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How to Become a Doctor
2007-09-14 14:23:15
I was browsing some medical blogs and found a link to HowStuffWorks.com. Dr. Carl Bianco, MD, has written a pretty good overview of the traditional path to earning the two initials. I didn’t get a chance to read through the entire thing, but from the looks of the contents listing, it covers a lot. Dr. Bianco discusses everything from high school, college, medical school, residency, and the licensing exams. Here’s the link to the article: Howstuffworks “How Becoming a Doctor Works”
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Medical Humor - Rats, Matches, and Motorcycles
2007-09-14 00:51:02
“In retrospect, lighting the match was my mistake. But I was only trying to retrieve my son’s rat.” Dick Stone told doctors in the severe burns unit of San Francisco City Hospital. Admitted for emergency treatment after an attempt to retrieve the rat had gone seriously wrong, he explained, “My son left the cage door open, so his rat, Vermin, escaped into the garage. As usual, it looked for a good place to hide, and ran up the exhaust pipe of my motorcycle. I tried to retrieve Vermin by offering him food attached to a string, but he wouldn’t come out again, so I peered into the pipe and struck a match, thinking the light might attract him.” At a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman described what had happened next. “The flame ignited a pocket of residual gas and a flame shot out the pipe igniting Mr. Stone’s mustache and severely burned his face. It also set fire to the pet rat’s fur and whiskers which, in turn, ignited a la
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Choosing Your Residency/Specialty
2007-09-12 06:42:23
Are you trying to decide what residency/specialty to go into? It can be a very difficult decision. And often its not entirely up to medical students. After all, we do have to gain an acceptance into the program we want. Anyways, someone sent this to me a while back. Click on the thumbnail for a larger view. Enjoy.
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Medical Humor - Deep Thoughts
2007-09-11 07:48:42
One of life’s mysteries is how a two pound box of candy can make A person gain five pounds. Brain cells come and go but fat cells live forever. Life not only begins at forty, it begins to show. I had to give up jogging for my health. My thighs kept rubbing together and setting my pants on fire. Amazing! You just hang something in your closet for a while and it shrinks two sizes.
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Sleep Sleep Sleep
2007-08-31 02:11:45
Earlier this month someone sent me an email about sleep deprivation. Here is a quote from the article (from About.com): “Poll results show that while many Americans enjoy the benefits of sufficient sleep, as many as 47 million adults may be putting themselves at risk for injury, health and behavior problems because they aren’t meeting their minimum sleep need in order to be fully alert the next day.” Let’s face the facts. Medical students are not your average American. So while most Americans find that they have sufficient sleep (although I seriously doubt this… or maybe I just need to meet more “average” Americans), I’m sure that the percentage of medical students who received sufficient sleep is far less. This might be true for residents as well. Maybe I’ll write about that in 5 years…. I think my sleep cycle is messed up. During the first week of school there were two nights that I got to bed by 10 PM. I woke up at around
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Pre-Med Humor - Preventive Measures
2007-08-14 16:37:22
A physics professor was explaining a complicated concept when a premed student interrupted him. “Why do we have to learn this stuff?” the young man blurted out. “To save lives,” the professor replied. “How does physics save lives?” the smartass student asked. “Physics saves lives,” the professor said, “because it keeps certain people out of medical school.”
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MSNBC.com: Obese kids miss the most school
2007-08-13 23:35:57
Obese kids miss the most school - Kids & Parenting - MSNBC .com Above is a link to the MSNBC.com story. Last week on rounds I saw a number of patients in the Pediatric clinic. The common topic of conversation between doctor and patient/parent? More exercise and a healthier diet. Childhood obesity is getting to be a very big problem. It is not only a problem during school but it will lead to many problems down the road. Why is this such a problem in the United States? Is the land of the plenty too comfortable? What can be done to encourage healthier lifestyles? Parent education programs? Better P.E. classes? Destroying all televisions in the world?
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Medical Humor - Out of Room
2007-08-13 23:33:59
During a patient’s two week follow-up appointment with his cardiologist, he informed me, his doctor, that he was having trouble with one of his medications. “Which one?” I asked. “The patch, the nurse told me to put on a new one every six hours and now I’m running out of places to put it!” I had him quickly undress and discovered what I hoped I wouldn’t see. Yes, the man had over fifty patches on his body! Now, the instructions include removal of the old patch before applying a new one. - Another true story brought to you by the medical community
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Medical Humor - Cause of Death
2007-08-13 23:31:57
One day I had to be the bearer of bad news when I told a wife that her husband had died of a massive myocardial infarct. Not more than five minutes later, I heard her reporting to the rest of the family that he had died of a “massive internal fart.” - Another true story brought to you by the medical community
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Wards Experience
2007-08-13 23:02:26
At Orientation I learned that I had been assigned to Pediatrics for my first two weeks before classes begin. Not quite sure what to expect, I followed the directions and found myself sitting in a conference room Monday morning with the rest of the Freshman who had been assigned to Pediatrics. The group in the conference room also included third and fourth years who were on their Pediatrics rotations. After an orientation to how things were done in the Children’s Hospital, the Attending Physician took sent us off to find the teams we were assigned to. Some first years went to the cardiology consult team, others to the GI team, some to the NICU and others to the PICU. I, along with one other first year, headed to the Pediatric Teaching Office (PTO). The PTO is located across the street from the Children’s Hospital. I quickly found out that the PTO is a very relaxing place to rotate through. Over my one week there, most of my time was spent sitting in the office along with th


