Not that kind of last call, but the kind that means no more overnight call for the rest of intern year! Saturday was the last 30 hour call I will ever have to take as an intern. More importantly, it’ll be the last ward month I’ll ever have to do. However, my last call turned out to be on Saturday and during a trauma rotation. This meant we would have all of the following plus some I can’t remember:
young surfer who breaks his neck, paralyzed
2 dudes shot in a car, one lives, one dies
young man stabbed 27 times and then run over twice, dies 6 hrs later
drunk guy with an alcohol level of 0.47% breaks his jaw falling out of a cab
16 year-old kid, drunk btw, gets his foot practically torn off by a car, keeps his foot
8 year-old kid gets hit by a car, goes home the same day
bunch of other ppl who get hit by cars
~5 other people needing their appendix or gallbladders out or toes amputated
I’m definitely looking forward to anesthesia/critical care residency with a lot less of the BS.
Seriously, I’ve been so busy that I haven’t had time to find out where people matched this year. But so far, from word-of-mouth, it seems like people are getting what they wanted. Congratulations to everyone who matched! :clap:
In a fit of impulsiveness, I ordered two MacBooks from Amazon.com. I think the expiring $75 rebate enticed me, but they renewed it after I bought them as expected. Learning Mac OS X for the first time coming from a lifetime of Windows (except the Apple IIE) reminded me of the culture shock of when I first moved to Detroit. But you get used to it and it grows on you. The keyboard, shortcuts, menus, tricks, etc. are all brand new and awkward for this nerd.
The hardware itself is a little underwhelming considering all the rage existing Mac users. With cheap looking and feeling solid white plastic for the casing and dirt magnets instead of keys on the the keyboard, this Mac doesn’t feel like it’ll last more than a few years. I wish Apple offered some kind of Accidental Damage policy like most of the other hardware manufacturers. Peace of mind would be easily worth a few hundred more.
There are many little features that Apple has thought of to make the experience more enjoyable like the sleek look, the Mag-Safe power adapter, a built-in camera, and much more. They did leave a lot to be desired too, however, such as a memory card reader, back-lit keyboard, and a screen with a better viewing angle or even LED backlight to name a few, but I guess this is the entry-level Mactop.
Performance-wise, this thing seems like it handles most tasks well. Sometimes I do notice it gets bogged down though and flash-movies can make the thing sound like it is about to take off. However, the disk is really quiet, which I love. The AirPort (fancy name for the wireless card) seems to connect quite fast.
Ultimately, I think the allure of Mac is this: it just works.
Will I feel the same in a few years? I hope so. Unfortunately, I only have a couple more weeks to figure that out before the return period ends.
Here’s a little thing iPhoto did for me in literally 2 minutes. I’m sure it could’ve been done just as easily in Windows but I was inspired by my new Mac. :clap:
So glad we did our taxes already. Just checked my checking account to make sure I had enough money to pay a bill and…surprise!!! Our tax refunds are all in there! All three of them: MI, CA, and a big helping hand from Uncle Sam. Can’t wait for the summer when we all get stimulated by that one package. :clap:
Five hundred years before the birth of Christ, Confucius was asked, “Is there one word that may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life?”
He answered, “Reciprocity. What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.” This basic principle, now called the Golden Rule, can be found in every major religion and philosophy.
Many people evoke one version or another of this rule, but it’s often misused. The Golden Rule is not a rule of enlightened self-interest. Sure, people are more likely to be nice to you if you’re nice to them, but the moral center of this principle is lost if you simply view it as a rule of exchange: Do unto others so they will do unto you or do unto others as they have done unto you, let alone do unto others before they do unto you.
The core of the Golden Rule is a moral obligation to treat others ethically for their sake, not ours, even if it’s better than the way they treat us. That means we should be honest to liars, fair to the unjust, and kind to cruel people.
Why? Not because it’s advantageous, but because it’s right. The way I treat others is about who I am, not who they are. It’s like the man who broke off an argument that descended to name-calling by saying, “Sir, I will treat you as a gentleman – not because you’re one, but because I’m one.”
It’s true that if we commit to always treating others the way we want to be treated, we’ll be taken advantage of occasionally. But that’s also true of those who are always trying to outsmart their neighbor.
This is Michael Josephson reminding you that character counts.
So the following article is a perfect example of the rampant epidemic of negative spin in our media today. But who could have foreseen the ripple effect of closing a large inner-city medical center and not reallocating it’s plentiful resources to the rest of the system?
The author of the article makes it surprisingly easy to agree with suggestive wording that the facility in question is not providing adequate medical care to the patients it sees, subtly accusing it’s practitioners of wrongdoing. However, read between the lines and the article states all the facts necessary to make an absolutely contrary conclusion. That conclusion is the remainder of the County medical system is simply weighed down by a combination of patients searching for services no longer available to them from the closed MLK hospital and the lack of resources for the operating facilities to accommodate that additional load. Those resources would provide more available personnel to triage and treat the mass exodus of patients from the newly under served areas. The problem is not lapse in staff provided care, but a resource issue.
How, then, does the problem get corrected? Well, it looks like a citation such as this will get the ball rolling for funding to remedy the shortcomings, so it’s a good thing. Hopefully. Unless someone wants to see the ripples from dropping in a small boulder.
» From the LA Times: (click link or more for article)
After an agonizing experience at the local America’s Tire trying to get them to accept that 2 of my Yokohamas were defective and warranty ’em, I rolled out on a new set of rubber. :nono:
Good thing I discovered my tires were gone to shit, but it’s annoying to have to pay for new tires prematurely even though I got 2 of them partially covered. Being the pickyass that I am I did my research the night before and so far I love my new Goodyear Eagle F1 All Season tires! Going from the high performance to the ultra high performance class is like night and day compared to my previous set, which were already much improved over the OEM tires. Even on my stock wheels, I think they look hot.
(images courtesy of Tirerack.com)
I’m hoping someone will pick up my winter wheels/tires so I can finally be rid of them. It’s such a bitch changing out my wheels when I don’t have a garage. Maybe I’ll change my tune if we can score a place with a garage next year. In the meantime, I’ve ordered a set of low clearance snow cables off Amazon.
Not that kind of last call, but the kind that means no more overnight call for the rest of intern year! Saturday was the last 30 hour call I will ever have to take as an intern. More importantly, it’ll be the last ward month I’ll ever have to do. However, my last call turned out to be on Saturday and during a trauma rotation. This meant we would have all of the following plus some I can’t remember:
In a fit of impulsiveness, I ordered two MacBooks from Amazon.com. I think the expiring $75 rebate enticed me, but they renewed it after I bought them as expected. Learning Mac OS X for the first time coming from a lifetime of Windows (except the Apple IIE) reminded me of the culture shock of when I first moved to Detroit. But you get used to it and it grows on you. The keyboard, shortcuts, menus, tricks, etc. are all brand new and awkward for this nerd.
So the following article is a perfect example of the rampant epidemic of negative spin in our media today. But who could have foreseen the ripple effect of closing a large inner-city medical center and not reallocating it’s plentiful resources to the rest of the system?
