The Official Anti-Med School Thread

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I know we already have An Official Anti-Clinical Medicine Thread but this doesn't seem to fit in there. So thought we could use an anti-med school thread.

Today I had my PBA exam in peds. PBA = patient based assessment = simulated/standardized patient crap. We get videotaped and evaluated on our history and physical of a fake patient. But I mean, truly fake. I saw a "vomiting infant" who just happened to be a DOLL. Not even a real baby. And I couldn't just say, "Now I will listen to the heart," I had to take out my stethoscope and go through the motions. But even that isn't enough. I had to say "I am listening for a murmur." I couldn't just say, "I will look at the general state of the baby." It had to be "I will see if the baby is pale. I will see if the baby is fussy. I will see if the baby looks to be having labored breathing."

It was quite possibly the dumbest thing I have ever been through in my entire life. And all I want is a weekend but of course I have to work tomorrow. +pissed+ 😡

Thank goodness for pathology.
 
What pathology is likely represented by this process?
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Please give a differential diagnosis, listed in decreasing order of likelihood.
 
Fu*k Medical School. Fu*k Medicine. Fu*k Doctors. Fu*k you all.
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Med school f*cking blows! I took my diploma, made sure it was legit, and ran. I'm done!

The commencement keynote address blew chunks. Even my parents fell asleep during the 40 minute speech.

F*ck this. I'm outta here.
 
flindophile said:
I would have to say that I have been very disappointed in the quality of teaching. Preclinical teachers seems to believe that good teaching involves reciting lists of facts that are readily available in books. Very few of them add any value -- so I stopped attending class. Clinical teachers don't understand the difference between pimping and teaching. Pimping involves very little thought or preparation time. It also has the added advantage of always being right:

Clinician: What are the 5 causes of disease X?
Student: A, B, C, D, and E
Clinician: No, it is E, D, C, B, and A

The preclinical and clinical years are both annoying, but at least there is variety in the techniques of annoyance.
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Medicine is very hierarchical. It thrives on this. People constantly feel that they must make it clear that people below them are their bitches.

Pimping is not a method of teaching. Pimping is a mechanism by which those higher on the totem pole than you ensure that you know you're their bitch.

Teaching vs. Pimping:

Pimping - everything is tought in a form of a question. If you don't know the answer, you feel like a little bitch--a big worthless stinking *****! Pimping adds stress to a situation that should not be stress-laden to begin with.

Teaching - concepts are tought in a narrative fashion. They tell you knowledge without using this situation as an opportunity to humiliate you.

Pimping is f*cking bull****! I hate pimping. I will never pimp people. Teaching is the f*cking bomb!

P.S. I'm ****ing drunk off my ass right now. But this is how I truly feel.
 
AndyMilonakis said:
Medicine is very hierarchical. It thrives on this. People constantly feel that they must make it clear that people below them are their bitches.

Pimping is not a method of teaching. Pimping is a mechanism by which those higher on the totem pole than you ensure that you know you're their bitch.

Teaching vs. Pimping:

Pimping - everything is tought in a form of a question. If you don't know the answer, you feel like a little bitch--a big worthless stinking *****! Pimping adds stress to a situation that should not be stress-laden to begin with.

Teaching - concepts are tought in a narrative fashion. They tell you knowledge without using this situation as an opportunity to humiliate you.

Pimping is f*cking bull****! I hate pimping. I will never pimp people. Teaching is the f*cking bomb!

P.S. I'm ****ing drunk off my ass right now. But this is how I truly feel.
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My ex-boss (ex via promotion 👎 ) pulls the pimpage crap whenever he stops by. He will ask pharmacy law questions over and over until he finds something you don't know. Then he will rub your nose in it. How am I supposed to know whether "island I have never heard of" in the South Pacific is a ****ing US territory so that I can tell you whether or not I can accept a prescription transfer prescription from them? When I need to know, I'll look it up! Who said I need to have an instant recall of world geography to do my job?
 
AndyMilonakis said:
Pimping is f*cking bull****! I hate pimping. I will never pimp people. Teaching is the f*cking bomb!

