February 2012
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Lots of coffee though
The toughest part of the day during a surgical symposium is that because the speakers are typically used to not eating lunch or taking breaks, none of the attendees get lunch on time either.
So hungry.
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The future is now
Listening to a “the future of medicine” talk, specifically technology and medicine. Regarding surgical robots, the speaker looks out to all of us preclerks and says, “you know, if they didn’t cost so much I’d much rather prefer the robotic console instead. You students get tired, cranky, and the robot never talks back.”
Yikes.
Then he goes to talk about...
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Some med school version of Murphy's Law
Spend 12 hrs memorizing drug mechanisms of antiarrhythmics, no questions on exam. Disregard 1 lecture on congenital heart defects, there go like 6 marks I’ll never see again.
….Sigh
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Talk about good timing
I love how fuckyeahmedicalstuff wrote a few articles on heart disease the night before my exam.
I love how I can also understand it…looks like this ‘studying’ thing is paying off :P
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Personal boundaries
Practising for clinical skill methodology exams are a great way to find an excuse to just feel your fellow classmates up.
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Timmy ho!
As any Canadian would know, Tim Hortons’ recently changed their cup sizes.
Tim Hortons’ you ask? Franchised coffee/baked goods shop that’s as Canadian as maple syrup and hockey…but I digress.
Now in light of this change, I decided to make a quick infographic on how to decipher the sizes if you’re a Canadian school student.
Oh man, Roll up the Rim is soon...
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No dessert.
I just caught myself snacking on some chips while studying the risk factors of heart disease…..fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu
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I thought this behavior would be gone by med...
This is so true. Again, found from Reddit.
Especially in small groups…
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It was done for science...
Drank too much coffee last night studying cardiology. Ended up giving myself some palpitations. At least I know what an escape beat feels like.
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Like the Italian Job
Learning about the Sicilian Gambit antiarrhythmic drug classification system.
Doesn’t it sound like the name of a gangster/mafia based movie?
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Makes for awkward dinner talk
So because it’s Valentine’s day, we have a “for fun” talk about love in medical school. Two of the panelists are a married physician couple. She works in the ICU, while he’s an ER doc….
For those needing more explanation…guess where the Intensive Care Unit get a lot of their patients from…
Really redefines the question, “what did you do...
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To be fair, he does beat me at the game
My buddy who’s in the same small group as me sometimes mixes up his words.
To hilarious responses.
Case in point, for one whole session he couldn’t pronounce myocardial infarction. He called it MarioKartal Infarction.
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Adhering to tradition
In cardiac small group today the preceptor was talking about branching patients diagnostically into warm, cold, wet, dry (2x2) classifications. He then dropped any further follow on this subject. All I could think about in this reference was the greek humors in ancient greek medicine. Still not sure what he’s going on here.
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Lights, camera, and action
Spent 3 hrs today filming 3 minutes worth of admissions video footage. We have an exam next week.
Priorities…am I right?
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All it takes...
…is one good weekend’s worth of partying and concert going to erase the prior 3 weeks of studying.
Worth it?
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A fair summary of it right?
Posted on our med class fb group. Thought I share, probably already on reddit.
Whelp that distracted me from Epidemiology for a good 5 minutes.
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Just in time for valentine's day
In case you REALLY want to stab someone in the heart.
http://www.neatoshop.com/product/Anatomical-Heart-Pencil-Holder
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Spot on
Seminar on Depression today.
Here’s the list of its mental features we’re told to know:
Depression can present with
-poor memory
-poor concentration
-indecisiveness
-poor motivation (procrastination)
Sounds like a case of being a medical student to me.
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So hot
Seriously, +5 to attractiveness for girls who sport and pull these off: http://www.geekologie.com/2012/02/for-the-ladies-anatomically-correct-musc.php
Haha.
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At least he taught me how to save 15% on car...
Today we had a talk about accounting and financial management for physicians.
90min later, all I could think about was that an appropriate title for the presentation could be “Loops and the holes that come with them”.
Also, apparently if you want to incorporate yourself, you can’t name your professional corporation any old name. That kind of ruins the fun out of it.
I was...
amazon-glamour asked: What compelled you to be a doctor? Any external forces influence your decision, do you feel like there's honour to uphold (LOL too much tv watching :P).
Anonymous asked: Can I be your friend non (pre-med) looking for some funnn?
Anonymous asked: Do you know where i could find the auscultation playlist that your friend did ? Because i find the pericardial murmur hard to point out...
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He got the Ken doll treatment
Yesterday we were doing some lab work using the patient simulator Harvey (see here: http://www.laerdal.com/ca/doc/172/Harvey-The-Cardiopulmonary-Patient-Simulator) to hear heart sounds and practise understanding murmur sounds. Harvey’s pretty cool and quite good for this. He’s supposed to be able to model real life patients almost exactly.
In fact one of the girls thought Harvey was...
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Rock bottom
You know you’re too used to medical school life when what you look forward to post-exam laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping, and sleep.
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I'd rather not know
First time I went to a med school Superbowl party. You’d think that as health practitioners, especially after all the ‘learning’ we’ve been doing lately on coronary artery disease we’d have some healthier options for food.
Nope.
And I totally ate it all too…
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Addressing the elephant in room
Talk from a urologist today in our seminar session. First words he says, “urology: it’s not all just penises”.
