Random non-pathology and only peripherally related to pathology thread

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yaah said:
Minnysota gets frigging hot in late July and august. Crazy humidity. I used to hate showing up for college there because you just couldn't sleep at all.
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It has been especially hot this year, they tell me. Last weekend was persistently in the 90's - and it isn't even August yet. I was thrilled 😉 I can finally have cold milk on my cereal.
 
That's every year. They said that every year I showed up. Hotter this year than any I can remember. Shut up, old man! Did you just move here? :laugh:
 
yaah said:
****ing art fair. Andy you are lucky you are gone from here. I HATE THE ART FAIR.
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Yeah, art fair blows. You can't hardly drive around the town during those few days. Damn hippies!
 
I screwed up taking pics of a micro slide today. Damn camera I tried to make the image smaller so it wouldn't be so huge in terms of file size, but the idiot thing cropped the image and only took the center 10% of the picture. ****. I wasted 30 minutes doing that. It was interesting too because it is a gram stain which picks up AFB in a "ghost" staining pattern. Kind of rare.
 
yaah said:
I screwed up taking pics of a micro slide today. Damn camera I tried to make the image smaller so it wouldn't be so huge in terms of file size, but the idiot thing cropped the image and only took the center 10% of the picture. ****. I wasted 30 minutes doing that. It was interesting too because it is a gram stain which picks up AFB in a "ghost" staining pattern. Kind of rare.
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Cameras aren't be stupid. The idiocy lies in the hands of the operator. 😛

I always find it funny when lecturers say, "There's no such thing as stupid questions?" Yeah, no ****. There are no such things as stupid questions...just stupid people.
 
This camera wasn't stupid - it was just misleading and poorly designed. I expected too much from the design, so shame on me I guess. One just assumes that in general, when taking a histo pic, that you want the whole screen and not just the center 10%. But perhaps others only want this.
 
yaah said:
This camera wasn't stupid - it was just misleading and poorly designed. I expected too much from the design, so shame on me I guess. One just assumes that in general, when taking a histo pic, that you want the whole screen and not just the center 10%. But perhaps others only want this.
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Yeah yeah, always blaming someone else. Way to go, Captain *******! 😉
 
yaah said:
I screwed up taking pics of a micro slide today. Damn camera I tried to make the image smaller so it wouldn't be so huge in terms of file size, but the idiot thing cropped the image and only took the center 10% of the picture. ****. I wasted 30 minutes doing that. It was interesting too because it is a gram stain which picks up AFB in a "ghost" staining pattern. Kind of rare.
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That is a timely idea - I should collect .jpgs instead of glass slides.

Haven't attempted photomicrography though. The only digital micrographer I have ever known had an elaborate page of instructions stickied on its side - so I always let someone else do that work.
 
There are all kinds of different systems - we have one that is very high tech and whenever I try to use it someone has previously come down and ****ed up the settings so everything is shifted towards green or something. And I have to get help from the photolab people. Others are more simple but the resolution is not as good.
 
You have no avatar on my screen either.

AAAAAAA I have to wake up the apheresis nurse tonight. And I had to tell the resident taking care of the patient he had to get a new blood sample for type and screen because it was improperly labeled. Hate when that happens.
 
yaah said:
You have no avatar on my screen either.

AAAAAAA I have to wake up the apheresis nurse tonight. And I had to tell the resident taking care of the patient he had to get a new blood sample for type and screen because it was improperly labeled. Hate when that happens.
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Cry me a frickin river. At least you're not the poor intern who gets paged at 3 am because the patient is a hard stick and nobody else has managed to establish an IV.
 
AndyMilonakis said:
Cry me a frickin river. At least you're not the poor intern who gets paged at 3 am because the patient is a hard stick and nobody else has managed to establish an IV.
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Oh don't get me wrong I still realize that I am far from suffering here, but it is annoying. To wit: I am up now having been paged at 5:45 because a nurse wants to give platelets to someone with a "standing order" for a count below 75, as the patient has a cerebellar bleed and ALL, and her count was 55 so she needed approval from me. So I approved this time and am going to ask the blood bank res and attending to issue a guideline on this patient.
 
yaah said:
Oh don't get me wrong I still realize that I am far from suffering here, but it is annoying. To wit: I am up now having been paged at 5:45 because a nurse wants to give platelets to someone with a "standing order" for a count below 75, as the patient has a cerebellar bleed and ALL, and her count was 55 so she needed approval from me. So I approved this time and am going to ask the blood bank res and attending to issue a guideline on this patient.
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I bet it felt good to show them who wears the daddy pants! Did you make them say please? Did you make her beg?

