List your annoyances

[MN81]

Annoyances

1. Most people from Suburbs
2. Urinary infections
3. Not being able to read the Op-Ed section of the New York Times online
4. Substituting 'u' for 'you'

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[UserNameNeeded]

Now I immediately say "Emergency Medicine", unless I'm talking with a physician, because then I give response #1 (and they nod their head affirmatively, agree than an open mind is important, and then tell me to go into Derm or Rads).

Why do they encourage you to go into those specialties (especially assuming that it's not their specialty)?

 

[Tiger26]

When you have to miss an event because of the Phi Beta Kappa ceremony (one time annoyance obviously), and everybody asks you if it is a little too late to be joining a fraternity. Plus the specialty thing, that gets annoying too.

 

[UserNameNeeded]

When you have to miss an event because of the Phi Beta Kappa ceremony, and everybody asks you if it is a little too late to be joining a fraternity.

 

[SanDiegoSOD]

Why do they encourage you to go into those specialties (especially assuming that it's not their specialty)?

There's a few universal truths about practicing physicians:

1. They wish they could work fewer hours.
2. They HATE being on call.
3. They wish they made more money.


Derm and Rads allow them to do these things. That's why they're two of the most competitive specialties.

 

[mjakec]

During my micro final 2 weeks ago, the kid sitting next to me let his phone vibrate the whole test without turing it off! It was more annoying than the normal ringing.

 

[PoorMD]

During my micro final 2 weeks ago, the kid sitting next to me let his phone vibrate the whole test without turing it off! It was more annoying than the normal ringing.

my annoyances:

1. SUVs with only 1 passenger (i.e. just the driver, usually a rich young mom)
2. people in the library answering the phone loudly "IM IN THE LIBRARY, YA.. YA... YA... Ya..... YA WE' Have to finish this Comm homework, then we're goin to the BAR. SEE YOU AT THE BAR. YA.. YA.... AT THE BAR. NO- THE BAR.. OK, DUDE YOU ARE SO DRUNK RIGHT NOW.. " (meanwhile I am quietly loading a gun in the back of the library)
3. lecturers who feel 'monotone' is a professional and clear tactic, and refuse to use any form of verbal color or humor to lighten up the class (because that would be unprofessional, right)

👎

 

[beefballs]

pants

 

[SanDiegoSOD]

2. people in the library answering the phone loudly "IM IN THE LIBRARY, YA.. YA... YA... Ya..... YA WE' Have to finish this Comm homework, then we're goin to the BAR. SEE YOU AT THE BAR. YA.. YA.... AT THE BAR. NO- THE BAR.. OK, DUDE YOU ARE SO DRUNK RIGHT NOW.. " (meanwhile I am quietly loading a gun in the back of the library)

That's the worst when its finals... Groups of people sitting around, studying horribly inefficiently as they gab about BS at top volume...

 

[rowdybow]

when people ask me what speciality I want to do, and I don't feel like giving the "undecided, open mind" speech, I tell them either pediatric gynecology or pediatric urolology.

 

[mchou]

when people ask me what speciality I want to do, and I don't feel like giving the "undecided, open mind" speech, I tell them either pediatric gynecology or pediatric urolology.

Great thread OP!

 

[synapse lapse]

r pediatric gynecology or pediatric urolology.

ohh legal method to fulfill pedophilic desires so sweet little boys and girls naughty parts

 

[Chronic Student]

pants

I nearly s**t myself. That's some funny stuff.

Today's pet peeve: When grandma (who doesn't know squat) brings her 11 year old grandson in for diarrhea and proceeds to let him tell me his story about moldy tortillas, bad sour cream and pop rocks as the possible causes of his diarrhea. This is while grandma is telling me that the mom does not want his warts frozen off she wants "the band-aid with the medicine" and that his eczema is really bad right now and the Triamcinolone cream is not working anymore. Grandma proceeds to call mom three different times at work to ask her questions.

