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Went to an early match party tonight to hang out with my classmates who I haven't seen for nearly three months. While I love medicine, I don't love med students. I realized emergency medicine peeps are sweet for so many reasons, here's a few:

1) While everyone else was talking about paychecks and call schedules, the EM'ers were trading drunk stories from applicant dinners and discussing late night food in potential match cities.

2) We'll actually be treating the people we all said we wanted to treat when we started med school.

3) If anyone else has done prelim or TY interviews, you know what it's like to wish you were at an EM interview day, a.k.a. "One of these kids is doin his own thing"

4) Who else can put sepsis, cocaine, and vibrating dildo in the same sentence without cracking a smile? (ok, maybe just a chuckle)

5) We're cooler than the average bear.

6)...

 

[DropkickMurphy]

Who else can put sepsis, cocaine, and vibrating dildo in the same sentence without cracking a smile?

EXAMPLE: "So how did you patient with sepsis from the cocaine filled vibrating dildo impaction case do?"

 

[EctopicFetus]

6) We are better looking (see other thread)

7) We know how to have fun!

 

[colforbinMD]

8) We post more worthless crap (see multiple threads)
ok we're second most in worthless posts but we are working on it


P.S. We spend lunch on interview day quoting pulp fiction and judging the intern's Napolean Dynamite dance. (HE ROCKED by the way)

 

[corpsmanUP]

Because we univerally hate rounding and would do anything to get out of it! Seriously though, EM people are the best people I have ever been around. I think its because we are all thinking about what we are going to do on our days off, and not about "when" our next day off will be. I'd rather commit to 12 hours of hard and honest work than arrive at 5 AM and wonder how many times I was going to have to round, how many hours I was going to spend chasing electrolytes, and how many hours I was going to wait for the attending to arrive before rounding again!! Life in EM is a beautiful thing and I can't believe I ever considered doing anything else.

 

[EctopicFetus]

Because we univerally hate rounding and would do anything to get out of it! Seriously though, EM people are the best people I have ever been around. I think its because we are all thinking about what we are going to do on our days off, and not about "when" our next day off will be. I'd rather commit to 12 hours of hard and honest work than arrive at 5 AM and wonder how many times I was going to have to round, how many hours I was going to spend chasing electrolytes, and how many hours I was going to wait for the attending to arrive before rounding again!! Life in EM is a beautiful thing and I can't believe I ever considered doing anything else.

👍 YEP!

 

[missdr]

second that...never before had my career choice been better confirmed than at the night before interview dinners...I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!! 😍

 

[SoCuteMD]

Because we univerally hate rounding and would do anything to get out of it! Seriously though, EM people are the best people I have ever been around. I think its because we are all thinking about what we are going to do on our days off, and not about "when" our next day off will be. I'd rather commit to 12 hours of hard and honest work than arrive at 5 AM and wonder how many times I was going to have to round, how many hours I was going to spend chasing electrolytes, and how many hours I was going to wait for the attending to arrive before rounding again!! Life in EM is a beautiful thing and I can't believe I ever considered doing anything else.

Seriously. I call this my "hit it hard and get it done" personality. When I can't do things this way, I tend to flounder. Maybe that's why med school is working pretty well for me so far - I get to "hit it hard" constantly (and no, not in that fun way you gutterminds are thinking about!).

 

[corpsmanUP]

Seriously. I call this my "hit it hard and get it done" personality. When I can't do things this way, I tend to flounder. Maybe that's why med school is working pretty well for me so far - I get to "hit it hard" constantly (and no, not in that fun way you gutterminds are thinking about!).

Agree...same exact story as mine!

Hey SoCute, I think you should put your picture in your Avatar so we can all decide for ourselves once and for all if your name fits 😛

 

[SoCuteMD]

Agree...same exact story as mine!

Hey SoCute, I think you should put your picture in your Avatar so we can all decide for ourselves once and for all if your name fits 😛

See, here's the thing. I have two choices:
a) be totally, 100% professional in everything I say on this board and post my picture and still not like that my classmates read what I say and associate it with me
b) be more honest, more myself, no picture.

Given that there is one PD who posts here, there have to be more who lurk. When I show up to interview in a few years, I don't want someone's first impression of me to be, "Oh, so this is the chick who said (insert embarassing recollection here)."

 

[corpsmanUP]

See, here's the thing. I have two choices:
a) be totally, 100% professional in everything I say on this board and post my picture and still not like that my classmates read what I say and associate it with me
b) be more honest, more myself, no picture.

Given that there is one PD who posts here, there have to be more who lurk. When I show up to interview in a few years, I don't want someone's first impression of me to be, "Oh, so this is the chick who said (insert embarassing recollection here)."

