And so now we're mutants...

[caffeinegirl]

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While perusing the General Residency thread "path or psych which has more prestige" I noticed that many posters regard us as mutants...

Oh if only that were true!! What I wouldn't give to have adamantium claws and the power to control the weather! But on a pathology related note...wouldn't it be great to have the power to intuitively know which slide to look at...to be able to immediately know in which field that mitotic spindle lies? Or how about the power to read through material and immediately remember everything...oh wait...those mutants already exist....


So what mutant power would you like to have?

 

[Smitty]

How about the power to make time stand still by tweaking my left nipple, while tweaking my right nipple will turn tap water into PBR beer?

"If there's one thing Dr. Atkins taught us, it's that we're all gonna die!"
Ruby Ann Boxcar-"Ruby Ann's Down Home Trailer Park Cookbook"

 

[hanksquirrel]

Don't worry - I showed them...

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=142561

 

[BigBopper]

Path is the bomb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't be jealous!!!!!!!
Why y'all jealous?!?!?!
Yeah for path!!!

Yup that put them in their place.

 

[deschutes]

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?p=1742918
08-11-2004 05:09 AM Thread: so who's applying to path this year?
Havarti666 Count me in!


http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=142561
Yesterday 11:31 AM
Thread: Path vs. psych-prestige (or the lack) issues
Havarti666 If you want to see what a bunch of freaks the aspiring pathologists are, you should just head over to their forum. Absolute mutants, every last one of them.


Astonishing lack of consistency?

Oh well Whatever floats the cheesedevil's boat.

 

[yaah]

Here's my response:

I love this whole "robot pathologist" angle. Get rid of all these darned emotions and frustrations. Of course, eventually stupid robots always want to acquire feelings, like Data did, and it ends up nearly killing the entire crew.

I have wondered my whole life about what mutant power I would like to acquire. I agree with the ability to make time stand still, although I'm not sure mine would be involving a purple nerfle. I would also like the ability to predict the future, then I could make nearly infinite quantities of money and then I could do whatever the hell I wanted anyway, mutant powers or not. So I would take that.

Beware though. If science fiction has taught us anything, it is that mutant powers always come with side effects and drawbacks. By exercising your mutant powers, you may invariably doom your happiness, the happiness of others, or the very future of the world! Perhaps by making time stand still you create terrible rips in space time and the natural laws of physics begin to break down, etc. Inevitably this would probably result in the dead rising from the grave and taking their revenge. Bet their first targets would be those who autopsied them...beware!

 

[b&ierstiefel]

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?p=1742918
08-11-2004 05:09 AM Thread: so who's applying to path this year?
Havarti666 Count me in!


http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=142561
Yesterday 11:31 AM
Thread: Path vs. psych-prestige (or the lack) issues
Havarti666 If you want to see what a bunch of freaks the aspiring pathologists are, you should just head over to their forum. Absolute mutants, every last one of them.


Astonishing lack of consistency?

Oh well Whatever floats the cheesedevil's boat.

Yes deschutes, I noted this when going through that other thread. The inconsistency made me chuckle. It's kinda like when kids talk about somebody behind their back and get caught. You know what though, when you have anonymous forums like these (well for somebody, his anonymity is lost but he doesn't say offensive stuff and people like him so who cares), you can pretty much say whatever you want.

This whole thread has given me a great idea. I'm gonna spend the next 15 minutes to see what other crap has been said about pathologists in other forums. If I see anything, I'll let you all know 🙂

 

[yaah]

I think "freaks" and "mutants" may have been terms of endearment in that post...Not necessarily a bad thing, especially in today's society when you can come to blows with someone over calling them nice, and calling someone an insulting name can be a compliment. Strange.

 

[stormjen]

I would like the ability to move objects with my mind (no need to physically "push glass" anymore), and I would like the ability to fly.

I think, with time and perseverance, I will acquire these abilities.

 

[kchan99]

I started the thread on the "General Residency" forum. I wasn't expecting some of the comments about pathology. And I thought I would get more comments about psychiatry as well.

