Official MCW Class of 2009 Thread

Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
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Ashers said:
There were no extra sheets, if there were, I would've changed the bed. I'd crash fully dressed anyway.
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You'd be mortified if you saw the sleeping conditions at the fire house for the ambulance company I work for.
 
TheProwler said:
You'd be mortified if you saw the sleeping conditions at the fire house for the ambulance company I work for.
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My dad still told me I had it better than when he was a resident. They just used to go sleep on the ortho clinic exam tables whenever they had a chance.

I'm quite good at sleeping on chairs and not falling off. I've slept in enough airports and college/med ethics classes.
 
My experience with required classes can be explained best by this 2003 clip of a made for TV movie called, "scrubs". I will play the part of Dr. Cox and Med school will play the part of JD.

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U1xDtC9_v4[/YOUTUBE]
 
indo said:
My experience with required classes can be explained best by this 2003 clip of a made for TV movie called, "scrubs". I will play the part of Dr. Cox and Med school will play the part of JD.
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That is quite accurate. Even in large group lectures like med ethics. Dr. Derse's voice has an amazing sedative effect.
 
Every time I look at some barebones Powerpoint presentation, I figure there's no way they could lecture for an hour and not tell us something that's not on that sheet, because I could cover it in five minutes. Most of the time, I'm completely wrong.
 
TheProwler said:
Every time I look at some barebones Powerpoint presentation, I figure there's no way they could lecture for an hour and not tell us something that's not on that sheet, because I could cover it in five minutes. Most of the time, I'm completely wrong.
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You're studying Psych, aren't you? I can tell.

The boredom, it hurts us! Also, the uncertainty about the new "clinical vignettes" and the completely rewritten questions that are "very fair". I have never, never, never liked being a beta tester.
 
samenewme said:
You're studying Psych, aren't you? I can tell.

The boredom, it hurts us! Also, the uncertainty about the new "clinical vignettes" and the completely rewritten questions that are "very fair". I have never, never, never liked being a beta tester.
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Yeah, I'm not a fan of this either. The old exams are cake.
 
General surgery at St. Joe's in November and Transplant Surgery at Froedtert in December...should be interesting. The time I'll have to wake up at will be less than interesting.
 
Agent Splat said:
General surgery at St. Joe's in November and Transplant Surgery at Froedtert in December...should be interesting. The time I'll have to wake up at will be less than interesting.
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Again the cruel hand of fate thwarts any chance we have of actually working together. I have Vascular at Froedtert in Nov. and General Surg at the VA in Dec. Let the good times/scut monkeying roll.
 
No offense to Marky Marc here, but I have to say, Stringbean, that's one of the best surgery rotations from what I can tell. The vascular staff are pretty awesome, and anything at the VA is sweet. Then again, I think I would have enjoyed transplant.

Don and I loved Columbia/VA CT, but I've heard some negative things about one of those places lately (the names and dates have been changed to protect the innocent).

DoctorFunk said:
Again the cruel hand of fate thwarts any chance we have of actually working together. I have Vascular at Froedtert in Nov. and General Surg at the VA in Dec. Let the good times/scut monkeying roll.
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Xandie said:
No offense to Marky Marc here, but I have to say, Stringbean, that's one of the best surgery rotations from what I can tell. The vascular staff are pretty awesome, and anything at the VA is sweet. Then again, I think I would have enjoyed transplant.

Don and I loved Columbia/VA CT, but I've heard some negative things about one of those places lately (the names and dates have been changed to protect the innocent).
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i have yet to hear anything good coming out of CT surgery from anybody that has had it yet this year, but i think vascular would be pretty interesting.

it probably won't happen, but I'm hoping for a cinematic moment where I, dripping in sweat and breathing heavily, burst through the door to the OR with the cooler containing the new kidney, heart, lung, and cerebellum our patient so desperately needs just moments before it's too late. Dramatic music will swell as I then proceed to push the clumsy surgeon aside yelling things like "dammit doctor, there's no time for sterility and bleeding control!! this man needs his cerebellum!" by the end of December they'll have to name the freaking hospital after me.
 
DoctorFunk said:
Again the cruel hand of fate thwarts any chance we have of actually working together. I have Vascular at Froedtert in Nov. and General Surg at the VA in Dec. Let the good times/scut monkeying roll.
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There's always the possibility of bonding during OB/gyn. Get Mary's... Charlie's trying to get his first pelvic exam done today in order to get signed off on it. We basically don't work except on call and OB. Surgeries are not work, unless it's a C-section.

Agent Splat said:
i have yet to hear anything good coming out of CT surgery from anybody that has had it yet this year, but i think vascular would be pretty interesting.
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Yep. I've only heard negativity re: CT. I've also heard it involves cold hands, which my Raynaud's is not happy about.
 
