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WashMe said:
I know it feels good, but does heroine...

I'm too busy honoring classes at a top 5 medical school while balancing successful relationships to spend more than a couple hours a day outside. Sounds like it really sucks for me, huh 🙄
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A top 5 medical school, eh? Guess they haven't taught you how to spell heroin, brah. 😉
 
ILikeDrugs said:
A top 5 medical school, eh? Guess they haven't taught you how to spell heroin, brah. 😉
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OK, I'll give you that one. It is 1am though, and you haven't exactly been Bill Shakespeare in your posts either. See below.

ILikeDrugs said:
Maybe you should step out of your parents basement every now n again, basement dweller. Do you even know what it feels like to have the sun hitting your skin. Feelsgoodman. 😉
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Ever heard of an apostrophe? Parents'
Ever heard of a question mark?

ILikeDrugs said:
Washme, you're friggin weird, brah. If someone is an outdoors-man, such as myself (kayaking, surfing, climbing, swimming), you will become tan even with copious amounts of protection. You're crazy if you think that being tan is a sign of living an unhealthy lifestyle, and that all doctors should look like Snow White so that they can "set a good example" for their patients. LMAO You've never had a girlfriend/boyfriend have you. You have a bottle of SPF1000 sunscreen so far up your ass it's not even funny.

Chill, brah. 😉
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Nope, you haven't heard of a question mark.

sideways said:
:laugh:
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:eyebrow:
 
Also, I think the "brah. 😉" key is stuck on your keyboard.
 
You need a girlfriend, brah. 😉
 
People who visit tanning booths (or even worse, use spray-on) only look insecure, nothing more.
 
never mind UV. honestly this thread should be stickied, as a reminder of the public health risk posed by mixing brown liquor and SDN

WashMe said:
I'm actually drinking Wild Turkey Rye right now
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I guess I'm an outlier, but people that are "pale" are not unattractive by any means. That original pic with the girl who tanned...she definitely looked hot when she wasn't. Pale...with freckles 😍
 
VikingLegacy said:
Same. Hereditary gingerdom, high five!
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High five!

Are you Scandinavian? Just going by your username here. I'm Swedish myself (as well as Irish and English). I'm built for northern latitudes.
 
Just Tan Stewie being Tan Stewie
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WashMe said:
I agree with you about that. I think there is an expectation that a person with a certain skin type (determined by race/ethnicity, which doesn't take a genius to figure out) will have a certain level of baseline tan in a given season. The point is that if you are a full-blooded red-haired Irish person, or if you live somewhere like Minnesota or Wisconsin, you shouldn't have a natural tan. It is obvious that a person in those situations would be trying to tan. If, on the other hand, you are a naturally pigmented person (i.e., not of Western European or Northern European descent), of if you live in Key West, people may expect you to have a tan in the summer. Nobody should really have much of a tan during interview season though, because it isn't really "beach" weather in the northern hemisphere in January.
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I 100% agree with you. However your examples made me giggle because I am a.) of western european descent ( my mom and brother are natural blonds b.) live in MN when I am not at school also in the North.

However, I am far lighter here then when I lived in Texas. (years of lack of exposure to real sunlight has caused my natural skin tone to be lighter it is just still darker then most peoples of my descent) so I get your point.
 
just one said:
If anyone thinks an interviewer will help or hurt you from tanning or not tanning is clueless. Do it if it makes you feel more confident, no other reason.
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👍
 
ILikeDrugs said:
Maybe you should step out of your parents basement every now n again, basement dweller. Do you even know what it feels like to have the sun hitting your skin. Feelsgoodman. 😉
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Are you 13 or something, Doogie? You express yourself like a douche.

You from Jersey, brah?
 
reading this thread has been the most entertaining two minutes of my day. way to go everyone!
 
WashMe said:
If you'll admit that the bolded portion is at least partly true, I'll agree the underlined portion is entirely true.

I'm actually drinking Wild Turkey Rye right now and reading Cigar Aficionado magazine -- no joke, I have a subscription. The point is, I try to avoid doing things that the patients will know about. I'm a really socially liberal person, but I believe in utmost professionalism. It's about compartmentalization. I wouldn't choose to let an AdCom, a patient, or a peer know too much about my personal habits. Something like a tan, while not the worst thing in the world, is right out there for everyone to see.
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This guy is going to be an amazing doctor, seriously. I don't want a doctor who's too cool for his scrubs to take care of me like that young ER guy on Dr Phil's show "The Doctors."
 
WashMe said:
I know it feels good, but does heroin...

I'm too busy honoring classes at a top 5 medical school while balancing successful relationships to spend more than a couple hours a day outside. Sounds like it really sucks for me, huh 🙄
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You seem like the type of guy who removes his socks at night and sits on top of the bed sniffing them to sample the odors of greatness.

I'm with sideways, have fun being a

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cbrons said:
You seem like the type of guy who removes his socks at night and sits on top of the bed sniffing them to sample the odors of greatness.

