…Was the refrain of a song I was listening to earlier.
It was an almost comedic refrain – but it seemed to resonate with me.
You see, I’m starting to get loopy and sore. Stiff and restless. I’ve been studying now for approximately nine hours. I haven’t really moved around much. It’s prompted a lot of thought actually.
I’m not used to – and never have been used to sitting for nine hours.
Imagine how much I’d weigh if I sat around for nine hours a day, and never walked or went outside…wait a minute…
That sounds like 90% of the population in the U.S.
Scary. So then I started thinking about why I’ve been sitting down for so long – and it’s because I’ve been driving through the pharmacology text in preparation for the boards. I’ve got 195 questions to answer (I wrote them over the last several hours) which will take about three or four more hours I think. This is a break right now.
I’ve covered a multitude of drugs. Beta-blockers, alpha-blockers, alpha agonists, anticholinergics, anesthetics, central nervous system stimulants, anxiolytics. And honestly, it’s all a large soup. And then as I began to take a break – I decided to cruise over to the New York Times Health section – because there’s nothing like taking a break from studying medicine than reading what laypeople have to say about…medicine.
I guess I’m shifting my addictions (Facebook has been excommunicated since the 27th of March). Anyways, I digress.
Midway through reading about all of this pharmacology and trying to learn what some of the adverse reactions are – and what do I see – an article about polypharmacy. Which is a big problem in the U.S.
A huge problem…Haha – actually like the massive patients that tomorrow’s physicians (me and my peoples) will treat.
Suddenly I began to realize how much more important research and making it as efficient as possible is. It’s the only place that major breakthroughs in health are going to come from.
On another note – I’m amazed at how much more time I have now that I’ve decided to cast aside facebook. I’m using twitter much more – but honestly – the amount of time I spent on Facebook basically academically crippled me over the last two years…I can’t help but think I’m supposed to know so much more of this stuff…
oh well…
do work…
ciao
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