You know what really grinds my gears?

[SpecterGT260]

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LMAO. Sounds like you haven't done clerkships yet.

FM just refers out any real issues, including non life-threatening ones.

EM is the same as FM, just with a shorter timeline. "quick, call the specialist".

IM is low speed as well. The only life you save is the code on the 90 year old guy who changes his advance directive to fatally code the next day.

OB - You'll save some lives here, probably more than surgery.

Surgery - Most is just scheduled procedures. Trauma definitely is serious stuff. Same for CV and especially neurosurgery.

Psych - You just ask every patient every day if they're thinking about killing themselves...soon you want to kill yourself... If anything happens you have completely forgotten all real medicine, as have all psych nurses.

Derm - melanoma is serious biz (but not emergent), otherwise just a laid back job.

Of course it's always good to catch things, but medicine moves a lot slower than dentistry. Surgery/Interventional fields can be exciting, otherwise the majority of MD's talk and write notes all day.

Oh yeah, med students who expect to save lives regularly grind my gears. 🙂

again, I said it was a point of view type of thing. You don't think there are life threatening chronic conditions that need to be managed and adapted at the primary care level? You're basically doing what I thought I was reading in that other poster: slapping an artificially restricted definition such that you can criticize something in someone else to assuage your ego Sure, dentistry moves faster if you are considering 99% of your day spent inspecting the hygienist's job exciting and want to claim that there just can't be anything satisfying about catching a condition in the clinic or holding a patient stable in the ED until the specialist gets there We get it, you like what you're going to be doing and other people liking what they will be doing somehow bothers you. 👍 Even your re-breakdown of each specialty misses the point completely. Nobody here claimed that each specialty is doing life-saving emergent work every day. In fact, the opposite was explicitly stated. That you missed this and still posted what you did is pretty telling 😉

The take home message is this: neither the pre-meds nor the med students care how your interpretation of our field causes our actions to "grind your gears". Nearly every doc I have talked to has at least 1 story that really was life or death, even if they didn't end up giving the final care to the patient. And that gives them a sense of satisfaction, and apparently this satisfaction causes you and a couple of your colleagues to get butthurt. Inferiority complexes are simply not the fault of those targeted by them. So put that in your pipe and smoke it It is as simple as that... Like what you do without disliking other people liking what they do; otherwise your real feelings become very transparent 😉

 

[Bereno]

again, I said it was a point of view type of thing. You don't think there are life threatening chronic conditions that need to be managed and adapted at the primary care level? You're basically doing what I thought I was reading in that other poster: slapping an artificially restricted definition such that you can criticize something in someone else to assuage your ego Sure, dentistry moves faster if you are considering 99% of your day spent inspecting the hygienist's job exciting and want to claim that there just can't be anything satisfying about catching a condition in the clinic or holding a patient stable in the ED until the specialist gets there We get it, you like what you're going to be doing and other people liking what they will be doing somehow bothers you. 👍 Even your re-breakdown of each specialty misses the point completely. Nobody here claimed that each specialty is doing life-saving emergent work every day. In fact, the opposite was explicitly stated. That you missed this and still posted what you did is pretty telling 😉

The take home message is this: neither the pre-meds nor the med students care how your interpretation of our field causes our actions to "grind your gears". Nearly every doc I have talked to has at least 1 story that really was life or death, even if they didn't end up giving the final care to the patient. And that gives them a sense of satisfaction, and apparently this satisfaction causes you and a couple of your colleagues to get butthurt. Inferiority complexes are simply not the fault of those targeted by them. So put that in your pipe and smoke it It is as simple as that... Like what you do without disliking other people liking what they do; otherwise your real feelings become very transparent 😉

Whoa there tiger. What you said is true, but what BWG also has some truth to it. Also, what NDPitch said is true ( at least from my personal experiences, and those of my physician siblings). There is no need to get so defensive. Shake it off and ease up there man, this is a light-hearted thread 🙂

 

[UCLAzy]

specterGT just won the internet folks and put us all in our places! time to pack up and go home. arg

 

[SpecterGT260]

Whoa there tiger. What you said is true, but what BWG also has some truth to it. Also, what NDPitch said is true ( at least from my personal experiences, and those of my physician siblings). There is no need to get so defensive. Shake it off and ease up there man, this is a light-hearted thread 🙂

Being critical of another poster and laughing at the silliness of it isn't defensive 👍

It is an overwhelming theme on the internet to simply assume the guy who isn't on your side of the fence is the one who isn't calm. I'm perfectly calm. All I saw was a pre-dent and someone with undisclosed status state that when they exaggerate the statements by people who get excited about their future line of work it bothers them and the extent of my personal reaction was " 🙄 "

FWIW, typing is a pretty calm activity 😉 You can't really infer an emotional state from a post.

