I was talking to one of my friends today right before our big medicine test. He happened to mention he had AIDS clinic this morning and had a funny story. One of his patients was a beautiful woman. She looked like Beyonce' Knowles. She had a history of HIV, hepatitis C, herpes, and was there today because she thought she had some warts on her privates. After he interviewed her, he gave her a gown to change into and left the room. When he returned, he began his examination. She lifted her gown so he could take a look at the alleged warts, when to his disbelief, he saw a penis! "What is that?!" he asked her. She stated, "it's my penis". The weird thing is that his chart listed him as a female.

I would have paid some serious cash to have been a mouse in the corner of that room!

So tonight I should be studying for my ambulatory medicine final exam, but I'm not. In fact, I haven't really studied much at all this month. Ever since I got my board exam scores back (a 236!! Wow!!!), I haven't been too motivated.

This week has been pretty good. I mean, compared to last week when I had to drive my car around without brakes, this week has been pretty uneventful. I got my brakes fixed, along with a leaky transmission, and something about a leaky cam. Anyway, $1,500 later I have a safe car.

My interview Friday went well, at least I think it did. I mean, I feel good about it. I think everybody's interview went well though. I guess we'll see how well it went when Match Day rolls around and I find out where I'm spending the next 4 years of my life.

AIDS clinic the other day was rather interesting. I routinely ask all patients if they are currently having sex, and if he/she is, does his partner know about his HIV status? This guy told me he is having sex but she doesn't know about his HIV "but I wear rubbers". I tried to explain to him that those don't protect 100% against HIV and that he needs to tell her. He told me that he thinks she knows because she got suspicious about his use of rubbers and asked if he had AIDS. He told her he didn't have AIDS... that he just didn't trust HER. So basically, he lied to her.That really made me mad. When I told my attending about it, he got really mad. When he went in to see him, he asked the same questions I did and got the same answers. My attending then proceeded to really gripe him out, telling him that his behavior is morally, ethically, and legally wrong and that he could potentially be criminally prosecuted. The guy just sat there and kinda giggled. Really inappropriate. I've never seen a doctor so angry at a patient before. He had the perfect opportunity to tell his girlfriend he had HIV and instead he lied to her about it.

In other news, I decided to do a grown up thing and buy some stock. I friend of mine likes Ultra Petroleum, so I went with that. I don't think I'll be getting rich anytime soon, but I decided I better start making some effort to save for retirement. I was going to wait until my student loans were paid off, but that will be when Hell freezes over and retirement will probably come sooner (What are the monthly payments on a 10-year repayment plan of $225,000 anyway?).