Why am I wet?
2007-09-25 01:38:46
I was in anatomy lab today. We were dissecting the anterior and superior mediastina. We were fortunate to have a visiting doctor from Northern California. He flew his own plane down so that he could lecture on the thoracic region (he’s a thoracic surgeon). So I’m working on the anterior wall of the thoracic region. We could clearly make out the internal thoracic artery underneath a thin layer of muscle (transversus thoracis). I attempted to dissect out the artery and its veins using forceps and scissors. And as I’m leaning over the cadaver, I think to myself, “Why is my stomach wet?” After a moment I finally pulled away from the table and looked at my white coat. There was a circular wet spot. Lovely. My first instinct was to take off my coat. My first thought was that I should leave it on to keep to a minimum any further contacts with cadaver solution. And that was my first day back after test week. Five weeks till Exam Week 2. Let the fun begin all ov


Yahoo! News - UK Doctors Issued New Dress Code
2007-09-21 15:35:07
Source: U.K. hospitals issue doctors’ dress code - Yahoo ! News Well this just in. The UK has now issued a new dress code for their doctors. The have decided to ban all neckties and long sleeved shirts. Jewelry has also been banned. And to top it all off, the physician’s white coat has been banned as well. Doctors will now be required to wear short-sleeved scrubs. This is a big change for a group of people who strive for professionalism and have long insisted on a shirt, tie, and nice slacks underneath a white coat. They say that this is a health concern. The ties are being blamed for being a sink hole for bacteria because they are hardly ever washed. Personally, I don’t think I have ever thrown my tie in the laundry. Besides, I think they need to be dry-cleaned. One study, published in 2004, reported that in one New York hospital, nearly half of the doctor’s neckties carried at least one pathogen. Will the U.S. also do the same thing? I don’t really think


Medical Humor - A Cardiologist’s Funeral
2007-09-21 15:22:44
A cardiac specialist died and at his funeral the coffin was placed in front of a huge mock up of a heart made up of flowers. When the pastor finished with the sermon and eulogy, and after everyone said their good-byes, the heart opened, the coffin rolled inside and the heart closed. Just then one of the mourners burst into laughter. The guy next to him asked: “Why are you laughing?” “I was thinking about my own funeral” the man replied. “What’s so funny about that?” “I’m a gynecologist.”
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Test Week 1
2007-09-21 15:21:27
Test week 1 is finally over! Our exams were scheduled over a 4 day period and so we had Friday off. I woke up around 11 AM. It felt really weird waking up and not knowing what to do. I kinda felt lost. All week I’d wake up and be worried about the 8:30 AM exam. I tried to review a little before the exam. Afterwards, I’d have lunch and then back to study. They had a pretty quick turnaround for the exam scores. All the scores were emailed to us. Most of them were emailed to us within a couple hours after turning them in. It was pretty nice. I did contemplate not opening any of the emails until after test week. But I caved and started reading them as soon as I saw one in my mailbox. Overall it was a good week. All passing scores. I’m just glad it’s all over. And now, I get to do it all over again !


