The most random pimping session...ever!

[AbuJadenDO]

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long story short the attending asks me to dx this 400 lb man with hypoxemia and polycythemia...i say pickwickian and i don't know if he expected me to get it wrong or something but he unleashed a fury of questions after that one that left me dizzy the rest of the day...

where did that name come from?: i said charles dickens novel and all hell broke loose this this attending
"when was dickens born?"
"how many kids did he have"
"which kid moved to australia"
"name 3 books by dickens"
"what's the character's name in the pickwick papers that the syndrome is named after"

i mean rapid fire nonsense

i was looking at him like whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy are you asking me this when our 400 lb patient is about to plop over any second?

maybe i should have just answered "i dont know" to his first question

anyways...what random pimping sessions that have nothing to do with medicine have you guys/gals experienced

i need a thread that has nothing to do with step 2
hence this one😛

 

[Arctic Char]

on a socratic walk with my old mentor (not to be confused UNintimidating), he asks me about temperature.

What is temperature?

well, its a measure of kinetic energy. as it relates to gas laws, internal kinetic energy can be estimated by measuring the expansion blah blah blah

then he chimes in with:

what is zero degrees? how do you measure zero degrees?

and a host of other difficult to answer questions related to general chemistry. not as bad as your dickens story, but he grilled the hell out of me for like an hour about chemistry. and i had just finished my undergrad at that time and loved chemistry.

 

[Dr JPH]

Attending: "Do you know who Tinkerbell is? Why do people clap for Tinkerbell?"

DrJPH: <<WTF 😕😕>>

 

[PeepshowJohnny]

It was actually kind of neat, but we were discussing a patient when our attending suddenly spaces out for a second and asks the the intern who was presenting if he knew the meaning of his last name. Turned out he did, it was Arabic for "healer". He then turned to me and ask me if I knew what my first name meant. Luckily, I did (Turned out his oldest son had the same name). He went down the line asking people what the etymology/meaning of their first and last names were. Very odd, but it was very friendly.

 

[Blade28]

Anything is fair game.

In the OR, I've had an attending continually ask me who was singing the current song on the radio!

Random trivia is also common:

Why does a giraffe not become orthostatic when it stands up?
How many cervical vertebrae does a giraffe have?
How can dolphins hold their breath for that long?

Etc.

 

[Ambs]

Anything is fair game.

In the OR, I've had an attending continually ask me who was singing the current song on the radio!

Random trivia is also common:

Why does a giraffe not become orthostatic when it stands up?
How many cervical vertebrae does a giraffe have?
How can dolphins hold their breath for that long?

Etc.

I was asked who was on the radio in the OR too. It was Justin Timberlake. Then the attending asked me when Justin Timberlake's next concert was in our city. And then asked me if it was okay for someone his age (40s) to go to a Justin Timberlake concert.

 

[smq123]

I was asked who was on the radio in the OR too. It was Justin Timberlake. Then the attending asked me when Justin Timberlake's next concert was in our city. And then asked me if it was okay for someone his age (40s) to go to a Justin Timberlake concert.

Is that a trick question?! How are you supposed to respond?

 

[Tired]

My personal favorite:

Do you think the nurses on this ward are hot?

 

[surrender903]

My personal favorite:

Do you think the nurses on this ward are hot?

that is hysterical.

 

[Roy7]

Anything is fair game.

In the OR, I've had an attending continually ask me who was singing the current song on the radio!

Random trivia is also common:

Why does a giraffe not become orthostatic when it stands up?
How many cervical vertebrae does a giraffe have?
How can dolphins hold their breath for that long?

Etc.

Answers! I feel I've become progressively dumber 'bout life since starting med school.... I wanna know 'bout the giraffe.

 

[PeepshowJohnny]

Answers! I feel I've become progressively dumber 'bout life since starting med school.... I wanna know 'bout the giraffe.

I know the answer to 2: it's a trick question. Giraffe's have the same number as almost all other mamals: 7.

"In many vertebrate species, cervical vertebrae are variable in number; however, almost all mammals have seven (including those with very short necks, such as elephants or whales, and those with very long necks, such as giraffes.
The few exceptions include the manatee and the two-toed sloth, which each have only six cervical vertebrae, and the three-toed sloth with nine cervical vertebrae."

