Just the other day, I bought a Welch-Allyn otoscope/ophthalmoscope set. something that I had been saving up for since internship which I intended to buy after I had passed the boards. And it was pretty lucky that I did! Turns out it was one of the things required for us to have at all times..
I'm getting a little anxious about pre-residency, but then again, who isn't? I just hope I can pull myself together in order to pull this off.
My lawyer's blog has been pretty silent lately. I wonder what's up with him?..
For the nth time, my life stops at a particular date (this time it's October 14, the last day of pre-residency), and the stakes are progressively getting higher and higher. It's just maddening..
Tomorrow, I'll be having my oathtaking as a newly licensed physician. Then the following day, we start pre-residency. It's kinda like saying "Congratulations, now get to work!!"
Though I may seem a bit apprehensive with what lies ahead, I'm also a bit excited because I'm finally going to be immersed in the specialty of my own choosing, unlike in clerkship and internship where you are required to rotate to all the different departments, like them or not.
I just hope my enthusiasm tides me over the next few weeks..
It never occurred to me that blogging could be relaxing.. I guess being a frustrated writer helps. :P
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Computer technology has evolved so quickly in the past 20 years, it just boggles the mind. I remember being a tech-savvy kid who worked well with DOS and understood (to some degree) the minute differemces between hardware models. However, its as though I just turned my back for one second when POW! An entire truckload of new tech has arrived and I haven't realy been able to catch up ever since.
When I was a kid it was clear cut and simple. Processors were the XTs, ATs (286s), the different incarnations of the 386, 486, and the first Pentium (which at the time was so fast that it was rumored to burn itself right out, thus necessitating it's own cooling fan, a novel concept in itself). If you wanted sound, you'd have to shop around for something made by Sound Blaster, Roland, or those other small players like Covox which faded into obscurity. There was also the monitor (monochrome, CGA, EGA, VGA, XGA, sVGA) and it's accompanying video card (?). This I'm not too sure of, since I believe that dedicated video cards began to come out only with the advent of more demanding 3D-extensive games and programs. USBs were just barely carving a niche in the market, and CDs were only slowly being introduced as a new form of mass storage media. You see, when I was a kid, PCs didn't have hard drives yet. DOS was booted from the big floppy drive, and you had to run programs using their executables MANUALLY, There was no point and click, no double click, heck, the mouse was probably still under development during these early monochrome years.. Computer memory at the time was a mind-boggling 64 kilobytes!! I remember being struc with awe when my cousins bought a "highly advanced" 286 with an EGA (16 color) monitor, with their own hard drive whose capacity was a whopping 20MB!!! Whoa!! I was dumbstruck as I watched them install Hero's Quest 1 (all 10 floppies of it) on the HD and play seamlessly for hours without having to change the disk even once!!
Yea, those were good times indeed. Every new advancement shook the foundations of computer technology as we knew it, unlike the present age where the improvements are just a bit more of the same, and the changes in performance not nearly as drastic or groundbreaking as before. Sure, I acknowledge that the computer industry is still moving forward by leaps and bounds, but the joy of discovering something totally new and novel has long gone. We've taken technological advancement for granted that it's no longer fascinates us to see what new things the new hardware can do, as compared to how awestruck we used to be before..
Man, I sound like a techie granddad...
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