I'm with sideways, have fun being a

bag-tool-bag-organizer-BG685AS.jpg
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Jealousy is a stinky cologne, cbrons, and you're deeply saturated with it.
 
lol damn wash you're really full of yourself arent ya
 
Wermz said:
lol damn wash you're really full of yourself arent ya
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Hardly, but I refuse to let some dumb*** get in the last word. If a dumb*** is going to get in the last word, it's going to be me!
 
If I were you Wash, I would have came back with something more like:

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I guess what I'm really saying is that I just wanted another excuse to post this image. :laugh:
 
WashMe said:
It's called a joke. I'm unsurprised it went over the head of Patrick Star.



No, you're ******ed for not getting the joke, ColeTheTroll! hahaha
edit: looks like I'll see you on the interview trail in a few weeks. It won't be hard to figure out which ******ed d-bag you are!
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I thought you went to a top 5 med school? 😕

The problem with your joke is that you're coming across as such a tool that I couldn't even tell you were joking. So you're either trolling hardcore (in which case, well played) or you're genuinely stupid.
 
Getting a tan is a great idea but make sure you don't look too dark since Adcomms really don't like that. They like people with a pale complexion and a false sense of superiority. 😉
 
MiCasaMD said:
Getting a tan is a great idea but make sure you don't look too dark since Adcomms really don't like that. They like people with a pale complexion and a false sense of superiority. 😉
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Hey look, it's MiCasaMD, the Hispanic Al Sharpton.
 
SweetRain said:
For some reason I was under the impression that no med school will reject an applicant for being too pale. I must have been wrong.
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Haha. Don't worry, you'll be ok without a tan 😉. Lucky for me, my pasty tush got a scholarship, even... :laugh:.

I will not speak to anyone else's desire to get a tan (or not get a tan), I will simply suggest that tanning was literally the last thing on my mind re: interviews.

BTW, whether you agree with WashMe or not, people probably WILL think that you are very superficial and possibly ridiculous if you walk in to your interview with skin that is very obviously several shades more orange than God could have ever intended for a human being. 😉
 
sideways said:
Hey look, it's MiCasaMD, the Hispanic Al Sharpton.
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Brilliant assumption! You must be a DO student. 🙂 If I'm the Hispanic Al Sharpton than you my friend have to be Glenn Beck's left testicle.
 
MiCasaMD said:
Brilliant assumption! You must be a DO student. 🙂 If I'm the Hispanic Al Sharpton than you my friend have to be Glenn Beck's left testicle.
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Forgive me if I find it hard to get offended when I'm being ragged on by an inarticulate race-baiter who has MD in their screen name but hasn't even been accepted to medical school, let alone graduated from one.
 
Don't worry bout MiCasa, he is an epic troll in the making. YOu should look at some of his recent gems. Threatening messages and whatnot... wow what a very very sad & pathetic individual.
 
cbrons said:
Don't worry bout MiCasa, he is an epic troll in the making. YOu should look at some of his recent gems. Threatening messages and whatnot... wow what a very very sad & pathetic individual.
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This comes from someone who posted over two thousand comments with no substance. Get a life redneck. I hope you either get a job at Walmart or get into Howard U. I'm sure the brothers will love you there. 😉
 
cbrons said:
Don't worry bout MiCasa, he is an epic troll in the making. YOu should look at some of his recent gems. Threatening messages and whatnot... wow what a very very sad & pathetic individual.
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This comes from someone who posted over two thousand comments with no substance. Get a life redneck. I hope you either get a job at Walmart or get into Howard U. I'm sure the brothers will love you there. 😉
 
WashMe said:
Being tan is one sign of an unhealthy lifestyle. It's great that you're getting a lot of exercise, but it definitely doesn't cancel out the damage you're doing to your skin (which could lead to a fatal disease). Are you likely to die of skin cancer? No. Would you be much better off -- aesthetically and medically -- if you applied sunscreen more liberally? Probably yes, depending on the petrochemicals in the sunscreen. Stick with SPF30 and apply it often, and stop making excuses. If you have a tan, it's only because you like it and didn't try hard enough to protect yourself.

I'd rather have SPF1000 up my butt than dog crap between my ears, "brah." And the relationship portion couldn't be further from the truth. Oh, I forgot the "😉"
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It's a giant stick up your butt, actually.
 
WashMe said:
It's a total loss of idealism-- and probably some bitterness from matching into a malignant residency-- on your part, actually.
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do you know the specific program that prowler matched into? He could have matched into the best general surgery residency in the country and wants to do a fellowship, how do you know? Judging by your posts you sound like the ultimate tool; have fun in derm.
 
WashMe said:
It's a total loss of idealism-- and probably some bitterness from matching into a malignant residency-- on your part, actually.
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Troll, troll, troll your boat, gently down the stream...


But in case you were actually worried about me, my program isn't malignant. Some of the attendings are pretty demanding, but that's to be expected.
 
wash the people want to know why you had to come spread your feces all over this thread
 
This thread is amazing.

:corny:
 
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