Wayfaring MD: Missionary Physician
I like to highlight the hilarious in medicine as I write about patients, medical school, residency, medical missions, and whatever else strikes my fancy. Oh yeah, and I like to use GIFs!
Disclaimer:
HIPAA is for reals, folks. All of my "patient stories" have been changed to protect patient privacy. I will change any or all identifiers, including age, location, race/ethnicity, sex, medical history, and quotes.
Crying laughing
This is the best thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life. Not medically related, but since laughter is the best medicine, we can maybe make an exception.
Last post about Roscoe’s y’all, I swear.
“I feel like Hennessy would be an appropriate beverage tonight.”
“If I catch diabetes in here, it’ll be totally worth it.”
“Oh I’m gettin fat tonight!”
“Anyone else feel like washing this waffle and chicken down with some red Kool-Aid? Anyone?”
”Well at least we walked here.”
“I’m gonna have to do an awful lot of dancing tonight to burn this off.”
“I’m thinking about drinking a shot of syrup for dessert.”
“If I have a heart attack tonight, at least I’ll die full.”
Exactly how I feel about bacon, kid.
- Getting accepted to med school.
- The first time you can recite or write all the steps of glycolysis and the Krebs Cycle from memory.
- Draining your first highlighter, and then getting a fresh pack of highlighters for Christmas.
- The first time you understand what House is talking about.
- The first time you catch an error on a medical tv show.
- The first time you actually know the answer to a family member’s medical question.
- The first time you diagnose yourself with a rare or fatal disease.
- Passing your first test.
- The first time you get to wear your white coat.
- Getting to see real patients for the first time.
- Not being the first person in your class to drop out.
- Finishing the year with no fails.
- Radiologist: So you got any fun plans this weekend?
- Me: Nope, I'll be working on my ethics paper and my practice management paper.
- Radiologist: That sounds like some seriously chronophagic activity to me.
Yet another reason why I’m glad I’m done with lecture-based classes.
Hey folks, you’ve seen those great cartoons about medical school right? Well if you didn’t know, they’re from Dr. Fizzy over at A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor. I’ve been following her since my first year of med school and the cartoons never cease to make me chuckle. You should check out her blog if you haven’t seen it before.
Also, for those interested, she has compiled all the cartoons into a book that you can get here. I haven’t bought it yet, but I’m thinking I might pick up one or two for some friends who are entering med school soon. And hey! Maybe I’ll give one away sometime soon as a prize for some mysterious blog contest I have yet to come up with.
- S**t Med Students Say - (by emily7022)
I know you’re tired of these videos, but this is legit.
(via rewrittened)
So. True. From ActionPotential.
Well, most of it.
Somebody please get these for me. I will be your best friend for life.
(via mymedspace)
Lots of people like to diet for their New Year’s Resolution. I recently lost about 20 pounds, but I hate diets.
I mean, come on,
I see food and I’m all,
I love carbs, especially
I have a difficult time with sweets especially. There is always time for cookies.
And who can resist ice cream?
Sometimes I eat according to my mood.
Sometimes (like when I was on surgery,) I eat in case I don’t get to eat later.
Every time I sit down for a meal I be like
because the food just calls to me.
When the meal is over, sometimes my mind says
I think to myself, which looks better?
or
?
But I settle for pie. And I feel guilty about eating dessert so I scarf it down like:
But now it’s time to grow up.
Instead of going nuts at dinnertime like
I try to get excited about healthy things like
I mean, I can’t really stop eating, right?
So my resolution is to eat healthy and exercise more. I’m going to ride my bike more because I really hate couch to 5k.
So from now on I will:
and burn more calories by
and
I will eat healthy
And from now on, instead of ice cream,
What’s your resolution?
