I'm so happy to be back in the world of pediatrics! I didn't realize how much I missed working with children until returning to the pediatric unit after a month of surgery. Don't get me wrong, I like adults, but I love working with children. They are so full of life, they are little fighters and shockingly, they never seem to feel sorry for themselves (unlike many adults, including myself). I just like the atmosphere of pediatrics--I feel like it is, for the most part, more positive than other areas of medicine.
I had a couple cute kids this week. There is a little girl, about 10 months old, who has been admitted for a month due to a bad infection. She was looking great and got to go home (she was admitted for so long for intensive antibiotic therapy). Whenever we rounded on her, she would dance, give the residents hugs and apparently she learned how to say "bye-bye" while in the hospital. Now if I had the infection she did, I'd be grateful that I was getting better and would be okay, but I doubt I'd be dancing when the doctors came to check on me.
I really like the attending I am working with this month. She is super smart and really well rounded. I think I am going to learn a ton about pediatric pulmonary. I have to do a big presentation for this rotation, which I started this week. I chose to do my presentation on asthma because it is so common and such a bread and butter area of pediatric medicine. However, now I wish that I would have picked something like hyaline membrane disease of the newborn because I don't know as much about it as I do about asthma. Nonetheless, asthma is a much more common and studying it in depth will prove to be beneficial to me in the future.
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