Pumpkin Gingerbread

The yummy pumpkin gingerbread that I didn't think I would fall in love with. I had it over Thanksgiving at Kirstin's place.

Ingredients:
3 cups sugar
1 cup vegetable oil (applesauce substitute)
4 eggs
2/3 cup water
1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground allspice
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease two 9x5 inch loaf pans.
2. In a large mixing, combine sugar, oil and eggs; beat until smooth. Add water and beat until well blended. Stir in pumpkin, ginger, allspice and cinnamon.
3. In medium bowl, combine flour, soda, salt, and baking powder. Add dry ingredients to pumpkin mixture and blend just until all ingredients are mixed. Divide batter between prepared pans.
4. Bake in preheated oven until toothpick comes out clean, about 1 hour.

can use pumpkin pie spice to substitute all other spices

Surgery Rotation

Long hours on Surgery rotation. Leave my apartment when it's still dark and come back after sundown. I don't think I have seen the sun for the month of surgery.

There was definitely a lot of learning for the month but it was a lot abuse from the political turf war in the OR and the pimping. Starting with the turf war, because I wasn't an UNE student and that this is the first year that we are doing surgery at St Mike's. They still haven't figure out where Kirksville and Kansas City kids fit in. We are the step kids while the UNE kids are their real ones. Oh well, we are bascially getting screwed politically both ways. I just wish our school would quickly figure out what's going on.

The learning part was awesome though. It was mostly from the residents, Drs. Sub, Wr and Mwan. They are very willing to teach and tell us their crazy stories. They tried to help us during the rounds of pimping too. They are the ones that I'll miss after the month, not the actually surgeries. From the past month, I definitely learn that I can't physically do the surgery. I can't stand up for long hours and the worst part is that my skin just about react to anything randomly. My hands reacted to a pair of latex free gloves, partly I think it's also from those aweful gowns too.

This month has definitely crossed surgery off my list. But Anesthesiology is back on my list and very high too. I actually spend a lot of time with the anesthesiologist whenever I'm in the OR watching and not scrubbed in. I'm really leaning towards anesthesiology, not easy especially with my Step 1 scores. Oh well. we'll see where God opens the doors for me.