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thanks, mother gooses, but this girl's pillow needs a head. and yes, i said gooses. and yes, i think my shift key is actually broken.
 
Xandie said:
thanks, mother gooses, but this girl's pillow needs a head. and yes, i said gooses. and yes, i think my shift key is actually broken.
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you're so cute when you're delerious
 
Xandie said:
Honey, I have 22 interviews scheduled. I'm a crazy person. I need to cancel some.

Someone save me from myself. Seriously. And I *need* to go to bed, but I'm all wired. OY!
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Ooof, that's going to be one huge tab with the airlines.
 
So I'm on the blue team. This is gonna be a challenging month...
 
i'm so excited....tomorrow is my first day off in over two weeks.
 
akpete said:
So I'm on the blue team. This is gonna be a challenging month...
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Blue team freakin rawks! Lemme know who your attendings are going to be for the month and I can give you a heads-up on what they're like if I worked with them.

Seriously, probably the best (and busiest) month I've spent on the wards.
 
DoctorFunk said:
Blue team freakin rawks! Lemme know who your attendings are going to be for the month and I can give you a heads-up on what they're like if I worked with them.

Seriously, probably the best (and busiest) month I've spent on the wards.
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Right now we've been rounding with Dr. Berens (sp?). Like him so far. Seen Dr. Gordon for special needs kids and Dr. P-something for cards. Gordon seems to talk a lot, and Dr. Pwhatever was really demanding yesterday, riding one of the interns big time. Don't remember who the pulm person was.

Like my intern. She went to school here, and did her sub-I on the blue team. She had thought she was gonna go into ortho at first, but then went into peds instead. Mostly d/t the fact she had a kid in school.

I've heard such mixed opinions about the blue team. Some people say it's awesome cuz you see a lot of interesting dx. Others say the test will suck cuz you don't see any common stuff. I hear it's hard work, but I think I'll like that - no putzing around.

I'm glad you liked it! That boosted my morale. Thanks.
 
Ashers said:
Were all those people walking with you down the hall yesterday on your team too?
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No. You probably didn't notice, but it was all JMSs walking down the hall. We were on our way to the corporate center for our Head-to-toe WKSP. I was quite jealous of you walking with your team. I'm just not sure I'm a peds person. Lack motherly instinct. I don't "ooo" when I see a baby. Whatever, it's an inanimate baby. Whoop-tee-doo. Toddlers and some olders kids are fun though.
 
akpete said:
Right now we've been rounding with Dr. Berens (sp?). Like him so far. Seen Dr. Gordon for special needs kids and Dr. P-something for cards. Gordon seems to talk a lot, and Dr. Pwhatever was really demanding yesterday, riding one of the interns big time. Don't remember who the pulm person was.

Like my intern. She went to school here, and did her sub-I on the blue team. She had thought she was gonna go into ortho at first, but then went into peds instead. Mostly d/t the fact she had a kid in school.

I've heard such mixed opinions about the blue team. Some people say it's awesome cuz you see a lot of interesting dx. Others say the test will suck cuz you don't see any common stuff. I hear it's hard work, but I think I'll like that - no putzing around.
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Dr. Berens is PICU royalty here at MCW. He's triple-boarded in Peds/Anesthesia/Critical Care and I think he's Chief of Peds Anesth. or something. He is downright brilliant and it's amazing watching the other attendings defer to his clinical judgment. We only worked with him for 3 or 4 days, but we learned a ton. He's also one of the more pimp-oriented attendings you'll work with (esp. physiology--know that A-a gradient equation!) so don't be discouraged if you get a few wrong with him around.

Dr. Gordon is also great. He's not as interested in teaching moments usually but tends to be in a good mood most days (although I saw him snap at an intern once for his order of presentation). They tend not to give students Gordon patients because they are incredibly complex, even for Blue team standards.

The Pulm attendings in general are great and interested in teaching students, esp. about presenting skills. The cards attendings are also really good, although a little more uptight than some other services. I never had a problem with them, but I did witness a couple intern-chewings due to their presentation style and lack of attention to properly describing the cardiac exam on their patients. You didn't mention them yet, but GI tends to be fantastic and the nutritionists will probably end up being the most valuable resource around.

Overall I loved Blue team (disclaimer: I tend to be more interested in really sick patients). You'll lose out on exposure to some general peds topics but if you get through Case Files at least once and run through the questions in Pre-Test you can make up for that. I did fine on the shelf and felt like I learned a lot of things that most students don't see until 4th year, like vent settings, parenteral nutrition, and interpreting tons of ABGs. Even better for you, most of the kids on the ward are so sick that they hardly act like kids, so you get out of the touchy-feely peds experience where you spend half your time wheeling the kids around the ward just to keep them sane.
 
