Gina Bean! » residency http://gina-bean.com Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:22:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 A new beginning http://gina-bean.com/2011/07/01/a-new-beginning/ http://gina-bean.com/2011/07/01/a-new-beginning/#comments Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:22:12 +0000 Gina http://gina-bean.com/?p=2826 So…oops!

I started my blog during intern year with every intention to blog daily, keeping a record (mostly for me to look back upon) of the time spent in residency.  I mostly stuck with it, but with my vacation and the very busy month of June, I didn’t blog at all during the last 6 weeks of residency except to say I was back from Mexico.

Soon Jasmine and I will be paving the way as pediatric hospitalists at a new hospital and I’ll be slumming in the Children’s ER for some extra cash.  I imagine I’ll have more free time but less to blog about since I won’t be around so many people all the time anymore, so the entries will become less frequent.  I want to continue the comics as well but will need to come up with a new name for them.

And we shall see what other life changes are in store for this year… :)

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And less than 2 weeks til the wedding!!!

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I’m starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel!

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(If I decide I don’t want to do a fellowship, then I’m done with call forever!!!)

And…25 more days of NICU, with all 4 days off remaining.

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