Friday, December 30, 2011

The Pick of the Crop

These are the medical schools I'm considering: 


Top choice: Mercer University School of Medicine 
Macon, GA and Savannah, GA

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My second choice is a bit of a tie between . . .

The Medical College of Georgia 
Augusta, GA and Athens, GA

and 

Vanderbilt School of Medicine 
Nashville, TN

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This is where the list gets icky. 
I don't even want to consider what will happen 
if I don't get accepted into at least one of my top three choices!
So these next few schools aren't really in any order, 
they're just other schools I'm looking into.
  
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA


Florida State University College of Medicine 
Campuses in several cities in Florida 


University of South Carolina School of Medicine





Thursday, December 29, 2011

Merry (Anatomical) Christmas!

Merry Christmas! 
I hope you all had a good Christmas like I did. 
I can use some of my gifts to prepare for medical school! 

A human anatomy coloring book!!!!
Anatomy flashcards!!!
and
A medical Spanish dictionary!! 

Happy studying to me! 

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Biochemistry

A little bird told me that it would be a good idea to have some Biochem under my belt before I take the MCAT in May. So I ordered a Biochem textbook for $0.79 from Amazon.com.

Now . . if I only could make myself start reading it. On my break.

Monday, December 12, 2011

House Season 8 Fall Finale (Episode 7)

Perils of Paranoia

The episode opens with a court case. 
The prosecutor has a heart attack.

Foreman lied for a treatment.
House thinks the wife poisoned the patient.
Yi finds secret passage in the patient's house filled with guns.
They suspect paranoia and/or cocaine usage.

Taub is trying to fix Foreman up with a nurse.
House says he doesn't own a gun, but Wilson doesn't believe him.
Chase is messing with Adams.
Adams: "You hunt kangaroos? . . . They're so cute."
Chase: ". . .And delicious."
The patient has a bleeding open wound on leg.

The next scene is Wilson snooping in House's apartment, 
no doubt looking for the gun he insists House owns. 
You hear a noise and see House walk into the room. 
Wilson is dangling in a net from the ceiling!!! So great!
 
The patient grew incredibly aggressive. 
He throws a stool and breaks glass windows.
He said he was hallucinating being attacked by bear. 

House trying to create tension between Yi and Adams. 
Wilson is trying to get back at House by catching him in a net. 
But House was too smart and it didn't work. Wilson leaves.
House gets stuck in the bathroom because the door handles fall out.
Wilson comes back. 
Touché!

Ooooooo Foreman went home a girl he met at the gym.
Aaaaaaand...she's married. 

Wilson won't let House out of the bathroom.
The patient's fever is through the roof.
Wilson comes into House's apartment 
(while he's still stuck in the bathroom) 
and searches for a gun with a metal detector.  
"No gun. . but you do have my sunglasses, tennis racket, and money clip."

The patient goes into anaphylaxis and can't breathe.
The trach the team tried to put in didn't work.
They finally managed to get him breathing. 

Wilson found a gun in House's apartment and brings it into his office. 
But House says it's a prop he won playing poker. 

The patient's trachea is blocked.
It's a bacterial infection.

The patient's wife says they moved out of the house with the space for all the guns.
Yi asks Chase out for drinks. 
Chase replies "Did taub put you up to this?" 
But He agrees to go with her.
Foreman takes the offer to go out with the married woman again.

No preview. 
Episodes should resumes in January. 

House Season 8 Episode 6

Dead and Buried

In this episode House juggles two separate cases at the same time. 
One patient is living: a fourteen year old girl. 
The other patient is dead: a four year old boy. 

Chase was late to work and said he had a dentist appointment. . . 
when he was ACTUALLY getting a manicure. 
The living patient has a weird reaction/episode at a birthday party. 
The mom  has been slipping her anti-anxiety meds without telling her.
And cue puking patient.  

