I'm not the crazy one...

This includes the life and times of a bipolar MD. The blog was started when I was in medical school- the previous title was Highs and Lows Bipolar in Medical School. I'm changing the focus of the blog but keeping old posts

Friday, May 29, 2009

The Final Straw

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I plugged along for one week at [] hospital. I came into the hospital early in the morning to round on my patients, but there was always som...

Monday, February 9, 2009

Candy

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As I travel through third year, rotating from service to service, hospital to hospital, my life is filled with a barrage of unfamiliar faces...

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Sunday, January 18, 2009

The Descent Continues

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My medication change, my talk with the Site Director, my realization that if I just kept getting up in the morning, going to the hospital, c...

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Friday, December 26, 2008

My descent into hell

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Glendale had a community hospital where the nearby wealthy landed should they not have a medical problem urgent or obscure enough to land th...

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Saturday, November 22, 2008

80 Hour Workweeks

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"Well, I start work at 6 am so I get tired early," I said to the grocery store clerk, who had just commented on my yawning. ...

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Civility?

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Sometimes I wonder who's actually crazy- me or everyone else. And sometimes it's a hard call. My school promotes "civility in...

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Monday, October 20, 2008

Surgery

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In medical school, we “rotate" through all different specialties so we can pick the one we like the best. Right now I'm "rot...

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Emily Forest: I'm currently a physician who has struggled with bipolar disorder. I started the blog during medical school- initially it was called Highs and Lows Bipolar in Medical School. As I moved on in my career- bipolar disorder became less prominent in my life- no recent hospitalizations, on the same medication regimen... Still there- being managed... but not a focus. Emily Forest is not my real name- as I wish to maintain privacy. I've also changed certain things in my descriptions about my life, my medical school, and hospitals where I've worked. My specialty is also not included. I'm changing the focus of the blog because- during these unprecedented times- I want to keep a record of what happened.

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