Today was a fabulous day

I love my life. Today was a great example of why that is. I start class at 8am, to hear about the history of Exubera, the first inhaled form of insulin, from Rob Chess. Then I work on a project to understand the costs and benefits of IVF with blastocyst or two, for several hours, arguing over what the analysis is sensitive to. Then I race over to the Palo Alto VA to shadow my E4C mentor, who is Chief of Internal Medicine, get to see the amazingly cool VA electronic medical record in action as well as meet with a patient and learn about a bladder ultrasound. From there I race back to campus, singing to the country music on the radio, to grab a quick lunch and meet up with my group to discuss Project Easy, an initiative to include patient safety and quality improvement into Stanford's medical education. Then I get free, delicious dinner, learn about Stupak's abortion amendment that is currently in the House Health Care Reform bill, listen to my British anatomy professors tell stories of their experience caring for women in Britain who took the choice to have an abortion into their own hands before medical abortion was legal, and write letters to my senators, Harry Reid and President Obama urging them to allow the public option and insurers taking part in the national insurance exhange to receive government funding for safe abortions. Today was a fabulous day.