MCW Class of 2012

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Ashers said:
I just saw a dude with an emergency brake stuck in his leg.
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I had my first decomp case on Friday...some lady who shot herself through the neck with a shotgun in the backseat of her car and then stewed inside of it for a couple of days before she was discovered :barf:
 
Gimlet said:
I had my first decomp case on Friday...some lady who shot herself through the neck with a shotgun in the backseat of her car and then stewed inside of it for a couple of days before she was discovered :barf:
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wow, where was her car?
 
I think they did bring the tables back at BN. I like Alterra. There's one at Swan and North. Otherwise I end up studying at my friend's houses and at home. I'm not a fan of the library either.
 
Gimlet said:
I had my first decomp case on Friday...some lady who shot herself through the neck with a shotgun in the backseat of her car and then stewed inside of it for a couple of days before she was discovered :barf:
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I made it through the entire rotation (only 2 weeks because it was May) without a decomp case. I don't really regret that. We did have a shotgun suicide though, in the head. Messy. :d
 
Allerian1004 said:
I think they did bring the tables back at BN. I like Alterra. There's one at Swan and North. Otherwise I end up studying at my friend's houses and at home. I'm not a fan of the library either.
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my old apartment was about 100 feet away from that Alterra. I went there a lot for a while, but I liked the Tosa library more.
 
TheProwler said:
wow, where was her car?
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The parking lot of a hospice in Tosa. I've been looking for the story in the newspaper, but it seems to have evaded the public eye.

yeasterbunny said:
I made it through the entire rotation (only 2 weeks because it was May) without a decomp case. I don't really regret that. We did have a shotgun suicide though, in the head. Messy. :d
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Be very thankful...the smell was un-describable. I have no idea how I made it through without gagging or puking, but it's a good thing there was a mask covering the expression of abject horror and disgust on my face during the autopsy. Her brain was the color and consistency of chocolate soft-serve ice cream, not to mention the maggots crawling in and out of every orifice during the whole procedure.
 
TheProwler said:
Hmmm, I can only think of one. How did nobody notice??
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Dunno...I'm assuming she was slumped over in the backseat or something. Someone finally checked it out when they noticed the car had been in the same spot for a few days.
 
Gimlet said:
Dunno...I'm assuming she was slumped over in the backseat or something. Someone finally checked it out when they noticed the car had been in the same spot for a few days.
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Hmmm, I'd like to think I'd notice the blood spattered all over the rear windshield. did you see any crime scene photos? I'm not sure if I want to do the forensic rotation or not....

If I did EM, I probably would go for that rotation.
 
TheProwler said:
Hmmm, I'd like to think I'd notice the blood spattered all over the rear windshield. did you see any crime scene photos? I'm not sure if I want to do the forensic rotation or not....

If I did EM, I probably would go for that rotation.
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It definitely gives you some good insight into the mechanisms of injury that you'll be dealing with as an EM guy.

I didn't see the scene photos, but most of the buckshot was actually contained within her skull, so I don't think there was much spatter, if any. (It was a 20 ga.)
 
Gimlet said:
It definitely gives you some good insight into the mechanisms of injury that you'll be dealing with as an EM guy.

I didn't see the scene photos, but most of the buckshot was actually contained within her skull, so I don't think there was much spatter, if any. (It was a 20 ga.)
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So this rotation makes for great dinner party talk? I've shocked and stunned the in-laws and friends with stories of anatomy lab, EMS tales, and the exorbitant amounts of money we waste in futile care.
 
I wish I had time for forensic path this year. I think it would be awesome, even if I would puke in my mask. If I was good with microscopes and such I would have considered path more.

I remember Dr G on TLC describing the brain as turning to goo pretty quickly when decomposing. Ick.


