TV, a med student's BFF

First off, yay for blood midterm being done!! Boo for half the questions being about lymphomas. I don’t like lymphomas. They don't like me either. But yay again for this being the last midterm of 1st year med! Woohoo, two more months till 25% (unlicensed) MD!!!

As to how I actually studied for this midterm, well the last two posts are a testament to what actually happened. Let’s take yesterday (aka night before exam) for example.

11 AM: Eat brunch, hmm what’s on? Ooo Martha Stewart. Oh cool, it’s take your kids to work day! And they’re making zucchini fritters? I wonder if zucchini has folate in it? Wouldn’t want those kids getting megaloblastic anemia and all…



12 PM – 3PM: Trying to review notes on coagulation cascade. Note to self, Food Network and studying do not mix. Wow, is that guy making a mash potato/meatloaf cake? Mmmm beef, tasty plus a good source of iron. Prevention of microcytic anemia! BONUS!


3PM: General Hospital time. Hey look, those guys are using the same stethoscope that I have! Dang, that Dr. Drake is hot.


4 PM – 7PM: More attempted studying. TTP, HUS, ITP, HIT, TRALI, TACO!!! Abbreviation overload!!! Oooo TACOs! Dinner time…

7PM: Wow, ER’s on at a special time! Hey that patient has lymphadenopathy of his posterior cervical chain. No Abby, it’s not just a cyst. Posterior lymph nodes = bad (cue ominous music). Omigod, he just found out he had cancer! What’s that? Lymphoma?? Leukemia (argh stupid new doctor, can’t understand his accent)? I knew it! Overinflated sense of my own diagnostic skills! What's that?? Brachial plexus injury? Yea! I know what this is! We’re on a roll here, and we didn’t even have to turn the page!

8 PM: Raptors b-ball! Break time for Stuff!

9PM: Grey’s Anatomy’s back!! Oh thank goodness Izzie and George are no longer together. Wow, that guy got bitten by a bear. Eww…intestines…glad I ate already. Hmm, would they be using frozen plasma here or RBCs? I’m going with RBC transfusions, that guy’s gonna need a whole lotta blood.

10:30 PM: More basketball. Hey T-Mac’s got this thing on that looks like the cath lab leads! (silly giggling ensues)

1 AM: Sleep time!!

So there you have it. Stuff’s guide to studying in med school. Now excuse me now, I gotta go catch my shows.