medical school

keep it up guys. on the new york city heirarchy, doctors always trump lawyers. especially when they're 8 inches taller than you.

― burt_stanton, Sunday, January 25, 2009 10:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

ugh

Hey, you know what sucks, is having an anatomy practical exam that is given via Powerpoint slides instead of bringing everyone to stations at the Anatomy Lab. I can identify the hell out of some abdominal structures on a body, but not when I am not sure whether I am looking at the cecum or an oddly angled stomach or a folded-over colon. It is basically like finding Waldo, and then answering an unrelated question about Waldo's primary arterial supply.

Thankfully the class walked out of that exam in unison basically like \o_O/ so I guess it was not just that I am stupid.

wait what the hell? man, that sucks, C-L. we had our exam reviews on powerpoint and i was always disoriented and lost when they'd point to some bit of pelvic floor---but then at least we had artfully done-up prosections for the exam itself

like str8 alinea style:

http://www.maricazottino.com/public/alinea_bacon.jpg

Anatomy Practical Exams by Grant Achatz would be pretty awesome, come to think of it. "Which section of the lower intestine is shown here, labeled with a daring plum chutney glaze?"

btw i just finished midterms and it feels great

also, C-L do u know a dude named P3t3 (i think) that's working a clinic in M3xic0 this summer

(don't want m3xic0 googlin)

hey congratulations!

neuro is fukkin hard, btw

thanks!

hey horseyshoes, what is yr take on UC art history students..... JUST WONDERING FOR NO REASON

did you meet a girl? i don't know anyone in that department. my experience w/ art history girls is that they are v. v. pretty and kind of boring but i might just be jealous wrt the last part.

my take on UC grad students in general is that they're insane btw.

nah former UC art history student current doctor student

I do not think I know a dude named P3t3 who is in doctor school.

Do you guys mean UC as in University of California, btw? Because apptly Horseshoe thinks I was insane (which honestly was probably correct at the time).

P.S. RENAL 4-EVER.

no, university of chicago! i'm sure uc students are lovely.

Oh OK. We have a handful of Chicago undergrads. They are pretty hardcore, yeah.

haha teaching those undergrads when i was 100% sure they all knew more than me about everything was a traet

oh we start renal stuff in a few weeks, i think? i'll have to check. i'm pretending school does not exist for the next day or two

We just finished renal (sadness). God bless Linda Costanzo - do you guys use her for physio?

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!!!!!!!!

http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1614/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1614R-5160.jpg

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.