Tag: med school life

bedside manner

Overheard the other day: “Lie down and shut up, or I’ll kill you.”

That’s some great bedside manner right there.

We had a super-extremist vegan come in to talk to us today. (Most of my church here is either vegetarian or vegan.) I was talking to a friend after the sermon and he asked me …

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“Hey there, can I check your craniosacral flexion?”

Please observe this picture. Closely.

Note the lovely hand placement.

Not awkward, not awkward at all.

My friend wins for quote of the day: “But what if they have really big testicles?”

This is about as terrible as anterior T1-T9 counterstrain / posterior L1-L5 counterstrain. I think I was only slightly more weirded out …

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we D.O. food

We needed a collective group name for our epic potlucks that encompassed those without the hydro flasks, haha. (Yes, we think we’re punny.) We made this into a facebook group so we could better plan future fooding adventures and (my personal favorite) share recipes with each other. Every meal is like an international festival of …

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presents from my neighbor

“Presents.”

The other day, when my friends were here for our CNY celebration, we dragged Jennie into our conglomeration, but since she’s a second year, she’s never met my neighbor. After hearing countless stories on all the crap that he gives me (e.g. learning Cantonese so he can insult me, putting “人渣” in place of …

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community service

eating from the tray

This is one of the things I miss the most.

Sometimes, I feel like I’m in undergrad all over again because of all the random hobbies I keep taking up, but not entirely, because if I look back on that, I’m actually doing a lot less now than I was then. (Weird. Very weird. But …

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