For my BDay, a treat: my favorite table in town to study.

Yes we can!

A full consult for my thyroid..

Physical exam (cont.): Ear, nose, throat

Sunday Study at Lakota - makes me want to do residency in the upper Northwest.

Best part of today: Knowing I can finally take down the wall of metabolic pathways from first block.

Block 1: Pass

Practice begins on taking the physical exam. Get to work with this guy as well as practice on each other. Kinda fun.

Mariah put together food for exam week. constant fluctuation of feelings in anticipation.

Nocturnal nervoses: the brachial plexus.

Most visually straight forward yet humbling dissection so far.

You can thank my axillary nerve for innervating my deltoid to abduct
my arm 90 degrees and my posterior humeral circumflex artery for
supplying the deltoid blood.

(literally, the right side of the page should be located at my spinal cord - but you get the general jist). only took me 7 tries to draw it out correctly without aid.

Case of the week was cystic fibrosis. Physician during case wrap up brought a teen who has CF.

Cool to hear about his life and treatment of CF,
yet very sad knowing his long-term prognosis.

Discovering the little surprises help push me onward

Breakfast for Friday PBL group - a Success!

Unintentioned arrival to lecture early. More than an hour early.(thought class started at 8).

Goodnight moon

Sand Volleyball's Good Fun.

A little yard work out back...

Hard clinical case this week. Very lost on the science behind it.

Flipped cadaver over and started in on chest/arm. Learning how to
interview difficult patients. Docappella had its first rehearsal today.

Today we talked in class about how to handle difficult patients..

For instance parents. Over the weekend, sororities/fraternities heard
that swine flu was confirmed at MU and they went to Urgent Care in
masses. Doctors were on the phone all day dealing with mad parents as they turned everyone away without testing.

An evening out with the Nicks..