On a more delicious note, I heart Starbucks. I frequent the Tosa Village Starbucks. I'm guessing if you're not a library person (the library gives me the creeps) the noise wouldn't bother you much. When I lived at Normandy Village, I would frequent the one on 124th and Capitol by the Target. That one is a bit more quiet. Probably due to less middle and high schoolers dropping by.
 
during a scantron-involving test should we just end up bringing a pencil and eraser or are we able to bring backpacks in?
 
Kernal83 said:
during a scantron-involving test should we just end up bringing a pencil and eraser or are we able to bring backpacks in?
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policy for us was backpacks allowed but must be kept on the side of the room. only pencil/eraser/beverage was allowed at your spot. same for jackets and such...side of the room.
 
Gimlet said:
It definitely gives you some good insight into the mechanisms of injury that you'll be dealing with as an EM guy.

I didn't see the scene photos, but most of the buckshot was actually contained within her skull, so I don't think there was much spatter, if any. (It was a 20 ga.)
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Hmmm. The shotgun guy I saw certainly did not keep it all in his head. I remember thinking, "Oh, so that's what the expression 'blew his brains out' really means." They did send most of his brain in with him however, wrapped up in his shirt.
 
i hate hipaa screens. they make my head hurt a lot
 
Are the old exams and practice lecture exam problems similar to the real deal for the Anatomy lecture exam? I have 1995, 1996, 1997, plus the practice question they posted. All of them seem pretty similar. Thanks for looking out.
 
badasshairday said:
Are the old exams and practice lecture exam problems similar to the real deal for the Anatomy lecture exam? I have 1995, 1996, 1997, plus the practice question they posted. All of them seem pretty similar. Thanks for looking out.
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A few years ago they were similar, with some exact questions. Then they cracked down on old exams, so I don't know what happened since, but I'd recommend going through the exams.
 
badasshairday said:
Are the old exams and practice lecture exam problems similar to the real deal for the Anatomy lecture exam? I have 1995, 1996, 1997, plus the practice question they posted. All of them seem pretty similar. Thanks for looking out.
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Know what the brachial plexus and each branch does, and what would happen if it were damaged. That was the bulk of the first exam. Old questions are money.
 
First tests are over!!! We got out so early that I almost don't know what to do now!
 
Hello. So Bolender is teaching Human Development and I was wondering how the heck to study for this. His lectures aren't that great. I feel like I should get a review book for this stuff. What do you guys suggest?
 
Ashers said:
Read his notes. His questions come directly from the notes.
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I just don't like his style... Do you guys think it is even worth it to listen to his lectures? I'm a non-class goer for the most part, but I do still listen to class lectures on audio because I can concentrate better that way. But listening to him puts me to sleep and I just can't pay attention so it takes me really long to listen to the lectures. Also, will this really get me ready for the human devo on the boards? This class just seems like no fun. 🙁
 
badasshairday said:
I just don't like his style... Do you guys think it is even worth it to listen to his lectures? I'm a non-class goer for the most part, but I do still listen to class lectures on audio because I can concentrate better that way. But listening to him puts me to sleep and I just can't pay attention so it takes me really long to listen to the lectures. Also, will this really get me ready for the human devo on the boards? This class just seems like no fun. 🙁
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I went to all of the devo reviews. I'd do the same, if I were you, especially if Scott is still doing them. Boards, I can't comment, I didn't honor devo (partially because I didn't study much for it), and devo wasn't my top thing on step 1. I'd say use review books for step 1.

I didn't really like his style in devo, but I got used to it by CTB. He'll take the questions basically word for word from his notes.
 
Cool, thanks for the advice. I'm slowly just getting though his notes and it is starting to make sense. I'll definitly go to the tutor sessions also. I guess the hard part in devo is trying to picture it all, I feel like I'm just memorizing words because the lecture notes don't have the greatest pictures. I'll try looking at some other resources for pictures.

