Oklahoma future 2011ers part 01

[Jwax]

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I got my undergrad degree in rad tech - nuclear medicine. I spent about a year working at Mercy doing that. It was really interesting seeing how other healthcare workers view doctors. The impression that I got was, #1 they are all insanely rich and #2 they must be pleased at all times or will squash you like a bug, #3 they prefer only to speak to other physicians even if they are only asking where the nearest bathroom is, an MD would have a much more intelligent answer. Of course in my field direct interaction with physicians was rare, I bet in other fields there are percevied as less intimidating.

I think the attitude might have a little something to do w/the hospital. I've shadowed at Mercy and at Southwest Integris and it seems that the the EM doc's at S.W. Intergris are more into socializing with the "lower classes" of the medical field (i.e. techs, nurses, whatever). Not that I thought the docs up at Mercy were snotty or rude or anything like that - in fact I think they are all pretty great! But, they tend to not really talk to the nurses much. Just the PA's. Possibly, the other difference could be that at S.W. the docs are all DO's, and at Mercy, all but one are MD's.... or maybe it's just the diff environment - i.e. Mercy has Edmond clientel, which tends to be a little more closed off, and S.W. has the poorer OKC folks....

Anyways, that's my two cents on that.

I shadowed for the first time at S.W. Integris' emergency department last night. It was fabulous! In spending five hours there, I got to see more interesting things than I had after several months at Mercy.

I also heard one of the funniest comments. This comes from one of the hottie E.M. residents:

"Pelvic exams are like gifts from your grandmother....You never know what you're going to get, but you can be pretty sure that whatever it is, you're not going to like it."



The docs there played twist text (that silly yahoo game?) in between seeing patients. Neat place.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Okay, posted on hippocrates about the missing anatomy review notegroups since they're officially over a day late. So for the MS2s, are your notegroups always late?

As for the stuffing thing, they always have extras, so it's not like anybody is not getting notes. It is pretty pathetic that they still give you notes, ambx, since there's even a special announcement at the top of the mailboxes alerting us to the fact that an MS2 is in our mailbox section. And, yeah, your name is in a different color. 🙂

Bleh, I guess I'm the ugly member of the class of 2010. It sucks being old. I'm getting fat and am even going gray. 🙁

 

[JohnnyOU]

Bleh, I guess I'm the ugly member of the class of 2010. It sucks being old. I'm getting fat and am even going gray. 🙁

Well I think you're a cutey 😀

 

[want2beadoc]

Exlaw, I would like to defend the majority of Oklahomans... People from OKC are possibly the meanest group I can think of. I repeatedly say excuse me in the grocery store up here and very rarely get a smile, nod, or an excuse me back. Where I'm from in SE Oklahoma, they would apologize and then help you get whatever you needed off the shelf. I stopped holding doors open for people because I didn't know how they would react. I'm trying to get back in the habit because I really think its a good thing to do most of the time.

I've met a few people from Oregon and I found them really nice, so it is possible your standards may be a little high, too. 😉

 

[Wizard of Oz]

Well I think you're a cutey 😀

Hey Johnny, I'm sorry. I forgot that you have kids too, right? We think you're awesome too!

And exlaw, sometimes shy people are so deeply affected by your magnetic smile that we are merely rendered speechless.

 

[Smitty3L]

I live on the north side of Moore and before the new Moore hospital was built, Southwest was the closest one. One day my husband grabbed his chest and said, "I can't breathe". Well I'm a nerd and I start panicing. I had previously heard that Southwest is NOT the ED to go to, but again I was in a panic and decided that any half-way decent ED could handle chest pain and it would take at least 20 minutes to go to Baptist or Norman. I had to practically drag my husband to the car who while holding his chest was saying "I'm sure it's nothing". After waiting 1 1/2 hours (in an empty waiting room) the doc said "I'm sure it's not heart related, but we don't like to mess around when it comes to chest pain so we are going to do an EKG." So end to long story: he was fine, I'm a nerd, but I won't go back there. I don't know enough to know what that amount of time would have meant in the case of an MI, but I kept hearing Dr. Holliman's voice in my head "time is muscle" (I had him for path in undergrad).

The next ED visit was to Norman. That time I was sure that my husband was having a stroke. He left with a diagnosis of Bell's palsy, so I'm not completely crazy, though I'm starting to feel that way. Not sure what this says about me as a future physician. Any specialities I should stay away from seeing that I quickly think the sky is falling?

