Put down the Fork!

Okay so this is a little mini-post relative to my others, but felt like I should impart some knowledge on you people (the 3 people that read this thing other than myself).

So it's been almost 3 weeks of med school now, and I have come to the following conclusions

1. There's MORE studying involved than what everyone says.
2. Anyone who says that you can raise a normal family and still be in med school is full of it, and is an asshole for trying to convince you otherwise. They probably derive sick pleasure at the thought of the unsuspecting people that will actually try to raise a family in med school, and then laugh as it all goes the way of Jack Nicholson's family in The Shining.
   
3. You don't feel like you know nothing. I don't get these people who claim that they are in med school and don't know anything. I already feel like I have learned an incredible amount of material and techniques, and it's been less than 3 weeks, which brings me to my most important point...
4. Stop eating. No seriously, don't you dare put that fucking bacon double cheeseburger anywhere near your mouth.

While in gross anatomy today, I had the pleasant opportunity to watch the pathology department mischievously pull the tarp off of a table containing "aortas from hell" (those words come from the pathologist, not me). Apparently the pathology department gets the opportunity to find all sorts of disgusting crap when they open up the recently deceased, and they decided to try and show us their chef-d'oeuvre of FUBAR arteries and veins. There were plenty of atherosclerotic aortas, but those were just the opening acts. Atherosclerotic vessels are characterized by a disgusting amount of white crud littered throughout, with a little bit of pox marks with the color of melted butter - cholesterol deposits.

After whetting our appetites for disgusting vascular disease, they presented the main course - aortas with massive anneurisms and clots. I shit you not, there was an aorta there that had a thrombus the size of a baseball (probably bigger than that, but whatever...) and in the two common iliac arteries that branched off of that were thrombi the size of lemons.

It sorta looked like this, but was 10x worse.

So anyway, just think twice before grabbing that extra cupcake or asking for bacon on your cheeseburger... your aorta could look like that, and then med students would poke and prod at it while giggling nervously. Oh yeah, get your labs done as per your doctor's advice - you can be skinny and still have high cholesterol too.

Anyway, back to studying....