Money & Medicine is one thing that is constantly put together. I hear other students always telling me that they are entering the medical field for the financial factor, and inside I just think about the big mistake they are making. So today as I was reading a few blogs I came across the information below at Mad About Medicine, it isn’t factual data, but personally, it just seems so very true. Most of the public doesn’t consider the different costs a doctor has to go through before he can take his check home and buy a new Rolls Royce *sarcasm*. Becoming a specialized doctor itself is extremely costly itself, in addition to that the insurance, taxes, etc also add up. If one doesn’t have pure passion to medicine..I think its better to just stay out. Anyway now to the table:
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A few postulates about the public:

1. The public has absolutely no clue how much their own doctor gets paid
2. The public has no clue how much the average doctor gets paid
3. The public has no clue how much even the wealthiest doctors make.

A few postulates about doctors:

1. Doctors have no clue how much the doctor across town is making ( or how much their patients make for their jobs)
2. Doctors have no clue what their services are actually worth in a free market
3. Doctors have no clue what their worth is as compared to other professions

But wait, there’s more…

1. The public thinks that doctors are grossly overpaid.
2. Doctors think they are grossly underpaid.

Now let’s look at cost:

1. The public has no idea how much it costs to support and run a medical office
2. The public has no idea of the cost of training a doctor
3. The public has no idea of the amount of time their own doctor spends treating patients

Of course, the other side:

1. Doctors are not the most savvy businessmen and have no idea how to efficiently run a service company *
2. Doctors think the world owes them forever for the financial and personal sacrifice they made to go to medical school
3. Doctors think that they are entitled to a huge amount of money for every service they do with the patient.

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Now the doctors not being businessmen thing…I disagree with that when it comes to me personally. Lets see if business techniques can be mixed in with medicine, will find out in around 10 years.

I feel so releived to know that Lakshmi’s operation has gone successful. I posted about it just recently here. Lakshmi was suffering from a parasitic twin that was attached to her from birth, giving her four arms and four legs along with numerous other problems including spinal problems. Just a matter of minutes ago the operation ended and Lakshmi has come out successful. Thirty surgeons spent around 27 hours in gifting her with a normal life.

Once again it is stories like this that push me towards the medical field. I hope the best for Lakshmi’s future and hope her condition remains stable. To me this is just one of the many miracles that medicine has brought forth. The various doctors, surgeons, etc… that performed on the young girl are probably angels to the parents of Lakshmi now…it is truly a wonderful job.

Just recently I decided to take a college day to The University of Mississippi. It has one of the best pharmacy schools in the United States and is also recognized for many other areas. The part of it that interested me was the Honors College, ranked in the top 3 honors colleges in the states by Reader’s Digest. Well here it is, my trip to Ole Miss and the things I learned there, the people I met, and the places I saw.

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Only a few hours away from leaving and I still haven’t printed any maps, ironed any clothes, and spark spark WAM the electricity goes out. This was one of the many times in my life where I regretted my habit of doing things at the last minute. With the electricity back in the morning, I hit MapQuest, print what I need, take a shower, iron my clothes, jump in the car, call my friend and we take off for Ole Miss. The ride to Ole Miss lasted hours and was full of interesting sights to see, including a few fields of cows and even a gas station every now and then! I started to wonder where I was going to end up at, the further and further we got the closer it seemed we got to the end of civilization. Finally after long hours of nothingness I was met with a Ole Miss entrance and minutes after I was there. The campus itself was like a mini-city of younger people. More accustomed to seeing smaller private universities, the campus of Ole Miss was extravagant. It was clean, lively, full of young individuals and occasionally I’d spot what looked like a professor carrying a bundle of books. I headed towards the visitors center and they directed us to the proper building, Martindale (it was basically the center of everything for anyone visiting). From there I learned that the honors tour had already begun 2 hours ago, so we decided to schedule our own mini tours with different guides. The first thing I noticed on arriving was that the staff was extremely kind and worked to fit their schedule into mine. We arrived at 10:00am and by 10:45am our tours and timings were all set. Our first tour or Information session was set at 1 P.M giving us around 2 hours to check the campus out. (By us I mean to a friend and I, I’ll refer to her as ‘H’ from now on). We walked around campus for around 45 minutes when I found ‘L’ a old high school friend of mine. He canceled a few of his meetings and took us to the honors college. As soon as I entered I saw a computer lab with very new desktops each paired with huge 21’ monitors, and free, unlimited printing, hehe. He introduced me to one of the biology professors. I was starting to get the ‘I want to be a surgeon’ feeling again after talking to the professor and seeing the resources available in the labs. Another thing I found interesting were the study rooms, some were as big as a corporate conference rooms, enough to seat 16 people and some as small as a personal lavatory. L explained that some students liked to study in larger areas and some in small confined areas which explained the many different study rooms…mm…yea. After seeing the honors college and different labs and classrooms for chemistry and biochemistry I headed back to Matindale for the info session. The session went by quickly as the recruiter, who explained that he wasn’t fat but instead just had a lot of ‘Love’, entertained us while answering hundreds of questions bye of course me. Finally after the presentation I met the much talked about ‘DSG’, just by looking at him I could tell he was one of those…enlightened people…he was the Dumbledore of Ole Miss, and yea so what If I did read Harry Potter. He introduced us to some of the top students in the college, each of them inspired me more. The rest of the story is pretty straight forward, tours after tours, meetings after meetings, and the ride back home which was full of adventure including me falling asleep almost the whole way back.

