You Know You're A Medical Student, When...

You Know You're A Medical Student, When...

1. Your shower hose reminds you of a trachea

2. You can eat in a same room with a dead body (a.k.a. cadaver)

3. You study organs of dead people like they were just pieces of meat. In fact, the muscles lessons even leaves you somewhat hungry (uhm...beef and mutton) (intestines=kueh chap)

4. You actually understand some of the gibberish House M.D. says. (and still appreciate the wisecracks)


5. you correct people's nicks in regard to anatomy

e.g.::
Sean's nick:: stab a dagger through my lungs so i can breathe.

Me: oi, stab thru lungs they'll will collapse lar. Stab thru trachea instead.

6. people start coming to you for medical advice (which 80% of the time you cannot give...)

7. you know of at least one friend who's:
i) taken a picture with an organ

ii) played with a dismembered organ

iii) played with a cadaver until an organ became dismembered (in the case of a friend of mine, the testicles. LMAO)Not actual picture of the severed... organ

8. anything and everything can be used as a study tool for anatomy.

e.g. balloons for our internal organs::
9. Reading about diseases in the newspapers/online/ in magazines seems just like reading homework.

10. You start having Medical Student Syndrome, aka imagining all sorts of possible diseases when certain symptoms arise (eg imagining stomach cancer when having a simple stomach ache, imagining brain tumours when headaches occur... etc)