When I was doing rotations in undergrad I got the same feeling about physicians at every hospital. Of course a rad tech student is just above cafeteria worker on the hospital totem pole, so that may have something to do with it.

Exlaw -
The PA at the clinic where I did my PCM rotation said something about med students gaining 15lbs a semester. I hate to say, I may actually live up to that. Okay Wiz, where are you on this. I'm expecting a comment about how breathtaking cellulite is.

 

[Wizard of Oz]

The PA at the clinic where I did my PCM rotation said something about med students gaining 15lbs a semester. I hate to say, I may actually live up to that. Okay Wiz, where are you on this. I'm expecting a comment about how breathtaking cellulite is.

I think that the only time I've spoken to you in person was in the tunnel under the library when you were listening to Rada on your earphones while walking to the second embryo test. When I saw that, I said to myself, "This person knows how to multitask. How proud her family must be of her!"

So to you, exlaw, and RachelD, let me just say that I have not witnessed any weight gain or symptoms of a decline in physical attractiveness. It is instead in those brief moments when I have had the opportunity to speak to you either via email or in person that I have felt truly warmed and touched by the sacrifices that you have made in your lives to pursue an arduous while hopefully personally gratifying career path. So when your husbands look into your sometimes tired eyes, massage what you think are problem areas (I assure you they are not), or take over household responsibilities while you are studying, I am confident that they have never been more in love with you than they are in these challenging times. And if there is anything I can ever do to help you out, you know where to find me. 🙂

Okay, now I have a date with some Staphylococci and Gram negative rods.

 

[Mr. Freeze]

Exlaw, I would like to defend the majority of Oklahomans... People from OKC are possibly the meanest group I can think of. I repeatedly say excuse me in the grocery store up here and very rarely get a smile, nod, or an excuse me back. Where I'm from in SE Oklahoma, they would apologize and then help you get whatever you needed off the shelf. I stopped holding doors open for people because I didn't know how they would react. I'm trying to get back in the habit because I really think its a good thing to do most of the time.

I've met a few people from Oregon and I found them really nice, so it is possible your standards may be a little high, too. 😉

That's cuz down there y'all are all family. 😱

I'm JUST playin', I worked with a couple of guys from Konawa and Holdenville, we'd always play the mouth banjo when they talked about going home or whatever.

Of course, we gave everybody crap about something, that just happened to be theirs...

I got crap because I knew my way around a can of spray paint and went to Carl Albert (9th state trophy this week, BTW...), A "black" school. 😕 I guess when you live in Stillwater, though, and the only people from Carl Albert you see are the football players, you don't get an representative sample...

 

[Jwax]

I live on the north side of Moore and before the new Moore hospital was built, Southwest was the closest one. One day my husband grabbed his chest and said, "I can't breathe". Well I'm a nerd and I start panicing. I had previously heard that Southwest is NOT the ED to go to, but again I was in a panic and decided that any half-way decent ED could handle chest pain and it would take at least 20 minutes to go to Baptist or Norman. I had to practically drag my husband to the car who while holding his chest was saying "I'm sure it's nothing". After waiting 1 1/2 hours (in an empty waiting room) the doc said "I'm sure it's not heart related, but we don't like to mess around when it comes to chest pain so we are going to do an EKG." So end to long story: he was fine, I'm a nerd, but I won't go back there. I don't know enough to know what that amount of time would have meant in the case of an MI, but I kept hearing Dr. Holliman's voice in my head "time is muscle" (I had him for path in undergrad).

Not sure what this says about me as a future physician. Any specialities I should stay away from seeing that I quickly think the sky is falling?

When my honey told me over the phone that his chest hurt really bad and he thought he was having a heart attack & needed to hang up with me so he could call an ambulance, I told him he was probably just having really bad heart burn. I was very wrong.... so what does that say about me as a future physician? "Oh, no, that's not a brain tumor... that's just a little bit of dust on the CT."

Time is muscle, that's very right. I can't believe your hubby was kept waiting w/chest pain for that long! If he had been have an MI, he could have died in the waiting room! They told us that we were really lucky that he called an ambulance right was to get nitro & stuff. Incredible. What's funny about that is the doc I'm shadowing at SW said they have one of the shortest wait times at their ED than all the others in OKC, and it's one of the busiest. 😕

They sure were on top of it when their patient's O2 sat's dropped into the 20's last night!!! 😱

 

[want2beadoc]

Yeah, my mother is also my sister. Really helps on tax returns because she claim herself as a dependant. 😉

 

[Smitty3L]

Can anyone tell that I really don't want to study? I think I've posted on here more in the last couple of days than I have in the last couple of years.

