Tag: pre-clinical years

Follies 2014

I am officially done with all performance-related events for the year and can retire to my study hibernation! :O We managed to raise $3k for the club and for the Family Refuge Center! :] The Follies Bake Sale went really well too (the red velvet s’mores bars

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study woes

When Pigs Fly BBQ

Do We Need To Know This? F: Do you think that’s important? M: Probably, but it just hurts to put it into my brain.

Quizzing Each Other M: What might you think of if you see someone with bone pain, aseptic necrosis of the femur, pancytopenia and thrombocytopenia? PAS +. F: I want to say …

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bubbles

Medical Student

I suppose in most med schools, especially with smaller classes, you end up becoming uncomfortably close with your fellow classmates. Assuming that you go to class (which I don’t), you see them day in and day out. You work with them in labs, in clubs, fundraising/volunteer efforts…you struggle through horrible tests…there is a whole lot …

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PAX Medical Trip to Dominican Republic

For the record, I absolutely hate soliciting people for money. Things are difficult enough as it is, and I know money’s tight, but since we are rather short on our goal for our medical trip to the Dominican Republic, I thought I’d put this out there…

If you have anything at all to …

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mispronunciation

F: So the van den Bergh–VDB!–reaction is when you expose bilirubin to…diazotized sulfanilic acid. M: …diazosulfo-what? F: Diazotized sulfanilic acid. And that gives you the conjugated bilirubin. M: Okay, cool. Diazotized sulfanilic acid. Conjugated. F: Then you add accelerant and that gives you the total bilirubin in 30-60 minutes. M: Okay. F: And if …

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