Random non-MCAT and only peripherally related to the MCAT thread - Part 6

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Welcome to Part 6! Everyone did a bang up job by hitting 10k in less than 12 days--11 days 19 hours and 18 minutes to be exact. A new record! 😀

For those not familiar with what we do here, Molly has been kind enough to put together a nice description.

MollyMalone said:
Not sure what the Random thread is all about? Well, here's the answer to all your questions.

It's basically a restaurant. That serves breaststicks. And lots of cute fruit and veggies. And is patronized by a HO. And Tucker Carlson. Vin Diesel, too. Lots of race car drivers eat here, as well. We're very well respected by the Amish... one girl in particular is here almost all the time.

The food is great if you're low on iron. It's not on the menu, but you can ask about the special secret garlic cure home recipe. One of the hostesses often makes weather predictions, but she's not always around. I think she has another job with the government. Or a government. Something like that. One of the other hostesses says "Bitch, please," a lot, but she's joking... don't take it personally.

Forget anything you've heard about the girl who died here from arsenic poisoning. That was a long time ago, and she's still alive, anyway... just busy so she doesn't come in as much. Besides, a little arsenic adds a lot of flavor to just about any dish.

Pretty flowers by the entrance, hey? Lilis, they are. Beautiful. And the music is totally hopping... we have our very own DJ. Looks a little like Brad Pitt.

I guess that's pretty much all you need to know. I'm usually in the corner booth over there drinking a nice glass of wine. You're welcome to join me, anytime. We're open 24/7.
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And the final tally from Part 5:

WilliamsF1 2,128
RAD11 1,484
Nikki2002 587
jlw9698 458
Anastasis 410
mshheaddoc 384
Dr Durden 367
Arsenic 366
MollyMalone 362
supernova33418 355
beary 353
megboo 259
ironmanf14 252
oxeye 242
BrettBatchelor 240
da_donut 193
Crazy Canuck 184
QofQuimica 184
Dr. Pepper 180
scentimint 162
EvoDevo 147
lilithny 128
UMP 117
TypeA 108
AWhitehair 104
Teerawit 87
Tanner82 79
abadri421 45
DRKUBA 44
gujuDoc 31
Cozmosis 23
leesh 7
dr.kicia 1
X_Marker 1
ylitia 1
bananaface 1
MicroBugs 1
Noeljan 1
Jacks Mannequin 1

We've been through highs and lows in Part 5. From the final matches of Andre Agassi's career to the loss of the World's friend, Mr. Steve Irwin. May he rest in piece.

With all that said, let the green flag wave! Boogity Boogity Boogity!!!

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Arsenic said:
have you checked out the interview feedback section of sdn? its filled with questions students were asked last year at all the different schools. its school specific so you can pick the school thats gonna interview you and read about what they tend to ask and how their day is structured.
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Yup - went through that today and took all the questions listed for the school and put them in a word document. 😉 I'm going to have my husband help me come up with some clever answers for some of them tonight.

One of them is "Tell me a joke." Ummm, okay. Do you guys want to know the first joke that comes to my mind??

"What does a mathematician do when s/he's constipated?" "Works it out with a pencil."

Yeah, I'm thinking that's probably a little too immature .... :laugh:
 
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oxeye said:
Yup - went through that today and took all the questions listed for the school and put them in a word document. 😉 I'm going to have my husband help me come up with some clever answers for some of them tonight.

One of them is "Tell me a joke." Ummm, okay. Do you guys want to know the first joke that comes to my mind??

"What does a mathematician do when s/he's constipated?" "Works it out with a pencil."

Yeah, I'm thinking that's probably a little too immature .... :laugh:
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Ask your daughter. Kids always have the best "cute" jokes.
 
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oxeye said:
One of them is "Tell me a joke." Ummm, okay. Do you guys want to know the first joke that comes to my mind??

"What does a mathematician do when s/he's constipated?" "Works it out with a pencil."

Yeah, I'm thinking that's probably a little too immature .... :laugh:
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:laugh: That's awesome.

What the heck kind of an interview question is that? 🙄
 
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oxeye said:
Yup - went through that today and took all the questions listed for the school and put them in a word document. 😉 I'm going to have my husband help me come up with some clever answers for some of them tonight.

One of them is "Tell me a joke." Ummm, okay. Do you guys want to know the first joke that comes to my mind??

"What does a mathematician do when s/he's constipated?" "Works it out with a pencil."

Yeah, I'm thinking that's probably a little too immature .... :laugh:
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oxeye that's really funny right now!!
 
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oxeye said:
Yup - went through that today and took all the questions listed for the school and put them in a word document. 😉 I'm going to have my husband help me come up with some clever answers for some of them tonight.

One of them is "Tell me a joke." Ummm, okay. Do you guys want to know the first joke that comes to my mind??

"What does a mathematician do when s/he's constipated?" "Works it out with a pencil."

