CARDIO!!!

Its my birthday! Big 25. Im spending the morning in the library studyin cardiology. Hey, its way better than endocrine. But, who knew i would need all that physics I learned at SDSU. To summarize. Endocrine=alphabet soup, Cardio= equation city. Its gonna be hard but I am excited, its the heart...how can that NOT be interesting?!

Endocrine Quotes

“You will all agree I hope that this is your favorite lecture of this system.... it’s the only lecture of this system...” - May

“there’s a certain amount of shrinkage in there…that’s normal.”-May

“this one he had a lot of trouble taking it out, it’s just extending always.”-Parsa

On insulinoma... “Very classic, you give them insulin and they jump right out of the chair...” -Parsa

“He got shut down” - Mehta on a student trying to answer a question during large group

“The answer was true” - Mehta on the answer to a polling question that we are supposed click in on, but haven’t had a chance to yet...

“I’m going to make a disclaimer.. I don’t know where my phone is... so if it goes off...” - Mehta --> a few minutes later her phone begins to ring --> “I still don’t know where it is, I dropped my real phone in the ocean this weekend.”

“Dr. Bi these next questions are yours, so don’t go anywhere.. come down here.” - Mehta on Dr. Bi wandering around the room to ask students questions.

“I can tell you that 76% of the class will become endocrinologists” Dr. Mehta on the right answer to a quiz question.

“I’m afraid to touch this thing again... It’s upsetting my mojo.” Pummy

“These pathologists, they come in late, they take out a journal...They are very busy saving lives.” Pummy

“Our pathologist just finished his coffee, so we’ll go back to him.” Pummy handing the mic off to Parsa after he walks in ten minutes late.

“Is his name really Elmer?” Pummy“Yeah, I think so...” Dr. MehtaEmory: “No, that’s not my name...”Dr. P will refer to him as Elmo for the rest of the large group session.

Dr. Mehta asks a question to us during large group. The room is filled with Silence.“John” Mehta calls out... “C’mon theres gotta be a John in the class...”There’s an Elmo, but no John.” Pummy

“An adenoma, is an adenoma, is an adenoma...” Dr Parsa

“Dr. Davis, should we ask you for a consult? Is that appropriate?” PummyDr. Davis, slowly grabs the mic, turns it on, and says “Yes.” and nothing else.

“So would ACTH affect the cortisol levels?” Pummy repeats a question from a student while wearing the lapel mic to Dr. Mehta.“The question is, would ACTH affect the corti....oh yeah, they can hear you...” Mehta

Mehta: “We had a patient who was called Annie, but my program director called her Robert.” - on her patient with Congenital Adrenal HyperplasiaPummy: “Where did she get Robert? Is it like Elmo? Did she just pull it out of the air?”

"you dont want her to go blind and then have to cut off her feet...so do you tell her to stop eating tortillas?" - Mehta

“Casey??? I didn’t want you guys to miss Dr. Pummerantz” - Mehta asking for the answer to a question in class.

“Hey, I’m running this show here, okay??”-Mehta

“...which is interestingly funny...”-Mehta

“Go ahed to the next sli... no wait go back...” - Parsa on having someone help him advance through his slide set.

“It’s not just a fanm it’s informative...” Pummy on the packet of papers that he has been waving in front of his face to cool off actually containing our quiz answers.

“We have a biochemist in the room.” -Mehta“What do I talk about?” - Kandpal

“When I asked my son, where do we get cholesterol, he said... McDonalds... and I said... Correct” - Kandpal

“We are all going to McDonald’s after...Supersize me baby, oh yeah!” -Dr. Pummy

Mehta:“So more than 66% of U.S. adults are obese..what’s the future of America?”Student (yells out in class): “Hispanic!”Mehta: “I’m not going to repeat that...”

“I’ve also taken Niacin..you know, I try ‘em all once,”-Walters, on drugs..


“Where is cholesterol made” RajStudent “The skin”Raj “yes”Mehta “Dr. Kandpal the student said skin, is that correct?”Raj “No”

“Look you’ve got a twin!” Mehta to Emory about the elmo doll Dr. Pummy put on the podium.... no one in the room understood why....

“Why is LDL bad... because the DO said so...” -Hu

“What if he goes home and dies?” MehtaEmory “That would be bad....”

Dr. Mehta calls on Casey.Casey: “I’m going to phone a friend [pulls out iphone] Ryan are you there?”Ryan: “Hey Casey, what’s up?”Casey: “Ryan, they are asking me a question and I don’t know the answer...”

“Why are we concerned about obesity?” - Mehta“Because americans are fat.” -Student“I didn’t say it, a caucasian did...” - Mehta

“...I start thinking, spontaneous human combustion. Seriously, I thought I would catch on fire!”-Walters, on Niacin

“...and if you don’t believe it..we have proof!”-Parsa

sunday funday (thats complete sarcasm FYI)

I have my first cumulative final tomorrow. Not that all of medical school isnt cumulative...its not like i can just forget stuff after i was taught it, im sure i will need to know most of this stuff for life, but being TESTED cumulatively is a different story. Covering a weeks worth of new material and 2 weeks worth of OLD material (pretty much learning about the entire endocrine system in the body) in a weekend? i don't want to say its impossible because I have to do it and that would be discouraging...but you can see where i am going with this. good lord tomorrow cant come fast enough, at least we get the afternoon off after the bloodbath.

from earlier today on facebook:

Leigh's status (she lives below me): WTF!!! Why does the car alarm right in front of my room keep going off???
(our responses to her status)
Dorothy Habrat: thank god im at the library!

Lindsay: i have no idea, im about to throw a gallon of milk at it. not yours dorothy, i will use mine.

Leigh: While you are throwing things from your balcony, I wouldn't mind if you "accidentally" hit one of those power scooter kids either :)

Dorothy: Library studying-1, Home-0