picture this:
3 med students, sitting around the call room in the afternoon waiting for hospital admits and watching House on the TV in the corner.
Lots of debate and discussion about what they are diagnosing, tests they are ordering and treatments discussed. Its just like small group only much more entertaining. almost as good as studying i'd say...
Also, an observation: House and his 'team' look like complete assholes for talking about patients in mean ways. example from the show we were watching:
they made a bet about what the disease would end up being and one doctor said cancer. he ended up being right and gloated about this, even though it was cancer and they basically gave her a death sentence....
but really, we kinda do this all the time in real life as med students, residents, doctors, etc. obviously not this exact way but we still try to keep a distance and some humor about patients or else we would just constantly be depressed. I brought this up to the other med stuwies's as we watched and my friend greg said, "well yeah, it would be really depressing to think about how sick each person you see is, knowing that some of them are facing imminent death. i like to be able to laugh every once in a while."
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