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DoctorFunk said:
I would like to believe you, so I'm giving you a chance to redeem yourself before dispatching myself on a secretive ninja mission that may or may not end with me attacking you silently from behind armed with nothing but a Ballpark frank (the expensive kind with melted cheese in the middle).

For the trust of the MCW student body, I ask you two questions that anyone accepted to MCW should know.

1). Who is the director of admissions, and is he one of the awesome things about MCW?
2). How much voucher money do they give you for lunch in the cafeteria?
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i accept your challenge, master ninja!!!

it's Mike Istwan my man and i think it was 5 bucks. i got a turkey wrap and free bagels from the womens!
 
Chulito said:
Oh, oh, oh, I know the answers, I know, can I say?
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No, Chulito, no! I already trust your awesomeness. Let's let our young colleague here integrate himself into the MCW community the only way possible: through groveling, begging, humiliation, and (if they're smart) bribe money.
 
BamBoozed said:
i accept your challenge, master ninja!!!

it's Mike Istwan my man and i think it was 5 bucks. i got a turkey wrap and free bagels from the womens!
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Damn. You got me there. At least you didn't load up on the salad bar only to find out how ridiculously overpriced it is like I did at my interview.

Anyways, you should choose MCW because we have a two ping-pong tables, PacMan, Cruisin' USA, foosball, and air hockey.
 
DoctorFunk said:
Damn. You got me there. At least you didn't load up on the salad bar only to find out how ridiculously overpriced it is like I did at my interview.
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All I got was a water bottle. But I had an incredibly sore throat and was coughing. My sister got salad, and I had to pay for the rest of her meal.
 
DoctorFunk said:
Damn. You got me there. At least you didn't load up on the salad bar only to find out how ridiculously overpriced it is like I did at my interview.

Anyways, you should choose MCW because we have a two ping-pong tables, PacMan, Cruisin' USA, foosball, and air hockey.
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isn't it MS. PacMan?
 
BamBoozed said:
isn't it MS. PacMan?
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Snap, I think you're right. "Oh, Ms. Pacman, I would sex that bow right off your head." For 200 MCW coolness points, which TV show is that quote from?
 
Ashers said:
oooooo... taking on the ninja now? Good job. 😉 Please tell me you're a pirate.
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You can't recruit the new class until they officially relinquish their other acceptances. I call foul.
 
Ashers said:
=þ Just trying to give reasons to come here. And you're just bitter that you've proved yourself fallible.
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Heh...I'm always bitter about something. Luckily for me, Dr. Ho proved I was fallible far better than I ever could earlier this week.
 
Ashers said:
oooooo... taking on the ninja now? Good job. 😉 Please tell me you're a pirate.
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i'm not a pirate, i'm a princess!!!!!!!

are we all issued our own stryker saws for anatomy lab or do we have to share?
 
Aren't these guys fun, Bamboozed? Why would you want to go anywhere else?
 
BamBoozed said:
i'm not a pirate, i'm a princess!!!!!!!

are we all issued our own stryker saws for anatomy lab or do we have to share?
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Hey, I'm both. I have pictures to prove it too.

You use saws when you need them. Not very often, and you share with the different groups. You also buy your own dissection kits.
 
Ashers said:
Hey, I'm both. I have pictures to prove it too.

You use saws when you need them. Not very often, and you share with the different groups. You also buy your own dissection kits.
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do you have to buy a certain kind? I already have one with about 20 different tools. will that be enough or is there something else you guys get?
 
Chulito said:
Aren't these guys fun, Bamboozed? Why would you want to go anywhere else?
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they are pretty cool. i like the smut rooms too. or whatever the tour guide called them. i LOVE dry erase markers 😀
 
BamBoozed said:
do you have to buy a certain kind? I already have one with about 20 different tools. will that be enough or is there something else you guys get?
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You'll be set. A kit like that will look like some kind of space age gadgetry compared to the caveman tools that they sell in the bookstore.
 
DoctorFunk said:
You really need to meet Splat. You guys could have hours of fun playing Win, Lose, or Draw in the Muts.
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he seems kinda crazy. is he really going to be a doctor? I was reading the other posts.
 
i actually wanna be a neuro surgeon, maybe ortho surgeon so I'm pretty stoked. but i'm not a fan of bones much i just like the real big important stuff.
 
Ashers said:
My lab table was not the FSA group. That group was near Splat. My group was the, let's get out of here asap.
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I don't think I can give my table a name. All I know is that I spent most of the time alternating between cringing and doing a stand-up comedy routine.
 
