 How's it going guys? So I guess this is gonna be moto vlog number two. I Haven't even posted motive log number one yet. That's gonna come out on Saturday big bump It's gonna come out on Saturday, which I guess is tomorrow So what I'm doing is whenever I finish up a video I basically just post it at the same time every week And I think at least from what I've read and what I've heard is that's pretty good for the YouTube algorithm They like for you to be very consistent That was very impressive dude, I don't know if you guys saw that some guys riding a dirt bike and he just pulled a wheelie Anyway, super impressed Anyway, so yeah, so I heard that's good for YouTube to kind of promote your content Assuming people are watching it If you're consistent like that So instead of just finishing up a video and then posting it right away I'm just gonna post it at the same time every week And if you know if I have a little extra time and I end up making two videos then I'm not gonna post them both that week. I'm just gonna keep them Just hold on to one and post at the following week or something like that Just because things do get crazy and sometimes I struggle to be able to film and edit a video To make one per week. So, uh, so yeah, so I think that's the plan Anyway, so I've been doing a lot of thinking About these motive logs and maybe some random like car videos Like if I just have random thoughts and I want to share them on my drive home or on my drive in to work By work, I mean, you know my clinical rotation so I Think I have an idea of what I want to do with that Because most of my videos kind of like I said last time are just scripted. They're pretty well planned out I know exactly what I want to talk about and more or less what I want to say Before I even start shooting And they're just like they're organized. They're concise. They're not stream of consciousness where I'm just like thinking of what to say And you kind of you know, you read the title you read the description and you know what you get So that's what I'm gonna keep doing with that If I have a topic that I really want to cover but with things like this Things like my motive logs and things like just driving in the car. I would really like to do that as well For a couple of reasons one is because I just personally enjoy it. It's kind of like video journaling to me Hopefully this guy doesn't cut me off. Thank you Yeah, it's kind of like video journaling to me like I know I'm sharing it with a lot of people But it's just it's therapeutic to kind of talk and get your thoughts out and stuff like that So that's the selfish reason the probably less selfish reason would be Like this channel is basically forming kind of a it's kind of becoming a hybrid channel So I originally wanted it to be just straight-up information all the time like nothing about me not a vlog You know just like stuff that I think is useful to you guys who want to apply to PA school and Things like that and maybe even some other medical careers So I thought that's what I had in mind for the channel But then I started getting all kinds of emails and a lot of them were about like specific You know like specific PA topics like hey, what should I do with my application? What should I do with my essay? What do you think about this? How should I interview like stuff like that? Which is to be expected and I totally I'm very happy to help in that case Sorry, I'm distracted because I really want to turn but this is a little bit of a Of kind of a dangerous situation, so I'd like to focus a little bit here How about now? There's a bunch of bikers. Hopefully they'll all right screw this Man, I'm sorry, I'm gonna get back to my train of thought in just a minute here, but Yeah, this is People are going crazy. I think it's rush hour. It's like almost four o'clock. So it's like rush hour and people are just I Don't know like people act all nice and everything and like courteous And then you give them just a little bit of pressure and then they start getting mean and they start getting Nancy And when you're a motorcyclist like I said last time that's just terrifying You know you really want people to be patient and not pull out in front of you and predictable And if they're not acting that way then we get real nervous and we don't like it and And if we're doing motor vlogs we can't Really focus on that we got to focus on not getting hit by a car or in this case a motorcycle All right Let's see. What do you think can I keep up with these guys? Yeah, I think I can There looks like they're riding cruisers every one of them They look like Harleys I've heard Harley guys don't like Honda guys, and I'm currently a Honda guy, you know, I have a Honda motorcycle so Hopefully they don't beat me up, right? I Don't know. I don't really understand the whole Harley thing I think they're kind of overpriced and they're a little too noisy And I've ridden a couple and honestly I wasn't impressed. I mean like they look really good. They're really pretty But I honestly wasn't super impressed when I rode one And also they're so loud I can't even hear myself think and I'm like a hundred feet behind him I really hope this video turns out because I can't hear anything But anyway, okay, I'm done complaining now Okay, so anyway my plan for things like these motor vlogs and things like driving in the car I just talking to the camera kind of stream of consciousness stuff I'm thinking about is I've been getting emails that are like specific PA questions and like advice and things I can help you with But also I've been getting a lot of questions just kind of asking about like me as a person And some people saw like my story and you know, how I get to why I how I got to where I am my road to PA school which has been like well over 10 years at this point and like you know my dedication and things that I've done in my life and Surprisingly a lot of people have actually asked about that And have told me like it's motivational to them that someone's been through this and has put themselves through all this effort And all this sacrifice to get where they want so Apparently at least a few people really actually want to hear about me as a person Which I was a little surprised by maybe it's like Two people but if it's more than that either way like I'm just I'm really surprised But