Infections and 99 Cent Stores
Today was my first real day of my infectious disease rotation. I’m absolutely in love with our attending who is a jovial man with a heavy Italian/Brooklyn accent. Today was a short day and we didn’t cover too much, but I thought one point was interesting. Our attending asked us “why don’t you ever need to know the dosages of antibiotics?” All the students sat around with a blank look on their faces, so I piped up, “because you can look them up?” Yes, that was the right answer! He said that he’s been an infectious disease doctor for 20 years, but he still looks up many dosages. “It’s better to look it up, and be 100% sure than to not look it up and prescribe the wrong dosage which kills a patient.” I thought that was a pretty interesting perspective.
On the way home from the hospital I couldn’t help but go into my favorite 99 cent store. I splurged and spent $17 on two pairs of gloves, wrapping paper, a small notebook, a dog squeaky toy and some awesome multi-colored singing Christmas lights. When I arrived at my apartment, I excitedly hung up the lights and gave the squeaky toy to Molly. She promptly eviscerated it in about 3 minutes.
Tomorrow I will go in for my infectious disease rotation and then I have a residency interview in the afternoon. More to come soon!
In the meantime, please enjoy these Bushwickian photos that I took yesterday on my doggy walk and photos of my 99 cent store prizes!
My name is Kendra and I am a fourth-year medical student attending 
That truck that you took pic of those are the types of trucks I would I would take of in SF! I hope I can find it and post it!! Have a great weekend!