To be completely honest, nothing new really happened this week. Dr. Sproat went to a bone marrow transplant conference thing and so I just continued collecting data for basically the entire week. Turns out extracting data for six hundred patients takes a lot more time than I thought it would. I expected to finish collecting data by Tuesday, input the data on Wednesday, and analyze the data yesterday and today. Turns out I just finished collecting data today. Which means next week I will have to organize that data, which actually constitutes multiple steps. First, I have to calculate the BMI's and body weight percent losses since all I have right now are heights and weights. Then, I need to find a reliable BMI classification (e.g. < X BMI is underweight, >X BMI is obese, etc.) and a body weight classification (e.g. >0%, 0%<X<5%, 5% <x<10%, etc.). Then I have to sort the data into that. But that's for next week. So since there is nothing new I just have pictures of the clinic for this week. Sorry but that's all I could think of.
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So there is a short story behind this picture. In the area where I work collecting data, I get to here doctors dictate their patient meetings. And I kid you not I can barely understand what they are saying. They talk extremely fast and since I am still unfamiliar with a lot of the drugs/ terminology it sounds like a foreign language. At best, I get 50%. Because I felt like I needed to learn a lot more, I asked Dr.Sproat if there was a single source that encompassed all the knowledge I needed to know. And I got this massive book. Almost 2000 pages. Literally, just the list of abbreviations used in this book is eight pages long. Anyways, I guess I'll be reading this for a while. See you guys next week!
