The Late Night Thread

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SusGob711 said:
Buenos noches late nighters--just got done doing my Spanish homework and I'm still in the groove, lol. After my class tomorrow I'm going to Cleveland to visit The Bodies Exhibition. So excited!!! 😀 Hopefully you all get a little shut eye tonight. Night everyone!
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dryoda said:
I went to a similar exhibit in another city. It was pretty cool.
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wristbandmd said:
I went to the Bodies Exhibit in Seattle. It was SO amazing. It completely reinforced my interest in the human body.
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I saw the Bodies exhibit a few years ago. I thought it was pretty amazing. Of course, you can't touch anything else but they had one small exhibit with stuff you were allowed to touch. I remember they had a plasticized brain at that table. It felt just like hard plastic but it was kind of surreal to hold it in my hand and think it used to be an actual person's brain.
 
I'm reading Complications , its a good book!
 
wolverinepwns said:
I'm reading Complications , its a good book!
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Yeah, that book is awesome. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you might like Angels in the ER, given your current employment. It has a lot of good stories from an EM doc.
 
Astarael said:
Yeah, that book is awesome. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you might like Angels in the ER, given your current employment. It has a lot of good stories from an EM doc.
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Oh cool, I will start reading it after I finish this one, thnx.
 
DrYoda said:
In 3.5 hours I begin 4 weeks of relative peace.🙂
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Awesome! I'm happy for you 🙂

I have my final exam Wed and shelf Friday...it looks like I'm in great shape to get honors if I keep working hard! woohoo 😛
 
alright its officially late night (or early morning?)! who's awake?
 
Mbeas said:
alright its officially late night (or early morning?)! who's awake?
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Was just checking into SDN before I head off to bed.

I'm sick again with (who wants to guess it!) strep throat. Frick. It's only the first day and I already feel worse than any of the other times (which is saying a lot considering this is...what, the fifth or sixth time this year? I've lost track).

Anyway, I've complained enough. How is everyone else doing?
 
VikingLegacy said:
Hi folks. Some of you know me. Many of you have seen me post here or there, originally with maturity and later with more and more honesty at the expense of dignity. This tirade I'm about to embark on has

Under no circumstances are you to let yourself turn out like me, private. That's an order. Now go get some sleep, you damned insomniacs.​
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i demand an explanation!
 
Howdy Late Night!:hello:

Just got off a plane.
Home and not too sleepy.
On call starting at 6:30am.
Crap.
 
Hello Late Nighters,

So, tonight I come home and as I'm petting my dog's head I notice this bump on her ear. Upon closer examination, I discover a tick attached to her ear. I have never actually seen a live tick before, just pictures in books so I knew what it was but never had to deal with one.

So, my first thought is, "Eewww! I can't pull this thing out. I'll just spend $70 and have the vet do it tomorrow."

But then my next thought was, "Um, you are going to be a doctor for God's sake! You might have to pull a tick out of a person someday! Cowboy up because you are just going to have to pull this thing out!"

So, I did a little internet research on it and pulled it out with tweezers. Though thinking about that thing still makes my skin crawl. I then thanked my dog for being my first patient! :laugh: Hopefully, it won't get infected or anything and I got all the little mouthparts out .... :barf:
 
FuturePittMed said:
Hello Late Nighters,

So, tonight I come home and as I'm petting my dog's head I notice this bump on her ear. Upon closer examination, I discover a tick attached to her ear. I have never actually seen a live tick before, just pictures in books so I knew what it was but never had to deal with one.

So, my first thought is, "Eewww! I can't pull this thing out. I'll just spend $70 and have the vet do it tomorrow."

But then my next thought was, "Um, you are going to be a doctor for God's sake! You might have to pull a tick out of a person someday! Cowboy up because you are just going to have to pull this thing out!"

So, I did a little internet research on it and pulled it out with tweezers. Though thinking about that thing still makes my skin crawl. I then thanked my dog for being my first patient! :laugh: Hopefully, it won't get infected or anything and I got all the little mouthparts out .... :barf:
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Hahaha, that is actually a cute story🙂 You can put neosporin on him/her and it should be fine🙂
 
FuturePittMed said:
Hello Late Nighters,

So, tonight I come home and as I'm petting my dog's head I notice this bump on her ear. Upon closer examination, I discover a tick attached to her ear. I have never actually seen a live tick before, just pictures in books so I knew what it was but never had to deal with one.

...
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sounds more like a pre-vet story.

but i hope your dog is OK!
 
FuturePittMed said:
Hello Late Nighters,

So, tonight I come home and as I'm petting my dog's head I notice this bump on her ear. Upon closer examination, I discover a tick attached to her ear. I have never actually seen a live tick before, just pictures in books so I knew what it was but never had to deal with one.

So, my first thought is, "Eewww! I can't pull this thing out. I'll just spend $70 and have the vet do it tomorrow."

But then my next thought was, "Um, you are going to be a doctor for God's sake! You might have to pull a tick out of a person someday! Cowboy up because you are just going to have to pull this thing out!"

So, I did a little internet research on it and pulled it out with tweezers. Though thinking about that thing still makes my skin crawl. I then thanked my dog for being my first patient! :laugh: Hopefully, it won't get infected or anything and I got all the little mouthparts out .... :barf:
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After what I learned in class recently I have a fear of ticks:scared:
 
Mbeas said:
care to expand? i'm interested
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We've been learning tick/lice/mite/flea transmitted diseases. things like rockey mountain spotted fever, Carrion's disease and typhus. So now when I think of bugs biting someone i see the picture of a gross peticial rash from RMSF that they showed in class. And I like kayaking, hiking and other outdoors things so I hate thinking of catching tick diseases.

