Random non-MCAT and only peripherally related to the MCAT thread - Part 8

[Arsenic]

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how's your studying going guys? are you freaking out? burned out?

this is our stress relief thread....or our group anxiety thread, whatever..... 😀

for those of you that have no idea what the mcat random threads are about, check out molly's explanation:

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.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME TO POST HERE, you're welcome to jump in at anytime. Here's the final tally from part 7:

Arsenic 1,194
beary 1,021
Nikki2002 934
Anastasis 878
WilliamsF1 868
jlw9698 757
oxeye 422
UMP 420
BrettBatchelor 379
Dr Durden 378
RAD11 359
Teerawit 302
ironmanf14 267
scentimint 250
MollyMalone 200
megboo 189
Crazy Canuck 182
mshheaddoc 180
lilithny 161
supernova33418 154
TypeA 126
gujuDoc 116
EvoDevo 83
Penny2004 39
QofQuimica 31
Pemberley 16
Noeljan 9
Darlaa 8
jamie_kee_mac85 8
polarbingbear 8
Tristero 7
dc52e55 5
Hernandez 5
gradu8in2003 4
StellarOrigins 4
stiffany 4
abadri421 4
rogerwilco 4
CanadianPremed 4
Dr. Pepper 4
medfool24 3
KentW 3
nittanylionmd 2
ADeadLois 2
jophe 2
spicedmanna 1
yellowledbetter 1
DRKUBA 1
jessie 1
IBF 1
Oschemi 1
simpleman 1
clsr2nrvna 1

 

[Hernandez]

*smacks hern with a marshmallow candy cane*

careful, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry!

 

[mshheaddoc]

marshmellow's don't hurt! *starts throwing chocolate covered pretzels*

 

[Beau Geste]

careful, you wouldn't like me when I'm angry!

OMGROFLMFAO!!!

jlw is missing all the registration fun 🙁

 

[mshheaddoc]

yeah she is

 

[Beau Geste]

I just sene her an e-mail - she's probably waiting until the rioting dies down.

 

[TypeA]

HAHAHAHA, for some reason I thought this email was hilarious.

"Please be careful when returning slides in cardboard trays to the desk in room xxx.
Slides are being stacked too high and there was an avalanche today that resulted in several broken slides.
If there is not enough room, please place slides on the desk behind this one until we can come up with a better long term solution."

And with that, I'm off to work to sign out an autopsy and return some slides. 😀

 

[mshheaddoc]

I just sene her an e-mail - she's probably waiting until the rioting dies down.

or maybe she forgot 😕

 

[TypeA]

avalanches can be deadly! 😱

Maybe that's where the autopsies came from?

 

[Beau Geste]

As if this test isn't stressful enough.

Welcome to the world of medicine.

 

[mshheaddoc]

Maybe that's where the autopsies came from?

 

[Beau Geste]

This process has helped me with a new excuse for not getting things done:

"Sorry, but I have a problem loading your page. check back later"

 

[mshheaddoc]

This process has helped me with a new excuse for not getting things done:

"Sorry, but I have a problem loading your page. check back later"

its hardly a good excuse, but I'm using it as well ... :mad;

 

[Hernandez]

ya know, I just can't possibly work since both Ford and Brown died this week. it's just too much. I need some grieving time

 

[mshheaddoc]

ya know, I just can't possibly work since both Ford and Brown died this week. it's just too much. I need some grieving time

ok peter 😛

And bad things happen in 3's

 

[Hernandez]

ok peter 😛

Mr Weed, I can't come to work today because I was in a terrible plane crash. My family is dead and I am a vegetable. See you tomorrow.

 

[mshheaddoc]

don't you have patients to see?

 

[Beau Geste]

Me, no.

Hern, probably so.

 

[Hernandez]

don't you have patients to see?

done.

 

[mshheaddoc]

then come home 😛

 

[Hernandez]

done.

and not the other student's "done" but done done.

 

[mshheaddoc]

😛


at megboo's comment

 

[Hernandez]

great, Eygpt just had their 10th death from the bird flu

 

[mshheaddoc]

fantastic! H-to-H transmission?

 

[Hernandez]

fantastic! H-to-H transmission?

dunno, but 2 of his relatives also died from it.

 

[mshheaddoc]

probably bird to human ... i'll check it out.