DoctorFunk said:
That is most unfortunate. Little known fact: wifey's dad worked binding books and actually bound the most recent compilation of the Lord of the Rings books (the spiffy one that came out around the 2nd movie or so). Needless to say, I got a free copy. 😉

How many other LotR geeks are out there? I've always wanted to try to watch all 3 extended editions of the movies in one sitting (taking only quick breaks for food and other necessities). If anyone else is morbidly curious how painful that might be, maybe we could plan a geekathon. I've got the dvds all ready to go...
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I'm an LotR geek, but I can't sit through the movies. I've read the books too many times, and the characters have their own faces for me. I can't deal with the changes in Faramir in the 2nd film and couldn't make myself go see the third. I wasn't crazy about what they did with Saruman, either. However, just to put myself in perspective, I am not so far gone that I'm mad they ditched Glorfindel and had Arwen rescue Frodo on the way to Rivendell.
 
BamBoozed said:
do you have to buy a certain kind? I already have one with about 20 different tools. will that be enough or is there something else you guys get?
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That will be enough if your group members don't drop too many of them into the humidor, never to be seen again. Do get a big old box of scalpel blades, though. Sometimes they're the only thing you can use to remove fascia, and they get dull fast when used that way.
 
Chulito said:
Aren't these guys fun, Bamboozed? Why would you want to go anywhere else?
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Exactly. Hey, Chulito, Prowler told me today you're feeling old, and you're not even 40! Way to make me feel decrepit, dude!
 
samenewme said:
I'm an LotR geek, but I can't sit through the movies. I've read the books too many times, and the characters have their own faces for me. I can't deal with the changes in Faramir in the 2nd film and couldn't make myself go see the third. I wasn't crazy about what they did with Saruman, either. However, just to put myself in perspective, I am not so far gone that I'm mad they ditched Glorfindel and had Arwen rescue Frodo on the way to Rivendell.
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I liked the Sharky part of book 6. I was disappointed in that part of the movie. I kept looking at my watch thinking "What about Sharky?"

I also didn't like that they left out Tom Bombadil, and I didn't like Arwen rescuing Frodo.

I still want my books. I haven't read them since college.
 
Holy crap you guys have been busy today.

Never read any of the LotR books. But would gladly do a movie marathon as long as I can have snacks and beer.

BamBoozed, bottom-line: we are the coolest. No question about it. Although I'm neither a ninja nor a pirate, I don't think. Ashers, Funk - what would I classify as?

As for the anatomy lab tables, my table included Rishi and Bolaji. The conversations were always interesting...

Ashleigh, why on earth did you not see a patient?I would've been so pissed. My doctor hardly speaks to me though, so a happy medium would be nice. Actually, next time I go(my 3rd time) I'm working with a different doctor, so we'll see.
 
DoctorFunk said:
Longwinded, sure. Interesting--maybe? I'd love to hear everyone else's take on the situation and/or suggestions on how someone who was raised areligious can come to grips with a belief system that (excuse me for being blunt) is just so dang far out there. 😉
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I'm not sure where you go from here. I visited a Unitarian Universalist church at one point while I was wandering away from Christianity. I think the UU churches are all different but take a kind of "roll your own" approach to spirituality. You can believe in a deity or not, it's all okay with them. I remember noticing that several of the hymns I grew up with in the Episcopal church were present in the UU hymnal, only the word Lord had been replaced with something else. Most Unitarians are okay with the idea of a deity existing, but many of them don't give that deity dominion over them. You might find in such a place a kind of faith that allows you to believe in a heavenly perfect being that does not actually have power over you.

I think that the times I am able to entertain religious faith are the times when I allow it to be vague, and fuzzy, and not to make complete sense to me. I quietly set aside the things that do not gibe with my conscience and focus on the things I find compelling. I think of faith as one of the many ways we try to explain and feel as one with a seemingly cold, uncaring universe. The universe is so vast and complex that we can't understand it, so our faith, our explanation, tends to be imperfect also.
 
