Don't percuss me, bro

Funniest quote I've heard in a while:

"Don't percuss me bro, I'll poop my pants!"
-Student at SGU school of medicine

I heart CTs

I just realized something. I love looking at CT scans! For some odd reason, I really like looking at pictures of CTs, MRIs and Radiographs. I just REALLY like finding the structures in them. I found this website with free CT and MRI images and I just realized that I've been staring at them for like and hour and a half. I could seriously stare at them all night; it is so weird. I can't stop.

They de-vain shrimp...

The best quote ever:

"What, they don't suction the poop out of the dead people???? Are you kidding? They de-vain shrimp; Why wouldn't they?"

-Bianca

Amendment to last post

Bianca made me think... as she always does...

I would like to amend my last post: Life does not suck right now. I am having fun studying and learning REALLY interesting things and I am living in paradise right now. All I have to worry about is studying. I don't have to worry about finances or work right now. I mean, we have a freakin maid in our dorm! Life is good. I am happy. I like learning.

Here's a good quote from Einstein:

“Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.”

I like that quote. I am very lucky. Life is good.

"Life sucks right now"

Back by popular demand, I have decided to finally write a second blog entry.

As my roommate just said: Life sucks right now. I would probably agree. So today was supposed to be a "day off." That is, we had our bioethics exam (basically, if you are going to perform physician-assisted-suicide, don't tell anyone; or just do it in Oregon or Washington) and did not have classes all day. Pretty much a "free day." Well, sir, in medical school, there are no free days.

Here's what I did, got up around 7:30 to study a little bit more for bioethics, went to the exam and somehow managed to decipher through all the legal craziness on the test (I really hated that class, but I think I managed an A), came home and studied the poop-shoot, as it is called in medical terminology, took a little nap because I was so tired from studying last night for bioethics, was woken up by my roomates to go to the gross anatomy lab, stuck my fingers and hands in the poop-shoot, flipped a couple dead people over to get a closer look at the poop-shoot from the inside out, came home and am now studying the surrounding area of the poop-shoot for lecture tomorrow.

Here's the deal: We're tiiiiired..... The semester is nearing it's halfway point and mid-terms are approaching. We all just got raped by the language and crazy verbose answers on the bioethics final, and we are just hanging on by the seat of our pants while the information just keeps coming at us.

Someone once described med school as eating a dozen pancakes a day, every day whether you like it or not. You just have to eat the pancakes, getting the material down any way possible. If you don't eat 10 pancakes today, you will have to eat 20 tomorrow. This is a pretty good analogy, but not quite right. A better analogy (spelling?) would be getting punched in the face everyday by your textbooks and trying to stay on your feet until the mid-term comes. If you fall down or get behind, you lose... big.

This is why I am writing the blog right now: We are tired and life sucks right now. I think what it comes down to is just that bioethics sucks and that final was really intellectually challenging and exhausting. I thought I was done with liberal arts classes? Please... no more!!! My brain is only programmed to handle science-related material right not... and forever.

On another note: I kicked butt on the Unified Quiz, which is just a quiz in all subjects to see if you are studying properly and how you are doing relative to your peers. Anatomy: 100%, Biochemistry: 100%, Histology: missed one question, but still got an A; Good news: I'll never forget what GFAP protein is ever again.

Well, I just realized that this entry is probably getting boring to read. It is getting boring to wright. Back to studying.

Also, I just realized I haven't put up any videos of the school or island. I'll get on that soon, I promise.