Earning My Wings

I will keep this short...so short, in fact, that I'm going to use bullet-points:

• I really dig my new rotation. I spend 1/2 my time at the HIV clinic at the health dept. and 1/2 my time doing fam practice/urgent care at Kaiser. I really enjoy both, but actually think I enjoy the kaiser work the best---shocking, really.

• My new schedule requires an hour-plus commute which means I'm leaving the house at 6:40am and not getting home until 6 or 7pm. I'm f-ing exhausted.

• My preceptor threw me into a few appointments by myself the last few days and I apparently did ok, because he is giving me a lot more freedom lately. It is actually taking me a little while to get back into the routine of MEDICINE after suffering the intolerable stupidity that is surgery, but I'm getting there...

• Gay men are officially the best patients ever. This is a large portion of the patients I see at the HIV clinic and they are almost all so happy to let me practice on them, even when it involves poking and prodding in uncomfortable places. I could not be more grateful.

• My preceptor is pretty much fantastic. His co-workers are pretty darn fantastic too. I couldn't ask for more.

• Did I mention that I'm tired? I've taken up a daily coffee habit.......I held off for so long, but now must have my daily tall, 2 pump sugar-free vanilla, extra-room americano. If only I still worked at Starbucks.....

I love you all. I especially love keeping up with everyone's blogs, even if I don't always have the energy to write in my own. Keep on keepin' on!!

Jen