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> Subjective Today marks the first day I haven't set foot inside a hospital since clerkship started. Seriously. Thank you to [hospital name redacted] for giving us clerkies the holiday off! Woke up at 8:30 AM today.  Felt so strange not having to get ready in a rush, not having to drag my body some place it doesn't want to go.  Literally went "mmmmmmmm" as I buried my head in my pillow and went back to sleep. Had a slice of mango cake for breakfast. Mmmm WENT CRAZY OVER THE LATEST TAYLOR SWIFT VIDEO . (Zombie Taylor is the best Taylor.) Walked to Ayala the 30th from my condo (in the blazing noontime sun. But I didn't mind because I'd spent all my afternoons on hospital floors, never knowing what the sky looked like at any given hour) Peaceful sushi lunch at Genki Sushi. Although I felt pressured to eat fast and leave because my single butt was holding up space at a table meant for 6.  Stocked up on foot deodorant :| Marathoned Orange is the New...

>SUBJECTIVE<        On Week 4 of Clerkship. Haven't been posting online much to maintain the privacy of patients, doctors, and batchmates alike. But here's what I can safely say:        In [hospital name redacted], clerks are generally not allowed to do much. On occasion, we run to Radiology to get initial reads on X-rays, do paperwork during emergencies (known as "codes"), and, if we're lucky, admit patients. Right now, because we haven't rotated yet in [name of public hospital redacted], we aren't skilled enough to be able to confidently perform procedures like blood extraction. But sometimes a nice intern or nurse will let us do these things under their supervision. Other than that, we mostly spend our days reading our patients' charts, learning their stories.         I was telling all this to one of my batchmates and he gave me a funny look and asked "If that's all you do, why do you guys always complain ab...