Official MCW Class of 2009 Thread

[Agent Splat]

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i would like to congratulate Edward Hopper on making the cover of JAMA this month.

 

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you're welcome, Edward.

 

[Agent Splat]

zomg it's teh OMEGA virus!!!!! only the spacemen can save us now, but only if they can find the disrupter, decoder, and neg-a-tron in time!

 

[Agent Splat]

for as many times as they repeat Jenny's phone number.....how about a freaking AREA CODE, you freaking wankers???!!!!!

 

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you human SCUM!!!

 

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brb, i gotta pee.

 

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k.

 

[Agent Splat]

honey smacks!! the cornerstone of ANY nutritious diet.

 

[Agent Splat]

says who?

 

[Agent Splat]

don't ask.

why not?


because I'll hit you in the face with an axe.

okay.

 

[Agent Splat]

su-sussudio!!!!!

 

[Agent Splat]

i think that whole "land of milk and honey" thing was referring to a place where they could eat lots of Honey Smacks. duh.

 

[Agent Splat]

(it is, after all, hip to be square.)

 

[Agent Splat]

anybody else collecting the Soviet/former Soviet country leaders decorative collector plates?

 

[Agent Splat]

what do I look like, a bank?

 

[Agent Splat]

go back to 1923, you commie.

 

[Agent Splat]

the sole witness to the murder is apparently a young Amish boy, who is refusing comment to the press at the direction of his team of Amish lawyers.

 

[Agent Splat]

now what was I doing? oh, i must be chasing this guy.....

 

[Agent Splat]

nope....he's chasing me.

 

[Agent Splat]

Theres this girl thats been on my mind
All the time, sussudio oh oh
Now she dont even know my name
But I think she likes me just the same
Sussudio oh oh

Oh if she called me Id be there
Id come running anywhere
Shes all I need, all my life
I feel so good if I just say the word
Sussudio, just say the word
Oh sussudio

Now I know that Im too young
My love has just begun
Sussudio oh oh
Ooh give me a chance, give me a sign
Ill show her anytime
Sussudio oh oh

Ah, Ive just got to have her, have her now
Ive got to get closer but I dont know how
She makes me nervous and makes me scared
But I feel so good if I just say the word
Sussudio just say the word
Oh sussudio, oh

Ah, shes all I need all of my life
I feel so good if I just say the word
Sussudio I just say the word
Oh sussudio I just say the word
Oh sussudio Ill say the word
Sussudio oh oh oh
Just say the word!!!!!!!!!


SUSSUDIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Agent Splat]

no photographs, please.

 

[samenewme]

su-suuuussssssuuuudiooooo!!!!!!!

If you don't stop that I'm going to come find you and give you a poodle perm.

You know I can do it.

 

[45408]

Cocaine's a helluva drug.

 

[Xandie]

I was watching this episode of "Criminal Minds" last night and that kid from Malcolm in the Middle (yes, Frankie Muniz) was having a psychotic break... not that I'm suggesting anything here.

Greetings from the East Coast, again, my children. I'm dying of some sort of viral pharyngitis thing which has robbed me of my voice. Superb.

 

[achybrachy]

Wow this thread has gotten really frightening since I've been away.

 

[45408]

I was watching this episode of "Criminal Minds" last night and that kid from Malcolm in the Middle (yes, Frankie Muniz) was having a psychotic break... not that I'm suggesting anything here.

Greetings from the East Coast, again, my children. I'm dying of some sort of viral pharyngitis thing which has robbed me of my voice. Superb.

You don't have to talk during your interview though, do you?

 

[Xandie]

Funny, funny, Crawford.

My honest problem with it is that at these interviews, you want to present yourself as honestly as possible. You want them to get to know the actual you, and you to know them, so that when you make your rank list and them theirs, you both have an accurate perception of what you're getting into. And you all know me.... quiet and reserved are not two of my qualities. At all. But with no voice...

 

[Gimlet]

Funny, funny, Crawford.

My honest problem with it is that at these interviews, you want to present yourself as honestly as possible. You want them to get to know the actual you, and you to know them, so that when you make your rank list and them theirs, you both have an accurate perception of what you're getting into. And you all know me.... quiet and reserved are not two of my qualities. At all. But with no voice...

You'll just have to make up for it with boisterous and exuberant body language that reflects your phonatory personality.

 

[45408]

Watch it, Alexandra.

 

[Xandie]

Boisterous body language, hey? I think I might need a *slightly* different outfit for that.

And you, little one... I will hurt you. Us midgets are the most vicious.

 

[Agent Splat]

today I used four simple interrupted sutures to put a scrotum back together. I rule.

 

[donnyfire]

today I used four simple interrupted sutures to put a scrotum back together. I rule.

