"Oh, you're pre-med? You know, I've got this problem..."

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You know deep down you are crushing these people every time you tell them how little you know/cant help them. I like to humor them for a while but the jig is up when I have no real diagnosis, haha.
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rama kandra said:
You know deep down you are crushing these people every time you tell them how little you know/cant help them. I like to humor them for a while but the jig is up when I have no real diagnosis, haha.
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That's when you make one up, of course! Just make up something terrible, requiring they go to the hospital, priority 1 transport... or, as another poster suggested, take vitals and suggest immediate amputation or an epipen.


Actually, though, my worst was from my old roommate who was a nursing student (and is now an RN). Once I declared as premed, he would always "defer" medical suggestions to me. As in... ask me my opinion on any kind of medical advice or illness or whatever. (My UG has one of the top nursing schools in the state and, as a result, other students tended to sort of use our nursing students as junior doctors for medical advice. Obviously no bueno....)
 
I try to keep up with medical knowledge to the best of my ability, I'm pre med, but that doesn't mean I can't walk and talk like a doctor anyway, right?

If something is serious, okay, you need a proper opinion. But I think its cool to help someone with a cut or a twisted ankle, lol.
 
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rama kandra said:
If something is serious, okay, you need a proper opinion. But I think its cool to help someone with a cut or a twisted ankle, lol.
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I'd agree. Although having some first aid training is nice when it comes to those kinds of injuries. As much as it seems like common sense to pinch a bloody nose and lean forward or apply direct pressure and elevation to a mild to moderate laceration, you'd be surprised how many people don't really know what to do....
 
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Because I have not been in the trenches doesn't mean I have some idea of what I am in for? Please. I welcome the whole thing man.

And I got that concept of walk/talk like a doctor from a podcast by an actual doctor who suggested this affirmation to help you along the way. His example was someone wanting to be a cop, but hanging around cops for years prior. By the time he was ready to enroll in the academy he walked and talked like a cop.

Its a positive affirmation and I would try anything to keep positive in that respect.
 
rama kandra said:
Because I have not been in the trenches doesn't mean I have some idea of what I am in for? Please. I welcome the whole thing man.
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Hate to say this, but... really? It doesn't?
Until you experience it, you can't say you know what you're in for.
I doubt you have any idea what med school, residency, and working as a physician is like. I'm from a family of docs and I still wouldn't pretend to know what their lives are like and I see it every day. Not sure what your background is, but most premeds I've talked with have a woefully limited understanding of what they are getting themselves into.
 
I'm sorry. I will put my head back to the grindstone and pretend this never happened. Forgive, forget.
 
Because I have not been in the trenches doesn't mean I have some idea of what I am in for?
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Why yes, that's exactly what it means. I was going more for the attending feeding you your nuts for thinking you're awesome approach, but either way works. 😛
 
Before I was pre-med I was planning to get a PhD in biomedical engineering. My mom/aunt would always call and ask me random medical questions. I'd explain to them almost every time that I have no medical training, but I can give them some great suggestions for biomaterial scaffolds or how to calculate flow rate in an artery.

It's gotten worse since I was accepted 2 weeks ago. Apparently acceptance automatically equals MD knowledge to my family. Sigh.
 
My roommate & I are both pre-med; however, it is awful rooming with her! She is always bragging about how someday she is going to be a doctor, and she gives her "medical opinion" to every situation. It was awful yesterday. My suitemate went to buy lysol, and of course my roommate told her that she should not spray that around sick people -- it will just make "their sickness" worse. : O ...the suitemate believes her about everything...
 
