And the letter that comes after O is.....

I'm pretty sure that in kindergarten, they stopped teaching the alphabet after the letter O.  I'm 100% convinced of this.  Why, you ask?  Because EKG interpretation is NOT my forte.  I really wish it was.  Sometimes, it just baffles me, because I'm a total physiology nerd, and how the body works just rolls off the back of my hand.  But how the electrophysiology of the heart actually translates into the rhythms that appear on a 12-lead?  I find myself always struggling to interpret anything more involved than the rate, rhythm, and whether there's ST-segment elevation or not.  Beyond that, it all looks like a bunch of squiggly lines that have varying degrees of points, depressions, and other things that seem as foreign to me as learning another language (full disclosure: learning foreign languages have never been easy for me, either).  So, needless to say, my weekend has been full of trying to desperately cram all of the rhythms into my brain for the exam that is coming up on Wednesday.  I have actually found the Dubin book to be very helpful, in addition to a few algorithms for interpretation that we've learned in class.  But, when all is said and done, I wouldn't trust myself to interpret an EKG.  I'll leave that up to the cardiology people.