Biggest lie told to you in school

[Mad Dog]

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"it gets better"

the B.S. only increases when you get to the wards

 

[trauma_junky]

School Nurse:
"Do you have night sweats or a blood tinged cough?"

Me:
"No."

 

[Goofyone]

Originally posted by DW
well, actually i do think about it everytime i put it on. i think about how big of a shmuck i feel and look like with that short white coat on, and how much I loathe having to wear pseudo dressy clothes to my lame-o touchy feely "doctoring" class. i think about how occasionally being mistaken for a "real" doctor by someone on the street pales in comparison to those "you're just a knucklehead med student, and I look forward to embarrassing you whenever you get on my service" glares I get walking around the med school campus. I think about the wonderful pomp and circumstance of the white coat ceremony, and all the "congratulations" I got, hey, you're about to plunge yourself into thousands of dollars in debt, work till you pass out, only to be rewarded by working for peanuts as a resident, great freaking job, so here's your first giganto pack of biochem notes. It makes me swell up with pride

😛

 

[gwyn779]

Originally posted by DW
i think about how big of a shmuck i feel and look like with that short white coat on, and how much I loathe having to wear pseudo dressy clothes to my lame-o touchy feely "doctoring" class.

I felt like this for the first 2 years, but this year it isn't so bad. I still feel stupid a lot of the time though.

 

[8744]

Originally posted by daria
In a semi-recent "New Physician" (AMSA) magazine edition dedicated to "the white coat", this [paraphrased] quote by a seasoned doctor... "Every time I put on my white coat, I think for a minute or two about what it means...."

I'm SO sure you do... 🙄

I am a third year. A few months ago a first year told me that he was looking forward to the day when he will be a third year and he could wear the (short) white coat. "Then I'll get some respect!" he said.

Har Har.

 

[papadoc]

How about anything you ever heard about D.O's and osteopathic medicine?

The truth can be found at ****

Osteopathic medicine is no different than allopathic medicine

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[Bridaddy]

Broken link papadoc

 

[....]

""Osteopathic medicine is no different than allopathic medicine""

Then why exist?

 

[Sessamoid]

Originally posted by gwyn779
I felt like this for the first 2 years, but this year it isn't so bad. I still feel stupid a lot of the time though.

If you don't feel stupid a lot of the time at least until you finish residency, you're probably undeservedly cocky. No matter how smart you are, there will come a case that will humble you and put you in your place.

 

[papadoc]

sorry...fixed link is here

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Osteopathic medicine...why exist? That is actually a question for the policty makers of the AOA and the AMA who have been fighting like school kids for the past 100 years. From the D.O's perspective however...we are all thinking the same things M.D's are. It really is the same stuff, and the manipulations that do work (some do some don't) can really be taught to anybody.