Senior Year Pathology Rotations

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Ahhh...I love the smell of xylene 😀

tonight's gonna be a long long night

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the histologist's best friends 🙂
 
Don't drink that stuff, it's bad for you. You might be better off drinking formalin.

Long night? What, did they keep you too busy today?
 
Well nah...I brought this upon myself and hence can't blame anyone else. I could be done by now but my stomach dictated the action when I decided to go to the pub for dinner/drinks with one of my path buddies.

Just finished mounting some slides from an IHC experiment in Dr. G's lab...now I'm back in the other lab doing some tissue culture...hopefully I'll be done by 10 pm (fat chance) but science has taught me that when you think it will take X amount of time to complete something, you must always multiply that by 2 to get the true amount of time needed to complete the tasks at hand.
 
AndyMilonakis said:
science has taught me that when you think it will take X amount of time to complete something, you must always multiply that by 2 to get the true amount of time needed to complete the tasks at hand.
You obviously move a lot faster than I do.
 
Sigh...

My pathology month is coming to a close...parting is such sweet sorrow. Tomorrow is our last day which concludes with all the students presenting a case to each other...that should be fun.

There are 5 of us doing the rotation right now and 4 of the 5 are going into path. It's been a fun bunch to hang with...in fact, we've all made a pact to make our talks simple and short. Maybe an early trip to the bar is in order 🙂

It was one of my most fun months. So all of you, regardless of what year med school you're in and regardless of your chosen specialty, should do a pathology month. You'll have a good time, see and learn some cool things. Having been exposed to pathology during M1 and M2 year, doing the pathology clerkship was as one person mentioned, visiting a "long lost friend".
 
Well I meant to come, but alas, we had ME cases and the second one was a surgical-complications death. And the surgeon came down to see and he and the ME spent about an hour dissecting the biliary tree. It was interesting but it made me realize again why I am happy I didn't go into surgery.
 
Man, there were a decent number of faculty at the talks today. None of the residents showed up so if you did come, you would've been the only one.

All the students thought it would just be us presenting to each other in an informal setting. But then we saw one faculty after another entering the room. We all looked at each other and I'm sure we were all thinking the same thing.

Oh well, it all went smoothly. It was pretty light-hearted. Almost all of us made a joke or two during our talks which were well received.
 
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