medical school

huh, i was just coming to post a link to the initial article i read about smart loans: http://www.slate.com/id/2212534/

no, i get a 'real' summer break: done june 20ish, back to school sept 8th.

i keep forgetting Lamp: are you going in the fall???

next fall im doing graduate work in immunology/micro @ the medical school with the idea of applying for the combined md/phd program for 2011 (when ill be 26 lol)

enh, i'm 28

liked that article, btw. i really think that somehow making medical school dramatically more affordable (even though we're getting our educations at half-price??) is pretty crucial to 'saving medicine's soul' or whatever.

also you guys, i had another idea: so, you know how the NHS has a loan repayment program for primary care docs willing to work in underserved areas, right? would it be a terrible idea to propose a similar, alternate program that used first-year residents instead? that is: newly-minted MDs spend a year providing primary care services, and then transition on to whatever more specialized training they match into.

i understand that newly minted MDs don't really know anything, but I feel like many of the primary care deficiencies we're seeing might be able to be addressed by relatively untrained docs??? or would this be wildly dangerous and inappropriate?? i really have to believe that there are some ppl out there that want to be orthopods, but that would also post-pone residency another year if it meant that they got to work in an underserved community and defray some loans

i really have to believe that there are some ppl out there that want to be orthopods, but that would also post-pone residency another year if it meant that they got to work in an underserved community and defray some loans

Yeah this is basically me. Even the orthopod thing! Some kind of like, Doctor version of Teach for America or something.

I briefly was on the MD/PhD path (I decided I wanted to go to medical school about two months after starting graduate school, which was an odd time for an epiphany like that), but I ended up not continuing grad school. The amount of years you have to put in for the double doctorate was kind of terrifying to me, but the prospect of living on that MSTP money was reassuring.

Also we get out on June 20th but have to come back on like August 11th. And I am spending most of that time doing research! (But I am doing it in Los Angeles, which is all I really wanted out of my summer.)

Some kind of like, Doctor version of Teach for America or something.

yeah, this is it exactly.

A friend from UNC med did this--got a sweet assignment in northern california after graduating! I'm not sure how many years he owed doing the underserved primary care doc thing, but I'm pretty sure it defrayed all or almost all of his med school debt via the program. But he wanted to do primary care all along, not continue as a cardiologist or anything.

Oh and Lamp may I just take one moment to bitch that "real" Ph.D.s (the kind I would have been had I not dropped out after four years) none so impressed that the MD/PhDs all finished the PhDs whether or not they had done any decent research by that point. It's like a guarenteed hard stop, even if you haven't published anything.

all finished the PhDs in four years (reg Ph.D. at least six) I mean.

yay done with ms1 yay

:-)

hey congratulations!

boo family's falling apart boo

but thanks dude(tte)s. it's nice to be like actually done for a while

med school lolz

neuro path prof gave us a handy mnemonic for the cranial nerves to day:

frank
sinatra
takes
four
fingers
straight
scotch
each
night
to
ease
tension

first
second
third

get it omglol

gbx do not let med school affect you this way!

i thought it as funny!

People don't need to see Prince Albert...

All people seem to need data processing...

would really like to go back to my alma mater (<---- first time i have used that word) or vermont or colorado

i seem to think that i'll have time to do fun stuff outside

― gbx, Wednesday, December 26, 2007 4:12 PM (1 year ago)

where do you go? my stepdad went to vermont med

i thought it as funny!

Yeah see this is what I mean!

I am in the upper Midwest. Uvm and co and dmouth wouldn't have me :(

but I get instate so

fuck em then

Word

I think we got like ten minutes of a breakdown of "On Old Olympus...", but then they asked to know a bunch of other stuff about all the nerves for the test, so really if you were still having trouble remembering the names of all the nerves you had way bigger issues to deal with. It is still kind of fun to use the "Oh Oh Oh to touch and feel" version, but after a while you just memorize them. I did get some mileage out of Some Say Marry Money But My Brother Says Big Boobs Matter More, though.

oh christ we are getting the super-fun "crazy ER stories" lunch lecture right now and it is BRUTAL

do not ever burn yrself with hydrofluoric acid

or fall and land directly on a CURTAIN ROD in YOUR MOUTH

also unbelievable picture of a dude w/a with 40oz bottle of budweiser in his butt

lol caption 'this bud's for you'

Three reasons (of about 10,000) that the medical profession is not for me. Just reading the curtain rod thing made me woozy.

I candy striped one summer and spent most of my two weeks reading books in the nurse's station because I tried to give a man his own urine to drink (I didn't know the urinal thing wasn't a water pitcher!) and also I was kind of useless w/r/t bodily effluvia.

ok lol at that!!

I figure that if I were a radiologist giving one of those "Come match to radiology" talks to med students I would just show a presentation full of foreign object radiographs. They are so hilarious!

Also once when I was volunteering in an ER I saw a dude come in complaining that somehow he had fallen and a foreign object had gotten stuck up his butt, somehow, and I was so excited that people actually do try and pretend like they didn't MEAN to put that thing in their butt that I almost broke out laughing.

omg ok this is dang unbelievable, an ED doc here (h3nn) cut a dude's leg off ~at the scene~ of a crazy semi crash with a SAWZALL

the pt in the case above claimed to have ~rolled over in his sleep~ onto the 40oz

Hahaha I love the excuses! They really need to post a sign in the ER saying "Look, we know how that thing got in your butt. Don't bother making up a story. We're going to laugh at you anyway (after you leave)."

Oh the fell on something that went up my butt thing happens all the time. A friend who is a PA once encountered a guy on an ER rotation who came in for rectal bleeding but denied any and all erm . . . butt play until she told him that there would be x-rays at which pt he admitted to pleasuring himself with a broom handle which then broke off. In his butt.

- guy cut his own balls off
- lady pulled her own eyeball out cuz of alcoholic hallucinosis

I am guessing this one was initially reported as a Bathtub Accident:

http://i34.tinypic.com/2e53znp.jpg

~~~~shudder~~~~

Maybe ball dude was the fetish guy I told you about who cut off his dick.

RUBBER DUCK.

...you're the one

we are now onto the penis injury section...

lol at u guy who threaded a shoelace up yr penis such that it tied itself into a knot in YOUR BLADDER

YES

pic of CHEWED THROUGH restraints

OMG

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WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??????????????

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didn't want to be restrained anymore, duh

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHY THE SHOELACE UP THE PENIS