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A few ground rules. Everything you post must be RANDOM and more importantly, only peripherally related to the MCAT. See my example post below. I now await Beary's shirtless pic of Carl Edwards. C'mon Beary, A-man is dying to see it. 😀

This is Ana's example:

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My, factually, better examples 😀 :

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my god you guys i just had one of the most incredible experiences of my life. things were slow as we were waiting for our new intake so i sat down with one of the schizophrenic patients and talked to her for an hour. she was calm and non-violent, like talking to one of your friends. i went through all of it with her, when her hallucinations started, when her delusions started etc... it was AMAZING. i'll blog about it this weekend. i challenged her delusions by trying to show her how it was all just her mind playing tricks on her because the voices stopped after she started taking her medicines. she believes a chip was implanted or left inside of her during a c-section 4 years ago.

me: the voices stopped after you came here and started taking your medicine?
pt: yeah, i have peace right now. no more voices!
me: so you see, it must have been your mind playing tricks on you. if it was a chip how could medicine silence the voices? you see that tv over there? i could take all the medicine in the world and the tv would still stay on so it COULDNT have been a chip causing the voices, a chip is a machine and medicine doesnt turn off machines.

i sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo felt like i was reaching into her mind and trying to pull her out of her schizophrenia, i was soooo waiting for that "Oh my god" moment when she realized medicine cant turn off machines and that it must be her mind playing tricks on her.

her response? "they must have lowered the volume"

broke my heart, i just wanted to hug her. that was soooo sad and was the first time i got to do any real psychiatry on this unit instead of scut since it was slow. how many times will you ever have in your life to sit with a nice, safe, schizophrenic and challenge them like that? it was unbelievable.

sorry for the long post, most of you probably didnt read it all but it was just so amazing, i'm still in awe. a sad awe. 🙁

but amazing, i'll blog about what the voices were telling her - incredible.
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omg😍 😍 when i shadowed that psychiatrist i got to talk to a lot of the patients during the session and sometimes when the doctor would leave the room--i couldn't believe how open these people were with me. i guess i was most surprised by how they were afraid--ashamed--and so willing to honestly discuss anything with me when i was a perfect stranger. This was outpatient--the dr. would tell me about when he first saw them in the hospital and how bad they were--and i got see how much of an improvement they had made. also--this dr. had known some of his patients for 30+ years which i think it's incredible to be able to have that kind of relationship with your patients.
 
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Arsenic said:
sorry for the long post, most of you probably didnt read it all but it was just so amazing, i'm still in awe. a sad awe. 🙁

but amazing, i'll blog about what the voices were telling her - incredible.
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Thanks for sharing that story A-man. Yeah psych is amazing that way and I am so glad you are actually getting to talk to people instead of just scutting.
 
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beary said:
Thanks for sharing that story A-man. Yeah psych is amazing that way and I am so glad you are actually getting to talk to people instead of just scutting.
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thanks beary, i am too. after i got up from that chair i could see for the first time why nikki, and jlw, and even my sister love psych. not that i'm gonna go into psychiatry now or anything, but i can see why people would want to.
 
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Arsenic said:
thanks beary, i am too. after i got up from that chair i could see for the first time why nikki, and jlw, and even my sister love psych. not that i'm gonna go into psychiatry now or anything, but i can see why people would want to.
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Yeah. When I started med school I swore that psych was the one thing I would never even consider doing. Then when I actually did psych I almost switched away from path! A few months ago too when I was having a tough time with path residency I was still considering applying to psych residencies.
 
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Nikki2002 said:
omg😍 😍 when i shadowed that psychiatrist i got to talk to a lot of the patients during the session and sometimes when the doctor would leave the room--i couldn't believe how open these people were with me. i guess i was most surprised by how they were afraid--ashamed--and so willing to honestly discuss anything with me when i was a perfect stranger. This was outpatient--the dr. would tell me about when he first saw them in the hospital and how bad they were--and i got see how much of an improvement they had made. also--this dr. had known some of his patients for 30+ years which i think it's incredible to be able to have that kind of relationship with your patients.
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😍

thats the idea here in this rotation, 3 weeks inpatient and 3 weeks outpatient. that way you can see the changes. i heard the doc that i'm gonna be with the 2nd half though doesnt let the students say anything during the interviews, we just observe - for 8 hours a day. what a waste. which is another reason i'm gonna bed the course coordinator to take me off that doc the 2nd half and put me on Psych ER instead.
 
