We require SDN MODERATOR assistance in the path forum...

[yaah]

Hello moderators

We would like to know how we go about making certain posts available as stickies so we don't have to keep updating them every time someone new asks an old question that gave us all carpal tunnel to try and answer.

How do we do this? We do not have our own moderator as we are an autonomous collective at the present time - a highly evolved society, clearly.

Not sure which posts we want as stickies yet (although I can think of one)...

Thank you for your time.

USA gymnastics #1!!!!!

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[Homunculus]

Hello moderators

We would like to know how we go about making certain posts available as stickies so we don't have to keep updating them every time someone new asks an old question that gave us all carpal tunnel to try and answer.

How do we do this? We do not have our own moderator as we are an autonomous collective at the present time - a highly evolved society, clearly.

Not sure which posts we want as stickies yet (although I can think of one)...

Thank you for your time.

USA gymnastics #1!!!!!

i'm probably the only mod that ever braves the abyss that is this forum. blame it on my past brief affair with pathology. pm me or post on this thread what you want stickied and i'll (ahem) stick it.

-- your friendly neighborhood helpful caveman

 

[yaah]

Well, this thread is one:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=101626

If I think of any others or anyone else thinks of any others I will let you know (of course, since I can't read minds...yet..., that other person would have to somehow let me know...)

p.s. - Braving the abyss? Are we that weird/bad? I guess though, it's like in hospitals when they stick pathology in the basement or another wing. It's nice here though, path department is right in the center, just next to the cafeteria so as we can all get fat.

 

[gungho]

I was told at my driver's license test that my eyes are too close together, rendering it difficult to pass their highly sophisticated vision exam, so perhaps my adaptation process since coming to Path is proceeding at an extraordinarily high rate-hmm, maybe a research topic?

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I nominate yaah as moderator. IMO, he's been one of the biggest proponents of pathology on this forum and has gone out of his way to provide excellent advice and information. I mean...he's even got his own diary site! That's dedication peeps!

 

[b&ierstiefel]

It's nice here though, path department is right in the center, just next to the cafeteria so as we can all get fat.

Ah yes you speak of the Wendy's diet and the fried fatty diet provided by the U of M cafeteria.

 

[quant]

I second that motion...i think it is time path had its own moderator!

Regards
Quant

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I second that motion...i think it is time path had its own moderator!

Regards
Quant

Yes...I believe in democracy however. Why don't you run against yaah? 😀

 

[quant]

I dont think im even remotely qualified at this moment of time....
I wouldnt want to hedge my bets against a guy who 500+ posts on the fourm though!!!

I know i practised in an ICCU for three years and that made me quite stupid....but not THAT stupid...

I still saw light and am doing a PhD aint i?

Yaah for moderator!

 

[tkim]

Well, this thread is one:

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=101626

stuck

 

[yaah]

Yes...I believe in democracy however. Why don't you run against yaah? 😀

I thought we were an autonomous collective? Like in Monty Python? I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. I don't know why we need a moderator - this came up before when I wanted to post images and begged for a moderator to intercede.

I don't think anyone is elected moderator. I think they are randomly appointed from on high, kind of like how they pick the Pope. Everyone stands around and all of a sudden there's a puff of smoke and our lives are changed forever. Regardless, no one has asked me and I don't anticipate they will.

 

[Brian Pavlovitz]

I was told at my driver's license test that my eyes are too close together, rendering it difficult to pass their highly sophisticated vision exam, so perhaps my adaptation process since coming to Path is proceeding at an extraordinarily high rate-hmm, maybe a research topic?

You know, people in the lab always know when I've been using the scope, because the oculars are usually as close together as they can get!

Sounds like a great research topic.

 

[Brian Pavlovitz]

I nominate yaah as moderator. IMO, he's been one of the biggest proponents of pathology on this forum and has gone out of his way to provide excellent advice and information. I mean...he's even got his own diary site! That's dedication peeps!

Yaah rules, period.

 

[quant]

Regardless, no one has asked me and I don't anticipate they will.

I definitely think they should ask....it is really not a bad idea!
I vote for you to be the moderator though!

Hey homunculus....how we get yaah to be the moderator of pathology forums?

