@7331poas Don't try to use sarcasm with me, bro. Try performing at optimal levels before you try to roll with and punch the big boys in the sandbox.
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As well, can you explain to me how your "light-hearted" comment was anything other than trolling and an ad hominem attack on me? I have a serious health condition and was hoping to get advice from actual admissions committees, not premeds who have never sat on an admission committee and don't know what they're talking about. I happen to work in a pharmacology lab myself, dealing with the compound. The question was not how does the compound smell in isolation, it is how does it smell when its derivative is secreted in gas form by my body when I am a very, very strong applicant who has worked tirelessly for years to make myself as strong as possible on paper.
In fact, your comment is concerning not only because it violates the terms of service of SDN, but also because it indicates that you're an unempathetic person. Try getting stats like mine and going through the hurdles, stares, and snide comments I've had to overcome before you say stuff like that "in jest." And, actually, you'll have to, seeing as Step 2 incorporates modules on empathy. Hopefully people like you get weeded out, because the reason so many TMAU patients commit suicide is because of terrible doctors who fail to empathize with their patients. If, by some miracle, I can get my odor under control and get through interviews and rotations, you better believe I won't make my patients feel like garbage about any condition they have.
A huge part of being a physician is being empathetic and having excellent bedside manner--and studies have shown that empathy is evident even in teenage years. There are already enough sociopaths in the world, and it disturbs me that there continue to be heartless, cruel sociopaths in medicine who hide their wolf nature behind smiles and carefully constructed, abusive language and only reveal it when, say, they rape patients or violate ethical standards because they can or "it was just a joke."