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Arsenic said:
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thats the idea here in this rotation, 3 weeks inpatient and 3 weeks outpatient. that way you can see the changes. i heard the doc that i'm gonna be with the 2nd half though doesnt let the students say anything during the interviews, we just observe - for 8 hours a day. what a waste. which is another reason i'm gonna bed the course coordinator to take me off that doc the 2nd half and put me on Psych ER instead.
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^^^^ i can't tell if that's what you meant to say--lmao
 
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Arsenic said:
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thats the idea here in this rotation, 3 weeks inpatient and 3 weeks outpatient. that way you can see the changes. i heard the doc that i'm gonna be with the 2nd half though doesnt let the students say anything during the interviews, we just observe - for 8 hours a day. what a waste. which is another reason i'm gonna bed the course coordinator to take me off that doc the 2nd half and put me on Psych ER instead.
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this dr. was this nice old guy. left me alone piles of drugs. left me alone with patients. let the patients have convos with me during the interviews. lol it was so funny--i don't know why they would always start talking to me--it was strange.
 
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Arsenic said:
thanks beary, i am too. after i got up from that chair i could see for the first time why nikki, and jlw, and even my sister love psych. not that i'm gonna go into psychiatry now or anything, but i can see why people would want to.
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i think hating psych is the default b/c of the way our society portrays it
 
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i also think there is a big fear of these people. the first couple of days on the unit, i was freaked out. now, i'm getting to know them and see that they are just sick, not violent. most at least, there is this one guy in the unit right now from jail who is an a**. he assaulted another pt yesterday with a chair just because the other pt was black. my perception so far...... nice people that go schizo usually stay nice people, violent ***** that go schizo, are violent.
 
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beary said:
Yeah. When I started med school I swore that psych was the one thing I would never even consider doing. Then when I actually did psych I almost switched away from path! A few months ago too when I was having a tough time with path residency I was still considering applying to psych residencies.
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wow i didnt know you were that close to being a psych resident?!?! if i go into EM, i'll see a ton of psych pts. i promise not to be the *** that laughs at them and just calls a psych consult. hopefully i'll get my schedule change request for the 2nd half of the rotation so i can get experience working with them in an EM environment.
 
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Arsenic said:
i heard the doc that i'm gonna be with the 2nd half though doesnt let the students say anything during the interviews, we just observe - for 8 hours a day. what a waste.
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Oh my gosh A-man!!!!! When I did my outpt part I was on the C/L team and 100% interviewed the patients by myself for 30-45 minutes. Then I went and presented to the attending and then he just came and talked to them briefly.

I am totally totally sorry you are having such bad luck with this rotation. 😡 It happens to everybody sometime but seems like you are getting more than your fair share. I was lucky with surgery and psych. Had hellish teams for medicine and neuro. Everything else was pretty average.
 
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Arsenic said:
hahaha, nov 1st right?
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Yes. I think that is going to be a mighty tough month. I am working on getting my strength back but am still really sick. And for at least one week during that month I'm going to get "slammed" (yes that's a direct quote from my doc) with IV antibiotics. If I have to have surgery than obviously all bets are off.

Autopsy is pretty much 7 am - 7 pm 6 days/week, standing and doing physical work almost the whole time. :scared:

But it was just so nice to get to go to work today. Really lifted my mood.
 
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Nikki2002 said:
let the patients have convos with me during the interviews. lol it was so funny--i don't know why they would always start talking to me--it was strange.
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You must have an approachable demeanor! Seriously! I bet you just naturally make people feel comfortable. Some people have that gift.
 
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Arsenic said:
wow i didnt know you were that close to being a psych resident?!?! if i go into EM, i'll see a ton of psych pts. i promise not to be the *** that laughs at them and just calls a psych consult. hopefully i'll get my schedule change request for the 2nd half of the rotation so i can get experience working with them in an EM environment.
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Yep! This was Oct/November of my last year so I had already submitted ERAS but hadn't yet started interviews. I totally freaked out and talked to millions of people about if I should switch to psych. It actually is really common for people to have trouble choosing between path and psych which is really strange on the surface of it - they seem so different. But ask almost any path resident what their #2 choice was and they will say psych.

I ended up mostly staying with path largely because of inertia and because I was already so "set" on being a pathologist. Also, right after psych I did neuro. Psych residents have to do a few months of neuro. Dealbreaker. :laugh:
 
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Arsenic said:
sorry for the long post, most of you probably didnt read it all but it was just so amazing, i'm still in awe. a sad awe. 🙁

but amazing, i'll blog about what the voices were telling her - incredible.
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Of all your posts longer than 2 lines that I decide to really read I'm glad it was that one. 😍

I think it was the way people perceive and think about the world that made me major in psych. I mean, according to our "normal" schema of the world what you were saying made logical sense; but according to her definition of "logic" there was another explanation. How we organize things and we fit them into a logical pattern to make the almost overwhelming amount of sensory imput into something meaningful, that's some cool ****. It's just so sad to see that go wrong and then not really know how to get it back on track. 🙁
 
