Family Medicine: Tumor Board and more

This morning we had to attend the Tumor Board meeting at Plaza at 7:00 a.m. The education office was in a different building from the hospital and it was only thanks to me following Jacob that I knew where to go. It was a busy meeting; aside from the attendings, probably all the internal medicine residents were there, as well as classmates on their medicine rotation and family medicine rotations. There was also breakfast (donuts, fruit, pigs-in-a-blanket), so we helped ourselves to some food before sitting to listen to the attendings talk. Two cases were presented: a large lung mass that turned out to be a histiocytoma and another case about a man with metastatic lung CA with mets to the brain. Later I found Andrew and suggested we page the resident we'll be following next week, but Kim overheard us and told us where to go next week. It turns out there'll be four of us next week at Plaza: me, Andrew, Mani, and Lauren O. Kim told Andrew that Plaza will be a nice break for him, since he works long hours at the PCC.

I failed my self-study on murmurs...badly. Dr. RR asked me all sorts of details that I'd failed to study last night (i.e. what do S3 and S4 mean? How do murmurs present during a Valsalva?) and now have to read up on those (as well as liver cirrhosis) before tomorrow. *sigh* There weren't too many patients of note today. A few were follow-ups; the burned breast lady came back b/c JPS didn't fill her prescription and she was still having cold symptoms, and a little boy whose TM was bright red yesterday was much better today. I also saw a case of pityriasis rosea today, which was pretty cool even though I'd seen it before several years ago. Funny how I've been here less than two weeks, and already everything seems so routine.