On that note, I'm trying to calculate how much not studying I can get away with. Everytime I made it to a biochem clinical correlation there was no sign in sheet. Do any of you guys know how many times they took attendance? And can anyone clarify what it says in the syllabus about losing one point for every one that you miss? Please tell me it's not a percentage point of your total grade. Is it like missing one test question?

 

[Smitty3L]

When my honey told me over the phone that his chest hurt really bad and he thought he was having a heart attack & needed to hang up with me so he could call an ambulance, I told him he was probably just having really bad heart burn. I was very wrong.... so what does that say about me as a future physician? "Oh, no, that's not a brain tumor... that's just a little bit of dust on the CT."

Time is muscle, that's very right. I can't believe your hubby was kept waiting w/chest pain for that long! If he had been have an MI, he could have died in the waiting room! They told us that we were really lucky that he called an ambulance right was to get nitro & stuff. Incredible. What's funny about that is the doc I'm shadowing at SW said they have one of the shortest wait times at their ED than all the others in OKC, and it's one of the busiest. 😕

They sure were on top of it when their patient's O2 sat's dropped into the 20's last night!!! 😱

I think what happened is that MI was ruled out in triage. A nurse looked at him and took his blood pressure and then shuffled us over to someone else to fill out paperwork. Also this was 2-3 years ago so maybe things have changed.

 

[Mr. Freeze]

Yeah, my mother is also my sister. Really helps on tax returns because she claim herself as a dependant. 😉

I can't remember who it was, but were you there the day the prof showed the long family tree deal? Mulvihill, maybe?



At first it was just The Laugher that found it humorous, but then it kinda picked some steam...

 

[want2beadoc]

Not the laugher... One day somebody is going to read this thread throughout and everyone that posts here is going to get a strongly worded letter (TM). I wonder if the laugher knows she's the laugher?

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Exlaw, I would like to defend the majority of Oklahomans... People from OKC are possibly the meanest group I can think of. I repeatedly say excuse me in the grocery store up here and very rarely get a smile, nod, or an excuse me back. Where I'm from in SE Oklahoma, they would apologize and then help you get whatever you needed off the shelf. I stopped holding doors open for people because I didn't know how they would react. I'm trying to get back in the habit because I really think its a good thing to do most of the time.

I've met a few people from Oregon and I found them really nice, so it is possible your standards may be a little high, too. 😉

First, I apologize to all for my previous pity party. I do need to workout, though. After exams! 🙂

Yeah, I think it's really OKC. People aren't horrible, but they aren't super-friendly, either. By contrast, people in Stillwater are really nice, so I'm sure it's not state wide. 🙂 I get the impression that people in OKC are really suspicious, too. Every house in our neighborhood has an alarm, and we don't live anywhere near a ghetto. My husband and I went for a walk earlier this week, and we actually had people open their doors and stare at us. Also, we walked by some other people, and no one made eye contact or said hi. In my parents' neighborhood in Stillwater, you say hi and smile to everyone you walk by. It's just what you do. That's also what you do in neighborhoods in Portland.

Nontrad, do you have any comments on friendliness in Tulsa?

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Can anyone tell that I really don't want to study? I think I've posted on here more in the last couple of days than I have in the last couple of years.

On that note, I'm trying to calculate how much not studying I can get away with. Everytime I made it to a biochem clinical correlation there was no sign in sheet. Do any of you guys know how many times they took attendance? And can anyone clarify what it says in the syllabus about losing one point for every one that you miss? Please tell me it's not a percentage point of your total grade. Is it like missing one test question?

Yeah, I don't want to study, either. 😉 About biochem, I think we signed in maybe every other clinical correlation. Each mod had its own sign in sheet, so if you signed up late and had a not very organized mod, you might have missed the sheet. You might want to contact Leon just so he knows for sure you were there. I'm guessing he'd trust you, or you could get your neighbors to tell him you were there.

Does anybody know if we're likely to get any points back for the biochem mini? I didn't really study enough to know if any questions were bad. 😳

 

[Smitty3L]

I get the impression that people in OKC are really suspicious, too. Every house in our neighborhood has an alarm, and we don't live anywhere near a ghetto. My husband and I went for a walk earlier this week, and we actually had people open their doors and stare at us.

I think that is because people in OKC are not familiar with the idea of walking, outside of to and from their car or to and from the couch and fridge. I can just see them eating a cheeseburger, looking out their windows, wondering why are those people walking down the street? Did their car breakdown?

