Yesterday, after my Alter Ego, Cranky Giraffe, posted about my son’s crazy little love letter to his newest idol, Lady Gaga, an old old blogging friend tweeted it, with an idea that maybe he could meet her! I know the likelihood of it being re-tweeted by anyone other than myself is pretty low… But who […]
“It’s been a long time since I came around Been a long time but I’m back in town And this time I’m not leaving without you” ~Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga) I know I haven’t been here blogging for quite a long time (almost a year and a half…), but there was something about blogging that […]
The airplane seat map shows that the emergency exit row seats are considered “less desirable.” It’s a little ironic since they come with extra leg room, even if they don’t recline (really, who needs to recline 2 inches when you have two extra feet of leg room?). I think the real reason they are less […]
This month I’m traveling around the country to check out fellowship positions. It is exhausting, trying, lonely, and often confusing. Most of all, I miss my kids. I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how fellowship and moving to one of these places would fit into the current, ideal, little life of […]
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that, but simply growth. Â We are happy when we are growing. ~John Butler Yeats, 1909 Is there a difference between pleasure and happiness? I had never really thought much about it until today. Â My husband sent me an interview by Dr. Robert Lustig, who just […]
The Cranky Giraffe 
Sounds like an overall good day then 🙂
How cute is that heart? LOL
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It was actually more like a good two weeks. Sadly, my rotation is over 😦
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You’re going to love being a surgeon? What happened to O&G?
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Thanks! O&G is actually considered a surgical specialty… There is lots of gynecology surgery!
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Oh, of course! I’m too focused on the obstetric side of it. 🙂
I loved working in OR, too, but that was a loooong time ago,
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I wish going to a job you love everyday was more of a right than a privilege. 😉
And I can understand your lack of patience with non-compliant patients, that’s gotta be difficult.
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I don’t know if it falls into a category of right or privilege. I think, perhaps, it’s more of an issue of “choice.” Many people have to work out of necessity and, therefore, have little choice in the job they choose. It makes it kind of difficult when you work day to day to scrape by, versus working every day to support yourself, but actually have the fortune of being in a job that you like. Maybe that’s what you meant in the first place…
As for compliance: I think there are a few places in medicine when I can excuse compliance, but when it comes to people who just choose not to wear compression stockings, or choose to continue smoking when it’s been advised that they quit, etc. Those things drive me nuts!
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