 

[jocg27]

long story short the attending asks me to dx this 400 lb man with hypoxemia and polycythemia...i say pickwickian and i don't know if he expected me to get it wrong or something but he unleashed a fury of questions after that one that left me dizzy the rest of the day...

where did that name come from?: i said charles dickens novel and all hell broke loose this this attending
"when was dickens born?"
"how many kids did he have"
"which kid moved to australia"
"name 3 books by dickens"
"what's the character's name in the pickwick papers that the syndrome is named after"

i mean rapid fire nonsense

i was looking at him like whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy are you asking me this when our 400 lb patient is about to plop over any second?

maybe i should have just answered "i dont know" to his first question

Are you saying that you answered these all correctly???

I once got asked 4 questions in a row about hamlet...I got them all wrong.

 

[lord_jeebus]

Classic (1955!) TIME article about giraffe cardiovasular physiology:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,893146,00.html

 

[UCLAstudent]

Answers! I feel I've become progressively dumber 'bout life since starting med school.... I wanna know 'bout the giraffe.

For number 1, it has to do, in part, with the dynamics of the giraffe's heart. If you look at a cross-section, the muscle layer is a lot thicker than in the human heart, allowing greater pressures to be generated --- much higher than what's seen in humans. This keeps the brain perfused.

How do I know this? One of the cardiologists who lectured my class during first year also serves as a cardiologist for the giraffes at the LA Zoo --- she does echocardiograms on them routinely. No joke!

 

[Blade28]

I know the answer to 2: it's a trick question. Giraffe's have the same number as almost all other mamals: 7.

👍

Correct!

 

[Blade28]

For number 1, it has to do, in part, with the dynamics of the giraffe's heart. If you look at a cross-section, the muscle layer is a lot thicker than in the human heart, allowing greater pressures to be generated --- much higher than what's seen in humans. This keeps the brain perfused.

I think it has to do with the fact that some of a giraffe's arteries have valves (similar to our veins)...helps keep things perfused.

 

[Arctic Char]

For number 1, it has to do, in part, with the dynamics of the giraffe's heart. If you look at a cross-section, the muscle layer is a lot thicker than in the human heart, allowing greater pressures to be generated --- much higher than what's seen in humans. This keeps the brain perfused.

How do I know this? One of the cardiologists who lectured my class during first year also serves as a cardiologist for the giraffes at the LA Zoo --- she does echocardiograms on them routinely. No joke!

actually, i think question #1 is also a trick question if it was phrased by the attending the same way blade phrased it. why? well, think specifically what it means to become "orthostatic" . . . being or becoming orthostatic merely refers to an erect position, not the common med student mistake of assuming orthostatic is short for orthostatic hypotension, or orthostatic postural tachycardia, or orthostatic intolerance, etc etc etc. a giraffe is not orthostatic when it stands up, because its "static", erect position is with all 4 feet on the ground, not in the precarious and transient position when standing on its hind legs.

i did not look this up. its just a coincidence that i did a couple years of research on OI (orthostatic intolerance) prior to med school, so the words mean a bit more to me.

anyway, this is just my hunch . . .

 

[UCLAstudent]

actually, i think question #1 is also a trick question if it was phrased by the attending the same way blade phrased it. why? well, think specifically what it means to become "orthostatic" . . . being or becoming orthostatic merely refers to an erect position, not the common med student mistake of assuming orthostatic is short for orthostatic hypotension, or orthostatic postural tachycardia, or orthostatic intolerance, etc etc etc. a giraffe is not orthostatic when it stands up, because its "static", erect position is with all 4 feet on the ground, not in the precarious and transient position when standing on its hind legs.

i did not look this up. its just a coincidence that i did a couple years of research on OI (orthostatic intolerance) prior to med school, so the words mean a bit more to me.

anyway, this is just my hunch . . .

Interesting!

 

[Arctic Char]

Classic (1955!) TIME article about giraffe cardiovasular physiology:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,893146,00.html

i read that time article. couple of comments.

1) interesting, but not exactly informative. it says giraffes have an efficient blood pressure regulation system affording dramatic and rapid changes in cerebral altitide, but it does not state why. its from 1955, so i'm not surprised. which leads to my next comment . . .