 

[JohnnyOU]

Did Dr. Knehans make it through that whole powerpoint file during lectures?

I'm trying to decide how much of it to try to remember.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Not the laugher... One day somebody is going to read this thread throughout and everyone that posts here is going to get a strongly worded letter (TM). I wonder if the laugher knows she's the laugher?

I'm waiting for it. It's pretty easy to figure out who I am anyway.

 

[WhoisJohnGalt]

When my honey told me over the phone that his chest hurt really bad and he thought he was having a heart attack & needed to hang up with me so he could call an ambulance, I told him he was probably just having really bad heart burn. I was very wrong.... so what does that say about me as a future physician? "Oh, no, that's not a brain tumor... that's just a little bit of dust on the CT."

Relax 🙂 I think all it says about you as a future physician is that you have to face the same challenges that ALL medical students and residents do: being aware of the limitations of your training.

There's a reason we have to be trained for 7 years before we can practice unsupervised: it takes a really long time to be able to make those determinations accurately enough that our patients don't suffer for it.

As a pre-med student, you can't say definitively that ANYTHING's just heartburn. As an med student, you might have an slightly more educated opinion, but that doesn't mean anyone (including yourself) should trust it to the extent that you dissuade someone from seeking care from a "real doctor" in a potential medical emergency. The farther along you go in your training, the more likely you are to be right, but until you finish residency there will (and should) always be someone looking over your shoulder just in case.

Anyway, this is my long-winded way of saying that it's a mistake we're all going to make sooner or later, and you just may have gotten yours out of the way without killing anybody 😉 As long as you learned from it, I think it will only make you a better doc.

 

[Benoit]

This website eats more of my time everyday. First, it was the MCAT forum, then the PreMed forum, then the Allopathic, and now MySDN.

The NRH ED Dr.'s seem nice to me. They talk with the techs and nurses quite a bit and it is pretty laid back. I wouldn't want to work anywhere that doctors are condescending. Afterall, I think it would breed a hostile work environment.

 

[Wizard of Oz]

I wonder if the laugher knows she's the laugher?

I find few people more annoying than the laugher. She came to our module during the most recent PBL. I think she only said about five sentences, but I had to keep myself from strangling her the whole time.

I'm waiting for it. It's pretty easy to figure out who I am anyway.

Yeah I don't think we are among strangers here. I had to ask want2beadoc's name and a couple of 09er's, but everyone else either crosses back and forth enough to the discussion board, has a unique enough signature, or gives enough personal info to out themselves.

Nontrad, do you have any comments on friendliness in Tulsa?

I think Nontrad is hibernating. I have lived in both OKC and Tulsa. It's like a totally different land to me. I see it like San Fran vs. LA or maybe Chicago vs. St. Louis (Boston/NY? never been to the northeast). What's funny to me is that people in Tulsa tend to know nothing about OKC and vice versa. Somebody I once worked with in Tulsa asked me if I was still working at Memorial (which I think is what the new Childrens at OU Medical Center was called before it was Everett Tower before it was University Tower before it was University Hospital). Same thing here--I used to work for "Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital" (the 1982 name that became Tulsa Regional and now OSU Medical Center).

I'm off the subject. I don't know that I would say that people in Tulsa are "friendlier," but it seems to be a lot more segregated/localized. I have friends who grew up in Union/Jenks/Broken Arrow and couldn't even tell you how to find some of the places downtown (like where I used to work). The strange sort of animosity between the two communities is unnecessary in my view. It's like OU football vs. OSU football. One (Tulsa) is just a better place to live--schools, healthcare system, shopping, QuikTrip instead of 7 Eleven. Now if I were forced to roam a neighborhood with a racial slur sign in my hand on a Saturday night, I'd probably take my chances with south OKC over north Tulsa. In general, though, I liked living in Tulsa much better.

I wouldn't want to work anywhere that doctors are condescending. Afterall, I think it would breed a hostile work environment.

You are going to have a fun ten years (and then some) ahead of you....

 

[JohnnyOU]

Don't these emails just get you all teary-eyed???

Please remove locks and contents of any locker you are using in the anatomy lab. Locks remaining after noon on Friday, December 15 will be cut and the contents discarded.

Please see me if you have questions. Have a great Christmas break.

Ya gotta love that genuine feeling of kindness and goodness.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Don't these emails just get you all teary-eyed???

Please remove locks and contents of any locker you are using in the anatomy lab. Locks remaining after noon on Friday, December 15 will be cut and the contents discarded.

