What can I say? I like oncology too!

( I just had to steal it )
Today was day 1 of my Oncology mini-rotation and the Oncology RD at GMH has a pretty cool job, where she spends part of her time covering the inpatient Oncology wing and the other part with patients from the outpatient Radiation/Oncology Center. The ROC at GMH is, for lack of a better word, gorgeous. It gives you the warm fuzzies and makes the patients feel comfortable. The chemotherapy treatment rooms overlook a garden and lake and the walls are filled with artwork. They have free beverages (anything you could imagine- those $4 bottle of bolthouse farms juice, etc) and a "Look Good, Feel Better" room with free wigs, scarves, along with offering free massages and manicures one day a week. The patients and staff seem to develop awesome relationships and they know their patients all by name. The staff and patients seem to celebrate successes and endure difficulties together, and while cancer is a mean and terrible disease if I ever have to deal with it, I hope I can be lucky enough to treat it at a place with such committed people as this. It is a completely different looking and feeling place than what I remember going to when my grandma was going through treatment.
While I like oncology, I guess what this day really solidified to me about my career preferences and future job search is that I need to find a job where I get to work with the same patients and develop some type of a relationship- so it's probably going to have to be outpatient.