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A most excellent week.
It’s been a busy month since my last post. I’ve studied for and taken the United States Medical Licensing Exams (USMLE) Step 2 CS and (on Friday) USMLE Step 2 CK, two parts of what most people know as...
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Time to heal…
“Doctor! Heal thyself!” Those were the words of the orthopedist as he entered my room in the Emergency Department. Two weeks ago, while taking a break from working on residency applications, I...
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Adventures in obstetrics- bovine edition
*I suppose some warnings are in order. Some might consider one or two of the following pictures graphic. In comparison to my post on human delivery, however, this is totally G-rated! My family...
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Where’s the beef?!
Yesterday I helped bring a baby calf into the world. Today I was at the other end of the spectrum, taking a trip to our butchers to see four sides of our beef cut into retail cuts. The circle of...
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Speed Dating For Medical Students- Round 2
Tomorrow is my last day of medical school. Ok, I don’t actually graduate until December, but as of tomorrow I will have completed all of the requirements for graduation from my school (because of my...
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Thanksgiving
There are so many things that are worth writing about on and around Thanksgiving. For those of us interested in ancestral health and evolutionarily-appropriate eating it’s fun to explore what a...
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Christmas, Natural Selection, and Microbiomes.
Merry Christmas! Christmas isn’t for everyone, and Christmas as a Christian Holiday vs. an excuse for rampant consumerism seems to be on the decline, but it can be a truly wonderful time of the year....
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Random Ramblings- Belize Part 1
The tagline for this blog has always been “Ramblings of an evolutionary-minded future-physician.” I started this blog thinking that most of these “ramblings” would be verbal, but for the next few...
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Random Ramblings- Belize Part 2
Yesterday I posted some thoughts and pics from my recent adventures in Belize… Here’s round 2! In yesterday’s post I mentioned going on a photo shoot of the twin cities with NICH (the National...
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The Voyage of the Endeavour
I’ve been fortunate to do some pretty amazing travel in the past, but the journey I just returned from has certainly stolen the show. As an evolution nerd, a Darwin enthusiast, and a lover of the...
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Schrödinger’s Resident
It’s Match week. If you know a fourth year medical student (or recent med school graduate like myself), you might have noticed them looking a little frazzled this week. I’ve written previously...
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Go West, young woman
I am no longer Schrödinger’s resident… A week ago today the verdict arrived. I am Utah bound to pursue residency training in Family Medicine. I am thrilled. I fell in love with Utah when I...
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Where to start
If you’ve scanned through your radio dial any time in the last six months you’ve almost certainly heard the song “Wake Me Up” by Avicci on one of the pop stations. It caught me at the perfect time...
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Adventures in Ecuador…
I have a rather embarrassing admission to make: when I first started looking at taking a trip to the Galapagos three months ago I didn’t actually know that the islands were part of Ecuador. Two months...
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A New Year’s Update
I struggled with the title of this post for a while. It’s a long time since I’ve written anything (for the blog), and I wanted the title to be catchy, edgy, maybe even with a touch of double entendre....
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Post-Residency Update
5 months ago I finished my residency training in Family Medicine at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. During my three years of residency training I posted to this blog three times- mea culpa!...
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Kiwi Wonderland
Bell Birds Sing, Are you listening? Tuis ring, Did you miss them? The Sandflies may bite, But the evenings are light, Walking in a Kiwi Wonderland. Cathedral Gully on Christmas Day. Merry...
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Time to heal: Round 2
Back in 2013 I wrote a post about an accident I had with a horse which resulted in two broken metatarsals (the long bones in your foot). That post was about how healing takes time, and indeed, my foot...
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