I finally had enough and told grandma that we should deal with one problem at a time and to save all of our questions for one phone call to mom.

Five minutes and a phone call later we've discovered the kid's been on Omnicef for 7 days, prescribed at an OSH for a viral URI. He's not using his steroid cream and needs a refill and the pharmacy down the street carries the special band-aids. (Did I mention that moms a nurse).

A scrip and a kick out the door is all they needed.

Thirty minutes of my life wasted and you know it was the last patient of the day and they were late for the appointment.

-Mike

 

[PreMedAdAG]

I don't know how I forgot this one....

library folk.... the weirdos who have social hour when clearly no one else is talking, I mean really, if you want to hang out with your friends, DONT GO TO THE LIBRARY, the library is a miserable home for undergrads who need to cram and med/law/grad students who go there everyday out of necessity!!!!

An example of how things go from bad to ugly

Annoying dude: "blah BLAH BLAAAAAAAHHHHHH"
Me: ..... gives the 'library look', you know the, 'please be quiet, you're loud look'...

Annoying Dude: "why don't you just put earplugs in"
Me: "Oh , great idea, or wait, better yet I have one for you.......... you could shut the hell up since it's called a 'reading room' ..."

.........silence.......

 

[DORocksMySocks]

I am CHANGING my annoyance, b/c last night my mom did something that just drove me crazy!!!

We were chatting, and she was telling me how she was talking to her best friend, who was on some med that my mom has randomly deemed as unsafe, and so my mother was telling this friend how she needed to tell her doctor to change her meds b/c she was on dangerous ones....my mom not only did that with this particular friend, but she does this with every single friend and every acquaintance. To her benefit, she is the department head of medical nutrition therapy and diabetes education, as well as a Lilly rep...But come on!! Those people’s doctors know what other meds they are on, interactions...all that jazz. She has no business telling her friends to demand a change in meds just because she saw some study, or whatever....erg, it makes me very grumpy.

**We are not this creative on the Osteo threads, so thanks for letting me share my feelings on annoyances

 

[DORocksMySocks]

I also really hate it when people ask me if I am related to some famous person just because we share the last name…..

 

[burlypie]

Question: What do you do for a living?

Answer: I am going to medical school in the Fall

Question: For waht degree?

Answer: Uhm, MD 🙄

Reply: But that's 12 years of training!


I knew that! Is that the only thing you can say in regards to my aspirations to be a physician??? I hear it from people all the time, this is so annoying

on a similar note, my favorite:
Plane/train seat mate: what do you do?
me: I'm in medical school right now
p/tsm: Oh, are you going to be a nurse?
me: no, I'm going to be a doctor...

This has happened more times than I care to count! Just cause I'm a woman...

 

[akpete]

on a similar note, my favorite:
Plane/train seat mate: what do you do?
me: I'm in medical school right now
p/tsm: Oh, are you going to be a nurse?
me: no, I'm going to be a doctor...

This has happened more times than I care to count! Just cause I'm a woman...

I'd say that when I tell people I'm in med school, the responses are:

1. are you going to be a nurse? (~50%)
2. what major are you? (~25%)
3. oh, and what are you going to school for? (~5%)
4. wow, really? *looking scared to talk anymore* (~5%)
5. really? good for you. *smiles appropriately as they actually know what "medical school" means* (~20%)

People, they call it medical school for a reason.

 

[100041]

People, they call it medical school for a reason.

Apparently it's not for math skills. 😉
(50+25+5+5+20=105!)

 

[UCSBMed1]

On my Peds clerkship two of the students I was rotating with showed up THE DAY BEFORE (A sunday...I **** you not) to "pick up patients" and "help out". I've never hit a chick, but i was so tempted at that point.

Haha are you serious? Man there are some serious gunners in our class man...

Thank God there are only a few of them!

 

[inked_caduceus]

The one schmuck who has to stand in front of the test scores, point their own and yell "YEAH!"

Just look at it and get the hell out. I may be 5'3, but I have sharp elbows.