 

[Beau Geste]

great, Eygpt just had their 10th death from the bird flu

They need to stop kissing birds.

 

[Hernandez]

They need to stop kissing birds.

hey, birds need loving too, they just gotta pay.

 

[Hernandez]

link

Scientists link weight to gut bacteria By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer
Wed Dec 20, 8:35 PM ET


Maybe it's germs that are making you fat. Researchers found a strong connection between obesity and the levels of certain types of bacteria in the gut. That could mean that someday there will be novel new ways of treating obesity that go beyond the standard advice of diet and exercise.

According to two studies being published in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature, both obese mice and people had more of one type of bacteria and less of another kind.

A "microbial component" appears to contribute to obesity, said study lead author Jeffrey Gordon, director of Washington University's Center for Genome Sciences.

Obese humans and mice had a lower percentage of a family of bacteria called Bacteroidetes and more of a type of bacteria called Firmicutes, Gordon and his colleagues found.

The researchers aren't sure if more Firmicutes makes you fat or if people who are obese grow more of that type of bacteria.

But growing evidence of this link gives scientists a potentially new and still distant way of fighting obesity: Change the bacteria in the intestines and stomach. It also may lead to a way of fighting malnutrition in the developing world.

"We are getting more and more evidence to show that obesity isn't what we thought it used to be," said Nikhil Dhurandhar, a professor of infection and obesity at Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center.

"It isn't just (that) you're eating too much and you're lazy."

Dhurandhar wasn't part of the research, but said it may change the way obesity is treated eventually.

He said the field of "infectobesity" looks at obesity with multiple causes, including viruses and microbes. In another decade or so, the different causes of obesity could have different treatments. The current regimen of diet and exercise "is like treating all fevers with one aspirin," Dhurandhar said.

In one of the two studies in Nature, Gordon and colleagues looked at what happened in mice with changes in bacteria level. When lean mice with no germs in their guts had larger ratios of Firmicutes transplanted, they got "twice as fat" and took in more calories from the same amount of food than mice with the more normal bacteria ratio, said Washington University microbiology instructor Ruth Ley, a study co-author.

It was as if one group got far more calories from the same bowl of Cheerios than the other, Gordon said.

In a study of dozen dieting people, the results also were dramatic.

Before dieting, about 3 percent of the gut bacteria in the obese participants was Bacteroidetes. But after dieting, the now normal-sized people had much higher levels of Bacteroidetes — close to 15 percent, Gordon said.

"I think that gut bacteria affects body weight," said Virginia Commonwealth University pathology professor Richard Atkinson, who wasn't part of the research team and is president of Obetech Obesity Research Center in Richmond. "I don't think there's any doubt about that and they showed that."

The growing field of research puts more importance in the trillions of microbes that live in our guts and elsewhere, crediting it with everything from generations of people getting taller to increases in diabetes and asthma.

People are born germ-free, but within days they have a gut blooming with microbes. The microbes come from first foods — either breast milk or formula — the exterior environment, and the way the babies are born, said Stanford University medicine and microbiology professor David Relman, who was not part of the study.

For decades, doctors have treated bacteria in a "warlike" manner, yet recent research shows that "most encounters we have with microbes are very beneficial," Gordon said.

"Much of who we are and what we can do and can't do as human beings is directly related to microbial inhabitants," Relman said.​

 

[mshheaddoc]

dunno, but 2 of his relatives also died from it.

A brick factory worker is Egypt's tenth bird flu fatality, Egypt announced Wednesday, and the third member of his extended family to die of the deadly strain of H5N1.

hmmmm .... intersting.

Although egypt is on the migratory route of wild birds ....

 

[mshheaddoc]

hmmmm .... intersting.

Although egypt is on the migratory route of wild birds ....

news

They are said to have shared one house with 30 other family members, raising poultry in the town of Zifta, about 80km (50 miles) north of Cairo.

The man died about 10 days after being admitted to hospital showing symptoms of the disease.

Dead ducks

A World Health Organization (WHO) official said the family raised ducks, and that members had become infected after slaughtering the flock in an effort to stem the spread of the H5N1 virus.

Three of the family's ducks had died of the virus, WHO confirmed.

 

[mshheaddoc]

I told you about the gut and bacteria article before!

 

[mshheaddoc]

pretty cool time lapse bird flu spreadding map.

