One more plug

It's mostly been stories, but for songs that I have truly grown to love, check out Janelle's cousin who is quite amazing on lead vocals and fiddle. Their music is described as "progressive bluegrass," but mostly it's just a whole lot of fun. The title track to their new album, "Doin' My Job," has been my new driving to work anthem. When I have a particularly busy day ahead, I just put it on repeat. Let me know what you think of it!

Santa Fe

So for those of you who have never been, we would like to highly recommend visiting the city of Santa Fe, NM. We went last month and had a blast. It came highly touted (2nd best US city to visit according to Conde Nast Traveler Magazine), and it lived up to all expectations. Great weather, fantastic food, amazing sites and scenery. Check out our Flickr website for more, but here's a sample.

Funny shorts

I saw the most hilarious license plate the other day. It read: 1BM QD.
For those non-medical types, that is medical abbreviation code for one bowel movement per day. I wonder if the owner of the car was a gastroenterologist...or maybe a Metamucil salesman.

So Janelle has begun her psych residency. Woohoo for another paycheck! But seriously, we're both so happy that she has finally reached the final destination in the long journey that has been medical education. Her first funny story was a patient she had this week who was paranoid and delusional. Throughout her stay in the hospital, she insisted that she had seen Janelle and myself shopping in the home section of a TJ Maxx where she used to work back in Texas. The scary thing is that her claim very well could be a true one and not a delusion. I often joke with Janelle that we need to start a separate section of our budget titled TJ Maxx/Stein Mart/Marshall's. Or maybe buy stock in those companies.

New Students

So sorry that I haven't blogged in forever. I have been accumulating stories, but I just haven't had time to blog. I just finished my last in-house overnight call last week! Woohoo! Anyway, that should give me more time to crank out the stories. I'll start with a funny one from this morning.

So, the med school year starts in late June/early July, so the students rotating on wards are brand spanking new 3rd year medical students who have never been in the hospital before. Even though we as residents are only a few years older and wiser than them, they treat us with the utmost deference.

A student came up to me this morning and said,"Um, Dr. Sung, can I ask you something?"
"Sure."
"Well, Dr. A [one of my colleagues] asked me to check Mr. So-and-so's rectal tone. So I went in there to do it, but his diaper was, well, full of...stool. So I asked the nurse to change the diaper, but do you think it will be okay for me to wait until he's changed before I go try again?"
"Yes, I think that will be fine. In fact, I'll vouch for you to Dr. A that you did in fact try and that I said it would be okay to wait until the diaper is changed."
"Oh wow, thanks."

Ah, they're so cute at this stage...