Official MCW Class of 2009 Thread

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I think they give you earplugs, you can't use your own. As I recall, the only thing you can bring into the testing center is yourself... and a string bikini. But no watches, extra special glasses, etc.
 
We've all heard the horror stories and seen the x-rays of instruments left inside a patient.

I just found out yesterday that I myself am a victim.

Fiancee and I were cleaning out our garage yesterday, and I came across a half-full bottle of windshield washer fluid, so I figured if I could empty out that jug it would be one more thing to throw away. I popped the hood of my car and filled up the washer fluid tank, then went to throw away the jug in the recycling bin. I came back to my car to close the hood, when I noticed a long, thin, metal object just under where the hood prop-rod goes. It was a screwdriver. A 18-inch long straight-edge screwdriver. Just sitting in there.

I'll admit I'm way overdue for an oil change, so it's been awhile since the hood's been popped...but I can only suspect that it was left there last time I got an oil change.

I feel violated; not to mention put in danger and that my trust in professionals I both respected and depended on is destroyed.

I think I may have a lawsuit. I'm calling some of my lawyers tonight. Is $100,000 for pain and suffering too much? I'm not greedy.
 
Agent Splat said:
We've all heard the horror stories and seen the x-rays of instruments left inside a patient.

I just found out yesterday that I myself am a victim.

Fiancee and I were cleaning out our garage yesterday, and I came across a half-full bottle of windshield washer fluid, so I figured if I could empty out that jug it would be one more thing to throw away. I popped the hood of my car and filled up the washer fluid tank, then went to throw away the jug in the recycling bin. I came back to my car to close the hood, when I noticed a long, thin, metal object just under where the hood prop-rod goes. It was a screwdriver. A 18-inch long straight-edge screwdriver. Just sitting in there.

I'll admit I'm way overdue for an oil change, so it's been awhile since the hood's been popped...but I can only suspect that it was left there last time I got an oil change.

I feel violated; not to mention put in danger and that my trust in professionals I both respected and depended on is destroyed.

I think I may have a lawsuit. I'm calling some of my lawyers tonight. Is $100,000 for pain and suffering too much? I'm not greedy.
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Dude, you got a free screwdriver.
 
ugh, today i felt like a brand new 3rd year all over again. i hope i'll figure out how to act like an m4 soon.
 
akpete said:
ugh, today i felt like a brand new 3rd year all over again. i hope i'll figure out how to act like an m4 soon.
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I'm still trying to figure out what the real difference is. I was hoping by now I'd feel a little closer to being competent...
 
You will be more competant without feeling it... I promise.
 
TheProwler said:
You're telling me. Last year, you guys all looked smarter than I feel.
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i guarantee you that you didn't look half as smart as you felt you were, but we felt twice as smart as you felt you looked.
 
yeasterbunny said:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/tgs2.html
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It's been a while since I visited that website. I totally thought about it last month, since I had a patient whose name resembled "Trogdor."

So, yeasterbunny. where do you start at Joe's? I heard that our current TY interns finish on the 22nd and the new ones come on the 23rd. We'll be working our patient censuses down to that date too, so they should be very low by that point, if you're on wards.
 
Ashers said:
It's been a while since I visited that website. I totally thought about it last month, since I had a patient whose name resembled "Trogdor."

So, yeasterbunny. where do you start at Joe's? I heard that our current TY interns finish on the 22nd and the new ones come on the 23rd. We'll be working our patient censuses down to that date too, so they should be very low by that point, if you're on wards.
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Unfortunately I still have no idea what my schedule will be like. I have a feeling I will not find out until I show up on the 23rd.
 
I love how I've seen difficult patients or family members be classified by doctors in different specialties. In peds, we just said they were probably "a little delayed." On medicine and surgery, everyone was "borderline." Now on psych we go so far as to say "they're a little Cluster A/B/C."

How entertaining. At least on family medicine my preceptor was down-to-earth enough to just say "he's a bit of a jerk."
 
