| Dr. Marks is hilarious! i love it! Dr. Marks, on embolus, love and war: "Embolus, I think of that girlfriend from California. Everyone knows the girl from California? She’s traveling, and I’m sorry to all the Californians in the room, but you break the East Coast Guys’ hearts. So emboli travel. It’s a clot that ends in a healthy vessel, but it is not going to stay because a healthy vessel will dissolve a clot; it’s not going to tolerate it." mmm hmmm, heartbreakers, you heard it girls! on thrombus: "I always think of the thrombus, as a clot that stays there, it doesn’t travel away. I like pneumonics to remember things, so I always think of the M in thrombus and I think of the day when my mother-in-law showed up on my door with her suitcase, and I said “oh…hi mom, what’s with the suitcase?” And I thought thrombus…she is not going anywhere. Ill put her in the basement, she may organize but she is not going anywhere." on frontal lobe function: "...You also need your frontal lobes to modulate limbic emotions. So when a baby pokes you in the eye, your limbic system wants to kick the little guy and say “don’t you ever do that again, I’ll kick you, you little bastard.” But the part of your brain that says you can’t do that, that’s a baby and they didn’t mean to hit you in the eye, that’s your frontal lobe. They modulate limbic rages and emotions but they also are forward thinking organs that say what you’re going to do today..." and on Shakespeare: “And all the conduits of my blood hath froze up and hath yet my life of night doth fading glimmer left.” I find that if I just talk people shut up. It’s like, “oh it’s going to be on the test! How do you spell fading glimmer?” Stop being nerds you guys; you’re going to be doctors. It’s not the time to be immature; you’re going to care for other people. I know pre-med, we all drop sulfuric acid on other people’s lab notebooks when they weren’t looking. Grades are nice but maturity is what matters. It’s just interesting how in the old days if I would say stuff nobody would listen, but if I go “question 1 is…” and people are like, “wooo”. hahahahha i can laugh for days |
