fuckin awes brah!!!!
― gff, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
good job bro
― n/a, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 15:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Fantastic news!!!
― Jaq, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 15:48 (sixteen years ago) link
WOO HOOOOOO!!! :-D
― KitCat, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm gonna sue you so bad one day...
:D
― Jenny, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 15:53 (sixteen years ago) link
don't forget about me when you can legally prescribe drugs.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 16:36 (sixteen years ago) link
I sat the UKCAT yesterday and did reasonably well so I'm over the first hurdle - just need to get top grades in 5 Highers while working full time, write a stellar personal statement on the ucas form, demonstrate top notch work experience and interview well then I'll be in with a ghost of a chance of making Med School.
― leigh, Friday, 11 July 2008 07:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i just looked through my copy of netter's. *_*
t-minus one day, ppl.
― gbx, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link
itt gbx liveblogs med school
― gbx, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link
omg i am in a lecture
― gbx, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:04 (sixteen years ago) link
waht are you learning today?
― quincie, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
ingratiate yourself to the professor by making an icebreaking dick joke.
― BLACK BEYONCE, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Can't wait to hear about how it's going.
― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:16 (sixteen years ago) link
if evan can break ice with his dick he's wasting his time in med school.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link
it's a lecture about stress management
first day of school, here
― gbx, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
good luck dude!
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
lol, we had assigned "stress management" readings in nursing school, too.
What would have helped more: letting us sleep at some point over clinical weekends.
― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:20 (sixteen years ago) link
what are they suggesting that you perscribe to yourself to ease the stress level?
― BLACK BEYONCE, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:21 (sixteen years ago) link
decent lol: caloric restriction retards the aging process = share food with others = feeding your academic rivals in order to eliminate them
― gbx, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
another h4st1ngs dude is here, too!
o_O xpost
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait, but being hungry is stressful!
Still, that's going to be my new reason for bringing treats to class. I'm trying to destroy everyone else's GPA.
― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
xp - In your class or the one ahead of you? If it's the one ahead of you, and the dude is kind of old, that's my ex.
― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
dude, stay relatively sane <3
― rrrobyn, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:24 (sixteen years ago) link
("Kind of old" = 38 or 39. Uh, don't tell him I said that, okay?)
dude is a year younger than me.
tomorrow, we meet our dead best friends :D
― gbx, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:27 (sixteen years ago) link
(not to be flip, or anything)
― gbx, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:28 (sixteen years ago) link
It will be fine. Also, I think if you're not a bit flip about it at some point, it is less fine. (From my limited experience with cadavers, faces and hands are the worst. But I have never had to dissect a head or a penis... I could see where that could be more alarming.)
― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh i've worked with cadavers before, i'm not worried. curious to see who gets shook, tho
― gbx, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link
That's the kind of bonding you can't just find anywhere! ;)
― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
gbx, how much orientation stuff did your school do? I am in the middle of a week of basically introductions and icebreaking and drinking time before we get started next week.
― C-L, Wednesday, 6 August 2008 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Technically, three days, all this week:
Wed -- omg yr in med school, here's yr ID, don't stress, dinner + beerz + start short list of hotties Thurs -- omg yr in anatomy, do's and don'ts in lab, get acquainted with your 'patient' Fri -- white coat ceremony
Mon -- let's do it to it
― gbx, Thursday, 7 August 2008 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
also we had a small group session where we collaboratively drafted up some ideas for our class oath, which were then passed via representative to a larger summit. it will be read tomorrow. i have already determined that some of my classmates are awesome, and that some are idiots.
w/o going into specifics, at least one dude had the temerity to suggest that the care provided to a terminal patient we MET YESTERDAY was a waste of money and that all that money (which obv comes from the big healthcare money bucket and isn't earmarked no way) could, like, be used for medicine for the poor and shit.
him: "seriously, what's all that money REALLY doing?" me: "...well, XXX is alive." him: "so what?" me: " >:( "
― gbx, Thursday, 7 August 2008 18:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Well, most lifetime health care spending happens within the last few months of life, when you're circling the drain. There's a big push in the medical industry to reallocate healthcare dollars to younger, stronger, less-sick people, like they do in a lot of countries with socialized medicine. An example would be giving a limited-resource, like a liver transplant, to a 20-year-old instead of a 70-year-old.
― kate78, Thursday, 7 August 2008 18:59 (sixteen years ago) link
"terminal" wasn't accurate, sorry. this patient (who was presented to the entire class as her mother gave a forceful argument for patient advocacy...ie - confidentiality isn't an issue here) is a child with an illness that will likely end with her dying early. dude almost came right out and said mom should just get over it and let her kid die.
― gbx, Thursday, 7 August 2008 19:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Wow, that guy sounds like a charmer. His bedside manner is going to be fabulous.
― Sara R-C, Thursday, 7 August 2008 20:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Doogie Howser: gay [Started by Ned Raggett (Ned), last updated 2 days ago] 13 new answers medical school [Started by gbx, last updated 2 days ago] 29 new answers
― gbx, Saturday, 9 August 2008 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
first dissection today. if you would like me to find your thoracoacromial artery, i will do it for a small fee.
― gbx, Monday, 11 August 2008 20:33 (sixteen years ago) link
passed first anatomy exam yesterday :D had group discussion today about race. warning: some of your future doctors are inarticulate d-bags
― gbx, Thursday, 28 August 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^ feeling better about my chances for getting in
― Lamp, Thursday, 28 August 2008 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
warning: some of your future doctors are inarticulate d-bags SHOCKAH.
― kate78, Thursday, 28 August 2008 19:41 (sixteen years ago) link
some of your future doctors are inarticulate d-bags
"future"
― Aimless, Thursday, 28 August 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
hey lamp are you applying right now?
― gbx, Thursday, 28 August 2008 23:15 (sixteen years ago) link
gbx you are the real hero
― n/a, Thursday, 28 August 2008 23:16 (sixteen years ago) link
hey dude, thanks
― gbx, Thursday, 28 August 2008 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going to have to start preparing my ucas application asap.
― leigh, Friday, 29 August 2008 08:59 (sixteen years ago) link
The law school and grad school threads got revived, so why not...
This is HARD, but awesome. So far medical school >>>> grad school. (I do not know how law school is. I would still guess >>>, though.) I have had nearly two months of being repeatedly reminded that I know basically nothing about medicine or medical science or how to be a doctor. But nobody else does yet, either!
― C-L, Saturday, 27 September 2008 04:43 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm not sure about the comparative intellectual challenge of law and medical schools - it might depend on the person - but it seems like the latter is generally more of an endurance sport
― gabbneb, Saturday, 27 September 2008 04:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I get the impression there's more expectation that you're actually going to REMEMBER all the shit you learn in med school - or at least that you should
― Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Saturday, 27 September 2008 04:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Early on (at least in our curriculum), there is a lot of like, biochemistry stuff, which we need to know for Step I of the Boards next year, but almost certainly won't need to know as a doctor unless you go into research on that specific thing. The basic pathways have some value, but even the instructors are mostly telling us that knowing the various structural differences of isoprene-derived molecules is not a particularly pressing clinical skill.
― C-L, Saturday, 27 September 2008 17:34 (sixteen years ago) link