Hillary update. Love huh. Clinton 2016!!!1!!
I took this strength finder assessment thingy that is supposed to help with career planning. I don't understand how my "top 5" are strengths or how they'll help with career planning; they're just things I do. Highlights:
input (meaning I collect things and facts incessantly) (hoarders, here I come)
intellection (mostly just pretentiousness and an annoying "mental hum"...this also apparently explains why I can't concentrate in quiet places)
activator (meaning I just like starting things, without thinking them through) (oops)
I have been told to partner with Focus and Discipline people. Oops all around.
Incomplete things I've written but not posted (this happens frequently):
from January, on resolutions:
Always more or less the same. Calmness and efficiency. Also, trying to reduce the massive hypocrisy of being in med school while not following the diet and exercise instructions I'm supposed to give other people.
Vegetables. Milk. Yoga. Baby steps? I feel like I've done "baby steps" so many times before.
Caucus = LOL
also January. Sunday "Oof!"s:
obesity & surgical intervention
I once shadowed a bariatric surgeon who told me that he knew a particular patient very well because he had done the weight loss operation (I can't remember if it was a Lap Band or some kind of gastric stapling) on every member of that patient's family. Oof! So many issues raised by this one sentence. I mean, this surgeon was a nice guy. He listened to family members well and really seemed to have his patients' best interests at heart. That being said, it's tough to deny that he's making a buttload of money from doing the same (extremely tedious and boring, I thought) procedure multiple times a day, and it's almost a "family affair" situation. Crazy.
This article, entitled "Young, Obese, and in Surgery", brought up similar squirmy issues for me.
"Medicaid in almost every state and many private health plans now cover bariatric surgery, often more readily than diet or exercise plans."
I do understand that there can be a great deal of genetic influence in metabolic control systems. I also understand that increasing evidence shows that once a person becomes obese, it is extremely likely they will stay that way. It reminded me of a lecture we had on infant and young child development. The professor, a pediatrician, said that there is no such thing as "baby fat" that is normal for a toddle to have. The earlier a child becomes overweight, the more likely they will grow up to be an overweight or obese adult.
from last September apparently:
Is it okay for me to be over people who are "free spirits" and need to "find themselves" and all that jazz? Especially when they're upper middle class, white, and have all the time and resources to do just that. I like watching these people on tv. I don't get it in real life. I don't know how to relate to someone who has wasted so much. This doesn't refer so much to one person as to a general phenomenon. Also, I'm undercaffeinated and this doesn't make sense. I don't get it and I'm tired of trying to get it. There's such a thing as being too open-minded, right? At some point, can I just call someone a loser (in my head)?
I took this strength finder assessment thingy that is supposed to help with career planning. I don't understand how my "top 5" are strengths or how they'll help with career planning; they're just things I do. Highlights:
input (meaning I collect things and facts incessantly) (hoarders, here I come)
intellection (mostly just pretentiousness and an annoying "mental hum"...this also apparently explains why I can't concentrate in quiet places)
activator (meaning I just like starting things, without thinking them through) (oops)
I have been told to partner with Focus and Discipline people. Oops all around.
Incomplete things I've written but not posted (this happens frequently):
from January, on resolutions:
Always more or less the same. Calmness and efficiency. Also, trying to reduce the massive hypocrisy of being in med school while not following the diet and exercise instructions I'm supposed to give other people.
Vegetables. Milk. Yoga. Baby steps? I feel like I've done "baby steps" so many times before.
Caucus = LOL
also January. Sunday "Oof!"s:
obesity & surgical intervention
I once shadowed a bariatric surgeon who told me that he knew a particular patient very well because he had done the weight loss operation (I can't remember if it was a Lap Band or some kind of gastric stapling) on every member of that patient's family. Oof! So many issues raised by this one sentence. I mean, this surgeon was a nice guy. He listened to family members well and really seemed to have his patients' best interests at heart. That being said, it's tough to deny that he's making a buttload of money from doing the same (extremely tedious and boring, I thought) procedure multiple times a day, and it's almost a "family affair" situation. Crazy.
This article, entitled "Young, Obese, and in Surgery", brought up similar squirmy issues for me.
"Medicaid in almost every state and many private health plans now cover bariatric surgery, often more readily than diet or exercise plans."
I do understand that there can be a great deal of genetic influence in metabolic control systems. I also understand that increasing evidence shows that once a person becomes obese, it is extremely likely they will stay that way. It reminded me of a lecture we had on infant and young child development. The professor, a pediatrician, said that there is no such thing as "baby fat" that is normal for a toddle to have. The earlier a child becomes overweight, the more likely they will grow up to be an overweight or obese adult.
from last September apparently:
Is it okay for me to be over people who are "free spirits" and need to "find themselves" and all that jazz? Especially when they're upper middle class, white, and have all the time and resources to do just that. I like watching these people on tv. I don't get it in real life. I don't know how to relate to someone who has wasted so much. This doesn't refer so much to one person as to a general phenomenon. Also, I'm undercaffeinated and this doesn't make sense. I don't get it and I'm tired of trying to get it. There's such a thing as being too open-minded, right? At some point, can I just call someone a loser (in my head)?
