Halfway there

I'm officially done with Neurological Care! I'll write more about my overall impressions of neurology, and more specifically pediatric neurology, later. The more important thing to celebrate is that I am now halfway through my third year of medical school! Despite all the hard work and out-of-my-comfort-zone stress, I'm really enjoying it.

At the risk of waxing poetic, I feel that I am in the midst of a metamorphosis. It hit me while I was out to dinner with a group of classmates to celebrate the end of the block. We were sharing war stories. I stepped back from myself for a few moments, observing each of my friends in turn, how they listened to me describe my Medical Curiosity patient, and observing myself, how I had turned a History and Physical into a conversation. The structure of The Presentation has been chiseled into my subconscious as it has been for every other third-year medical student before me.

I'm still a long way off from being a doctor, but at least I'm finally starting to think like one.