Random non-pathology and only peripherally related to pathology thread

[Aubrey]

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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.

Is this poor bastard on the transplant list?? If he dabbles with the EtOH, he might even have 4 strikes against the liver.. man oh man. 👎

 

[yaah]

He is on the transplant list - the LUNG transplant list. His liver is not yet cirrhotic, so he's ok for now. But he is oxygen dependent.

Whoo hoo! I had NO specimens to gross in today. The only GI specimens we had were a couple of gall bladders and the PA did them. Of course, I spent 4 hours previewing for tomorrow morning because we have a large stack of biopsies and such. And another 4 hours signing out this morning.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

He is on the transplant list - the LUNG transplant list. His liver is not yet cirrhotic, so he's ok for now. But he is oxygen dependent.

Whoo hoo! I had NO specimens to gross in today. The only GI specimens we had were a couple of gall bladders and the PA did them. Of course, I spent 4 hours previewing for tomorrow morning because we have a large stack of biopsies and such. And another 4 hours signing out this morning.

Yeah, biopsies tend to be a pain in the ass especially if you get tons of boxes worth of slides. That's like 4000 individual cases! Just kidding.

I like non-biopsy cases (i.e., the "bigs" cases as we call them here...don't know what they're called at other programs). Sure you get like 10-30 slides per case, but the findings on each of the slides tie in together quite well.

 

[yaah]

Those are a nice change, but there are the problems like yesterday when I had a gastrectomy for signet-ring adenoCA with 44 lymph nodes. And signet ring adenoca tends to metastasize as single cells. One lymph node there were 2 or 3 malignant cells in a sinus, that was all.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Those are a nice change, but there are the problems like yesterday when I had a gastrectomy for signet-ring adenoCA with 44 lymph nodes. And signet ring adenoca tends to metastasize as single cells. One lymph node there were 2 or 3 malignant cells in a sinus, that was all.

Yeah, and if you're like me, signet cells don't really stand out unless there are lots of them. At least in my Gyn cancer cases, it's pretty obvious whether a lymph node is infiltrated with tumor. But I fear the days when I'm in your situation and I'm spending precious previewing time all on one case like that.

How's life otherwise? Haven't talked to ya in a while. I don't count that AIM conversation this morning, since I was just about to go into work.

 

[yaah]

Everything is going very well - enjoying my job and my life, no complaints other than ****ing road construction. Every day I go in I am happy I picked this field of medicine though. Dear lord when I think about myself possibly being a PGY2 in IM or something I almost wet my pants.

 

[yaah]

It's so funny to see what happens when a REALLY HOT med student comes around for a rotation...

 

[b&ierstiefel]

It's so funny to see what happens when a REALLY HOT med student comes around for a rotation...

Have you come across one of the MSTP's who is applying to pathology this year?

She's way too overqualified...she's gonna blow people out of the water this year. I'm confident that she will easily match into her top choice wherever she wants to go.

 

[bananaface]

Does anyone else live in a city where the green traffic lights are varying shades of green? There is one spot that I drive by on the way home every day where the green signals are mismatched and it is driving me crazy. I almost want to call the city and tell them it looks stupid.

 

[deschutes]

I woke up at 4:45 today, sans alarm clock 😱

I'm turning into yaah! 😱

 

[Pingu]

Has anyone else found the hidden scene on Napolean Dynamite or is my crazy sister in law the only one?

 

[bananaface]

I woke up at 4:45 today, sans alarm clock 😱

I'm turning into yaah! 😱

Oh no! Call the doctor! Call the nurse! Call the lady with the alligator purse!

My neighbors had a big fat party last night. I had to go over and ask them to be a bit quieter so I could sleep. I still had a hard time sleeping. I now require copious quantities of caffeine. Ugh.

 

[deschutes]

Call the lady with the alligator purse!

That would be Pingu. I can't call her - she's gone too.

Residency has eaten up the regulars!

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Residency has eaten up the regulars!

