Such is the sinusoidal curve that is my mood.

I was on top of the world last night, after doing an incredible 8-hour emergency medicine shift, getting to assist a plastic surgeon repairing a couple big bike accident gashes, getting to put in two sutures on another case, getting a great IV draw with blood cultures, and thinking now that I either want to go into emergency medicine (look out, GruntDoc ) or maybe even trauma surgery or plastics.

I was even in a good mood 2 hours ago studying biochemistry of all things, starting to think that maybe, just maybe, I was starting to understand this crap. That maybe, just maybe , there was a reason I should know this stuff.

And now I’m just totally defeated. I’m 14 questions into a biochemistry 50-question series on Kaplan’s QBank (boards study questions), and I feel awful. I feel stupid, I feel frustrated, I feel hopeless. If there’s any reason that anyone other than pediatricians, OB-GYNs, and PICU/NICU specialists need to know the minutae of the glycogen storage disorders , I would really love to hear the argument. I understand needing to know that they exist, but knowing how each one presents, and the mutation associated with it is really bleeping ridiculous. I hate you, NBME . Hate hate hate you.

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