What my surgery rotation finally drove me to

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So I decided the only way I can survive my general surgery rotation was to anonymously gripe about it on a blog. Anyone else driven to this?
 
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Just watched that video everyone keeps commenting on... "Wow, I'm having a great time here. Thank you!" :laugh:
 
not only is that blog funny but that video was seriously one the funniest things ive seen in a while haha...kudos dude. I guess i cant wait for m3? :laugh:
 
to OP,
seriously, i think producers of scrubs should pay you big $$$$, and make it into a show. It'd be 100X better than those lame medical shows on TV now.
 
haha... but i think your attendings are easy on the pimping. The men 2a q for example... hard to get wrong if you passed step 1.
 
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Dude, large bowel obstruction is always the top differential for sickness, followed by menopause and lupus. That student should have known better.
 
psychforme said:
haha... but i think your attendings are easy on the pimping. The men 2a q for example... hard to get wrong if you passed step 1.
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1. You will make a good attending someday
2. For some reason things that seem easy on step 1 can become much more difficult when you lack multiple choice, you are knee deep in bowels, and there are 8 other people in the room staring at you waiting for your response. I dunno. Maybe I'm weird that way.
 
😆 I love your humor. I'm curious, where do you go to school? If you aren't comfortable answering, how about the city?
 
LMAO!!!!

Why didn't I click on this thread/blog earlier!?? I'm just reading that "running up the stairs" blog and I'm LoL-ing!

I loved this part: "Have you ever been the only winded person in a group of people after moderate or mild exercise? You know how hard it is to pretend you aren't winded?"

Thanks for this, OP!

5-star thread.

EDIT: Oh man, I don't know if I lol'd at this one or if my soul wept for you, OP:

"Today I found out I was stupid. Today the "Star Wars" attending led me into the ICU for a pimping onslaught.

Dr. Attending: What class of drug is imipenem?
Medical Student: A macrolide, no, wait, that's not right
Dr. Attending: That was stupid. Well, what's the mechanism?
Medical Student: (blank stare)
Dr. Attending: Are you special or something?

Good times."

:laugh: or =/


EDIT #2: LMFAO!!!!!! that video was BRILLIANT! simply B-R-I-L-L-I-A-N-T-!
 
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I lol'd as well. On my surg rotation, which I love, but have had many a moment that you captured so well on your blog. I had a marathon running resident for CT surgery, oh how I miss the feeling that my legs were going to give out constantly lol.

And to the person who commented on the ease of certain pimp questions. . . there's nothing like a 100+ hour week or a 30+ hour day to make all of step 1 fade from the type of conscious recall that can dig up factoids in <20 seconds on demand. I had a dude pimping me at noon post-trauma-call and I swear my IQ was down a solid 50 points lol. Today for example I completely lost the word "insulinoma" . . . I was babbling about beta islet cells and hypoglycemia and distal pancreatotomies and couldn't for the life of me come up with friggin "insulinoma" as the name of the tumor I was describing.
 
HAHAHAH, that video was awesome.

During my surg rotation I did a week in anesthesia, my attending said the same exact thing to me the first day. (difference btw. dog crap and med students)

And I of course said the same thing back, a small uncomfortable laugh, coupled with, "thank you, tell me more."
 
Surgery has definitely been the most time consuming rotation so far. Sunday-Thursday this week I put in about 90 hours, and since I had medicine before, I am getting only my second weekend off in over 2 months this weekend. That said, this is the most fun I have had in medical school. If it wasn't for this rotation, I'd be considering taking my M.D. and seeing what else was available other than residency as I have hated everything up to this point.
 
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psychforme said:
haha... but i think your attendings are easy on the pimping. The men 2a q for example... hard to get wrong if you passed step 1.
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Hard to tell if you're being sarcastic or not... but if not...
May be hard to get wrong if you had a >240 on step 1, very easy to get wrong if you study for the big picture and find that type of thing a BS detail that will never have any relevance to your practice of medicine. Especially when it has been 6 mo since you studied any of that bs in the first place.

juiceman311 said:
I did well on Step 1, I may know one or two of the MEN 2A components, but without any sort of confidence.
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I think there is something with p's, like parathyroid... parotid... something? :shrug: And this is the extent of my knowledge after I re-studied men-2 for surgery oral exams a month ago. 🙂

I always felt that the s*it they gave on surgery was always a joke. At least it always seemed like they were kidding. My medicine resident has called me a ****** at least 3 times in our month together, but also says he thinks we're some of the best students he's had. Some people just think it's funny to say negative things.
 
Awesome Blog!!! - - - Brings back fond memories. . . :poke:

I hope you don't have many more experiences like this in your other rotations, but if you do, you might as well share 'em. Hilarious!:laugh:

The crappy thing about MEN 2 is that it keeps popping up on exams from Step 1 to your written and oral board exams. I'm still trying to remember
 
Jwax said:
I always felt that the s*it they gave on surgery was always a joke. At least it always seemed like they were kidding. My medicine resident has called me a ****** at least 3 times in our month together, but also says he thinks we're some of the best students he's had. Some people just think it's funny to say negative things.
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This is what I hope, because if it's not meant to be funny but it's a witty joke, Im still going to laugh. Which could lead to some awkward situations.
 
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