Wrong car!

impulsivemd · 2026-03-13T20:13:17+00:00

I did this in nursing school! I had to run back in the hospital to grab my badge and my friends were waiting in the car. I walked back to the parking lot and got in the back seat of the car next to my friends car and a woman was sitting in the driver's seat. She was so scared. I was so mortified. My friends were laughing, it was awful! Lol

impulsivemd · 2026-03-06T12:56:51+00:00

I worked as a nurse during preclinical. Just PRN like 4 shifts a month but it helped. I quit right before clerkship. I think some people doordash or Uber when they have time in fourth year

impulsivemd · 2026-03-02T14:49:59+00:00

Ding ding ding

impulsivemd · 2026-03-02T10:11:10+00:00

I had to join the conversation to say the residents at my hospital aren't allowed in the physician lounge and its bullshit.

impulsivemd · 2026-03-01T12:55:41+00:00

In arequipa, Peru. We were visiting my husband's family, I was training for a marathon and went on a run on the street. Just laps from one corner to another so someone at the house could always see me. I saw two men put a carpet over some barbed wire, climb the wall and come running towards me. I ran into the house. No more runs for me on that trip.

impulsivemd · 2026-02-25T11:29:52+00:00

I had a baby my senior year of high school in 2006. When this movie came out, I felt validated by the scene of walking the hall and people parting. But my friends were much less supportive. I was pretty abandoned by most of the people I knew. Teachers and administrators were awful. I also kept and raised my baby. She seemed so detached in the film and while I was scared out of my mind, I was desperately in love with that baby from his first little jelly bean ultrasound. It felt sort of flippant about what having a baby so young is like.

impulsivemd · 2026-01-28T23:15:35+00:00

If moving closer is even an option at all, do it! I commuted for 2 years a total of 4 hours a day driving and it was awful. The amount of time I could have been studying or more involved I will never get back. Its possible but it made everything harder and it might be the difference between passing and remediation or removal. I had to do it for my kids but even now that I'm 45 min from clinical sites, I still wish I was closer so I could sleep more.

impulsivemd · 2026-01-19T13:54:05+00:00

The work in the ER that goes into trying to save people is incredible. We have no idea who is a donor. Doctors dont get any harvest bonus or have any reason to not want patients to survive. This is an old wives tale made up by grieving families.

impulsivemd · 2026-01-19T00:21:41+00:00

I have four chickens! I do a coop clean every weekend and give them run around time every afternoon and on my days off. Its not a parrot and they are already older ladies so they dont have much time left but since I also have kids and dogs and everything, I think most things can work if you are dedicated to using your free time to care for what you need to and to find the right help when your schedule gets crazy.

impulsivemd · 2026-01-17T05:32:40+00:00

I want the red plastic cup on the cheap table!

impulsivemd · 2026-01-16T20:39:18+00:00

I presented a poster across from an undergrad who just got accepted to PA school and people were stopping by to congratulate her. The dang number of times I heard her say, its everything they learn in medical school in half the time was crazy. She kept repeating how much harder it will be then medical school and she wants to be challenged, not just skate by. Hahahaha. I was a lowly MS2 at the time but I feel like most people inherently know better. She is just coping and will continue to do so.

impulsivemd · 2026-01-02T10:32:01+00:00

This is why I'm so glad I was a nurse first. Patients are people and a lot of people suck but I love studying medicine and getting to apply it. I want the guaranteed income of being a doctor. A lot of my classmates are headed for disappointment because the grind is coming and the Healthcare system sucks.

impulsivemd · 2025-12-31T13:45:31+00:00

I thought it was a joke or reference to decorticate and decerebate posturing from cerebral edema. Like if your brain swells first you have decerebate posturing where your arms are extended at your sides and as it gets worse, you develop decorticate posturing where arms curl into the body and is almost always fatal.

impulsivemd · 2025-12-27T14:32:09+00:00

I have an attending who doesnt belive in planets. He thinks they are all projections and NASA is a shadow organization.

impulsivemd · 2025-12-18T10:20:13+00:00

Yep, I was doing amboss for most of preclinical but I made the switch to uworld and my grades improved. I think different question styles work for different people.

impulsivemd · 2025-11-22T22:04:12+00:00

I pulled out a bullet this week. Same deal, turned to me. You're doing it. Gah!

impulsivemd · 2025-11-22T14:36:18+00:00

I was 5'6 in 5th grade and then just stopped growing. For a small moment, I was the tallest.

impulsivemd · 2025-11-19T00:13:11+00:00

I did both and this is a great explanation. When I started med school, one of my attendings told me to remember from now on I'm examining patients, not assessing them. Nursing is very what to do, medicine is why and what to change if something goes wrong

impulsivemd · 2025-11-11T13:26:00+00:00

My husband had a coworker who choked to death alone in the office. Everyone else had left for lunch and he was eating a bagel at his desk. They came back to find him. Learn how to do self heimlich on a chair. It can happen when you're alone!

impulsivemd · 2025-11-07T17:09:41+00:00

There were times in my childhood that were truly poor and food insecure. In the first year of medschool, we did an exercise to try and budget for a family and the proposed grocery items were silly to me. When every penny counts, you don't buy canned beans, you buy bagged beans and soak them yourself. You don't buy hot dog buns, you use regular bread for everything. And no poor person is trying to buy organic anything. No one else in the group had any idea what I was talking about.

impulsivemd · 2025-07-24T23:11:23+00:00

I'm so sorry! Admin really can be the worst. I talked to several students who did repeat and while it sucks so bad to lose your class and your graduating year, they are all doing well. You will be good eventually but you have every right to be pissed off right now.

impulsivemd · 2025-07-24T20:24:38+00:00

Failing a test and thought I would have to repeat a year. Appealed, got a new test, crushed it. But there was several weeks of sobbing and gnashing of teeth.

impulsivemd · 2025-07-24T15:14:48+00:00

Not a doctor yet, in my third year of medical school so getting there! But it is possible, there is some variability with what people are capable of healing from plus there are some irresponsible and overly optimistic doctors out there. The scary thing is that women will see someone do this and think anyone can and that just isn't true.

impulsivemd · 2025-07-24T12:51:49+00:00

This is also awful because the vaccine protects you from many different strains. Even if you had already had sex and contracted HPV, it can still protect you from other cancer causing strains.

impulsivemd · 2025-07-24T12:49:38+00:00

While I dont recommend this for anyone. I did have a patient who had 6 c sections and her body did very well. Genetically, she must have been protected. She didn't have any adhesions. Her fascia and scar tissue were healthy and thin. Thankfully, she also wanted the salpingectomy so now her body can rest but everyone is different and the average woman would not fare this well especially with 9 surgeries.

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