 

[Hernandez]

pretty cool time lapse bird flu spreadding map.

this doesn't change at the end with a loud noise and the afflec duck jumping out of the screen at me does it?

 

[mshheaddoc]

this doesn't change at the end with a loud noise and the afflec duck jumping out of the screen at me does it?

uh, no. It doesn't. 😛

 

[Hernandez]

Rocky Balboa is a really good movie. I remembered all the other ones and I cried at the beginning and end of this one 😳

Rocky was like the pop up book equivalent for people who not only suck at reading but can't understand the words so good.

 

[mshheaddoc]

Ok derek zoolander

 

[mshheaddoc]

Save the Polar Bears!

 

[mshheaddoc]

JLW - I'm GETTING THE TESTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Beau Geste]

Rocky was like the pop up book equivalent for people who not only suck at reading but can't understand the words so good.

Oh no!

I thought Rocky was an excellent movie! A true underdog story.

I was so impressed that Sylvester Stallone wrote it, too.

Also, Sly has somewhat slurred speech because he is totally deaf in one ear since birth as well as a forceps mishap that caused the facial droop he's well known for.

 

[Beau Geste]

JLW - I'm GETTING THE TESTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did you win??????

 

[mshheaddoc]

2nd chance offer ... 🙂

I think the chap feels sorry for me with all the times I've bid. Its nice that they do this sometimes though.

 

[Beau Geste]

Awww....


How did you even make it past the sign on page to register?

You must have the Force

 

[mshheaddoc]

well just keep hitting refresh and back. Do NOT start over. That's how I FINALLY started moving on.

 

[Beau Geste]

I have been and eventually I get the error that "this page cannot be found"

this is seriously frustrating me. It was cutesy and a little bit of a joke before, but I'm going on 5 hours now. Seriously.

 

[Hernandez]

Oh no!

I thought Rocky was an excellent movie! A true underdog story.

I was so impressed that Sylvester Stallone wrote it, too.

Also, Sly has somewhat slurred speech because he is totally deaf in one ear since birth as well as a forceps mishap that caused the facial droop he's well known for.

I agree, it's a decent movie. But they do not convey what they try to convey with words, it's all emotion and grunting and 4 word sentences. "I got some things left in the basement"? I mean come on, surely they could have made this guy a little more intelligent.

 

[beary]

great, Eygpt just had their 10th death from the bird flu

NO BIRD FLU THIS YEAR.

Not while I'm on autopsy service.

 

[mshheaddoc]

NO BIRD FLU THIS YEAR.

Not while I'm on autopsy service.

none here yet girl ...

 

[beary]

I am on call all three days this weekend. *cries*

And next weekend! *cries more*

But, happy news - the ME is out of the country this weekend so all our ME cases (such as drunk driving deaths, lots of them on New Year's) are going to another hospital. 👍

 

[pingouin]

after she makes some cookies to share. 😀

ROFLMAO! BEARY? BAKING? You need to start spending more time around here to figure out who's who, my friend! 😀

I'm in, but I need to know who we're mad at first 😉

blind loyalty. I love it.

OMGROFLMFAO!!!

jlw is missing all the registration fun 🙁

I just sene her an e-mail - she's probably waiting until the rioting dies down.

jlw has been engaged in funeral activities for my father's elderly cousin since leaving the house at 7am. it was not a fun day. and even less fun to come home and still not be able to register.

my brother put it well when he said he knew it wasn't going to be easy, but we completely underestimated the number of people in that small town who still remembered my dad from when he was a kid and wanted to share stories with us. 🙁

JLW - I'm GETTING THE TESTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

YAY! Congrats.. it's about time.

 

[Dr Durden]

😱 😡

see if you ever get any more baked goods out of me, mister.

*checks cell phone to make sure Boy Twin's number is still in there for when I have lunch with Girl Twin on Friday*

*begs forgiveness from penguin and begs Cingular to give him a new number STAT*

New York from Flava of Love is getting her own show called "A Night in New York"

Love me more bitches!!!!!

who needs those enginerds, anyway?

😡 🙁

have I ever mentioned how much I hate my post-bacc school? this is just the icing on the cake. this is the first time since kindergarten I've gone to a public school, and I'm not exactly impressed.

No uniform jumpers at post-bacc institution?

I'm GETTING THE TESTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hooray! And good luck with MCATS registration all! :luck