House is at an anger management class. 
The patient of the dead boy is there. 
House says he wants to dig up his son and do tests.  
The father is surprised but agrees. 
House suspects the patient is pregnant and the test is positive, 
but she insists she is a virgin.
The patient's arm go numb.

House bribes an old guy at the cemetery to let him look at dead boy's body. 
Right as House is about to open the casket, his phone rings and it scares him.  
"You owe me a new pair of pants."
Chase shows up to work and they notice he had his eyebrows waxed. 
Yi being creepily observant in this episode.
Now the patient has sore arms covered in bruises. 

Foreman threatened to tattle on House and send him back to jail.
House breaks into the house of the dead boy's mom. 
He considers metal poisoning. 

Taub and chase checking the patient's home. 
Chase reveals his is going to be a tv doctor to Taub.
They discover a drawer full of porn and love letters in the patient's room. 
Maybe she's not so innocent after all. 

House broke into the house of the dead kid's mom again.  
He takes a stuffed zebra toy.

The patient is still denying having sex. 
But she does say her boyfriend came to the hospital at night 
and beat her because she wouldn't leave the hospital with him.
Then her vision starts going out.

House tested the stuffed zebra for metals.
The dead boy's dad says the mom had no reaction to the death at all. 

Wilson walks into Foreman's office. "We have a problem."
Foreman replies, "Does it limp?"

The patient's vision problem went away before the test was over.
Chase walks in and House has a tv on. 
It's a commercial and Chase is playing an Australian tv doctor. 
Oh irony.

House calls the dead son's mom into the clinic. 
He insults her somehow and she slaps him.
She tells him her father used to babysit the son. 
She tells House not to go there.

Whoa. 
House verbally attacks patient, 
obviously trying to provoke something. 
He says her boyfriend is right here. 
She says no because he's right here. 
Psycho?

The patients has an identity disorder: multiple personality disorder. 
It's a response to severe emotional trauma. 
The anti-anxiety drug were masking it. Thanks mom.
The team will use hypnosis to access her alter personalities 
to figure out which symptoms are real and which symptoms are psychological.

House went to the home of the dead kid's grandfather 
(mom's father) to ask him question.
He said the kid just watched ALOT of tv. 
The mom shows up. 
She is very mad because she specifically told House not to come here. 
House gets punched by the mom's new husband, 
with whom she has another child with now.

One of the patient's alter personalities is a little kid (her) 
and she remembers a car wreck. 
Apperently her father was driving and died in the wreck. 
The little girl is convinced her father died because she was crying in the backseat. 
She's bleeding heavily from below.

The team is discussing the patient's virginity. 
She was telling the truth about not having sex but three pregnancy tests tested positive.
They realize that a pregnancy don't detect an actual embryo, 
but infer the presence of an embryo based on heightened hormone levels. Cancer? 

House solves the case of the dead little boy.
It's a genetic condition and their other son is showing early signs.
But it's treatable. 

A cop car shows up and Hose gets in. Parole violation.
Foreman says he's sending him back to jail. WHAT A JERK. 
WHY IS FOREMAN THE NEW DEAN OF MEDICINE? 
I HATE THIS.
 
Wilson makes a good point by saying Cuddy managed House, not control him, 
which is what Foreman is trying to do. 
Foreman asks House how Cuddy would handle this situation. 
House says she would give him 15 clinic hours.
Foreman says, "I'm not Cuddy. You got 30."  


How lame. The previews for this episode were lies. 
This was not one of the most intense episodes yet! 
It was not gutwrenching! 
There was no big twist.
(although sending House back to jail would have been a great twist)
I am throughly disappointed. 

Next episode is the fall finale. 

New obsession.

I have discovered Pinterest.  
New time-waster. 
New time-killer. 
Oh, the creativity it holds. 
And wedding ideas. 
And recipes.
The only bummer is having to wait to be "invited." 
So, if anybody is already a member . . . 
please invite me.