MCW Class of 2010, Part 3

Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
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Xandie said:
Dr. Torre does, in fact, say that. The rule at the VA is that you're off on the weekend unless you're on call or post call. That's it. Dr. Torre doesn't work at the VA, so things are a little different at Froedtert.
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I love you. Oh, and I love Don for recommending the Pocket Medicine book...thing rawks.
 
*blush*
 
donnyfire said:
I saw there was a new version of it out this year.

Dang it.
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Yeah, and I picked up the old edition and opened it about two weeks before the new one came out. Oh swell. Guess I'll be like the 1994 caveman this month.
 
Are all of the path lectures going to be straight out of Robbins?
 
donnyfire said:
Didn't mean to blow you off today. I was delivering food to a meeting at 5:30.
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It's cool. People are busy. It's funny though, because something about residency caught my attention, and I started thinking about the personal statement for the ERAS, and all the funny lines that could be implemented for certain specialties...

"I always knew I loved penises...."
"You have to admit, there's just something INTERESTING about using a scope to look at intestines..."
"As a child, I was always more drawn to dead people."
"I have to admit, gun shot wounds are sweet."
 
My field has the best ones, at least tied with Don's.

"Luckily for me, I'm straight, so I don't have to mix business and pleasure."
 
True.

There are many retorts I've contemplated putting here, but most are inappropriate for posting in a public, family oriented forum such as this one.
 
TheProwler said:
I probably will tonight. Last night was terrible too.
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I'd love it if Benadryl worked for me. Unfortunately, most of the sleep meds either don't work or make me a total, extra-whacky space case the next day. Or both.
 
I wake up in a fog if I take benadryl. There is nothing like panicking when you don't recognize your own bedroom when you wake up.
 
indo said:
I wake up in a fog if I take benadryl. There is nothing like panicking when you don't recognize your own bedroom when you wake up.
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I've only woken up once and not known where I was (turned out to be my friend's house that I'd never been to before).
 
indo said:
I wake up in a fog if I take benadryl. There is nothing like panicking when you don't recognize your own bedroom when you wake up.
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Benadryl makes me nuts. I think it messes up my inner ear or causes saccades or something, because I end up disoriented and dizzy. Fun, fun, fun. They gave it to my dad in the hospital to help him sleep (my sister has some REALLY BRIGHT IDEAS sometimes) and it spun his perception 90 degrees, so he constantly felt he was going to slide out the foot of the bed. It was not pretty.

I learned a nice thing about a certain pathology lecturer. The pregnant pauses and repeated "UM"s kind of blur away if you play him double-speed, and then the lecture is kind of useful.
 
samenewme said:
Benadryl makes me nuts. I think it messes up my inner ear or causes saccades or something, because I end up disoriented and dizzy. Fun, fun, fun. They gave it to my dad in the hospital to help him sleep (my sister has some REALLY BRIGHT IDEAS sometimes) and it spun his perception 90 degrees, so he constantly felt he was going to slide out the foot of the bed. It was not pretty.
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Benadryl is actually the frontline drug to try to help people sleep in the hospital setting unless the patient has already tried it and had an adverse reaction (like your dad) or no effect at all. So I guess your sister was actually on the cutting edge of current therapeutic practices. 😉
 
DoctorFunk said:
Benadryl is actually the frontline drug to try to help people sleep in the hospital setting unless the patient has already tried it and had an adverse reaction (like your dad) or no effect at all. So I guess your sister was actually on the cutting edge of current therapeutic practices. 😉
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actually, providing the patient of a hard copy of the hospital's privacy practices is the true frontline, but it's not documented and doesn't require any physician orders. have you ever read that junk?
 
DoctorFunk said:
Benadryl is actually the frontline drug to try to help people sleep in the hospital setting unless the patient has already tried it and had an adverse reaction (like your dad) or no effect at all. So I guess your sister was actually on the cutting edge of current therapeutic practices. 😉
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Don't try it in a patient with a history of dementia. It's pretty anticholinergic, and can cause an acute delirium.

Trazodone is pretty good, and at Froedtert, they use a lot of ambien.
 
donnyfire said:
Don't try it in a patient with a history of dementia. It's pretty anticholinergic, and can cause an acute delirium.

