Medical Oncology / Hematology Fellowship
I am tired... only 3 days into my clinical fellowship and I am already tired... not a very auspicious start huh??Starting out on the BMT (blood and marrow transplant service) has been tiring... taking call from home, and since the BMT service does not have inhouse coverage so all the pages get directed to me at night... sigh... I suppose to put a positive spin on things, at least I get to sleep in my own bed at night, between pages anyways... The BMT service can be busy... we do more than 300 stem cell transplants a year... that usually equates to a lot of sick patients...
(BMT = aggressive treatment for diseases like blood cancers, stem cells are collected from either the bone marrow or circulating blood and infused back to the patient after intense chemotherapy / radiation that is intended to wipe out all the cancer cells. The stem cells then repopulate the bone marrow to produce good blood cells. They can be either stem cells collected from the patient or from a donor.)
Actually, complaning aside, I am quite excited at starting my fellowship... looking forward to learning much about oncology and hematology... starting off with 6 months of hematology, it will be a steep learning curve the next 6 months... will be rotating through BMT, Inpatient lymphoma and leukemia services, Hematology consulting service, Transfusion medicine and Coagulation service.
Anyways, got to go get some sleep before I get paged...
posted by antatosh @ 10:06 PM
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