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I've gotten this email at least twice, and I'm sure most of you have too, but it is still funny. So if you haven't heard these...

1. A man comes into the ER and yells . . .'
My wife's going to have her baby in the cab.'

I grabbed my stuff, rushed out to the cab, lifted the lady's
dress and began to take off her underwear.

Suddenly I noticed that there were several cabs - - -
and I was in the wrong one.


Submitted by Dr. Mark MacDonald ,
San Francisco


2... At the beginning of my shift
I placed a stethoscope on an elderly
and slightly deaf female patient's anterior chest wall.

'Big breaths,'. . . I instructed.
'Yes, they used to be,'. . ..replied the patient.


Submitted by Dr. Richard Byrnes ,
Seattle , WA


3. One day I had to be the bearer of bad
news when I told a wife that her husband had
died of a massive myocardial infarct.


Not more than five minutes later, I heard her
reporting to the rest of the family that he had
died of a 'massive internal fart.'

Submitted by Dr. Susan Steinberg


4. During a patient's two week follow-up
appointment with his cardiologist, he informed
me, his doctor, that he was having trouble with
one of his medications..

' Which one ?'. .. . I asked. 'The patch...

The Nurse told me to put on a new one every six hours
and now I'm running out of places to put it !'
I had him quickly undress and discovered what I hoped
I wouldn't see.

Yes, the man had over fifty patches on his body!


Now, the instructions include removal of
the old patch before applying a new one.

Submitted by Dr. Rebecca St. Clair ,
Norfolk , VA


5. While acquainting myself with a new elderly patient,
I asked, 'How long have you been bedridden?'

After a look of complete confusion she answered . . .

' Why, not for about twenty years - when my husband was alive.'

Submitted by Dr. Steven Swanson-
Corvallis , OR


6. I was performing rounds at the
hospital one morning and while checking
up on a man I asked . . .' So how's your
breakfast this morning?' "It's very good
except for the Kentucky Jelly. I can't seem
to get used to the taste," Bob replied.

I then asked to see the jelly and Bob produced
a foil packet labeled 'KY Jelly.'

Submitted by Dr. Leonard Kransdorf ,
Detroit , MI


7. A nurse was on duty in the Emergency Room
when a young woman with purple hair styled
into a punk rocker Mohawk, sporting a variety
of tattoos, and wearing strange clothing,
entered . .. . It was quickly determined that
the patient had acute appendicitis, so she was
scheduled for immediate surgery.

When she was completely disrobed on the operating
table, the staff noticed that her pubic hair had
been dyed green and above it there was a
tattoo that read . . .' Keep off the grass.'


Once the surgery was completed, the surgeon
wrote a short note on the patient's dressing,
which said 'Sorry . . . had to mow the lawn.'

Submitted by RN no name
,

AND FINALLY!! ! . . . . . .. . . . . . .. .. . .


8. As a new, young MD doing his residency in OB.
I was quite embarrassed when performing female
pelvic exams... To cover my embarrassment
I had unconsciously formed a habit of whistling softly.

The middle-aged lady upon whom I was performing this exam suddenly burst out laughing
and further embarrassing me.
I looked up from my work and sheepishly said. . .
' I'm sorry. Was I tickling you?'
She replied with tears running down
her cheeks from laughing so hard . ..
.

' No doctor but the song you were whistling was . . ..
' I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener .' '
Dr. wouldn't submit his name....


ONE MORE



Baby's First Doctor Visit

This made me laugh out loud.
I hope it will give you a smile!

A woman and a baby were in the doctor's examining room, waiting for the doctor to come in for the baby's first exam.

The doctor arrived, and examined the baby, checked his weight, and being a little concerned, asked if the baby was breast-fed or bottle-fed.
'Breast-fed,' she replied..

'Well, strip down to your waist,' the doctor ordered..

She did. He pinched her nipples, pressed, kneaded, and rubbed both breasts for a while in a very professional and detailed examination.

Motioning to her to get dressed, the doctor said, 'No wonder this baby is underweight. You don't have any milk.'

I know,' she said, 'I'm his Grandma,

But I'm glad I came.
 
It's my fault.

Subject change.

Who is thinking of starting up a blog?

I am. Just for fun to chronicle the upcoming years of training, capture a few good stories, and I've heard it's healthy. Catharsis.
i dunno i doubt people are that interested in what i have to say
 
can you dream of me getting off the columbia waitlist? mad cash is good too. do it by next week plz!

If you get into Columbia then we can start the NYC posse to compete with the Philly posse of the 2015 thread.

(Then again I'm on a waitlist at a Philly school and still waiting to hear from one NY school so my loyalties may change...)
 
can you dream of me getting off the columbia waitlist? mad cash is good too. do it by next week plz!

I'll do my best!

It's my fault.

Subject change.