It does involve cold hands... then they pour ice on you. Good times.

Remember that a rotation is dependent mostly on the residents/fellows, so as those change, so may the rotation.
 
The negative comments coming from CT surgery is d/t a certain passive-aggressive person in CT. Not because CT is necessarily bad.

Funk, vascular is awesome, but there's not as much OR as other services. At least at the VA anyway, which is where I am right now. The vascular attendings are great, good fellows too. IR people are good, and we work with them a lot. I know at Froedtert you'll have a much higher census than we do at the VA, so you'll probably have more OR time on vascular. The VA is kinda the black sheep and the attendings only come to the VA when they have to. So you'll have more attending time at Froedtert. The downside to Froedtert vascular service is that they have clinic twice a week (and Wednesdays, but you'll have lecture then).

I can't believe you guys have your surgery assignments already. I don't think we had ours until 2-3 weeks beforehand. I hope I get what I requested for peds!

The mornings are super early for surgery, no matter what service you're on.
 
I was treated to this little gem when an old thread was bumped.

DoctorFunk said:
Let me get the rules straight here. Can I still think about
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or
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without losing?

Disclaimer: I apologize for the male partial nudity. It was a necessary evil.
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TheProwler said:
I was treated to this little gem when an old thread was bumped.
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I sure hope this doesn't turn into some Bill O'Reilly-style witchhunt where the media tries finding out what I do in public restrooms and whatnot. Please, link the entire thread so that my peers can see the context in which that was posted. 😉
 
DoctorFunk said:
I sure hope this doesn't turn into some Bill O'Reilly-style witchhunt where the media tries finding out what I do in public restrooms and whatnot. Please, link the entire thread so that my peers can see the context in which that was posted. 😉
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It's already been linked. They can just click the little ">" button in the quoted portion.
 
It's amazing! I made it through all of OB/gyn without catching a single baby!! I had to have my hand on the head 3 times, but other than that, no baby catching for Ashers! Now, nap time, since I got a record 3 hours of sleep at the hospital, and then off to school to study for the shelf.
 
They grow up so fast, don't they Xandie?
 
Ashers said:
It's amazing! I made it through all of OB/gyn without catching a single baby!! I had to have my hand on the head 3 times, but other than that, no baby catching for Ashers! Now, nap time, since I got a record 3 hours of sleep at the hospital, and then off to school to study for the shelf.
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I want to catch a baker's dozen of them.
 
akpete said:
I'd be fine with one, just to say I did it. Then no more for me thank you very much.
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regardless of the specialty I pick, I'll always be tempted to stop by the nursery and hold a handful of babies. I'm definitely looking forward to having my own...
 
TheProwler said:
regardless of the specialty I pick, I'll always be tempted to stop by the nursery and hold a handful of babies. I'm definitely looking forward to having my own...
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The OB/gyns made me carry babies from c-sections to the baby baker (whatever the heater's called). I hadn't held a baby since my youngest brother was born -- that's when I was 6. Then a patient had me hold her baby for her. It's very weird. I don't know what to do with them. Definitely NOT looking forward to peds.

Yes, I want kids at some point... maybe by then I'll figure out what to do with kids.
 
It's the warmer. 🙂
 
Xandie said:
It's the warmer. 🙂
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Oh ok. Thanks. =) Though, I think "baby baker" is good slang for it, and it sounds just as bad as when people talk about c-sections saying "we're going to cut her!" It can just be added to all the random stuff said in OB/gyn. "She was AROMed at 1800." Someone on my track and I were having a discussion about that, how AROM and SROM were turned into verbs.
 
Just don't say "we broke her bag" around Dr. Cruikshank. He does not appreciate gutter talk.
 
Ashers said:
The OB/gyns made me carry babies from c-sections to the baby baker (whatever the heater's called). I hadn't held a baby since my youngest brother was born -- that's when I was 6. Then a patient had me hold her baby for her. It's very weird. I don't know what to do with them. Definitely NOT looking forward to peds.

Yes, I want kids at some point... maybe by then I'll figure out what to do with kids.
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I always hold people's babies (with permission, of course) when I get the chance. My friend had a baby a few months ago, and I held her for probably an hour when we visisted.
 
Ashers said:
You, too, will soon learn the funny abbreviations found only in OB/gyn.

AROM -- pronounced A-rom (like cd-rom), Assisted Rupture of Membranes.

Now I need to go to school and prepare to fail my shelf.
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I thought it was Artificial Rupture of Membranes. You crazy St. Mary's folk... I like the "we're going to section her," slang for cutting someone. It's sounds like you're going to make nice cross-sections for an anatomy project or something.