I'm also pretty honored that people are inspired by my story and that they want to hear what I have to say And so I think that's kind of a win-win, you know if you guys want to hear about my day and like my plans and Things like that my life and then it's also kind of therapeutic for me to kind of get my thoughts together then Okay, like if I feel the need if I feel like there's something I want to say and share with the general public with the with the world And then I'm gonna flip my camera on you know on a drive home or something And I'll I'll tell you guys and these are very easy videos to edit because I'm not you know cutting out every Every 10 seconds or every 30 seconds and like filming a new clip and then putting a kind of all kinds of effects in and all that Stuff like I'm not doing that. They're much easier to do. I'm just kind of talking. So yeah, like What do you guys think if anybody actually watches these? like life updates that I did and Then like motor vlogs. I know this is just the second one But if you want me to do these like give me a comment or shoot me an email just tell me Like I don't know do more of these or maybe talk about certain topics or something Just feedback. I really do like feedback. I want this channel to be as helpful as I can to as many people as it can So I'm really hopeful that you guys will give me some feedback. But anyway, okay So with that long introduction The main things I wanted to talk about today Were some things that I've learned and just kind of how rotations are going So today and yesterday I was actually doing a mini rotation at a pay at a pathology lab Which is really interesting and really unique. I don't know if you guys watch It's called the good doctor Sean Murphy. It's this really really good show about a Surgeon a surgeon resident who's autistic and he's got all these struggles with you know His personal skills, but he's an incredible like savant level surgeon So it's just really interesting and it's I mean the actor just plays it very well He does an incredible job and then like all the other cast are just really good. So Why did I say that oh because in the show he starts dating this pathology resident Or I think she might already be a pathologist whatever That is a cool truck So anyway, so I didn't even know really what a pathologist was I just I knew what pathology was and I know that with certain diseases you take a biopsy and you send it to the pathologist And then you get your pathology report But I never really thought more about it Until I saw that show and then I realized oh a pathologist is actually a specialty in medicine Like a doctor, you know going to MD or DO school can then go on to pathology residency and become a pathologist And so I thought that was really cool. I'd never heard about it And so that's like the last I thought about pathology until Yesterday when I actually went to a pathology lab and rotated for a couple days and my program just told me hey You're going here, you know, you're gonna you're gonna work with this pathologist PA For a couple days and just see what they do and stuff like that Which I thought okay cool it makes sense, you know pathology is a is a branch of medicine So, you know MDs DOs they go into pathology So it just makes sense that a PA would be working with a pathologist And so I get there and I don't see physician assistant on the guy's door because he's got an office I don't see physician assistant. I see pathologist's assistant and I go that's interesting Is this like something new that they're calling these guys like PA's that work in pathology and then I started actually working with one of the Students one of the pathology associate students and she told me like no dude. We're not we're not PA's we're not physician assistants We are PA's pathology assistants, and that's a whole different Different kind of degree, but it's actually extremely similar to the PA physician assistant route I'm gonna focus this the sharp turn and an intersection. Okay, and now I'm gonna take this nice and sharp Okay, so yeah, so it's a whole different branch of medicine It's like a whole different It's a whole different graduate program. So just like physician assistants pathology assistants are Physician extenders, you know, they're like mid-levels. They're not a lab tech. They're not like a histology tech They're not a technician, but they're also not a pathologist. So they're somewhere in the middle You know they handle the more complicated specimens and they prepare them in a certain way and they they do like a Preliminary report and stuff like that and then they actually go to the pathologist who makes the final report and the diagnosis and stuff like that So honestly, I never even knew about this. I never knew it was a possibility And apparently there's thousands of them, you know, it's not nearly as common as a physician assistant But it's a very common thing and it's just it's really cool You know, I've only been out kind of in the field in medicine, you know in PA school for a few weeks now This is technically still my first rotation. I did, you know, three weeks at GYN women's health and then I'm gonna do two weeks at a Gastroenterology office and then these two days they just kind of slipped in there because things worked out So and like just in these three weeks, I cannot even tell you how much I've learned It's been absolutely incredible Like things that you read about in the book and even see videos of like just do not compare It's nothing until you actually see it in real life or hear about it hear the patient's story feel an actual specimen like man, it's You learn so much more in person. It's so much more like I Guess I can't even form my thoughts right now You just learn incredibly more in person than you would like from a book or a computer that being said I Do recognize that the year we spent in didactic was absolutely crucial Because a lot of the things that they talked about, you know, like in my rotation in pathology and women's health Like most of those things I do know at least a good amount about I know like the risk factors And then when I see the patient it makes sense And I know like the pathophysiology. I know what's going on inside I know generally how to treat it unless I look something up really specifically and then I know exactly