Medicine and good documentaries and Baby Brady

Today was my last day of 6 weeks on outpatient family medicine. For 6 weeks I have been seeing patients of all ages (kids through the elderly) in clinic from 8-5. I always find myself really enjoying rotations when they are almost over. I know most of it is that I feel comfortable and good at what I do, but it always makes me wonder if maybe I should go into that specialty. Family medicine has a lot of perks: 9-5 job, decent salary, relaxed residency (comparatively to other specialties), short residency- 3 years, continuity of care, diversity of patients. However, I am pretty sure it is not for me. I do like outpatient (seeing patients in an office) and want it to be a part of my career, but I think I would get bored doing the same thing every day. This past 6 weeks I have had more time to myself than I have over the entire rest of med school. I have been antsy and bored and trying to find ways to entertain myself. I've finally gotten all this free time down to a science- exercise has been my main entertainment. This week I biked on the Hawthorne trail Sunday, Bikram Yoga on Monday, Spin Class on Tuesday, a run on Wednesday, and stairmaster at the gym today. I definitely like that I don't have to study while hurriedly getting in 40-50 minutes of cardio at the gym and instead can spend 2 hours a day luxuriously working out, but then there are a solid 3-4 hours I have during the rest of the night that I have to entertain myself. I know I'm going to be complaining when I'm overworked and tired that I want time to do nothing but it just has been quite a big adjustment for me.  Anyways, back to ob/gyn being better for me than family. I want to be in the operating room a couple days a week and with ob/gyn, I can do both OR and outpatient clinics. So what if I'm on call a lot at least I won't be bored because I have too much free time. I'll stop talking now.

I watched 2 documentaries recently that I'd highly recommend: How to Die in Oregon (about physician assisted suicide) and The Education of Dee Dee Ricks (about a superficial businesswoman who gets breast cancer.) Both were really good and made me ball.

I babysat my freshman roommate from college's baby tonight. She is in her first year of med school now and has a test tomorrow. Here are some pictures of our night...