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CGMs, Endocrine, and Testosterone Karen is back this week and we discuss the home life, clinical week, and Endocrinology. Lots covered in the topic and possibly some TMI regarding cycle tracking and Eric’s preoccupation with cool graphs.

Mini Update: GI Bleed and BiPAP Mini Update. Night shift is a wrap and we are now in the clinic. For this update we review GI bleed management and BiPAPs. Hopefully, making them less scary.

Mini Update: Night Shift Quick night-time update. We’re on nights and 3 weeks in. Being a “senior” now entails Step down coverage and helping the interns. We cover procedures, ICU consult, and then just a tangent on program drama, sorry. Hopefully we can keep these updates coming

Mini Update: Pericarditis and Afib New mini-update experiment, trying something new with semi-weekly updates. This week is on pericarditis and afib. If you guessed Eric’s on a cardiology rotation you would be correct. I’ll try to be more organized next time. Sorry for the mistakes.

ICU Month After 4 weeks of ICU days with 1 day off per week and some minor illnesses, we are back. We talk about the differences between a Step-down rotation and an ICU rotation and some of the unique aspects of the ICU that make it better and sometimes harder.

Care Completion vs Continuity ICU Up Next The last few weeks included Infectious disease, clinic week, care clinic, and getting a new doomsday vehicle. It’s been busy and we talked about all the past events and upcoming rotations in the ICU. Thank you for sticking with us through PGY-1, looking forward to what PGY-2 will […]

Nights, Vacation, and Van Sorry for the delay in getting back on this podcast. We completed 2 weeks of nights, did a vacation where the sleep cycle slowly reverted to normal and 2 weeks of floors. We had a minor accident and the van is gone. Lastly, we briefly go over a study on AF […]

Match Week, Busy Hearts, Mint Trial Congrats to all MS4s who matched this week. We are truly happy for you and hope you enjoy the period before residency starts… I wish I could say residency was a breeze. We also recap a busy week on cardiology service, and lastly have a conversation regarding the new […]

Clinic Culture Reversal When everyone hates one thing it is hard to not join in but you forget the personal mental space charged by doing it. Changing how we think about the things we don’t like makes us dread doing them when we have to do them anyway. We also go into a couple of […]

Customer Service and Comfort Care Back again after 2 weeks on floors. 1 week on acute and another one on stepdown. We discussed some of the things we learned. I.e. ramblings on comfort care, medical students, and cutting down on to-dos during floor weeks.