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Monthly Archives: February 2005
Dr. Jill – The Journey
So here’s the thing – there are a lot of people out there who have no idea what it takes to finally become a fully licensed and practicing physician – I am doing my best to remedy this with a nice little explanation page about that particular topic. Look over there to the right… see where it says "Dr. Jill – The Journey" under "Pages"? Well, you can click on that for a nice (though a tad bit lengthy) explanation. Please let me know if anything is unclear so I can try to update it with a better explanation.
Bowling!
Here I am bowling at the Moolah Lanes! AJ, Jill2, and I wanted to check out this new little bowling alley in the neighborhood. This is the place that also has the new movie theatre upstairs – the one with leather seating covering most of the floor. It’s a nice little place and we had a great time bowling, then gabbing about nothing in particular.
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
So this is a story all about how my life got flip turned upside-down, and I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, to tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air.
In west Philadelphia born and raised, on the playground is where I spent most of my days. Chillin’ out, maxin’, relaxin’ all cool and all shootin’ some b-ball outside of the school, when a couple of guys that were up to no good started makin’ trouble in my neighborhood. I got in one little fight and my mom got scared, she said "You’re movin’ with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air."
I whistled for a cab and when it came near the license plate said "Fresh" and it had dice in the mirror. If anything I could say this cab was rare, but I thought "Man forget it. Yo home to Bel-Air!"
I pulled up to a house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabby "Yo holmes, smell you later!" I looked at my kingdom, I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the Prince of Bel-Air.
That’s for you Heather.. 🙂 Do you still remember the words?
Too long
It has been too long since I’ve written anything. Right now I am sitting in the conference room over on 2 West – the Inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry Unit – where I am currently finishing up week one out of six for my Psychiatry rotation. I was really scared to start here… because of it being pyschiatry, because of it being geriatrics… I didn’t know what to expect. But I have been pleasantly surprised by my experiences here. The patients, though obviously in need of some kind of assistance (otherwise they wouldn’t be in the hospital) have all been realtively easy to interact with and very open to talking to me. I feel like I am helping, even if it’s just by being a listening ear – which may be one of the more effective ways for me to help.
I would write more, but I have to get ready to present my patients at Attending Rounds. I’ll try to get some more thoughts down over the rest of this weekend. Oh, and I want to get my Valentine’s Day pictures up soon – A.J. and I had a 
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Out and About
Today A.J. and I went out to eat and we went to St. Charles.
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Visit to Garden Ridge:
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And look… I’ve got video!
Here I am waving a flag!
Relaxation
I got a cute new shirt today from the "Life is Good" people (you can see their other stuff at www.lifeisgood.com). This is what my shirt has on it:
Make myself happy…
and that is something I’ve been realizing over and over again: I have to do things for myself – for my own reasons, so I will be content – and not just to make other people happy. The case in point right now is my little journey into obstetrics and toying with the possibility of changing career plans. My biggest drive for considering the change and for seriously thinking about OB/GYN was that someone else thought it would be a good idea. And that someone was very persistent, and very complimentary, and telling her that I was considering OB made her happy – which in turn made me happy. So the thought of actually becoming an OB/GYN doctor was never really something that sparked a fire under me. But the thought of someone liking me, encouraging me, being happy because of something I was doing – that did spark a fire. 🙂 Today I’m going to my continuity clinic at Cardinal Glennon – and I will tell you that seeing all the kids there and being their "doctor", that really gets me and that is really what I want to do. Even if I do have a knack for surgery, being in the OR doesn’t excite me, not enough to make a career out of it. It’s just hard to tell that to someone who obviously is excited by the OR… This entry is a bit discombobulated, sorry for that. I’ve got my OB/GYN final exam next week then I move on to Psych (and hopefully a little more sleep). I am tired.