You Know You're A Medical Student, When... (part 2)

Remember this post?

Here's a few more i found:
1. We all use abbrevations, because saying and writing down the actual term out wastes too much valuble time. (not to mention using them make us sound more... professional?)

Few examples to point out:
A.G.E. = Acute Gastro-Enteritis
A.B.G. = Arterial Blood Gas
E.C.G. =Electro CardioGram
B.U.S.E. = Blood Urea and Serum Electrolytes

Oh, we also use them to insult patients, such as
C.T.D. = Circling The Drain
S.F.B. = Shit For Brains

For more, read this entertaining article here

2. We all love House, no matter what we say

Look, i knw i mentioned House in the previous article, but really, nothing turns us on more then Greg House, the rebel with a cause who solves cases like Holmes and insults people just for good reason. A doctor who abuses drugs, has a problem with authority, intelligently insults people and drives a souped up motorcycle even though he limps? Nerd-gasm!

And with the upcoming premier coming up, tell me a single medical student who can resist. In short, House is the Bona fide James Dean of Doctors

Go on. I'll wait

Btw, watch the brand new promotional website here. Fellow med-studs, prepare to drool

3. We all have experienced some form of insomnia before, loss of sleep is normal when you've spent the whole day reading about sores, swollen and rotten limbs, gangrene, syphillis, gonorrhea, crabs and other disgusting medical conditions oozing pus. You know those pictures they now stick on cigarette packs? We see them every patho lesson. Senior students see patients
with such conditions everyday. Lung cancer, stomach ulcers, you name it.

a mild picture of syphillis as an example.
Tell me you can sleep with an image of that imprinted in your brain.

AND if not from the images, many of us also face sleepless nights anyway, with over-cramming of textbooks and swarming of information ringing in your ears. Sore butts, carpal tunnel syndromme and stiff necks induced by BCS (Book Cramming Syndromme)

Instrument of torture

Tell this to an engineering student next time he whines about staying up for assignements.

4. We. Have. No. Life.

Case in point, i spent 80% of my holidays doing electives in the hospitals, with no pay and little gratitude. Most of my friends are medical students, and when we hang out most of the things we discuss are Medical cases we saw. Depressing? Our life orientates around medicine. "Watched the new medical thriller pathology yet?" "What happened in Greys Anatomy?" "How much did you buy that Littman? Speaking of which, what colour should i get?"

Depressing ain't it?

5. Some of us poke each other and draw blood for practice, and to see how it feels.

I have the scars to prove it. Ouch Joshua. 4 TIMES?

6. Most of us are sadists at heart, either congenital ("existing at birth" to all you non-meds) or made. We all want a glimpse and a hand at new and interesting cases, RTA (road traffic Accidents) and freak incidents. We croon at hearing that someone witnessed some new medical phenomenon, and wish we had the chance to see people suffer extraordinary and exotic symptoms.


Eating skittles with a beard?

7. We see people as medical conditions. Fat dude? Potential heart disease, hypertension, diabetes and joint problem. Skinny guy? Possible endocrine problems or malnutrition. Person crying? Depression. Someone laughing? The best medicine. Skin too dark? Risk of melanomas. Fair complexion? Body does not produce enough melanin. In fact, anything can become a case of medical interest to us in time.


Apple? One a day's supposed to keep us away. Also serves as a good source of fiber and vitamins and minerals....


Easily susceptible to viruses and worms

8. We go gaga over new medical gadgets, they're our toys ^^

Gold Rappaport? Me like~

9. Most of us own blogs that are either dying or dead. XD