medical school

Hey gbx remember back when you were a first year and you posted abt that woman in your class who was obsessed with going derm? What did she end up with?

derm!!!

kk I have a jacket made by Rab and when I wore it to school people just would not shut up about it

haha you should have written SNARE on each sleeve

quincie tell me about this virus protein, i want to know all the proteins

why can't one protein do everything

― usic ally (k3vin k.), Friday, August 28, 2015 2:20 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think this every day

Well I had a lead that this protein may have lead to chronic vs acute liver infection. Virus is closest relative to HCV in a small mammal. Protein (GVB-V 5A) I am world expert about; no one cares including me.

world expert is pretty cool

i mean i'm fairly knowledgeable about 'journeymen who once played for pittsburgh sports teams' but i wouldn't call myself a world expert

this protein binds to everything! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3987992/

kevin, trust me, there are approximately six quadrillion proteins that you should be more interested in than GBV-B NS5A.

back when I was in grad school Take One everthing was all about transcription and I was SO LONELY as a translation person. Now everyone is all proteomics this, proteomics that, and I'm all oh please, I was doing proteomics (back before THAT WAS EVEN A WORD) back in the mid 90s OK?

good idea for a med school band name: blood islands

the valves of houston

another good band name idea: the somatic hypermutants

there are so many proteins. sooooo many proteins

― usic ally (k3vin k.), Friday, August 28, 2015 3:16 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why can't one protein do everything

― usic ally (k3vin k.), Friday, August 28, 2015 3:20 PM (one year ago)

i still maintain that this would be a better way of doing things

just went to the local med school's match day and good lord it was retraumatizing

may this spur your compassion for those less fortunate

if you find you are too frazzled and upset for compassion, meditate on New Mexican mountains to calm yourself

that's the plan alright

i was just about to bump this thread last night to mention how much i love med school and 2nd year especially. i could not be happier that i made this decision

btw speaking of match day my gf just matched at her first choice today (yale) so we are super happy

nice one!

i wasn't sure where you were in the process, glad to hear you're enjoying it!

http://imgur.com/a/xyX2O

lol

sooooo otm.

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-usc-dean-ethics-20170723-story.html

btw this stuff is WILD

What the hell

yeah that story is bananas

def gained an immense respect for plastic surgeons, was really ignorant as to the variety of cases they do

― k3vin k., Friday, April 27, 2018 6:45 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so we can stop shitting up ILH with medical nonsense

anyway yeah I also never realized how difficult flaps are. like, the planning and spatial manipulation is crazy

so are you just finishing up third year? extremely senior resident voice: ~~what're you gonna be when you grow up ~~

yeah, I’ve got peds to finish the year and then step 2 and 4th year

I’m going into internal medicine. it’s what I came into med school thinking I’d do, and though I’ve found things to really enjoy about all the clerkships I’ve done, I just can’t imagine not doing it. I originally was pretty sure I wanted to be a heme/onc doc, but this past year I’ve found myself more drawn to cardiology...so I’m not sure what the future holds there.

looking forward to next year, both to learn more and to hopefully recharge a bit before this internship thing I keep hearing about

oh boy cardiology

i worked for ACC, pls talk with me before u commit!

haha ok bookmarked, curious to hear your thoughts

oh boy cardiology

seconded

just graduated from fellowship (but still have a couple weeks of work left), incrementally closer to being a Real Boy

congratulations! it's a long haul

congrats!

anyone else making this mistake

― gbx, Wednesday, December 26, 2007 2:49 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thanks yall, and yes, it is a haul

hey that's awesome, well done!

Sounds hard. Good job!

huge if true

still a chance i could fuck it up, we've got time

I have no doubt you will be patient-oriented and outstandingly compassionate in your chosen specialization, gbx. And keep on fuckin with climb cuz climb pays!

thanks man!

planning on some climbing up in the pecos p soon, it's a pretty good place

gbx it has been so awesome to follow your IAAD journey! Huge congrats. What's your next gig?

congrats gbx!

thanks pals!

today's gig is tele-conferencing a seminar on mental health evals for asylum seekers, next gig is working at everyone's favorite federal agency for veterinarians

I am doing psych evals for asylum seekers too!

such a humbling and frankly frustrating process. let them all in imo

very same

my friend is an immigration lawyer and tells me that asylum seekers that have psych evals have a much higher success rate (at least in this jurisdiction)

that's great that you're doing them -- is that a formalized thing through school?

lol thinking gbx is going to the USDA

a couple of lawyers came to give a talk about it last year at school, and I got in touch with their group who does this stuff. when they get a case they have one of the psychiatrists do an evaluation while we take notes. then we draft an affidavit and the psychiatrist reviews it and signs it. what your friend said about the usefulness of the psych eval is what I've heard too

so great that you're doing that, the lawyers need as many docs as possible -- there's basically three (!!!) doing it in new mexico