Official MCW Class of 2009 Thread

Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
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Congratulations, Don! Let the scheduling disaster commence. Which months do you have vacation?
 
I'm November and January. Right now I'm in Pennsylvania Nov 1-6 for two interviews with night-before socials. Rental cars are expensive, though! Boo.
 
I still have to wear glasses. =( Despite having 20/10 vision in my R eye and 20/15+ in my left -- stupid everting, or whatever eyes. At least now I know why I can't use my left eye when I do an eye exam, and I basically have to use a panoptic.

And now, the optometrist told me I have to go see a neurologist for migraines. Boooooo..... I don't like scheduling appts.
 
Is anyone else having issues with their email? I can log in just fine, but then once I'm in my inbox if I click anywhere it makes me log in all over again and the cycle repeats, so I can't really do anything besides stare at the list in my inbox.
 
Mine has been funky for a few days... I'm not excited by the new format either.
 
Just checked mine. Works fine for me. Maybe your computer isn't taking cookies or something?

I just hate the fact that we have to constantly change our password, and you can't use one of the last 10.
 
Not to bore you guys with a play-by-play, but I got an interview offer from Baylor today, which I'm pretty excited about.
 
Texas? Really? *picturing Don in a cowboy hat* Congrats, hon.

I'm up at three interviews now, one of which at a program that I'm incredibly interested in. There's a couple more that I'm really anxious about. At the moment, I just want the interview invites to be over so that I know which places not to worry about anymore. In real life, I just want it to be *after* I've opened that envelope. *sigh*
 
I'm attempting to study for my boards, but I'm trapped on my couch and my books are *just* out of reach. Poor me!

However, in more exciting news, I bought my suit yesterday. I *love* shopping.
 
I'm going back to Costco again tomorrow. Good thing they've got their gas station there. I didn't take my glasses Rx with me today. How sad am I that I need to go back... oh wait. Anyone want to join me? 😀
 
Whoo hoo! Someone on the Weather Channel just said that tomorrow's International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Arrrrr mateys! I wonder what'd happen if I took my eye patch to the hospital...
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Ashers said:
Whoo hoo! Someone on the Weather Channel just said that tomorrow's International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Arrrrr mateys! I wonder what'd happen if I took my eye patch to the hospital...
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You wouldn't even feel the rustle of the wind as I ninja-napped the abomination.
 
(Class of 2008 hijack)

I'm heading down to Chicago in about four hours for Step 2 CS. I'm more nervous about the drive than I am about the actual exam, or CK next week. I think once I'm sitting down there, in the lobby, waiting to go back, I'll feel fine. I kind of just want this whole boards thing to be over for a year or two.

And Donnyfuego, check your email. Not PMs, email. 🙂

(end hijack)
 
Xandie said:
(Class of 2008 hijack)

I'm heading down to Chicago in about four hours for Step 2 CS. I'm more nervous about the drive than I am about the actual exam, or CK next week. I think once I'm sitting down there, in the lobby, waiting to go back, I'll feel fine. I kind of just want this whole boards thing to be over for a year or two.

And Donnyfuego, check your email. Not PMs, email. 🙂

(end hijack)
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Good luck! I hope the drive was uneventful. Let us know how it went.

I think the nurses all think I'm crazy now that I actually wore my pirate patch here.
 
Tonight's on-call tally at the VA: one rectal, one attempt at ABG stick (had it, but clotted the needle), one observed spinal tap meaning I'll get a chance at the next one probably. Life is alright sometimes.
 
DoctorFunk said:
Tonight's on-call tally at the VA: one rectal, one attempt at ABG stick (had it, but clotted the needle), one observed spinal tap meaning I'll get a chance at the next one probably. Life is alright sometimes.
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sorry i clamped down so hard.



by the way...Xandie...hope it went well!!!!
 
Briefly: It was fine; I forgot some stuff various times, but I'm sure I passed. And Don, in no traffic, it's 40 minutes from that exit off 94. In decent-but-not-the-worst traffic, it's over an hour.
 