Link to a gross rash pic if anyone wants to see a similar one: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/mc5/files/feet.jpg
 
DrYoda said:
We've been learning tick/lice/mite/flea transmitted diseases. things like rockey mountain spotted fever, Carrion's disease and typhus. So now when I think of bugs biting someone i see the picture of a gross peticial rash from RMSF that they showed in class. And I like kayaking, hiking and other outdoors things so I hate thinking of catching tick diseases.

Link to a gross rash pic if anyone wants to see a similar one: http://sitemaker.umich.edu/mc5/files/feet.jpg
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I'm more disturbed by how ugly those feet are.
 
let's play a game!!! (or recommend youtube videos)
 
we just chat. what are you doing in orgo?
 
Addition, elimination, substitution. It's not terrible. Just time-consuming to study for.

For such a long thread, I expected more, uh, activity. Did I just catch it at a bad moment?
 
broken tibula said:
Addition, elimination, substitution. It's not terrible. Just time-consuming to study for.

For such a long thread, I expected more, uh, activity. Did I just catch it at a bad moment?
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Nah, some of us will start emerging from our caves shortly.

Throw any confusing orgo questions my way 😎
 
How about lame orgo jokes, instead? Last night's studying produced: "Yo mama so sterically hindered, she makes them nucleophiles go nucleoPHOBIC." 😀

Since people are starting to emerge, let me introduce myself--I'm Tib. My thousands of posts come from a two month period two years ago when my senioritis was introduced to some very talkative people on hSDN. I have more of a life now, promise.
 
broken tibula said:
Addition, elimination, substitution. It's not terrible. Just time-consuming to study for.

For such a long thread, I expected more, uh, activity. Did I just catch it at a bad moment?
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i don't think you caught it at a bad moment, its just not as active as you might think. this thread averages about 4 posts per day. its been around for about 10 months so thats why there are so many pages. but welcome aboard!
 
I have been getting anally raped by a research proposal for the past 5 days. I have read so, so much on doctor-patient communication, the idea of actually trying it sickens me. I'm going to be a radiologist.

I'm also available to answer organic q's with pibond, if they come up.

Back to misery.
 
loveoforganic said:
I have been getting anally raped by a research proposal for the past 5 days. I have read so, so much on doctor-patient communication, the idea of actually trying it sickens me. I'm going to be a radiologist.

I'm also available to answer organic q's with pibond, if they come up.

Back to misery.
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sounds like pretty cool research...what exactly are you supposed to know about doctor-patient communication?
 
It's very cool. It's very interesting. It would be a lot more cool and interesting if it was guaranteed I'd ever actually get to carry the project out (at the moment, it's just an assignment for a class). I'm also right at the finish line, so I'm kind of burning out on writing it.

The gist is, patients have a hard time getting information from docs, and the info they do get they often don't understand. A lot of research has focused on improving the doctor-patient communication by educating doctors to be better communicators. Very little (maybe none?) has focused on educating the patients. So what I'm writing on is a media-based intervention to go in waiting rooms to improve patient communication, and looking at its effects on patient satisfaction with the visit and with the doctor, the actual dialogue that takes place, and medication adherence, factoring in a bunch of moderators.
 
loveoforganic said:
It's very cool. It's very interesting. It would be a lot more cool and interesting if it was guaranteed I'd ever actually get to carry the project out (at the moment, it's just an assignment for a class). I'm also right at the finish line, so I'm kind of burning out on writing it.

The gist is, patients have a hard time getting information from docs, and the info they do get they often don't understand. A lot of research has focused on improving the doctor-patient communication by educating doctors to be better communicators. Very little (maybe none?) has focused on educating the patients. So what I'm writing on is a media-based intervention to go in waiting rooms to improve patient communication, and looking at its effects on patient satisfaction with the visit and with the doctor, the actual dialogue that takes place, and medication adherence, factoring in a bunch of moderators.
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That's interesting.

I actually wrote a good part of my personal statement on the educational role of doctors in patient care--but ultimately it hinges on the consumers (ie patients) to take a more proactive role in understanding their health care and medications, especially in geriatrics.
 
Nothing I've read comes to mind as focusing on geriatrics, but that would definitely make sense. Your PS didn't extend into the hinging on patients I assume?
 
loveoforganic said:
Nothing I've read comes to mind as focusing on geriatrics, but that would definitely make sense. Your PS didn't extend into the hinging on patients I assume?
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I focused on the teaching aspect of medicine from the doc's point of view, since that's all we can control as physicians. I have a lot of teaching on my application so I wanted to show how it would be beneficial in my practice. Pretty generic message, but my experiences were good.
 
Gotcha 👍

I really would like to own an F1...

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95 ferrari for sale... only $900k.... 🙁


Maybe an F3 eventually.
 
I told my future wife, the only material things I want are a fast car (currently thinking porsche turbo, zr1, m3, or cayenne GTS) and a riding lawn mower...john deere ftw.

John%20Deere%20Riding%20Lawn%20Mowers.jpg
 
I visited the U.S.' porsche driving school recently. Probably >50 turbos there. It was a great sight.

We'll see what happens, but I don't foresee my need for speed disappearing, and I'm definitely willing to sacrifice house quality for something nice at this point. Dunno if a track car/sedan combo or just a combo like an m3/5 would be preferable, but... hell. I'm going to make myself sad. Too far in the future!
 
Done! Now I can.... study for the test I've been putting off preparing for. 👎
 
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