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A tribute to all those who chose to study medicine just because there was nothing better on T.V to watch. Have fun reading 
How to recognize a Medical Student
How to recognize a Medical Student
1. You learn by experience that your GPA has nothing to do with you academic growth.
2. People always ask you with a suspenseful face if you have ever seen dead bodies. No matter what year you are in nobody seems to know that anato is taken during first year.
3. Your parent’s friends identify you as he/she that studies medicine.
4. Your grandparents use your career to boast in front of their known ones.
5. All your family members and friends come to you for advice on some change in their skin, even if it’s your first day in the first year.
6. You reply to all your friends invitations with a: “I can’t, have to study.”
7. You always have so much to study that you sometimes don’t even have time to take a shower.
8. You find yourself in the morning not having slept, and not because you were all night partying.
9. No matter how much you study, it always seems to you like there is more to know.
10. If you leave a weekend to go visit grandma, you always carry more books than clothes.
11. You are anxiously waiting for the weekends to be able to study what you could not during the weekdays.
12. You are more familiarized with the last names: Netter, Harrison, Guyton, and Bates, than the last names of your classmates or even instructors.
13. You check the prices of books in more than one store before buying them.
14. It takes you more than a full minute to give answer to: “How long is your career?
15. You feel that all of your other University level friends are studying easier careers than your own.
16. You question frequently at what age it is that you will get married and have children.
17. You don’t understand what they do with so much time in education and publicity, and you believe you could finish any career, except medicine, in less time than it officially takes.
18. It seems to you that architects and designers are incapable of organizing their time.
19. You have seriously given thought to changing your career to something else.
20. You are sure that 90 percent of your male classmates will marry a nurse and that 80 percent of your female classmates will simply not marry at all.
21. Nothing you see on an episode of E.R, House M.D, or Boston Med surprises you anymore, and you sometimes even mock them.
22. You feel as if there is nothing left in this world that could possibly gross you out.
23. You can correctly identify the smell of formaldehyde miles away.
24. If they ask you what glove size you wear you know exactly what to answer.
25. You have osculated your own heart with your new stethoscope, taken your own pulse, and taken your own blood pressure.
26. You realize that it is impossible to have lunch with a fellow class mate without inexorably falling into medical subject conversations.
27. You have lengthy conversations with your classmate friends about the quality of the sutures and the perfection of surgical techniques after watching an online video that show surgeries.
28. You know the four principles of bioethics.
29. You feel rejected by your parents if you stethoscope is not Littmann.
30. You pay attention to the scrubs different health care workers wear and when you like one you ask that person what brand it is and where did they buy it from.
31. You understand the meaning of acronyms such as STAT, HEENT, AAA, COPD, A&O, BUN and RU-486.
32. Your muscles don’t hurt, you just have myalgia. You’re not hungry or thirsty, just polyphagic and polydipsic.
34. People are not just lying down, they are in dorsal decubitus.
35. You feel morally obligated to stop at the sight of any automobile accident.
36. You eliminated from your lexicon the suffix –logy and limit yourself to using anato, histo, semi, cardio, and embryo.
37. You drink more coffee than you do water.
38. You miss those days where you were able to know what was going on with national news.
39. You find out there was a war just right after the war ends.
40. Every time a remedy box or bottle gets to your hands you look for the components and the amount of mgs.
41. You try to remember every day why it is that you decided to study medicine, and if you don’t remember then you console yourself with the thought that perhaps some other day you will remember.
Well, those were the presenting symptoms by medical students. Diagnostic: WE’RE THE BEST! (yy)
2. People always ask you with a suspenseful face if you have ever seen dead bodies. No matter what year you are in nobody seems to know that anato is taken during first year.
3. Your parent’s friends identify you as he/she that studies medicine.
4. Your grandparents use your career to boast in front of their known ones.
5. All your family members and friends come to you for advice on some change in their skin, even if it’s your first day in the first year.
6. You reply to all your friends invitations with a: “I can’t, have to study.”
7. You always have so much to study that you sometimes don’t even have time to take a shower.
8. You find yourself in the morning not having slept, and not because you were all night partying.
9. No matter how much you study, it always seems to you like there is more to know.
10. If you leave a weekend to go visit grandma, you always carry more books than clothes.
11. You are anxiously waiting for the weekends to be able to study what you could not during the weekdays.
12. You are more familiarized with the last names: Netter, Harrison, Guyton, and Bates, than the last names of your classmates or even instructors.
13. You check the prices of books in more than one store before buying them.
14. It takes you more than a full minute to give answer to: “How long is your career?
15. You feel that all of your other University level friends are studying easier careers than your own.
16. You question frequently at what age it is that you will get married and have children.
17. You don’t understand what they do with so much time in education and publicity, and you believe you could finish any career, except medicine, in less time than it officially takes.
18. It seems to you that architects and designers are incapable of organizing their time.
19. You have seriously given thought to changing your career to something else.
20. You are sure that 90 percent of your male classmates will marry a nurse and that 80 percent of your female classmates will simply not marry at all.
21. Nothing you see on an episode of E.R, House M.D, or Boston Med surprises you anymore, and you sometimes even mock them.
22. You feel as if there is nothing left in this world that could possibly gross you out.
23. You can correctly identify the smell of formaldehyde miles away.
24. If they ask you what glove size you wear you know exactly what to answer.
25. You have osculated your own heart with your new stethoscope, taken your own pulse, and taken your own blood pressure.
26. You realize that it is impossible to have lunch with a fellow class mate without inexorably falling into medical subject conversations.
27. You have lengthy conversations with your classmate friends about the quality of the sutures and the perfection of surgical techniques after watching an online video that show surgeries.
28. You know the four principles of bioethics.
29. You feel rejected by your parents if you stethoscope is not Littmann.
30. You pay attention to the scrubs different health care workers wear and when you like one you ask that person what brand it is and where did they buy it from.
31. You understand the meaning of acronyms such as STAT, HEENT, AAA, COPD, A&O, BUN and RU-486.
32. Your muscles don’t hurt, you just have myalgia. You’re not hungry or thirsty, just polyphagic and polydipsic.
34. People are not just lying down, they are in dorsal decubitus.
35. You feel morally obligated to stop at the sight of any automobile accident.
36. You eliminated from your lexicon the suffix –logy and limit yourself to using anato, histo, semi, cardio, and embryo.
37. You drink more coffee than you do water.
38. You miss those days where you were able to know what was going on with national news.
39. You find out there was a war just right after the war ends.
40. Every time a remedy box or bottle gets to your hands you look for the components and the amount of mgs.
41. You try to remember every day why it is that you decided to study medicine, and if you don’t remember then you console yourself with the thought that perhaps some other day you will remember.
Well, those were the presenting symptoms by medical students. Diagnostic: WE’RE THE BEST! (yy)