 

[JulianDelphiki]

But on a pathology related note...wouldn't it be great to have the power to intuitively know which slide to look at...to be able to immediately know in which field that mitotic spindle lies? Or how about the power to read through material and immediately remember everything...oh wait...those mutants already exist....

I think becoming a pathology attending imbues one with some of these mutant skills you are speaking of. My attendings have freak pathology skills such as finding the one Auer rod on a slide.

Attending: So, did you see any Auer rods?
Me: Nope, not a one.
Attending: Oh.....then WHAT'S THIS!!!
Me : (hopefully) Artifact?......I guess I didn't see that one, but I swear I looked at the whole slide.

I can't wait until I am an attending and get the mutant power of always going to the best field instantly.

 

[bente]

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?p=1742918
08-11-2004 05:09 AM Thread: so who's applying to path this year?
Havarti666 Count me in!


http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=142561
Yesterday 11:31 AM
Thread: Path vs. psych-prestige (or the lack) issues
Havarti666 If you want to see what a bunch of freaks the aspiring pathologists are, you should just head over to their forum. Absolute mutants, every last one of them.


Astonishing lack of consistency?

QUOTE]

I thought Havarati was simply being self-deprecating and joking around, but I might be naive. It was such an obvious slam as to appear to be saying: 'Come look at us, the freak show!', essentially mocking those who believe the stereotype.

Mutant powers. I just want my wife to be like Samantha in Bewitched, able to wiggle her nose and conjure up wealth, travel and occasionally put the boss upside down in the tree! It always frustrated me why Darren the husband never allowed her to just cut loose!

 

[Scandal]

Sorry - I usually just lurk, but I have to join in on this one.

My mutant power would be the ability to give someone uncontrollable diarrhea.

 

[kchan99]

Campylobacter? It was probably a buffet restaurant that did it to me.

 

[Gut Shot]

Chibas Christ, I leave SDN for one day and look what happens. For matters of clarification, my reference to the denizens of the pathology forum as being freaks and mutants was sarcasm, people. I get a kick out of how many people post in the path forum telling us (well, Yaah and Andy, mainly) how cool and fun we (they) are. The real freaks and mutants are in the Everyone forum.

I have been interested in pathology since 1989 (whilst some of y'all were still wetting the bed, no doubt) when I first picked up a copy of Spitz and Fisher's "Medicolegal Investigation of Death." I love it so much that I spent 6 years getting a PhD in it, plus 3 years of med school and counting. So if anyone wants to question my loyalty to the field, I invite them to a tequila shooter face-off, with full reverse-drinking rules in effect.

Mutant power: I'd like to be able to eject endless streams of high velocity, burning napalm from my nipples.

 

[Scandal]

Mutant power: I'd like to be able to eject endless streams of high velocity, burning napalm from my nipples.

There goes your sex life.

 

[yaah]

I knew it was only sarcasm!!

For what it's worth though, I wasn't still wetting the bed in 1989.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

So if anyone wants to question my loyalty to the field, I invite them to a tequila shooter face-off, with full reverse-drinking rules in effect.

You would totally kick my ass in that contest 🙂

When I'm out at the bars and all, tequila does not agree with me. It's usually at around 1 am when some jackass shouts, "Tequila Shots!" That's usually when my night ends cuz that stuff does something seriously wicked to my stomach...but I never learn.

My bad for not picking up your sarcasm...it's Friday, I need a drink.

 

[Gut Shot]

tequila does not agree with me.

Me neither, but sometimes it's not about winning a drinking contest. It's about how badly you can hurt your opponent before you lose.

...it's Friday, I need a drink.

Hurrah! A smidge of Ouzo, then?


😱

 

[Gut Shot]

For what it's worth though, I wasn't still wetting the bed in 1989.

Yeah, but I bet you were still drawing infinitely detailed monster heads in your notebooks! It's okay, we all did it.

Actually, now that I think of it, my interest in pathology probably predates 1989. You know how so many premeds have revolting childhood stories about caring for "sick" stuffed animals and putting bandaids on them? Well, I eviscerated most of mine and examined their contents.

Probably good that these boards *are* anonymous.

 

[kchan99]

My mother would've killed me for that! Evisceration happened naturally with my pillow-person, which kinda looked like Humpty-Dumpty. I knew there was nothing in the stuffed animals but stuffing, except for the ones that made noise.

