f-ed by the snake tip

Yesterday my patient said to me, “I got fucked by the snake tip.  It was waving a flag.” He then shifted his head toward me, looked directly into my eyes, and while grinning said, “Yeah that’s right, you know what I mean.  We got fucked by the snake tip. You know what I’m talking about, [...]

i’m impressed

Speaking of granulomas, this girl’s med school essay has already been written for her: Teen Diagnoses Her Own Disease in Science Class (CNN).
“It’s weird I had to solve my own medical problem,” Terry told CNN affiliate KOMO in Seattle, Washington. “There were just no answers anywhere. … I was always sick.”
Yes, it’s weird you had [...]

more bugs

I couldn’t leave it alone. I started thinking about mosquitoes, mosquito bites, and my swollen, itchy self. Since I’m a medical student the next thing I know I’m thinking about immune reactions, what was happening under my skin as I was swelling, the wheal and flare, and so on.

So here we go–

First you get [...]

your poor liver

Very few things you learn about in medical school are worthy of "normal people" conversations. No one, including me, cares about gluconeogenesis. Who, other than a med student, will appreciate an electon micrograph of a podocyte. When it comes to our insides, people grimace when you talk about bile caniculi and want [...]

sleep

I am, in a bad way, obsessed with how many hours of sleep I get. I guess I am obsessed with it, because like I said in my first post, when I don’t sleep enough, I turn into a gremlin. I just feel an overwhelming exhaustion, I don’t think as clearly or quickly, and I [...]