anyone else making this mistake
― gbx, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 20:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
i can see this thread is going to be a huge hit
― gbx, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
nice knowing you
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
gbx, there is no doubt in my mind that you will get in!
I'm sorry that I gave up being a pre-med a long time ago, but I do remember how intense even the anticipation of making an application is... Where are you in the process? (Didn't you say that you have an interview in January?)
― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
when u tryna start? where?
― 69, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
next fall
first interview on january 10th (minnesota) haven't heard from anywhere else yet (yeeks!)
― gbx, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
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, 26 December 2007 21:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
who is your interview @ mn with? i had m1les, who values research experience very very highly. woe unto you if you're without.
good luck!
― E. Bast, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
i am without :-/
― gbx, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
wait i believe i recall you posting an mcat of 36 or something (i've read here for many years now) and you seem like a smart and interesting dude on here too, just have a good answer to "why minnesota in particular?"
― E. Bast, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 21:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
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answering that is easy! i am from here!
― gbx, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 22:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
also genuinely interested in fl3x md and their school of public health/int'l health opportunities
― gbx, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 22:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
That's maybe not actually a good answer. The first one.
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 22:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
:/
― gbx, Wednesday, 26 December 2007 22:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm also trying to do this right now.
The thing that is terrifying me is that I had every Secondary application done by like, mid-September, and I still haven't heard anything from ten of the twenty schools I applied to. I heard from four schools pretty quickly after sending my secondaries in, and so I thought it was all going to keep on moving as fast as the secondary process. And then my inbox just stopped dead after the first week of October. I still check it like three times a day though.
― C-L, Thursday, 27 December 2007 19:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Or rather it's a good answer but not one the interview is looking for, i think?
― Casuistry, Thursday, 27 December 2007 19:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Whenever I have gotten the "Why do you want to come here out of everywhere else in the country?" question, it's sounded more like they were trying to make sure they didn't offer a seat to someone who was just going to turn and run as soon as a better offer came along.
I live in California, but my first round of interviews were all on the East Coast, and I guess past experience with Californians suggests that we act interested in the East Coast until the UCs come along and offer $20000 less in tuition. The only time the interviewer didn't actually say something like, "Why in the name of God would you want to leave California" is when I had an interview during the October brushfires.
If you show them that you are a dude who really wants to go to medical school in Minnesota more than anywhere else, hopefully they'll bite. And if they like you, but are afraid you might ditch them for somewhere else, they'll waitlist you and give you the chance to write an impassioned letter about how everyone else is playing for second place in your heart. Or something.
― C-L, Thursday, 27 December 2007 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
:D :D :D
― gbx, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
i go to minnesota
― gbx, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
congrats!
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
thanks, pal!
i am going to fix healthcare
― gbx, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
is the plan
Yowza! Rah!
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Though I guess this means you're not moving to Portland.
now have a beer or two to celebrate--that is an order
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
HAHAHAHAHA! A doctor fixing healthcare!
― kate78, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah :-/
Though I'm still thinking I might try and do a mid-school MPH out there. We'll see.
xp - i bought a bottle of "bubbly" and split it with my roommates already. Now I am taking beers to the bike workshop and will celebrate by fixing a bottom bracket that sounds like the Xhosa
― gbx, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
kate78: quiet, you.
― gbx, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
hey, way to go
― jergïns, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
yaaaaaaay congratulations!
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
you can be the white atul gawande
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
I guess this means "no" to vet skoo?
― Laurel, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
quiet, you, too, Laurel. i was just into animals that day.
