How many people go to the Parties during orientation and after test?

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Robotman said:
Serious, why surgeons hate ED?
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It's because once an ED doc sees a surgeons name anywhere in the patient's chart, their brain immediately shuts down and they automatically call us. Patient is here for a cold? Ohhhh but they had an appy in 1997 so let me call surgery, just to get them on board.

Ohhhh you're coming in with ascites and belly pain, and lemme see...ya HPB surgery saw you 1 year ago and said your unresectable and not an operative candidate, and even though your cancer has metastasized everywhere, let me call the surgeons, just to get them on board.

The hilarious part is that about 50% of the time, the ER physician hasn't even seen the patient at the time they are calling you.
 
DermViser said:
At least you're in Surgery and can tell them to f- off and your attending and PD have your back. The ones in IM have no choice but to accept.
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We still have to see them and do the consult, although it usually goes "no acute surgical intervention, thank you very much for this interesting consult."
 
DarknightX said:
It's because once an ED doc sees a surgeons name anywhere in the patient's chart, their brain immediately shuts down and they automatically call us. Patient is here for a cold? Ohhhh but they had an appy in 1997 so let me call surgery, just to get them on board.

Ohhhh you're coming in with ascites and belly pain, and lemme see...ya HPB surgery saw you 1 year ago and said your unresectable and not an operative candidate, and even though your cancer has metastasized everywhere, let me call the surgeons, just to get them on board.

The hilarious part is that about 50% of the time, the ER physician hasn't even seen the patient at the time they are calling you.
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"get them on board" --- LOL. That's like the phrase used everywhere. Either admit them or don't. Why call Surgery just to let them know their patient is in the hospital is beyond me.
 
DarknightX said:
We still have to see them and do the consult, although it usually goes "no acute surgical intervention, thank you very much for this interesting consult."
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I should say with respect to admission. You can evaluate write a quick note and leave. So of course, once you say no, they get admitted to Medicine.
 
fancymylotus said:
suture. as in "oh its not a big enough deal for plastics to come do this, omfs is busy, hay lets call dental coz its somewhere in the vicinity of the head and neck!"
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Do ER docs not know how to put in sutures?
 
touchpause13 said:
No clue. It seems like there is a ton of material on all the tests. We also have a bunch of classes, I think we are in 8 right now.
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8 classes? We are taking 2 classes, anatomy, and "practice of medicine" But damn it anatomy in a 8 week block is torture. I'm starting to wonder if a man can study himself insane
 
EMDO2018 said:
8 classes? We are taking 2 classes, anatomy, and "practice of medicine" But damn it anatomy in a 8 week block is torture. I'm starting to wonder if a man can study himself insane
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I can understand wanting to finish Gross Anatomy before doing the other basic science classes, but 8 weeks is ridiculous to learn (and actually retain beyond the class).
 
DermViser said:
Except they'll just learn not to take anything you say seriously and then you'll be stuck with them when they crash.
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Or I could cry and tell them my feelings and these new young doctors will share my feels and then forgive me.
 
DarknightX said:
I have zero empathy for anyone who cried over some random test during their first 2 years of medical school.

Things of significant magnitude like bombing/failing step 1, getting kicked out of medical school, watching a patient suffer/die...those are things I can understand people crying over.

Give me a break with crying over a test. Like I said before, man up.
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Uh, I was threatened with repeating the year and potential expulsion. Actually, I don't think any school admin expected me to make it to second year. But it takes more than some crap in Micro to keep Ark down!

In any case, I'm not sure you understand what it's like to fail an exam. The school puts you on a trial, the school accuses of drug abuse and all kinds of other things, everybody wonders what's wrong with you and claims you're not trying hard enough, when you ARE trying, everybody is doing better than you...and then it dawns on you that YOU are the person they joke about when they say "hurrr, you wanna know what they call the guy who graduates last in his med school class"?

And then you feel lost, and wonder what you could do. And then your parents shout at you, people point out your score on the grade distribution and call you a "******" and a "*****,"* people say you shouldn't have been admitted to medical school and you "stole someone's spot," hell even your tutors (people who are honor bound to help you) make it clear that they've started wondering what is wrong with you.

And then you realize that all your premed dreams of what med school was going to be like have turned to ash.

Perhaps you wouldn't cry, but I'm sure you can see how someone else would. It's a lot of stress and suffering.

Shjanzey said:
Is telling someone not to get teary eyed every time they get yelled at or have a poor result on a test, considered "belittling"? Things sure have changed
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What's belittling is the way you completely strawman me and reduce my problems to something that seems insignificant.

Then again, this is not the first time you have been unfair to me. Despite what you may see on my grades, I remember things.



*Yes, this happened, as I've said before. The school posts anonymized grades on charts. The main result is that the 1st and 2nd quartile peeps laugh and make fun of the outliers at the bottom.
 
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Arkangeloid said:
What's belittling is the way you completely strawman me and reduce my problems to something that seems insignificant.

