Speech for All

[lkeilani]

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Hello Everyone,

I need to give a speech to the incoming first years at there white coat ceremony. I have been freaking out on what to say, but finally came up with an idea. I figured we all have a little OCD in us, so I decided to give them a TO DO LIST by the time they graduate. I was gonna give advice from anywhere serious like make sure to get to know your faculty and make real connections with them, to silly but real advice like always DOUBLE GLOVE when doing a rectal/pelvic at COOK COUNTY hospital. I can use some help though, anything else you think they need advice on....funny or serious.

Much appreciated

 

[nabs86]

Keep your chin up. Med school is a hard road but it's worth it. Don't forget why you chose medicine.

 

[Droopy Snoopy]

Don't f*** with the pancreas.

 

[Bito42]

Realize that we'll learn and forget everything over and over before one day, it'll become second nature

We'll be giving patients a lot of instructions and advice...Remember 1.) the social context they are in in terms of whether they can carry it out and 2.) how easy it would be for YOU to carry it out if you were the patient with no medical background.

 

[RokChalkJayhawk]

A set of hospital rules/truths from Samuel Shem's book, "The House of God".

I. Gomers don't die.
II. Gomers go to ground.
III. At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse.
IV. The patient is the one with the disease.
V. Placement comes first.
VI. There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a #14 needle and a good strong arm.
VII. Age + BUN = Lasix dose.
VIII. They can always hurt you more.
IX. The only good admission is a dead admission.
X. If you don't take a temperature, you can't find a fever.
XI. Show me a medical student who only triples my work and I will kiss his feet.
XII. If the radiology resident and the medical student both see a lesion on the chest x-ray, there can be no lesion there.
XIII. The delivery of medical care is to do as much nothing as possible.