2) that seemed like quite a brutal treatment of such an animal for what is a reltively unimportant yield of information when considering other research models available. and, frigin scaffolding? umm . . . i think all biology is fascinating, deeply, especially blood pressure regulation, but that dude seriously needed to be told "No" by everyone around him . . .

on a personal note, the last sentence regarding the possible application of such knowledge is exactly why i pursured research in OI.

nonetheless, i still think my previous post is the right answer. it was a trick question (again, if phrased as it was)

 

[Blade28]

nonetheless, i still think my previous post is the right answer. it was a trick question (again, if phrased as it was)

I don't think the attending meant for it to be a trick question - I just paraphrased. My bad. 🙂

 

[Arctic Char]

I don't think the attending meant for it to be a trick question - I just paraphrased. My bad. 🙂

phewy . . . i was getting that special feeling . . . like answering something correctly on jeopardy in front of your grandparents . . .

 

[jdh71]

long story short the attending asks me to dx this 400 lb man with hypoxemia and polycythemia...i say pickwickian and i don't know if he expected me to get it wrong or something but he unleashed a fury of questions after that one that left me dizzy the rest of the day...

where did that name come from?: i said charles dickens novel and all hell broke loose this this attending
"when was dickens born?"
"how many kids did he have"
"which kid moved to australia"
"name 3 books by dickens"
"what's the character's name in the pickwick papers that the syndrome is named after"

i mean rapid fire nonsense

i was looking at him like whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy are you asking me this when our 400 lb patient is about to plop over any second?

maybe i should have just answered "i dont know" to his first question

anyways...what random pimping sessions that have nothing to do with medicine have you guys/gals experienced

i need a thread that has nothing to do with step 2
hence this one😛

That's awesome!

I was onced srubbed in with this genius motherf***er (MD/PhD, sloan kettering trained) during a 14 hours Whipple.

The pimping starts off very normal and standard, who's the patient, what's the diagnosis, what the stage and grade of the CA, the indication for the surgery, indicatiosn for not doing the surgery, the surgery itself, the anatomy, the pathophysiology, what could go wrong post-op, and then after exhausting all the normal stuff, he asks me if I like football. I say, "yes" and he pimps the hell out of me about college and professional footbal for the last 20-30 years. He find out I like chess, starts pimping me about various lines on the Sicillian. It was so freaking random . . . and it seemed uncomfortable at the time, but looking back, the whipple's a long surgery and he likes to talk . . . 😀

 

[MonkeyRalph]

I got pimped about Scientology. I'm not a scientologist and have never done much reading about their highly secretive religion, but somehow it came up. Luckily I saw that episode of south park where they tell the story, so I simply rehashed it. Totally random.

 

[deleted162650]

During a C-section I was asked to identify the pyramidalis muscle. I was then asked if I knew the function of the pyramidalis in the kangaroo. Turns out it's what makes up the pouch.

 

[Blade28]

During a C-section I was asked to identify the pyramidalis muscle. I was then asked if I knew the function of the pyramidalis in the kangaroo. Turns out it's what makes up the pouch.

I've been asked that too!

I've also been asked about the identity of Bovie, Apgar and the inventor of the lap chole.

I've been quizzed about the various specs of the attending's sports car.

One attending once asked why Coldplay was named "Coldplay" (they were playing on the radio at the time).

My best (random) pimp moment was when a peds surg attending asked, half-jokingly, what the capital of Burkina Faso was. I remembered from my 6th grade geography class, since it was so memorable (Ouagadougou, pronounced WAH-gah-doo-goo). Great stuff! 👍

 

[Orthonut]

Scrubbed in on a K9 THR where the surgeon proceeded to grill me for about 30 minutes on various random joke questions randomly interspersed with real questions like:

"what do you call a cow who has just had her baby?" (de-calf-inated)
"What do you call a cow without right legs?" (lean beef)
"Do whales have snot?" (yes)
"what do you call a cow with CH?" (and so on)

Then he made me make several animals out of the leftover bone cement so he could make fun of my less than artistic productions.