akpete said:
Ashleigh, why on earth did you not see a patient?I would've been so pissed. My doctor hardly speaks to me though, so a happy medium would be nice. Actually, next time I go(my 3rd time) I'm working with a different doctor, so we'll see.
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Let's see, for the first hour, I finished rounding with the team (they started at 9:40am, I got there at 1pm). Then the attending and 2 residents hadn't eaten lunch, so we went to the Patio Cafe, and they ate (I had just eaten), that took about an hour. Then we went back up to the neuro ICU, and had to talk to some families to let them know what was going on with their relatives. Oh yeah, then there was this other doctor that wanted to see the angiogram for a patient in the NICU with a 3cm x 4cm aneurysm in the PCA because he needs to put the coil in it tomorrow. The attending then told my preceptor to write up his patient notes, so he had to do that before going over my stuff. Finally, my preceptor and I started going over my H&Ps (I had 2 because last week, my preceptor got called to the ER, and I was given to another resident to do the H&P on a new admission for a patient with a lacunar stroke, and we never got a chance to go over the actual H&P). Then we started going through all aspects of the physical exam (talking through it, basically so I memorize what's on the card -- the resident's idea). Then, a bunch of other residents came and signed off their patients to him. Right as we were going to go to a patient, the attending was like "Ok, time to round." So my preceptor was like "you can stay if you want, but I know you have exams, so I don't want to keep you." I didn't want to get caught rounding for another 10 years, so I left, and now I have to make up the session. It was entertaining and all, moreso than studying pharm, and kinda like reviewing neuropath, but I've done nothing tonight. =(

Now, to bed. So I can get up at the butt crack of dawn and get to school when the library opens.
 
Well, hopefully it's been interesting at least. I just get left to my own devices. But this last session was a good patient. She's originally from England and we probably chatted/took a hx for like an hour before I actually did any physical exam. She's got a lot of cancer, and not going to be getting any further treatment. Sad. 🙁

I've also reaffirmed that I hate inpatient internal med.
 
sorry for all the questions guyzos but i'm just wanting to know more...you're all awesome for putting up with me.

i was wondering about mcw's curriculum and if you all feel that it is thus far giving you an adequate fund of knowlege in both the basic sciences and clinical correlates and an integration of the two. wherever your at, first, second year, whatever it may be, do you think it's preparing you for actual stuff with patients?
 
BamBoozed said:
sorry for all the questions guyzos but i'm just wanting to know more...you're all awesome for putting up with me.

i was wondering about mcw's curriculum and if you all feel that it is thus far giving you an adequate fund of knowlege in both the basic sciences and clinical correlates and an integration of the two. wherever your at, first, second year, whatever it may be, do you think it's preparing you for actual stuff with patients?
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I'm M1, and so I can't REALLY tell yet, but I think it's going pretty well. I feel I'm getting the details I'll need to be about as good as my peers at other med schools. I don't think I know ENOUGH, but I'll never think I know enough.
 
BamBoozed said:
sorry for all the questions guyzos but i'm just wanting to know more...you're all awesome for putting up with me.

i was wondering about mcw's curriculum and if you all feel that it is thus far giving you an adequate fund of knowlege in both the basic sciences and clinical correlates and an integration of the two. wherever your at, first, second year, whatever it may be, do you think it's preparing you for actual stuff with patients?
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If you asked me last year i woulda said hell no. But this year, things have been clicking and i am starting to see the imporance of biochem, phys, neuro, ctb ect. I guess the second year puts it all into perspective...just my 2 cents though
 
Ok, I have another question. What's the deal with West Allis? Is it a safe place to live? I was thinking that West Allis would be a great place to eventually start looking for affordable housing... however, I then looked at their crime stats. There are quite a few rapes, burglaries, and murders for a town of 58,000. Maybe this is just because I grew up in a Mayberry-esque place?!
 
BamBoozed said:
sorry for all the questions guyzos but i'm just wanting to know more...you're all awesome for putting up with me.

i was wondering about mcw's curriculum and if you all feel that it is thus far giving you an adequate fund of knowlege in both the basic sciences and clinical correlates and an integration of the two. wherever your at, first, second year, whatever it may be, do you think it's preparing you for actual stuff with patients?
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for the most part I agree with pratik on this. i'm starting to learn how to use the material to approach patients...perhaps not so much to form diagnosis or treatment plans, but I'm learning how to ask the right questions based on a chief complaint. i'm also having fun learning how to do physical exam stuff as it finally feels like I"m not so much going through the motions but actually EXAMINING the patient. and if their eyes act screwy when I tell them to move them in a certain direction, I might even have an idea of why. or at least which nerve is screwed.

thanks for telling us we're awesome. we know.
 
CarpeDiem said:
Ok, I have another question. What's the deal with West Allis? Is it a safe place to live? I was thinking that West Allis would be a great place to eventually start looking for affordable housing... however, I then looked at their crime stats. There are quite a few rapes, burglaries, and murders for a town of 58,000. Maybe this is just because I grew up in a Mayberry-esque place?!
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No, that's probably an accurate assessment. West Allis has a reputation in the area of being kind of sketchy. Not really ghetto or anything, but some areas just have a feel about them that doesn't quite sit right. The businesses there seem to me to be older, but less well kept-up than similarly aged buildings in other parts of the Milwaukee area. They call it "dirty 'stallis" for a reason.