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Arsenic said:
my god you guys i just had one of the most incredible experiences of my life. things were slow as we were waiting for our new intake so i sat down with one of the schizophrenic patients and talked to her for an hour. she was calm and non-violent, like talking to one of your friends. i went through all of it with her, when her hallucinations started, when her delusions started etc... it was AMAZING. i'll blog about it this weekend. i challenged her delusions by trying to show her how it was all just her mind playing tricks on her because the voices stopped after she started taking her medicines. she believes a chip was implanted or left inside of her during a c-section 4 years ago.

me: the voices stopped after you came here and started taking your medicine?
pt: yeah, i have peace right now. no more voices!
me: so you see, it must have been your mind playing tricks on you. if it was a chip how could medicine silence the voices? you see that tv over there? i could take all the medicine in the world and the tv would still stay on so it COULDNT have been a chip causing the voices, a chip is a machine and medicine doesnt turn off machines.

i sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo felt like i was reaching into her mind and trying to pull her out of her schizophrenia, i was soooo waiting for that "Oh my god" moment when she realized medicine cant turn off machines and that it must be her mind playing tricks on her.

her response? "they must have lowered the volume" 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁

broke my heart, i just wanted to hug her. i know you cant pull someone out of schizophrenia but damn it if i wasnt going to try to show her why it was all in her head during the only 6 weeks in my life i'll ever work this closely to psych pts. that was soooo sad and was the first time i got to do any real psychiatry on this unit instead of scut since it was slow. how many times will you ever have in your life to sit with a nice, safe, schizophrenic and challenge them like that? it was unbelievable.

sorry for the long post, most of you probably didnt read it all but it was just so amazing, i'm still in awe. a sad awe. 🙁

but amazing, i'll blog about what the voices were telling her - incredible.
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That sounds like it was awesome A-man. Send me a link to your blog. I had it once...a few days ago actually. Why can't I find it now??😕
 
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Arsenic said:
i also think there is a big fear of these people. the first couple of days on the unit, i was freaked out. now, i'm getting to know them and see that they are just sick, not violent. most at least, there is this one guy in the unit right now from jail who is an a**. he assaulted another pt yesterday with a chair just because the other pt was black. my perception so far...... nice people that go schizo usually stay nice people, violent ***** that go schizo, are violent.
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oh definitely. i *HAD* to shadow the psychiatrist for a course in undergrad--before that i had ZERO interest in psych and was scared to go. after--minored in psych b/c i liked it so much.

ana!! you majored in psych? that rocks
 
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Nikki2002 said:
lmao......possibly.....i have no idea what is going on right now.
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This is the first season I have watched it (since y'all talk about it all the time 😉 )

Also it provides great entertainment. Really my favorite is when everybody is gathered around in that little glass room watching surgeries. Like they have nothing else they should be doing. :laugh:
 
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Nikki2002 said:
i've got 2 exams in 6 days and still cannot overcome my GA addiction........or my SDN addiction
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Awww Nik - good luck with your exams. :luck:

You need sometime for yourself. 1 hour of GA a week isn't going to hurt you.

And I'm going to be an enabler for your SDN addiction. :meanie: 😉
 
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Psychiatry has been what made me want to go in to medicine in the first place... although it has been put on the backburner for me recently, stories like that respark my interest... 👍 thanks A-man, makes me remember why I wanted to do this in the first place 🙂
 
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Arsenic said:
totally rad, now i can actually read and learn psych instead of just doing paperwork! 😍

honestly though, talking to a schizophrenic like that was something i thought i'd never do in my life, not in a million years. i was trying to give her a john nash moment like in the movie "a beautiful mind" where he realizes it must all be in his head because the little girl he saw never got old, "she never gets old. the little girl, all these years and she never gets old." call me naive or stupid or whatever but i needed to see for myself that schizophrenic pts just cant make the rational connections, EVEN WHEN ITS PRESENTED TO THEM. she just couldnt take that final leap. 🙁

i'm not kidding, this will be an experience i'll remember for the rest of my life
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I worked in a psych facility (the patients ranged from kids to geriatrics)....the real sad part is how a lot of the staff who just got floated in the psych ward for the day treated them like 2nd class citizens (I have to admit I was scared as hell at first esp acute psych).....what I really hated was that didn't get much counseling from the psychiatrist.... the doctors just rounded and prescribed meds 😡 I even spoke to one doctor who said she was in internal med and decided to do a psych residency because psych was easier......wtf 😕 i guess it was a good case of burnt out

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i guess it'll just be me

btw, NKOTB was just on sirius... i feel 11 all over again
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i was totally in 😍 with jordan knight in 8th grade :laugh:
 
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beary said:
That was a much better episode, you're right. Glad my PM doesn't make my heart "explode." LOL. :laugh: :laugh:

If I am ever taken captive by The Others, I would not fall for such a trick. 😉
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I still couldn't believe he couldn't beat the krap out of Ben (The Others leader)....I think that's his name.

Whose x-ray were those do you think? Not Sawyer's, right?
 
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