adj Basically.. this means full. But, of course, it has its own specific nuances to it. I think of it "fullness" as something mroe like "well stocked", though dictionary.com also says: "Filled to satiation; gorged" I am using this word to describe my past week which was quite replete with new experiences. This was my first FULL week on my internal medicine rotation. (note, I am largely just trying to record some interesting experiences for myself, so you don't have to read all of this) Chronicled in (roughtly) reverse order: Stayed in the hospital for 17 hours today and got to follow a doctor whom I respect highly as he saw 17 of his 18 patients.. some several times due to family coming in, emergency situations, etc. This took about I had a chance to sit and level with that patient and ask him to please take his medications this time so that we wouldn't have to see him here again. Inserted a nasogastric or NG tube into a patient who was sedated. (the NG tube is a thin tube that you stick up someone's nose, and keep pushing in until you reach their stomach so you can put stuff into/suction stuff out of the stomach directly). I had an NG tube inserted into me when I was very much NOT sedated (and believe you me... that is NOT a pleasent experience, now matter how wonderful the person who inserts it is). Got to see my doctor get really excited when he diagnosed his second ever case of Boerhaave's syndrome (very nasty situation when you rip a hole in your esophagus (the tube connecting your mouth to your stomach) 50% mortality). Got to see a patient with Boerhaave's syndrome have it for 48 hours and NOT die due most likely to the fact that he's had so much lung surgery that all the scar tissue was probably keeping the junk leaking from his esophagus from going all over his chest. Watched a thoracic surgeon try to help a GI doctor try to guide a tube to suction out all the stuff that did go into that hole... we couldn't get it... despite my actually getting in there and helping. :( Saw a patient code, and recover. Code blue is what they call it when the person is rapidly deteriorating and anyone available in the hospital comes rushing over to do CPR, give fluids, ventilate, etc. That is the first one that lived out of 3 I have seen. Utterly failed an oral presentation. UTTERLY :( I finally understand now how to make (some) sense out of the squiggly lines on an EKG. And Chest X-rays for that matter. First time I completely fell asleep in front of my attending physician. And something else kinda nice happened at the beginning of this week with my H. : D | 
