In this Life... if you want to be someone, be it!
Right before the 107th full moon, on my running streak #3130, I became a Medical Doctor.Monday, July 31, 2023
Saturday, July 29, 2023
Thursday, January 26, 2023
Day 80 - Step 2CK Prep - UWorld Forever
There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
~ Celia Thaxter
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Day 79 - Step 2 CK Prep - UWorld Always
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
~ Robert Heinlein
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Day 78 - Step 2CK Prep - UWorld is Love
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
~ Og Mandino
Monday, January 23, 2023
Day 77 - Step 2CK Prep - UWorld, NBME, Screenshots, Master the Board
Everything is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
~ Paul Hawken
Sunday, January 22, 2023
Day 76 - Step 2CK Prep - UWorld is Mine
The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.
~ Maureen Dowd
Saturday, January 21, 2023
Day 75 - Step 2CK Prep - UWorld Review
I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.
~ Ruben Studdard
Friday, January 20, 2023
Day 74 - Step 2CK Prep - UWorld Review
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Thursday, January 19, 2023
Day 73 - Step 2 CK Prep - UWorld GI 2 Review
A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Day 72 - Step 2CK Prep - UWorld GI 1 Review
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
~ William Arthur Ward
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Day 71 - Step 2CK Prep - Cardiology 5 to Pulmonary 1
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.
~ Norm Papernick
Monday, January 16, 2023
Day 70 - Step 2CK Prep - Cardiology 4
Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
~ Samuel Johnson
Sunday, January 15, 2023
Day 69 - Step 2CK Prep - Cardiology 3
~ Aristotle
https://www.easyauscultation.com/cases/35/fourth-heart-sound-gallop
Saturday, January 14, 2023
Day 68 - Step 2CK Prep - Cardiology 2
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Enjoy studying the common sense Cardio!
S3 - a ventricular gallop - produced by a blood flowing into an overly compliant left ventricle - "water rushing into a large reservoir" - dilated ventricle - one of the signs of CHF, HFrEF, MR, AR, high output states (thyrotoxicosis).
https://www.easyauscultation.com/cases/37/third-heart-sound-gallop
Friday, January 13, 2023
Thursday, January 12, 2023
Day 66 - Step 2CK Prep - Pulmonary Diseases 3
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
Day 65 - Step 2CK Prep - Pulmonary Diseases 2
I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Day 64 - Step 2CK Prep - Pulmonary Diseases 1
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'
~ Earl Warren
Monday, January 9, 2023
Day 63 - Step 2CK Prep - Infectious Disease 2
Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Sunday, January 8, 2023
Day 62 - Step 2CK Prep - Wrapping Up the Shelf Exams
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
~ Harry Golden
Saturday, January 7, 2023
Day 61 - Step 2CK Prep - Review of UWorld Ass 2
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!
~ Jonathan Winters
Friday, January 6, 2023
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Day 59 - Step 2CK Prep - Fungi and Allergy
If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.
~ Eddie Izzard
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
Day 58 - Step 2CK Prep - Stats 2
Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges make life worth living.
~ Mary Tyler Moore
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Day 57 - Step 2CK Prep - Stats 1
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
~ Evan Esar
Monday, January 2, 2023
Sunday, January 1, 2023
Day 55 - Step 2CK Prep - Preventive Medicine, Dermatology
Good habits result from resisting temptation.
~ Ancient Proverb