Please refer to the previous post to fully understand my excitement. It is sufficient to say that I passed my stone. Hooray. I just have some vague lingering discomfort in my back, but nothing like it was. Thank goodness. Carry on.

The time quickly approaches. I really only have a few months left as a General Surgery resident. Then I make the transition to Urology resident. To be quite honest, I am incredibly excited. Not only am I incredibly tired of General Surgery, I look forward to focusing my time and energy on what I will be practising for the rest of my life. But yesterday I gained a whole new ability to empathize with my future patients. It was about 8:45 in the morning. I was working on writing some t...

Meade versus Lee.  Optimus Prime versus Megatron.  Gandalf versus Saruman. Classic battles, all of them. But the most epic and pressing for me is Medicine versus Surgery. See, I am no longer the intern.  I am now a Surgical Resident.  This means that I am the one people call when they want a Surgery Consult.  This is fine.  It is an excellent way to learn.  I see patients, assess their problems, examine them and then determine if surgery is indica...