The Running Obstetrician
There are probably lots of ways to tackle this introduction of myself and this website. I guess we can first start off with the Obstetrician part. So I'm pretty sure that Obstetrics has the market cornered in the hospital in terms of cool jobs. I'm sure every physician in every specialty feels this way, but it's just simply true for OB, hands down.
Obstetricians really get to do it all. We operate, we do primary care and wellness visits; we are specialists, and at the same time we are women's only physicians for a good portion of their lives. We invented minimally invasive surgery, and we own the gold standard of screening tests. We think with our heads and work with our hands every day, and I haven't even mentioned the babies. Just spending the 9 months with a patient in the office is a special opportunity to have as a job. And then, we get to help women deliver their babies, which is usually a very joyous moment for most of us. The whole thing is great, believe me.
I myself am a true blue UConn Husky. I did my medical school training at the University of Connecticut, my internship and residency at UConn. I am currently finishing a Masters at UConn, and am soon to employed at the UConn Health Center. I am a big fan of the Constitution State, and I am thankful every day that I get to practice OB/GYN here.
As for the running, that is something that has been an important part of me for sometime now as well. Certainly no one is going to accuse me of being a world class runner, or fast even. But I do very much enjoy running, and it's probably the only hobby that I do on a regular basis that is at all worth blogging about. There are probably a lot more blogs that are going to get you to the finish line faster, but this one should help keep things in perspective.
I'll tell you, I remember the first time I realized that I COULD run. We had to run 2 miles in 12 minutes for high school soccer tryouts, and I pulled it off without a problem my junior year. After this came track, and pole vaulting, and javelin, and such, but I always enjoyed my distance runs with the distance team. To me all the pressure was off, and I could just enjoy the run. Since then I've run in a various mess of different races and distances. Some are excellent, others are terrible. As I start to get to the age where you realize that you cannot simply do anything and everything that you want to do with you body and expect to get away with it the next day, I've learned some good lessons along the way.
So either which way, I hope you realize that I am qualified to talk about all of this stuff and none of it. But if you are a medical student, a resident, a runner, or a fellow physician-researcher that is trying to figure out the basics of biostatistics, I hope that you find at least some parts of this web site enjoyable, helpful, or at the very least entertaining. It is a pleasure to write and produce for you all, and I'd love to hear what you think of it.
Christopher Morosky, MD, FACOG
The Running Obstetrician