I still maintain that being a nurse on the postpartum ward would be one of the best jobs evarrr. Whenever you're having a bad day, there's always a cute newborn baby around to hold and cheer you up! Babies everywhere!!!!

Time to shelf it up.
 
G'luck on the shelf. I'm now going to say something that none of you will believe, even though it's true.

The OB/GYN shelf is the easiest of the shelves. It might be the easiest exam all year. Seriously.
 
Xandie said:
G'luck on the shelf. I'm now going to say something that none of you will believe, even though it's true.

The OB/GYN shelf is the easiest of the shelves. It might be the easiest exam all year. Seriously.
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It wasn't too bad. There was some stuff I hadn't heard of before. But I finished early, like I normally do on exams. I'm not AS speedy as Xandie though.
 
Gimlet said:
I thought it was Artificial Rupture of Membranes. You crazy St. Mary's folk... I like the "we're going to section her," slang for cutting someone. It's sounds like you're going to make nice cross-sections for an anatomy project or something.

I still maintain that being a nurse on the postpartum ward would be one of the best jobs evarrr. Whenever you're having a bad day, there's always a cute newborn baby around to hold and cheer you up! Babies everywhere!!!!

Time to shelf it up.
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Some of those postpartum RNs were WAAAAYYYY stressed. They're like, "Man you guys were busy last night. Let's hope nothing goes on tonight too." The one who said that also wished me luck on the shelf when she found out I was on call on Wed. At least they're nice.

Edit: Maybe it is Artificial. Artificial/Assisted... not too much difference. At least I knew that AROM was different that SROM, and PROM was different than PPROM.
 
So I just filled out the OB/gyn eval. I complained about Beckmans -- I like reading, but I sure don't like that book, and the family practice residents. If it hadn't been for them, I would've caught a baby. It's semi-sad that I didn't catch one on OB/gyn. Not that I particularly wanted to, but I should maybe've done it once.
 
apparently a "short call" day for my team at the VA means "there till 8:30pm." that deserves a big WHAT THE FLUCK?
 
I'm slightly annoyed with my psych comments. My attending said I should've researched more sources, brought them in, and shared them with the team. I did that every day for the first 2 weeks, but every day he said "Oh, we'll go over those tomorrow." So I stopped looking up as much stuff. *humph*

Then I called to make an appt with my research preceptor because he said he'd be my advisor for next year. He apparently only sees people for appts on Wednesday mornings. Ugh. I can't just run to his office then run back down to Racine. I told him secretary that I'd just be around the dept all month next month. He also wants to go over what I want to do for my senior year... I don't know that yet!! argh!

And family medicine has PBL!!!!!!! I have to make up PICO questions again. I thought those were done haunting me M1 year. =( ALKSDFAJLSKDFJALSKDFNASDLKVN A< XC A<KSDFHKAWHEFLKJ

Finally, I biked to school, with my computer, and my bag is heavy, so biking back is going to be fun, again. blarg.

/End rant.
 
My turn:

med school ****ing sucks. i'm progressively hating it more and more and finding new reasons to do so on a regular basis.

I spent from 7am till 10:45 pm at work/class today, and basically all I learned is that I realize I haven't really done anything I feel like I'm *good* at in a long time. Thank God for a 24 hour ambulance shift in a couple weeks where I'm in charge, I give orders, and I don't have to report to some jackoff MD/PhD that prides himself on scaring students.

Flucking hell. I'm sick of worrying about my grade both because I'm not getting any independent studying done and because these damned clerkships have us doing 50 million different things in a given week and there's no time to focus on our patients so I can't take the time to write great notes and be a good little asskisser. I should have done something more worth my time. I'm realizing more and more that medicine was a bad idea, and I'm starting to see that there isn't a specialty out there that I really will be happy with in the end. My patience with this entire process is wearing incredibly thin.

/end rant
 
Ashers said:
My brother called yesterday. My parents bought him a Prius in August. He had just filled up for the 2nd time, he's driven 800 miles total, and he gets 49 mpg.
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But, it is the ugliest car on the planet
 
Agent Splat said:
I should have done something more worth my time. I'm realizing more and more that medicine was a bad idea, and I'm starting to see that there isn't a specialty out there that I really will be happy with in the end. My patience with this entire process is wearing incredibly thin.
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Damn, dude. Think you might be leaving?
 
Ashers said:
To Splats comments: have fun on the ambulance. Sounds like you should go into peds. I hate busy work that takes away from studying.



No, that would be the Aztek.
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Touche. But, in my defense, I didn't realize we were counting Satan's spawn as a vehicle.
 
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