So today, my dentist, who's Chinese, told me "You don't sound like you're from Hawaii!" He also kept referring to me as "a foreigner," so I was like "a non-Wisconsinite?" Then he'd say, "I remember when your state was just a territory." Yep, interesting. I don't think I've been called a foreigner on the mainland before.
 
I got Racine for Family without requesting it. I figured I'd let them send me wherever.

Apparently, people from the Reserve tend to get sent to Racine, which I don't quite understand -- we're not really located anywhere near there.

I'm with a Karen Hulbert... and I just googled her, and she does FP with OB -- BLARG!!!!!!!!! (sorry Xandie... I was hoping for more of a musculoskeletal focused Family Med thing)

On the OB note... OB/gyn's been a lot better than I thought it would be (because gyn is amazingly cool -- not cool enough to lure me from ortho though), and it's a lot less work than my psych/neuro rotation.
 
She's the clerkship go-to person for Racine, but you work with a variety of different attendings and residents. They are pretty relaxed, and it's a good place to do the rotation. Hours are about 9-5, with a nice break for lunch. They also give you food vouchers, and a nice little gas stipend.
 
donnyfire said:
She's the clerkship go-to person for Racine, but you work with a variety of different attendings and residents. They are pretty relaxed, and it's a good place to do the rotation. Hours are about 9-5, with a nice break for lunch. They also give you food vouchers, and a nice little gas stipend.
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you live down there, right? that's a lot of driving.


that reminds me, my car has been making a strange humming noise at freeway speeds...
 
donnyfire said:
She's the clerkship go-to person for Racine, but you work with a variety of different attendings and residents. They are pretty relaxed, and it's a good place to do the rotation. Hours are about 9-5, with a nice break for lunch. They also give you food vouchers, and a nice little gas stipend.
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Oh ok. So one of my friends was there 2 years ago, and he was saying that I'll probably know more than the doctors as a med student -- slightly scary, I don't know that much. When he was there, Racine also used to have unlimited food, then he, and 2 of his friends all rotated there (in Oct and Nov 2005), and suddenly they put a limit on how much people were allowed to eat.

The gas stipend sounds nice. It looks like it's near the lake just by doing mapquest... is it? Seems pretty neat. I've liked being by the lake for OB/gyn

TheProwler said:
How so? The surgical aspect or the clinical aspect or both? I don't think I'd want to go into OB/GYN just for the gyn.
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Neither would I want to do OB/gyn just for the gyn, but the surgeries make the rotation super fun. Clinical gyn stuff is still better than OB, and I don't like C-sections. I'm really hoping for none tomorrow when I'm on call. I don't like OB. Maybe there will be lots of gyn emergencies tomorrow to keep me away from deliveries.
 
Ashers said:
Oh ok. So one of my friends was there 2 years ago, and he was saying that I'll probably know more than the doctors as a med student -- slightly scary, I don't know that much.
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True. But I don't think that's necessarily limited to Racine.


TheProwler said:
How so? The surgical aspect or the clinical aspect or both? I don't think I'd want to go into OB/GYN just for the gyn.
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Ashers said:
Neither would I want to do OB/gyn just for the gyn, but the surgeries make the rotation super fun. Clinical gyn stuff is still better than OB, and I don't like C-sections. I'm really hoping for none tomorrow when I'm on call. I don't like OB. Maybe there will be lots of gyn emergencies tomorrow to keep me away from deliveries.
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If you pick a surgical specialty, realize they are really quite similar in most regards. The major difference (obviously) is the anatomy you operate on.

TheProwler said:
you live down there, right? that's a lot of driving.


that reminds me, my car has been making a strange humming noise at freeway speeds...
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Yep, I live here.

Maybe it's your tires?
 
donnyfire said:
If you pick a surgical specialty, realize they are really quite similar in most regards. The major difference (obviously) is the anatomy you operate on.
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That's one reason I'm glad I like gyn. Surgery = awesome. Scrubbing in for stuff was the highlight of the rotation. Cesarians aren't bad, but compared to vaginal deliveries, I'd much rather see more of those. Though it was super cool when Dr. Linn (Dave Linn his son used to be in our class and went to seminary) let me tie sutures. Then he told me I tied well.

