June 2011
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the different types of pre-med you will meet
The lovely caristeenaaa pointed out this website to me, and I think you should all go and check it out. After all, it’s a parody of the different sorts of pre-med students and who doesn’t enjoy mocking stereotypes?
The Different Types of Pre-Med You Will Meet
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confessions (you are not your degree).
Up until recently, when introducing myself, I would almost inevitably say Hi, my name is JD and I’m a med student. And then whoever was listening would ask me polite questions about my course and my year and the things that people generally ask about medicine. Even in high school, people knew me as the girl who was going to do medicine (apart from my history teacher, but that’s a long...
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people you meet in hospital: the stereotypical...
The pathologist is a bit of a mystery—you know that the hospital has a pathologist (someone has to write the path reports, right?) but you’ve never actually seen him.
Wrong. You have.
He’s the unassuming-but-formally-dressed man scurrying down the hallways, most likely wearing glasses. He’s always in a rush and walks with his head down, a quiet talker who seems almost...
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the irony of medicine.
No matter how sick you are, if you’re supposed to be at the hospital, you will turn up and pray that you don’t infect any immunocompromised patients.
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the many faces of med students: the one you...
It’s bound to happen. Spending ten hour days with the same people over and over and over again—you start seeing them differently. Some will have tiny quirks that eventually drive you mad, while you’ll inevitably warm up to others a little too much. There won’t be any distinct turning point; one day there won’t be any awkward feelings, and the next—the next day...
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things i've gained from med school.
A coffee addiction.
The inexplicable ability to race up four flights of stairs in order to keep up with the consultants on ward rounds, but the inability to climb a flight of regular stairs without getting very short of breath.
A respectable head nod in the corridors from surgeons I’ve met, but who have no recollection of my name or where they met me.
A constantly-changing speciality....
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things not to do in med school.
Drunk text your colleagues.
Wish the surgical fellow luck on getting into the surgical training program he’s already graduated from.
Annoy the nurses.
Not ask any questions.
Walk into the toilets of the opposite gender. (I think this one applies to life in general.)
Laugh at patients, especially if you’re laughing at their “adiposity”.
Claim that you...
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what i learnt about medicine (and life) from a...
I was at the bus stop today (cool story, bro) and this guy started talking to me, as you do when you’re a sociable fellow with half an hour to spare. He told me about his life, and hitchhiking, and travelling with monkeys in Southern Africa, and swapping booze and party drugs for massages (he’s a qualified masseur, or so he said) at festivals.
Maybe he was making it up. But the...