Then again, this is not the first time you have been unfair to me. Despite what you may see on my grades, I remember things.
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I don't recall having anyone specific in mind when I posted, but if you want we can make all my posts about you. It can be our little thing. Sounds like fun!
 
Shjanzey said:
I don't recall having anyone specific in mind when I posted, but if you want we can make all my posts about you. It can be our little thing. Sounds like fun!
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Who else in this thread was crying after failed exams, then?
 
Arkangeloid said:
Who else in this thread was crying after failed exams, then?
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I really don't get it. If you've been in academic jeopardy before and are constantly barely passing things, why do you come on here and waste valuable study and review time or even destress/relaxation time? Im not a hater. It just logically makes no sense to me.
 
Arkangeloid said:
What's belittling is the way you completely strawman me and reduce my problems to something that seems insignificant.

Then again, this is not the first time you have been unfair to me. Despite what you may see on my grades, I remember things.
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I believe he was referrring to what DarknightX was saying, not you.
 
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fancymylotus said:
I really don't get it. If you've been in academic jeopardy before and are constantly barely passing things, why do you come on here and waste valuable study and review time or even destress/relaxation time? Im not a hater. It just logically makes no sense to me.
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You can't study all the time, and it helps me to get my thoughts out here. My parents don't want to listen to me and my therapist isn't always around. And as DarkKnight so eloquently pointed out, a man "with a pair" would scorn me for telling him this.
 
Arkangeloid said:
Uh, I was threatened with repeating the year and potential expulsion. Actually, I don't think any school admin expected me to make it to second year. But it takes more than some crap in Micro to keep Ark down!

In any case, I'm not sure you understand what it's like to fail an exam. The school puts you on a trial, the school accuses of drug abuse and all kinds of other things, everybody wonders what's wrong with you and claims you're not trying hard enough, when you ARE trying, everybody is doing better than you...and then it dawns on you that YOU are the person they joke about when they say "hurrr, you wanna know what they call the guy who graduates last in his med school class"?

And then you feel lost, and wonder what you could do. And then your parents shout at you, people point out your score on the grade distribution and call you a "******" and a "*****,"* people say you shouldn't have been admitted to medical school and you "stole someone's spot," hell even your tutors (people who are honor bound to help you) make it clear that they've started wondering what is wrong with you.

And then you realize that all your premed dreams of what med school was going to be like have turned to ash.

Perhaps you wouldn't cry, but I'm sure you can see how someone else would. It's a lot of stress and suffering.
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Medical schools go into overdrive bc they don't want to be accused of overlooking something. Are there times they overshoot? Yes. There are medical students in the past who've had substance abuse problems, anxiety, depression, etc. These things easily pop up in the med student population. They just want to make sure that's not the case and don't miss these things. Are all med school administrators dinguses? No. You will run into a few sometimes or at least ones that are annoyin. There are always immature people in a med school class. Doctors are human just like everyone else. Ignore them, don't pay attention to what they think and do what you need to do to succeed, which you will. Your tutors probably think you're not reaching your full potential that they know you're capable of.
 
fancymylotus said:
I really don't get it. If you've been in academic jeopardy before and are constantly barely passing things, why do you come on here and waste valuable study and review time or even destress/relaxation time? Im not a hater. It just logically makes no sense to me.
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Probably bc SDN is an outlet for him. Nothing wrong with that, IMHO.
 
Arkangeloid said:
You can't study all the time, and it helps me to get my thoughts out here. My parents don't want to listen to me and my therapist isn't always around. And as DarkKnight so eloquently pointed out, a man "with a pair" would scorn me for telling him this.
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They probably do want to listen, but they don't know how to solve it. You can't expect your parents to solve all your problems. Eventually, you, and only you can do it. I also think part of the problem is that you're not reaching your full potential - some of it bc of time spent on SDN (no offense) but a lot bc of low-self confidence which snowballs into other areas.
 
Arkangeloid said:
You can't study all the time, and it helps me to get my thoughts out here. My parents don't want to listen to me and my therapist isn't always around. And as DarkKnight so eloquently pointed out, a man "with a pair" would scorn me for telling him this.
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I think that you would have a more receptive audience if you didn't constantly say things that are offensive/naïve/downright ridiculous.
 
EMDO2018 said:
8 classes? We are taking 2 classes, anatomy, and "practice of medicine" But damn it anatomy in a 8 week block is torture. I'm starting to wonder if a man can study himself insane
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Lemme think:
Biochem
History of med
Behavioral med
Clinical med
Anatomy
Professional certification
OMM
Med ethics
 
DermViser said:
And they run all semester?
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No lol that would be stupid. Some run all year (anatomy) some run like 3 weeks (history of med) we'll add more thru the semester as others finish.
 
touchpause13 said:
Yes.
Obviously we have mandatory labs tho for a few of those
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Not blaming you obviously, but this seems like a really inefficient use of your time. The dental students at our school have a year 1 schedule like this- they take all our classes plus a few of their own, so they had at least 5 classes going on at any given time. Not only do they learn our med school material very superficially (who could blame them, 95% has no relevance for them), they were all stretched so thin they breezed through the dental stuff too. We were taking 2-3 classes at a time, so when our tests rolled around we were able to take them much more seriously. 8 or 9 classes at a time will have you going through the material at such a breakneck speed you'll probably have to learn it all again for the boards.
Just a heads up.
 
