medical school

I'm gonna sue you so bad one day...

:D

don't forget about me when you can legally prescribe drugs.

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.

i just looked through my copy of netter's. *_*

t-minus one day, ppl.

itt gbx liveblogs med school

omg i am in a lecture

waht are you learning today?

ingratiate yourself to the professor by making an icebreaking dick joke.

Can't wait to hear about how it's going.

if evan can break ice with his dick he's wasting his time in med school.

it's a lecture about stress management

first day of school, here

good luck dude!

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.

what are they suggesting that you perscribe to yourself to ease the stress level?

decent lol: caloric restriction retards the aging process = share food with others = feeding your academic rivals in order to eliminate them

another h4st1ngs dude is here, too!

o_O
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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.

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.

dude, stay relatively sane <3

("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

(not to be flip, or anything)

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.)

Oh i've worked with cadavers before, i'm not worried. curious to see who gets shook, tho

That's the kind of bonding you can't just find anywhere! ;)

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.

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

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: " >:( "

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.

"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.

Wow, that guy sounds like a charmer. His bedside manner is going to be fabulous.

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first dissection today. if you would like me to find your thoracoacromial artery, i will do it for a small fee.

passed first anatomy exam yesterday :D
had group discussion today about race. warning: some of your future doctors are inarticulate d-bags

^^^ feeling better about my chances for getting in

warning: some of your future doctors are inarticulate d-bags
SHOCKAH.

some of your future doctors are inarticulate d-bags

"future"

hey lamp are you applying right now?

gbx you are the real hero

hey dude, thanks

I'm going to have to start preparing my ucas application asap.

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!

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

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

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.

Knowing the biochemistry will help you understand some of the later, more relevant stuff. Understanding aids retention. So, presumably, you will have a better chance of recalling the more relevant stuff when you need it.

holy shit i'm tired

C-L: where are you going to school, again?

good luck dudes, are you doing medicine in the us?

i am, y