Please see me if you have questions. Have a great Christmas break.

Ya gotta love that genuine feeling of kindness and goodness.

I'm touched. 😀

I am happy that I'll never have to see that stinky, dark, depressing anatomy lab again.

 

[JohnnyOU]

I'm touched. 😀

I am happy that I'll never have to see that stinky, dark, depressing anatomy lab again.

lol
I'll be seeing so I can study for the practical...
not sure which day I'm gonna try to squeeze it in.

Everyone's invited though !!!

(any heads are better than mine)

 

[Amxcvbcv]

I'm touched. 😀

I am happy that I'll never have to see that stinky, dark, depressing anatomy lab again.

Don't get so excited. You still have neuro lab and practicals down there. 😉

Ahh... you'll long for the days when the brain was just the brain and the spinal cord just had anterior and dorsal horns.

 

[WhoisJohnGalt]

Don't get so excited. You still have neuro lab and practicals down there. 😉

Ahh... you'll long for the days when the brain was just the brain and the spinal cord just had anterior and dorsal horns.

C'mon, don't scare them, you know it's not the same. A) neuro labs are once every SEVERAL weeks, not several times a week. B) neuro labs are totally and completely optional 🙂 It's definitely a really tough class, but at least you're (mostly) out of that smelly basement 🙂 Speaking of smell, brains don't smell nearly as bad as bodies.

 

[Wizard of Oz]

Ahh... you'll long for the days when the brain was just the brain and the spinal cord just had anterior and dorsal horns.

What's a spinal cord horn? Was that like on the first test block or something?

 

[RachelD]

So, about biochem. I looked over the nutrition questions put out on the discussion board and they are drastically different than the nutrition questions in the question bank on the biochem website. I failed the Q-bank quiz. Has anyone heard anything about the difficulty of his questions? It seems like everyone thinks his part will be easy but if his questions are like the Q-bank some of us (me) might be in trouble. I'm about to quit studying biochem. I need an 86 to get a B and I don't feel like studying....😴

 

[WhoisJohnGalt]

So, about biochem. I looked over the nutrition questions put out on the discussion board and they are drastically different than the nutrition questions in the question bank on the biochem website. I failed the Q-bank quiz. Has anyone heard anything about the difficulty of his questions? It seems like everyone thinks his part will be easy but if his questions are like the Q-bank some of us (me) might be in trouble. I'm about to quit studying biochem. I need an 86 to get a B and I don't feel like studying....😴

I sort of vaguely remember them not being too tough, but I'm not sure.

 

[RachelD]

Did Dr. Knehans make it through that whole powerpoint file during lectures?

I'm trying to decide how much of it to try to remember.

I'm sending you a review that one of my mod-mates made. It has everything he covered in class. Check your ouhsc mail.
Rachel

 

[RachelD]

From the stuco minutes, an update on our class...
Class Reports -

2010 – Planning a Holiday Party

Philanthropic event – Toy collection

Bird issue – (if you don’t know about it you are better off not knowing. If you

are curious check old discussion boards of the first/second yrs.

I'm glad we will be remembered as the class that wanted to save the birds! 🙄

 

[JohnnyOU]

I'm sending you a review that one of my mod-mates made. It has everything he covered in class. Check your ouhsc mail.
Rachel

Thanks Rachel 🙂

 

[Wizard of Oz]

It seems like everyone thinks his part will be easy but if his questions are like the Q-bank some of us (me) might be in trouble. I'm about to quit studying biochem. I need an 86 to get a B and I don't feel like studying....😴

I would take several of those hippocrates questions with a grain of sodium chloride (which is a nutritional requirement hehe). There seem to be several that have the wrong question paired with the answers provided. Plus even if you don't get the grade that you want in biochem, you can rest assured that you're already in the top 1% as far as being a cool person goes in my view. 😀

Maybe I'm out of the loop or something, but did our biochem mini grades get posted somewhere? Many students seem to have their cut-offs and so forth calculated. I threw in the towel on keeping track of my grades after TB 1, but I'd kinda like to know how I did just to make sure I didn't mis-grid the exam or something.

Wizard wishlist continues....mechanism whereby students can simply monitor how they did online. Surely with all of these fancy gadgets somebody in IT could figure out a way to make this happen. We have Blackboard, why not just use that (like actually use the grade function instead of posting the spreadsheet under documents)?

