| | 2007 in review - first sentence from the first post of each month:
January: A pre-Christmas photo I wanted to share: someone dropped $50 into the Salvation Army kettle! I wish I could do that.
February: Dammit! Why couldn't I have been on-call last Wednesday-Thursday?
March: Taking a study day off from clinic and the OR - need to do some extra reading in prep for getting pimped by the attending staff.
April: Thursday, yesterday.
May: Week four of Internal Medicine, and I haven't done anything else at all the past seven days.
June: Caught this foliage of posters along Fort St - it's that film guy from Toronto!
July: Ortho call - this time, and for the last time, at the General, and again no residents for Internal Medicine or General Surgery here, nor for Obstetrics either.
August: Things I learned in Trauma Surgery today.
September: I kept putting off writing about Trauma Surgery and am regretting it.
October: I am usually not given to profanity, but I have been getting increasingly frustrated and outraged after the PTSD stories I get at the military base, and today's Ontario electoral reform referendum just pushed me over the edge.
November: Walking home from VGH - about an hour along a deserted W Broadway Av (where did everybody go?), across a ridiculously-busy Granville St bridge (why is everyone in a hurry?).
December: Rural Family Medicine in Masset.
If it's not obvious from the above, all in all I thought it was a pretty neat year. Got to live in three totally new places, two road trips through the Rockies, climbed my first real mountain, satisfied my Singapore and New York itches (though they're both starting to flare up around now...).
And of course, the whole doctor thing was neat too - catching babies, straightening out war stress, patching up gunshots, and just this weekend, reattaching a 12-year-old's amputated fingertip - and not screwing up too much along the way. And when I did, managed to spin it as "teaching" for the other residents and med students, and somehow got a pat on the back and a plaque out of the mess. (It says "2006", but it's supposed to be "2007".)
And most of all, didn't get on anyone's bad side, I don't think; and if I did, got back onto their good side, or failing that, got forgotten entirely - deleted from their MSN, facebook "friends", etc.. A cousin got married, my brother is heading that way, and the family's closer than ever before. Made strangers into acquaintances, acquaintances to friends, friends to better friends.
And crushes? Managed to dodge that bullet. For the most part, anyway - close calls bumping into ML just starting residency in Victoria too; and JP having the misfortune of sharing Obstetrics call with me one crazy night - close, but fortunately no relapse into DTs. As they say, if the military wants you to have a relationship, they'll issue you one.
So, to you, and to 2008. Excelsior! Not officially on-call tonight, but who am I to turn down a chance to hang around and sew up the cuts and cast the broken bones of the usual New Year's revelry? |
| | Posted 12/31/2007 6:05 PM - 68 Views - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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