Monday, May 12, 2008
Friday, May 2, 2008
Busy Fridays
For some reason, I frequently get new study patients on Fridays and end up staying at work into the evening. The worst one was a month ago, when the consent conference was delayed and then extended, and I left at 11. Such was my fear today, but after several weeks of analysis by the COG ALL committee, they decided to close almost all ALL therapeutic trials for amendments, and now there will be no one but babies to go on study.
So you would think that I'd have it easy for the next few weeks, but unfortunately this actually creates more work and havoc for our team.
Go research.
I still haven't decided if I should apply to medical or nursing school--and the stupidest thing is because of how much work I'll have to do to make up my time in college. (Maybe I should have actually studied once in a while.) Well, that's not entirely true. Of course there is a difference in admissions ratios, but the other reason is because I'm lazy: I like free time. I like to mess around the internets. I like to game and read and and try to write. It's not that being a doctor prevents me from doing all that, but the amount of time and its flexibility would be different. And sometimes I feel like I'm so old, though I know my working life is still ahead of me. On the other hand, I love the field I'm in. Despite all the long hours the attendings and fellows put in, and despite cancer being a constant reality, it's exhilarating to be a part of the driving force of research. Instead of reading about therapies and results, it's about the process of developing it.
So you would think that I'd have it easy for the next few weeks, but unfortunately this actually creates more work and havoc for our team.
Go research.
I still haven't decided if I should apply to medical or nursing school--and the stupidest thing is because of how much work I'll have to do to make up my time in college. (Maybe I should have actually studied once in a while.) Well, that's not entirely true. Of course there is a difference in admissions ratios, but the other reason is because I'm lazy: I like free time. I like to mess around the internets. I like to game and read and and try to write. It's not that being a doctor prevents me from doing all that, but the amount of time and its flexibility would be different. And sometimes I feel like I'm so old, though I know my working life is still ahead of me. On the other hand, I love the field I'm in. Despite all the long hours the attendings and fellows put in, and despite cancer being a constant reality, it's exhilarating to be a part of the driving force of research. Instead of reading about therapies and results, it's about the process of developing it.
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