 

[Talpa]

Admissions Updates
(updated 12/08/06)

Applications Received: 1328

Interviews
Offered: 221
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Admissions
Offers made: 106

 

[Jwax]

Relax 🙂 I think all it says about you as a future physician is that you have to face the same challenges that ALL medical students and residents do: being aware of the limitations of your training.

There's a reason we have to be trained for 7 years before we can practice unsupervised: it takes a really long time to be able to make those determinations accurately enough that our patients don't suffer for it.

As a pre-med student, you can't say definitively that ANYTHING's just heartburn. As an med student, you might have an slightly more educated opinion, but that doesn't mean anyone (including yourself) should trust it to the extent that you dissuade someone from seeking care from a "real doctor" in a potential medical emergency. The farther along you go in your training, the more likely you are to be right, but until you finish residency there will (and should) always be someone looking over your shoulder just in case.

Anyway, this is my long-winded way of saying that it's a mistake we're all going to make sooner or later, and you just may have gotten yours out of the way without killing anybody 😉 As long as you learned from it, I think it will only make you a better doc.

Thanks for the comment (long winded or not). It was a nice response. The only thing that I should try and point out (in my slight defense) is that I didn't say anything like, "Baby, I'm pre-med and I would know if you're having a heart attack and you're not." I pretty much just said, that's ridiculous, you're 30 years old. Thirty year olds don't have heart attacks. Don't waste your money getting an ambulance and God I'm going to be so embarassed for you / us when it's just heartburn!

Anyways, that being said, I agree... there is definitely a reason they train us for 7 (+ / - ) years with constant supervison. And I'm okay with that. Hooray for making mistakes without it actually killing anyone! I'm not confident that it will be the only mistake I make (as a matter of fact, I'm confident that it won't be), and I'm also not confident that I won't make mistakes that won't kill people. Maybe I'm a bit pessimistic, but I kinda think that every doctor makes a few really big, horrible, unfixable mistakes that result in death / disability.

Currently listening to: Santana featuring Wycelf Jean "Maria Maria". I just downloaded LimeWire. Santana = greatness.

 

[WhoisJohnGalt]

Wizard wishlist continues....mechanism whereby students can simply monitor how they did online. Surely with all of these fancy gadgets somebody in IT could figure out a way to make this happen. We have Blackboard, why not just use that (like actually use the grade function instead of posting the spreadsheet under documents)?

It's used a little bit more after 1st semester. I wanna say that EBM, and maybe even neuro & phys were posted on blackboard. This year, MMI & PCM put our grades on blackboard, and the pharm secretary is usually good about e-mailing the spreadsheet out, at least.

 

[Wizard of Oz]

It's used a little bit more after 1st semester. I wanna say that EBM, and maybe even neuro & phys were posted on blackboard. This year, MMI & PCM put our grades on blackboard, and the pharm secretary is usually good about e-mailing the spreadsheet out, at least.

Have I told you lately how much I appreciate you? 👍

Thanks for taking my add on facebook.

... "Baby, I'm pre-med and I would know if you're having a heart attack and you're not." I pretty much just said, that's ridiculous, you're 30 years old. Thirty year olds don't have heart attacks.

Where are all of these damn 30-year-old dudes snaring attractive twentysomething premeds? Jwax, since you are on my myspace now, send some single friends over to my page. Lie to them and say I look better than that.

 

[Jwax]

Does anyone know if they interviewed last week or if they are interviewing this week?

That 106 offers made makes me sick to my stomach. That leaves 56 seats, if (for some reason) all of the initial 106 don't go anywhere else.



I found this great thread through pre-allo that's something like, "Before we screw ourselves" which gives a link to a thread on the residency board about, "If you could do it all over again, would you?" This gives a lot of great feedback for how current physician's feel, what their big issues w/medicine are, whether or not I'm doing the right thing... and from what I've read... It sounds like medicine is definitely for me. I'm already cynical, I already realize I'm going to hate half my patients, and I'm going to be too bitter about the half that I hate to really be that nice to the half I don't... It'll be exhausting, frustrating, blah, blah, blah.... BUT, it still provides a better opportunity to make a real difference in the world than anything else. Also, I've already got the laugh at things that aren't really funny to get through attitude. Anyways, any other future 2011'ers, check it out if you get a chance. I think I saw amxbx--- post on there a few times.

Anyways, I also wanted to say I decided that my "reason" for why I had to get a 6 week delay in getting interviewed is so I could have the opportunity to do a little more shadowing (and read the aforementioned thread). I think that the E.D. shadowing that I'll be doing for the next few weeks will really help re-focus my intentions / motivations for going into medicine, and hopefully, it will make it easier to put it into words for the adcom for my interview (assuming it doesn't get delayed again....).