Trazodone is pretty good, and at Froedtert, they use a lot of ambien.
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That would explain it right there. My father has dementia and a previous history of delirium.
 
So we already have our ethics small groups, our CER small groups, and our psych small groups, but now we also have Team-based Learning small groups? COME ON!!
 
TheProwler said:
So we already have our ethics small groups, our CER small groups, and our psych small groups, but now we also have Team-based Learning small groups? COME ON!!
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Welcome to second year.
 
donnyfire said:
Welcome to second year.
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Material= better, classes= much, much worse.


People who went to every single class last year are telling me that they won't go to Pathology ever again.
 
indo said:
Material= better, classes= much, much worse.


People who went to every single class last year are telling me that they won't go to Pathology ever again.
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indo said:
Material= better, classes= much, much worse.


People who went to every single class last year are telling me that they won't go to Pathology ever again.
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lol, awesome. the most convincing factor for me was the fact that I didn't know who was leading our computer renal phys lab until I asked (Mattson had already given like 20 lectures), and that was my best phys exam (even though most people thought it was the hardest material). I'm just as capable of reading the Powerpoint slides as the professor is.
 
the last slide in the notes said "A Few Cases"


Which actually means 10 cases with lots of information that isn't in our notes or available online.

That's not as bad as the lecture after that, which had no notes and nothing online. Here's hoping the co-op is good, because there's no way I'd make it through another lecture this awful morning.
 
TheProwler said:
the last slide in the notes said "A Few Cases"


Which actually means 10 cases with lots of information that isn't in our notes or available online.

That's not as bad as the lecture after that, which had no notes and nothing online. Here's hoping the co-op is good, because there's no way I'd make it through another lecture this awful morning.
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It's posted now.
 
Psych presentation or something? Weird.
 
Freakin' A. The heat on my car is on the fritz (it's climate controlled, and it always has trouble at the change of seasons when it needs to start using heat instead of A/C), and the furnace in my apartment won't kick on. It worked on Friday, but not yesterday or today, and it's 60 degrees at most in here. Brrrr!
 
TheProwler said:
and the furnace in my apartment won't kick on. It worked on Friday, but not yesterday or today, and it's 60 degrees at most in here. Brrrr!
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Sounds like my apartment. I have a space heater that I keep in my bathroom, then when I'm at home studying on those -15,234,090,090 days, I bring it around my apt with me because I'm cheap and won't turn my heat above 68. My heater also likes to randomly die on really cold days, so I'll wake up, and it'll be 50 (eg. the night before the anatomy final).
 
TheProwler said:
Doesn't using a heater use up plenty of electricity anyways?
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Not if you only have it on for little bits of time. Any room that's not my living room or kitchen doesn't like to be warmed/cooled by the vents very well, so I have to carry around the heater. It's not on when I sleep, so it's not too bad, and I just keep it blowing on me at about 70. Better than setting the heat in my apt to 75.
 
this is serious, we could make you delerious
 
And a hush fell over the thread as the mourning for the Micro grades swept the class.
 
samenewme said:
And a hush fell over the thread as the mourning for the Micro grades swept the class.
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And the professors refused to give back questions that I thought would be given back.




Here's the YouTube video of my brother proposing:
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzJWVa0oGek[/YOUTUBE]
 
Adorable. Which ones did they not give back? PM me! You know I'm never in touch with the gossip.
 
Ashers said:
Cute. =) Do people not expect stuff like that with a video camera? Or was the camera hidden.
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the cameraman started walking towards us from quite a ways a way, and we had completely distracted her, and even when he got down on one knee, she still managed to be oblivious to the camera at first.
 
TheProwler said:
PM'd you so that God and the Internet wouldn't know about the exam questions.
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Thanks. I'm trying to respect the whole respect our copyright's authoritay! thing.

I can't believe it's that question, the ONE QUESTION I was sure they'd accept. That's whacked.
 
Arr.

Avast.

Etc.

Happy talk like a pirate day.
 
samenewme said:
Thanks. I'm trying to respect the whole respect our copyright's authoritay! thing.

I can't believe it's that question, the ONE QUESTION I was sure they'd accept. That's whacked.
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And then they went ahead and accepted both of them later in the day. 😕
 
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