I swear i'll hit all the parties I can.
Dtf of course
Arkangeloid said:
You can't study all the time, and it helps me to get my thoughts out here. My parents don't want to listen to me and my therapist isn't always around. And as DarkKnight so eloquently pointed out, a man "with a pair" would scorn me for telling him this.
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seems like you have a crush on your therapist, some therapist are just nothing more than emotional ******, get yourself a male role model (Hemmingway, Voltaire, Hesse, are just a few) and learn **** about life.
 
Serous Demilune said:
Not blaming you obviously, but this seems like a really inefficient use of your time. The dental students at our school have a year 1 schedule like this- they take all our classes plus a few of their own, so they had at least 5 classes going on at any given time. Not only do they learn our med school material very superficially (who could blame them, 95% has no relevance for them), they were all stretched so thin they breezed through the dental stuff too. We were taking 2-3 classes at a time, so when our tests rolled around we were able to take them much more seriously. 8 or 9 classes at a time will have you going through the material at such a breakneck speed you'll probably have to learn it all again for the boards.
Just a heads up.
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I think her curriculum structure just sucks in general.
 
Kahreek said:
I swear i'll hit all the parties I can.
Dtf of course

seems like you have a crush on your therapist, some therapist are just nothing more than emotional ******, get yourself a male role model (Hemmingway, Voltaire, Hesse, are just a few) and learn **** about life.
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I swear sometimes you post good stuff, and other times you just troll. Why?
 
Kahreek said:
seems like you have a crush on your therapist, some therapist are just nothing more than emotional ******, get yourself a male role model (Hemmingway, Voltaire, Hesse, are just a few) and learn **** about life.
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I'm a big Hemingway fan, but he is a terrible role model. He was an alcoholic who had 4 wives and committed suicide. Artistic genius, but terrible role model.
 
Serous Demilune said:
Not blaming you obviously, but this seems like a really inefficient use of your time. The dental students at our school have a year 1 schedule like this- they take all our classes plus a few of their own, so they had at least 5 classes going on at any given time. Not only do they learn our med school material very superficially (who could blame them, 95% has no relevance for them), they were all stretched so thin they breezed through the dental stuff too. We were taking 2-3 classes at a time, so when our tests rolled around we were able to take them much more seriously. 8 or 9 classes at a time will have you going through the material at such a breakneck speed you'll probably have to learn it all again for the boards.
Just a heads up.
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I have nothing to compare it to, but it definitely seems a little fast pasted lol. Right now I've been ignoring the more fluff classes and busting my butt on the ones I know will be on boards. :shrug: not sure how good of an idea that is but we shall find out lol
 
dudes/dudettes I discovered pathoma, and I watch at 1.7x speed and then when I read normal writing on the computer, I feel like I'm in limitless and my mind is just ripping through it. I feel like I'm academically high
 
PL198 said:
dudes/dudettes I discovered pathoma, and I watch at 1.7x speed and then when I read normal writing on the computer, I feel like I'm in limitless and my mind is just ripping through it. I feel like I'm academically high
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Your school doesn't have recorded lectures that you can speed up? Mastered that 2x speed and normal lecture was torture. Too bad 3rd year didactics are mandatory and not recorded :rage:
 
PL198 said:
dudes/dudettes I discovered pathoma, and I watch at 1.7x speed and then when I read normal writing on the computer, I feel like I'm in limitless and my mind is just ripping through it. I feel like I'm academically high
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Would be nice if clinicals could be sped up at 1.5x-2x speed.
 
Ismet said:
Your school doesn't have recorded lectures that you can speed up? Mastered that 2x speed and normal lecture was torture. Too bad 3rd year didactics are mandatory and not recorded :rage:
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I've discovered I can speed up some to 3x. Bow down bitches
 
Ismet said:
Your school doesn't have recorded lectures that you can speed up? Mastered that 2x speed and normal lecture was torture. Too bad 3rd year didactics are mandatory and not recorded :rage:
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Jinx!
 
Ismet said:
Your school doesn't have recorded lectures that you can speed up? Mastered that 2x speed and normal lecture was torture. Too bad 3rd year didactics are mandatory and not recorded :rage:
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They do, I just ignore them because they're useless. However 1.7x pathoma is like academic crack
 
DermViser said:
Would be nice if clinicals could be sped up at 1.5x-2x speed.
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So in addition to 3 hours of didactics tomorrow afternoon, I also have call and will be in the hospital for at least 15 hours. I wish I could speed up the lectures and take a nap! 😛
 
gosh studying is so hard ... i wish i was one of those smart cookies who gets everything in the first read
 
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