 

[yaah]

Yeah, but I bet you were still drawing infinitely detailed monster heads in your notebooks! It's okay, we all did it.

Actually, now that I think of it, my interest in pathology probably predates 1989. You know how so many premeds have revolting childhood stories about caring for "sick" stuffed animals and putting bandaids on them? Well, I eviscerated most of mine and examined their contents.

I think Jeffrey Dahmer might have done that too. Did you find anything interesting?

1989 was a great year - very historical. I think it was the year that actually got me interested in the world around me - Ayatollah died, Berlin wall fell, communist governments fell left and right. I was all about the news that year. That and the new Indiana Jones movie.

OMG I had Pillow People too! (Pillow People are won-derful...) I had this big square blue one with red legs I think. He ruled.

 

[deschutes]

What language is Chibas? (And don't you dare say "foul" in reply!)

Chibas Christ, I leave SDN for one day and look what happens.

Heh... my apologies for missing the reference! - as I said on another thread, I probably wasn't doing much original thinking at one in the morning.

I think "freaks" and "mutants" may have been terms of endearment in that post...Not necessarily a bad thing, especially in today's society when you can come to blows with someone over calling them nice, and calling someone an insulting name can be a compliment. Strange.

Agreed. I much prefer honesty; it's exhausting to be "nice" to everyone all the time. Crabbiness and generosity of heart are not mutually exclusive.

Mutantly enough, I've never considered having a superpower. 😛
It must be life. Reality is scarier than imagination, to viz. I think I would fear most the power of giving uncontrollable diarrhea. *shudder* The mind works in mysterious ways. What sort of mind comes up with that??

 

[Gut Shot]

I think Jeffrey Dahmer might have done that too. Did you find anything interesting?

Ran the bowel. All neoprene.

1989 was a great year - very historical. I think it was the year that actually got me interested in the world around me - Ayatollah died, Berlin wall fell, communist governments fell left and right. I was all about the news that year. That and the new Indiana Jones movie.

And let us not forget that immortal Jesus Jones song.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Agreed. I much prefer honesty; it's exhausting to be "nice" to everyone all the time.

Ha! That describes third year of med school perfectly for me. You get crap from everyone and you still have to have a big smile on your face and nod to every command.

Then there are those patients who basically need a swift kick in the ...
Attendings can be firm and unyielding to patients, I've seen residents and interns lose their patience, but as a 3rd year med student, that is never an option.

 

[deschutes]

Ha! That describes third year of med school perfectly for me. You get crap from everyone and you still have to have a big smile on your face and nod to every command.

I was actually thinking more of friends when I wrote that... *g*

It's good to have a friend (or friends) you can be rude to, and who can be rude to you back.

"You're colour-blind!"
"Well I'm not the one who wears green and navy stripes."

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I was actually thinking more of friends when I wrote that... *g*

It's good to have a friend (or friends) you can be rude to, and who can be rude to you back.

"You're colour-blind!"
"Well I'm not the one who wears green and navy stripes."

Well, it's kinda like what me and my friends say..."If you're gonna dish it out, you gotta be able to take it too."

 

[deschutes]

Well, it's kinda like what me and my friends say..."If you're gonna dish it out, you gotta be able to take it too."

Oh for sure. All I'm saying is that oftentimes people get so concerned about appearing nice and friendly that they're too busy doing that to ever let you really learn what they are actually like.

This is my last post of the day. Broadband is down and dial-up just does not cut it. Walking would be faster.

 

[yaah]

This is my last post of the day. Broadband is down and dial-up just does not cut it. Walking would be faster.

Guess you weren't kidding! Haven't seen you all day. Must be too wrapped up in watching the Olympics and the absolutely fascinating ( 🙄 😕 ) coverage of beach volleyball. I would rather watch a 5 hour ex-lap for bowel adhesions than beach volleyball. REAL volleyball is cool though, but I guess the bathing suits attract a certain segment of the viewing audience. The womens gymastics is on tonight too, and for a change the girls actually look like they have reached puberty. They said one of them is actually 25. Not sure I believe that.