 

[DrMom]

We can take the request to Lee Burnett. He's out-of-town for a few days, so give us some time. 🙂

That is...if Yaah wants the job 😀

 

[yaah]

We can take the request to Lee Burnett. He's out-of-town for a few days, so give us some time. 🙂

That is...if Yaah wants the job 😀

How much does it pay? I only work weekdays from 7-4, that's why I went into path. And I require special benefits, including use of a Rolls Royce with a driver named Jennings to take me to work. I also would like to meet Jennie Finch, if that can be arranged. 😉

Sure I'll do it, as long as I don't have to compromise my ethical behavior.

For what it's worth, my ocular size is neither too wide nor too narrow. It's just right. Right down the middle, perfectly average.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

I thought we were an autonomous collective? Like in Monty Python? I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. I don't know why we need a moderator - this came up before when I wanted to post images and begged for a moderator to intercede.

I don't think anyone is elected moderator. I think they are randomly appointed from on high, kind of like how they pick the Pope. Everyone stands around and all of a sudden there's a puff of smoke and our lives are changed forever. Regardless, no one has asked me and I don't anticipate they will.

Oh we truly are an autonomous collective and we certainly don't have a king, president, or dictator either. However, clearly there is somebody here in this forum who wears the Daddy Pants.

Speaking of the smoke when the new pope is elected, has anyone seen EuroTrip? Personally, I was kinda disappointed by it but found some parts a bit funny...like that pope bit.

Bonjourno!

 

[Brian Pavlovitz]

However, clearly there is somebody here in this forum who wears the Daddy Pants.

Who's your daddy?? LOL!!!!

 

[Homunculus]

Oh we truly are an autonomous collective and we certainly don't have a king, president, or dictator either. However, clearly there is somebody here in this forum who wears the Daddy Pants.

Speaking of the smoke when the new pope is elected, has anyone seen EuroTrip? Personally, I was kinda disappointed by it but found some parts a bit funny...like that pope bit.

Bonjourno!

perhaps you could lead as two kings . . . 😉

--your friendly neighborhood tenacious D caveman

 

[Homunculus]

p.s. - Braving the abyss? Are we that weird/bad? I guess though, it's like in hospitals when they stick pathology in the basement or another wing. It's nice here though, path department is right in the center, just next to the cafeteria so as we can all get fat.

no, but the path forum has a flavor all its own-- and many from the outside are afraid of it. i was innoculated by the path "bug" but wasn't fully assimilated-- it happens sometimes 🙂 but i still enjoy the field and its personalities.

to be honest though, pathologists are a rare species to find wandering the halls of a hospital. internal medicine and its specialties, surgery, even psych and anesthesia, are commonly observed wandering the medical serengeti like so many zebras and antelope. you can afford be selective and harvest only the largest ones. radiologists are rare, but with proper harvesting limits their populations can be managed. pathologists are more like a sasquatch-- talked about, and hovering somewhere between myth and reality. the medical version of a mongolian striped-ass ape, they should be photographed only as shooting one may deprive the herd of a potential reproducing member.

--your friendly neighborhood wandering the plains caveman

 

[yaah]

Oh we truly are an autonomous collective and we certainly don't have a king, president, or dictator either. However, clearly there is somebody here in this forum who wears the Daddy Pants.

You can be the mother, Andy. Or would you prefer being the maladjusted son? Or the rebellious daughter?

Either way, as the Daddy, I demand you go get me some twinkies and lemonade.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

You can be the mother, Andy. Or would you prefer being the maladjusted son? Or the rebellious daughter?

Ooo ooo ooo ... I get to wear the mommy skirt?
I think the role of maladjusted bastard child best fits me.

Either way, as the Daddy, I demand you go get me some twinkies and lemonade.

Heh...I'm not working at U of M hospitals this month...would you like me to FedEx them to ya?

 

[yaah]

Anyway the twinkies can get to me would be great.
I need something to sustain me during my endless placenta signouts.

