How to be a good medical resident

How to be a good resident in my experience

– be a good secretary
– be conscintious
– excel at communicating with the nurses what the problem is and what the plan for that day is
– be honest, and clear to your supervisors
– be sufficient at lab results interpretations
– especially in the beginning: ask as many questions as possible
– make clear, consise and accurate descripations in the status op the patient
– know your way around emergency situations, because you will be the first doctor that will arrive there
– prepare night shift

Have good relations with your collegues:
– supervisors should know you and respect you
– your coworkers should like you and respect you
– nurses should know you. They should respect you but not fear you, think you’re incompetent

Running

If you don’t wear the right clothes when you go for a run, you look like an insane person.

The point of medicine

La médecine c’est guérir parfois, soulager souvent, consoler toujours.

First Image of a Black Hole Shows Signs of Myocardial Ischemia

This week, cardiologists learned for the first time they have been examining black holes for decades and did not know it. Many cardiologists and radiologists did a double take when they saw the ground-breaking first image of a black hole released by the U.S. National Science Foundation. While the unclear image of the dark circle surrounded by a bright neon orange and yellow was a new sight for many in science, it looked suspiciously similar to the standard nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) exams many physicians have been looking at daily for the past 40 years.