Nah, I'm still around. I just lurk more often now and pop in once in a while to check messages and provide occasional input to serious topics.

 

[yaah]

Have you come across one of the MSTP's who is applying to pathology this year?

She's way too overqualified...she's gonna blow people out of the water this year. I'm confident that she will easily match into her top choice wherever she wants to go.

I have not met her, at least as far as I know. Have only met a couple of them and none were MSTPs.

I have found that it is odd to sign out with someone who writes book chapters, and then you see something in signout that he describes in the book.

 

[bananaface]

Nah, I'm still around. I just lurk more often now and pop in once in a while to check messages and provide occasional input to serious topics.

I lurk alot more in pharm. I think we just get tired after awhile.

 

[beary]

I went to Burger King tonight and the drive-thru lady recognized me and had memorized my order. I think this means that I go to BK a little bit too often. 😳

The strange thing is that she didn't even look familiar to me.

 

[sacrament]

I went to Burger King tonight and the drive-thru lady recognized me and had memorized my order. I think this means that I go to BK a little bit too often. 😳

The strange thing is that she didn't even look familiar to me.

Maybe you just look like a double-whopper-with-cheese kind of girl.

 

[beary]

Maybe you just look like a double-whopper-with-cheese kind of girl.

That's a good guess, but I'm actually a Spicy-TenderCrisp-Chicken-Sandwich-with-no-lettuce kind of girl. 🙂

 

[quant]

I went to Burger King tonight and the drive-thru lady recognized me and had memorized my order. I think this means that I go to BK a little bit too often. 😳

The strange thing is that she didn't even look familiar to me.

aww beary...
Maybe it's your magnetic personality!......yes, it has to be!

 

[yaah]

I hate squishing fat looking for lymph nodes.

 

[bananaface]

I ate some Hermiston Watermelon today. Yum.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I hate squishing fat looking for lymph nodes.

Awwww....baby need his bottle?

 

[bananaface]

Hey Andy, your avatar is a real Harvar-DUH man, eh?

 

[deschutes]

I hate squishing fat looking for lymph nodes.

Some attendings don't even like residents squishing fat - it "deforms" the nodal architecture it seems. *shrugs*

Time for another lame study: "Squishing versus breadloafing in the recovery of lymph nodes in colorectal resections" etc.

 

[deschutes]

Women here wear white, braless.

This is merely an observation.

 

[bananaface]

Women here wear white, braless.

This is merely an observation.

Are you riding the city bus?

 

[Arsenic]

Awwww....baby need his bottle?

hi pathologists! just dropped in to see how you people are doing. glad to see nothing's changed. 😀

 

[deschutes]

Are you riding the city bus?

Can you tell? 😀

 

[bananaface]

Can you tell? 😀

This is where the US concentrates its crazy people. My advice is to not talk to people on the bus. Always be reading something.

 

[deschutes]

This is where the US concentrates its crazy people. My advice is to not talk to people on the bus. Always be reading something.

Waitaminute. You are telling me that a white woman wearing a white tank top bra-less is crazy? 😕

She wasn't on the bus by the way. The women I've noticed tend to be walking around, um, jiggling.

 

[bananaface]

Waitaminute. You are telling me that a white woman wearing a white tank top bra-less is crazy? 😕

She wasn't on the bus by the way. The women I've noticed tend to be walking around, um, jiggling.

If some girl is really skinny and has small boobs, she could get away with a tank top with no bra. If her nipples stick out, then she needs to get some pasties or duct tape. Big boobed or jiggly chubby women need bras. A built in "shelf bra" inside the tank top does NOT count. These are my opinions.

Crazy people need to get off the street and onto the bus.

 

[deschutes]

If some girl is really skinny and has small boobs, she could get away with a tank top with no bra. If her nipples stick out, then she needs to get some pasties or duct tape. Big boobed or jiggly chubby women need bras. A built in "shelf bra" inside the tank top does NOT count. These are my opinions.

