Musculoskeletal Quotes

"And on his 2nd birthday you can imagine how happy we all were saying 'Yay! He's up to the 0th percentile!" -Dr. Rega about her son Darwin's inherited shortness

"I hate to break it to you, but fat shows up on x-rays.. can you hide it? No... Can patients hide it with clothes? No... but don't tell your patients that, it might give them a complex" Dr. Fraix on X-ray imaging

"Which finger do you guys think this is? It's the middle finger. It's my way of being politically incorrect to you. Just kidding, it's the ring finger." -Dr. Fraix

"Being a guy he was like 'I'm a guy, its not big deal... it'll go away.." Dr. Fraix describing the typical mentality of 20 something male patients.

"Dude, do you think this is a big deal?" -Dr. Fraix asking a professor about an injury that he was 'being a guy about' and ignored while in med school. Then later describing the wound saying 'Dude, this thing looks angry."

"I just lust after these nuts..all different kinds" -Dr. Redding on nutrition

" 'David... why are you so happy all the time...' Dr. Sugarman said to me... and I said.. well the first reason I won't tell you about... but the second was and attitude of gratitude." - Dr. Redding

"I started going to a doctor on a regular basis, even though I lectured him on being overweight... he was a student here at one point and I was worried about him." Dr. Redding on his longevity.

"I show this, not because it is a chicken wing from Hooters..." Dr. Finley on a picture of knee cartilage destroyed by osteoarthritis.

"They come in and can barely move and say okay Dr. I am ready to get that total joint replacement, and you think they are going to get up from their chair and rise like lazarus...that is not true, their pre-surgical status predicts their post-surgical status" Dr. Finley on joint replacement surgery.

"If you have ever driven over a pothole in the street, then you know what Osteoarthritis is." -Finley

"I had a dream that I was lecturing a group of students, and sure enough, when I woke up, there was an audience in front of me." Dr. Lin

"Do you understand this? No? go read my notes. If you still don't understand it...read them again."-Dr. Lin

"Any thing??? Is everything all right? I know these are very big words..." Dr. Lin's version of asking 'any questions?'

"Achondroplasia.. a failure of endochondral bone growth... this is what you see in the little people in the circus..." - Lin

"Am I talking to fast? No? Good, most orientals talk too fast and talk too soft." -Lin

"Should we begin, so you can go home, and study, and study, and study..." -Lin

"Sometimes you need to take the patients history to diagnose a muscle weakness. If you have a body builder come in and tell you they used to lift 310lbs and they can now only do 295lbs now... you have to trust them, there is no way for you to test their strength." - Lin

"You guys have all seen Barbara Walters on the TV right? She looks a little funny." - Dr. Wong on Botox and its cosmetic applications

"Nice thing is they dont know you so they cant sue you" -Dr Milton on performing muscle biopsies

"I weigh my board exams through guessing" -Dr Milton

"That's the thing, they are boring" -Dr. Milton on muscle biopsies.

"What is the first think you do if a patient comes into your office and then falls down dead on the way out the door? Well my father told me you need to turn the patient around so it looks like they were coming towards you not leaving" Dr. Milton.

Have any of you done a muscle biopsy? Its not so bad, you'd be surprised you can jam this thing into a persons bicep and they don't fight you to much." - Milton

"That works for the classic presentation of the disease, so you have to put a sign on your clinic that says 'only the classic presentation of the disease here please.'" - Milton

"So you are a nytella and you are sitting in a pond, and a moose comes by and munches on you... and your guts spill out into the pond..." -Milton trying to describe active transport???

"Atrophy... gee you know... it loses the mass... there's nothing secret about that" -Parsa

"These are the things were going to get to... you know.. objectives.." - Parsa

"If you are eating chick... kentucky fried chicken... you know the red and the white.." - Parsa

"All of the things I said were important are the things that you need to know for the test..." -Parsa during his most concise and hence enjoyable lecture to date.

"Ejection from a vehicle....thats probably not a good thing" -Doherty during ER lecture

"If you are going to sleep [during this lecture], don't sleep during this part..." - Sherman

"We took it back with us in a skippy peanut butter jar, and luckily customs didn't make us open it..." Faeber on a pathology sample they took home from Haiti.

