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Volunteering Saturday is a bright side? 😕
 
CodeBlu said:
Gel. Obvs.

Old spice after hours.
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Gel is for noobs and teenage boys. Gels are mess and they ruin your shirts. Solid deodorant is far superior for both it's deodorant capability and not ruining your undershirts. Old spice is the way to go though. I prefer something fresh like Matterhorn but Swagger or After Hours is good too.

Avoidthetiger said:
he is a butthead. Thanks Daisy and App buddy.

the brightside is I no longer have to deal with LDR.
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Chin up, Tiger! You're right, sounds like a butthead and you can do 10^100x better. His loss - and 99.9% of LDR's aren't worth half your time.
 
Longshanks said:
Gel is for noobs and teenage boys. Gels are mess and they ruin your shirts. Solid deodorant is far superior for both it's deodorant capability and not ruining your undershirts. Old spice is the way to go though. I prefer something fresh like Matterhorn but Swagger or After Hours is good too.
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Agree - gel sucks. It's messy and makes me feel disgusting.
 
Longshanks said:
Gel is for noobs and teenage boys. Gels are mess and they ruin your shirts. Solid deodorant is far superior for both it's deodorant capability and not ruining your undershirts. Old spice is the way to go though. I prefer something fresh like Matterhorn but Swagger or After Hours is good too.
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NickNaylor said:
Agree - gel sucks. It's messy and makes me feel disgusting.
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Noooo, I meant the gel form solid... it's hard to explain... but it's a solid gel type, it's blue. Not the white solid, that one sucks.
 
Longshanks said:
Chin up, Tiger! You're right, sounds like a butthead and you can do 10^100x better. His loss - and 99.9% of LDR's aren't worth half your time.
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Truth. I have the proud distinction of being the first in my class to end their LDR. But we have many more on the horizon, I can tell. "Turkey drop," right?
 
glasshalfMD said:
ttalking to me, classmate? I really want to know who you are.
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Can't figure it out? 😀 I'll be doing my last dissection tomorrow so that will let you know which dissection group I'm in.

I can't wait for Anatomy to be done next week. We have so little time to learn everything though.
 
lisi326 said:
Truth. I have the proud distinction of being the first in my class to end their LDR. But we have many more on the horizon, I can tell. "Turkey drop," right?
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I had to Google that. 😳
 
HMMMMMMM. so you're an A. and I just looked at the list on Pilot to see if there were any As without a facebook (because I took note of the fact that you created a profile in order to join the fbook group, but you don't like it). still don't know. do you know who I am?

Isoprop said:
Can't figure it out? 😀 I'll be doing my last dissection tomorrow so that will let you know which dissection group I'm in.

I can't wait for Anatomy to be done next week. We have so little time to learn everything though.
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I am so behind on notes. I have a good excuse (the best excuse, really) but that won't matter come on first test next Friday. At least the stuff is interesting.
 
A+ in Biochem.

Anatomy: A 23 yr old male medical student comes into the clinic with a large object forcibly inserted into his rectum. He claims he just took an anatomy midterm, but seems to have blacked-out. What nerve fibers carry pain from this region? Do not confuse somatic vs visceral pain in terms of intensity!! Midterm inserted into rectum will produce INTENSE pain.
 
Morsetlis said:
Volunteering Saturday is a bright side? 😕
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It is when you don't have to run the 26.2 miles! :meanie:


Saw this and thought of Cougs 😍

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I just have a few comments about other professions that may hold opinions about nurses using the title of doctor. Though the DNP degree is a newer development in nursing education, the Phd has been in existance much longer. Prior to nurses having their own Phd level of education, they were limited to obtaining degrees in education and administration not specific to the field of nursing.

I agree that some discression is needed in application of the title doctor with nurses, however, professors and individuals in research occupations holding Phd degrees have used this title for several generations now. Many professionals in upper management hold Phd degrees without calling themselves doctor. Strictly speaking, medical and pharmacy education is graduate level study since doctorate degrees exist for each of these professions.

Much of the debate about nurse practitioners and nurses having doctorate degrees using the title of doctor returns to nursing having its origins as the offspring of medicine particularly in the United States. Many schools of nursing began as programs generated from schools of medicine. There continues to be an unspoken language of subservience despite how far the nursing profession has come.

The field of medicine was once an undergrad apprentice approach to education prior to the development of university bachelor education for nurses. Each of these professions has developed into a much more advanced approach to practice due to the affect of technology upon the field of medicine. Nurses in this country are educated in assessment skills that are reserved for physicians in third world countries. The BSN is growing as the recognized professional level of RN practice and the ADN as the technical level by nursing schools and major hospitals.

Nurse practitioners have been credited for filling the void that exists for general practitioners. I think it safe to say that if we wanted to be physicians we would have pursued medical school. I beieve a doctorate degree should not affect the original title/certification an NP has obtained. A doctorate level education is icing on the cake and has its benefits, however, graduate level education in combination with several years practicing as an RN without script and diagnostic privilates is of greater benefit to success of an NP than over focus upon requiring doctorate level degrees or adding the title of doctor.

