In a guerilla attempt to hijack ValueMD and keep the herbs down, I am going to give you regular anecdotes from my basic sciences and clinicals to exemplify what a herb is and if you see these signs in yourself please stop. You give yourself, and saba a bad name. Unfortunately I will be judge, jury and fortunately executioner when it comes to pwning on noob herbs. The Code of Hammurabi is in effect. Heres a beginning sample....

Yesterday my attending starts out with the sentence "when an iv drug user comes in with an abscess..."
HERB in my team, from thankfully another carib school NOT SABA screams out in an attempt to look good "STAPH AUREUS!!!" (yes, screams out)
Now he only says this because he memorized kaplan and being a herb thought logically that is how every sentence with staph aureus and abscess ends.
However my attending goes on to give him a weird look and then goes on to say " .....dont put your finger in the abscess as IV users have been known to break the needle in there and you could give yourself a needlestick"


Moral of the story = dont be a herb and think life is like a qbank question. And tying this to issues on this thread....without going into too much detail about the hardships of rotations, if you think the island will give you problems and clinicals will "prepare you" you have not been scutted yet. Stop being herbs, open your books, learn and apply your knowledge and stop crying about your histo/micro/immuno/whatever scores. This kid probably did comparatively well on his boards and got A's at his bootleg caribbean school and thought his school was the bomb, however in real life he is a blithering idiot. Do you want that to be you??

Stay tuned for future episodes of the herb chronicles, if need be i will be profiling users on this forum in attempt to self regulate acts of herbery. Until then, keep drinking heinekens (if that fits your belief system of course) and keep pumping that iron.

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You're everyone's problem. That's because every time you go up in the air, you're unsafe. I don't like you because you're dangerous - Iceman (Top Gun)

"keep pumping that iron"... indeed

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The Last Bus Driver

verbal diarrhea, or social tourettes is something to be medicated.

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If you get a warning, put on yer manpants and stop whining about it.

Mr Krust.... Heard through the grapevine that you realy "Lit Up" the Step!!!! Congrats and Best of Luck in rotations....

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Finally Off The Rock - 2 years Down & a Gazillion $ in Debt ...

funny read.....i'll keep pumping

The iron's too heavy.... so i guess the only option that leaves me is the heineken.. Thanks for taking the time to post.

hey Bruce great to hear from you! hope all is well for you and the fam. i just spoke to junior today and gave some words of encouragement. he's gonna nail it. i'm looking forward to him gettin back home so we can go celebrate a lil before the 80 hour work weeks begin.

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how does one go from a mod to a "moderator guru" ..... i feel that i should be one of those for the saba forum as i have been keeping law and order here for a while

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AKA ICEMAN

You're everyone's problem. That's because every time you go up in the air, you're unsafe. I don't like you because you're dangerous - Iceman (Top Gun)

Me thinks "junior" has started to celebrate. He's in Chi Town this weekend and I'm not too sure he has any reading paraphanlia with him !!! Ahhhh, to be young again...
Other than "Tripod" (our dog) the family is doing great. Thanx for asking.
Hope all is well with you...

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Another Kanuck with a Kid in the Karibbean,Eh!
Finally Off The Rock - 2 years Down & a Gazillion $ in Debt ...

Bruce, what happened to Tripod? Junior used to rave about him day and night... I think Tripod was his favorite family member.

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