medical school

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHY THE SHOELACE UP THE PENIS

how else are you going to get a shoelace in yr bladder?

GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

pic of beaded necklace that did same was worse imo

Was urethral insertion in that paraphilia poll a while back? Because let's be honest even people who are eating poo kind of get grossed out at the thought of someone shoving stuff up their peehole.

wait has more than one person done this? Jesus.

Ball dude was briefly lolled at on ILX (unless there's another one). He did it as a bet.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Sky-News-Archive/Article/200806413297624

Oh I'm sure it's another guy. More ball cutters in this world then you might think.

Paraphilia poll still going. There is currently a revised edition on TMI.

all of these stories were from the local ED, so yeah, more than one ball cutter out there

Police revealed he has a history of mental problems.

Wld never have guessed

btw am now trying to work out the actual mechanics of shoving a shoelace all the way up a urethra. I am also eating lunch. I love this stuff. I want to go to medical school.

OK, maybe not really. I just want to go for all the good parts.

"good" parts

Yeah! This is the good stuff imo.

To be honest I like learning about most medical stuff I just don't think I'd have the discipline to acutally, you know, go to medical school.

It is easier to learn stuff in excruciating detail when it is really really interesting, and most of what you have to learn in medical school is really really interesting. (Not all of it, and that stuff...that can get pretty brutal). And once you get to 3rd year then you are learning based on actual patients, and that is by all accounts 100x more interesting.

wow i want to be an ER doctor!

why am i still reading this thread ;_;

yeah, i'm back to wanting to be an ER doc (which was the plan when i came in)

I think that would be so interesting. DO IT.

I had the most badass prof for anat & phys, old retired guy who taught with his wife & who had been an ER doc in Detroit. Every couple weeks he'd give us some body horror slideshows (w/proper slides, fuck a .ppt) of photos from the Detroit ER. Most memorable was photo of a dude w/a giant hydrocele (meaning his nutsack was a big ole water balloon), nuts almost down to his knees.

He'd grown up in Bolivia, so he had great photos from there too (just of regular things, like llamas to illustrate how oxygen works at different elevations, not crazy people who'd stabbed themselves on PCP). He told us that when he went to medical school there, the instructor was doing a lecture on tonsillectomies, and asked if anyone needed their tonsils out. My prof said he did, so in front of the whole class, he had his tonsils out without anaesthesia. *_*

@_@

He had a hard time saying American-style 'R's, so whenever he had to talk about iron he'd sigh and say, "Irrrr-on, you know, EFF EE."

Bottles up the butt is an old, old story: friend's late dad who served in WWII hospitals in London loved telling us how careful a doc had to be removing them because creating a vacuum back there was not the best idea. Actually I think he just liked attention from grossed-out teenaged girls: 'EW EW EW...no, really? How did that come out? EWWWWWW don't! No!'

omg did not consider the vaccuum

What does that result in? I mean, why is it a problem? (Yes, I R RETARD.)

I'm not a doctor but I think the gist of it is EWWWWW PROLAPSED GUTS or an arse like the Mouth of Cthulhu.

Oh I can sort of imagine it, but I NEED A CLEAR IMAGE. heh

NO! Please do yourself a favor and don't GIS prolapsed rectum. I'm not generally squeamish at all and I think I may vom.

LOL kinda love the idea of gbx getting beyond-the-grave advice from one of the best surgeons ever to walk the halls of his med school.

why would anyone GIS prolapse ~anything???

I was curious!!

To be honest that isn't even the worst medical and/or health related thing I've GISd.

anyone GIS prolapse

Uh oh. I read the description and, no thank you, no GIS for me.

hey med school kids--doing some research on top medical innovations of the last ten years and what kinds of innovations we can look fwd to for the next 10.any ideas for clinics/institutes/hospitals should i contact for comment on this? i have some obvious names (mayo clinic, etc), anyone not on the radar who might be good?

search "atul gawande"

he's got loads of articles on improving the practice of medicine (think there's a new one in the new yorker right now?)

u love him!

also speaking of medical school:

done:
- psych
- pharm
- path

pending:
- neuropathophysiology (GOD HELP ME)
- ENT (??????????)

i do love him!

i dont know that it would be easy to get in touch w/ gawande for an interview in the next couple days

do u want to interview my dad y/n

he has lots of opinions 4 u

i guess u were probably hoping for helpful responses

i forgot yr dad was a doctor!

i sort of assumed he was billy buffalo

i wish

what a thing for a child to do, to wish that her own father was just a man in an animal suit

Hey Max, would your research extend to the focus on medical errors and evidence-based practice and all that? I think To Err is Human from the IOM came out in like 1999 or 2000, and that seems like it was a big deal. There are a couple of books from a few years ago that springboard off that IOM report that are basically all about how tens of thousands were/are dying because nobody was washing their hands and such (I forget the titles offhand, but one is by a guy named Don Berwick and the other is by Robert Wachter and a dude whose name I cant spell). I think that ties in with Intermountain from that piece in the NYT magazine a couple weeks ago, too.

Also as an orthopedics nerd I have to mention the ridiculous advances in trauma surgery and prosthetics that have been going on since the wars started, and the countereffect of psychiatric disorders in people who would have just died in Vietnam or WWII.

the prosthetics thing is definitely on my list--the evidence-based stuff tends a little bit too much towards "policy" for what were looking for? i think? but i may try including it

C-L,

Where does an ortho nerd go for nerdly indulgences? Aside from a stint in the ER, almost all my clinical shadowing before school was orthopedics, and I'm crazy about it. Not in a nerdy way, since I don't know squat, but in an aspirationally nerdy way. Like, my interest in orthopedics almost makes me guilty, but there it is: I secretly just want to use power tools.

Btw, have you been to a Shrin3r's hospital? They might actually be that despicable application essay reason I decided that medicine was a good idea.

also lol at punctuation and putting on airs to win the esteem of a colleague