Agent Splat said:
I love how I've seen difficult patients or family members be classified by doctors in different specialties. In peds, we just said they were probably "a little delayed." On medicine and surgery, everyone was "borderline." Now on psych we go so far as to say "they're a little Cluster A/B/C."

How entertaining. At least on family medicine my preceptor was down-to-earth enough to just say "he's a bit of a jerk."
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Medicine is also "delerious/demented." Though, one of my residents did call one of my patients a jerk because he wouldn't answer questions from females. I always found him to be A&Ox0. My other resident on medicine called a bunch of our patients idiots.

Too bad you can't write something like: 😉

A/P: 75 yo M with complicated medical hx
1. Jerk -- ignore until treats females better
2. Rock -- Needs to leave hospital ASAP
 
Ashers said:
Medicine is also "delerious/demented." Though, one of my residents did call one of my patients a jerk because he wouldn't answer questions from females. I always found him to be A&Ox0. My other resident on medicine called a bunch of our patients idiots.

Too bad you can't write something like: 😉

A/P: 75 yo M with complicated medical hx
1. Jerk -- ignore until treats females better
2. Rock -- Needs to leave hospital ASAP
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That's my favorite part of psych this month, the constant assignment of personality disorders and/or disordered traits to every patient that walks through the door.
 
how long will they wait to send me m ob/gyn clerkship preference thing? I Have to know where I'm going, right?
 
They typically send it out a few weeks beforehand... welcome to 3rd and 4th year. It's only June 8, I'd be surprised if anyone has their July schedule.
 
Seriously, 3rd year is all about waiting until as late as possible to finalize your schedule. You will often not know anything until the first of the month....it makes trying to plan anything pretty much futile.
 
indo said:
how long will they wait to send me m ob/gyn clerkship preference thing? I Have to know where I'm going, right?
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OB/gyn usually send it out about 3 weeks before the clerkship starts. As others have said though, don't get used to knowing where you're going to be until right before (some rotations are good about telling you ahead of time; others are notoriously bad).

Also, in general, even if the thing says that they have a lottery for spots, get into the habit of sending in the preference thing ASAP. Some rotations do it 1st come 1st serve (like neuro/peds), so you really want to get them in fast if you have a strong preference (like for teams on peds). Some it really doesn't matter what you rank for the lottery, you may get screwed (surgery -- however, the bad fellow has been fired, so CT surg shouldn't be nearly as bad, but GS2 will).

Medicine generally doesn't tell you until the 1st day of the rotation, but we got Lesley Mack involved so we could make our schedules (those of us with medicine last), so they let us know 3 months in advance which hospital and team we'd be on (for the inpt-inpt vs inpt-amb).
 
one week of psych in....and this is how i feel.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57ta7mkgrOU[/YOUTUBE]
 
Hope you all are staying dry with this rain....My nextdoor neighbor and all of the houses across the street had their basements flood last night. Fortunately my house is up on a little bit more of a grade, but my sump pump is running pretty much nonstop -- if it fails tonight I'll for sure be under water.

Yesterday almost all the roads to get to my house were flooded and impassable. I nearly ruined my wife's Dodge Neon trying to drive through a puddle that was pretty much as deep as we possibly could have made it through - there was water coming up over the hood and the dashboard battery warning light came on for a couple minutes after we drove through it.
 
samenewme said:
Change your oil right away.
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The air intake in her car is pretty high in the engine compartment, so I'm pretty sure we didn't actually get any water in there. Either way, there's no way I'll be taking the time to change her oil before she leaves for work tomorrow.
 
Hmm...for once apparently, living in West Bend was a GOOD idea.
 
