A New Orleans Fright
New Orleans is known for many things, the month of October being one of them. The changing of the weather notes a subtle view shift. For me and my fellow peers in the Pharmacology program at Tulane School of Medicine, the fall change led a new perspective on the human body. Instead of broad view like antibiotics, which looked at treating microorganisms, we have begun to isolate a specific organ - the heart. Thinking in terms of physiology of the heart can be somewhat of a fright to me activating my sympathetic nervous system. Going through, the various pharmacology and physiology of the heart has led me to develop a better understanding of the system as a whole. Beta blockers, for example, have become a key drug in the past modules. Learning how they impact specific receptors has enhanced my view of the heart. With October coming to an end, the cardiac system has begun to follow. However, drugs in one module often carryover to another a