As I get ready to buckle down for some serious studying (let’s be honest, I have an ideal studying mechanism that I outlined for you all, but I don’t stick to it every day… tomorrow is 6 lectures of catch up) because exams are next week, I just want to leave you with this gem from my favorite professor:
Metabolic acidosis. Now we’ve added acid or removed bicarb. Let’s pretend we removed bicarb for a change. We’re going to have diarrhea instead. Well… let’s not. We won’t. But the patient will have diarrhea. Hopefully you aren’t shitting yourself in fear of acid base.
I keep forgetting I’m on a stream here. This is bad. But you’ll remember it.”
I hope I have professors like this!
This professor is definitely one of the best we’ve add, for more than just her humorous comments
I love her! I honestly think I could go into nephrology after having her! I literally wrote on my notes “shitting your pants”. She really is the best, haha
I agree! She really turned a scary subject into something that’s much easier to digest. I’m never going to lose her notes!
Oh the nightmares! Nephrologist are special, special people… Or maybe I hate it so much because I was learning this stuff from home, with a newborn baby attached to my boob… Every waking minute (which, lets face it, was pretty much every minute). Unconscious associations, I don’t know or care. I will never be a nephrologist…
I was pretty scared about renal phys, but luckily we had just one lecture a day- so more time to digest as opposed to 2-3 in one day. This professor is one of the best at my school. And her notes are amazingly detailed. It’s really great when a professor will include the material in various different ways (graphs, tables, flow charts) because everyone has different learning styles. I’m a bit partial to renal right now- and I owe this to my professor- but (knock on wood) our curriculum is subject-based, so we haven’t touched the pathology yet…
This reminds me of the time one of my favourite professors slipped up and said “sexercise” instead of “exercise”. A lecture I will never, ever forget.
That’s hilarious! I hope I get more awesome professors