As for C-sections, I want kids at some point, and now I'm afraid of everything that can go wrong.
 
donnyfire said:
Maybe it's your tires?
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Yeah, that was one thought I had. It kind of quiets down at speeds over 70, but I haven't gone more than 75 since I noticed the sound at all. It's not the engine, because if I shift into neutral at freeway speed, the sound stays there.
 
TheProwler said:
Yeah, that was one thought I had. It kind of quiets down at speeds over 70, but I haven't gone more than 75 since I noticed the sound at all. It's not the engine, because if I shift into neutral at freeway speed, the sound stays there.
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I had a problem kind of like that last year. $600 and a one new rear differential later, and I had no more sound. Mine only made a sound if I was coasting above 65 mph, though, and got worse as I went faster.

LOL, "rear differential" sounds like something a gastroenterologist would do.

Asher's I'm with you on avoiding as many deliveries as I can. Now that I'm signed off on vaginal deliveries, I'm going to see if I can make it all of Saturday on call without making it to a single one. I also enjoyed OB/Gyn more than I thought I would, and I don't think I'm as turned-off on the OB aspect as you are, but I'm sick of the game you have to play with the attendings and residents when you want to get in for a vaginal delivery. C-sections I can handle, although the bladder blade has become my arch-nemesis. I honestly don't think it does anything except give the med student something to occupy one hand with.
 
TheProwler said:
Yeah, that was one thought I had. It kind of quiets down at speeds over 70, but I haven't gone more than 75 since I noticed the sound at all. It's not the engine, because if I shift into neutral at freeway speed, the sound stays there.
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Perhaps you have a tire that is out of balance. Sometimes thouse weights they tack on fall off when you stress the wheel.
 
I have a pseudo-flat tire on my back axle... stupid at-least-4-years-old tires.
 
Xandie said:
I have a pseudo-flat tire on my back axle... stupid at-least-4-years-old tires.
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You mean it is low on air? I hear that is pretty easy to fix.
 
indo said:
Perhaps you have a tire that is out of balance. Sometimes thouse weights they tack on fall off when you stress the wheel.
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Good point. I'll get it check out soon. I'm not sure, but I think it may have started right around the time I last got the oil changed...



anybody else think that there's a lot of stuff to learn for path? these neoplasms are something else...
 
indo said:
You mean it is low on air? I hear that is pretty easy to fix.
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Well, since I am exceedingly stupid, I couldn't have possibly figured that out...

No, it has a leak. I fill it up every three to four weeks, but it's getting progressively faster on the leakage.
 
By the way, I'm pretty sure that the reason you can't reschedule your boards when it's less than a week away is to stop people from freaking out constantly and moving it, because I *so* wanted to move mine today. Boohoo.
 
Xandie said:
Well, since I am exceedingly stupid, I couldn't have possibly figured that out...

No, it has a leak. I fill it up every three to four weeks, but it's getting progressively faster on the leakage.
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have you tried this? http://www.fixaflat.com/

if that doesn't work, as long as the hole isn't in the sidewall, most tires can be repaired with a patch or a plug for less than $40 or so.
 
I actually hadn't tried that... I should. I really should get new tires as well, since it's been at least four years, since the tires were on the car when I bought it.
 
Xandie said:
I actually hadn't tried that... I should. I really should get new tires as well, since it's been at least four years, since the tires were on the car when I bought it.
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well, the mileage a car's tires can handle is dependent on what tires you got and how you drive, but here's an easy way to measure how much tread you have - http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tiretech/techpage.jsp?techid=51

And the Fix-a-flat usually works fairly well, especially if you're going to be replacing them in the not-too-distant future. I guess it wouldn't be worth it to patch a slow leak if you're replacing them.
 
Four days until boards, less than six months until match, less than eight months to graduation... *countdown*
 
Ashers said:
Uncleaned call rooms are extra fun... especially when it's like the first chance I've had to sleep, and I discover both beds are disgusting at 0300.
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throw one more sheet on top and crash on it, fully dressed?
 
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