No nursesNo premedsNo adviceNo psych patients
>>17022122>/med/ is getting replaced by pajeetshow do you feel about this?
For my 3rd year, my rotation sites are scattered across the state/Midwest. I'm essentially going to be homeless, living in motels and my car for a bit.My coping mechanism is that I'm going to pretend that I'm Che Guevara on his motorcycle journey. My best bro in med school is in the same situation, so we'll be travel partners (much like Che Guevara had a traveling partner) for a large part of our 3rd year.Honestly, despite my shit situation, I can't help but think it's hilarious at the same time. Anyone else have crazy medical school experiences?
>>17022145shrug. i dont expect anything to ever get better, so if it does then it's a welcome surprise.
>>17022169I went to an MD school so no. I didn't have retarded rotations
Last thread died without reaching the bump limit.
>>17022648Psych poster banwave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF0_QBm7Qo0
>>17022781>>17022830lmao
Recently got told I would make an excellent forensic pathologist. ##whatthatmean
>>17022889>##whatthatmeanYou would make an excellent rapist
>>17022889Stay away from patients. Basically.
>>17022889where do i find a wife like in your picture?
>used to cut warts and cysts off with a knife>last year i got a wart on my eyelid>well i'm not cutting that, let it be>last weekend i finally tried scratching at it with a nail>this morning it fell off by itselfhuh
the greek word for sorcery is pharmakia
i'll cut to the chase and say i just swallowed 4 months worth of 40mg prescription citalopram (proper way, not silly way) in a throw of the dice that i aspirate and die in my sleep, what fun symptoms can i expect to arise over the next few hours ?how long until im begging to go to hospital ?im being genuine, i took the overdose 15 mins ago at 8pm.
>>17026628update: mouth is very bitter and numb.feels like i have tissue paper stuck in it, already had to fight the urge to vomit.
update 2: getting sweaty, head zoning in and out, very dilated pupils, feeling very sick.
this technician will be the death of me. everyday, i tell her the same things to fix and everyday, she makes the same exact mistakes several times a day. if it was just 1 or 2 things it wouldnt be bad, but its 5+ things several times a day.
For me? It's diet coke
what game has the best/most fun medical system in it? space station 13, barotrauma (with mods), or something else
>>17022169Why would you subject yourself to a DO school that can't even have its own hospital or clusters of rotations at the same hospitalThat way you could at least get the dignity of renting out an airbnb apartment instead of sleeping in a motel (probably cheaper too)
>>17026641>nigga died of torsades 30 mins laterIf this actually happened I wonder if he got to the phone in time to call 911 and tell them what he did before his muscles all locked up and he started having grand mal seizures
The thread for Anons LARPing as doctors.
>>17023146>You would make an excellent rapistWow, I never knew I had that hidden potential inside of me. It's like that quote by Stephen Jay Gould. “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”>>17024490I wish I knew, anon. I love assertive and domineering women.
>>17027434>Why would you subject yourself to a DO school that can't even have its own hospital or clusters of rotations at the same hospitalI wasn't thinking about that when I was applying. I'm at an "established" DO school too, so I thought I could avoid some bullshit, but all DO schools are shit; I understand now. I did apply to MD schools, but I wasn't able to get off the waitlist. C'est la vie.
>>17027437>LARPing as a doctorCannot imagine anything more pathetic than pretending to be a doctor. Literally gayer than schizo posting>t. chud MD
>>17027486The thing is that there are DO schools with their own dedicated hospitalsYou just didn't choose your med school based on the single most important part
>>17027437not. optometrist :)
>>17027423space station 13 is probably the most memorable for me.deep enough that you need to either study it a bit or have the wiki open on another screen while playing.It's good in that there are symptoms as well as ~4 values that represent pseudo vitals for you to manage.The problem (and this is the same with most medical systems in games) is that you never have to manage ambiguity. A lot of the time in medicine you may have a good idea of what is going on but not 100% confirmed. Or sometimes it could be one of a few things and you have to manage risk of all of them versus risk of treating them etc.
Doing some post bacc then applying for schools. Got a 515 on the emshat, but I might take it again.
>>17027962>Got a 515 on the emshat, but I might take it again.A 515 is good.
>>17027962515 is fine, you shouldn't retake it because of the risk of getting lower BUT I will say that I retook a 518 and got 525So not impossible to do better
How did you guys study for your shelf exams? My rotations start in a couple of days, so I thought that I should brush up on some practice questions since I've just been relaxing since sitting for Step 1 a few weeks ago. ... And holy fuck, I didn't think things could get worse after Step 1. This shit is HARD.
>>17028128I forgot to mention but I'm using the Amboss shelf study plans. I don't know whether I should keep using the study plan or do randomized blocks of questions for each shelf.An issue I think with the study plan is that it goes by system and I don't know if doing the plan sequentially is good enough to get broad-spectrum exposure for an internal medicine shelf exam as opposed to just doing random sets of questions under the internal medicine shelf exam tag. Advice would be appreciated.Medicine keeps on finding a way to humble me.