Gimlet said:
The air intake in her car is pretty high in the engine compartment, so I'm pretty sure we didn't actually get any water in there. Either way, there's no way I'll be taking the time to change her oil before she leaves for work tomorrow.
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Yeah, sorry, it's a reflex thing for people who grow up in New Orleans to say "Change your oil" when people have driven through excessively deep water (apparently it creeps into the oil pan from underneath, too, or something). It's kind of like the things we feel compelled to say to tourists, like "Don't go visit the cemeteries unless you're with a tour group," and "The best-looking women aren't."
 
So I found this awesome online radio station called Big R Radio. They have specific channels for Grunge and 90's Alternative that I've been marking for all weekend. Makes me feel old though, because I realize I'm already listening to oldies.

That's your profound thought for Monday AM folks.
 
Gimlet said:
The air intake in her car is pretty high in the engine compartment, so I'm pretty sure we didn't actually get any water in there. Either way, there's no way I'll be taking the time to change her oil before she leaves for work tomorrow.
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Geez. I thought I tackled a big puddle under a bridge, but it wasn't more than 12-15"
 
Ashers said:
1) 😕

2) :laugh:

At least you give good advice. In Hawaii it's more: "Would you like to buy a pineapple tree?"
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New Orleans, having a high water table, has above-ground cemeteries. The old ones are full of little family mausoleums that vary in size, some of them about the size of the sheds people without garages use to store their lawnmowers around here. For some reason people find them fascinating and they go to see them. It is also apparently popular to go see the tomb of Marie Laveau, the voodoo queen. It is common knowledge (and therefore I don't know if it's true) that the mausoleums are just the right size for muggers to hide behind and prey on unsuspecting tourists.

Some of those great-looking women are just drag queens out to have a good time, but some are out to go off into dark alleys with naive tourists and beat them up and take their money (This actually happened to a guy my ex knew when he worked offshore. Kid was from the country and going to the Quarter for the first time and blew off the warnings as just the guys on the boat messing with him. He got a hell of an education.)
 
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I am very leery of driving in deep puddles. There could be anything underthere. Or worse yet, nothing.
 
A friend and I went through a puddle like that once, and it led to a nice splash of water on our feet. The next day it was like 95 degrees, and that car never smelled the same.
 
samenewme said:
I am very leery of driving in deep puddles. There could be anything underthere. Or worse yet, nothing.
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oh, like this one?

car_puddle.jpg
 
The drains off our roof end too close to the basement window so the water just started pouring in on Saturday afternoon. I probably wouldn't even gone to the basement to discover this if I hadn't heard the news say something about a funnel cloud in the Elm Grove area. I managed to hold off water with towels long enough to get my storage off the floor. The drain on the floor on that side of the basement was plugged up and soon there was a couple inches of water on the floor. Found a couple buckets and was filling them up in about 30-60 seconds.

It sucked. But now the drain is unplugged and the drain spouts have been extended a few feet away from the building.
 
Gimlet said:
Hope you all are staying dry with this rain....My nextdoor neighbor and all of the houses across the street had their basements flood last night. Fortunately my house is up on a little bit more of a grade, but my sump pump is running pretty much nonstop -- if it fails tonight I'll for sure be under water.

Yesterday almost all the roads to get to my house were flooded and impassable. I nearly ruined my wife's Dodge Neon trying to drive through a puddle that was pretty much as deep as we possibly could have made it through - there was water coming up over the hood and the dashboard battery warning light came on for a couple minutes after we drove through it.
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I was driving through LaCrosse trying not to fall in the Missississippi during that storm. It was kinda scary, but mostly I was worried about my next few nights camping. But that was in SD and ended up being beautiful.
 
Finally got my ortho away in August. That VSAS system is really annoying. I called the host school, and they're like, "Oh, it's up to the department to accept/decline you, but it looks like they haven't touched your application." At least they helped me.
 
Ashers said:
Finally got my ortho away in August. That VSAS system is really annoying. I called the host school, and they're like, "Oh, it's up to the department to accept/decline you, but it looks like they haven't touched your application." At least they helped me.
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well, so where is it?
 
When did you guys get financial aid last year. At the end of the TTC or july 1st.
 
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