Farewell Psychiatry

January 1, 2011, 4:03 pmDoctor Psychobabble4 comments

First of all, Happy New Year! I had a very special New Years post and video that I wanted to post yesterday, but due to tekmological difficulties, it didn’t happen. However, I will hopefully be posting it later tonight if all goes well.

I was on call yesterday (new years eve) in the psychiatric emergency room. By the time I got home, I was too beat to go to any of the parties that I had been invited to. I ended up passing out around 10:00, well before the New Year.

This morning, I went for my awesome 12-mile “double bridge run” (over the Brooklyn Bridge AND Manhattan Bridge), which was perhaps the best way I could think of to celebrate the new year of 2011.

Today I have been running errands and taking care of stuff since my life will soon be drastically altered.

Tomorrow, I start inpatient medicine, and I will not be rotating again in psychiatry until July of this year. That’s 6 months without the loves of my life, my psych patients.

Kendra tries on her new long white coat

I’m experiencing a lot of emotions right now, including dread, fear, and excitement. My hours will be drastically different. Going on what my other psych interns have told me, I should expect that life as I know it will end once I begin medicine. I’m a little freaked out because I haven’t auscultated a heart in about 9 months. Will I even remember how to perform a physical exam? I do hope so.

Well, here’s to the end of something wonderful and to the beginning of something new!

Also, below is my schedule for the next 6 months:

January: Inpatient Medicine
February: Neurology Floors
March: Neurology Consults
April: Outpatient Medicine
May: Outpatient Medicine
June: Inpatient Medicine

Photo: Me trying on my long white coat for the first time!

  • http://npodyssey.blogspot.com/ NP Odyssey

    My sister lives in the Park Slope area and I know that is one hell of a good run for the start of the New Year.

    Don’t worry about auscultating those heart sounds, it comes back quick. I know doctors, who are not cardiologist and have trouble telling the difference between heart murmurs and other sounds.

  • Bob

    You’ll do great!!! Remember, there will be new opportunities to explore! Find time to eat and rest ;)

  • http://thuchuynh.com thuc

    awesome. you’ll do great.
    here are some apps i recommend for medicine :

    Medicine On Call
    Critical Care On Call
    Mediquations Medical Calculator
    Lytes
    Opium
    Emra

  • Dr. Psychobabble

    thanks for the nice comment. i still don’t know if i’m hearing murmurs like i should. but no one as died yet on my watch, so i guess that’s a good sign. :)

    thanks, bob!

    and thanks thuc, for the awesome links!