My big sib basically told me the same: Go to the tutor sessions, memorize his notes, and do old exam questions.
 
badasshairday said:
Cool, thanks for the advice. I'm slowly just getting though his notes and it is starting to make sense. I'll definitly go to the tutor sessions also. I guess the hard part in devo is trying to picture it all, I feel like I'm just memorizing words because the lecture notes don't have the greatest pictures. I'll try looking at some other resources for pictures.

My big sib basically told me the same: Go to the tutor sessions, memorize his notes, and do old exam questions.
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Computer animations help with the visualizing part, too. I think they probably still have a program downloaded on the computers in the lab that's pretty good...I think it's calld MacBaby or something like that?

Don't worry too much about the boards...it's a tiny fraction of the questions you will have, and you should be able to handle anything they throw at you if you get the concepts from our course.
 
Ditto about step 1. Very little very basic stuff on mine.

The thing I liked about Bolender was that it was just him teaching the class, so once you knew him and the kinds of questions he asked it was easier to envision what would be on the test and study accordingly. Unlike phys and path where every section is taught by a different person who could pull random questions out of anywhere. I didn't mind his lectures that much but that isn't to say I never fell asleep in them either.
 
I was able to stay awake listening to his lectures just fine once I put him on double speed. 1.4 did not do it for me--it had to be double. I found his lectures reasonably clear and I even liked his jokes. It was his cadence that laid me down. You just know that whenever one of those grandkids of his can't sleep, mom and dad call Grandpa to tell them a bedtime story.

"Let's call Grandpa to tell you all about neurulation!"
 
samenewme said:
I was able to stay awake listening to his lectures just fine once I put him on double speed. 1.4 did not do it for me--it had to be double. I found his lectures reasonably clear and I even liked his jokes. It was his cadence that laid me down. You just know that whenever one of those grandkids of his can't sleep, mom and dad call Grandpa to tell them a bedtime story.

"Let's call Grandpa to tell you all about neurulation!"
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lol. If I get test anxiety and can't sleep at an appropriate time during exam week, I'll keep this in mind. Bolender is better than NyQuil.
 
Xandie said:
Are there any lectures you didn't fall asleep in? 😀
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I resemble that remark. 😛

And, yes. As a rule, I had no trouble staying awake for topics I understood extremely well already and didn't really need to hear again. It was the complicated stuff that I really shouldn't be missing that typically put me down.

And Bolender.
 
Dang, I haven't visited here in forever!!!

I wonder if this feeling of guilt over not studying is ever going to leave me? *sigh* 😳
 
badasshairday said:
lol. If I get test anxiety and can't sleep at an appropriate time during exam week, I'll keep this in mind. Bolender is better than NyQuil.
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One of my best friends in school actually did this, no joke. He developed a pretty raging case of Generalized Anxiety Disorder first year due to being so overwhelmed with school, and had bad insomnia associated with it - before he finally got on an SSRI and PRN prescription for a benzodiazepine to help with the insomnia, the only thing that would put him to sleep was listening to Devo lectures on his iPod.
 
the only thing that puts me to sleep is the sound of crying children. can't sleep without it.
 
ecca58 said:
Dang, I haven't visited here in forever!!!

I wonder if this feeling of guilt over not studying is ever going to leave me? *sigh* 😳
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DANG!!!!

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So earlier this week, the surgeon didn't know what fluoxetine was (he started writing phoxetine and then asked what it was), and today, the PGY-4 surgery resident didn't know what citalopram was. "Is that a benzo?" Do the surgeons all skip the day they teach SSRIs?
 
TheProwler said:
So earlier this week, the surgeon didn't know what fluoxetine was (he started writing phoxetine and then asked what it was), and today, the PGY-4 surgery resident didn't know what citalopram was. "Is that a benzo?" Do the surgeons all skip the day they teach SSRIs?
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I'm not sure, but they're also really awesome about not bothering to discontinue a serotonergic drug before starting a new one (despite consult recs to do so). yay serotonin syndrome! Poor lady.
 
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