Yeah, I'm thinking that's probably a little too immature .... :laugh:
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I don't think I would really practice questions. I plan to just look over those interview feedback q's to get a feel for the general subjects they ask. I don't want to give a canned repsonse, but I get the feeling I might end up doing it by accident...
 
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beary said:
:laugh: That's awesome.

What the heck kind of an interview question is that? 🙄
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It was apparently asked just last year - and two different people reported it in the SDN interview feedback. 😉

So I want something good just in case. My husband is a walking encyclopedia of jokes (most not very PC unfortunately) so he should be able to help me come up with something.
 
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Arsenic said:
have you checked out the interview feedback section of sdn? its filled with questions students were asked last year at all the different schools. its school specific so you can pick the school thats gonna interview you and read about what they tend to ask and how their day is structured.
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hmmm...hard to find stuff on MSTPs.
 
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WilliamsF1 said:
I don't think I would really practice questions. I plan to just look over those interview feedback q's to get a feel for the general subjects they ask. I don't want to give a canned repsonse, but I get the feeling I might end up doing it by accident...
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I don't want my answers to be canned - but I also don't want to be completely stumped when they ask me to state three ethical issues in healthcare and go into detail about one of them.

And then there are the "What was your biggest blunder" type questions. I seriously don't know. I really have to think about that. I don't want to say something really, really stupid. 😉

The what is your greatest accomplishment question is easy "Being in the top 100 of posters on SDN." 😀
 
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WilliamsF1 said:
Depends on my mcat score.

oxeye, I see what you mean about that healthcare question. I don't know what to say for that. 😱 Danger, Will Robinson.
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abortion, stem cell usage, patients telling you about their illicit activities, euthanasia.....yada yada. sticking with the usual suspects can help 😉
 
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Oh yes - the only other joke that comes to my mind at the spur of the moment is the interrupting chicken knock-knock joke.

It's funnier in person but this is the jist -

"Knock-knock"

"Who's there?"

"Interrupting Chicken"

"Interrupting Chi...."

"BA-KAW!!!!"

(ie you squack like a chicken really loud before they can finish saying interrupting chicken who?) I'm guessing this is also not a great medical school interview joke because it can really make a person jump. :laugh: Not to mention I'd sound like an idiot trying to imitate a chicken during a serious interview.
 
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Teerawit said:
abortion, stem cell usage, patients telling you about their illicit activities, euthanasia.....yada yada. sticking with the usual suspects can help 😉
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I was thinking more along the lines of insurance and probably administration (this pisses off A-man a lot).
 
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oxeye said:
Oh yes - the only other joke that comes to my mind at the spur of the moment is the interrupting chicken knock-knock joke.

It's funnier in person but this is the jist -

"Knock-knock"

"Who's there?"

"Interrupting Chicken"

"Interrupting Chi...."

"BA-KAW!!!!"

(ie you squack like a chicken really loud before they can finish saying interrupting chicken who?) I'm guessing this is also not a great medical school interview joke because it can really make a person jump. :laugh: Not to mention I'd sound like an idiot trying to imitate a chicken during a serious interview.
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in an hour that will be the best joke everr
 
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Would you be happy if the hospital CEO got millions in stock options, buys his kids $150k+ worth of new cars (including an M3 btw), multiple homes, etc...Dont' forget that guy's boss has to have a $50mm Gulfstream private jet and a brand new Ferrari F430 Spider.
 
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WilliamsF1 said:
I was thinking more along the lines of insurance and probably administration (this pisses off A-man a lot).
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Ugh, that's where I get stumped. There are lots of questions like "What is the biggest problem in healthcare and how do you propose we fix it?" type questions in the feedback.

I'm thinking of going with the no national healthcare response but I don't know how to fix it. I'm not trying to go into politics here. 😉 And I'm not even convinced a national healthcare system would be better.
 
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oxeye said:
Ugh, that's where I get stumped. There are lots of questions like "What is the biggest problem in healthcare and how do you propose we fix it?" type questions in the feedback.

I'm thinking of going with the no national healthcare response but I don't know how to fix it. I'm not trying to go into politics here. 😉 And I'm not even convinced a national healthcare system would be better.
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Well, if they ask me about health insurance, I'd give them my example of how cobra wants to charge me $300 a month for coverage. For a 21 year old that doesn't smoke and regularly workouts. Yea, that makes sense. 🙄

P.S. Grumman, I'm still rolling with no health insurance :laugh:
 
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WilliamsF1 said:
Well, if they ask me about health insurance, I'd give them my example of how cobra wants to charge me $300 a month for coverage. For a 21 year old that doesn't smoke and regularly workouts. Yea, that makes sense. 🙄

P.S. Grumman, I'm still rolling with no health insurance :laugh:
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Don't get me started on cobra. 😡 I had to be on it when I was pregnant with my first daughter it was ridiculously expensive.
 
