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Funny quotes from "less informed" premeds
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Did you ask for a LOR?
Hopefully you did it with someone else so they can verify you did it.
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Would sending someone to the hospital after a fight count as a clinical experience?
Reminds me of a local dude who got into a fight here, went to his car, pulled a gun, shot his opponent, then realized what he did and pulled out his jump bag to render aid. Turns out the dude was an EMT. Many suspect he rendered aid with the hopes it'd help his case in the long run by reducing his sentence.
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Reminds me of a local dude who got into a fight here, went to his car, pulled a gun, shot his opponent, then realized what he did and pulled out his jump bag to render aid. Turns out the dude was an EMT. Many suspect he rendered aid with the hopes it'd help his case in the long run by reducing his sentence.
Sounds like a good start to a PS. Maybe he should just start with, "I pulled out my bag and ran to the victim. He had a single gunshot wound which was life threatening. I was the first one on the scene, but I knew what to do..."
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Only if you are close enough to smell it haha.
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A friend's cousin was visiting from Detroit. He asks where everybody goes to school. My friend says, "I'm way done with school. I'm a Doctor."
He's actually a Pharmacist with the PharmD degree.
He's actually a Pharmacist with the PharmD degree.
A PharmD is a professional doctorate. Nothing to see here folks.
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Although, the wording is very misleading and can make believe that he is actually a physician, rather than a pharmacist.
Haha same thing happens to me too. I usually laugh and give them this look like "what is wrong with you?!" They start to feel guilty as if somehow they were supposed to know better, at which time I come back to earth and realize, "wait, how are they supposed to know how the MCAT is scored?" and then explain it to them. 😀
Lol. I always give them a face too, similar to this
And then I just say "yes" cuz Im too lazy to get into all the details about scores and what is considered good and why.
The thing with me is that its often other premeds asking me this, and Im just like dude you should kind of know how the scoring works and what to aim for.
I usually give them the percentile if they're not familiar with the MCAT. People understand that much better than a random number.
I would have a hard time explaining to people that even though 45 is the highest score possible, very few people actually get a +40. Some people just took this as my justification for why I was "only" able to get a +30 and not a +40 score. 🙄
Guy in my orgo class last semester claims he scored in the "100th percentile" on the ACS
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Hanlon's Razor could apply there...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
But I find it disturbing to see innumeracy so prevalent, especially in pre-meds.
It seems like the people who write "majoring in premed" are the same people who add "SGU class of 20XX" to their education
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Talking to a pre-med friend about M1 year:
Me: The rest of the semester is cardiac physiology, its pretty ridiculous (At a school where the cardio phys prof is notorious for difficulty)
pre-med: Thats nothing, cardiac physiology is easy!
*urge to kill, rising.....*
Me: The rest of the semester is cardiac physiology, its pretty ridiculous (At a school where the cardio phys prof is notorious for difficulty)
pre-med: Thats nothing, cardiac physiology is easy!
*urge to kill, rising.....*
What do you think about those high schoolers/undergraduate freshman who read medical books like surgical manuals for fun? Weird/neurotic or not? I swear I've met about 15 people who say theve done this
When I was a sophomore in high school I bought Gray's Anatomy with the intent to read it all. I got to page 3.
Lol. but looking back what do you think of your decision to buy it
Admittedly the collector editions they sell at Barnes and Nobles look amazing. But I hope medical school anatomy atlases contain bigger pictures, color, etc.
I must have been thinking something along the lines of, "OMG if I read this this I'll know so much I'll essentially be a doctor lolz." Looking back, I think it was a waste of 20 dollars and 7 minutes.
That's the one I bought. It's chilling on my shelf right now.
I got two of them for Christmas. One modern one and one from the 1920s. They are just shelf decorations.
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I always find it funny when I walk into a professor's office and they have hundreds of books, mostly for show, I'm sure.
The following is from the front page of a website of a company that sells books "by the yard" to people who just want to fill shelves;
mmmcdowe
Duke of minimal vowels
Staff member
Administrator
Volunteer Staff
Lifetime Donor
15+ Year Member
restraining orders count.
I just remembered this little gem the other day. In my Kaplan MCAT class, we went around the room on the first day and said what fields we might be interested in. Everyone gave the usual answers until we got to one girl who said "I want to be a child psychologist." She quit showing up a few weeks in. Maybe someone told her that you don't go to med school for psychology.
I was going to say to give her the benefit of the doubt and that she meant psychiatrist, but the fact she left a few weeks in means you are probably right
$2000 down the drain.
Glad you got a kick out of it 😀👍
The first lesson I learned in medical school was that UG prepared me so poorly for what I was going to be doing academically that I didnt even have the capacity to understand how much more there was in each topic. It is easy to think that once you come out of a class you unplug matrix style and "know kung fu"
As it turns out, that is just a failure of imagination for the most part.
Is going on a medical mission vacation where I hammer some nails and hand out aspirin for a few hours between liquor shots and surfing considered volunteering?
I took a medical science class in high school and everyone who memorized the parts of the heart thought that they were going to go med school now. Oh high school pre-meds 🙄
This is cracking me up. "I don't think I could be a doctor because I can't memorize over 200 bones"
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If only that were (even) the "easy" part of Anatomy....
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Better than volunteering, you are saving lives! I affirm them, and hope one day I can do this too!
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Glad you got a kick out of it 😀👍
The first lesson I learned in medical school was that UG prepared me so poorly for what I was going to be doing academically that I didnt even have the capacity to understand how much more there was in each topic. It is easy to think that once you come out of a class you unplug matrix style and "know kung fu"
This statement scares me to the core. And yet I can't wait for classes to start.
Head & Neck: FML
What is with anatomists' obsession with triangles?! WTF... And then where there clearly ISN'T a triangle, they just divide another shape in half to make it a triangle!
...Makes me wonder how long they stared at the Circle of Willis trying to find something to bisect it twice so they could call it "the Four Triangles of Willis"
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