name, nothing.  I call back thinking that it&#8217;s a nurse asking can my patient have a one time dose of zofran or dilaudid for breakthrough nausea, or pain, you know, the typical stuff.  Instead it&#8217;s a frantic nurse, &#8220;We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medobsession.wordpress.com&blog=587973&post=1280&subd=medobsession&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://medobsession.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/rapid-response-to-room-13/</link>
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		<title>Scheduled Day Off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In keeping with the discussion of Duty Hours, we are supposed to get 4 &#8220;Scheduled Days Off&#8221; in a 28 day period. I have been on call the last 3 weeks in a row, so I was spending most of my days off sleeping post call.  Not this weekend!
I had the most fun that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medobsession.wordpress.com&blog=587973&post=1278&subd=medobsession&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://medobsession.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/scheduled-day-off/</link>
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		<title>Program Director Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe that I&#8217;m already well into my 4th month of internship!  Damn time really flies&#8230; and working like crazy definitely helps the time to go by more quickly. In order to make sure that we are on track, we have meetings with the Program Director twice a year.  My meeting was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medobsession.wordpress.com&blog=587973&post=1276&subd=medobsession&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://medobsession.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/program-director-review/</link>
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		<title>80 Hour Average</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well this week I learned about the 80 hours, averaged over 4 weeks rule.  My program is actually very compliant with duty hours, and both my chief resident and the program director are good about making sure I get out of the hospital at a reasonable hour.  
Last week, however, was a different [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medobsession.wordpress.com&blog=587973&post=1273&subd=medobsession&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://medobsession.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/80-hour-average/</link>
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		<title>Death #3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well there has always been that saying that death comes in threes. After the patient died that I posted about below, another patient took a turn for the worst. Since she was end-stage cancer, once this turn occurred the patient decided she would rather die at home.  She passed away within days of discharge. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medobsession.wordpress.com&blog=587973&post=1271&subd=medobsession&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://medobsession.wordpress.com/2009/10/06/death-3/</link>
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		<title>Time of Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well one of the patient&#8217;s that we predicted would die, died.  I was called to the bedside because the patient stopped breathing and her heart stopped beating.  She had been pronounced dead by the PA on our service.  I saw the patient&#8217;s family member crying like no other.  It definitely brought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medobsession.wordpress.com&blog=587973&post=1269&subd=medobsession&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://medobsession.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/time-of-death/</link>
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		<title>Predicting Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These last few days, rounds have been dominating by discussing the imminent death of two of the patients that we have on service. One patient is relatively young and the other is relatively old. The families of both of these patients both understand that death is looming in the future.  Despite the knowledge of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medobsession.wordpress.com&blog=587973&post=1263&subd=medobsession&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://medobsession.wordpress.com/2009/09/29/predicting-death/</link>
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