Crunch Time (17/30)

"Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime." -Martin Luther

     So... If anyone's wondering what happened to my Lent posts, the answer is that school happened. I'm on my first day of my last finals week ever, and two weeks from the start of my first rotation. While last week had only one exam, and the week before that was, mercifully, exam-free, the week before that one featured two big exams: clinical therapeutics and clinical medicine. The medicine one was confined to the topics of pediatrics and geriatrics, but the therapeutics one covered topics ranging from pediatric fevers and pulmonary conditions to psychiatric drugs to every microorganism that lives on your body and how to treat soft tissue infections. It is probably not  so surprising that the therapeutics exam hit people harder than the medicine one, though it was a bit shocking that about 40% of us didn't pass. There were a variety of reasons why so many failed, but the good news is that everyone who failed was given a chance to remediate, and a review session was held for the whole class to make sure we all had those subjects down pat before starting clinicals.

     Today's test on history and physical exam was not too bad, but now I should get back to studying medicine (neurology and miscellaneous topics) and therapeutics (cumulative for the semester, plus CVA and TIA). I still have thoughts I wish to share on Easter, and I have two half-finished Lenten posts (one on justice and one on the unity of the church, which, oddly enough, were the two main topics of the sermon at my church last week), which may appear sometime soon, or may be saved for a more appropriate moment, but in either case they'll have to wait a tad longer. For now I will simply say that N.T. Wright had it right when he said that Christians should celebrate Easter bigger and better than most of us do. Easter is, after all, the most important holiday for Christians, and is certainly a cause for celebration. In honor of this, my roommate and I decided to try something new this year and begin Easter morning with special breakfast, complete with French press coffee, waffles, and mimosas. I think we'll keep this tradition. :) And now, back to the joys of medicine!

Look out, world! These 96 future PAs start seeing patients in 2 weeks!