neurology?!

and what is a surgical specialty doing in my top 7?

well, at least it's not pathology again.

from the medical specialty aptitude test:

Rank	Specialty	Score
1	neurology	44
2	aerospace med	43
3	occupational med	42
4	endocrinology	42
5	urology	41
6	psychiatry	41
7	preventive med	41
8	thoracic surgery	40
9	plastic surgery	40
10	pathology	40
11	allergy & immunology	40
12	radiology	40
13	nephrology	40
14	infectious disease	39
15	gastroenterology	39
16	cardiology	39
17	general internal med	39
18	neurosurgery	39
19	physical med & rehabilitation	39
20	otolaryngology	38
21	nuclear med	38
22	med oncology	37
23	dermatology	37
24	orthopaedic surgery	37
25	rheumatology	37
26	pediatrics	37
27	general surgery	37
28	pulmonology	36
29	ophthalmology	36
30	hematology	36
31	radiation oncology	35
32	emergency med	35
33	family practice	34
34	obstetrics/gynecology	34
35	colon & rectal surgery	33
36	anesthesiology	33

Time. We never have enough. Paradoxically, I'm most unproductive when I view that I have enough time. Stress is the drug I need during these times.

And I will have enough of that. I may be done with the internal medicine topics but here comes the rest of the body.

As I plan my summer vacation, I realize that I won't have a week where I will just be staying at home and lazing life away reading a good book. Oh well, if that means I'll be earning money or visiting a new place or helping raise the health of a community, then so be it.

Expired NBS GC and missing Bench GC.

Crap. No more retail therapy. I blame you renal.

Dapat ata nag-aaral ako ngayon ng renal. Sa halip inuna ko pa ang CPC na wala namang epekto sa grades ko pero lubos na nakakatulong ireview ang mga past modules. Too bad, di pa ako nag-he-hema. Pahirap nang pahiarap ang mga CPC ah.

And I found myself taking three naps today. The rest of the time I read A Clash of Kings. Regret, regret.

Renal, why so toxic?

Reading the medscape review of medicine, eyebrow raisers:

1. ADA says that A1c levels can now be used to diagnose DM
2. Ca supplements without Vit D increases risk of heart attack. Use Ca rich food instead
3. emtricitabine/tenofovir (Truvada) pre-exposure prophylaxis works - 44% lower infection rate in treatment group
4. High consumption of chocolate linked to lower incidence of stroke!
5. low-dose helical CT can be used for screening lung CA with associated lower mortality rate