Genital Herpes and a Crystal Ball

Oh, dear. Where to begin? Well for the 5th Saturday in a row I have worked at the student-run free clinic. And I've seen some interesting stuff. Tonsils the size of golf-balls, goiters, "Surprise you're pregnant!", gout, abscesses, etc. But today I diagnosed a 70 year old woman with genital herpes. She'd had it for 4o (F-O-U-R-T-Y!!!) years thinking it was a yeast infection and trying to treat it with Monistat.

Just so happened on my way home my mom and dad called (they always call as a speaker-phone "unit"). When they asked what I was doing, I told them about my patient.

My Mom's reaction was stellar.

MOM: You mean? You? You. Do THAT? They LET you do THAT? I mean, you? Wow. Oh. oh. OK. You just... you just really... you know... you... LOOKED?

ME: No Mom. Nowadays we have these cool doctor crystal balls. You just ask it for the diagnosis... and poof! It says "genital herpes"

MOM: Smart Ass

DAD: (in the background) I think I'd ask that crystal ball again until I got a different answer.

ME: Smart Ass.

One Caveat

Thanks everybody for the congrats.

One thing that sucks though is that although I am officially a 2nd year now, I have to complete one month of 2nd year classes before summer starts. Then we have about 2 months off for summer. Then back to 2nd year. Kinda lame.

Back to school on Monday. But it's cool cause the newness hasn't worn off and all the professors keep coming up and saying "Congrats on being an MS2"

Yay!

As Of Today

I am officially

1/4 of an M.D.

AND a

SECOND YEAR MED STUDENT!!!