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Hasta Luego, San Diego
Roughly eighteen months ago I made the decision to pursue an epilepsy fellowship in a chaotic process that ended with a position at Stanford. Today, I’m faced with the obvious consequence of my choices: I had to move out of San Diego. The quasi-academic nature of postgraduate medical training leaves little time for major life…
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Turning Back Time
It turns out that, like me, my car is getting older. So is this website, for that matter: it’s coming up on fourteen years since this. Back in 2009, having an in-dash LCD screen and navigation system on a Honda was pretty sweet. I still had a Windows Mobile phone with a full keyboard and…
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Never-ending Grind
I keep attempting to wrest my medical trajectory closer to the engineering career I should have pursued all along…
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Big Sib, Big Sib!
When I started child neurology, I never expected to gain an older sibling.
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Neuro Bags
Exploring the various items I carry with me at work.
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Business Hours
Whether they are 9–5 or even the more expansive 8–6, it is a challenge at the best of times to arrive at an establishment that keeps so-called “business hours.” Even more so for the hapless resident physician on inpatient service, whose days stretch twelve hours at minimum. Thus, when given the opportunity to leave work…
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RITE Answers
A test of somewhat less significance.
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PGY-3
I’m still a resident, but now I see Neurology patients of all ages across a number of different hospitals.
Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.