another discovery!

I've begun studying for the boards, and at no other point in my life have I felt like I know so much and yet have so much more to learn. I believe this is well illustrated in a recent discovery: emboli and thrombi are not the same thing. Surprise! For most of last year, the distinction was never pertinent to doing well on exams (I presume). But now I know that they are different and I feel like a genius (which is sad because, well, I'm probably an idiot).

Emboli are traveling coagulopathic bundles of debris. Coagulopaths!

Thrombi stay put embedded in arterial walls. Lipitor!

I'm probably an idiot.