Way ahead of you on that one.... Only a dumb-a$$ would create a name that easily enabled anyone with 2 neurons held together by a spirochete to uncover their true identity. Well, I did exactly that. Maybe I am the one who needs the 2.4 mu of Bicillin a week for the next 3 weeks!!

I hear ya...its just very tempting to want to ask you to back up such a confident screen name!! I am thinking about changing my screen name to FatOldHairyMedic. Think anyone will ask for proof of that?? 😱

 

[SoCuteMD]

I actually did originally have a name that included my last name. I don't think I ever posted on EM with that one! Then once school started I decided I wanted a bit more anonymity (you know how small med school classes can be!) so I made a new one and I haven't said the name of my school or even given my geographic location (although I have made mention of past homes).

(And then, just as I was finishing this I went and typed my name, as if I was signing this post).

As I've said, once I match I will post a pic 🙂. But that won't be for a few years.

Maybe I'll get a backside pic of me one night when I'm on my way out...although I've been told numerous times that some people could identify me from that view as well 😛.

 

[SoCuteMD]

I'm warning you guys, you are building me up. I said I'm cute. Not a model, not gorgeous, not even hot (unless you go for the former gymnast, 5'1", Irish with freckles and blue eyes type).

And yes, in case you were wondering, "I was a gymnast" works wonders as a pick-up line 😉.

 

[SoCuteMD]

Seriously - you guys are settled down with wives and maybe even houses and all that stuff. I'm the one who is jealous of you guys! I would love to have a steady SO...the problem is the auburn hair and the freckles (aka the Irish part of me) tends to interfere with that 😛.

Oh yes, and if the gutter turn that this thread has taken is ANY indication of what life is like in the ED - I will fit right in!!!

 

[krust3]

cyber flirting.... entertaining.

As if SoCute didn't have this in mind when she came up with such an alluring username. good thing i didn't make mine "OneHotPA2MD"

 

[SoCuteMD]

Ehh...I am a flirt, but really I was just trying to find a username that didn't include something that gave my identity away 🙂.

 

[basementbeastie]

and here i thought i was "soak-ewt-mud"???

 

[corpsmanUP]

I had to hit the shower......the COLD shower after hearing about that Irish gymnast!! 🙂 I know what you mean about that backside picture. Has anyone every seen a gymnast on TV who you would have described as "having no a$$"? No freaking way! I think I must have been a gymnast in a former life, and in this life I've just spent the better part of it trying to insulate my past life's hard work..

 

[SoCuteMD]

Apparently I should start signing my posts, "Attention *****/Future MD"

And really, I'm not all that. I'm cute, but I think most guys think I'm "little sister" cute if anything. Which really kind of sucks.

 

[SoCuteMD]

To get this thread back on track:
9) Because we supposedly get the best nurses!

 

[SoCuteMD]

10) Because our forum has a thread comparing EM docs to prostitutes!

 

[SoCuteMD]

11) Because we get to wear scrubs, but don't have to do surgery.

 

[corpsmanUP]

11) Because we get to wear scrubs, but don't have to do surgery.

How is your floor routine SC? 😛 couldn't just let it go!


Because we get to start a collection of the coolest shoes on earth.

Clarks
Merrell
Birks
Borne
insert favorite shoe name

 

[SoCuteMD]

How is your floor routine SC? 😛 couldn't just let it go!

State champion, baby!

 

[jigga_what]

Nothing says hot like state champion. What song played for your routine?

 

[Willamette]

13) Because we take our jobs, but NOT ourselves, seriously.


Will

 

[Koko]

13) Because we take our jobs, but NOT ourselves, seriously.


Will

a point hammered home by your avatar 👍

 

[yaah]

6) We are better looking (see other thread)

Sorry.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=118459

 

[ERMudPhud]

I had to hit the shower......the COLD shower after hearing about that Irish gymnast!! 🙂 I know what you mean about that backside picture. Has anyone every seen a gymnast on TV who you would have described as "having no a$$"? No freaking way! I think I must have been a gymnast in a former life, and in this life I've just spent the better part of it trying to insulate my past life's hard work..

Reminds me of how hot everyone was for Quinn's female avatar and we all know who HE finally turned out to be. Be careful or socute will turn out to be a 300lb hairy greek shotputting champion. 😀

 

[basementbeastie]

hey who said that isn't damn sexy!!!

 

[SoCuteMD]

Reminds me of how hot everyone was for Quinn's female avatar and we all know who HE finally turned out to be. Be careful or socute will turn out to be a 300lb hairy greek shotputting champion. 😀

Only if you take almost 3 of me will I be 300 lbs. I've never held a shotput in my life.

