Fourth year is tough. Starting on a medicine rotation has been demanding but manageable. After a while though (okay, it's been two weeks...) the long hours catch up to you. I'm a delicate flower when it comes to sleep anyway, so staying at the large animal hospital until 11pm isn't exactly my idea of a restful evening. Last weekend I was fortunate enough to have a bum weekend where I could sleep in, be worthless, etc. This weekend has been the opposite: at school until nearly midnight on Friday night, at school for half the day today, rounds tomorrow morning so no sleeping in and working the evening shift until 11pm. And then it's Monday. Suffice to say I feel a bit cheated right about now.

Anyway, as I suspected it's tough to write a decent blog post about life when you're essentially bubble wrapped in patient confidentiality. I'm learning a lot, though: how to think like a real doctor, how to use doctor words, how to communicate, how to do a ton of different technical procedures, how to manage on little sleep and smelling like cow...I'll sure be happy when my less intense rotations come around.