Naked Doctor!

I went to the gym today to swim for the first time in 4 months and so I got tired really quick and hopped into the sauna to get the cramps out of my legs. I met a couple of characters in the sauna. One, a new yorker began to rant about vitamin E. The other, an 85 year old doctor, w gave wouldnt stop about the importance about using alternative medicine along with Western medicine. I found out he was a doctor after I told him I was a frist year at Rush.

He left to go to the locker room, but apparently had something else to tell me. As I was listening to the New Yorker rant about his life, we heard the door to the sauna open and we looked up to see the 85 year old doctor standing there COMPLETELY NAKED with his JUNK just flopping all over! We began to chuckle and the New Yorker told the doctor by name to go back and change. The doctor, not realizing he was naked jsut looked like nothing had happened. He was unphased.

All the people in the pool were staring. It was awesome! He had like 40 feet to walk back to the locker room and he walked extremely slowly, so all the people in the pool got a nice butt shot. We were just laughing! He just wanted to make sure I become a good doctor.

-MD in 14 

The Pool Room/ Party Place

So, I've been telling Steve for about 3 weeks now that getting a pool table would be really cool. He agreed. I told him I would seriously consider buying one around spring break so I had time to drive out and look at them and all. However, two night ago, on Wedesday I was pulling almost an all nighter for studying at the school, I stayed there till 3am, (went to the ER that night too). I was taking a study break around 8pm and so I got in Craigslist to see some pool tables. 3 links down on the very first page i saw an ad reading "$POOL TABLE FOR SALE FREE INSTALL AND DELIVERY - $400 ".

 The picture in the add is to the left. I saw that they were going to install it and get a table for 400 dollars I was sold. That was it. I dialed the number, got in contact with the guy. He askd me if I wanted to look at it I said no I didnt want to drive 45 minutes and that I trusted him. It may have been impulsive, it may have been foolish to go soley off the picture shown. I didnt care, I felt like it was a steal, it usually costs 200 dollars just to get the table installed. So, the guy said "Good, I'll be there tomorow at 3:30pm to install." So that was it. It's a grand 8 foot, which is really nice size pool table sitting in our living room as of now. Ive already played my roommate a couple of times and had a couple of buddies over to play! It's going to be a hit! It's so fun for a study break and so nice instead of going downtown! and it's looks sweet in the apartment. So impulse sometimes pays off! Or gut intinct! Which instinct is a good trait to have as a doctor.

-MD in 14 

Patients that have Impacted me in 1st Year of Medical School

Last Wed, February 16th, I went to what is called Preceptor, which is part of the program. It's a 4 hour long doctor shadowing. Every once in a while I get to talk to a patient on my own or get to listen to irregular heart sounds or abnormal lungs sounds. For some reason I had to journal about last week. I wanted to do it last week but have kept putting it off. So, I am writing about it before I go to bed. Anyways, last week my doctor was seeing a patient that had an effect on me. She was a mid fifites Hispanic woman named Eee (can't use her real name). She had multiple sclerorsis, otherwise known as MS, and it is a disease that eats away at the covering of your neurons, and gets progressively worse until you essentially become paralyzed. Ee's attidude about her disease was what had an impact on me. It's people like her that want me to be in medicine. She kept talking about how even though she has MS she is going to take every possibility to work with physical therapists to try to make its effects less.

 She kept saying how she wanted to see her sons get through high school and see them graduate even though she has MS she wants to go see them graduate and not be wheelchair bound. She knows her fate is not good, eventually she will be bound to a wheelchair, but she had will to fight it. She was in so much pain I had to help her get up from her chair to the examination table, and she winced while walking. She uses a walker to help her now. She is going to rehab to slow the progression of her disease. I have never met anyone with MS and seen its direct effects like I did that day in the clinic. It was moving. I've never seen so much courage from a patient in spite of tremendous odds against her. It's neat to see how people can have such a positive attitude.

-MD in 14 

Called Out in Lecture Hall: Professor teases me about my iPad

Today, my medical school professor, Dr. Williams apparrently gave a shout out to me about our iPad feud today in lecture! I skipped class on purpose, which started at 8am, because it was cadaver day and it wasn't my groups turn, so i slept in! When I woke up at 930am, I had over 10 texts, and freaked out, and here are some of the texts:

"Dr. Williams sent out msg to U in lecture to tell U he beat U out...He got his engraved...Dude ur name is mentioned on Camtasia...now that's cool!!" -Lai

"Dr Williams called u out about not being in class"- Aaron

"Hey bro. Dr williams was given u some shout outs in class today. You should check out the camtasia." -Ryan

Dr Williams just called you out because he was showing off his 64bit engraved iPad. He says you're busted for not being in lecture, lol.

"Williams just called u out for missing class. He got an Ipad and said "who's your daddy now"-Debbie

"dude, williams is talking about you in class :)...bad day to skip ;)" -Shaheena

"Yo Williams just called u out in class man rofl he's got ur iPad"- Freddie

"Dude, where are ya? dr williams totally just called you out in class - i think you two are supposed to have a nerdy tech smackdown."-Cory

It was hilarious. It began last friday during the Cardiovascular block exam in the anatomy lab during the practical. I was at a rest station, where you don't have to label anyhting, its just a blank station. So, while I was sitting there waiting, Dr. Williams came out of no where and exclaimed to me: "Max, I just became the coolest person today at 9am. I got an really neat shipment. Brand new. 64 gigabyte. My very own iPad. I am officially the coolest person."

 Which I responded to him : "Whoa, hold it now, I think I still am, mine is cooler!" At the next rest station he came running up to me waving the iPad in hand, "I want you to look at that" he said pointing to the slick silver back of the iPad where i glanced to see "James Williams, PhD" engraved nicely on the back. I replied "Ok, now you are getting closer to being cooler than me!". So, today in lecture he continued the feud and called me out apparently in front of the entire class! I was cracking up.

-MD in 14 

Anatomy Lab Horror Story: I will never look at a saw the same

We cut a human head in half yesterday in anatomy lab with a regular hand saw that you can get at a hardware store. It was DISGUSTING. I never thought I would have to do that. you could smell the bone and hear all the crunching. I wanted to puke.

 Everyone I know thought the same thing. And then to top it off, watching the professors tear through the face like it was nothing was extremely unpleasant. It was the nastiest day of anatomy lab so far. Anyways, a huge test next friday for CV block.

 Superbowl tomorrow. My roomate, Steve, and I got a pull up tower and he is challenging me to do more pullups. We are getting really competitive. We'll see who comes out on top! He can do 20 already, and I'm only at 10

-MD in 14