Am I an evil, unpatriotic american if I root against the Americans in a lot of these events? I was laughing uncontrollably at the basketball loss today. And I think in gymnastics I am going to root for the Russians. I'm tired of american athletes. They always talk about how much they have struggled and fought hard, then there's this russian athlete who trains in an unheated Siberian barn on an unsanded balance beam 20 hours a day, whose parents work as custodians in the bread factory and make 30 cents a week, but they only make it on credit because the factory owner can't afford to pay them. And the American had it tough because she can't go to her prom (her middle school prom though ).

 

[deschutes]

I will be watching the women's gymnastics, unless I don't get this post out before my hour is up and I get kicked off my university connection and have to re-dial.

I actually find sports hard to watch - I'd much rather be out there playing! (Not that I can ever remember the rules.)
Unless it was a Flames game in the NHL finals.... woohoo!!

But artistic gymnastics is fun 🙂 Brings back memories of good times in primary school, and it's not as girlie as the rhythmics with their ribbons and balls.

There is an algorithm of who to root for in sporting events 😀
Hockey is easy - first Calgary, then Alberta, then Western Canada, then Canada.

Malaysia tends to be under-represented in global sporting events like the Olympics, so I would then back the Chinese... in table-tennis, gymnastics, diving and badminton. 😉

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I was laughing uncontrollably at the basketball loss today. And I think in gymnastics I am going to root for the Russians. I'm tired of american athletes. They always talk about how much they have struggled and fought hard, then there's this russian athlete who trains in an unheated Siberian barn on an unsanded balance beam 20 hours a day, whose parents work as custodians in the bread factory and make 30 cents a week, but they only make it on credit because the factory owner can't afford to pay them. And the American had it tough because she can't go to her prom (her middle school prom though ).

That loss to the Puerto Ricans was absolutely hilarious. Our team was watching the game in the hospital and we were initially in shock and disbelief but then we all had a big laugh. This is clearly the worst basketball team the US has fielded in like...forever. IT doesn't even look like a collection of NBA players...more like a bunch of playas from inner-city playgrounds.

 

[bente]

Guess you weren't kidding! Haven't seen you all day. Must be too wrapped up in watching the Olympics and the absolutely fascinating ( 🙄 😕 ) coverage of beach volleyball. I would rather watch a 5 hour ex-lap for bowel adhesions than beach volleyball. REAL volleyball is cool though, but I guess the bathing suits attract a certain segment of the viewing audience. The womens gymastics is on tonight too, and for a change the girls actually look like they have reached puberty. They said one of them is actually 25. Not sure I believe that.

Am I an evil, unpatriotic american if I root against the Americans in a lot of these events? I was laughing uncontrollably at the basketball loss today. And I think in gymnastics I am going to root for the Russians. I'm tired of american athletes. They always talk about how much they have struggled and fought hard, then there's this russian athlete who trains in an unheated Siberian barn on an unsanded balance beam 20 hours a day, whose parents work as custodians in the bread factory and make 30 cents a week, but they only make it on credit because the factory owner can't afford to pay them. And the American had it tough because she can't go to her prom (her middle school prom though ).

I heard the women's volleyball player was injured again...and in looking around for an alternate, they found a 6'1'' hot blonde who isn't pitching tonight! Go Jennie 😀

 

[deschutes]

Guess you weren't kidding! Haven't seen you all day.

There are two things I do not kid about - business, war... and the Internet. 😛

It's life by proxy. Withdrawal sets in really quickly.

The womens gymastics is on tonight too, and for a change the girls actually look like they have reached puberty. They said one of them is actually 25. Not sure I believe that.

I saw the 25 y/o. She is Russian. She looks like there's something wrong with her.

Canadian Kate is doing good!!! Her floor routine was positively tribal.
CBC seems to have passed on coverage of the Chinese team. I guess that means they had fully expected them to go into the finals.

 

[yaah]

I saw the 25 y/o. She is Russian. She looks like there's something wrong with her.

Canadian Kate is doing good!!! Her floor routine was positively tribal.
CBC seems to have passed on coverage of the Chinese team. I guess that means they had fully expected them to go into the finals.

