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What’s in my white coat?

I used to love these posts when I was in undergrad, and with peds being all over the place and me using my white coat as my only “bag”, I thought this would be the perfect time to post my own!

I usually carry in my white coat:

Stethoscope

Pocket manual

White coat clipboard

Alcohol prep pads (kids are germy, I wipe my stethoscope down after each use)

Memo pad for my own study notes/assignments

Pen (nobody steals blue ink)

Badge

Cough drops

Tissues

Face mask

Granola bar

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𝗜'𝗺 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝗶𝗻

𝘐'𝘮 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵

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Studying & study breaks with friends

IG: flatneedledistillery

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monday, april 13th, 2020 | here goes another week, let’s try & make it a good one (or at least an okay one).

today I…

started my discrete math hw

did some research and brainstorming for my ams paper

studied physics

worked on the programming project

for fun/self care I…

played some animal crossing

had a nice long phone call with Lover

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13.04.2020 🌿

oxidation of alcohols notes + flashcards for organic chemistry

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“I want to cry but I have things to do”

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January 16, 2020

It’s been a whole week of ‘snow day’ and I’m getting cabin fever. I’ve been able to leave the house to study but I need to hang out with friends. The benefit of all of this though is that I have time to get stuff done!

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Quarantine Study Tips

If you're like me and you've still got deadlines despite the global pandemic, this list is for you! These are a few of the tips that have helped keep me on track while having no structure whatsoever.

1. Maintain a routine

While it's easy to fall into the habit of sleeping in and getting to your work when you get to it, it helps SO much if you get up at the same time every day, make yourself breakfast, get on some comfortable clothes and get on it. The earlier you get started on your work the easier it is to stick with it!

2. Get out of your pajamas

I'm saying don't stay in the clothes you slept in. I've been living in leggings but I get out of bed and change into leggings (and a cozy sweater/cardigan). Definitely work in what you're comfortable in, but not what you slept in.

3. Have something that makes you look forward to the work.

A tasty breakfast, your favourite tea, a good playlist, making aesthetically pleasing notes whatever you like. It makes you start the day on a good note!

4. Have a study space

Again, doesn't have to be fancy but somewhere that you associate with school work and being productive.

5. Maintain some sort of activity.

Now that we're all self isolating we are losing even the bare minimum of the activity we used to get, walking around campus for example. I spend at least 30 mins a day doing yoga, it's low impact, makes me feel great and there's a million YouTube yoga classes!

6. Take breaks.

While is feels unproductive, most of us having nothing but time to do this work. Take a break! Video chat your friends. Play games with your family. Take your dog for a walk. Have a nap. Make a snack. Breaks are healthy!!

7. Take care of yourself

In what ever way you can. This is a scary situation for everyone and you're allowed to feel however you want about it. If you're struggling, reach out! Most universities have procedures in place including wellness teams and relaxed extension policies. Stay connected with family and friends. The houseparty app is amazing! And please, please wash your hands and don't go out unless absolutely necessary 💕

My inbox is always open! Feel free to drop me a message about anything.

Happy studying everyone 💕

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2020 quarantine challenge

studying cardiology

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Day 51

51/100 days of productivity

31st March ,2020

Week 2 of Quarantine

I don’t think I like online classes a lot.

@myhoneststudyblr 2020 Quarantine Challenge

Mon - Take a picture of your desk/study space

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‫“لا يخيّب اللهُ من سعى، ثقْ بالشّفاء مادمت تستشفي، وبالرّزق مادمت تكدح، وبالوصُول مادمت تجاهد، وبالفرج مادمت ترضى، و بالإجابة مادمت تسأل وتلحّ، لا تملّ! ولاتبرح الباب، لا تخذلك عجلتك في المنتصف، ولا تقف وقد بدا الن��ور قريبًا، واصل المسير، صبحُ أمانيك دنا، بُشرى لك !”‬

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1/4/2020 | 12/60 Days of Productivity | 2020 Quarantine Studyblr Challenge

Wed: Take a picture of your most colourful notes

I stick with a colour scheme of 3 colours per module so they're all about as colourful as each other really

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Finally getting these pictures of my room posted!