Surgical Models
2007-10-14 12:21:16
I just read a blog post over at Unbounded Medicine about surgical models made up of fiber glass with thoracic and abdominal compartments. The internal organs of a pig are used to simulate the organs of a human. Using this model students can perform both a laparoscopy and thoracoscopy. Looks like an awesome way to study anatomy too. I wish we had models like this in anatomy lab. Having pre-dissected bodies to look at would be very helpful. Instead, we end up spending so much time picking away at fascia. Click the photo below to see the original post at UnboundedMedicine.com and view more pictures and a short video clip.
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Med School Humor - Gunners
2007-10-10 00:06:55
Do you have a gunner problem in your class? Sometimes I feel like there are a lot of gunners in my class…. Take a look at this video from youtube.
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Family Medicine
2007-10-07 15:01:33
Last week I went to two interest group meetings. They were the Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) and the Internal Medicine Interest Group (IMIG). Honestly, I went to these meetings because they were convenient for me. I had afternoon labs and both of these meetings offered free lunches for those who signed up. I wonder what kind of attendance can be expected for these on-campus meetings if free meals were not available. The FMIG meeting was earlier in the week. It was surprisingly interesting. I had never thought about Family Medicine. Maybe the food was influencing me… I found out that the Family Medicine Residency at Loma Linda University is part of a program called P4. The description of the P4 program can be found at TransforMED.com. Here’s a snippet: The P4 Residency Demonstration Initiative is a collaborative effort led by the P4 Steering Committee in collaboration with the Association of Family Medicine Residency Program Directors, the American Board of Family M


MSNBC.com: Air passengers can sue over blood clots
2007-10-17 21:06:00
Source: MSNBC .com - Judge: Air passengers can sue over blood clots Apparently a judge has ruled that passengers can sue airlines over blood clots. The article writes that patients who developed a Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) can sue the airline if they were not allowed to move to an empty seat with more leg room. I realize that a DVT can be fatal. So its not something that should be taken lightly. But this whole thing seems like a bad idea to me. If this case goes in favor of the passengers, will the airlines resort to taking out a few rows and raising airfare to avoid a future lawsuit? And what about people who love taking advantage of “the system.” I can imagine someone tired of sitting in economy asking the flight attendant if there are any empty seats in the first class cabin because they are at risk for a DVT. And what about if there are 2 at-risk passengers requesting a change of seat and only one seat available? Well, flight attendants are far from qualified to decide


Dead Week
2007-10-23 00:35:06
Well its now the week before our second set of exams. In undergrad we used to call this Dead Week. It was supposed to be a week when no major projects were due or anything that would be too stressful. The point was to give us time to concentrate on final/quarter exams. In theory it was good. In reality we always had projects due. I wish we have dead week in medical school. Granted, our schedule does look easier this week. But its still a full load of classes with labs. Okay, they did give us friday off. So I guess I have a “dead day” this week… A couple professors have scheduled review sessions for us. I think I’ll be going to those…


Test Week 2 Over, Thanksgiving coming up
2007-11-14 01:00:35
Well we got through the second set of exams. Now we are working our way through the pulmonary system. Already I feel like I’m falling behind and we’ve only had one week and 2 days since the last set of exams. I’m hoping to be able to catch up over this coming weekend and Thanksgiving break. I can’t believe I actually want to study during Thanksgiving break… Well I don’t really want to study… I just want to catch up… So I suppose on some levels I do want to study… I’m finding respiratory physiology to be tricky. Thankfully I find our textbook (Respiratory Physiology by West) very helpful. Although, it is pretty dense… The thing costs about $40 an is a small paperback book. I’d almost call it a booklet. But in all fairness, I think its 12 chapters long. Its also the same book used at UCSD School of Medicine. Dr. West, the author of the book, teaches there. Cell Structure & Function is looking a little intim