Thank you for reading my post... I'm really bored these days. It's finals week at OU, so my friends are all studying so I'm on my own. Se la vi - it means more time for my fiance and I to watch Jack Bauer 😀 .

 

[Jwax]

Where are all of these damn 30-year-old dudes snaring attractive twentysomething premeds?

Sweet! I got added to Wiz's pretty students list 🙂 .

 

[Wizard of Oz]

Does anyone know if they interviewed last week or if they are interviewing this week?

That 106 offers made makes me sick to my stomach. That leaves 56 seats, if (for some reason) all of the initial 106 don't go anywhere else.

I don't think that I saw anybody interviewing, and I highly doubt that they would push you behind another interview group due to weather.

Many of the interviewees so far will have undoubtedly been given multiple offers or will opt out of med school altogether...

Go to:

http://www.ouhsc.edu/admissions/reports/0607.htm

and check out Fall 2006 applicants by gender, residency, and age. There were 1404 applications last year, but 74% were by non-residents. Now look at the admitted chart--74% of 217 admitted were residents.

Looks like last year they sent out 217 red envelopes.

Sweet! I got added to Wiz's pretty students list 🙂 .

Indeed, sweetie, indeed. I also put a "thanks for the add" comment on your myspace--couldn't remember if I did that already and you just didn't want it there or if I forgot entirely.

Now about these single friends of yours, I may be out-of-shape now, but my stock is on the rise. 😀

 

[Amxcvbcv]

Does anyone know if they interviewed last week or if they are interviewing this week?

That 106 offers made makes me sick to my stomach. That leaves 56 seats, if (for some reason) all of the initial 106 don't go anywhere else.



I found this great thread through pre-allo that's something like, "Before we screw ourselves" which gives a link to a thread on the residency board about, "If you could do it all over again, would you?" This gives a lot of great feedback for how current physician's feel, what their big issues w/medicine are, whether or not I'm doing the right thing... and from what I've read... It sounds like medicine is definitely for me. I'm already cynical, I already realize I'm going to hate half my patients, and I'm going to be too bitter about the half that I hate to really be that nice to the half I don't... It'll be exhausting, frustrating, blah, blah, blah.... BUT, it still provides a better opportunity to make a real difference in the world than anything else. Also, I've already got the laugh at things that aren't really funny to get through attitude. Anyways, any other future 2011'ers, check it out if you get a chance. I think I saw amxbx--- post on there a few times.

Anyways, I also wanted to say I decided that my "reason" for why I had to get a 6 week delay in getting interviewed is so I could have the opportunity to do a little more shadowing (and read the aforementioned thread). I think that the E.D. shadowing that I'll be doing for the next few weeks will really help re-focus my intentions / motivations for going into medicine, and hopefully, it will make it easier to put it into words for the adcom for my interview (assuming it doesn't get delayed again....).

Thank you for reading my post... I'm really bored these days. It's finals week at OU, so my friends are all studying so I'm on my own. Se la vi - it means more time for my fiance and I to watch Jack Bauer 😀 .

Two people are interviewing on Thursday this week that got bumped due to the snow/ice "storm". Three more are coming on December 20th while the rest are rescheduled until January 10th.



And yeah, I participated and read that thread for a while, but I got out when all the upperclassmen got tired of hearing naive points of view since apparently we didn't have anything substantive to contribute to the conversation. 🙄 Right... I don't think I've looked at it for a year or so. 😉

 

[Doctor Bagel]

Maybe I'm out of the loop or something, but did our biochem mini grades get posted somewhere? Many students seem to have their cut-offs and so forth calculated. I threw in the towel on keeping track of my grades after TB 1, but I'd kinda like to know how I did just to make sure I didn't mis-grid the exam or something.

Wizard wishlist continues....mechanism whereby students can simply monitor how they did online. Surely with all of these fancy gadgets somebody in IT could figure out a way to make this happen. We have Blackboard, why not just use that (like actually use the grade function instead of posting the spreadsheet under documents)?

Well, apparently Leon has to rekey the mini, so we'll get our grades in February or something. 🙂 I'm calculating my grade based on the lowest grade I could get in the mini -- you know, assuming we get no points back. Yeah, I agree with actually using blackboard for grades instead of just posting an excel spreadsheet there. Also, why does the biochem spreadsheet have our mod number associated with our exam ID? I'm a little paranoid, but it seems like it would make it easier for people to figure out who you are.