how to treat it I know the risk factors like all that stuff that we learned in didactic year Come into play and then you just see them in person and they just make much more sense and it sticks So and then getting to see everything from the pathophysiological side was just absolutely incredible Because for instance, like I'll give a really good example. So like I was studying from pansprout pearls By the way, there's that pretty lake. I'm going up to Heritage Hill brewery again To sit at their cafe for like the next three or four hours and just study Yes, I know it's a Friday night and yes, I know I'm studying and no I don't care I want to I want to do well on my EOR. I want to do well on my boards And I just want to learn this stuff because I want to be a good PA. So much more important for me to Do that on a Friday night than to go do anything else That being said if I put in a good three or four hours, I might have a beer I might even have two Who knows anyway, okay, so yeah, it's what was I gonna say the example? I was gonna give a really good example So for instance, let's say Okay, kind of a little bit of a trigger warning here This might be kind of graphic the thing that I'm talking about and some people might really not like hearing about this topic So just you're forewarned right now. This is a sensitive topic. Okay, let's talk about missed abortions You know miscarriages so most common, you know in the first trimester and the most common reason for a miscarriage an organic miscarriage, you know is chromosome abnormalities So if something goes on like a monosomy or trisomy Basically, something goes on with the chromosomes the body sup guys Basically like the baby just doesn't form And if it does form in very rare cases like it's very deformed and stuff like that But most of the time it just it doesn't form and then the pregnancy is lost and either it comes out or Partially comes out or it gets retained and then you know doctors have to go in there with a curette Or maybe suction and just and get it out so that it doesn't cause the mother any harm. So anyway, so I knew about that I knew the stats and then you know Talking to my preceptor and talking to some like seeing some pregnant patients and stuff we talked a little bit about abortions Like on miscarriages and things like that. And so I thought I had a pretty good grasp on them I thought I kind of understood enough at least for the board obviously not enough in a practical sense But I definitely knew a good amount and then at pathology today They had a specimen and it was a missed abortion and I was expecting like a small You know like malformed or unformed fetus or something like that And I was just really ready to just see something really disturbing and really sad And I was kind of mentally preparing for that And then basically what I see is a bunch of goop. It's kind of like brownish obviously reddish blood tinge goop and I asked the the pathology assistant that I was shadowing I was working with like so I was actually kind of expecting to see some fetal parts Like why is this just nothing but goop and then he did kind of a very short review with me saying well, you know most first trimester Most first trimester spontaneous abortions or Missed abortions are basically just completely malformed and then I asked him Oh like a molar pregnancy and then he said no It's nothing like a molar pregnancy and he actually showed me a molar pregnancy and it was he's right Totally totally different looks not even close You know it's supposed to be it's called like a cluster of grapes on an ultrasound and then I see what it looks like And it's basically yeah, just a bunch of these little white bubbles and man like having seen those actual specimens in person and then reviewing the pathophysiology and then Just really thinking about the whole disease process and the treatments and everything like that That's how it really came together That's how it's I don't think I'll ever forget anything about missed abortions and spontaneous abortions again Because that was just absolutely incredible very sad for sure like I'm not saying it's a good thing good incredible It's a very bad incredible But just seeing all of that from every possible angle from the actual life patient to the theory in the book to the actual specimen in the pathology lab Now it sticks now I totally understand and then you know, I don't want to say totally because I guarantee if I see it in a different situation I'll have a whole new respect for the I'll have a whole new respect for the condition and things like that so Anyway, I guess what I'm trying to say is when you see things in person, especially in multiple different ways You learn on a completely completely different level and it's just it's so gratifying and just understand Much better than you did you think you understand something from a book and then you see it and sometimes it's just not even close to what you expected Or you understand it completely differently Or if it's something that you you know kind of understood maybe enough to do well on the exam You kind of be able to do something, but you don't like really know it Well, yeah, then you see it in real life and then you know it then you totally know it So I guess what I'm saying is I'm just extremely happy To be in second year First year was definitely it had its ups and downs It was very gratifying to do well on exams It was very terrifying to do poorly on exams and then you know knowing stuff and learning stuff was cool But it came at you so fast You could never really sit back and appreciate it because you were already like, you know a month behind for the next exam So like didactic year There's no better way to say it it sucks didactic year is really really difficult You know you're learning all this really cool stuff and you can't really even appreciate it because you're just so stressed out Trying to learn more cool stuff But then when it comes together in clinical year and you just see this stuff and you hear the patients talk about it And you hear the pathologist and you see the specimens and you touch them, you know with your hands man, it's It is so incredibly gratifying To see this stuff and also to understand it, you know, I can understand like If I was still if I was doing all this before PA school Before