Oh, and for anyone who thinks PA education or mid wifery education is the equivalent to an assiciate degree, I reccommend taking a serious look at program requirements for these. 😍
 
glasshalfMD said:
HMMMMMMM. so you're an A. and I just looked at the list on Pilot to see if there were any As without a facebook (because I took note of the fact that you created a profile in order to join the fbook group, but you don't like it). still don't know. do you know who I am?
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Yeah don't know who you are either. 😎 Yeah I'm too cool for FB, I like communicating the old fashion way (ie phone). Not sure if my profile is still on the 2015 group, but I hardly go on it.
 
Tough Mudder.. is that where you pay to run an obstacles course?

I think I'll stick with hashing, which is free.
 
Morsetlis said:
Tough Mudder.. is that where you pay to run an obstacles course?

I think I'll stick with hashing, which is free.
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It's a bit more intense than the warrior dash and goes to a good cause but yes IBswpl.

"I donated monies and all I got was 10k volts up my ass at the finish line!"
 
tired of studying, browsed the careers in medicine website for some motivation...does anyone else think that people who specialize in pediatric urology will thought a closet pedophile by every single person who meets them?
 
si. that specialty has it's own page on CiM. crossed it off my list :laugh: My list is freaking huge though...I like a lot of the IM subspecialties but having to apply all over again after 3 years of residency is a huge deterrent; I just want to get into a residency and have that be my final destination, you know? I wish there were integrated (or whatever they're called) programs for the IM subspecialties 😡
 
Suncrusher said:
si. that specialty has it's own page on CiM. crossed it off my list :laugh: My list is freaking huge though...I like a lot of the IM subspecialties but having to apply all over again after 3 years of residency is a huge deterrent; I just want to get into a residency and have that be my final destination, you know? I wish there were integrated (or whatever they're called) programs for the IM subspecialties 😡
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The CIM site has a survey you can do to predict your specialty choice. Did you do it? What'd you get?
 
NickNaylor said:
The CIM site has a survey you can do to predict your specialty choice. Did you do it? What'd you get?
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First time I got IM, second time I got something I don't remember (but gen surg., urology, and ortho were high), third time I got rads (which I'm not interested in).

It's an interesting survey because it matches you to a specialty based on how well your answers match the answers of doctors who are actually practicing in that specialty, but I think it is also far too easy to skew the results with self-selection for the specialties you think you are interested in already. The second time I took the survey I purposely self-selected for surgical specialties and it really made a huge difference; I believe at least 3 of my top 5 were surgical that time
 
Morsetlis said:
How do you know you will like surgery?...
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I don't. It seemed like a desirable choice for multiple reasons and so I chose it for my attempt at purposely self-selecting on the CiM survey, but I've already moved on to considering other specialties more.

I'm trying to think about this stuff now, even though it is ******edly early, because I want to get away with not doing research this summer if I can
 
Suncrusher said:
First time I got IM, second time I got something I don't remember (but gen surg., urology, and ortho were high), third time I got rads (which I'm not interested in).

It's an interesting survey because it matches you to a specialty based on how well your answers match the answers of doctors who are actually practicing in that specialty, but I think it is also far too easy to skew the results with self-selection for the specialties you think you are interested in already. The second time I took the survey I purposely self-selected for surgical specialties and it really made a huge difference; I believe at least 3 of my top 5 were surgical that time
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Yeah, definitely true. I had to make myself answer the questions honestly and limit bias.

My top three were peds (73%), IM (18%), and EM (9%).
 
Morsetlis said:
There is an EM/IM/CCM program...

http://www.abim.org/certification/policies/combinedim/comccm.aspx#programs

Sent them an email when I was still in undergrad and they told me to call back in 6 years 😀
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1.) That sounds like a waste of time doing a combined program like that, since it doesn't provide any extra benefit than if you just did IM and then Pulm/CC, or GAS. Nor does it answer Suncrusher's concern: being able to sub-specialize without having to go through the whole application process again.

2.) You did not really call a residency program when were you in undergrad. If you did, I can't even. Gunners gunna gun I guess....
 
What is the scariest disease you guys have learned about so far? I'm gonna say necrotizing fasciitis, but I might check back in later after I watch thursday's lecture on gonorrhea and treponema pallidum...
 
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Suncrusher said:
What is the scariest disease you guys have learned about so far? I'm gonna say necrotizing fasciitis, but I might check back in later after I watch thursday's lecture on gonorrhea and treponema pallidum...
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Well, all those cyanotic defects of the newborn lead to death if you can't get surgery.

And then there's

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Would you call those "diseases"? Hmmm...
 
lol i had definitely repressed every anencephaly picture from my memory...along with all the other pics from the embryo textbook. Those mutant/alien babies really are scary! :scared: :scared: :scared:
 
If you had posted that anencephaly picture while I was still pregnant I might have banned you.
 
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