 

[Tiger26]

Like others on the board, I now give the standard 'emergency room' response when asked about what speciality I want to do (I'm actually interested in it, but keeping an open mind, notwithstanding the fact that I don't even start till Aug.)

The thing is, next they all say "Umm . . . isn't there a lot of pressure in that? Seems pretty stressful" Well of course it's going to have a lot of pressure and stress, but don't you think that cutting into someone in the OR that the anesthesiologist's keeping on the brink of death has some pressure with it. Hell, I'm sure a family practice doc has some pressure when s(he) says, "yep that could be cancerous," or "nah, it'll be alright, just get that mole checked in the next couple of years"

Just because docs are getting shot at on 'ER' while walking the tightrope of life and death doesn't mean that every ED in the US is like that 24/7.

 

[UCSBMed1]

People who use the term "M1, 2, etc." when referring to medical school. Law school uses L, we use MS: its a fact! 😉

Bi*chy residents, who, because they are on your service and are technically your senior, you have to take their crap/do scut. This is especially true for female surgeons I've found...

People who constantly stare at your nametag. It makes you uncomfortable, as if they're checking you out when the first thing a nurse/MD does when you walk in the room is look at your d*mn nametag. Geez, look once, see who it is, and stop! What the **** are you looking at!

 

[akpete]

Apparently it's not for math skills. 😉
(50+25+5+5+20=105!)

Woops!!

 

[lil pook]

what i hate (this list is long)

1) having the week before the test packed with random bull**** that we're required to attend .. utterly worthless

2) classmates that gossip and create ridiculous 7th grader drama. hello you idiots...we are ****ing adults!!

3) people that hijack your study group uninvited and then proceed to blurt out the answer first to every single question we pimp each other on....go get your own damn study group jacka$$!!

4) friends/boyfriend/family that don't understand that you're a medical student and can't attend their party/basketball game/bar-b-Q...why don't you study for me then? i wanna say to them

5) teachers that don't drink their damn coffee before lecturing and mix up words that are important and that will screw you on the test if you're not careful to catch their mistakes

6) cold, freezing class rooms that they keep 65 frikin degrees...why in the hell is that necessary?

7) no parking at school. why the hell did i pay 150 dollars for a parking pass if i still have to walk a mile after i park? hmmmm? why don't' we get our own parking lot? why when i pay over 20 grand a year do i have to compete with the other students at my university for parking spots who pay 50 dollars per credit hour? makes no sense to me at all....then again, little at my school does

8) classmates that sit in back of me in lecture emailing/AIMing their stupid friends non stop while banging away on their computers...is that necessary? typewriters dont' exist anymore..DONT BANG!!!!!!

9) living far from school and having to pay 3 bucks a gallon for gas.... i am broke

10) teachers that sneer at you when you don't attend their class..what does it matter if i don't attend your stupid class if i am making an A in it anyway...besides you suck as a lecturer..go do more research


i'm done now and no i don't feel better

 

[lil pook]

what i hate (this list is long)

1) having the week before the test packed with random bull**** that we're required to attend .. utterly worthless

2) classmates that gossip and create ridiculous 7th grader drama. hello you idiots...we are ****ing adults!!

3) people that hijack your study group uninvited and then proceed to blurt out the answer first to every single question we pimp each other on....go get your own damn study group jacka$$!!

4) friends/boyfriend/family that don't understand that you're a medical student and can't attend their party/basketball game/bar-b-Q...why don't you study for me then? i wanna say to them

5) teachers that don't drink their damn coffee before lecturing and mix up words that are important and that will screw you on the test if you're not careful to catch their mistakes

6) cold, freezing class rooms that they keep 65 frikin degrees...why in the hell is that necessary?

