this happened a few years back so I only heard it from an MD PhD, but apparently a lecturer was about to give an analogy and he started off with “I’m on a boat.” This was right after the viral SNL Andy samberg sketch of the same name so everyone started laughing hysterically, to the utter confusion of the guy giving the lecture.
Funniest moments of med school
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I just had a very soft spoken attending ask me a pimp question on rounds and seemed oblivious to the fact the charge nurse was yelling into my ear to a nurse 30 feet away and I only heard 15% of the question... I got it wrong thanks to missing key words even though it turned out to be something I have intimately studied.
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I'll give this a spin:
On surgery, was going to scrub into a ventral hernia repair. Attending was there, resident, nurses, various other more important people, me. Then another attending came and I got bumped. Fine, I don't love surgery anyways so I can just watch.
The finish up and the main attending leaves, leaving the other one to walk the resident through sewing up the wound. He turns to me and asks if I want to scrub in. I ask if I can and he responds, "I asked if you wanted to, not if you could." So I ever so speedily scrubbed and reappeared and took my spot, content to watch the resident sew up the wound.
The attending says, "So doc, do you think you can tie a knot that'll hold up?" The resident looks confused and goes, "Yeah..." but the attending says, "I wasn't asking you." He turns to me and asks, "So can you tie a knot correctly?" I am obviously at this point a deer in headlights. I had never thrown a real knot before though I had dutifully practiced. He goes, "Yes or no?" The patient's life flashed before my eyes, as I don't want to harm him! Do no harm and all that... so I look the attending in the eyes and go, "No."
They all just started laughing at me and told me I should always say yes and fail. I ended up putting a couple of knots in and they were alright!
I always get a chuckle out of that story.
On surgery, was going to scrub into a ventral hernia repair. Attending was there, resident, nurses, various other more important people, me. Then another attending came and I got bumped. Fine, I don't love surgery anyways so I can just watch.
The finish up and the main attending leaves, leaving the other one to walk the resident through sewing up the wound. He turns to me and asks if I want to scrub in. I ask if I can and he responds, "I asked if you wanted to, not if you could." So I ever so speedily scrubbed and reappeared and took my spot, content to watch the resident sew up the wound.
The attending says, "So doc, do you think you can tie a knot that'll hold up?" The resident looks confused and goes, "Yeah..." but the attending says, "I wasn't asking you." He turns to me and asks, "So can you tie a knot correctly?" I am obviously at this point a deer in headlights. I had never thrown a real knot before though I had dutifully practiced. He goes, "Yes or no?" The patient's life flashed before my eyes, as I don't want to harm him! Do no harm and all that... so I look the attending in the eyes and go, "No."
They all just started laughing at me and told me I should always say yes and fail. I ended up putting a couple of knots in and they were alright!
I always get a chuckle out of that story.
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I told mine typical male size, and they actually gave me a perfect size!
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OMM practical. I'm supposed to be doing a upper thoracic treatment but the whole time I was doing lower thoracic. The grader keeps asking if I'm doing it right and I blow him off, off course I am doing it right. I am AT still up in this B*^%h. I'm about to finish and to my horror realize my mistake. A loud "Oh F**K escapes my lips and everyone else doing their practical whips their heads towards me.
Still got 100 though.
Still got 100 though.
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Why didn't you just ask him to repeat himself?
Another secondhand story but a pediatrics attending told me the worst thing she ever heard a med student say was a guy who said to a patient‘s mother on her way out the room, “Hate to see you leave but love to watch you go!”
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I dunno... didn’t want to hold up rounds? Or make it seem like I was making a “thing” out of the charge nurse yelling in my ear?
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I’m sorry, could you repeat the question? I didn’t hear all of it.
But yeah that is annoying getting something wrong that you knew.