Who is thinking of starting up a blog?

I am. Just for fun to chronicle the upcoming years of training, capture a few good stories, and I've heard it's healthy. Catharsis.

I've considered it, doing like a medical mommy-themed blog. I don't think I'd keep up with it, though.

P.S. I have pantyhose on today, because I'm wearing a dress. This is unlike me. Also... they are regular pantyhose, I am almost 16 weeks pregnant, and it is seriously uncomfortable. 👎 👎 🙁 🙁
 
The whistling one made me crack up.

And the specialty talk may make me develop a twitch. I've been thinking more and more about ENT...
 
hey on that freida site, what's the difference between major affiliation and graduate affiliation? i know what major means but unclear on graduate
 
If you get into Columbia then we can start the NYC posse to compete with the Philly posse of the 2015 thread.

(Then again I'm on a waitlist at a Philly school and still waiting to hear from one NY school so my loyalties may change...)
I won't have a CA posse... :cry:

@Rhino, thanks for those stories 🙂

I'm thinking no on the blog thing. I don't want to have anything I write come back and bite me later.
 
:laugh: It'll be back to something cute eventually, but the Spice Girls avatar is a tribute to Bleargh.

MCAT guy, is that Shia Labeouf in your avatar?

Lol, yeah.

Impressive.🙂

I've considered it, doing like a medical mommy-themed blog. I don't think I'd keep up

I think it would be good. But I can understand, family time obviously supersedes blog time.
 
If you get into Columbia then we can start the NYC posse to compete with the Philly posse of the 2015 thread.

(Then again I'm on a waitlist at a Philly school and still waiting to hear from one NY school so my loyalties may change...)

I won't have a CA posse... :cry:

@Rhino, thanks for those stories 🙂

I'm thinking no on the blog thing. I don't want to have anything I write come back and bite me later.

It's either NY or CA for me so I'll join one of the posse's 😎
 
Just so you know...every time someone says residency, specialty, or match...I am mentally replacing those words with "cupcake".

Slowly realizing I'm going to have to work my butt off to get my preferred cupcake.

Feels like it's going to just be a sprint. Reading stories of M4s who didn't play the cards right doesn't help. 2011 Cupcake Data please!?

Life would be much simpler if I chose an easier path. 🙂

It appears that you can't just figure it out 3rd year in some of these specialties (Ortho/ENT), you need to know as M1.

Yeah. I'm under the same impression that this is going to be a lot like running a 400 meter race in order to cupcake successfully.

A philosopher you are. 🙂



Sometimes I think I could chose something easy, but then I think, well that would be a waste.

So I've come to the conclusion, pick something hard that allows flexibility after cupcaking.

I know what you mean. In most ares of life I am a huge advocate of simplicity, but when it comes to choosing a cupcake I just can't reconcile. I have the sneaking suspicion that choosing a less competitive cupcake may simplify med school and the cupcake at the expense of complicating the rest of my career--probably by making me neurotic with the "what ifs" or "if onlys."


Also, MCAT guy, you are right on with the bolded portion. The frequently propagated advice "Wait until your clinical rotations to decide on a cupcake" is total BS if you end up wanting to match into Ortho, ENT, Plastics, RadOnc, or Derm. It can be done but it's just not a great idea.

People interested in those cupcakes should start investigating them first year to decide if they want to jump through all of the hoops. When has it ever been a bad idea to start a project early? Obviously you want to "keep an open mind," whatever that means :laugh: but it's not like building an application for Ortho will hurt your chances of matching into family med if you decide to do so after 3rd year rotations.

However, if you think you want to do FM, and after third year you decide you want to do Ortho, you may have already effed yourself with a mediocre board score. If not you've got less than 1 year to network with attendings and try to work on some cupcake-specific research. Talk about stress and a lack of simplicity.
 
I know what you mean. In most ares of life I am a huge advocate of simplicity, but when it comes to choosing a cupcake I just can't reconcile. I have the sneaking suspicion that choosing a less competitive cupcake may simplify med school and the cupcake at the expense of complicating the rest of my career--probably by making me neurotic with the "what ifs" or "if onlys."
Also, MCAT guy, you are right on with the bolded portion. The frequently propagated advice "Wait until your clinical rotations to decide on a cupcake" is total BS if you end up wanting to match into Ortho, ENT, Plastics, RadOnc, or Derm. It can be done but it's just not a great idea.

People interested in those cupcakes should start investigating them first year to decide if they want to jump through all of the hoops. When has it ever been a bad idea to start a project early? Obviously you want to "keep an open mind," whatever that means :laugh: but it's not like building an application for Ortho will hurt your chances of matching into family med if you decide to do so after 3rd year rotations.

However, if you think you want to do FM, and after third year you decide you want to do Ortho, you may have already effed yourself with a mediocre board score. If not you've got less than 1 year to network with attendings and try to work on some cupcake-specific research. Talk about stress and a lack of simplicity.


