medical school

Nah, we mostly use Guyton and Hall (which I kind of love). There have been smaller specific physiology books for the lung and the kidney, also, but I am cheap and just stuck with my G&H.

Rhoades and Bell, here, but I've got a copy of Costanzo BRS book

fun facts to know and tell:

yesterday, in neuro, we learned about the vestibulocochlear motor control of eye movement. we also learned why alcohol gives you the spins---the alcohol actually gets into the endolymph of your inner ear, lowering the relative density of the cupola. it floats, which triggers compensatory eye saccades. yr eyes basically move around to follow the movements of your head *that aren't even happening*.

also neat: the reason you go from tipsy (physically), on to stable but increasing "drunk" and then back to "staggering" and "room spinning" is because the alcohol enters, equilibrates, and then leaves. so the terrible room spins you get at the end of the night are because you're sobering up!

FACTS

post-midterm neuro is ridiculously dope, btw

wow gtk

also benign paroxysmal positional vertigo sounds blawful

art history girls are always hotties, and always either a little crazy or a little boring

also gtk

just got this: http://www.ecostudies.org/images/scientists/Ostfeld/Infectious_Disease_Ecology_cover.gif, psyched

also, who i have to lobby to get smart loans (ie - loan repayment is based on % of income, not fixed monthly payments....good incentive for pediatricians/obs etc)

i can give u a buck fifty maybe two bucks... 5% interest

lemme think about it

I used to get inner ear infections like clockwork. It's a special hell, one that involves regular vomiting and an inability to change position at all without vomiting, and an inability to walk without falling (possibly down stairs), and other unpleasant things.

ohhh man i dont even want to think about loans :/ lol market meltdown

id give u a loan but ur credit suxx sorry bro

yeah, there's been a lot of talk at school (well, w/a few ppl) about how market meltdown + possible restructuring of healthcare + less remunerative specialties could = :(

hey i just checked my score it is solid what gives

o u can get one, no prob, lamp has a credit score of bad

i hadnt expected to need loans since i had a fair amount of $$$ saved because i worked f/t through undergrad but ive lost some of that over the last fourteen months and my income has gone down as my living expenses went up so i havent been able to save all that much

it really sux because my financial situation is fairly different from when i first applied and im not sure what the mechanism is for reconciling that

+ acc to max my credit score is bad to madoff

wait so you're going for sure? :D

u guys are going to be doktor buddies!!!!!!!!

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had a convo w/classmates yesterday about dcotor school v PA school and even though PA school is shorter and you work right away and it pays well and there's a huge demand, we all realized that we couldn't bear being "bossed around" by a doc

so basically med students in self-centered non-shocker

:-/

LOL tell me about it. I have a friend who did a 6 year pharmacy degree after high school and her second year out she is making $150,000.....

Given that I have already been 8 years out of high school and am a first-year medical student, I now feel more of an incentive to subsubsubsubspecialize in order to justify my many years of education.

And by 8 years, I mean 5 years. I cannot type today.

i am closing in on ten years out and i am a first year student, too, yeeks

Evan, we could've used you at pub quiz the other night when the category was THE HUMAN SKELETON.

oh man they had a whole category for it??

Yeah. 8 or 10 questions. We made a few lucky guesses but overall didn't do so hot.

ugh

:-(

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currently drafting my B33F letter to the dean.....eek

wish u guys could come to my renal lectures....dr k4tz is the best

alllllllllllllllll done now it is bedtime yay

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations. :-)

happy summer! whatcha got planned?

oh and I just want to confirm that you do NOT wear scrubs, white coat, or any other doktor paraphenalia to bars.

going on a climbing trip to devil's tower/spearfish canyon next week, but then it's back to school until the end of june. THEN summer starts.

and no, i def do not wear doctor regalia when out. besides, med student white coats are cut short on purpose to make it clear that you are but a lowly student physician, and not the real deal.

confession, tho: i have worn my UMN Med School hoodie out before, btu that's because it's the only hoodie i've got. also because i want to pick up chicks

i once thought about accidentally letting my stethoscope fall out of my bag will rifling thru it at the coffee shop while sitting next to a pretty girl, but i thought better of it and went back to studying renal physiology

'oh this old thing? no big deal, i'm just a future physician, brushing up on my stuff---not that I need to, of course, i just want to ensure that all those children and little old ladies i plan on helping are going to get the best possible care. after that i have to study for my physical exam....hey, i don't suppose you're busy?'

i don't really get out much :-/

Forget med school, u shd be writing dialogue for some show like "Bones" or related medical-ish stuff. That is, yknow, kind of dum but mostly lol.

not really sure if i'm supposed to be flattered there

Sure you should -- I think yr great. You should actually say that to the ladies and see what happens. If they think you're funny, you have a winnar.

When people ask me what I do or why I moved to DC or whatever, I always say "Oh I came here for school". Part of it is just that I spend almost all my time either in class or studying or hanging out with my friends from med school, so it is like the most normal, unspecial thing in the world to me now. But the bigger thing is that saying you are a med student is a fun way to get asked a bunch of questions that you have like zero idea about, which makes me so uncomfortable. God forbid there should be an actual emergent problem. There is probably not a more dangerous place to have a medical emergency than in a room full of first-year med students.

Also sometimes people will start just telling you stories about things that are wrong with them, which can sometimes be pretty awesome, but sometimes involves highly descriptive explanations of like, their sexual dysfunctions.

But the bigger thing is that saying you are a med student is a fun way to get asked a bunch of questions that you have like zero idea about, which makes me so uncomfortable. God forbid there should be an actual emergent problem. There is probably not a more dangerous place to have a medical emergency than in a room full of first-year med students.

^^^ real. i've def encountered ppl that aren't aware of how long medical training is, so they think that a first-year med student is like nearly a doctor.

I was recently around a medical emergency (which turned out OK) where the only doc present was a psychiatrist specializing in adolescent addictions. He dreads the "is the a doctor in the house?" question big time!

So peeps, how does it feel to be done being an M1?

just finished first week of summer session....M1 ain't over for another five weeks!