*commence giggles*
Unfortunately he didn’t really address what it WAS about, besides penises, and just talked about the long days, the hardest parts of his jobs, and what brings a smile to his face.
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Just don't take E while listening to it
One of my classmates made a ‘play list’ of all the heart sounds and a bunch of murmurs. Another classmate then remixed it to some electronic. We call it “Lub Dub step”.
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Probably good for my overall health though
So fun fact for the day, apparently using the bone saw on cadavers makes it smell like doritos. Goodbye forever, doritos.
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January 2012
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But seriously, go get regular check ups.
Did you hear the one about the hypochondriac camel?
It kept going to see a physician to do something about its lumps.
*throws a drum set off a cliff*
I really like it when profs use jokes to start classes.
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Expert testimonial
Heart surgeon talking about what it’s like specializing in minimally invasive surgical techniques. Mentions how the new technology is reliant on scope cameras and remote controllers. His quote, “Those of you who are gamers, we have the perfect future for you.”
HA! I TOLD YOU PLAYING VIDEO GAMES WAS NOT A WASTE OF TIME! DAD!
Ahem, excuse me.
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Pericardial tamponade
Definition: pericardal tamponade is when the heart becomes compressed due to fluid trapped between the myocardium and the pericardial sac. Simple
However, I always read it like tapernade…like olive tapernade, and I always end up so confused.
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This is true with a few of my classmates too...
Now that we’re looking at some hearts and seeing pictures of arterial/coronary disease, the number of times I go to the gym has increased.
Need more cardio.
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I knew it would come back to haunt me
Our session today focused on listening to heart sounds and murmurs. Easy to say it’s not my strongest session. Asking someone who seemed to get it, she said, “well it isn’t bad because it’s like playing back melodies and rhythms when learning piano”.
damnit (despite my asian-ness I sucked at piano, there was a reason why I quit).
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Definitely better than the old ones
A suggested new model for the CanMeds roles.
http://medsresearch.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/the-new-canmeds-roles-for-med-students/
Awesome
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How fitting
Just checked my schedule. Upcoming small group case on heart failure on Valentine’s day. I’m sure the admin had fun scheduling this.
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Probably just a common typo
Walking through the hospital, passed the office of a Urlologist, interestingly enough. Yup a URLologist.
Obviously he’s the doctor that fixes in the Internets when they go down.
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Man that was a bad pun. I need to get away from school for a while.
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carolinagonzales asked: Did you ever take some of your pre-requisites over the summer at your college or do you know of someone else who did that? I have to take my second semester of physics this spring but I might take it over the summer (since the MCAT doesn't cover the second semester). I'll be ok with doing another long semester of physics but I didn't do so well the first semester. I feel like...
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I want to work here.
I think the work place environment is pleasing and there’s some great cases you’d see.
http://www.awesomehospital.com/
True story
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breakaheartrolloutoftown asked: yeah but in preparation for the MCAT did that help?
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Word.
Today my friend was giving a talk to pre medical students about the whole applying to medical school process. He gets to a point where he mentions the difficulty of clerkships and asks the audience, “Can anyone here even tell me what a clerk does?”
There was silence until one first year student speaks up in the back.
“They’re the hospital bitch.”
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SOPA
You never know how much you take certain things for granted. Consider this current Wikipedia black out against the SOPA and PIPA proposed bills. I’m so glad that I didn’t have a weekly case this week, as it seems my classmates are really up the river now that they can’t access wiki.
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Anonymous asked: Can you enroll into med school with a bachelor's degree in nursing? Would I have to take extra courses to get into med school?
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Don't you hate?
Going to the anatomy lab, working for a bit, and then coming down smelling like formaldehyde and other preservatives for the rest of the day? I could barely eat my lunch. Ugh I still smell it.
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Lesson #1 in Cardio
Quote from our lecturer:
“Medical fact: if you took all the veins from your body and laid them end to end, you would die”.
Hmmm, can’t argue with that.
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Fine motor dexterity
Coming back from the weekend I’ve been just chatting with the classmates on what they’ve been up to.
Responses such as: reviewing last block’s notes. Going to the hospital to research. Reading ahead for next block. Setting up summer time electives.
What did I do? Over 15 hours of honing my scoping skills. That means, over 15 hours playing Gears of War with the housemates.
I...
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Minor differences
When describing lesions on a derm test and you’re really tired because you had 3 hours of sleep the night before, apparently “circumscribed” and “circumcised” get easily mixed up.
hurray for double checking.
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My class is very punny
Studying for a derm test tomorrow. These are the comments on our class forum.
What’s the most apologetic type of rash? Sorry-asis!
I see dermatology is Atopic our class knows well.
We’ve got such a blistering wit going here..or maybe we’re just a bit too CORNy
I’m really lichen these puns here guys.
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I think we all really need to comedone with the...
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I'm sure it would have been really 'cool'
Today a local GP came in to talk to us about dermatology, and she mentioned that normally she brings a ‘cold gun’ to demonstrate cryotherapy on warts.
Immediately I thought of Mr. Freeze, I think I’m too immature for derm.
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I swear I'm normal
Sometimes when you’re in med school you forget that things that are normally just a part of life to you aren’t seen the same way by the rest of society. Today, my classmate was studying in a public library, reviewing skin lesions and other skin conditions because we have an exam on Friday. The number of disgusted and terrified looks he received in that hour unprecedented.
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