Showing posts with label Fun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fun. Show all posts
July 24, 2010
April 28, 2010
My Personal Tips for the Step 1 by CartoonDoc
This was posted by CartoonDoc (A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor: http://doccartoon.blogspot.com/) on studentdoctor.net's forum.
1. Your worst subject which will comprise 50% of the exam. The other 50% of the test will be on the female pelvis.
2. Most exam takers will bring ear plugs to protect themselves against noisy people in the room. It is also recommended to bring nose plugs to protect against smelly people in the room. You might also want to blindfold yourself to protect against ugly people in the room.
3. When in doubt, the answer is priapism (the painful prolonged male erection).
4. Regardless of chief complaint or symptoms, every African-American female on the exam has sarcoidosis or possibly lupus. Every Caucasian female has either pelvic inflammatory disease or thyroid dysfunction. The rest of the spectrum of disease is represented in men. Just like in real life.
5. If it's any comfort, nothing you're about to be tested on or have killed yourself learning for the past two years will be at all relevant to your future career. Do you feel better now?
6. The same #1 basic guideline applies as to every other exam you've ever taken: Never fall in love.
7. If you do badly the exam, you can always build a time machine, go back in time, and fix your score. If you do so, just make sure your mom doesn't fall in love with you because it'll, like, disrupt the space time continuum or something.
8. Due to increasing incidence of cheating, proctors have been instructed to perform randomized body cavity searches during the exam. So you may want to rethink some of your old hiding places from the MCATs.
9. Statistically it's been shown that students' scores on Step 1 are reflective of their performance over the past two years, so any studying you're about to do for the exam will statistically be a waste of time. But, you know, don't let that stop you.
10. If all else fails, there's always Plan B: Hide under a pile of coats and hope that everything turns out OK.
Hope that helps!!!
2. Most exam takers will bring ear plugs to protect themselves against noisy people in the room. It is also recommended to bring nose plugs to protect against smelly people in the room. You might also want to blindfold yourself to protect against ugly people in the room.
3. When in doubt, the answer is priapism (the painful prolonged male erection).
4. Regardless of chief complaint or symptoms, every African-American female on the exam has sarcoidosis or possibly lupus. Every Caucasian female has either pelvic inflammatory disease or thyroid dysfunction. The rest of the spectrum of disease is represented in men. Just like in real life.
5. If it's any comfort, nothing you're about to be tested on or have killed yourself learning for the past two years will be at all relevant to your future career. Do you feel better now?
6. The same #1 basic guideline applies as to every other exam you've ever taken: Never fall in love.
7. If you do badly the exam, you can always build a time machine, go back in time, and fix your score. If you do so, just make sure your mom doesn't fall in love with you because it'll, like, disrupt the space time continuum or something.
8. Due to increasing incidence of cheating, proctors have been instructed to perform randomized body cavity searches during the exam. So you may want to rethink some of your old hiding places from the MCATs.
9. Statistically it's been shown that students' scores on Step 1 are reflective of their performance over the past two years, so any studying you're about to do for the exam will statistically be a waste of time. But, you know, don't let that stop you.
10. If all else fails, there's always Plan B: Hide under a pile of coats and hope that everything turns out OK.
Hope that helps!!!
A Cartoon Guide to Becoming a Doctor: http://doccartoon.blogspot.com/
March 15, 2010
Good News..Coffee Drinkers..It Can Reduce Your Risk for Arrhythmia !!
Picture from www.reallynatural.com/ archives/Coffee%20Lover.jpg
We sometimes hear about the negative tales of coffee increasing your risk of getting atrial fibrillation, a very common form of irregular heart beat. But is it true?
Well.. a research team in San Francisco gave questionnaires to 130,000 people asking them about coffee intake and other lifestyle habits.
The results are good news for coffee lovers. The study showed that coffee drinkers had lower incidence of admission to hospital for heart arrhythmia. Furthermore, this protective effect was considered additive. For example, men and women who drank more than 4 cups of coffee aday had 18% reduction of arrhythmia risk. This result was generated after adjusting for other potential confounding variables such as body mass index, total cholesterol, blood pressure ... ext. The effect was seen consistent across smokers and non-smokers as well as in different ethnic groups.
Dr Klatsky, team leader, suggests that double blinded randomized control trials would be a better test of this effect, although it might be tricky to convince people off coffee and persuade others to drink coffee.
Nonetheless... if you're a medic, would you discourage your patients with atrial fibrillation or other forms of arrhythmia from drinking coffee?
Leaving you with this thought .. I better go now to make my lovely afternoon cup of coffee !
Have a Healthy Day :-)
March 12, 2010
The Magic of Placebo
We posted previously about the placebo effect. Here is Eric Mead demonstrating the placebo effect using magic! Warning: this video is not for the quesy.
March 11, 2010
March 07, 2010
February 04, 2010
Edward Cullen's Disease
Since people have recently gone vampire mad, I thought I'd share some vampire medical trivia.
Some historians claim that the vampire/werewolf folklore emerged from the symptoms of a certain disease. Can anyone guess what condition is linked with tales about vampires?
January 26, 2010
7 year old kid raises more than £150,000 for Haiti
This is really inspirational; seven year old Charlie Simpson decided to raise money for Unicef (who are collecting for Haiti) by doing a sponsored bike ride. He says on his justgiving page that he is, 'going to cycle around South Park as many times as possible…. (at least 10 laps, I hope!)' because he wants to, 'make some money to buy food, water and tents for everyone in Haiti'.
So far he has managed to amass £154, 284.50 (his original target was £500). You can sponsor Charlie here
I think community service should be given more importance in our culture. What do people think: do you think volunteering and community service is valued highly enough in Kuwait or should we be doing more?
So far he has managed to amass £154, 284.50 (his original target was £500). You can sponsor Charlie here
I think community service should be given more importance in our culture. What do people think: do you think volunteering and community service is valued highly enough in Kuwait or should we be doing more?
January 11, 2010
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