* While purchasing new shoes that won't kill your feet after a 16 hour shift, you consider their ability to not stain with or stick to blood.
* You find yourself judging a classmate's worth by whether or not you would ever trust them to come near one of your family members in a medical setting.
* The phrase "H&P" turns your stomach.
* The word "Goljan" fills you with feelings of hope, inadequacy, anxiety, and the overwhelming need to stop time for another month.
* You use the changing colors of your healing bruises to review the biochemical reactions associated with the breakdown of heme.
* You can spell "mnemonic" and "pathognomonic" without a second thought.
* Any of the following can be part of a completely normal daily conversation:
- "I have a great mnemonic for that ...."
- "I don't know...that's just not high yield enough"
- "I think I broke his teeth but at least I didn't jam the tube into his esophagus"
- "Wait, is that an adrenergic blocker or agonist? What? It's anti-cholinergic? Which receptors - nicotinic or muscarinic?"
- "I can't believe she wanted to give him nitroglycerin!"
- "'A lupus CHIMPQ' - that's a great mnemonic!"
- "We need to go drinking as soon as I get off antibiotics"
- "Do you have snuffbox tenderness?"
- "I thought he had allergies and it turned out he had TB!"
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Can you please tell me that lupus CHIMPQ thing? I think H is hydralazine.... oh my goodness, feeling inadequate... make it stop!
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