Even Deeper

And the mountain of material keeps getting higher...

Wednesday morning we had our intro to clinical skills class, where we interviewed a retired doctor over the cardiovascular system to try and diagnose heart disease. It was an interesting lecture as usual; Dr. Wiprud is one of my favorite instructors. This was followed by our first pharmacology lecture, which was surprisingly basic and was not difficult or complicated in any way. Abby and I had the afternoon off, so Caleb, Mike, and Bryan had to teach us the abdomen dissection on Thursday afternoon. It was pretty cool finally getting into the real guts, although it only reinforced my avoidance of McDonald's forever. Thursday morning we had a biochem lecture over cell signaling which I slept in for. It was followed by our second pharmacology lecture over drug absorption and distribution through the body, which was actually pretty interesting not very difficult. In the afternoon, we had histo lab where we examined slides of various glands of the immune system, which was not as bad as the blood and marrow slides.

Thursday evening I had reunion with some old friends from undergrad at one of their homes; we had dinner and drinks and watched the A&M game, which was great up until the very end when we lost. Later on, I joined a group of med students in watching the midnight premiere of The Social Network. The movie was fantastic. This morning we had another histology lecture, but this time it was taught by Dr. Hubbard and was much less intense than the previous two lectures. It was over the cells of the respiratory system. It is a rather odd time to cover the subject, but as he said, there isn't really any good place to stick this lecture. In the afternoon we finished dissecting the organs and vessels of the abdominal cavity, which was mostly straightforward. I just woke from an awesome nap and will now begin the long weekend of nonstop studying once again...