Basically at the end of the day, I am glad that I went to visit the college. I met a variety of people that gave me that final nudge to pursue my dreams of a surgeon. What inspires me at many time is listening to people who are higher then me and smarter then me. It inspires me to beat them and become better at what they are best at.

Oh yea I also went to see Saw IV, and being able to stand the gore in their without any problem assures me, surgery is the thing for me.

Med School here I come.

Well Halloween is here, and to those that don’t know it does mark one of the most religious days of the year (All Saints day I believe..), but for most its just a time to go out, get candy, and ruin our health (tooth decay, plaque, diabetes?, sugar problems?…who knows..). Anyway I want to wish everyone a Happy Halloween, personally I’m waiting for my little sister to get home with her bag of candy.

I also should start getting more articles up just as soon as my time frees up, I was recently busy with the ACT, and a few exams (Calculus..ew).

About a week or two ago I was browsing through a few blogs and noticed a link to Or-Live, an online service that provided viewing of surgeries, both live and replays. I decided to check the site out today and found it to be a great source for actual visuals for a surgery. Instead of just looking at images or reading about them I can now actually watch in-depth surgeries. Personally I think it is a pretty good source for many individuals that maybe entering the medicine field, including myself. By watching the videos I think I have gotten past step 1 to becoming a surgeon, that I can bare to watch the video footage without running to the bathroom like a kid on a carnival ride…

P.S. -
..I never knew you could tug, pull, and tear away on the insides of someone’s chest so relentlessly without causing some damage..

This is the Initiation Commencimation…mmm…fancy for saying the starting of my blog. After debating with myself for days I have finally made two major life changing decisions. Numero Uno - That I will be going into the field of medicine, and #2 is that I will name my blog Medilogy, and here will be my journey, from where I am now to…

Before I begin to brag about myself I want to put in a little thanks to A day at the Pharmacy and especially The Junior Docter for greatly inspiring to start a blog of my own.

Now a bit more about me…
I am currently not working fulltime, but have worked at Subway (where I learned more then I ever wanted to about people’s eating habits and how healthy a subway really is for you), and also worked as a lead designer for Jackies International.
I enjoy much of my life, expect somethings..which you’ll slowly find out.
I’m not to religious and strongly believe we need to start blaming ourselves before blaming god on our problems.
I laugh at people when they can’t get out of dumb problems..but eventually do help as much as possible.
Sometimes, actually many times I wonder if major businessmen, politicians, leaders, and celebrities ever think about many of the decisions they make.
I believe anyone can do anything as long as they try hard enough, and yes that means being as short as I am, I could be as good as Micheal Jordon in slamming a few dunks for the Bulls. (and no I’m not a basketball fanatic)
I think all sports I don’t watch are probably extremely boring, I do ,however, love to watch cricket, tennis, and football (soccer).
One day I want to live in a comfortable home with a strong career in medicine (hopefully a surgeon of I’m-not-sure-what).
I love to research and learn about things, Sabarwal is another unfinished site I have begun where I am showing some of my work in graphic design, programming, and I.T.
My favorite book is The Kite Runner (and I strongly believe everyone should read it)
My favorite movie series is Saw (not that I am a freak or anything but I have some respect for Jigsaw and his games, it takes a genius to think up of those things, he’s just a bit radical on showing individuals the importance of life..)

One day I hope people will read this, and leave a comment or two.

..and this took much longer to write then I thought it would…can’t wait to begin explaining my different philosophies and theories..