A Medicine student after six years 

Apr 23, 2018 8:57 PM

A Medicine student after six years

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Congratulations OP, I'm sure you'll make a fine doctor! :-)

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

1 tree = 1 medical degree

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But these antivaxx moms have done so much research on the internet and thoroughly know more than you! They’ve researched for HOURS!

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

The only life he couldn't save was the trees

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

wtf

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm thankful for people like this man that put that much and more into saving dummies like me

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Needs a banana for scale.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A printer first day on the job

8 years ago | Likes 92 Dislikes 1

I feel it's pain

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wait till residency.

8 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 4

But can he eat all the paper?

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

now how much of that shit does he remember?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

he's only 6?

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Pffftttt, my undergrad book stack is taller! Half have never even been opened!

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And only two more to go!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Doctor here. All my notes are in an iPad. My wife on the other hand had 8 large luggags worth of notes and books after 6 years.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

And 2 more after completing MCC, AMC, PLAB exams. She's freaking smart.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Jesus Christ all the wasted paper.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 4

yeah but he'll keep that forever. What is a real waste is books for undergrad bullshit classes you only take cause you have to.

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Yeah I’ll definitely back that up.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Bottom of that pile is obsolete already

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

Til, Gegard Mousasi is a doctor

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

And he is really tall.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Stack of books looks short for 6 years

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You mean Medical?

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

I *think* OP a french speaker. They call doctors ‘a medicine’. That’s my best guess.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Médecin.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Que a million “As an engineer...” responses.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A CS student after six years.

8 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 4

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8 years ago (deleted Apr 24, 2018 3:25 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

There are PDFs of books EVERYWHERE. and teachers post notes online.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

@Upierczi was it worth it?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

*ominous law student laughter rises to a crescendo*

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

More like sobs

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

PDF from a strange russian website......

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And every 6 years thereafter for their rest of their career, to keep up with emerging best practices.

8 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

If you buy books as a comp sci student you're doing it wrong because it's a guarantee someone in the class has a pdf of the book.

8 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

Haha so true

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And someone has a book of the pdf.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

as a cs student , nah

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That hurts just looking at it.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, but I'm gonna need a normal size dude to give me a scale for that giant dude. Where's the buffalo measurer?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What do you call a veterinarian that specializes in only one species? A physician.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

i can't wait till we get cyborg chip implants and learn things like neo did in the matrix

8 years ago | Likes 1776 Dislikes 9

It's called youtube. Change my headlight? Fix my sink? I'll just download this information instantly from all human knowledge.

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8 years ago | Likes 119 Dislikes 0

"What brings you in today?"

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Pair that with the drug from Limitless, and we are literally hacked humans. Like holy shit can you imagine?

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Would make education a lot simpler. Also controlling the population easier too.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I think this EVERY DAMN final exam cram session. There MUST be an easier way!

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... and nearly everyone affluent enough in G. A. Effinger in 1987's "When Gravity fails" novel (and its 1989's and 1991's sequels).

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah thats exactly what people will use their chips for. Looking at you, VR

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nah it’s won’t be learning but accessing a database just like we use google.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I know Harvard Medecine. That'll be 400,000$ please.

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Considering the science, that might be possible but thug alike Kung fu, you learn than as much in the muscles as in the brain.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Things not thug

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Unless we discover the Typhon first

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This would not change the price of education it would make it more expensive

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Im not okay letting Zuckerberg on my phone, let alone in my brain.

8 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Just edit him into the woman in the red dress scene

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

If only we could get religion & cultural stigma to stop slowing down science. We'd have already had this shit.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Whoa, I know proctology...

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

oh.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Then we download Neurosurgeon and Astronaut from TPB, and start wondering why we're hallucinating adware popups and heart rate ransomware.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Please no I don't want to be hacked.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You should watch ghost in the shell (not the new movie) it covers this topic nicley.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My turn to be the alarmist old fart: Wouldn't that bring research and invention to a screeching halt?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

no i think that would depend on if you were aware the knowledge you were accessing was foreign

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It would speed things up. If people can understand cutting edge tech quickly it only speeds up innovation. moore's law applied to brains.