7) no parking at school. why the hell did i pay 150 dollars for a parking pass if i still have to walk a mile after i park? hmmmm? why don't' we get our own parking lot? why when i pay over 20 grand a year do i have to compete with the other students at my university for parking spots who pay 50 dollars per credit hour? makes no sense to me at all....then again, little at my school does

8) classmates that sit in back of me in lecture emailing/AIMing their stupid friends non- stop while banging away on their computers...is that necessary? typewriters dont' exist anymore..DONT BANG!!!!!!

9) living far from school and having to pay 3 bucks a gallon for gas.... i am broke

10) teachers that sneer at you when you don't attend their class..what does it matter if i don't attend your stupid class if i am making an A in it anyway?...besides you suck as a lecturer..go do more research


i'm done now and no i don't feel better

 

[Dunce]

People who use the term "M1, 2, etc." when referring to medical school. Law school uses L, we use MS: its a fact! 😉

Bi*chy residents, who, because they are on your service and are technically your senior, you have to take their crap/do scut. This is especially true for female surgeons I've found...

People who constantly stare at your nametag. It makes you uncomfortable, as if they're checking you out when the first thing a nurse/MD does when you walk in the room is look at your d*mn nametag. Geez, look once, see who it is, and stop! What the **** are you looking at!

Oh how could I have forgotten about the nametag glance/stare routine?!!
I can't stand that crap. It's like everyone who walks by you has to size you up based on the color on the nametag or what department it says you are in. It's a similar situation to my earlier post about the lingering elevator stare....dude, just a quick nonchalant glance and move on. No need to drool.

Also the MS thing is overrated. Around these parts we use M-I, M-II, M-III, M-IV. Roman numerals are way classier. 😉

 

[PoorMD]

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5) teachers that don't drink their damn coffee before lecturing and mix up words that are important and that will screw you on the test if you're not careful to catch their mistakes
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10) teachers that sneer at you when you don't attend their class..what does it matter if i don't attend your stupid class if i am making an A in it anyway...besides you suck as a lecturer..go do more research


i'm done now and no i don't feel better

It's so true!! Most professors are better at their lab work, writing research grants, organizing lab activities, etc. than actually lecturing to a room of med students. There are some professors who are outstanding.. this is the exception, not the rule..

Don't sneer at me when I skip your class, I am at home studying from a much higher yield source (the class notes with a textbook nearby).

and like lil pook, I do pretty darned well without goin to those classes..

 

[Paws]

Ok, here is ONE of my many pet peeves. I have too many to count and right now my brain is fried so this one will have to do.

Professors and PROCTORS who talk through an exam. Did I say that clearly enough?? let me repeat it, proctors and professors who are supposed to be quietly monitoring your behavior, actually TALKING like it's a bloody coffeeshop.

Hullo!! this is our final exam. I would like to pass this stupid course, but since I can hear your stupid blah blah talking through my ear plugs and my fingers stuffed in my ears, well, I might not be able to concentrate as well as I would like. And no, making looks like: please, you're talking too loud, or even raising my fingers to my lips in the classic shhhh gesture - these do not see to have an effect. Amazing!

 

[lil pook]

i hate when i double post...it makes me look like the jacka$$ that i am

 

[Tiki]

I don't know how I forgot this one....

library folk.... the weirdos who have social hour when clearly no one else is talking, I mean really, if you want to hang out with your friends, DONT GO TO THE LIBRARY, the library is a miserable home for undergrads who need to cram and med/law/grad students who go there everyday out of necessity!!!!

An example of how things go from bad to ugly

Annoying dude: "blah BLAH BLAAAAAAAHHHHHH"
Me: ..... gives the 'library look', you know the, 'please be quiet, you're loud look'...

Annoying Dude: "why don't you just put earplugs in"
Me: "Oh , great idea, or wait, better yet I have one for you.......... you could shut the hell up since it's called a 'reading room' ..."

.........silence.......

People who talk in libraries suck.

The worst is when it's fellow medical students talking. I was studying for the boards in the library, and every twenty minutes the people in the desks next to me would have a conversation...loudly...about the boards, about what they were getting for lunch, about what movie they were renting that evening.