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Depakote said:
If it's a problem with the head, amputate everything above the neck. If it's a problem below the neck, amputate everything below the neck. Problem solved! 😉
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:laugh:

Man, you're gonna be one helluva doc!
 
ishchayill said:
If he ever did, I'd question his competence for clinical medicine! :meanie:
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Well, it'd just mean he picked the wrong side to amputate (above or below the neck). Pick the wrong side or don't finish the job and they're bound to complain more! I bet guillotine operators get the same kind of complaints....
 
apumic said:
Well, it'd just mean he picked the wrong side to amputate (above or below the neck). Pick the wrong side or don't finish the job and they're bound to complain more! I bet guillotine operators get the same kind of complaints....
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Ah yes, the love they put into their work is so underappreciated!
 
muhali3 said:
Tell them it's lupus.
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It's never Lupus
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I've stopped telling people i'm premed. When I'd tell a girl that I'm premed I'd see money signs in their eyes. Everyone else would think that I'm pretentious. So now I just say i'm a Biochem major
 
BlitzSleep said:
I've stopped telling people i'm premed. When I'd tell a girl that I'm premed I'd see money signs in their eyes. Everyone else would think that I'm pretentious. So now I just say i'm a Biochem major
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You're a biochem major? You know, I've got this polypeptide I'm trying to synthesize...
 
I've never really understood the whole 'calling yourself pre-med' thing.

Just say whatever you're majoring in
 
apumic said:
Well, it'd just mean he picked the wrong side to amputate (above or below the neck). Pick the wrong side or don't finish the job and they're bound to complain more! I bet guillotine operators get the same kind of complaints....
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So I can't find a reference to it online, but after going to the Tower of London and watching the Travel Channel (I wanted a link) the Yeoman Warders talk about how a royalty dude was beheaded at the Tower by a swordsman, and he stood up to protest in the middle of the beheading because it was taking so many swings of the axe.


An on other topics in this thread... I still get called a nurse even when I'm wearing my long white coat. 🙁

No one asked me questions as a premed since my dad's an MD. My mom started coming to me with questions my 4th year because she figured I knew the general medicine stuff better than my orthopaedic surgeon dad (he actually keeps up with and remembers general medicine stuff, so it's still kinda funny).
 
"Oh, you are pre-med! You will make a lot of money! That's awesome!"
 
Someone asked me to remove his ingrown toenail.

flip26 said:
Same here, and furthermore, I think this is all BS.

Kind of begs the question of who some of these folks are telling that they are pre-meds? Who publicizes that information? Might as well tell them "I am a grade grubbing tool" because that is what they are thinking anyway...
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People ask. Honestly, sometimes I wish they didn't. I'm Post-Bacc, so I can't play the major card.
 
flip26 said:
Kind of begs the question of who some of these folks are telling that they are pre-meds? Who publicizes that information?
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People ask. Honestly, sometimes I wish they didn't.
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Yea. I mean honestly flip26, you've never had someone ask what major you were? Where I went to UG that was the first question asked after "hello" just about anytime you met someone freshmen year.

I can imagine flip26's conversations:
"Hey, flip26, looks like you're my roommate this year, cool! What's your major"
"I don't publicizes that information"



TheMightySmiter said:
Honestly, I've encountered the opposite. It's not that people I know ask pre-meds to diagnose them, it's that many pre-meds think they can.
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Urgh, tell me about it. Combine this with that clique of high nosed girls (or guys) that also happen to watch Grey's Anatomy and you got yourself an epic facepalm.

Random guy: "ah, my shoulder hurts"
PreMed Sophomore: "Oh, that's totally a ruptured disk"
Random guy: "Really?"
PreMed Sophomore: "Yea, trust me I volunteer in a clinic and I'm PreMed"
Random guy: "Wow"
PreMed Sophomore: "You need to get that checked out, could be <obscure disease here>"
Random guy: "Huh? Wait a second, wasn't that was on House last week...?" 😕
 
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I already have a full schedule of patients for 2 years as soon as I become a doctor.
 
I link them to WebMD and give them a lecture about how they have health insurance and their primary care provider would be very happy to discuss this with them. I get questions all the time from my grandparents/close friends. I give them the same answer every time. Although I think this is the best response, I have yet to get them to stop asking. :bang:
 
usually i just make something up and watch them nod in awe... and then i tell them to go call a doctor. but seriously this happens quite often
 
Damn you
BlitzSleep said:
It's never Lupus
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I've stopped telling people i'm premed. When I'd tell a girl that I'm premed I'd see money signs in their eyes. Everyone else would think that I'm pretentious. So now I just say i'm a Biochem major
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