 

[Arctic Char]

Then he made me make several animals out of the leftover bone cement so he could make fun of my less than artistic productions.

kinky

 

[jdh71]

Scrubbed in on a K9 THR where the surgeon proceeded to grill me for about 30 minutes on various random joke questions randomly interspersed with real questions like:

"what do you call a cow who has just had her baby?" (de-calf-inated)
"What do you call a cow without right legs?" (lean beef)
"Do whales have snot?" (yes)
"what do you call a cow with CH?" (and so on)

Then he made me make several animals out of the leftover bone cement so he could make fun of my less than artistic productions.

Glad to hear the attendings are just as bat-shizzle crazy for the doctors-for-our-animals-friends-in-training . . .

This pimping stuff seems so ingrained in the medical (and vetrinary!) culture - it MUST serve some sort of purpose.

The question I'm wondering, would we be as good as docs without it?

 

[OldPsychDoc]

All pimping is based on this archetypical formulation, handed down from teacher to student over the millenia:

"What is your name?"

"What is your quest?"

"What is [insert unanswerable question here]?"
One in three of you will correctly answer this and send your attending hurling into the Chasm of Death--and there will be much rejoicing...😀

 

[153445]

Random pimp questions:

"Why do women wear reddish or pink lipstick?"
(to create a post-coital look, according to The Naked Ape)

"Where did Kelly Clarkson grow up?"
(I dunno)

"Name a movie in which you see Folie a Deux."
(apparently you can argue The Shining)

 

[Sureshot83]

Two random pimp questions I got from the anesthesiologist today, as I was observing ECT:

1. "Recite the quadratic formula." (I needed to go back to 9th grade for this one)

2. "Explain why a patient's waist size squared over height would be an appropriate way to estimate BMI (albeit on a different scale)."

 

[deuist]

Name the opera singer that the superior laryngeal nerve is named after.

What is Sutton's Law?

Why does this patient have liver adhesions? She's never had abdominal surgery before.

In what year did Virchow write about the triad of blood clots?

 

[Blade28]

Willie Sutton: Go where the money is.

 

[LovelyRita]

That's awesome!

I was onced srubbed in with this genius motherf***er (MD/PhD, sloan kettering trained) during a 14 hours Whipple.

The pimping starts off very normal and standard, who's the patient, what's the diagnosis, what the stage and grade of the CA, the indication for the surgery, indicatiosn for not doing the surgery, the surgery itself, the anatomy, the pathophysiology, what could go wrong post-op, and then after exhausting all the normal stuff, he asks me if I like football. I say, "yes" and he pimps the hell out of me about college and professional footbal for the last 20-30 years. He find out I like chess, starts pimping me about various lines on the Sicillian. It was so freaking random . . . and it seemed uncomfortable at the time, but looking back, the whipple's a long surgery and he likes to talk . . . 😀

I bet that surgery could have been cut to 8 or less hours if he'd have quit being such an attention ***** and gotten busy actually operating. 😉

 

[LovelyRita]

long story short the attending asks me to dx this 400 lb man with hypoxemia and polycythemia...i say pickwickian and i don't know if he expected me to get it wrong or something but he unleashed a fury of questions after that one that left me dizzy the rest of the day...

where did that name come from?: i said charles dickens novel and all hell broke loose this this attending
"when was dickens born?"
"how many kids did he have"
"which kid moved to australia"
"name 3 books by dickens"
"what's the character's name in the pickwick papers that the syndrome is named after"

i mean rapid fire nonsense

i was looking at him like whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy are you asking me this when our 400 lb patient is about to plop over any second?

maybe i should have just answered "i dont know" to his first question

anyways...what random pimping sessions that have nothing to do with medicine have you guys/gals experienced

i need a thread that has nothing to do with step 2
hence this one😛

your avatar is 8 different kinds of f'd up.

 

[Sage880]

Why does this patient have liver adhesions? She's never had abdominal surgery before.

Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome. She has a recent chlamydial infection possibly? That would have been my guess. Never heard of Sutton's Law. And I hate questions on medical history. Because I don't care at all and have to fake interest in the answer!!

 

[deuist]

Sutton was a bank robber who, when arrested and asked why he robs banks, answered, "That's where the money is."