Thanks for all the info!! You're the best.
 
Funk - do the students ever get snapped at? Or not so much, because we don't know hardly anything anyways? 😛
 
TheProwler said:
Funk - do the students ever get snapped at? Or not so much, because we don't know hardly anything anyways? 😛
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i've only been snapped at by an attending in what was meant to be teasing, but i only tell that story in person.

i have, however, had an attending sigh and roll its eyes at me when I wasn't immediately on track with the plan it had in mind for a patient.
 
Yes, students get snapped at. And yelled at. And given bloody noses. Okay, that last one only happened to me, and it's a good story and was an accident, but seemed like a good addition to the list.

Overall on interviews I'm thinking I'm going to be spending around 3 to 4 thousand on interviewing but I'm spending a lot of time at a friend's house. This trip is four interviews (canceled Wednesday, crappy program anyway) and I'm going to spend around a thousand, but that's because I rented a car for 10 days. I'm trying to figure out if I can turn the car in early. Anyway, just thought I'd pop in. Continue on.
 
I have not been snapped at throughout 2 mo. of medicine and 2 mo. of surgery. I'm thinking ob/gyn will be the time.


Good luck on your interviews Xandie!
 
good luck Xandie!!!


IT'S MY FIRST DAY OFF IN OVER 2 WEEKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
eleventyone. The grammar police are coming soon to a thread near you. Watch your you're(s), they're/their/there, hear/here, and so on.
 
No comment.

Interview tonight... heading out in a few hours. Fingers crossed for free wifi.
 
ONLY 7 MORE WEEKS LEFT OF SURGERY!!!

i thought 2nd year was the worst time of my life...these 2 months may rival that.

on a scale of 1 to 10, this rotation sucks. balls. big balls.
 
I give surgery a 10!!!
 
one of the JMSs sounds like this guy:

http://www.fest21.com/files/images/Edward%20Norton_0.jpg
 
donnyfire said:
Sounds like a Urological problem. 👍
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speaking of which, i had to try to replace a foreskin today. Not as easy as I would have thought. I have minimal experience in such matters.
 
Agent Splat said:
speaking of which, i had to try to replace a foreskin today. Not as easy as I would have thought. I have minimal experience in such matters.
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Ah, yes. You would never want to be responsible for paraphimosis. Reduction of the foreskin is very technique dependent. Practice makes perfect! 😉
 
I'm getting sent home at 2:30 since there's nothing to do on trauma right now! ARGH! 😡 I was hoping to spend my birthday in surgery all day. humph

My chief resident told me I write like a guy.
 
Ashers said:
I'm getting sent home at 2:30 since there's nothing to do on trauma right now! ARGH! 😡 I was hoping to spend my birthday in surgery all day. humph

My chief resident told me I write like a guy.
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I think I told you that once too.
 
Ashers said:
I'm getting sent home at 2:30 since there's nothing to do on trauma right now! ARGH! 😡 I was hoping to spend my birthday in surgery all day. humph
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Sounds like someone has ortho fever.
 
Ashers said:
I'm getting sent home at 2:30 since there's nothing to do on trauma right now! ARGH! 😡 I was hoping to spend my birthday in surgery all day. humph

My chief resident told me I write like a guy.
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Happy birthday anyway!:hardy:
 
TheProwler said:
one of the JMSs sounds like this guy:

Edward%20Norton_0.jpg
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You're not referring to the JMS that was behind you in line at the Skywalk Deli today, are you?
 
Gimlet said:
On more than one occasion. Said JMS doesn't hear the resemblence himself, but he wouldn't consider it to be a bad thing if it were indeed true...
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My voice sounds completely different when I'm talking as opposed to when I'm listening to a recording of myself. It has to do with the way your voice moves through your own skull or something.

If I could have the voice of any actor, it would be George Clooney, hands down.
 
HUMANA VISION PLAN!!!!!!!!!!!FOURTEEN!!!111


does that excite you? it excites me. I might have to go sit in a corner.
 
TheProwler said:
any of you ever work with Dr. Otterson (general surgeon)?
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I was on GSI, so didn't work with Otterson, but according to my gut and butt counterparts, she's supposed to be pretty awesome.
 
akpete said:
I was on GSI, so didn't work with Otterson, but according to my gut and butt counterparts, she's supposed to be pretty awesome.
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