"Here's Charlie Sheen being examined, not it's not him..." -Faeber on a photo of a patient examination technique.

"Is that me making that noise? It sounds like a river running?" -Faeber on the clicking from everyones lap-top after he told us he was going to go over all the concepts he felt were of importance.

"Lumbar vertebra are more prone to herniation because they are load bearing... for your big fat head." - Fraix

"Because the spinal cord is near and dear to our hearts..." - Fraix

"The reason I like to do EMG is because I get to poke people with needles and shock them... but don't tell people that..." - Fraix

"You are a physician, you need to make sure something else isn't going on... - Fraix about differential diagnoses.

"And thats why i get payed the big bucks...I dont get paid to diagnose Osgood-Shlatter, my grandmother can diagnose that" - Fraix

"I am going to keep repeating these things to you, because when you get on rotations you are going to be tempted to say 'fracture' when you see growth plates. And your attendings will wonder 'what are they teaching you at that school??? Obviously nothing..." - Fraix about growth plates on X rays

"You'll point at it and be like 'thats the problem!' Again, my grandmother could diagnose that" -Fraix on AC injury

"I would get a call on friday asking me to take a patient, so I would bring my junior resident with me who was a linebacker for stanford. I would walk into the hospital with him behind me and say 'what, do you want me to take this patient???" - Dr. Fraix on bullying his way out of getting stuck with a case.

"unfortunately you dont get these arrows in clinic" [on X rays in powerpoint]

"i'll also have patients do heel-toe walking...its not just for drunk driving, its for diagnosing too"

"so the moral of the story is..when you're out doing crack cocaine or whatever dancing all night...take a break!"-Fraix.

"i kinda feel like a talk show host" -Fraix passing the microphone around during large group

"other than guessing, did anybody find anything?" - Fraix

"Ottawa, its not just another place in Canada. Hopefully I didnt offend anyone by saying that.."
- Fraix

"as a medical student you want to put yourself out there because people dont expect much from you" -Fraix

"How many views is better than one view.... 2 or 3" -Fraix on how many xray views to ask for

"You look at your patient and realize 'oh my god he's from the 1950's." -Fraix on a stock photo of a child with DMD.

"XY, you remember it because guys will ask... why do I have to pick up my clothes off the floor, why do I have to get up early..." - Fraix

"Dr. Parsa talked about this 'c'mon guys what do you need to know... its necrotic, it's classic..." - Fraix doing a classic immitation of Parsa

"oh hypothermia, you might think to yourself, we can freeze people and thats a good thing... no it doesn't work out that way..." -Docherty on the effects of hypothermia.

"people will get really specific, 'oh i'm allergic to donuts', well thats okay, b/c we aren't going to feed you right now." -Docherty on taking a hx for a trauma patient.

"These guys are getting up close and personal" - Rao on two rugby guys on top of each other.

"when bones break break its loud...it even echoes off the wall" - Rao

"Must be better than 20/50 with both eyes ::repeats twice:: you know... that would be a good test question..." - Rao on requirements for the sports physical.

"I remember when i was a freshmen medical student and they were calling us doctors...thats pretty funny" -Dr Lee

"Im sitting there looking at the finish line at an old lady that looked like she just came out of a beauty palor with a shirt on that said 'circa 1909' on it as there are young kids laying in the medical tent hooked up to two IVs and im thinking 'whats wrong with this picture?'" -Dr Rice at a San Diego marathon

"This is a steroid induced, genetic freak..." - Rice on body building hypertrophy pic.

"being a freshmen medical student is not a good excuse to abuse yourself" -Rice

"can you imagine the stress of being a chronic sniper???" - Rice

"one monkey is no monkey" -Rice powerpoint

"You can see here ::points with a pencil to ppt on screen::" Steinmen trying to point out radiologic findings without the use of a laser pointer.

"If they got hit by the coca-cola truck & were involved in a lawsuit, then none of them got better..." Steinmen on the surprising finding on a study involving chronic back pain and treatment outcomes.