>>17027435i survived.I vomitted up a thick yellow paste like substance for hours.my pupils dilated to 8/9mm which freaked out the doctors, i started having mini seisures and cold sweats.my family found me and took me to hospital where i had iv magnesium, odansotron and fluids infused alongside blood tests and 12 lead ecg's every few hours.somehow i bounced back with literally no organ damage, just a little bruise where the cannula was (pic related).overall i dont regret it, it made me realise i really do have the balls to kill myself
>>17028518Anon this might not sound like much but please dont kill yourself your life matters. Much more then you know and I promise you things will get better
>>17028523thank you anon but i see no future in which my life doesnt end in suicide.
>>17028541Are you even /med/ (and that's why you tried to commit suicide), or did you post in here because overdoses are /med/ related?
>>17028546both.i worked as a paramedic for a few years and thought it would be interesting to document a overdose in real time from a genuine POV before i started vomitting profusely 45 mins into it.
>>17028552Okay well next time pick something rare. SSRI overdoses are fucking boring, we get them at least a couple of times a week and it's always some 15 year-old foid after a breakup.
>>17028518>balls to kill myself>'tries' to go out like a womanlol
I really want to do DPC and have my own FM clinic and be like an old school generalist doctor but the farty trump shat on us again and i have to take out private loans to cover medical school. I'm not even in nearly as bad of a financial situation as my colleagues because my undergrad is paid for, im only taking out tuition (living off of my parents), and my dad is making monthly payments on the interest.I'm also very worried about AI destroying family medicine/general practice.Is my plan for FM and eventual private practice feasible or are FM physicians not even paid enough to cover the debt new students will be in? Should I just try hard for something else like general surgery? I want to be something general I don't want to be locked in on one specific system or organ my whole life.
>>17029176solo practices in general are dying. my parents keep telling me that i shouldn't try to take over the family practice because it's not worth it, but i'm still going to try.
>>17028128>>17028136AMBOSS is pretty good, just do as many practice questions as humanly possible. People always said the five hammer questions or whatever the hardest ones were too esoteric, but that stuff does occasionally come up in the exams. Try the NBME practice tests just to get a feel for the weird way they sometimes ask stuff, ask an M4 if you can't find them. As you get closer to your exam you should absolutely be doing timed random blocks.
>>17029825The moment I looked at Step 2 questions, I immediately noticed how much longer the question stems were and how much more minutiae are packed into them as well lol.>AMBOSS is pretty good, just do as many practice questions as humanly possible. People always said the five hammer questions or whatever the hardest ones were too esoteric, but that stuff does occasionally come up in the exams. Try the NBME practice tests just to get a feel for the weird way they sometimes ask stuff, ask an M4 if you can't find them. As you get closer to your exam you should absolutely be doing timed random blocks.Appreciate your advice, bro. There's like ~2000 questions on AMBOSS for just IM, which is my first rotation, so there's absolutely no way I can finish everything but I will be spamming and analyzing as many questions as possible. I heard advice that when I'm 75% done with the rotation, I'll look at my incorrects. I'm going to check out the Mehlman PDFs, listen to Dr. High Yield, and check out the CMS forms as well. Thanks again for the tips, bro.
>>17029858>There's like ~2000 questions on AMBOSS for just IMWas that just for the IM shelf, or IM as a topic? I don't remember there being that many, but maybe I've just repressed those memories. Biggest advice for the IM shelf is to think of every question as being systems based. If there's a multisystem tag for the practice questions, I would make sure to do all of those. >The moment I looked at Step 2 questions, I immediately noticed how much longer the question stems were and how much more minutiae are packed into them as well lol.Yeah they're really trying to bust peoples balls these days. They stopped using the classic buzz words because too many people were just memorizing them, and recently they've started using more H&P style questions where they give you two pages of bullshit formatted like a progress note and you have to sort through what's relevant and what isn't. Don't worry too much about that at this stage though, Step 2 had its share of bullshit but it wasn't nearly as heavy in the esoteric minutiae as Step 1 was imo.
>>17029874>Was that just for the IM shelf, or IM as a topic?It seems like the 2000 is for IM as a topic (the picture on the left). There's a study plan that AMBOSS has that has a more reasonable ~1200 questions (the picture on the left) but I opted to just do randomized blocks picked from the 2000 questions from the IM topic itself since the study plan goes by system and and I don't think I necessarily have time to do everything in time system by system. You can see on the right picture that cardiology is first and I'm worried I won't reach the stuff near the end. My train of thought for now is that I think it's better if I do randomized blocks from the 2000 and then just see from the incorrects which stuff I need to improve upon. AMBOSS has an adaptive QBank mode which I was planning on using for that.
>>17029814It's probably an insurance practice and not a DPC. DPC is the only way. WTF else in medicine is worth it then. working a gorillion hours of week at a hospital under a guy with an MBA who controls your schedule and tells you what to do? no thanks.
>>17027514You're really annoying
>>17030057everyone knows that in 2026 DO > MDAll of the MD schools are rejecting good white applicants and they are being recruited by DO schools instead.
>>17030359>100% of MD students are good students>This leaves some percentage of good students who can't make it into MD schools>DO schools are now 95% shit students, 5% good students>DOtards believe this means their 5% good students are better than MD's 100% good studentsCritical thinking isn't on COMLEX is it?
