 Hey guys, welcome back to the channel. Today I'll be taking you with me through an entire full day of clinic. So today's clinic doesn't start until 9am, so I finally caught up on all my sleep and managed to catch up to this awesome sunrise. Next it's time to get ready for the day and to finally charge my smartwatch, which I always forget to do. Now my favorite part of the morning is a nice warm shower. And that just happens to be my dog shampoo. Better not use that. But after a solid shower ends and the shower's singing, time to get ready for the day. And of course, there's no better way to show off that you're in medical school like you're caffeine dependent, so here's my morning coffee routine. My current caffeine intake is about a cup of coffee in the morning and some sort of diet soda in afternoon. Now again, today's clinic doesn't start until 9am, and it's about 7.30 at the moment, so that means I have some time to get some work done. And during these hours I either work on a new video for the channel, or skim through a new medical article that caught my attention. By luck, this is the voice inside your head saying it's finally time to go to work. Stop being a bum and grab your stuff, otherwise you're going to be late. So I grab my stuff head out and I'm expecting a full day of clinic, but during my drive I realized something pretty awesome. So I'm driving to clinic and today was supposed to be a full day, so it was supposed to be one clinic for the first half of the day, another clinic for the second half of the day where I had to drive across the city of Dallas. But I looked and simply because COVID is still a thing technically, the second clinic I have is still canceled. It's like a virtual clinic. So I technically have that turned off unless I'm totally making that up, which is nice. Those are like good surprises. So I can like do something else. Mom, I'm going to be starting the advanced cardiology ICU with like deals with heart failure patients, transplant patients, LVAD patients, patients that I haven't really taken care of before during residency. So it'll be a good time to go ahead and just like read about it, learn about it a little bit more and then maybe go for a run. It's like a really core to stay outside. So but first let's get to clinic. So having the afternoon off was a nice surprise. What wasn't a nice surprise was the thunderstorm that flew through central Dallas on my drive to work. So made it to the hospital and just out of I had good fortune today. I managed to think of bringing my umbrella. It wasn't raining. It was actually beautiful and sunny as you guys saw from the last clip where I said it was like a beautiful day. And now it's just like nice and gloomy and rainy. So thankfully I have the umbrella. I'm clinics going to start in 10 minutes. Now clinics for me can be a toss up of how busy they are. My last day in the life video in clinic, I actually didn't have that many patients. But today's was actually a particularly busy day with a combination of phone calls and person visits. And the most difficult part of working at an internal medicine clinic is that patients can have a variety of complaints and expect answers to them all all in a short visit. So as a doctor becomes an art to balance what the patient wants to talk about what I want to focus on and then deferring a few things until our next visit. But trying to do this from patient to patient through phone call and physical encounters takes a toll and this morning I'm really starting to feel it. But thankfully today's a half day and I've gotten quick at writing my notes. I'm done around 12 30 p.m. But to make the most of a half day, I decided to create a to do list of everything I wanted to get done this afternoon is still raining. So thank God for this umbrella. Alright, so here is ultimately what I decided to do for the rest of the day. First we're going to have some food. But then these are the things that I decided that I need to work on. So first we're going to do some videos for the YouTube channel on you to do some cardiology review. Ultimately, go do a workout at the gym. And just because when I see you hits, usually can't actually go to the physical gym because time gets busy. And then actually review all my patients that I'm going to be taking over for the whole team and being the senior resident. And finally, I'm gonna work on some scripts for future videos for you guys. So this will be my checklist. I'll kind of sit on this main counter. And then we shall be good to go. So change of plans. My initial plan was to do lunch, do videos and then do some studying of cardiology. I already eat my lunch or keep done my videos. I am drained. I'm gonna take a nap because sometimes the best thing you can do for yourself is to do nothing. And then I'm gonna wake up, do some cardiology review and then go get the workout while ideally feel fresh. And the weather outside, let's see. It's a gloomy like nothing too crazy. I'm not even sure if you guys can see it. Just believe me, there is no more rain outside. So I'm gonna go for a workout and then go for a run. But this is the typical day of kind of like what my off day will look like. But the difference is that I actually went to play today. So nap time and then wake up and we'll get back to it. Alright, so woke it up from my slumber. And it is approximately five o'clock by 30. I still need to do like my studying still need to go over my patients for tomorrow and I still need to go to the gym. So now we're actually going to get to work. I'm still like groggy before I go to the gym. I want to do some squats and legs today. So we are going to actually regain some of the energy drink a cup of coffee because caffeine doesn't really affect me anymore. Those of you guys are