― gbx, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
"into" "animals"
i'd be cool with being jonathan kaplan
― gbx, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
SO MANY RESPONSES, I CANNOT CHOOSE.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Go sleep with some cute Israeli nurses.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
how come nobody ever tells me to do that
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
actually i'm just gonna be a dermatologist with a time-share in florida
― gbx, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
I hear the skiing is choice.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
cio and sky me
― gbx, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
nobody got my joke about the Xhosa :-(
― gbx, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Sorry, I don't know about any bike parts made after 1974.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
i should have said !Kung instead, huh
― gbx, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
IT WAS A JOKE ABOUT PEOPLE THAT SPEAK A LANGUAGE WITH CLICKS, LIKE MY BOTTOM BRACKET
― gbx, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ahahahah I just assumed it was a manufacturer I didn't know. Clearly this is why a Laurel does not go to medical skoo.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
!Kung would have worked. I figured you were talking about some noise album or psych band or some shit
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 01:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
congrats
― gabbneb, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 02:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
― Sara R-C, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 04:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
way to go duderoo
― max, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 04:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
the pt in the case above claimed to have ~rolled over in his sleep~ onto the 40oz
― how rad bandit (gbx), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 18:53 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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)."
― C-L, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 18:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 18:55 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
- guy cut his own balls off- lady pulled her own eyeball out cuz of alcoholic hallucinosis
― how rad bandit (gbx), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 18:57 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I am guessing this one was initially reported as a Bathtub Accident:
― C-L, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 18:57 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
~~~~shudder~~~~
― TGAAPQ (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 18:57 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Maybe ball dude was the fetish guy I told you about who cut off his dick.
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 18:58 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
RUBBER DUCK.
...you're the one
― how rad bandit (gbx), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 18:58 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
we are now onto the penis injury section...
― how rad bandit (gbx), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:02 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
lol at u guy who threaded a shoelace up yr penis such that it tied itself into a knot in YOUR BLADDER
― how rad bandit (gbx), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:04 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
YES
― C-L, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:04 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
pic of CHEWED THROUGH restraints
― how rad bandit (gbx), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:05 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
OMG
.
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??????????????
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:06 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
― TGAAPQ (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:06 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
didn't want to be restrained anymore, duh
― how rad bandit (gbx), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:06 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO WHY THE SHOELACE UP THE PENIS
― TGAAPQ (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:07 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
how else are you going to get a shoelace in yr bladder?
― how rad bandit (gbx), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:09 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
― TGAAPQ (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:09 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
pic of beaded necklace that did same was worse imo
― how rad bandit (gbx), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:10 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― C-L, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:10 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
wait has more than one person done this? Jesus.
― TGAAPQ (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:10 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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
― ailsa, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:12 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:13 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
all of these stories were from the local ED, so yeah, more than one ball cutter out there
― how rad bandit (gbx), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:15 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Police revealed he has a history of mental problems.
Wld never have guessed
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:16 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:19 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
"good" parts
― TGAAPQ (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:21 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Yeah! This is the good stuff imo.
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:23 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:24 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― C-L, Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:30 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
wow i want to be an ER doctor!
― Peepoop Patel (harbl), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 19:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
why am i still reading this thread ;_;
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 20:49 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
yeah, i'm back to wanting to be an ER doc (which was the plan when i came in)
― how rad bandit (gbx), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:08 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I think that would be so interesting. DO IT.
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Tuesday, 3 November 2009 21:17 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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. *_*
― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 05:34 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
@_@
― how rad bandit (gbx), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 05:37 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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."
― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 05:44 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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!'
― fake plastic butts (suzy), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 07:45 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
omg did not consider the vaccuum
― how rad bandit (gbx), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 14:51 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
What does that result in? I mean, why is it a problem? (Yes, I R RETARD.)
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 14:52 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I'm not a doctor but I think the gist of it is EWWWWW PROLAPSED GUTS or an arse like the Mouth of Cthulhu.
― fake plastic butts (suzy), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 15:02 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Oh I can sort of imagine it, but I NEED A CLEAR IMAGE. heh
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 15:02 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 15:03 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
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.
― fake plastic butts (suzy), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 15:08 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
why would anyone GIS prolapse ~anything???
― how rad bandit (gbx), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 15:15 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I was curious!!
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 15:18 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
To be honest that isn't even the worst medical and/or health related thing I've GISd.
― bear say hi to me (ENBB), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 15:21 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
anyone GIS prolapse
Uh oh. I read the description and, no thank you, no GIS for me.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 4 November 2009 16:44 (2 weeks ago) Permalink