I felt like screaming at them, "You may not care if you pass, but I do. Shut the hell up." Instead I just sat there fuming, tapping my pen and shooting them the evil death look, hoping they'd shut the hell up.

 

[Ambs]

STFU n00b I r teh r0x0r!

I think I may love you.

 

[Ambs]

Things that annoy me:

1) Definitely when classmates not their head (sometimes with such force and purpose that it's amusing) during difficult concepts... But occassionally I do it too... but out of spite damn it.

2) Lecturers who realize that they will not get through 89729473298723 pages of notes during a 50 minute lecture, and then proceed to go so fast that I can barely catch what they're saying, see what's on the slide... at which point I curse myself for attending lecture.

3) Classmates who change their behavior towards you on a day-to-day basis, i.e. exceedingly nice, chatty, and welcoming one day and completely unaware of your presence the next.

 

[evade]

2) Lecturers who realize that they will not get through 89729473298723 pages of notes during a 50 minute lecture, and then proceed to go so fast that I can barely catch what they're saying, see what's on the slide... at which point I curse myself for attending lecture.

Oh man. I'm totally in one of those now. 5 minutes left in the hour, 18 powerpoint slides left. Not a good sign.

The worst thing about such lectures is that the lecturers never distill out what's important; instead, they toss up eight billion names and numbers and random factoids, and when I return to my notes to study, I just sit there going, "wtf?"

Also, I hate it when lecturers aren't considerate of your time. It's Friday afternoon and you want to go home? Too bad. Lecture's not over yet. 🙁

 

[kirexhana]

2) classmates that gossip and create ridiculous 7th grader drama. hello you idiots...we are ****ing adults!!

gossip and drama is not limited to middle school. as immature as it may seem, it's a phenomenon than transcends ages. i think it just happens to people who don't have anything particularly exciting happening in their own lives.

 

[path problems]

Countdown of my annoyances:

#5. People who will go to any extent to make themselves look good at the expense of others.

#4. People who get an ego boost by watching others go through a tough time.

#3. People who go to great lengths just to find out how others are doing academically, and gloat when they know someone is doing poorly.

#2. People training to be physicians who are academically brilliant and morally shallow. Maybe business would be a more suitable profession.

#1. My own naive-ness which allowed me to share my challenges with such people. I should have known better than to assume that I would actually find support in med school. No such thing. Sunny side up - I know to stay away from them.

 

[DebDynamite]

I get this "Oh you are going to be a nurse, right?" thing from time to time myself. Note it has never come from a woman, or a man under 45. But, the last time it happened, I figured out how to handle it.

He said- "So, what kind of nurse are you going to be when you graduate?"
I replied (faking confusion), "I'm sorry, I don't understand."
"Well, you are going to be a nurse right- I thought that is what you just told me..."

I stated, "Oh, gosh no- I am SO certain I told you I'm going to be a PHYSICIAN- maybe when I get out and start a practice you can come see me. I'll check your hearing- I'm in MEDICAL school." Then I wink at them- they don't quite know how to deal with it.

 

[Mayhem]

what i hate (this list is long)

1) having the week before the test packed with random bull**** that we're required to attend .. utterly worthless

I loved it when one of my prof's thought he had any right to ask me why I wasn't at said bull****. As if I was working with this man. I politely explained to him that I don't live on campus or even near campus and I wasn't going to spend my time commuting to school when I had a mountain to study.

 

[Dunce]

I get this "Oh you are going to be a nurse, right?" thing from time to time myself. Note it has never come from a woman, or a man under 45. But, the last time it happened, I figured out how to handle it.

He said- "So, what kind of nurse are you going to be when you graduate?"
I replied (faking confusion), "I'm sorry, I don't understand."
"Well, you are going to be a nurse right- I thought that is what you just told me..."

I stated, "Oh, gosh no- I am SO certain I told you I'm going to be a PHYSICIAN- maybe when I get out and start a practice you can come see me. I'll check your hearing- I'm in MEDICAL school." Then I wink at them- they don't quite know how to deal with it.

nice! I am glad I don't have to deal with that issue (being a dude) because I would probably lose it on somebody sooner or later.

