I realized earlier this month that it will be 36 years this year that I graduated from medical school. Where the hell did the time go?
I decided to make a big splurge and update all of my hard copy medical texts. I tend to use a lot of online resources “on-the-fly” when I’m actually seeing patients, but do have a need often to return to actual texts. I can always read those online through my work medical library, but it’s not always the latest version, and I have trouble reading scientific stuff on an iPad on a routine basis. With technical texts, I find that I need to flip around to find stuff, and refer to the index a fair amount, and find that more annoying on a device.
So here they are.
The only one missing is the pharmacology text, which is coming later this week.
The dork part is that I’ve been pretty damned excited to have these show up. I’m also really excited that I have a monetary allowance at work for education and books, etc. I’m glad I’m not a freshman medical student for all sorts of reasons, not the least of which is the expense of textbooks.
I’m also hoping that there is a reference in there somewhere to the treatment of hernias and back strain, because I suspect my poor mailman has both after lugging all those to my front door.
43 years for me. And glad to say that most of my reference material is electronic. No cheaper, but a whole lot easier to have whereever I am in the world.
I have Sjogrens, a rather uncommon autoimmune disease, that causes the body to attack its own ligaments and tendons. I can’t tell you how many MD’s have asked me to spell it so they can look it up later. It has lots of seemingly unrelated ramifications, so I only use docs who appear to understand it well.
Julie
I’m dorking right there with you!