Now Nurse Betty...what did I say about platelets last time we talked on the phone? That's right, below 50K right? Goooood. Now, what's the platelet level on this patient? Rrrright. 55. Very gooooood. Now nurse Betty, is 55 greater or less than 50? Goooooood. Correctamundo, it's greater than 50. So does that mean your patient gets platelets? Rrrrrrright. It's GREATER than fitty. Which means you don't get platelets. Next time don't wake me up unless the platelets is BELOW fitty, OK?

Can't you make a standing order too? Such as, "Don't even bother axing for platelets unless it's below 50K."
 
The Emergency Medicine forum just figured out we passed them in number of posts. :laugh:
 
AndyMilonakis said:
I bet it felt good to show them who wears the daddy pants! Did you make them say please? Did you make her beg?

Now Nurse Betty...what did I say about platelets last time we talked on the phone? That's right, below 50K right? Goooood. Now, what's the platelet level on this patient? Rrrright. 55. Very gooooood. Now nurse Betty, is 55 greater or less than 50? Goooooood. Correctamundo, it's greater than 50. So does that mean your patient gets platelets? Rrrrrrright. It's GREATER than fitty. Which means you don't get platelets. Next time don't wake me up unless the platelets is BELOW fitty, OK?
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Umm...yeah...I'm gonna have to ask you to not request platelets unless it's below 50, mkay?

Umm...yeah...I'm gonna have to ask you to call me back if she starts bleeding, mkay?
 
bananaface said:
That happened, what, 6 months ago?
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What's the name of the local brewery in Washington state? O'Henry???
 
AndyMilonakis said:
Oh no. Some ****** on the internet insulted me. Should I go cry to mommy now?

Who gives a flying f*ck!
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They're getting their rocks off by saying they're cooler than us.

Diagnose this, cool boy!

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Hey Yaah, I know of one Captain and it isn't the weasal that navigated the Love Boat....It's the real McCoy, please meet Capt. Stabbin' and the crew!

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Harbster said:
Hey Yaah, I know of one Captain and it isn't the weasal that navigated the Love Boat....It's the real McCoy, please meet Capt. Stabbin' and the crew!
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Hmm...that doesn't leave much to the imagination now does it?

Damn Whole Foods! I went in today to get some stuff and holy crap there are a lot of hippies there! Out of my way, hippies! Take your stinky hair and stop blocking my path.
 
yaah said:
Hmm...that doesn't leave much to the imagination now does it?

Damn Whole Foods! I went in today to get some stuff and holy crap there are a lot of hippies there! Out of my way, hippies! Take your stinky hair and stop blocking my path.
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You leave the hippies alone you yuppie prick. When you are suffering from narrow angle glaucoma, where are you going to get your medical marijana from? Huh? HUH?
 
There was a hippie in there on the phone while rooting through the soy milk for the newest carton. In his shopping cart was an organic frozen pizza. :barf:

What are you supposed to do at the checkout counter at whole foods? Paper or Plastic is like a no-win situation. Don't they have hemp bags or something?
 
yaah said:
There was a hippie in there on the phone while rooting through the soy milk for the newest carton. In his shopping cart was an organic frozen pizza. :barf:

What are you supposed to do at the checkout counter at whole foods? Paper or Plastic is like a no-win situation. Don't they have hemp bags or something?
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cloth bags. get with it.
 
OK, so my few months of cush residency are ending. 🙁 August I am back to surg path and will be on worse hours. Looking forward to it, actually. 😳
 
yaah said:
OK, so my few months of cush residency are ending. 🙁 August I am back to surg path and will be on worse hours. Looking forward to it, actually. 😳
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Does your ***** hurt?
 
My colon hurts. And my liver.

I had a biopsy to preview tomorrow of a man with hereditary hemochromatosis + alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and the biopsy is full of steatosis. :scared:
 
yaah said:
I had a biopsy to preview tomorrow of a man with hereditary hemochromatosis + alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and the biopsy is full of steatosis. :scared:
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Doesn't anyone realize how ****ing RARE this is? 😉
 
yaah said:
I had a biopsy to preview tomorrow...
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Huh? 😉

yaah said:
...of a man with hereditary hemochromatosis + alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and the biopsy is full of steatosis. :scared:
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yaah said:
Doesn't anyone realize how ****ing RARE this is?
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Well, I managed to achieve the "That doesn't make sense" point.

Enlighten me, do.
Sometimes I think the hardest part of pathology is realizing the significance of what one is seeing.
 
deschutes said:
Huh? 😉

Well, I managed to achieve the "That doesn't make sense" point.

Enlighten me, do.
Sometimes I think the hardest part of pathology is realizing the significance of what one is seeing.
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The attendings were trying to figure out whether the steatohepatitis that he had was related to his alpha one deficiency or whether he actually had three things going after his liver. :scared:
 
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