Cleveland Clinic X 1 day

I arrived in Cleveland today without a hitch around 3pm via airplane. After getting my luggage I grabbed a taxi and started to head to my new home for the next 2 months. As I looked through the taxi window, I saw lots of industrial looking smoke stacks. It was not the most scenic but the taxi driver got me to my destination pretty quickly so I was grateful for that. After I got here, I picked up my key to my room and as I dug through other peoples envelopes in search for my name, I saw one of our classmates that will be here for 1month.

I got to my room and found this:


I unpacked the little that I packed and gave the classmate a call. I was lucky to learn I had no roomate to share my room with. Hurray!!! We later met up to go grocery shopping and I took a tour of the hospital.
and saw this in the lobby:


Its a sculpture made out of steel letters of a person sitting. On the wall there was a wall of letters like a waterfall....
Next on my to do list:

1. Where to do laundry
2. Find the gym
3. Find food.
3.

GI Rounds

Austin: Outside the hospital from 9th floor




Sorry loyal readers, I have sorely neglected this blog. However this entry should make up for the all the ones I have missed.

Its the last week of my Sub-I and it was throughly fun. I had an awesome team that was serious for about 2% of the time. The rest of the time was spent talking about my favorite subject "FOOD". Topics like where to find the best cupcakes in Austin, where the best restaurants are, what are the best food stalls you have been to, the best hole-in the walls dominated our talks over HTN, and DM and infections. Not to mention we talked about cooking too. Well you may say, hey this sounds like an all girl team. It wasn't we had 2 guys who frequently chimed in on they're fav eats.

After work I usually spend my time exploring Austin's eats. I've included some pictures




The first 2 pics are from Whole foods, yummy desserts. The second picture is candy shaped like fruit. Its a bit blurry but in person the candy is goregous.





Flip happy crepes as you see is a trailer that makes Crepes- out on Town Lake. It's really popular here and was featured on Food Network's best Eats. It such a popular place that the wait was 1hr :(. I didn't have the patience to wait and try them. My intern told me that Paris Crepes are better.

So my rotation ends on Friday right on the new Team's call day, but since I have to turn in my pager and ID by 4PM looks like I can't partake on Call on Friday...Hooray!

IM Sub x1.5weeks

IM med sub I this last week has been albeit a mixed bag. Let me list out the pros and cons that I have encountered.

Pros
-Clean, nice appearing facilites
-Efficient ancillary staff-social work & nurses
-Good resident who teaches
-alot of autonomy to make an A/P
-Free access to Dr.'s lounge for food
-Austin-lots of good eats

Cons
-Not enough volume of pts
-250 beds
-FMG residents
-IM resident who told me off b/c I made too much noise in the ER by printing a 100pg Uptodate Article on my pt.
-must wear dress clothes even though its a county hospital.