MSNBC.com: Monkey Embryos Cloned
2007-11-14 00:34:41
Source: MSNBC .com: Monkey embryos cloned, scientists say Humanity is one step closer to human cloning. Recently, some researches in that state of Oregon claim to have successfully cloned monkey embryos and extracted stem cells. This is supposed to pave the way for the procedure to be done in humans. This still does not make the controversy go away. The debate has raged for years about whether or not it is ethical and moral to obtain stem cells from embryos. When stem cells are harvested from embryos, the embryo does not survive. The situation would all go away we just started using adult stem cells. There is no controversy in this area because… well the human is destroyed in the process. And neither are embryos. The problem is that we, as a society, have put so much money into embryonic stem cell research. It isn’t cheap to suddenly switch over to harvest adult stem cells. Well I think we should just deal with it. Let’s just assume the burden of the cost. The poten
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Reforming the U.S. Healthcare System
2007-11-30 17:24:58
This quarter I’m taking a course called “Medicine and Ethics.” The class is taught by Dr. X. (name withheld). There are a number of topics that was scheduled to be discussed and each topic was presented by a group of 3 or 4 students. I ended up in a group of four. Our topic, as you can probably guess by the title of this post is/was “Reforming the American Medical System .”   I wanted no part of this topic. I felt that the American Healthcare System is a mess but there’s not much we can do about it. I really wanted to be in the group that would present on physicians and war. But as Dr. X went down the list and waited for volunteers for each topic, it became clear that Reforming the U.S. Healthcare was not the popular one. No hands jumped up at the opportunity to tackle this problem… So I reluctantly raised my hand and said I’d join the group. I had already heard that the United States spends more money than any other industrialized nati


World AIDS Day 2007
2007-11-30 16:36:58
December 1, 2007 is World AIDS Day. Last year I wrote a short post summarizing an MSNBC article about how AIDS has changed America and you can find that post here. Over the past two and a half decades AIDS has transformed from a strange and unknown disease associated with gay men into a global pandemic whose effects have reached into all levels of society. The problem is that we still don’t know how to fight it. We can’t stop HIV. Sure, we seem to have had success in delaying the onset of AIDS in HIV Positive patients (i.e. Magic Johnson), but that requires a very expensive cocktail of anti-viral medication. We know that HIV is not a death sentence, but the majority of people who test positive do not have the resources to get this sort of treatment. At this point, the most effective weapon in the fight against AIDS is information. That’s what World AIDS Day is all about — raising awareness about the disease and its prevention. Through another medical blog, I fo
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Thankful
2007-11-30 03:17:31
The other day I got home around 10:45 PM. I had been studying in the library in the dungeon (basement floor). Since there was no cell phone reception down there, I didn’t find out I had a voicemail until I got back home. My mom had left a message. I wasn’t sure what she called for, but in the message she left she complained about my voicemail greeting. My voicemail greeting is an Italian-accented male voice. It sounded funny at the time… so that’s what I chose to use. So I’m listening to this voicemail message from my mom and she’s complaining about my “ugly” greeting and then offers to record a message for me.. lol. Well after listening to the message I call home. As the phone is ringing, I’m just hoping that my parents didn’t go to sleep yet. Before the third ring, my mom picks up the phone. I say hi. She says hi. I tell her where I was and why I couldn’t pick up the phone. This whole time I’m wondering why she
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I’ve got this sick feeling…
2007-11-26 10:03:36
First day back after Thanksgiving break. I’m kinda feeling sick&hellip ; well its more like this sick feeling that I didn’t do enough over break. I think I should get used to this feeling. It reminds me of the movie Schindler’s List where he regrets not doing more to save people at the end of the movie. Okay… maybe I don’t feel that bad… at least the tears are not streaming down my face… Anyways, lecture is starting… gotta learn about MHC Molecules now!


Medical Humor - The High Cost of Psychiatric Help
2007-12-07 14:55:42
Shakey went to a psychiatrist. “Doc,” he said, “I’ve got trouble. Every time I get into bed, I think there’s somebody under it. I get under the bed, I think there’s somebody on top of it. Top, under, top, under. “you gotta help me, I’m going crazy!” “Just put yourself in my hands for two years,” said the shrink. “Come to me three times a week, and I’ll cure your fears.” “How much do you charge?” “A hundred dollars per visit.” “I’ll sleep on it,” said Shakey. Six months later the doctor met Shakey on the street. “Why didn’t you ever come to see me again?” asked the psychiatrist. “For a hundred buck’s a visit? A bartender cured me for ten dollars.” “Is that so! How?” “He told me to cut the legs off the bed!”
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Med School Humor - Pimp My Scope
2007-12-02 13:12:41
Did you ever watch that MTV show “Pimp My Ride”? Well here’s a bunch of med students spoofing that show with a lil clip called “Pimp My Scope .” And who said med students have no life? Enjoy.
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