Quotes from a Neurologist

The anti-Whipple.  Sometimes, the professors "get" what it's like to be a med student a little toooo well.


It was just like the Milgram experiments:

During our lecture on how to conduct a neurological exam, an ARS (audience-response system) question read, "What's your favorite cranial nerve?"  This was obviously more of an attendance question than knowledge-testing question, but interestingly enough (although besides the point), the vagus nerve won with a wide margin.  The professor (jokingly?) says, "This was actually a psychological test to see how much stress is created when you ask a group of med students a question with no right answer."  Sigh, he really does know us too well...

Quotes From A Pharmacology Professor

"You can see chemically that this is an interesting molecule... well, maybe you don't think it's interesting but I do."

nope, not interesting

There are people out there nerdier than us!  We call them phds and they teach us most of our science lectures.  Say what you will about me and my fellow med students, but I can honestly say that there is no chemical structure that I will ever look at and say, "Ooooh now THAT is an interesting molecule."





Some other great quotes from professors last year: here and here

Quotes from a Physiology Professor

First, some background info:
-Anatomy is the study of the STRUCTURE of organs
-Physiology is the study of the FUNCTION of organs

The setting:
In a physiology lecture last week, immediately after the professor finished explaining each different type of cell in the pituitary gland and which hormone each type of cell releases.


Now, imagine the quote being spoken in a bitter English accent:

"Did the anatomists try to tell you all that already? Yeah, they like to tell you about function because the anatomy is so boring ...[pause]... Don't tell them I said that, especially Dr. DeFouw."


Whoops, sorry, but this is the internet age. Let the inter-departmental battle between anatomy and physiology begin!