That being said, I don't think the whole town is inherently less safe than any other area of Milwaukee...you just have to find the nicer neighborhoods and stay away from the shady ones. You might as well set up a couple showing in the area and try to get a feel for it to see if you stumble across something you can't pass up.

When Mrs. Gimlet and I were looking for houses last year, we definitely weren't very impressed by what we saw in West Allis. There was actually one really beautiful brand new house that we loved, but it was in a neighborhood surrounded by broken-down, ramshackle houses that were 3 times smaller than the one we were looking at. That pretty much summed up West Allis for us.

Are you looking to rent or buy? I think there's plenty of affordable housing in Wauwatosa if you know where to look...otherwise Brookfield and New Berlin have great places for very reasonable prices. If you're looking to buy, I can write another post about that.
 
samenewme said:
Exactly. Hey, Chulito, Prowler told me today you're feeling old, and you're not even 40! Way to make me feel decrepit, dude!
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Oh, hey, whoa, I'm not feeling old. Did I give that impression? I'm trying to remember what I said without actually going back to look, because we're having weird internet problems at my house that make it painfully slow to do anything. Now that I think about it, I must have said something that suggested I was feeling old, because Dr. Funk asked me if I was an old fogey, which got me talking even more. Anyway, I'm feeling spry and fresh as ever, and right at home amongst the 20-something set. I just like to rib myself sometimes, but about anything, not age in particular. Thanks for the concern, though.

Say, if I end up going to some school other than MCW, can I still post on your thread? I mean, you know, can we all still be friendly? Or is this space reserved exclusively for Wisconsinites?
 
Chulito said:
Oh, hey, whoa, I'm not feeling old. Did I give that impression? I'm trying to remember what I said without actually going back to look, because we're having weird internet problems at my house that make it painfully slow to do anything. Now that I think about it, I must have said something that suggested I was feeling old, because Dr. Funk asked me if I was an old fogey, which got me talking even more. Anyway, I'm feeling spry and fresh as ever, and right at home amongst the 20-something set. I just like to rib myself sometimes, but about anything, not age in particular. Thanks for the concern, though.

Say, if I end up going to some school other than MCW, can I still post on your thread? I mean, you know, can we all still be friendly? Or is this space reserved exclusively for Wisconsinites?
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no....you see....you can't go anywhere else. you cannot leave this place.


you can't get away....
 
When does the white coat ceremony take place at MCW? Do you guys have any interesting memories to share?🙂
 
Ibn Sina said:
When does the white coat ceremony take place at MCW? Do you guys have any interesting memories to share?🙂
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Go here it's page 13 of this thread. Post 640 asks the same question, and we answer it subsequently.

I didn't like the white coat ceremony, but I also didn't like my graduation. My dad's work let him off, and he flew out here, and my mom managed to come back for it to while she was stuck on the mainland, so I had to go.
 
Ibn Sina said:
When does the white coat ceremony take place at MCW? Do you guys have any interesting memories to share?🙂
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The Friday afternoon of orientation. I would share stories with you, but I actually skipped ours in favor of attending my own wedding rehearsal and groom's dinner that day.

Oh, here's a funny one though: when I e-mailed the powers that be to let them know about my scheduling conflict they actually tried giving me a guilt trip about choosing my wedding activities over the "very important" white coat ceremony. I entertained the idea of going to the ceremony then trying to high-tail it to my wedding activities, but the timing was going to be tight. Eventually I came to my senses and remembered what a joke most ceremonies like that are, and that if I let my "responsibility" to medicine take precedence over my own wedding I was going to be really screwed years down the road.
 
DoctorFunk said:
The Friday afternoon of orientation. I would share stories with you, but I actually skipped ours in favor of attending my own wedding rehearsal and groom's dinner that day.

Oh, here's a funny one though: when I e-mailed the powers that be to let them know about my scheduling conflict they actually tried giving me a guilt trip about choosing my wedding activities over the "very important" white coat ceremony. I entertained the idea of going to the ceremony then trying to high-tail it to my wedding activities, but the timing was going to be tight. Eventually I came to my senses and remembered what a joke most ceremonies like that are, and that if I let my "responsibility" to medicine take precedence over my own wedding I was going to be really screwed years down the road.
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You made the right choice. Especially since the speaker our year sucked. They won't notice if you don't go, however, your parents will (my parents also forced me to go to my grad, I guess when they fly out from HI it kinda obligates me to do these sorts of things).
 
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