tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138625163039637769.post9122265335252681529..comments2024-03-12T14:43:01.539-06:00Comments on Asystole is the Most Stable Rhythm: Blog Readers, I Salute YouAlbinoblackbearhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15222730484450544498noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138625163039637769.post-23196993421410007202013-09-02T00:27:15.301-06:002013-09-02T00:27:15.301-06:00Thanks again and again for all the words of encour...Thanks again and again for all the words of encouragement and support. :)<br />How could I stop now?!?<br /><br />@RuralOB/Gyn- Yes, I think depression is not uncommon in residency (our program director told us it is 5X more likely than in general pop but I wager those stats are low balling it). I also can appreciate the want-ads surfing...I have certainly been staring enviously from time to time at the personal trainers in my gym or the produce section employees in Safeway. :) Thanks for your thoughts. <br /><br />@David -- Thank you SO SO much for your comment. I have revisited it several times and appreciate the thoughts that you shared on all this. Crazy that you were at MWRH while I was in the wings...I think you have hit the nail on the head with the institutionalized prisoner sentiment and I agree that the blog can be (and has been) a compass for days to come. I hope your UK post is going well. Thanks again for your comment. Sláinte!Albinoblackbearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15222730484450544498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138625163039637769.post-79415901093058284112013-08-23T12:11:36.776-06:002013-08-23T12:11:36.776-06:00I just wanted to add my voice to the "please ...I just wanted to add my voice to the "please continue the blog brigade". I came across it by accident last week and read most of it through with a great sense of nostalgia. I am an Irish graduate who worked as a locum consultant in MWRH from 2009-2012 and have left to take up a job in the UK. Having lived in Limerick during the time you were there it was great to see a different perspective and good to get a reminder about stopping to smell the roses. You packed so much in to your time there it put me to shame. I am glad you have gotten to go home but you will find this blog a useful way to orientate yourself in the years to come. So much of your life is structured that it can come as a bit of a culture shock when you finally reach independent practice - a little like an institutionalised prisoner being set free - you've spent so much time thinking about it you don't quite know what to do with it when you get it. This blog will help remind you of where you're coming from and hence where you're headed. I wish you the very best of luck. <br />"Go n-éirí an bóthar leat"Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17340509202067331699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138625163039637769.post-91476884456388030642013-08-22T18:27:28.342-06:002013-08-22T18:27:28.342-06:00please please do not quitplease please do not quitpatricia kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08069054302546667715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138625163039637769.post-85063668356973456652013-08-21T21:54:41.251-06:002013-08-21T21:54:41.251-06:00I think just about everyone I know had an epiphany...I think just about everyone I know had an epiphany in the first year of residency along the lines of, "Why on earth did I go med school, what was I thinking when I put this residency program on my match list, how am I ever going to get through this, and do I even want to?" Certainly I had a bout of major depression that year. And I well remember my surgery intern friend searching the newspaper want ads in January for something, anything else. <br /> You WILL get through this and look at all you are learning. Just do one day at a time. Write when you can. I'm with you!Machahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01134507879758968527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138625163039637769.post-37369935663287616632013-08-21T10:17:21.099-06:002013-08-21T10:17:21.099-06:00Yay. Do love reading the blog, and would find stor...Yay. Do love reading the blog, and would find stories from the life of a resident fascinating.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17522748386976753454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138625163039637769.post-55424721717894892992013-08-21T10:06:05.656-06:002013-08-21T10:06:05.656-06:00I second your hope that you continue your blog. Yo...I second your hope that you continue your blog. You have such good stories. Eventually, something that you want or wish for will come out of being at this residency. I hope you keep blogging about it so that we can see that happen for you. Plus, your stories are awesome.Just Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10884442981866929503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3138625163039637769.post-84669806436728640012013-08-19T22:00:51.681-06:002013-08-19T22:00:51.681-06:00I do hope you continue the blog.
Even if you ca...I do hope you continue the blog. <br /><br />Even if you can't write very much about the medical side of it, I'm looking forward to hearing about life in rural Canada.<br /><br />Thanks for your work and your stories,<br />GregGreghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13577874285455664210noreply@blogger.com