Archive for August, 2007

As the title suggests, I think that I’m a pediatrician at heart. I love working with the kids. I never considered Pediatrics as a possible specialty. I was convinced that I didn’t want to work with patients who couldn’t tell me what was wrong or with overly worried parents. But that’s [...]

I’m doing a week long rotation in the newborn nursery. It is pretty cool to work with the babies. They have such neat primitive reflexes. Attending the C-Sections is fun also because I get to see the parents get all emotional when they see their baby for the first time. I [...]

I’ve been in the Peds ER part of my Pediatrics clerkship this past week. Things change very quickly. The week before I started this rotation, I was wondering why I actually wanted to be a physician. After four weeks of inpatient Pediatrics, I still had not met many people who inspired me. [...]