I kept this in Cougs' format but MedZ is so right. I've actually been stressing about this a lot lately. I don't want to figure things out later and end up taking a year off for research. However, when I start making plans to be involved in research/interest groups early on to my friends they tell me not to worry and I'm called a "gunner". What the hell.

Also, can't get rid of this italic font now and it's adding to my frustration.
 
cupcake-specific research.


people interested in those cupcakes....

Speaking of cupcake research.. At an undergrad research symposium where I presented a poster a couple weeks ago, there was a section of the room for the dietetics department. There were posters about cupcakes, cheesecake, and cookies. I hadn't eaten lunch, and I had to stand there for 3 hours with cupcakes and cookies all up in my face. It was rough.
 
Now I want cupcakes...

And show off my cupcakes!

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Speaking of cupcake research.. At an undergrad research symposium where I presented a poster a couple weeks ago, there was a section of the room for the dietetics department. There were posters about cupcakes, cheesecake, and cookies. I hadn't eaten lunch, and I had to stand there for 3 hours with cupcakes and cookies all up in my face. It was rough.

In my research building we lure people to our poster presentations with beer and cupcakes.
 
Catching up on the thread:

Congrats Maubs!!!

Thanks! I was glad to continue the streak of good news in the thread. 🙂

what. a. weekend.

happy birthday!!!!!!!!!!! :d

Happy birthday!

I'm really disappointed in you all regarding the direction this thread has taken

+1 :laugh:

Who is thinking of starting up a blog?

I've had one for awhile that I've written in off and on. I'll probably keep posting to it through school and beyond, but since it's attached to my real name, I'll be very restrained in what I write.

i dunno i doubt people are that interested in what i have to say

I can't speak for anyone else, but to borrow from Homer Simpson, your ideas are intriguing to me and I would subscribe to your newsletter.

Just so you know...every time someone says residency, specialty, or match...I am mentally replacing those words with "cupcake".

I like this idea.
 
I'm not going to lie, I don't like Obama raising taxes for the rich. I only supported that kind of silly talk when I thought I would be poor. I haven't even put stacks on stacks yet, but the gov is already trying to take my benjamins. 😡
 
ABDC is making me wish that I got into Columbia so I could have taken classes at Julliard and become a dancer. Its also making me like lil' wayne. WHAT? OKAYYYY!
 
I'm not going to lie, I don't like Obama raising taxes for the rich. I only supported that kind of silly talk when I thought I would be poor. I haven't even put stacks on stacks yet, but the gov is already trying to take my benjamins. 😡
yeah, rich get richer, poor get poorer...thats a great strategy for out country. :highfive:
 
yeah, rich get richer, poor get poorer...thats a great strategy for out country. :highfive:

I agree with you there Hoody--the rich are the ones who have the means to help out their fellow man by taxation of their added income to help fund our government. I realize that they've worked very hard and deserve to keep their earned income as much as they can, but at some point, there is a need to "spread the wealth" to those who aren't as fortunate. Now I'm not advocating social welfare for those who are simply "sucking the system dry" by abuse, but I do think there are a select few who sincerely need additional help.

The whole notion of taxes is definitely very controversial in this country. In a lot of other countries, the rich don't complain about higher taxes..mostly bc they receive something tangible out of it (eg: social services such as Old Age Security and Medicare)


....but that's about as political as I'll get in this thread. 🙂
 
D'aww. You should love on Ducky, too, she's the one that showed me the recipe.

Those are from Chicklet's 2nd birthday, some of you probably remember. Now everytime she sees a cupcake she says something like, "It's my birthday cake!" and starts singing Happy Birthday. *Shakes head*
 
I agree with you there Hoody--the rich are the ones who have the means to help out their fellow man by taxation of their added income to help fund our government. I realize that they've worked very hard and deserve to keep their earned income as much as they can, but at some point, there is a need to "spread the wealth" to those who aren't as fortunate. Now I'm not advocating social welfare for those who are simply "sucking the system dry" by abuse, but I do think there are a select few who sincerely need additional help.

The whole notion of taxes is definitely very controversial in this country. In a lot of other countries, the rich don't complain about higher taxes..mostly bc they receive something tangible out of it (eg: social services such as Old Age Security and Medicare)


....but that's about as political as I'll get in this thread. 🙂

Let's not do this in this thread. Please.
 
okaaaay. that might be lil jon, but I'm still pretty sure these cats are dancin to lil wayne. unless lil jon and lil wayne sound the same.
 
okaaaay. that might be lil jon, but I'm still pretty sure these cats are dancin to lil wayne. unless lil jon and lil wayne sound the same.

seriously?:eyebrow:


Guess I should stick to todays theme. Here's lil jon having cupcakes

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