Future Urologist?

 

[Agent Splat]

Future Urologist?

helllll no

the angle was all screwy, but it went pretty well considering my inexperience.

 

[Agent Splat]

hahhaa the cheeseburger was SINGING!!!!!!!!!!

 

[donnyfire]

So I'm curious, then, now that you all are halfway through third year, what you are thinking in terms of specialty.

Ashers, I know you're still ortho. But what about the rest of you?

 

[akpete]

Ortho!

 

[Gimlet]

Still pretty much 99% certain that I'll be doing anesthesiology. My CPR rotation this month only confirmed that further (and my other rotations have also provided reassurance that I'm choosing the right path). Now I need to see what I think about critical care medicine because I'll be considering a fellowship in that.

 

[Gimlet]

Ortho!

That makes me happy. (One less person to compete with for anesthesiology spots!)

 

[indo]

That makes me happy. (One less person to compete with for anesthesiology spots!)

You two could work together! She could yell at you and be narcissistic and you could do sudoku on the job!

 

[donnyfire]

Still pretty much 99% certain that I'll be doing anesthesiology. My CPR rotation this month only confirmed that further (and my other rotations have also provided reassurance that I'm choosing the right path). Now I need to see what I think about critical care medicine because I'll be considering a fellowship in that.

If you're considering critical care, you should do the MICU month next year. It was a great experience. The thing is, all of the faulty were pulmonary/critical care people. I'm not sure why.

 

[indo]

Aren't there a lot of anesthesiologists going into critical care?

 

[Ashers]

I don't want to switch rotations, even though tonight was the earliest I've gotten out this week... 7:30, and we've started rounded at 5 every day except 1 day when it was 5:30 since the new OTS team started.

This is sad. I found out about this girl dying when I was checking our list at like 440 to see if any patients had moved beds around the hospital, and I saw she was "Discharged." Just not discharged home, discharged to the morgue. =(

Funk, she was the one I was running to put the fracture walker on when I saw you last night.

I already miss ortho. sigh...8 more months.

 

[45408]

Ashers - what rotation are you on now?

 

[Ashers]

Ashers - what rotation are you on now?

CPR. I'm hoping to get Froedtert East (where ortho operates), then at times I can watch cool cases.

 

[45408]

I know I've asked like four M3s this, but what's CPR again?

 

[akpete]

the anesthesia rotation

 

[Gimlet]

I know I've asked like four M3s this, but what's CPR again?

To be more specific, it's Clinical Procedures Rotation. The first week you learn ACLS and ATLS from the EM and Trauma Surgery depts., and the rest of the month is anesthesia.

This is sad. I found out about this girl dying when I was checking our list at like 440 to see if any patients had moved beds around the hospital, and I saw she was "Discharged." Just not discharged home, discharged to the morgue. =(

Very sad. One of the residents I worked with was there for her organ harvest. He referred to it by saying "we took her apart last night," which I felt was a highly disrespectful way to describe one of the greatest gifts you can give. (Although that may have had more to do with English being his 2nd language.)

Aren't there a lot of anesthesiologists going into critical care?

It's a pretty popular option for anesthesiologists. One more year of training for an entirely different career path (although some people would say one more year of training to work harder and get paid less). I envision myself someday in private practice doing anesthesia most of the time as well as a day or two in the ICU each week.

In the evolving paradigm of anesthesiology where CRNAs will be doing most of the bread and butter cases on young healthy people, it will be increasingly important for anesthesiologists to have that critical care training so they can become true "perioperative" physicians for really sick people, providing both anesthetic care in the OR and following up with them by taking care of them in the critical care setting after their surgery.

If you're considering critical care, you should do the MICU month next year. It was a great experience. The thing is, all of the faulty were pulmonary/critical care people. I'm not sure why.

Can you fulfill your medical sub-I requirement in the MICU? I'm definitely interested. I think people who do the Medicine-Pulmonary-Critical Care route wind up working more in the MICUs, whereas anesthesiologists and surgeons who do a CC fellowship mostly work in SICUs.

You two could work together! She could yell at you and be narcissistic and you could do sudoku on the job!

Please, crosswords only for me. My brain doesn't work with numbers that way. My attending and I did the Journal-Sentinel crossword almost every day last month (but not while we were in the OR).

 

[akpete]

I know you can do MICU for an inpatient month if you have outpatient during 3rd year. I was planning on doing it. Don't know about for the sub-I month though.

 

[Xandie]

April is right, not a sub-I, but counts as inpatient.

 

[Agent Splat]

i love how they give us our Froedtert computer login info back in july, but i haven't needed it until now. Good luck to me finding it. I think it's in my safe. Better be, anyways.