requesting interpretations.

i had a dream last night in which i received a letter from (my) dr mcdreamy that read something along the lines of...

"dear amanda, everyone has to participate in the match and i know you're nervous. your name is on all the cucumbers."

McDoctor.

i was just realizing how many different doctors i've worked with...

dr Mc"Dude" for child psych... who put me on the spot on occasion.
dr McQuiet for general peds... she was really nice though.
dr McQuestioning for ob... i only worked with him for a week, but i felt stupid everyday of that week... then i got smashed...
dr McPath... for pathology... she was so excited about the cancer cells.
dr McSpanish... for the rest of my ob... who let me do a lot of procedures on pregnant mexicans.
dr McDork... for family practice... he was very nice, but i'm fairly certain he had no friends in high school.
dr McCancer... who asked me 700 times a day if i had any questions...
dr McDerm... who lasered my scars and made them lighter. for free.
dr McSteamy... for surgery... H.O.T.
dr McER... for ER... who made me do chest compressions on a dying lady not much older than me.
dr McSlow... for internal medicine. oh my... light a fire, already, will ya!
dr McSpastic for anesthesia... who thought i knew what i was doing and left me in the room alone with the anesthetized patients...
dr McDreamy... for peds ICU. who was beautiful. and witty. and charming. and single. and beautiful. and he taught me that i'll never be as smart as my dumbest nephron. and have i told you about how he loves me??
dr McGreasy... for developmental peds... who rarely showered and had lips like a hippo.
dr McWonderful... for family practice... who was wonderful.
and now...
dr McWeird... for peds heme-onc... who is so weird i can't even tell you... who stops mid-sentence and stares at you (or through you or something...) for a while... who says "um" more times in a sentence than i can count on at least two hands...
i have two more to go... dr McNephron and dr McManipulation... hopefully... well, hopefully the hours are good. i'm getting tired of this...

yawn.

i'm boring, i swear it.

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so, there's a new third year on the heme-onc service with me this week. and he's pretty cool... but he also seems smarter than me... (the last one that was on was pretty smart...) and he answers all the questions fast, and then i don't have anything to input, because he took all the "easy" answers... not to mention everytime she asks a question, she looks directly at him in her weird, i'm looking at you but not really looking at you sort of way (remember - this lady is cooky)... so he answers... and then late yesterday, she turns to me and says, what amanda? you haven't said much today...

jerk.

only one week and 4 days left. (here anyway).

proof that i have no life.

it's saturday night. i'm home for the weekend. laying on my mom's couch. watching the food network. reading past postings and reminding myself of how funny i am.

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i'm currently working in columbia at university hospital. doing peds heme/onc. it's not as sad as i thought it would be. mostly because our patient census is fairly low. i did do a nice presentation on neuroblastoma friday morning. go ahead. ask me anything.

it's also mostly fun being in columbia because of the close proximity to family and old friends. i live with a good friend from high school who is currently working at MU.

i got to go hang out with stacy and the kids on a week night. that was fun. like staying out late on a school night. and i'm going to try to make it for abby's gymnastic practice. she showed me some of her tricks, and let me tell you... it was impressive. ;-)

next weekend will be busy - hanging out with some college friends friday night. hopefully hanging out with jen and stacy and their kids saturday night. watching ruth clog it up sunday afternoon. fun fun fun.

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philly was a good time. here's a hot photo of tanner and i after boards were done. yippee.


and the other side of the table... jamie and marc.


and the next day we went walking around downtown. we saw the famous sites... dawn, remember when we found the liberty bell and it was glassed in and you could barely see it and you definitely couldn't photograph it because of the glare of the flash and you had to use a flash because it was dark out? well, they've built a huge building/museum around it. it was kinda nice, and HIGHLY "secure" as we had to remove our coats and go through metal detectors to get into the building. the security guards were hardly paying attention to us as we went through though. they were discussing someone's "baby daddy"... one of the guys pointed out that he'd never heard anyone use that phrase so seriously before. it was a good time. then we started the independence hall tour, but became quickly bored, so we skipped out. then we found a cute coffee shop for a quick pick-me-up. all in all, not a bad trip. except that boys are obnoxious. and especially those boys. but we had fun.

he loves me.

here's what dr. mcdreamy had to say about me in my evaluation:

"Amanda did a great job in the PICU and showed significant growth during the elective. She presented with a strong pediatric and physiologic knowledge base and exhibited an intense interest in learning. Her fund of knowledge is likely greater in some areas than some current pediatric interns and at times she answered questions the senior residents didn't know. She demonstrated excellent airway management skills - first on a mannequin and then on an infant with respiratory failure. Her documentation is complete and well written. She was definitely a team player and it was a pleasure having her in the PICU. She will be a solid pediatric resident and we would love for her to do her residency here at Children's Mercy Hospital."

here's what i read:

"... love ... her ..."