A New Beginning

Hello faithful followers of my internship blog. It seems that I was hasty in my declaration that the end of the internship was nigh. The actual program continues on through mad-August. I have decided to stick around and be a part of www.rateadrug.com until the end in August. There are, of course, questions about how this is going to work because I will be fleeing the country for the next 3 weeks and I have sent emails talking to the people in charge. It seems that interns are still being brought on board; because I have been here since February I think I might have an unfair advantage over the new people, but they assure me that everything will work out. It is not that I think I am some sort of super-star at this stuff, it's just that I will have been doing it twice as long.

Anway, I will try to post something over the weeks that I am gone and to share some observations about how medicine works in Japan (yeah, that is where I am going). Also I will give serious consideration to taking the second half of this internship to talk about medications that are administered for patients undergoing rehab therapy. I have recently learned that a large amount of our patient population is not just related to neurological issues but to rehab issues as well. There are some interesting meds there that would be worth discussing. I might also spend some time talking about medications that are used in the treatment of cancers. At the hospital there is a position open for someone to work with kids who are undergoing treamtent for cancer; and that has got my brain thinking.

In the next post I will explain what I will talk about for the last half and show some cool pictures of my vacation to the orient.
Cheers!
Tristan