Blogs and thoughts
Dec. 8th, 2006 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jebbypalSo, I stumbled upon this blog that I thought a lot of you would find very interesting: Tundra Medicine Dreams. It's written by a physicians assistant that works in rural Alaska. Lots of tidbits about life in alaska, native customs, and dog sledding. Very fascinating.
Surfing through it and then some of the blogs it links to has rekindled my interest in possibly starting up the rheumatology/medical info blog that I was thinking about a few months back. Probably definitely won't do anything until AFTER January 31, methinks. Just a bad idea to get distracted. Maybe start putting together a few posts to hang out on my harddrive, but that's it.
But it's also made me remember that I do like reading and writing about medicine and science in general. I'm definitely a tad out of practice in my writing for laypeople, mostly because I'm so unenamored with my own research that I can't be bothered to put the effort into explaining it hardly. I still don't think med schools in the cards though because I don't want that much debt that would never get paid off and really think I'd end up fucking up the politics royally. There's a lot of the inside the hospital "policies" that the layperson never really knows about that disgusts me, moreso because they're all about the protection of the people that work there rather than concerned about the welfare of the patient.
But that's neither here nor there. Sadly, I know I probably lack the skills to do anything to work for most of the nonprofits from when I went looking for available jobs a few months ago -- they all want people with megadatabasing/programming skills or those with proven fundraising/organization skills. The freelance science writing gig is still on the table, but man, the risk between getting established and all. I don't know.
Anyway, time to stuff this all back in a box and get myself to work for my experiments, no?
Surfing through it and then some of the blogs it links to has rekindled my interest in possibly starting up the rheumatology/medical info blog that I was thinking about a few months back. Probably definitely won't do anything until AFTER January 31, methinks. Just a bad idea to get distracted. Maybe start putting together a few posts to hang out on my harddrive, but that's it.
But it's also made me remember that I do like reading and writing about medicine and science in general. I'm definitely a tad out of practice in my writing for laypeople, mostly because I'm so unenamored with my own research that I can't be bothered to put the effort into explaining it hardly. I still don't think med schools in the cards though because I don't want that much debt that would never get paid off and really think I'd end up fucking up the politics royally. There's a lot of the inside the hospital "policies" that the layperson never really knows about that disgusts me, moreso because they're all about the protection of the people that work there rather than concerned about the welfare of the patient.
But that's neither here nor there. Sadly, I know I probably lack the skills to do anything to work for most of the nonprofits from when I went looking for available jobs a few months ago -- they all want people with megadatabasing/programming skills or those with proven fundraising/organization skills. The freelance science writing gig is still on the table, but man, the risk between getting established and all. I don't know.
Anyway, time to stuff this all back in a box and get myself to work for my experiments, no?