I have this funny image in my head that your response would be much better with a good old fashioned hand-on-hip-with-finger-waving with the neck movement back and forth followed up by a well-timed "oh no you didn't."

 

[PreMedAdAG]

People who talk in libraries suck.

The worst is when it's fellow medical students talking. I was studying for the boards in the library, and every twenty minutes the people in the desks next to me would have a conversation...loudly...about the boards, about what they were getting for lunch, about what movie they were renting that evening.

I felt like screaming at them, "You may not care if you pass, but I do. Shut the hell up." Instead I just sat there fuming, tapping my pen and shooting them the evil death look, hoping they'd shut the hell up.

Ah yes, the evil death look.... I'l have you know that I patented that look... why is it that other students cannot understand social cues!

 

[manO'war]

1): the classmate who is sitting close to the front of the room and thinks nobody can notice him digging his nose. dude, jus sit at least somewhere near the back!!!

2) the professor who dosent show up for class (happened at least 4 times in one sem)

 

[tiger_lily]

Ohhhh, I'm starting MS1 (or, ahem, M-I 😀) in Aug. I get the nurse thing ALL the time! And something else I've noticed since being accepted into medical school (all of 11 days ago): People keep asking me for advice on random medication interactions and weirdo med conditions! They usually preface it with "oh, you're going to be a doctor, maybe you'll know ______". I've been on the road to being a doctor for a LONG time but all of a sudden, now that I've been accepted into med school, I must know these things! LOL. I think it's happened at least 3 times in the last 11 days.

 

[Callogician]

Ohhhh, I'm starting MS1 (or, ahem, M-I 😀) in Aug. I get the nurse thing ALL the time! And something else I've noticed since being accepted into medical school (all of 11 days ago): People keep asking me for advice on random medication interactions and weirdo med conditions! They usually preface it with "oh, you're going to be a doctor, maybe you'll know ______". I've been on the road to being a doctor for a LONG time but all of a sudden, now that I've been accepted into med school, I must know these things! LOL. I think it's happened at least 3 times in the last 11 days.

"People are stupid" - My preceptor

 

[DOCTORSAIB]

So I'm taking the boards in a few weeks. Obviously, I've been studying like a maniac for this exam.

This chic calls me up who's brother went to med school at SABA in the Caribbean (mind you, not SGU/Ross/AUC). She's like "why are you always studying. My brother never studied this much. He only studied like 2-3 hours a day for Step 1!"

Needless to say, I almost lost it. If he was SO F'ING SMART, HE SHOULD HAVE GONE TO HARVARD!!! Arghhhhh.

Ok, I feel much better now....🙂

 

[smkoepke]

People who call "Medical Assisting" or "Medical Technology" school "Medical school." Are you getting a degree in MEDICINE? NO...you are getting a degree or certificate in medical assisting or medical technology...

along this same vein, people who go to medical assistant school who tell everyone they are a nurse, or that it is the same thing.

 

[psipsina]

Ohhhh, I'm starting MS1 (or, ahem, M-I 😀) in Aug. I get the nurse thing ALL the time! And something else I've noticed since being accepted into medical school (all of 11 days ago): People keep asking me for advice on random medication interactions and weirdo med conditions! They usually preface it with "oh, you're going to be a doctor, maybe you'll know ______". I've been on the road to being a doctor for a LONG time but all of a sudden, now that I've been accepted into med school, I must know these things! LOL. I think it's happened at least 3 times in the last 11 days.

I'm currently working as a server at a restaraunt and other employees and even the managers constantly ask me for medical advice, . . . its too funny because if I say someone is really sick the managers believe me and send them home, lol. Its usually common sense stuff, like the girl with the pussing eye shouldn't be waiting tables, or yes she has a fever but the other day I got "does this look like scabbies??", lol. Even my mother-in-law called me from across the country to try to get me to diagnose her with carpel tunnel, and this was when I was still in undergrad, and I had to calmy explain that I wasn't a doctor yet and she should go see a doctor.

