Insomniac

It's 1am and I'm sitting at my desk simmering in the sweltering heat of an oppressive global warming summer. My lower back hurts because although I have great posture when I walk, I turn into a Great Ape the second I sit down. My eyes are tearing up. My neighbor just drove home and is talking quite loudly as he walks to his house - not sure if he realizes the nature of sound travel at night.

Oh well. Screw it.

As you may know from my previous post, I'm a medical student in the class of 2012. I am attending a medical school that belongs to the Ivy League. I seriously don't say that to brag, I was inches away from attending my state school, but it rejected me :-) So now I'm steweing in the world of $60,000/year tuition, loans, interest, and other words that make my BP elevate.

My passion includes working with (AKA playing with) children. I love spending time with kids playing with blocks, flying paper airplanes and being silly and ridonkulous (sp?). I keep hearing from docs I meet to invest in a specialty that you love, not one that will earn you the most money. Unfortunately, I also hear that pediatrics is among the lowest paying specialty. Excellent.

I really hope to keep this blog active for 4+ years. Some of the greats, Panda Bear MD, etc have done it so I will strive to as well. I'll start by talking about my personal journey toward medicine, the pre-med atmosphere, medical school admissions, med school itself, and then if I'm not crushed into pulp by then, residency and attending life (damn, getting ahead of myself aren't I?).

So please, if you have any questions you'd like me to answer. I'd love to post answers in some type of Mailbag format. Shoot me an email at pediatricmedic@gmail.com. I'll do my best to get to it.

Disclaimer - Expect most of my posts to be about medicine. Expect some of my posts to be about personal things I find interesting (life hacks, investing tools and ideas, philosophy). Expect none of my posts to be professionally done...hell I'm in boxers right now. But expect all of my posts to be genuine and honest.

Let's get going...