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day 9 of 100 days of productivity

i made lentil chilli last night, along with waaay too much cornbread, so cornbread for breakfast it is!!

did one hour of duo norwegian

finished chapter six of nils

downloaded and organised the lecture slides and workshops i’ll need in the coming week

started learning how to read music

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Coming full circle

In the midst of this coronavirus pandemic, as our positive cases continue to climb (and our unresulted tests do too), I had a patient today come in for something unrelated.

He’s an older gentleman, in his 80s. He had some abnormal lab tests last week - a double-digit bilirubin, and a quadruple-digit alk phos - for which his cardiologist stopped his amiodarone. He saw his PCP today who saw the labs, looked at his newly yellow skin, heard his complaints of fatigue and poor appetite (but no pain), and had him directly admitted to the hospital - to me. 

For those med students reading, he sounds like a textbook case - pancreatic cancer.

For me, he sounds like my mom. She was admitted to the hospital for back & abdominal pain and weight loss. Her GI doctor called me, a state away in my last year of med school, and told me to come to the hospital. I get there, 3 trains and a taxi ride later, and see the hospitalist has left her number. I call from my phone, and with the poor reception in the hospital, all I can make out is “pancreatic malignancy.” My mom is sitting on the bed, a foot away, and I don’t know if she knows this yet. So I ask, “Is that what you think this is?” and hear a definitive “yes.” 

I hang up the phone, and turn to my mom, and ask her, just like I was taught in med school, “What have you been told about what’s going on?” 

She tells me, “They think it’s something with my pancreas, it might just be inflammation.”

I tell her, “Mom, they think it’s cancer.”

She cries. I cry. Neither of us stops crying for quite a while. Her first question for the oncologist is, “Will I make it to her match day and graduation?” 

They tell her yes. 

They were 50% right. 

Between all the chemo, the nausea and vomiting and diarrhea, the begging her to eat, the intolerable side effects, the second line chemo, the failure of the second line chemo, and finally, finally the decision to do home hospice - and all the horrors we dealt with therein - I still think the most awful part was having to tell my own mother that she had cancer, because none of the doctors who saw her were willing to do so.

And now, almost two years later, I look at the man in front of me. He knows he’s doing poorly - he described the last two weeks as “a steep decline, like a ski slope.” 

I ask him, “What have you been told about what’s going on?”

He tells me, “My doctor thinks it’s something with my liver or my pancreas. Some kind of rubin?” - I smile, say, “Bilirubin” - “Yeah, that’s it! Anyhow something with that so he wanted more tests. I don’t know if it’s my liver, or if it’s cancer, or what.”

A small part of the knot in my chest unwinds. I explain, the best I can, about how there’s something blocking the flow of bilirubin, which is why it backed up. “It could be a stone from your gallbladder, but usually you’d have pain then; that’s why we’re worried it might be cancer, maybe in the pancreas, blocking the bilirubin and causing these symptoms. That’s why we want to get this CT scan, to see what’s going on, and it can show us if there’s a cancer.” 

He nods - he has an excellent primary care doctor, and he wasn’t blindsided by the news. He starts to ask a question, then stops himself, and says, “I’ll wait til we have more answers. Thank you.”

He’s here alone. We have a 0 visitor policy because of the Covid19 pandemic. I’m wearing a mask, hiding half my face, because I’m worried I’m asymptomatic but infected and don’t want to spread it to any of my patients. 

But at least I told him the truth. I didn’t keep him in the dark, or dance around the diagnosis. 

I’ll see him in the morning. We’ll have some answers then. And he’ll have more questions, and I’ll give him all the answers I can. I can’t do anything else.

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