 

[SpecterGT260]

specterGT just won the internet folks and put us all in our places! time to pack up and go home. arg

The only ones put in any places are those silly enough to be irked by someone else's excitement by their own field or those silly enough to reflect on what is entailed in said fields by someone who will literally never experience them except from the outside looking in

Anyways, to not detract from the OP, you know what grinds my gears? (although not really... I kinda find it somewhere between quaint and amusing) non-medical anybodies who always feel some need to compare their path to medicine and then knock medicine based on something they can't possibly really understand 😉 Go hang out in allo or pre allo for a bit, you will see literally no comparisons to other fields until someone from one of them comes in with a "hey medical peeps, here is why ______ is as good or better than medicine!" post It's cute in a kind of depressing way 😳 We had a fun one with someone from your sandbox who got bent out of shape when we didn't accept teeth as sensory organs as some random blog stated it. Although you may get your fair share of pre-med trolls in here also just looking to do some ego-stroking douching so I guess nobody is safe

 

[UCSFx2017]

You know what grinds my gears? Excessive emoticons. 🙂

 

[Bereno]

You know what grinds my gears? When someone completely misses the point of someones post and/or what they were saying and goes on a rant about it lol 😛

 

[SpecterGT260]

You know what grinds my gears? Excessive emoticons. 🙂

You know what grinds my gears? When someone completely misses the point of someones post and/or what they were saying and goes on a rant about it lol 😛

Ya, that is probably pretty annoying




😉😉

emoticons were given by the powers that be in order to keep certain peoples from interpreting otherwise simple discussion-level posts as rants. The internet would be a better place if more people would embrace them.

 

[Bereno]

emoticons were given by the powers that be in order to keep certain peoples from interpreting otherwise simple discussion-level posts as rants. The internet would be a better place if more people would embrace them.

Once again that is true, and I am sure most know this, but the key word used by UCSFx2017 was "excessive" 🙂

 

[SpecterGT260]

Once again that is true, and I am sure most know this, but the key word used by UCSFx2017 was "excessive" 🙂

again, it is a matter of opinion

 

[UCSFx2017]

again, it is a matter of opinion

When you use , are you laughing three times as hard?

Don't answer. I'm kidding.

 

[timmytim]

people who take the interwebz too seriously and get all butt hurt by some sarcastic comments

oh i forgot to add papa johns free pizza emails

now that really grinds my gear, those lying bastards

 

[SpecterGT260]

people who take the interwebz too seriously and get all butt hurt by some sarcastic comments

I couldn't agree more 👍

 

[Bereno]

I couldn't agree more 👍

lol!

 

[mmmsteakdinners]

I've got 2.

1. What really grinds my gears is when I haven't been accepted to dental school and my parents talk with their friends about what I'm doing. Or they tell me about a new school that opened up. If your friends want to know what I'm doing, tell them I'm going to be a magician or ask them to ask me. AND YES I'VE HEARD ABOUT THAT RANDOM PRIVATE SCHOOL THAT OPENED UP!

2. What really grinds my gears is also when students of easier majors or easier schools (directional state school or crappy commuter school) tell me how their GPA is a 3.97. That's great, maybe take some harder classes and learn something.

If you truly believe in #2, I feel sorry for you and hope you're not my classmate

 

[timmytim]

I couldn't agree more 👍

you seem unpopular on this thread

i respectfully ask you to turn that thumb upside down

i don't wanna be associated to an unpopular individual


im jk

don't get butt hurt bruh

 

[SpecterGT260]

you seem unpopular on this thread

i respectfully ask you to turn that thumb upside down

i don't wanna be associated to an unpopular individual


im jk

don't get butt hurt bruh

👍 => 👎

 

[timmytim]

pooping after a shower, now that pisses me off

gotdamn excessive bowel movement

 

[tooth knockn]

pooping after a shower, now that pisses me off

gotdamn excessive bowel movement

Thanks for sharing,!!!!!

Ytsan

 

[SpecterGT260]

pooping after a shower, now that pisses me off

gotdamn excessive bowel movement

Actually, this sucks any time you have to deuce when you're wet (swimming... um... other reasons one may be wet?.... 😕 ) unless you live in a place that uses those toilets that shoot water up your bum, that is.

 

[azimmer]

Actually, this sucks any time you have to deuce when you're wet (swimming... um... other reasons one may be wet?.... 😕 ) unless you live in a place that uses those toilets that shoot water up your bum, that is.

Haha.. I hate those toilets. I experienced one of those in Japan. At first I was excited because my toilet had a lot of buttons.... then I pressed the water shooter one... To say that I was surprised is an understatement.

 

[SpecterGT260]

Haha.. I hate those toilets. I experienced one of those in Japan. At first I was excited because my toilet had a lot of buttons.... then I pressed the water shooter one... To say that I was surprised is an understatement.

It could be worse.... check out youtube and look for the video explaining proper technique for an asian squat toilet

 

[timmytim]

you peasants don't know how to use a bidet properly

 

[berrydenta]

Yup. These too:

"Definately" vs. definitely
Weather vs. whether
They're / their / there
Your / you're

I thought people had these down in, like, fourth grade.

Second that! Another one that I've been seeing a lot is "confidance/ confidence, should of/should have"

I'm not a native speaker and took the time to learn these...

It was great finding this thread btw!

 

[Black Diamond]

Oh my gosh... this happens to me SO OFTEN !!! But it's not even like five minutes later... I tell people that I want to go to dental school and they respond, "Oh, so you're going to become a hygienist?"

One of my friends is a dentist and was riding the subway a few weeks ago. She had her scrubs on and a little boy across from her asked his mother why she was wearing those clothes. Her mother responded, "Oh, she is a nurse!" My friend was like, "No, I'm actually a dentist." And then the mother responded, "Oh, sweetie, she's a dental hygienist! She's the one who cleans your teeth!!"

Damn, that is the truth! People continuously recommend me to apply for the community college's dental hygiene program but I want to become a dentist, not a dental hygienist 😉

It really grinds my gears when cars don't signal when they're changing lanes on the freeway. That is an accident waiting to happen 🙁