Homunculus you're right - I was on the floors at the hospital once so far this year, when they were showing me where I needed to pick up charts on weekends if I had an autopsy. I saw clusters of white coated individuals, all with their clipboards, stethoscopes, printouts of lab results, etc, and I had an incredible desire to leave. Never have I felt so much like I belonged in path as when I ventured onto the floor after earning my MD.

 

[deschutes]

Whoa - and with that we're into the 2nd page of posts overnight! Can't believe how this place makes me feel like a kid in a candy store!

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Yes, yaah deserves to be moded - heck, when UMich fills this year with the stunningest of path candidates, we'll all know why 😉 Besides being blessed with the perfect inter-pupillary distance, he reportedly bench presses >200 lbs, does 100 consecutive chinups, and looks good shirtless. What more can the Autonomous Collective ask for?

And once he is Mod he can tell us how the Mods have that mutant ability to zero in when help is needed on the radar.

I was on the floors at the hospital once so far this year... I saw clusters of white coated individuals, all with their clipboards, stethoscopes, printouts of lab results, etc, and I had an incredible desire to leave.

I'm located at a tertiary-care centre but never understood why people complained how institutional the atmosphere was (now I do), primarily because prior to clerkships I hung out mostly on the 11th floor.

Privately I think our histopath department is a great place to work. The entrance double-doors are foreboding ("AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY"), but brave them and a whole new vista opens before you with light streaming in the windows - versus the floors where the only natural light is in patients' rooms.

It has made many a clinician sigh, "It feels like summer again."

pathologists are a rare species to find wandering the halls of a hospital... more like a sasquatch-- talked about, and hovering somewhere between myth and reality.

I think part of it is that pathologists wear camouflage... i.e. even the head of depts look like normal people (patients? 🙂 ) and actually wear real clothes vs. the more common white coat or green scrubs as they graze during their lunch breaks.

I like the utility of the white coat - with symmetrical pockets bilaterally it distributes the weight of carriage fairly evenly. Plus it will be a lot lighter once I am no longer a medical student.

Thing is, I want to be the sort of doctor who wears shorts underneath the white coat.

the medical version of a mongolian striped-ass ape, they should be photographed only as shooting one may deprive the herd of a potential reproducing member.

Deprive the herd of a potential reproducing member? I don't think we're all that rare in numbers - but if we are, by the looks of the trend, we won't be.

Beware the stampeding herds!

 

[yaah]

Whoa - and with that we're into the 2nd page of posts overnight!

Yes, almost every thread we have quickly steamrolls and ends up having little to do with the original point. That's good though. People can always redirect us if they so choose. That was my favorite word during my psychiatry clerkship. Redirect. "The patient was redirected and returned to his room." "Patient was hostile to staff, and was redirected." Such an all-encompassing term!

Poor Ophthos, all those threads with like 1 or 2 replies.

 

[deschutes]

Yes, almost every thread we have quickly steamrolls and ends up having little to do with the original point.

I hope that never changes!

An attending I worked with would discuss the etymology of the word "shrift" over nephropath slides and coffee... 😎

 

[bente]

Poor Ophthos, all those threads with like 1 or 2 replies.

When N=0,

Thread N+odd integer: Which is better? This....or this?
Thread N+even integer: The second one.

Using this template, they could exponentially expand their threads. For now, until we build up a comfortable lead, I will keep this secret formula in Andy's lair, protected by laser-mounted sharks and Monty Python rabbits w/ sharp pointy teeth!

 

[b&ierstiefel]

i have printed out the formula and it is now protected.

accordingly, please modify your previous post with a fake formula that will throw the opticians off.

 

[b&ierstiefel]

bump

when will yaah become our moderator with the daddy pants? 🙂

 

[DrMom]

being discussed 🙂

 

[yaah]

Haha yeah I got a PM last night well after I was all tucked in for the night.

I doubt I will have the power to bring back your old user name though, Andy. I prefer Andy anyway...

 

[b&ierstiefel]

Haha yeah I got a PM last night well after I was all tucked in for the night.

I doubt I will have the power to bring back your old user name though, Andy. I prefer Andy anyway...

That's not an issue. I've grown attached to this SN anyways.

And plus, becoming a moderator bestows upon you the daddy pants...however I don't think the ability to raise the dead is a power that accompanies the job.