For further proof that I am a gymnast (and not a shotputter) see my ramblings on the Path's lead is shrinking thread 🙂.

 

[southerndoc]

a 300lb hairy greek shotputting champion.

hey who said that is damn sexy!!!

Please see attached image.

 

[SoCuteMD]

DAM! Southerndoc got me. I'm the one on the right 🙂. Gigs up.

 

[Apollyon]

I remember the original New Yorker that this was in.

 

[Daiphon]

13) Because we take our jobs, but NOT ourselves, seriously.


Will

14) because life's too short to be on call... and

15) who else is gonna take care of the problems that "those 2 dudes" cause? d=)

-t

 

[missdr]

eeewwww!!!

 

[tkim]

that wasn't really hand cream

 

[Apollyon]

that wasn't really hand cream

That one's not beer.

 

[tkim]

That one's not beer.

I've never had corn in my chocolate pudding before ...

 

[kungfufishing]

n

 

[Misterioso]

because you're legends only in your own minds even though everybody else sees you as glorified triage nurses!

because it's easy to feign a nonchalant laid-back attitude when your job consists mainly of finding other doctors to send patients to!

because you talk so much about what you do during your time off to compensate for the fact that other doctors do the real work for your patients!

just kidding. 😉

 

[Apollyon]

because you're legends only in your own minds even though everybody else sees you as glorified triage nurses!

because it's easy to feign a nonchalant laid-back attitude when your job consists mainly of finding other doctors to send patients to!

because you talk so much about what you do during your time off to compensate for the fact that other doctors do the real work for your patients!

just kidding. 😉

Because we suffer fools easily, such as ill- or misinformed aspiring surgeon-students, who tell overused and unfunny anecdotes under the guise of "jokes".

For us sucking so badly, these students would be disabused of their notions to rotate through an ED and 1. see how many surgeons refer their patients - their loving, delicate, expertly-operated upon orchids that require tender loving care - to our ham-handed, desperate, unsophisticated hands, and treating their surgical complications, saving these surgeons from having to come in and take care of minor but necessary issues, and 2. counting up how INFREQUENTLY patients are admitted (25% of ED visits nationwide).

We had a hardcore anti-EM student that had an epiphany seeing what we DIDN'T give the admitting services, and she changed her perspective.

 

[Misterioso]

Because we suffer fools easily, such as ill- or misinformed aspiring surgeon-students, who tell overused and unfunny anecdotes under the guise of "jokes".

For us sucking so badly, these students would be disabused of their notions to rotate through an ED and 1. see how many surgeons refer their patients - their loving, delicate, expertly-operated upon orchids that require tender loving care - to our ham-handed, desperate, unsophisticated hands, and treating their surgical complications, saving these surgeons from having to come in and take care of minor but necessary issues, and 2. counting up how INFREQUENTLY patients are admitted (25% of ED visits nationwide).

We had a hardcore anti-EM student that had an epiphany seeing what we DIDN'T give the admitting services, and she changed her perspective.

Ouch, must have hit a nerve.

I was really just kidding, it was no "guise" as you call it. See my other thread, I'm considering EM too. Lighten up, Captain EM.

 

[Jeff698]

you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

Take care,
Jeff

 

[Apollyon]

Ouch, must have hit a nerve.

I was really just kidding, it was no "guise" as you call it. See my other thread, I'm considering EM too. Lighten up, Captain EM.

What with the "Captain this, Captain that" stuff?

 

[colforbinMD]

Troll or not that was pretty funny.
I saved appolyon's response for a quote I can use later at combined EM/surgical grand rounds.
Nice guys, Nice!

 

[Febrifuge]

you're turning into a penguin. Stop it.

"Oh no... not again." (smash!)

 

[Febrifuge]

16) Because while, when talking to students, some docs enjoy pontinifcating and lecturing, EM peeps instead tend to listen, ask questions, and give encouragement and solid advice. If the student is somewhat cool. 😉

 

[EctopicFetus]

because you're legends only in your own minds even though everybody else sees you as glorified triage nurses!

because it's easy to feign a nonchalant laid-back attitude when your job consists mainly of finding other doctors to send patients to!

because you talk so much about what you do during your time off to compensate for the fact that other doctors do the real work for your patients!

just kidding. 😉

Nicely done.. you won the award for *****ic post for the month of January

 

[Misterioso]

Aren't EM guys and gals supposed to be cool, laid back and able to give and take a ribbing...or is it just a facade they want to project when they're really as uptight as other doctors? Lighten up peeps. 😎