I also get the people thinking I'm going to be a nurse thing too. I just tell them that I am going to be a doctor and then they get all impressed and feel stupid which I throroughly enjoy. The other day I told a table that I was going to medical school at the end of the summer and the guy noticed my wedding ring and asked me if I had any children, and I explained that I was waiting until after school was done and he proceeded to lecture me on how that was no good and I wouldn't have time then to stay home (!!!) and I explained that my husband plans on staying home and then he told me that my husband could never be a mother for my children and I should be ashamed of my choice to be a doctor instead of a mother!!!!! It took so much willpower not to speak my mind but since I was on the job I smiled and thanked him for sharing his opinion.

Also it drives me nutty when people don't seem to get how important med schools is for me. My husband and I are moving across country in mid july and people keep asking us what date we will be moving, and then when I tell them I get "but then you'll miss my birthday" or "but my wedding is . . . " and I just want to scream cause I'm moving to follow my dream that I have been working for for 6 years! I feel badly about my friend's wedding but I didn't ask him to have it a week before orientation starts . . . it sucks but its not like I'm gonna not go to med school to go to his wedding, right? Ugg.

 

[isotope1979]

I'll add another one more related to school.

How about the crazy background check forms and fingerprints needed to rotate through the VA. I really enjoyed spending over half an hour filling out those inefficient gestapo papers that were given to us and needed to be filled out during final exam week.

Unrelated to this thread but I LOVE THAT BOOK AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!

Confederancy of dunces, that is.

 

[KornKobs]

Here's one that drives me INSANE. I'm a pretty tall dude, 6 foot 7, 230 lbs. At LEAST 3 times a day, some random security guard/nurse/resident/social worker/crackhead on the street outside of the hospital asks me: "How tall are you?!? You should play basketball." Its kind of not so annoying when I''ve got no work to do and I''m well rested, but when its 7 am in the morning and I'm scurrying around trying to get stuff done on the floor, I just want to strangle someone.

There are other jobs for people over 6 foot besides basketball

Most people like me end up playing varsity ball for high school/college, but not everyone plays pro you *****

Do I come up to you and point out random things about your appearance. Oooh, you're fat as a whale, ever thought about a career as a sumo wrestler? You're ugly as sin, ever thought of a career as a circus side show freak? 👎

i know what you mean..I'm 4'11 (female) and people ALWAYS have to make a comment about my height.."are you old enough to work here?" I'm premed and working at a hospital..have to wear scrubs that are still too big for me even though it is the smallest size. but yea, it's very annoying

 

[Dunce]

Unrelated to this thread but I LOVE THAT BOOK AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!

Confederancy of dunces, that is.

nice!

I can't believe how many comments I have gotten about the new name/pic. I started a new SDN account recently to gain some semblance of anonymity, and I was looking around my room and saw the book. I just picked it as my new screen-name. Never thought I would get about 4 or 5 comments about it in a week.

It is an excellent read for those who are interested. Too bad we couldn't have more from an author who never got a chance to shine.

sorry for the thread hijack

In the immortal words of Wayne Campbell......."game on"

 

[KornKobs]

People who use the term "M1, 2, etc." when referring to medical school. Law school uses L, we use MS: its a fact! 😉

Bi*chy residents, who, because they are on your service and are technically your senior, you have to take their crap/do scut. This is especially true for female surgeons I've found...

People who constantly stare at your nametag. It makes you uncomfortable, as if they're checking you out when the first thing a nurse/MD does when you walk in the room is look at your d*mn nametag. Geez, look once, see who it is, and stop! What the **** are you looking at!

yea I've noticed that..I've been working at a hospital for about 6 months and just about every time I get in the elevator, I catch someone looking at my nametag. what's the deal!? (btw, those people just look, no intent of speaking to me)