Thank you Lord, for reminding me to focus.
Home stretchhh, come on, need to press on. Need to persist! & I’m trying to be more positive these days. I need that so much.
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. (James 1:2-3)
Here we go again: Why I get questions wrong (part 3)
(paraphrased & simplified. gosh these questions are overly detailed and long)
Q: Patient has a long term history of joint pain, and you recently noticed she developed kidney problems. She goes into surgery and gets your joints replaced. Several weeks later, she comes back to you and says she feels great and no longer has pain. You also noticed her kidney problems went away. Patient most likely experienced which of the following? (Then provides 7 choices to choose from)
My thinking process:
- Hm, kidney problem went away quick, must be something reversible = eliminated some choices
- Hm, kidney problem must be associated with joint disease since they came and left together…. eliminated some more choices
- Took an educated guess from remaning choices
The way test makers wanted me to think:
- Joint pain = patient probably took these medications
- surgery = no joint pain
- no pain = no meds
- no meds = no side effects
- one of the known side effects = this specific kidney problem
What the heck! Lord have mercy.
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Men 10-20 years of age
Need to work on a lot of things in my life
Change is hard, but I know I am not doing this on my own. God can transform lives for the better, and He will help me. =]
(and He can help you, if you let Him)
Science focuses on the natural world, not the supernatural.
Jesus answered them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance”
Luke 5:31-32
memory verse 16
#26: Do something nice for your neighbor’s mama! (It is assumed you already did something nice to your own mama, hah)
Flowers for mama zhang. She liked it. I gave the same set of flowers but in purple to my own mama.
Why I get practice questions wrong (part 2):
You can read part 1 here.
(Simplified)
Question: Pt comes in with these symptoms and this mass in chest. What structure shares the same embryonic origin?
My thought process:
- These symptoms = this disease
- this disease = this tumor
- this tumor = closely related to this structure = answer?
The way they want you to think:
- These symptoms = this disease
- this disease = highly associated with this tumor
- this tumor = from this embryonic origin
- this embryonic origin = also gives rise to this structure = the answer
As usual, I was defeated because my thinking was short by 2 steps. Man oh man, Lord have mercy.
Side note: I’ve been posting a lot of medically related stuff these days, bear with me as I am going through the worst toughest part of medical school — studying for our level 1 exam.
Compulsive eating disorder is a coping mechanism where you spend a lot of time thinking about food, fantasizing about food, thinking about when your next meal is…
If anyone chooses to do God’s will, he will find out whether My teaching comes from God or whether I speak on My own
John 7:17
Memory verse 15
Why I get practice questions wrong:
(This is simplified)
Question: Patient comes in with bloody vomit, dizziness, low blood pressure. What is most likely found in his vascular smooth muscle?
My thinking process:
- bloody vomit = tear in esophagus = portal Hypertension = liver disease = hepatitis??
- OR blood vomit = tear in esophagus = damaged vessels = repair chemicals?? cell changes?
- neither are an answer choice = took a guess
Thinking process test makers want you to have:
- losing blood = stimulate sympathetics to constrict vessel
- constriction of blood vessel is caused by this receptor
- receptor goes through this pathway involving these chemicals
- this chemical increases = the answer
oh boy.
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