Recent content by Elysium

I'm a long time member of SDN. Actually first found this site when it was nothing, back in '99. Been in and out through the years. I actually went to med school for a year and completely hated it, realized I didn't want to spend the four years in school and the 3+ years in residency with debt...

Well, folks, I think the only option we have left is clear: we need to kill all the NPs and PAs in the US. And the students too. All of them. Starting with Emedpa, because he's mouthy and just gets in the way. Then that Oz guy, because he's in medical school for god's sake, and he still...

Um, jobs that are better than physician? Since my fiancee just came back from a 36 hour shift in the ICU and hasn't had a day off in 10 straight days, I dare say that it probably doesn't rank as the best job in the world. That $2000 a month loan payment and the 7 years of residency aren't all...

I keep going back and forth whether or not I should post in this absurd thread, what with all the usual paranoid - napoleon complexed SDNers that show up in these threads screaming doom about midlevels being the end of modern medicine as we know it, etc. When, of course, these people, of whom I...

Sac and I talked about it seriously last night and decided for 10 mil he would quit intern year and not look back. We figure we could make some investments and live off the interest. Maybe it's the 16 people he had to admit on overnight call. Maybe it's the fact he's worked basically 25...

weren't you the idiot who asked panda what he would do if he won the lottery? well, i'm not saying all of you pre-med/med school people would want to open an MMA gym, ******. Obviously, that's not going to be interesting to a lot of people. I would find it interesting, because I love MMA and...

you guys have got to be kidding me. only a bunch of pre-med and first and second year dorks would be eager about the exciting challenges of doing internship and residency. OOO, the glamour! It's so hot to work 6 days a week and be on call q4 and be pissed and sht on and spend your Christmas...

This is all second hand, but 2 of my third year friends at TUNCOM (Touro-NV) have reported cluster-**** situations with rotations (rotations falling through, scrambling for preceptors, getting their rotations the day before, things changing at a moment's notice, lousy rotations, etc). Yes...

Hey, why don't you go **** yourself? With 16 posts, I'm not really sure how you can classify anyone on an annoymous message board. But since I happen to live with this "whiny bitch", who just came home after 30 hours on call, I think you can shove your assesment up your ass. This guy works his...

I was in the hospital a few days ago and overheard an MS3 correcting an intern (they're on the same team) about a specific test they were doing one way at one hospital but did differently at the academic hospital the medical school is at (the other one is the community hospital). The third year...

1) Everyone involved with Touro (every campus from NY to CA) is a moneymaking bullsh1tter 2) all student clubs are inherently ******ed as they will have ZERO effect on your career as a doctor (and your application for residency - not really sure where your club affiliation in the gay club is...

Dude, just go to health services. Go talk to them about your anxiety disorder and stop taking that OTC crap. It's terrible and it's just going to make you feel worse. Your problem doesn't sound like insomnia so much as anxiety. Get it dealt with before it further spirals out of control...

Here's the real answer, IMO (at least it was a few years ago, when I was applying): LECOM (both FL and PA), WVSOM, PSCOM, TUNCOM Usually new schools are easier to get into because they are unknown quantities and haven't graduated a class yet (LECOM - FL, TUNCOM) or because they are in a crap...

With all due respect (and I mean that seriously), only a man could say that. I have never given birth, but I honestly cannot imagine that you could carry a child for nine months, give birth (one of the most primal experiences other than being born and dying), hold that child in your arms and...