Medical School

SigKapSweetie · #1 10-27-2006, 11:24 AM

Sadly, my sister is correct - I am in medical school.

Drolefille · #2 10-27-2006, 11:29 AM

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Originally Posted by SigKapSweetie

Sadly, my sister is correct - I am in medical school.

HA HA I dropped out of pre-med

Me and my B.A. in Psychology mock you, and then cry because I'm unemployed (and getting my Masters)

AlexMack · #3 10-27-2006, 11:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Drolefille

HA HA I dropped out of pre-med

Me and my B.A. in Psychology mock you, and then cry because I'm unemployed (and getting my Masters)

Haha, me and my as-yet unfinished BA in Political Science with a concentration in international relations mocks you and your psychology degree, also known as a toilet paper degree!

I thought I wanted to go to medical school, then I realized that I just didn't have the motivation to study hard. Nursing it is!

Drolefille · #4 10-27-2006, 11:59 AM

My piece of paper written in Latin mocks your as-yet-unfinished BA in Poly Sci aka majoring "I dunno what I wanna do but I have a good professor"

My as-yet-unfinished Masters consoles you because it's a Masters in Counseling.

My future license in Clinical Professional Counseling charges you $150.

blackngoldengrl · #5 10-27-2006, 01:13 PM

SigKapSweetie, I'm glad to see there is someone else on here suffering too! We have an exam on Monday-virology and parasitology, then it's time to celebrate halloween style!
I'm at Maryland, What school do you go to?

AlexMack · #6 10-27-2006, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Drolefille

My piece of paper written in Latin mocks your as-yet-unfinished BA in Poly Sci aka majoring "I dunno what I wanna do but I have a good professor"

My as-yet-unfinished Masters consoles you because it's a Masters in Counseling.

My future license in Clinical Professional Counseling charges you $150.

Nah, actually I do have my career future planned out completely. I'm doing Poli Sci because it's a subject I have an interest in. After I graduate, I'll work a couple of years as an EMT then go back into nursing school, get my RN and work as a critical care nurse. Nursing is impossible at UMASS, hence why I had to switch my major.
I don't believe in counseling so :P to you!

Drolefille · #7 10-27-2006, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by centaur532

Nah, actually I do have my career future planned out completely. I'm doing Poli Sci because it's a subject I have an interest in. After I graduate, I'll work a couple of years as an EMT then go back into nursing school, get my RN and work as a critical care nurse. Nursing is impossible at UMASS, hence why I had to switch my major.
I don't believe in counseling so :P to you!

Suuure how does that make you feel?

Don't know what you mean by not believing in it.

AlexMack · #8 10-27-2006, 04:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Drolefille

Suuure how does that make you feel?

Don't know what you mean by not believing in it.

Doesn't work for me. I have this thing where I think that a complete stranger who doesn't know me cannot solve my problems. I'm not much of a talker anyway so...works great for some people but not me.

KillarneyRose · #9 10-28-2006, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by centaur532

I thought I wanted to go to medical school, then I realized that I just didn't have the motivation to study hard. Nursing it is!

Aww, don't say that! Nursing isn't a piece of cake by any means; at least the RN end of it. Not sure how much training the bedpan changers need.

My sister-the-doctah-whom-our-mother-likes-the-best (yep, that's actually how she's known in our family!) says that lots of doctors are really condescending and rude to the nurses so she goes out of her way to be nice to them. She says nurses can help make a doc's job much easier or much harder.

SigKapSweetie · #10 10-28-2006, 09:18 AM

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Originally Posted by KillarneyRose

She says nurses can help make a doc's job much easier or much harder.

True!

I'm a second-year med student. I worked an ER rotation this block, and I made sure the nurses liked me (brought them candy, pens, etc.). If they like you, they will make sure you don't kill any patients by accident. If they don't like you, they will make sure your attending is around to see you kill patients by accident.

Drolefille · #11 10-29-2006, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by SigKapSweetie

True!

I'm a second-year med student. I worked an ER rotation this block, and I made sure the nurses liked me (brought them candy, pens, etc.). If they like you, they will make sure you don't kill any patients by accident. If they don't like you, they will make sure your attending is around to see you kill patients by accident.

Why does Scrubs pop into my head right there?

GeekyPenguin · #12 10-29-2006, 10:58 PM

My best friend from high school is in med school at Wisconsin - you people are insane. It makes law school seem like pre-school.

AlexMack · #13 10-30-2006, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by KillarneyRose

Aww, don't say that! Nursing isn't a piece of cake by any means; at least the RN end of it. Not sure how much training the bedpan changers need.

My sister-the-doctah-whom-our-mother-likes-the-best (yep, that's actually how she's known in our family!) says that lots of doctors are really condescending and rude to the nurses so she goes out of her way to be nice to them. She says nurses can help make a doc's job much easier or much harder.

I don't mean that nursing is easy. I'm an EMT and it's my experience in EMS that made me decide to pursue nursing to begin with. My mother's an RN. What I like about nursing (and hate about EMS) is the rapport you can develop with your patients and seeing them from beginning to end of treatment. When I have a patient in my ambulance, I have about 20 minutes tops to chill and get to know them. Then I don't see them again (if they're lucky and not repeat customers).

Nurses do work extremely hard, especially to earn their RN, but doctors study even harder and have to do harder classes to get to medical school.

EMTs should also go out of their way to make nurses' lives easy. My company keeps candy jars filled, and hands out pens, notepads etc. It makes them happy and keeps us in business and we don't get a hard time. I will never work as an ER nurse though. Nursing there holds the aspect that I hate about EMS.

blackngoldengrl · #14 11-01-2006, 11:00 AM

centaur-I second that! We do work hard!

GP- I met some 3L students last night at a party. I was thinking in my head that they were so lucky to be getting out of school soon, and into the real world to make some $$ and pay back all those loans. Meanwhile, I'll still be slaving away after I graduate, earning less than minimum wage as a resident... of course, it ain't about the money-but a girl's gotta eat!

ThetaPrincess24 · #15 12-03-2006, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by KillarneyRose

Aww, don't say that! Nursing isn't a piece of cake by any means; at least the RN end of it. Not sure how much training the bedpan changers need.

My sister-the-doctah-whom-our-mother-likes-the-best (yep, that's actually how she's known in our family!) says that lots of doctors are really condescending and rude to the nurses so she goes out of her way to be nice to them. She says nurses can help make a doc's job much easier or much harder.

Yes nurses can! Doctors need nurses. If not there wouldnt be nurses.Being rude and mean to the nurses doesnt do anyone any good and the patient is the one that usually suffers. So nurses out there, stand up for yourselves and dont take crap from doctors! It's not worth it (and i've found those doctors usually end up respecting you more when you make it known you arnet going to put up with that nonsense).So future doctors out there, please be kind to your nurses and the nursing students!

Quite a few nurses actually these days change bedpans BTW and they do teach that along with all of the other PCT/CNA duties in nursing school (or they do in mine in the pre-nursing courses). Having said that--having worked as a sorta nurse this summer as an intern, being in nursing school, and currently working as a PCT/CNA I firmly believe that all nurses should have to be a tech/CNA first or atleast see what it's like to have to do all their work plus their own tech work (which will happen sometimes anyway due to staffing issues and low patient census on the floor). Like the doctors needing nurses, nurses need the tech's or there wouldnt be any. Nurses should also be kind to their tech's. They too have a hard job and usually have juggle more patients than they do at a time. I'll step off my soapbox now!

Oh and for those that dont know a PCT is a Patient Care Tech.,the apparent new politically correct term for a CNA (Certified Nursing Assistant).