And in the beginning...

... of med school there was this blog.  Well, not really in the beginning.  The first two years of medical school were great, but writing about them would have consisted mainly of details of little-to-no interest for people not in medicine (and often for those in it, myself sometimes included), so I never bothered to write about it.  Now, less than a week into my first rotation of third year, I find myself bursting with things that I want to say.  It's unfortunate that third year also comes with WAY less free time than years one and two, so I'm not sure how often I'll be able to write or how much I'll be able to say when I do, but I'll try my best.

A short introduction:  I'm a third year medical student in a fairly large east coast city.  For the sake of patients' privacy and HIPAA and professionalism generally, I'll leave it at that; I'll refer to myself only as 'E'.  I'm married to J, an econ grad student, and we live in an apartment downtown with our two kittens and two chinchillas.  Anything else important will be mentioned PRN (that's "as needed" for less-nerdy folks) and I'll go from here.  If you know me (or if not!), feel free to comment but please don't identify me.  I'm not going to go around mentioning patient's names and diagnoses or SSNs or anything crazy like that, but the more anonymity, the better!  And now, onto more exciting topics...