Totally Convinced

EM is the way to go. The other night I went to dinner and had a chance to talk over all my reasons for wanting to go into emergency medicine with an EM attending... and he basically said all my reasons were solid, spot on, and that I'll love being in the field. He also talked to me about the one EM program that is in the city I live in. The program I REALLY want to get into. It isn't the strongest program out there by a long shot... but it's got tons of pathology and trauma... and its here. Which is really really important to me. I have friends and a community here. For the first time in my life. And I don't want to give that up at age 35 to go somewhere "better" academically. I know I could likely get a spot in California or New York or Chicago or wherever. But do I want to? I don't think so. For the first time in my life I don't want to leave everything behind just to make a better play for my career.

Finally something useful....

A VERY nice resident sat with me today and went through an entire panCT with me so I could learn how to read it. Talk about useful!! Thank you to people who care. Yay!