P.S. I'm ****ing drunk off my ass right now. But this is how I truly feel.
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I don't think I was strong enough.

I motherf*cking goddamn **** f*ck hate f*ck damn stupid **** piece of motherf*ck damn pimping with a passion. It's god damn mother*fuc*king bull****!
 
I do not understand how the word "pimping" came into the medical community.

Pimpimg = from the word "pimp" = meaning a man who governs a harem of bitches and whoes? 😱
 
bananaface said:
My ex-boss (ex via promotion 👎 ) pulls the pimpage crap whenever he stops by. He will ask pharmacy law questions over and over until he finds something you don't know. Then he will rub your nose in it. How am I supposed to know whether "island I have never heard of" in the South Pacific is a ****ing US territory so that I can tell you whether or not I can accept a prescription transfer prescription from them? When I need to know, I'll look it up! Who said I need to have an instant recall of world geography to do my job?
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Here's a pimp question that I've heard muttered on OB/GYN rounds: "what is the average time of gestation of an elephant?"

Goddamn motherf&cking dingus, jackoff....we don't f*cking care you piece of low life ****....this is how you feel good about yourself? the fact that you know how elephants f*ck and give birth? go f*ck yourself you piece of ****...retire and die already!

i got my diploma...i'm out!
 
beary said:
Today I had my PBA exam in peds. PBA = patient based assessment = simulated/standardized patient crap. We get videotaped and evaluated on our history and physical of a fake patient. But I mean, truly fake. I saw a "vomiting infant" who just happened to be a DOLL. Not even a real baby. And I couldn't just say, "Now I will listen to the heart," I had to take out my stethoscope and go through the motions. But even that isn't enough. I had to say "I am listening for a murmur." I couldn't just say, "I will look at the general state of the baby." It had to be "I will see if the baby is pale. I will see if the baby is fussy. I will see if the baby looks to be having labored breathing."
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This is absolute bullsh*t. And I thought my med school was ******ed when it came to shenanigans like this.
 
AndyMilonakis said:
Here's a pimp question that I've heard muttered on OB/GYN rounds: "what is the average time of gestation of an elephant?"

Goddamn motherf&cking dingus, jackoff....we don't f*cking care you piece of low life ****....this is how you feel good about yourself? the fact that you know how elephants f*ck and give birth? go f*ck yourself you piece of ****...retire and die already!

i got my diploma...i'm out!
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I know how to make sea urchins release gametes. I discovered this while goofing off in the lab. My prof was like "Ooh. I think he likes you."

Wanna come over and we can go play ro-sham-bo with my ex-boss? He doesn't get to kick.
 
One problem I had with clinical instructors was that an amazingly high percentage of them seemed to treat teaching as though it was something that was putting them out. YOU'RE AT A TEACHING HOSPITAL, *******. It never ceases to believe me that you can get a job at a teaching hospital and either refuse to work with residents (it happens) or do such a crappy job of teaching that all you do is basically tolerate a resident's presence.

Cases in point - on surgery the attending we were with one week would show up at the tail end of rounds and sign off on everything, occasionally change an order before blowing out of there. In the OR he would say "retract" or some other instruction but that was it.

I often wonder what being in med school was actually like for these individuals. Did they complain about attendings who didn't let them do anything or teach them?
 
yaah said:
Cases in point - on surgery the attending we were with one week would show up at the tail end of rounds and sign off on everything, occasionally change an order before blowing out of there. In the OR he would say "retract" or some other instruction but that was it.
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agreed; i'm not missing that crap at all. I recall numerous cocky, unteaching surgeons, walking into the OR with such stiffness and coldness (they literally had to turn up the air in the OR as their cold-blooded hearts dropped the temp a few farenheit's...)
THEN, when they actually NEEDEd you, they'd EVERso kindly address you by (the common term i've actually heard from other med students at other schools....anyone else agree?), "hey, student, retract [or more commonly and also allowable for substitution, 'hold'] this, okay". wow, such 😍
i mean as stinky diaper and slobbery crybabish as peds was, AT LEAST the attendings i worked with were great teachers.
 
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