Top 3rd Year Moments

In commemeration of finishing what many consider the hardest year of medical school, I'd like to list out the most memorable moments of my third year.

• Flying across the state with the transplant team to do a donor harvest surgery. In a private jet. And being the only medical student in the surgery
• Being trusted to use the scalpel and bone saw during my CV surgery rotation
• Sewing up an incision better (but not faster) than the chief
• Being commended for being the only student on the team to turn in my required assignments on time
• Being taken to eat at Fogo de Chao by a fellow student
• Driving home from a far away clinic during peds during a horrible thunderstorm that actually flooded the highway making it impassable
• Being in the group that scored the highest average on the surgery board
• Trading to a different medicine month and team only to find out that I totally screwed myself over
• Making a TB diagnosis missed by my upper level in the county hospital ER
• Wearing a mask before talking to the above TB patient
• Seeing first hand both patients experience seemingly miraculous cures as well as patients suddenly or quite protractedly pass away
• The MR patient at the county hospital who, as I was examining another patient in the same room, shouted out, "Nurse, Nurse. Thank you for the underpants!!"
• Fun month was actually fun. Because I didn't study hardly at all
• Having the Director of Internal Medicine give me 100% on my eval and offering to write me a LoR
• Driving 64 miles everyday to the furthest away FP clinic. With Cecil
• Cecil somehow managing to get me out of lots of hours of FP clinic time
• Getting a super buzz off my first and only energy drink. And being told I was a little hypomanic from it
• My resident on neuro from Siberia. "Must to practice checkout sheet" and "Most of you (there was only 3 of us) very hard working"
• The neuro resident who called her patient a "carpet muncher", and then for some reason was threatened by the patient that they'd call the TV news stations to come report on the (ie her) poor quality of care
• The paraphilia lecture
• The county psych hospital
• Catching a baby for the first time
• Delivering a placenta and accidently squirting cord blood all over the room, and resident, when I moved the hemostat up during said delivery
• BV clinic

So that was my year in a nutshell. At least the most memorable parts of it. I am excited for fourth year. No call. No weekends. 2 months off. If you are still reading this and happen to also be ending your third year, I meme you!