Well, american TV seems to have passed on the Canadians. No surprise there. They occasionally glom onto a canadian athelete and try to turn them into americans by proxy (rarely happens with Quebecois) like the figure skaters.

The 25 yo russian I think is Khorkina - I am not sure if there is something wrong with her but apparently she is practically a coach too and is the "heart and soul" of the team. The russian team always has one girl over 18 who the announcers always refer to as the "mother." Or, in Khorkina's case, the father ( Just kidding, she's actually fairly attractive). There is a 25 year old american too - that must be weird to have to hang around with the 15 year olds all day and have to talk about cell phones and boys and harry potter in addition to the normal gymnastics talk of white powder, pommel horses and the evil foreign-accented slave driver coach. But I guess, as a 20-something male, that I am now permitted by decent society to watch womens gymnastics, if I so choose, because there are actually women on the teams.

But yeah I like the women's volleyball. The real volleyball, I mean. Not the crappy stupid beach volleyball which is actually painful and disgusting to watch because apparently the uniform for competitors is the tightest possible bathing suit and you are required to show butt crack. I don't find this sexy or arousing or athletically interesting at all. Why do people like this? Wasn't attire like that supposed to disappear from society once we left the 70s and 80s behind? And why do they all wear those stupid backwards hats that aren't actually hats and seem to serve no purpose other than perpetuating a pathetic conformist fashion statement which, paradoxically, is supposed to indicate individuality and "rebellious" behavior, since as we all know beach volleyball is somehow "cooler" than most other olympic sports. I hope a giant typhoon hits that beach and wipes out all the sand. Probably wishful thinking since the "beach" is probably in the middle of Athens and the sand is imported from Algeria. And typhoons don't typically hit the mediterranean sea. But hey, whoever's God is in charge of the weather these days must also hate beach volleyball too. It has to be sinful, right? Nothing this obnoxious can be compatible with religious beliefs.

Wow, ranting about the Olympics is fun!

 

[b&ierstiefel]

The 25 yo russian I think is Khorkina - I am not sure if there is something wrong with her but apparently she is practically a coach too and is the "heart and soul" of the team. The russian team always has one girl over 18 who the announcers always refer to as the "mother." Or, in Khorkina's case, the father ( Just kidding, she's actually fairly attractive).

Khorkina is a woman????

But yeah I like the women's volleyball. The real volleyball, I mean. Not the crappy stupid beach volleyball which is actually painful and disgusting to watch because apparently the uniform for competitors is the tightest possible bathing suit and you are required to show butt crack. I don't find this sexy or arousing or athletically interesting at all. Why do people like this?

I like regular volleyball too. Too bad the women lost to China...I never knew the chinese volleyball players were so good (either that or the Americans relatively suck at it). I wish dodgeball was an olympic sport as well. Then it would be like that South Park episode where the Chinese dodgeball team were killing other teams.

There's nothing wrong with a lil bit of butt-crack...And plus, what if it was Jennie Finch? Would that make yaah feel better? Lol the thought of watching softball in bathing suits is amusing right about now.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I love watching coverage of US teams versus Chinese teams. The announcers just cannot help themselves. They always HAVE to refer to the Chinese as mechanical and analytical, don't make mistakes. If the Americans win, it is because they "outfought" or "struggled to come from behind" or "overcame" something huge. Always because of heart. If the Chinese win it's because of lack of emotion. Idiot announcers.

I thought the lack of emotion prize belonged to the Russians. Even when they win, you typically don't see them jumping around and crying like the athletes from other countries.

The Chinese are typically described as very disciplined, calculating, and methodical. They are also good at mathematics as many of them learn calculus at the average age of 9. OK I made up that last bit...but some of the Chinese students I've met in graduate school were learning calculus at the age where I was mindlessly shooting hoops at the neighborhood b-ball court.

Andy I am not sure even Jennie Finch would be hot in the outfits those beach volleyballers wear. Insanity. Dodgeball would be a better sport than beach volleyball or windsurfing or whatever the crap they are doing these days.

I wonder if dodgeball will be part of the x-games at least. Or maybe it is already (I don't follow the x-games).

Oh, and don't forget synchronized underwater basketweaving.

