A 3rd year medical student got dismissed for saying "Giddiy-up"

[miboon]

Hey doc,

I'm a student aspiring to be a doctor. However, i'm also an extreme clean freak, and I absolutely freak out if I have to touch or do stuff that's dirty. I still want to be a doctor. Is there any area in the profession where I don't have to checkup on nasty things?? Does ever single aspiring MD have to physically examine sick people, or is there an alternative route? I am also thinking about being a research scientist, one who could possibly discover new drugs to help the profession. What do you suggest?

[swimmd99]

Hey doc,

I'm a student aspiring to be a doctor. However, i'm also an extreme clean freak, and I absolutely freak out if I have to touch or do stuff that's dirty. I still want to be a doctor. Is there any area in the profession where I don't have to checkup on nasty things?? Does ever single aspiring MD have to physically examine sick people, or is there an alternative route? I am also thinking about being a research scientist, one who could possibly discover new drugs to help the profession. What do you suggest?

you will have to during clinicals. After clinicals you usually have to do an intern year where its internal medicine so yeh you will be examining sick people.....but its not that bad......You may catch a couple colds during the year but usually not anything much more serious

[neelb_24]

epic bump

[LaggingBiceps]

i have a question....how does a large dosage of vitamin A effect the immune system? specifically a course of Accutane

I'm getting into an argument with a friend and he says that it effected his immune system because he was getting lots of colds. i said it didn't effect it because when I took it for 7 months my WBC count was the same in all my blood tests

and i understand that theres more to the immune system than WBC but it's a bigger portion of it right?

[anikey]

WTF why is my thread a sticky!?!?!?

[r_robert]

WTF why is my thread a sticky!?!?!?

because mammajo got owned

[bigbridrol]

Only read first post... Not sure if were still on topic but LOL..

The operating room in my experience is one of the most unprofessional settings, cursing, jokes etc.

Trauma is where its at!

[MC_Ake]

o yea sorry man i had tacos last night...

LMFAO....

[SuupaBuu]

Expected serious thread, totally surprised. You clowned on her ass. Reps.

LOL @ the piitb story.

[Shady Dave]

oh damn you mean someone had said the same thing i did.....oh man someone must be making it up.....now quite possibly he was listening to apical breath sounds which could be heard ok in the front but as you'll learn in clinical medicine in several years, breath sounds are heard ideally from the back, not the anterior chest.....just sayin.....even ICU patients on vents and sedated are generally rolled to listen to lung sounds

maybe i should talk about my patient who developed an anaerobic infection on cuts of his penis he obtained when his gf was giving him a blowjob and she sneezed.

or maybe while i was rotating through ER a woman came in with rectal pain. My very avid and intelligent med student I sent in the room before I went in so I could catch up on work said he thought he heard a buzzing sound but felt too uncomfortable to exam. A rectal exam revealed something hard a good finger length into the rectum. I sent for an x-ray which soon revealed a vibrator lodged right smack up there

I really could go on and on with stories if you wish

MommaJo,
We all understand you're at that cocky pre-med stage where you feel like you know everything but realistically know little more than people with webmd degrees. It's ok, its the natural progression of learning medicine.....we've all been there. However, let me point out that you too will have stories that are similar to ones that you have read about online for one major reasons.....patients don't change

On a side note, trust me you really don't want me to start picking apart your posts, especially on medicine

ohhh brooooo he killlleeddddd itttttt

[Shreddedness]

the smell of ownage still lingers.......ahhhhhh now thats fresh.

[J_Mart2387]

What do you think?

I think you're in the red.

[Mango7]

Awesome thread, and awesome stories!!!

I am applying to med-school this year.. I dont know if I get in or not yet though... I am applying to uni's in Poland because its insanly hard to get in here in Norway (many appliers, few places to study med.).... I dont know if I will make it or not, but I sure hope so... I cant dream of anything cooler than becoming a doctor. My dad has been a MD for 27 years, so that has really inspired me.. And I have worked my ass off this year to better my grades. Even though I am not the smartes guy in siences classes I hope I can make it, couse I really do work really hard. I will have to move to another country for SIX years to make it though... So that will be a challenge!

Hard, intelligent, immersive studying, discipline, and letting go of any social life will tremendously increase your chance of making it through.

[undertowg]

If i were her, i'd take legal action against the school. i'm sure the school has a formalized code of behavior that she violated but it doesn't call for a getting kicked out of med school. Maybe a really long suspension woud be right.

But anyway, if she/he was smart enough to get into med school. im sure he/she can do it again.

[Mono]

(no the todd) ..?

[Kernkraft]

I think gynecology appeals to all men.....however, once you do your OB-GYN rotation its a whole other story. I avoid gynecological exams at all costs (within reason of course) because 1.) I'm not an obgyn so I'm not doing routine exams..... and 2.) very few women, especially young women, want a young guy (especially one who looks like a teenager) examining their genitals

Sickest stuff I have seen.....hmm not too sure to be honest. One would probably be a 16 year old girl with uncontrolled diabetes who was extremely non-compliant with medication who already had 1 BKA (below knee amputation) and was coming in for probably the nastiest infection I have ever seen. Literally when you squeezed her leg, pus shot out like 3 feet in the air. It was infected with pseudomonas aeruginosa that has a very gross fruity smell. To this day smelling a basket of mixed fruit makes me nauseous.

Saddest would be a 16 year old girl who came into the ICU who had liver function tests through the roof and was in fulminant hepatic failure and despite doing everything possible she died

brb throwing up

[solidus2k3]

brb throwing up

brb fapping

[TheobeseLifter]

LMAO that reminded me of the good will hunting scene where Will owns that pompous douche at the harvard bar



she wont recover

Istn that Ceral Oriely from OZ?

[thicky]

[StrongInChrist]

In before return of mamajo....

[Ecap]

exellent thread

[SGMD1]

In before return of mamajo....

bish better not return

[thicky]

g'day up?

[bigbridrol]

Dude you HAVE to read the entire first page.

I see mommajo post about the linked story but I didnt see her bragging or anything to lead to the Ownedness everyone keeps saying.

I guess there is history about her posting medical information and a resident called her out?

lol i am unaware

[-Foxhound-]

ORLY?

negged for calling the doctor out

[Lunatic]

i do enjoy it tho. There are very few professions where you have the potential to trully make a difference and save people's live's.....however the vast majority of patients dont follow the advice anyways

Exactly why I want to be a Physical Therapist that specializes in Spinal Cord Injuries, like myself. I had my life saved when I was in the hospital, so I want to go back and work at the same place. I can relate to all the patients on a personal level, and I could also give them information the able-bodied PTs don't know about.

[MiscLyfe]

Waiting for the return of Mommajo

[human_torch_]

negged for calling the doctor out

fighting spirit is ****ing awesome

[recyfer]

sylverster stallOWNED

[ben3133]

Bump to this as I have a story to add..

A few years ago, someone (male med student) was doing their respiratory clinical assessment. For women obviously you need to move the breasts out of the way if they are in the way so you can listen to the lungs in the appropriate places - the correct way to move them being either the back of your hand, or by asking them to do so. This medical student, in their assessment decided to lift the breasts out of the way by the nipples.

Needless to say, they failed.