Complied list of quotable quotes from my psych lectures:
Short primer on the characters:
KJ= pharmacy professor
Heh= course director
Martin= Phisiology professor whose questions come straight from left field.
The rest are various clinicians.
"Of course you could encourage some of these mal-adaptive behaviors in your patients, it might bring more people into your office." Martin on how behavior relates to illness.
"Are we living in a good environment in Pomona? You'd be crazy to get on your bike and ride to school here." Martin on the concept of wellness.
“guns…children find one and shoot someone with it.”-Martin
"… the president of the US should have a degree in anthro..I’m going to wait a long time for that for sure."-Martin
“instead of taking a hike up mt. baldy…WHY DID YOU COME HERE?"-Martin
"The status quo is not being maintained in our country…because some…groups..are reproducing more than others…"-Martin
"Adulters-do they have an illness? Well, maybe the church would say they did like 500 years ago…but I don’t think the church has much room to talk nowadays.” -Martin...oh snap!
“native hawaiians didn’t grow up eating things like spam.” -Martin
“my mom..can’t drink. She’s the cheapest date you’ve ever seen.” -KJ
“tell your pts to put their car keys and their cell phone in their pocket, cause they’re not going to remember where they put them….so I’ve heard…”-KJ, on the effects of marijuana
“let’s make pot legal, make $100 from it and give the $ to public schools…..THIS guy (points to picture of snoop) would be in favor of it…fo shizzle..”-KJ
"You shouldn't give this drug to truck drivers, school kids, and tight rope walkers." -KJ on SSRIs and the side effect of sedation.
These people will have their nose turned up like this :
oints face toward ceiling:: - Heh on Manic Episodes.
"When I press the lever, I feel good" - KJ describing an experiment in which a rat stimulates its pleasure centers with electrodes... he is pretending to be the rat...
"My mom had an alcohol problem. But alcohol isn't my kind of thing, I like amphetamines" KJ on substance abuse
"What is so wrong with a baby breastfeeding the mother?" - Martin
"Maybe if you get the patient a new wife... they won't drink..." -Ask on alcoholism as a primary vs secondary process.
"Don't tell my wife, that's my mistress.." -Heh
"These people do not like buffets, they like to go to Black Angus." -Heh on Social Phobia and Social Anxiety Disorder
"If you are ill and you are treating sick patients, that is not cool." - Heh
Ershad: "Do you have any advice for us on how to study for Dr. Martin?"
Heh: ::looks at test, begins shaking head back and forth:: "No, its 15 questions, just do your best."
"Perhaps you should all go into farming, fishing, or forestry if you are prone to depression." Heh on the occurrence of depression amongst health care providers.
"If you try you die..." -Heh on suicide complete rate for MDs ["suicide complete" = successful suicide]
"You might start to think this resembles you, your boyfriend, your parents, etc. Don’t take this to heart." Singer-Chang on studying psych and how students think they have every disorder studied.
“Becoming a high-functioning neurotic person is the most that we can hope for” - Singer-Chang
“they died…unfortunate for them, good for the rest of us cause now we know not to take those things together.”-KJ, on mixing certain drugs with grapefruit juice.
“my dad..oh I shouldn’t say this…nah, he’ll probably never watch this! My dad is probably dysthymic…he can find the cloud in any silver lining.”-KJ
“when I found out that brain cells could regenerate…I celebrated. All those nights in college of doing things…involving funnels and water pipes….”-KJ
“looking at this list..I dunno about you, but my risk of suicide just jumped up.”-KJ, in regards to the dietary restrictions of MAO inhibitors.
“I won’t bore you with the story…oh wait, I already did. Sorry.”-KJ
"Marty... he's out there somewhere probably growing [marijuana] legally and making more money than all of us" - Norcos referring to a classmate of his who was expelled his 4th year of medical school for substance abuse.
“pts with dementia have a hard time tying their shoes, putting their belt on, or putting their pants on. How do you treat this?..... Buy them stretch pants” - Heh on apraxia associated with dementia.
"Take the example of the lady who went into Target and began stabbing people. Is that woman bad? Is this really the product of a neuron in the thalamus that is having a bad day or firing too much?" -Martin on the concept of behavior as a scientific process or illness.
"We have to be concerned about fitness. Is med school conducive to reproduction? Not so much." -Martin
"Since Jerry Springer started our cultures perception of shame has changed." - Martin on emotion.
"In your 20’s alcohol is an aphrodisiac. But in your later years…he wrong head is flushing. Viagra doesn’t work if you drink too much."-Norcross
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