You know...

...you're on an Internal Medicine Rotation WHEN your text messages to your fellow medical interns look like THIS:

me: I'm calculating vanc dosing for your patient but don't have his info or hx. how old was he?

fellow student: he was 58 with a SCr of 1.82 and wt of 97.9 kg

me: I had his SCr as 1.08 today

fellow student: are you sure? ok well we should use the most current one

me: would we consider him obese? we don't have record of his height.

fellow student: i just assumed he wasn't from when we saw him today

me: yea, he didn't look it. i'm using the 0.62 L/kg Vd

fellow student: yea me too

me: i got 1500 mg IV Q 12 hrs with a trough of 13.3

fellow student: i got the same thing

me: what do you think about dosing it Q 8 hrs to get a trough of 19?

fellow student: sounds good.

me: perfect! see you tomorrow!

If this sounds foreign to you, I wouldn't try to figure it out. I'm pretty sure whatever you're doing right now is way more fun.

Otherwise, I'm having a blast in BHAM!!!

going green

Recycling paper is good for the soul, especially when most of it is etched in your brain and you're dying to forget (let's hope not). Ridding my life of these drugs & disease notes just made my day.

Disclaimer:
**couldn't bring myself to depart with Bugs & Drugs
**slight panic attack took place shortly after the discard