I am glad we agree!

Crazy people need to get off the street and onto the bus.

No. They start singing on the bus and are more difficult to ignore there 🙂 You can feel the tension ebb when they finally reach their stop... if they get off at the right stop. More often than not they start yelling cos they fell asleep and yanked the cord too late.

 

[bananaface]

When creepy guys bug you on the bus, flash gross anatomy pics at them - preferably male reproductive tract. If they keep bugging you, be very scared.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

hi pathologists! just dropped in to see how you people are doing. glad to see nothing's changed. 😀

hi Arsenic! just dropped in to see your post. glad to see that your name is still green.

 

[Arsenic]

When creepy guys bug you on the bus, flash gross anatomy pics at them - preferably male reproductive tract. If they keep bugging you, be very scared.

it sounds like you speak from experience banana 😱

 

[Arsenic]

hi Arsenic! just dropped in to see your post. glad to see that your name is still green.

2 more weeks of the trial period left.... after that if banana or yaah dont veto me Ill be made a regular mod

 

[beary]

If her nipples stick out, then she needs to get some pasties or duct tape. Big boobed or jiggly chubby women need bras.

Duct tape??!! Ouch!!!!!

Guess I should be glad I'm a jiggly chubby woman. 😀

 

[b&ierstiefel]

2 more weeks of the trial period left.... after that if banana or yaah dont veto me Ill be made a regular mod

Man, I still can't believe they made some cavebitch slappin' pervert a moderator. Just messin 🙂

 

[sacrament]

Duct tape??!! Ouch!!!!!

Guess I should be glad I'm a jiggly chubby woman. 😀

I knew you were a double-whopper-with-cheese kind of girl!

 

[bananaface]

2 more weeks of the trial period left.... after that if banana or yaah dont veto me Ill be made a regular mod

I can still object? Well then...

 

[beary]

I knew you were a double-whopper-with-cheese kind of girl!

Spicy TenderCrisp chicken sandwiches do it too, apparently. 😳

 

[beary]

2 more weeks of the trial period left.... after that if banana or yaah dont veto me Ill be made a regular mod

I think your avatar is way too intense. It stresses me out. 😉

 

[bananaface]

Duct tape??!! Ouch!!!!!

Guess I should be glad I'm a jiggly chubby woman. 😀

It's cheap. The topless protesters here use it to avoid citations.

 

[yaah]

Must there be so many butthole drivers in parking garages? Must there? It is perhaps symptomatic of the decline and fall of priorities, morals and common sense in our society when going 20 mph within a parking structure is SO SLOW that I must be passed by someone with a "Jesus saves" bumper sticker.

 

[deschutes]

Must there be so many butthole drivers in parking garages? Must there? It is perhaps symptomatic of the decline and fall of priorities, morals and common sense in our society when going 20 mph within a parking structure is SO SLOW that I must be passed by someone with a "Jesus saves" bumper sticker.

Speaking of decline and fall... the morning temperature drops a few degrees over the weekend and this morning on the bus everyone's a coughin' n' sneezing? 😱

Glad they're not coming in to see me... 😳

 

[bananaface]

Must there be so many butthole drivers in parking garages? Must there? It is perhaps symptomatic of the decline and fall of priorities, morals and common sense in our society when going 20 mph within a parking structure is SO SLOW that I must be passed by someone with a "Jesus saves" bumper sticker.

Were they yelling "I'm being forgiven for this!" as they passed you?

 

[Arsenic]

I think your avatar is way too intense. It stresses me out. 😉

i'm just an intense person 😎

seriously though, i think you're right - time for a change

 

[Arsenic]

Man, I still can't believe they made some cavebitch slappin' pervert a moderator. Just messin 🙂

dude! you were the one that started that whole cavebitch thing, i just played along with you so people wouldnt think you were crazy

 

[Arsenic]

I can still object? Well then...

hmmm..... hey banana, your car needs washing right? 😀 😳