I heard the women's volleyball player was injured again...and in looking around for an alternate, they found a 6'1'' hot blonde who isn't pitching tonight! Go Jennie

If this was even remotely close to being reality, do you think that there would be rules requiring Finch to wear the beach volleyball outfit?

 

[bente]

Andy I am not sure even Jennie Finch would be hot in the outfits those beach volleyballers wear.

I think she would be hot in the fencing armor, riflery duds, full chain mail, volleyball shorts, anything she wears.
But did anyone see USA - CHINA softball tonite?? China's uniforms looked like a rodeo clown outfit...i wish i could find a picture.
Al Trautwig is driving half the world crazy. He was almost lynched in France during the Tour...he kept comparing bicycle racing to baseball and calling Lance 'micheal jordan'. Why do these announcers always have to give us some remedial speech comparing every sport to one of the 'big 3' fball, bball or hoops?

 

[yaah]

I think she would be hot in the fencing armor, riflery duds, full chain mail, volleyball shorts, anything she wears.
But did anyone see USA - CHINA softball tonite?? China's uniforms looked like a rodeo clown outfit...i wish i could find a picture.
Al Trautwig is driving half the world crazy. He was almost lynched in France during the Tour...he kept comparing bicycle racing to baseball and calling Lance 'micheal jordan'. Why do these announcers always have to give us some remedial speech comparing every sport to one of the 'big 3' fball, bball or hoops?

The reason, my friend, is that americans typically have 1) the attention span of a fruit fly, and 2) have a limited grasp of things outside of their daily routine.

They will watch a weird sport if there is a specific interest for them, like someone who is really dominant (aka Michael Jordan), has a great made-for-lifetime tv-or-people magazine story (that russian figure skater whose partner died) or they are really hot (jennie finch). If someone can combine all three of these, they become the ultimate olympic athlete.

I actually like AL Trautwig, can't complain too much. He seems to be a lot more well read and world-wise than most other announcers. He does tend to dwell a bit on the negative but that's fine because I do too.

Sigh. Missed the softball match. I know they won though. I think Jennie should suit up for gymnastics.

The less said about the x-games, the better. It is an abomination on the world and a festering boil on the sports community. Everything has all these so-called "clever" nicknames. Nicknames for the events. Nicknames for the competitors. Nicknames for the maneuvers they do. And all of this the competitors have to do while still maintaining an aura of being a slacker, a rebel, and a non-comformist. In my book they have failed miserably. If I ruled the world people would be able to walk around with bags of marbles and ball bearings in their pockets to drop on the sidewalk in front of skateboarders and other extreme athletes. Extreme my ass. Downhill skiing is an extreme sport. Boxing is an extreme sport. Not friggin skateboarding.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

The less said about the x-games, the better. It is an abomination on the world and a festering boil on the sports community. Everything has all these so-called "clever" nicknames. Nicknames for the events. Nicknames for the competitors. Nicknames for the maneuvers they do. And all of this the competitors have to do while still maintaining an aura of being a slacker, a rebel, and a non-comformist. In my book they have failed miserably. If I ruled the world people would be able to walk around with bags of marbles and ball bearings in their pockets to drop on the sidewalk in front of skateboarders and other extreme athletes. Extreme my ass. Downhill skiing is an extreme sport. Boxing is an extreme sport. Not friggin skateboarding.

Daddy, I'm sorry I brought up the topic of the X-games. I never knew this would anger you 🙁

Hey the US basketball team is gonna beat Greece! Do you believe in miracles?????

 

[bente]

Some good Olympic coverage for you...click on the 3 'OUCH' clips.

http://www.milkandcookies.com/archive/2001/02/11/"http://www.milkandcookies

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Some good Olympic coverage for you...click on the 3 'OUCH' clips.

http://www.milkandcookies.com/archive/2001/02/11/"http://www.milkandcookies

I loved the vaulter clip...I've seen something like that before.

there's also the video of the pole vaulter who in mid air jams the tip of the pole in his crotch. OUCH!

http://www.myjokemail.com/content/modules/mydownloads/viewcat.php?cid=1&min=70&orderby=dateD&show=10

Click on the video titled "Pole"