didactic year and like for instance if I was a medical assistant or a scribe and I saw something cool like yeah I think it's cool. I definitely think it's really interesting and I'd be like an awe wondering about it But then having the knowledge having at least the knowledge from didactic year to Understand it to a very high degree definitely not like a freaking pathologist or like a doctor or someone who like really really knows This stuff very well But just to have a pretty dang good grasp on the pathophysiology and what happens to people and why it happens and things like that And then seeing it in person and touching it and hearing people talk It's the coolest thing ever so I'm actually here and Actually driving around a little bit more than Then I was planning on because the the brewery is right back there on the left I don't know if you saw it So I'm just gonna go a little bit further just to wrap this video up and then I'm gonna go Sit my butt down and study and study hard So I guess what I want to say to conclude this video is if you're aiming at PA school or med school Nurse practitioner school whatever it is you guys are doing that are watching my videos. I Just want to tell you that Whatever step in the process you're in whether you're a pre-PA and you're like working your butt off probably doing a job and trying to get these Good grades or if you're already in didactic year You know working your butt off just trying to stay in the dang program. I know you're going through hell I absolutely know and I've been there probably longer than most of you Maybe not as long as some of you, but I just I know that You're really going through a lot and it's really difficult and the only thing keeping you going is this like vague dream of Being a PA or a doctor and PA whatever you're doing and I just want to tell you That even being a few weeks out of didactic year and into clinical year It's already worth it Like I would not trade the last few days for anything absolutely anything in my life I would give for these last few days and that includes this whole past year of Grinding and like not sleeping much and just being you know stressed all the time and sometimes getting depressed and like everything that comes with You know how hard you have to work It's all worth it for your first like few days on rotations And then I can only imagine like once you've got rotations down and you've gotten all this experience and you're actually like Somewhat qualified to be a clinician. Yeah, you're always still learning. You know, you're never you never know everything. There's no way But but when you have like that even higher level of knowledge and you can actually practice this stuff and like affect people's lives I can only freaking imagine how gratifying that is Compared to just seeing some stuff in person like I did today. So It gets better. I'm just I want to tell you that it gets better. It's worth it No, it's never gonna be easy. That's not what you're chasing If you think oh, I'm just gonna get into PA school and then life is easy I'm here to tell you it's not and it won't be and it never will be and if you think oh I'm gonna get through PA school and then be a PA and you know make all this money and you know have this great lifestyle Well, yeah, okay, you're gonna make money and you're gonna have a good lifestyle, but it's not gonna be easy It's never gonna be easy and if it is you're a crappy PA, you know Like you always need to be learning and being humble and getting better and better and better and better Because otherwise you're gonna hurt people so Man, I just I keep going off on tangents. I keep getting distracted by how beautiful it is here, but okay anyway, so I Just want to tell you that your hard work is worth it And also your hard work is never gonna end and you don't want it to end because you really want to do the best for people And you just want to keep understanding more and more and I'm also here to tell you that Understanding even just this little bit that I've started understanding from my very little time on rotations is the most gratifying thing I have ever felt in my entire life so It's worth it guys. Keep grinding keep studying Keep, you know watching helpful YouTube videos if that's what keeps you going. I know it's what kept me going in PA school That's why I made this channel Just keep it up. All right, I'm proud of you. You're gonna get there if you want it bad enough and Yeah, that's that's all I really got to say and now I'm totally lost But it's kind of nice here. So I'm just gonna keep riding around Anyway, okay So I'm probably just gonna cut the video off Right here because all I'm gonna do is just drive over to the brewery and Sit my butt down in a chair with a really nice view and maybe like a like a hot cider or something and And just get to studying Since there's probably only a couple minutes left until I get to the brewery. I'm going to Just kind of shut up and do the rest of this drive because it is really pretty And if you want to stay with me and just check out the foliage. I might put some music on or something Well, I'm gonna put the music on like in the video when I edit it and you know, just enjoy the foliage It's beautiful out here Maybe you're in a place in the country that doesn't have foliage and I feel bad for you But also I bet you have a much nicer winter than we do. You're like down south or something But anyway, enjoy the colors. Hopefully you see that right there. It's beautiful And yeah, I'll talk to you guys next time Let me know if you want me to keep doing these because they don't take a whole lot of effort for me But I mean if they're if nobody's watching them or not getting anything out of them I'm not gonna take up, you know, YouTube Certain space on their servers and I'm not gonna put in the effort that does Take to make them. So just let me know and if there's anything that you want me to talk about Like this, you know, not planned out But just kind of to, you know, get an idea in my head and rip on it while I drive or ride my bike You know, let me know that too. I'd be really curious And then I'm obviously gonna oblige and talk about what you want me to talk about. So yeah Oh, yeah, there's the brewery All right guys It's been a great ride. Thank you for coming with me and I'll see you next time