one time i wrote a blog

you can call me Dr. Lotz (in training). Yep that's DR. LOTZ (in training). 

I do look pretty super doctorly in that picture, though, I must admit. I mean I would let me operate on me for sure. 

Okay down to business. You guys like to know what's happening in my life right??? So here goes....

This weekend was pretty good. Very relaxing. Got to see a few guys that came down from various medical school establishments to partake in beverage consumption at various establishments present on our lovely campus. It was great to see them. One of my friends brought his roommate from Rosaland Franklin (dont know how to spell it) who is 19. Let me reiterate, he is 19, which is 4 years younger than me. How did he do that you ask? Well I'll tell you. Right now. Now. Now. Okay I'll just tell you. He SKIPPED HIGH SCHOOL!!! wowzer this kid is smart. So he was a freshman in college at 14 years old. Crazy. 

Also, on Sunday I dropped my phone on the ground in my apartment. Unfortunately it was on the small bit of tile I have so it exploded. It still works great, but the vibration-ness of it is now dead. Dang. I pretty much exclusively had it on vibrate so that was pretty detrimental. Oh well, gotta get a new one anyway. 

So I am an "expert student" for Introduction to Human Disease, a class that we have very rarely. Basically what being an "expert student" means is that I have to study a patient's case and then look over his test results and stuff and answer questions about what he has and how we determined what it is. I am working with 2 other students and on Thursday this week we have to present to a small group (20 ish students) the case and all of the information that we have gathered. Now we have to do a power point and handout for the students that was due at noon today. Not a problem. However, the TA sent out an email like a month ago that she wanted it last Thursday b/c she wanted to make corrections and get it back. Well none of us remembered, and the majority of experts didn't remember until Wednesday after class. So we spent about 5 hours straight that afternoon/night researching our topics and creating this handout and powerpoint to turn in the next day. It actually turned out really well. I thought that after that we would be mostly done. However, this week has been pretty much nonstop work so far. I didn't get to be until 1:30 last night and today is no different. Granted, I'm writing this, but that doesn't take long and it lets my brain relax before bed. Anyhoo it's just been really busy. Oh, but if you were wondering, our patient (I am not at liberty to disclose his name because of the law. Actually it's a fake patient, but I'm just practicing) presented with chest pain that increased on exertion. An EKG was ordered and it showed that he had inverted T waves. Now I know what you're thinking, "But Scott, inverted T waves are not diagnostic of anything specific without more information!" Wow you sound peeved. More information: he also has depressed ST segments. EUREKA!! That means that he has myocardial ischemia in the anterior, anteriorlateral and anterior septal regions of his heart, although you probably already knew that. Turns out he has a blockage in his anterior descending coronary artery that leads to those areas! See I am doctorly. Anyway, the time that I spent researching this flew by because learning how to read an EKG and learning how to spot problems in the patient by looking at this wavy line and knowing where the problem is just by that line is pretty cool. So, in conclusion, time well spent. 

So, important things I wanted to touch on from yesterday: 

I woke up in the morning freezing because I forgot to close my windows before bed and it was like 50 degrees in my apartment. Woops. 

I spent nearly the entire day at the library/medical science building random rooms until late at night. I was tired and just wanted to go home. So as I left I put my iPod on as usual and randomly Bob Marley came on singing Everything's Going to be Alright. Perfect timing Bob, perfect timing. 

Then I rode the entire distance from the Medical Science Building to my apartment no handed. It was awesome. And let it be known that this is not a straight shot home. I have to take two 90 degree turns and many other rounded corners through the quad. I'm just so cool, I know, you don't have to tell me. 

Recommendations:

Listen to Sara Bareilles's new album Kaleidoscope Heart. It's really good for studying, if  you need to do any of that. 

Closing arguments: 

None

Welp, see ya later!

GOLLY I ALMOST FORGOT!!

In histology lab (boring) today our prof told us about a video that a previous med student made. It's just him randomly break dancing in various locations across campus. See if you can identify any of the locations. YAY GAMES! Here's the link. ENJOY!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp-ZFVhN7U8

“I love women, but I feel like you can’t trust some of them. Some of them are liars, you know? Like I was in the park and I met this girl, she was cute and she had a dog. And I went up to her, we started talking. She told me her dog’s name. Then Í said, “Does he bite?”. She said “No.” And I said, “Oh yeah? Then how does he eat? … Liar.”"

         -Demitri Martin