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Got a couple from my first year of med school:
Had this professor (actual physician) that would make a HUGE deal if you showed up late to class - embarrassed the crap out of people all the way to their seat. Usually people walked in, and stood there waiting for his reaction (the door made a loud noise so there was no sneaking in) Anyways, local schools started, and I had no idea. Ended up behind a school bus all the way to campus. Finally got to the door for class - alas, 2 minutes late. So, I did the only thing I knew how to do which was get the first word in. Opened the door, he turned, and before he could speak I said, "Good morning, Dr. XYZ" in the most enthusiastic way ever, turned, walked up the stairs, and to my seat. Pretty sure I broke the man because he smiled with his mouth open and didn't say anything to me. Whole class erupted in laughter. It isn't as funny to type about, but I guess its because you'd have to know the professor. He's the kind of guy that was in the parking lot yelling at you with a megaphone before a test.
Met one of my classmates girlfriend back in May - only been together for a couple months. Anyway, started conversing and she said that she was starting med school in July. Further on in the conversation, she said something along the lines of "I don't understand how you guys talk about school all the time. When its me, I'm going to leave school at school." Her boyfriend and I looked at her like she'd lost her mind. I said, "Well, you'll understand. School starts to consume every aspect of your life. There won't be much else to talk about." She responded, "Well i did my medical masters with them, so Ive pretty much already completed the first year of med school, so my first year will just be like a review." I didn't laugh in her face, but I thought that poor girl was going to have a tough time. Anyway, she ended up breaking up with my buddy because she "didn't have enough time to even sleep at night much less have a relationship." We laugh about that whole string of events from time to time.
Had this professor (actual physician) that would make a HUGE deal if you showed up late to class - embarrassed the crap out of people all the way to their seat. Usually people walked in, and stood there waiting for his reaction (the door made a loud noise so there was no sneaking in) Anyways, local schools started, and I had no idea. Ended up behind a school bus all the way to campus. Finally got to the door for class - alas, 2 minutes late. So, I did the only thing I knew how to do which was get the first word in. Opened the door, he turned, and before he could speak I said, "Good morning, Dr. XYZ" in the most enthusiastic way ever, turned, walked up the stairs, and to my seat. Pretty sure I broke the man because he smiled with his mouth open and didn't say anything to me. Whole class erupted in laughter. It isn't as funny to type about, but I guess its because you'd have to know the professor. He's the kind of guy that was in the parking lot yelling at you with a megaphone before a test.
Met one of my classmates girlfriend back in May - only been together for a couple months. Anyway, started conversing and she said that she was starting med school in July. Further on in the conversation, she said something along the lines of "I don't understand how you guys talk about school all the time. When its me, I'm going to leave school at school." Her boyfriend and I looked at her like she'd lost her mind. I said, "Well, you'll understand. School starts to consume every aspect of your life. There won't be much else to talk about." She responded, "Well i did my medical masters with them, so Ive pretty much already completed the first year of med school, so my first year will just be like a review." I didn't laugh in her face, but I thought that poor girl was going to have a tough time. Anyway, she ended up breaking up with my buddy because she "didn't have enough time to even sleep at night much less have a relationship." We laugh about that whole string of events from time to time.
doing an online elective when COVID was at peak and forgot to mute my mic and my siblings were in the living room behind my computer, fighting and swearing at each other. I didn't know the whole class was freaking out and sending me messages in the chat to mute my mic either until 5 minutes passed ..because the chat is on another tab.
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I was on an away rotation and one of the attendings was calling me the wrong name and I didn't realize it. One day, some of the residents looked at him funny after he called me the wrong name, then he turned and looked at me and said, "is that not your name?" I laughed and said, "My name is Redstone, but as long as I know you're talking to me you can call me whatever you want."
In reply, he said, "look at this kid, he wants to match here so badly."
He then proceeded to call me different names every time I saw him in the clinic.
(It was a great rotation, loved every minute of it)
In reply, he said, "look at this kid, he wants to match here so badly."
He then proceeded to call me different names every time I saw him in the clinic.
(It was a great rotation, loved every minute of it)
