the perils of

I realize that in my more than 16 years (!!!) of blogging, an estimated 90% of my motivation to write comes from procrastinating another piece of work. Today, a Saturday, I woke up feeling extra anxious over having to accomplish two reports due Monday morning, plus having to clean up the condo and get a bunch of other domestic tasks done, but my brain really just said no no no we absolutely must prioritize the most important task of all: updating our blog. After all, we cannot keep our dear readers waiting another moment longer! Oral Exam The past 5 months of residency so far have felt like they were all building up to one moment: our first oral exam. For Psychiatry residents, the oral exam means interviewing and diagnosing a real patient in front of a panel of consultants, and it happens twice a year, the first in May and the second in October. If you get a high enough score from three consultants, you can be exempted from having to take the second exam. It's such a huge event tha...