I heard my first murmur today.

Yo Prav get better.

Re: Australia

Wish YOU were here.

Vivek

Same as it ever was.

GREAT DAY FOR A METS FAN

First Carlos Delgado announced at the team’s new 1B.

He announces he will stand for God Bless America.

Mets sign Billy Wagner.

Mets are a contender and Omar Minaya is not finished yet.

Yankees what have you done lately?

CARLOS DELGADO IS ON THE METS.

pending a physical.

Not right.

Not fair.

What happened this weekend is inexcusable, it happens everyday and not until it hits close to home do you feel the injustice.

And I am left powerless.

Its been advised to me that I should stop dreaming… about the Mets.

I was told I should get out more.

I probably should, I think Ive been couped out studying too long.

I think Im going to stop talking about the Mets.

I had to change my post to something more approriate:

Lately I’ve been listening to this song a lot. I am “nothingman” and the Higher Power is “she”— or at least that is what I feel.

once divided…nothing left to subtract…
some words when spoken…can’t be taken back…
walks on his own…with thoughts he can’t help thinking…
future’s above…but in the past he’s slow and sinking…
caught a bolt ‘a lightnin’…cursed the day he let it go…
nothingman…
nothingman…
isn’t it something?
nothingman…
she once believed…in every story he had to tell…
one day she stiffened…took the other side…
empty stares…from each corner of a shared prison cell…
one just escapes…one’s left inside the well…
and he who forgets…will be destined to remember…
nothingman…
nothingman…
isn’t it something?
nothingman…
oh, she don’t want him…
oh, she won’t feed him…after he’s flown away…
oh, into the sun…ah, into the sun…
burn…burn…
nothingman…
nothingman…
isn’t it something?
nothingman…
nothingman…
coulda’ been something…
nothingman…
oh…ohh…ohh…

Then I look into her eyes and everything is right with the world once again.

About 95% my emotion is unreadable, I just wish that remaining 5% did not exist.

I know my school has a large class and does not have the ”typical” American medical school. My school gets students who are determined and the desire to succeed (but this is another issue). I’m going to talk about my school specifically.

Today was the first time I drew blood. I took a couple of pricks but it was a good feeling once I was able to do it. Everyone in my class, from my knowledge, did the same, everyone got one vial full of blood from another person. We have only been a couple of months old in our 2nd year of medical school and we all have drawn blood. Might sound like a small feat, well it is, but comparable to other schools, students do not draw blood until their 3rd year of medical school.

As non-glamourious as our school is, St. George’s gets every student well prepared for their clincal years. Personally I do not how intelligent the average student is here compared to other schools, only board scores can reveal that information, and there is no way to attain that information with a credible source. But every student here when they enter their clincal years is well prepared. Every student has to show the ability to communicate, examine, diagnosis and assess a patient before leaving the Carribean. I find it unfortunate that all of the students that graduate here with St. George’s Medical School on their degree will have a stigma once they are interviewed for residency, doors will automatically close on them. Numerous students here should not have that disadvantage, a lot them are good friends of mine, and I’m sure there are many others that do not deserve it.

I think it shows how bad everyone here wants it.

Personally, I just want to congratulate my school for doing what it does. Everything is not perfect, and a student always demands more for what they are paying for, and I assure you we pay a lot. Our school brings us professors from all around the world (mainly western world- USA, Canada, England) to teach us their specialty, teach us how to evaluate patients and use the approriate techniques, force us to learn information critically and logically instead of memorizing, etc. Now for each specific student, not every learning technique is successful for that individual, but the whole class on a whole benefits from this structure.