I'm so happy that biochem is almost over. Yeah, I know it might come up for the boards, but I have very minimal interest in every enzyme involved in making cortisol (and having to know both their names 🙄 ).

 

[WhoisJohnGalt]

Have I told you lately how much I appreciate you? 👍

Thanks for taking my add on facebook.

Aw, thanks Wiz 🙂

Also, why does the biochem spreadsheet have our mod number associated with our exam ID? I'm a little paranoid, but it seems like it would make it easier for people to figure out who you are.

Oh, that's nothing. Over the summer, we got an email with a spreadsheet of everyone's exam ID numbers... a little oopsy in the student affairs office 🙂 I don't remember any of our spreadsheets having our mod numbers on them, but do you seriously think anybody's lame enough to go through 20 numbers trying to figure out who's who? And if they ARE, how can you care what they think about YOU, given what a miserable person they must be?

I'm so happy that biochem is almost over. Yeah, I know it might come up for the boards, but I have very minimal interest in every enzyme involved in making cortisol (and having to know both their names 🙄 ).

Unfortunately, you actually do have to know those enzymes (up until Step 1, at least). I definitely forgot them from TB3 to TB9, but we now have to remember them again (only because their deficiency is clinically important). I still think biochem as it's taught now is a waste of time (I didn't remember it, and it certainly didn't sem relevant 1st semester), but I guess some of it does come back to haunt you... we also have to know about gout and allopurinol this test block

 

[glp]

Also, why does the biochem spreadsheet have our mod number associated with our exam ID? I'm a little paranoid, but it seems like it would make it easier for people to figure out who you are.

figuring out people's biochem grades is trivial bc the spreadsheet is in alphabetical order. someone whose name is at the end of the alphabet figured that one out and told me. i didnt even think about it at first. it pretty much defeats the purpose of anonymous id's but i dont really care bc i dont think anyone has the time to waste worrying about other people's grades.

 

[Doctor Bagel]

figuring out people's biochem grades is trivial bc the spreadsheet is in alphabetical order. someone whose name is at the end of the alphabet figured that one out and told me. i didnt even think about it at first. it pretty much defeats the purpose of anonymous id's but i dont really care bc i dont think anyone has the time to waste worrying about other people's grades.

Ah, nice. I'm thinking maybe the biochem department is a little on the incompetent side in some ways.

So I just took the practice test that Hanas posted and could answer all of 2 of the questions.

 

[Mr. Freeze]

I missed the brca1 one, but isn't that not one of the genes on the test?

But I spent ALL day yesterday hitting Hanas' shiz. And what good does a 6 question "practice" set do? Just tell us you're going to ask the most minute trivial **** there is, because we know you will...Don't minimize the level to which you'll stoop by putting out a 6 question teaser...

I think the grades/list/ID/rank shouldn't be coded. And definitely not because I'd be at the top looking down at all the commoners! We've already lost several folks. How much harder would it be to see someone fall through the cracks if you knew they were ahead of time? I thought things would be pretty competitive, and maybe I just don't associate with the folks that make it that way, but I wouldn't want someone to miss out on their dream because they were too embarrassed to ask for help or no one knew they needed it. I mean, you have people you know better than others, but most of us don't wear our performance on our sleeves, so unless you actively interact with people, you can fade away pretty easily. Especially homeschooling. Unless I make a 100 on my Biochem test, then somebody is going to hear about it.

But it is 1, and I just may be full of ****.

 

[Benoit]

Se la vi

*C'est la vie.

Sorry, I have a french final on tuesday that I couldn't care less about.

 

[Mr. Freeze]

Speaking of french and private **** not being private anymore, I wrote a girl a big ol' love note in french once, like 9th grade. I didn't have command enough to write one without a dictionary, so the grammar was all jacked. I know the concept made her happy where it smells funny, but she couldn't read it, grammar notwithstanding, so she took it to the french teacher who translated it for her and everyone else in the class, using it as a tool for how not to conjugate verbs or whatever.

She was like my first love, too. At least 2nd or 3rd. She was a cheerleader then, but now she is all huge and could use Knehans nutrition lectures. That's what happens to you when you break little boy's hearts, God makes you fat.

But I'm over it. Mostly.

 

[Amxcvbcv]

That's what happens to you when you break little boy's hearts, God makes you fat.

But I'm over it. Mostly.

That is the most tragic/humorous thing I've seen in a while.


I know how you feel. 😉