I have made it to rotation number five! (recap: one, two, three, four) I am at Westchester Medical Center which is north of Manahttan: (my apartment is point A, this hospital is point B)
There is a metro north train that would get me pretty close to this hospital (close enough to take a shuttle) but it doesn't run early enough in the morning for me to get to work on time so for this rotation I will be using a Zipcar to get to and from the hospital! Zipcar is a car sharing company that basically lets you rent cars by the hour. I thought about renting a car (from Avis, Budget, etc) for the two months I have this rotation but the problem with that is finding a place to park it. Street parking is not always dependable and paying for the privilege of parking in a garage around here will cost about $400 a month. Ouch. With Zipcar you pay a membership fee ($25) and then you are allowed to rent a Zipcar by the hour (usually $8-$10). Gas and insurance are included in your hourly rate. You sign up online for the day and time that you need and then it will show you cars that are available at that time. There are a bunch of people in Manhattan that use this so there are Zipcars in nearly every parking garage which makes it really easy to go pick one up. I am at this hospital with another student (who lives on the Upper East Side) so we trade off who rents the car and then that person comes to pick-up the other one and we drive to work. It takes us about 45 minutes to get there as long as there is no traffic (which there hasn't really been since we are doing to reverse commute of most people coming to work in the city). I am spending my first month at Westchester doing a cardiac rotation (so I will be in heart-related surgeries like bypass or valve repair, etc) and then in February I will be doing a pediatric rotation - keep your fingers crossed that we keep having such a mild winter so that I can avoid driving in the snow!
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