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January 10 - January 13, 2025
He really looks pregnant though.
I am starting to believe that we are never, ever, ever going to get that translator on the phone.
“No me importa esperar
“Puedo tener un vaso de agua?”
Burst into tears, shaking fist at the heavens, and yell out, “Nooooooo!!!!!!!” Laugh.
Alyssa is not going to get away with it. Not this time.
At first, I couldn’t even figure out who they meant.
say, even though I think that Stacey and the professor both kind of seem like losers.
I don’t want to tell Alyssa how I feel. I just want to throw something at her.
Hours awake: 7 Chance of quitting: 18%
He’s very cute, mostly because he looks nothing like Alyssa.
a Code Blue should have been called.
We were supposed to try to save him. And then I have a heart attack.
I shall follow Sexy Surgeon to the ends of the Earth, if he so desires.
He’s got a point. Asshole.
Hours awake: 20 Chance of Sexy Surgeon ever growing the hell up: 1%
I swear, if he starts speaking fluent English, I’ll cry.
Hours awake: 29 Chance of quitting: 19%
Days living with my crazy roommate: A million billion Chances I will be doing a half-assed cleaning the bathroom in the very near future: 110%
there’s no risk of Julia pounding on the door and accusing me of, like, stealing a grain of rice or something.
“Full access to boobies.”
Hours awake: 9 Chance of Mrs. Vargas having a positive urine tox: Who am I kidding? Like, 99%.
Hey, Alyssa, newsflash: I was a medical student two weeks ago. Sheesh.
Holy crap, I was right!
That, let me tell you, will be sweet.
Hours awake: 13 Chance of quitting: 65%
(I actually know what he means. I am totally a pizza snob.)
(and go back for seconds… thank God scrubs have drawstrings),
And if Julia comes out and interrupts this, I swear to God I will murder her.
I may actually get to discharge my rock star. Wow.
A PICC line is a central line that is usually inserted for long term antibiotics, because it can stay in place longer than other kinds of lines.
Clostridium difficile colitis, which causes a really smelly diarrhea Rectal gangrene Vomit Gastrointestinal bleed Rectal abscess
And only I, Jane McGill, slightly incompetent medicine intern, have the power to stop it.
The nursing home is a dreary place with the dirtiest front steps I’ve ever seen. It looks like at least one animal and/or person has peed on them.
Sometimes I’d love to be a hot surgeon guy.
it’s a severe neurodegenerative disease where you get something called chorea, meaning large, involuntary movements of the extremities. Second, the patients usually get a cognitive decline that evolves into dementia starting at around age 40, which I guess is why Ryan’s father is in a nursing home.
The mutation that causes Huntington’s Disease occurs on a single gene. Every person has two copies of every gene, one from each parent. If a disease is “autosomal recessive,” that means you need two copies of the gene in order to be affected. If the disease is “autosomal dominant,” however, that means you need only one abnormal copy.
In practical terms, what that means is that if your parent has an autosomal dominant disease, you have a 50% chance of getting it yourself.
No, he just wants to be the asshole surgeon.
Hours awake: 4 Chance of Sexy Surgeon dying young of a neurodegenerative disease: 50%
She meant me. How cute.
I guess I’ll never find out what that smell was. Damn.
Score! Alyssa actually admitted I was right about something.
I need to savor it. Ahhh.
So the missed lab was as much her fault as mine. Maybe even more her fault than mine.