8 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

What I'm saying is that if you use the same engrams for everyone, everyone will be thinking about problems in the same way.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No. You can't download what doesn't exist yet. Would still need research and someone to make the thing that was researched.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

And since it'd be quicker and easier for people to learn what's already known, more time and energy can be spent on researching new things

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I know kung fu?

8 years ago | Likes 84 Dislikes 0

I know kung fu != I can kung fu.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

"Woah"

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

Show me

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They'll just stick the chip in homeless people and make them work for free

8 years ago | Likes 39 Dislikes 1

At that point we would just have robots do it all, homeless people won’t exist.. people won’t even exist

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

"We" ??????

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

CONFIRMED: taco1910 is a robot

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Would it be unethical if it made them happy and content w thier lives?

8 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 1

Stockholme' & Pavlov are rubbing their hands evilly in the corners of our minds.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hey, if you told me you could make me happy to work why wouldn't I take it? I'm working anyways, may as well enjoy it.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Sticking people with needles full of heroin would bring some measure of happiness, would that be wrong?

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But also the horrible unhappiness of the come down and addiction

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well... as long they're not getting systematically harassed... I'm conflicted, but it's not a definite no anymore.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I mean on one hand they will no longer have free will. But on the other hand, every day will be fulfilling & emotionally rewarding

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I now wondering if consent to go through with it should be evaluated, considering as a random patient you wouldn't necessarily know.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

$35000 collection you built up congrats

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There's new versions already

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Pfft how about 350,000

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Don't worry, he'll be able to sell them all back to the Student Book Store! For $2 per book.

8 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

And then they'll sell them back to students for 90% of the original cost

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I mean, that's what he paid for them. not what theyre worth tho.

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Add a zero.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

remove a couple is more like it.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Doctor here. $200,000 of debt for in-state tuition at a public university.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

yeah, and were you able to resell your books for the same price you paid?

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Donate your used textbooks c:

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Try 3 to six hundred grand depending on what route you took

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

He will make double that in a year starting of slow

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Nope. I’ve been a nurse 10 years and make more $ than residents too. and less student loan debt.

8 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I think nursing is the best route in medicine. Huge need. Flexibility of specialty and shifts. Options for advancement

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It’s true! It can be very stressful but also super rewarding. I love my job.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No he won’t unless he’s in ortho, Derm, plastics or neuro surgery. Allot which have residency/fellowship which are longer than 6 yr

8 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

70k is base for family medicine in the sticks.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Can say that is only a maybe. Only a portion of specialties make above 150. Not to mention overheads, liability insurance, and loans.

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Add a 0

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Speaks the truth.

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That zero is the tuition, not the textbooks.

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

$035000.00..... huh... that is better.

8 years ago | Likes 209 Dislikes 3

Quick maths

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That’s too many maths

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Cheeky cunt :) +1

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Listen here you little shit.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I see you didn't take any of the math classes

8 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 2

yeah, idiot added 3 0's . It's supposed to be 0$35000

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

*hearty chuckle*

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Chaotic good

8 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 2

Seriously, where’s you attend your med school? Not sure to be happy that a legit med school cost too little or worried

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Many civilized countries subsidize the cost of med school for their students because they like having doctors.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I went and got an anthropology degree because reasons, one semester of books would be about that tall, half as wide, and cost $100

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And it will only take a couple decades to pay off your books with that degree

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I'm doing a computer science degree and have purchased exactly $0 of books in 2 years for it.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I got an anthropology degree too, and I really don't know why

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

my point, you have to read a fuck ton about stuff not many care about

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

I went and got an MFA in painting. I spent $20k a year for that plus another $1000 a month in supplies. It's all in a landfill in Denver.

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Why? I was one class short of my MFA in music and had reasons to not finish it... I didn't want to give it up.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

@galspanic well, come back and explain yourself to this guy

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What guy? You?

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