May 2013
“The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us,...”
– Pope Francis (via azspot)
We need to help this guy and the Dalai Lama have the biggest, most attentive audience possible. (via shrinkrants)
Go new Pope dude. Please don’t mess this forward momentum up. Love, Atheists and everyone else PS- does this mean I can now get those saint candles thst...
YOU GUYS
aspiringdoctors:
Just read in my notes that cortisol is called a glucocorticoid because it raises blood glucose levels.
And aldosterone is a mineralcorticoid because it raises blood levels of sodium… a ‘mineral’.
HOW DID I JUST NOW CATCH THIS.
A Week Before Step 1
whatshouldwecallmedschool:
April 2013
That One Kid Who Answers All The Questions in...
365rulesforpremeds:
bruinpremednoway:
Throwback to this rule.
“I would tap that. I would tap that in the upward position. But definitely not in...”
– -Dr. S regarding the thoracentesis of pleural fluid.
And yes, my mind went straight to the gutter that it belongs in.
(via md-admissions)
Med Life
whatshouldwecallmedschool:
“There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom,...”
– Colette (via lifeofawhiskeydrinker)
Metabolic Biochem exams:
whatshouldwecallmedschool:
me:
professor:
The Not Quite Doctor: The Privilege →
aspiringdoctors:
thenotquitedoctor:
“Doctor, did you see her prom pictures?”
The young woman in the office beamed as she turned her iPhone to show us a group of girls all wearing brightly colored dresses. ”It was a little skimpier than I would have liked, but she looked beautiful,” her mother continued.
Had you walked in at that moment you wouldn’t have realized that minutes earlier we were...
FurthER (well it's about time!) Adventures of The...
Wife of man with end-stage cancer and hemoptysis (coughing-up-blood): See, his clothes are all spattered with blood!
Patient: *futilely wiping at blood with paper towel*
Wife *hands a hospital-grade sanitizing wipe from the sink area and hands it to the patient*
Greatest ER Nurse in the Universe: Oh, please don't touch those wipes without wearing gloves, sir! They are very strong and can cause cance.....Er. Sorry. I, uh...
Patient *sad grin*: It's a bit late for that precaution, I think.
"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know...
When I know what the picture is, and it's not an...
whatshouldwecallmedschool:
March 2013
“Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold...”
– Alan H. Cohen (via allthingsstylish)
The Not Quite Doctor: Am I wasting my 20s? →
aspiringdoctors:
thenotquitedoctor:
We’re there days during pre-med where you just wanted to give up? Sometimes I think “I have no life! I’m spending my entire 20s drowning in books” I love medicine and I really want to be a physician but sometimes when I am getting up at 5:30 to be at a class by 8am I feel overwhelmed I guess. Just wanted to know if others have felt this way as a pre-med as...
“Work hard in silence. Let success make the noise.”
– (via 365rulesforpremeds) 