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oxeye said:
I'm thinking of going with the no national healthcare response but I don't know how to fix it. I'm not trying to go into politics here. 😉 And I'm not even convinced a national healthcare system would be better.
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There's no right answer. You could just say "expand Medicare to include everyone in the same risk pool, expand coverage and services" and I think that would be sufficient. That is what I'd say cuz it's ez to stick with for me. But you could say the same principles just with privatization.
 
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And that leads me to a problem I see with health insurance - it's ridiculously expensive and doesn't cover much if you are self-employed and need to buy insurance independently (like my husband and I do). It would be nice if people who are self-employed had access to similar benefits as the big corporations.

But I wouldn't consider that one of the biggest problems in health care - so I doubt it will come up. 😉
 
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Teerawit said:
There's no right answer. You could just say "expand Medicare to include everyone in the same risk pool, expand coverage and services" and I think that would be sufficient. That is what I'd say cuz it's ez to stick with for me. But you could say the same principles just with privatization.
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Or go to an extreme and say to genetically alter babies to have zero health problems ever and self-repair immediately after car wrecks. That would make an interesting thesis for a PhD. :laugh:
 
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Teerawit said:
There's no right answer. You could just say "expand Medicare to include everyone in the same risk pool, expand coverage and services" and I think that would be sufficient. That is what I'd say cuz it's ez to stick with for me. But you could say the same principles just with privatization.
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but then aren't you going to get the "how do we pay for that?" type questions? I'd have no clue how to answer that other than raise taxes.
 
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oxeye said:
but then aren't you going to get the "how do we pay for that?" type questions? I'd have no clue how to answer that other than raise taxes.
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less administrative hobble-gobble and paperwork shiz. less competition between different hospitals/clinics/companies. there are too many unnecessary intricacies that could be thrown out or reduced to lower costs.
 
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oxeye said:
And that leads me to a problem I see with health insurance - it's ridiculously expensive and doesn't cover much if you are self-employed and need to buy insurance independently (like my husband and I do). It would be nice if people who are self-employed had access to similar benefits as the big corporations.

But I wouldn't consider that one of the biggest problems in health care - so I doubt it will come up. 😉
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My dad is self-employed and used to have health insurance. It was $10k+ a year, but he smokes and had an acute heart attack some years ago. He deciding to stop the insurance cover and just pay cash from now on. I think he's been off for a year now and has only paid $3k for some kidney stone work. $7k savings...this year.
 
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Teerawit said:
we should all be like France.
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One of my cousins didn't get into med school there. Him and his twin brother took some exam that determines if you get into med school or not. One of them did get in and the other retook (still didn't pass). Now he has to be a dentist. I can't believe he's pretty much being forced to be a dentist. 😱
 
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WilliamsF1 said:
My dad is self-employed and used to have health insurance. It was $10k+ a year, but he smokes and had an acute heart attack some years ago. He deciding to stop the insurance cover and just pay cash from now on. I think he's been off for a year now and has only paid $3k for some kidney stone work. $7k savings...this year.
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We pay $6000/year for a family of 4. We are all healthy, non-smokers, etc. The cost isn't too bad, BUT it hardly covers anything and has a huge freaking deductible. It's essentially a plan to cover us in case something disastrous happens health-wise (like cancer). Sucks. 😡
 
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oxeye said:
We pay $6000/year for a family of 4. We are all healthy, non-smokers, etc. The cost isn't too bad, BUT it hardly covers anything and has a huge freaking deductible. It's essentially a plan to cover us in case something disastrous happens health-wise (like cancer). Sucks. 😡
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yeah, sounds just like US healthcare 🙄
 
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WilliamsF1 said:
One of my cousins didn't get into med school there. Him and his twin brother took some exam that determines if you get into med school or not. One of them did get in and the other retook (still didn't pass). Now he has to be a dentist. I can't believe he's pretty much being forced to be a dentist. 😱
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No way could I ever be a dentist. I can't stand teeth.

My cousin willing went into that field. 😉 Just graduated from OHSU.
 
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oxeye said:
We pay $6000/year for a family of 4. We are all healthy, non-smokers, etc. The cost isn't too bad, BUT it hardly covers anything and has a huge freaking deductible. It's essentially a plan to cover us in case something disastrous happens health-wise (like cancer). Sucks. 😡
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We had a medicaid/meidcare lecture in my Public Finance class (basically gov't spending) and they talked about a "doughnut hole" for coverage! 😱 Something like anything between $6,000-$10,000, they don't cover ANY of it. It's all up to the person. However, if it's $10,001, they'll cover it. 😱

I'm not 100% on these coverage ranges, but it's around that amount.
 
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oxeye said:
Hmmm, maybe I'll have us go to IHOP instead of getting Burger King for dinner tonight.

I'm craving an omelet now. 😀
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Well, I'd take Burger King over anything, but if you insist, what about Denny's? Lumberjack Slam?

I think I'm the only one here that knows anything about their menu. :laugh:
 
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