"Yeah, the weather's cooling off again, and did you know that midway between the kidneys and the pelvis the gonadal artery and vein pass over the ureters which they themselves pass over the external iliac artery and are then medial to aforementioned gonadal vessels but lateral to the internal iliac?"
"Come on! You should totally get this!! It's a gram negative rod that is oxidase positive and produces pigment! It's like a flashing neon sign! It's totally a case pseudomonas hot tub folliculitis!" *cue giggling over the phrase 'hot tub folliculits' <--I find this absolutely hilarious
"Man, I feel like a hypoglycemic diabetic on propranolol. Hidden crazy!" *waiting for laugh that never came* <--I was only stared up uncomprehendingly (the person doing the staring's medical knowledge extends to thinking that 'histology' is 'something about allergies right?')
I have also done the following in regards to studying:
-Had a serious fifteen minute discussion on the differences between unregulated intracellular signal transduction and increased proliferation and on whether that really means that K-ras mutations makes cells divide faster than APC loss in the sequential mutations in sporadic colon cancer development because in first aid is had the unregulated line listed for the K-ras mutation and said specifically that APC loss was responsible for increased proliferation but K-ras is an oncogene which makes things divide even faster compared to the loss of a tumor suppressor like APC according to Uworld and common sense but it did say very specifically that...... (I got caught in that again. Damn.)
-Cursed antiarrhythmics. Repeatedly. And the heart. Repeatedly.
-had multiple dreams about studying
-consistently cursed my total and pathological inability to guess - if I have to guess it's going to be wrong; I'll come up with a totally convoluted thought process involving random pathophysiology of symptoms and arrive at the exact wrong answer every time. Where my study partner will not even know the disease and still manage to randomly get the right answer without a clue as to how she arrived there (her answer "meh, it sounded right" or "C is always a good guess"). I swear that there was some point where some deity was handing out the ability to guess and I forgot to show up.
-hearing Goljan lecturing to me in my dreams (amazingly enough, helped by listening to his lectures while falling asleep)
-...fallen asleep listening to cardiopath lectures, waking up later convinced he was talking about power rangers....write it off as a strange construct of my subconscious.....only to find out later when re-listening to said cardio lecture while conscious that he WAS in fact talking about power rangers (don't ask)
-had dreams about failing the step 1
-had dreams about not getting a residency
-decided that if I learned any more about isoniazid or any other ridiculous detail about TB drugs (seriously, RIDICULOUS detail required) someone or something would have to die a painful death (ditto for Hepatitis - how many freaking questions can one have on hepatitis?!? A lot. Dozens. In every which you can possible imagine. I mean, down to the point of describing 'glycoproteins that polymerize into spheres and tubules 22nm in diameter that don't correlate well with viral replication' and could we please identify which component of the HepB is that? I get it UWorld. Someone writing the questions has hepatitis.)
-become agitated if going more than an hour without studying something; if you see me with my ipod, I'm listening to path lectures, not music - I go nowhere without something study-able (nor do I really go anywhere anyhow these days)
-consistently overheard talking to myself; was told once (only once mind you) that it was cute; promptly responded: *censored for bad language and pointed comments involving dead people*
-getting the smallest amounts of sleep on a consistent basis that I ever have
-I now drink multiple cups of starbucks espresso black per day
And I would just like to say that the english language is diverse and could the people who make up drug names PLEASE come up with things that sound different? I mean, chlordiazepoxide, chlorpheniramine, clomiphene...all totally different drugs and different classes - clomiphene is a serm, chlordiazepoxide is a benzo, chlorpheniramine is a 1st gen H1-blocker (not a benzo like the previous mentioned benzo that sounds exactly like it) but can't be taken _with_benzos (everyone together now: too much CNS depression is bad!). Not confusing at all. No problem.
This? Just damn cool.
SF to Paris in Two Minutes from Beep Show on Vimeo.
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