Yes, her impressions of someone permanently off her tits or hungover were shocking. Why, there were actually expressions that didn't seem to be either gleefully inhibitionless or hating the world for existing!
And as far as we know she has never stolen a body part for a practical joke.
Actually? My grandfather was a doctor and that kind of thing really did go on all the time in med school.
I'm assuming things are different on the National Health, but here she'd also be dripping in strange swag that the drug companies give out. I still have the pack of cards with the picture of a woman having a nervous breakdown on the back and the "Things To Do Today" notepad sponsored by Valium.
I have heard some terribly disturbing stories about Anatomy classes from a certain housemate of mine, I can tell you that.
And tell me about Teh Swag. I think my favourite was the heart shaped stress-ball from a blood-pressure medication company, IIRC. (The Mother is a Pharmacist. Which meant unending supplies of sponsored stationary in my childhood)
Things To Do Today by Valium is my all-time favorite, but when I was a kid, somebody-or-other gave my grandfather a small skeletal foot (plastic, not real). He passed it on and I was delighted by it, mostly because it was the same size as my feet at the time.
In retrospect, Martha was a little more wigged about the severed hand than she really ought to have been, although she has reason enough to be freaked that the Doctor grew a new one.
That both sweet and weird as hell. Generally, I approve.
Obviously a failure of characterisation, there. A real student would be completely unphased about random strange friends of the alien she's travelling with showing up with a hand in a jar in a bag at the end of the universe.
Not unphased, but perhaps a little more "You've got a hand! In a jar! We usually drained the formaldehyde and stuck them in each other's beds" or something.
I only really know one med student, but also quite a few anatomy and biomed types. Which means the stories can be just as odd - though I don't always listen to them.
Mainly on account of the fact I don't just faint at the sight of blood, I can hardly bare hearing about it, either.
I'm starting to feel some kind of challenge coming on. It's our duty as fans to fix these gaps in Martha's characterisation.
She's probably never stolen drugs from the hospital's pharmacy and sold them at parties, either. What kind of crazy fantasy world does RTD inhabit, anyway?!
I've never been drunk during my 9 years in university. and that's 5 years of engineering/physics, plus 4 years of engineering grad school. so, yeah, we exist. :p
Me neither. Despite many people's best efforts. I suspect this has to do with my ability to fall over and forget how to get up while totally sober - if I ever do get drunk, nobody will notice.
As a medical student, I can definitely tell you Martha isn't a "real" medkid for the following reasons:
1. She's never drunk, as you pointed out. 2. Her body isn't 70% caffeine. 3. She doesn't endlessly compare the relative benefits of the different physiology textbooks eg. "Guyton's cheaper, but Martini is lighter to carry ..." 4. She doesn't know how to use a stethoscope. 5. She doesn't procrastinate NEARLY enough. 6. She doesn't know how to do CPR properly. 7. She hasn't grown a cancer on her left hip which suspiciously resembles a textbook. 8. When someone asks her to examine a patient with abdominal pain, the first thing she does is check the heart. What the O_o
And finally we know she's not a real student because she doesn't manage to slip something to do with medicine into EVERY conversation. Eg:
Random student: "We went to the beach yesterday." Med student: "That's cool. Just the other day we were in clinical and I got to push this guy's hernia back through his abdominal wall!" Random student: "What's that got to do with anything?!" Med student: *Mumbling* "Nothing. I just thought it was cool."
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Anyway, the Doctor failed his own exams first time round so if she passes first go she'll have surpassed her hero.
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Okay, someone needs to write a fic where that bit of news comes out and Martha and the Doctor discuss it.
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Actually? My grandfather was a doctor and that kind of thing really did go on all the time in med school.
I'm assuming things are different on the National Health, but here she'd also be dripping in strange swag that the drug companies give out. I still have the pack of cards with the picture of a woman having a nervous breakdown on the back and the "Things To Do Today" notepad sponsored by Valium.
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And tell me about Teh Swag. I think my favourite was the heart shaped stress-ball from a blood-pressure medication company, IIRC. (The Mother is a Pharmacist. Which meant unending supplies of sponsored stationary in my childhood)
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In retrospect, Martha was a little more wigged about the severed hand than she really ought to have been, although she has reason enough to be freaked that the Doctor grew a new one.
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Obviously a failure of characterisation, there. A real student would be completely unphased about random strange friends of the alien she's travelling with showing up with a hand in a jar in a bag at the end of the universe.
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I lived with a couple of med students for a year. My favourite tale was a "someone nicked a penis out of the penis box" one.
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Mainly on account of the fact I don't just faint at the sight of blood, I can hardly bare hearing about it, either.
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I am so tempted to Metaquote this somehow...
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So speaks the resident lightweight of her social circle.
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She's probably never stolen drugs from the hospital's pharmacy and sold them at parties, either. What kind of crazy fantasy world does RTD inhabit, anyway?!
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She's probably never stolen drugs from the hospital's pharmacy and sold them at parties, either.
...I wonder if my Mum's going to check up on this entry tomorrow. If so, I will LOL.
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My aunt apparently did that when she was a nursing student, when she wasn't doing unspeakable things to corpses.
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and it is the other example of the students+drunk stereotype.
although I did go from not drinking at all (I was 18) to perfectly capable of holding my drinks. :)
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I suspect this has to do with my ability to fall over and forget how to get up while totally sober - if I ever do get drunk, nobody will notice.
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Sometimes, if only three or four turned up for tutorial, I'd take em to the pub.
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1. She's never drunk, as you pointed out.
2. Her body isn't 70% caffeine.
3. She doesn't endlessly compare the relative benefits of the different physiology textbooks eg. "Guyton's cheaper, but Martini is lighter to carry ..."
4. She doesn't know how to use a stethoscope.
5. She doesn't procrastinate NEARLY enough.
6. She doesn't know how to do CPR properly.
7. She hasn't grown a cancer on her left hip which suspiciously resembles a textbook.
8. When someone asks her to examine a patient with abdominal pain, the first thing she does is check the heart. What the O_o
And finally we know she's not a real student because she doesn't manage to slip something to do with medicine into EVERY conversation. Eg:
Random student: "We went to the beach yesterday."
Med student: "That's cool. Just the other day we were in clinical and I got to push this guy's hernia back through his abdominal wall!"
Random student: "What's that got to do with anything?!"
Med student: *Mumbling* "Nothing. I just thought it was cool."