on the medical journey, you know what I mean. So I will show you guys my system of how I like to study. Alright, so as you guys can see, we are now in my notion database. And this is my four later sections. So this is linked to my Google Chrome extension. And most of these are from up to date. And that's simply just because the easiest places for me to find. But now if I click into them, you know, that whole article is already linked in here. And I can take notes on this article for the different things. And like I said, I'm going to be on the heart transplant and advanced heart failure assist service. And so things like heart failure rejections and managing LVADs and basic things like I've already taken care of before like cardiogenic shock. This would be a good reminder. So I'm going to go over these we give myself a time because I know this is overwhelming. I don't even know everything by tomorrow. That's just part of medicine. I do want to know a little bit and feel more comfortable. And so right now, as you guys can see, it is 527. And so I'm going to give myself until about 615. And we'll make myself a cup of coffee, put my phone away, do a pomadro session and let's get into it. As you guys can see, I've done a solid about one hour and it's about 616. So that's my stopping time that I told myself. This is kind of how I study that I have up to date on this side. And then I'm kind of creating these little documents on notion and keeping it for the category that it's in. So that way I can just like sort them in the future and to see all my knowledge that I kind of carried over for Elbads and cardiogenic shock, etc. And then as I was doing this, you know, the back of my mind, you always have things that like, oh, you know, I need to review x, y and z. So things like echoes and ECMOs and cath reports. So these are just kind of there for my reference that way next time I do this, these will be the articles that I then look up and then just kind of keep going in as soon as I get one down and just kind of cross it off. That's my very simple way of studying now. Now, I definitely still want to go get a workout, but I told myself I would go for a run today and I definitely had a big kind of late lunch. So what I'm actually going to force myself to do, although it looks kind of scary outside is questionably go for like two mile runs. Nothing too crazy. Hopefully before it rains because I can like see it in the far corner. Let me see if I can get you guys sit. That's kind of what it looks like outside. That's coming or going, but I'm not sure if I should go run decisions, decisions. Let's do it. So I did check their weather radar and looks like for another hour, we are good to go for a run. Like I said, it'll be two miles and not the fastest runner goal will be to try to do about a nine nine and a half minute pace to it. Now my body surely felt the heat and the fatigue during this run, but one of the last things I still have to do today is to prepare for taking over of new patients on the heart transplant and heart failure service tomorrow. Just finished mile number one. I thought this is going to be a bad run. I was right. It took me 10 minutes to run that. I ran the same run a few days ago at nine minute pace. That's okay. Let's go finish. All right, friends. So it is now about eight o'clock. I'm not sure see if they'll actually even turn on. And it's upside down. So close. Okay, just believe me. It's eight o'clock. A few things I need to do. So I've finally been sent the email of what happened to the patients that will be taken over for tomorrow. So now I need to read about them. Usually that takes me about 30 to 45 minutes to do. And usually what I do is I almost kind of plan as if I was already there tomorrow. So I start writing my notes. And now I have an intern that kind of does that for me, but just so I can be prepared because I don't know these patients. And tomorrow I start with 10 patients, which is a good amount for your first day for 10 patients. I see lovely just don't know. So it's going to be hard regardless. But I'm going to spend about 20 to 30 minutes doing that and basically jotting down notes, getting prepared for tomorrow. And then depending on how we feel at 8 30, you know, still go for that like day versus just relax and maybe do some laundry. We'll evaluate that. I'll see you guys then. All right, friends. So finally managed to go over all these patients. These patients are pretty complicated. So it is now 8 43. Let me see if I can get this to work now. I don't even know what to say. It's 8 43. Probably not going to go to the gym. Probably will be better to just chill, turn on a movie, call in a night, get some sleep because tomorrow will be an early day, a long day likely because they have nine to 10 patients, which is like the third of the entire service. That's fine. We'll grind on. Hopefully you guys enjoyed this video. We're going to end this vlog here. But let me know in the comments section down below if you guys want to see more content like those days in the life. I'm happy to do so if you guys are interested. But with that being said, guys, hit that like button down below. Smash it. Maybe you can just crash it, destroy it one more time, just in case you haven't hit that subscribe button to get more content just like this on a weekly basis. And with that being said, thank you so much for joining me on my journey. If you enjoyed this video, you probably enjoyed this video too, where I walk you through my entire day of a life as an internal medicine doctor and actually go through a very sick patient. So check that video out if you guys are interested. But with that being said, guys, thank you so much for joining me on my journey. I'll see you guys next time on yours. Peace.