Who're the psychos walking around the med building? oh, they're just med students

So we got to do/were taught how to do one of the coolest things I think I've learned in med school - use an opthalmogigy to look into someone's eye. The course director made us students wake up half an hour early to get to class early in order to dilate only one of our pupils (making them a whole lot bigger than normal, even in bright lights). We then got to use our overly-priced flashlight+magnifying lens combo device to look into each other's eyes. I never understood the purpose of doing this before, mainly because I didn't know what exactly you are actually able to see through one of those things. A lot of the textbooks make it seem like all you'll be able to see is the width of a single blood vessel, which would look like a blur of red through the lens. BUUUUT I finally got to see that that's not the case! It was pretty amazing - you actually can see the back of the eye, and all the blood vessels, and the area where all the information from your eye begins to go into your brain. I literally said "WOOOOAHHH!" when I saw all that. It was fantabulous.

Oh yeah, and due to all of our pupils being abnormally dilated, the whole class pretty much looked like they were on something, walking around with one normal eye and one totally messed up eye. That part wasn't too fun - if any of you have ever been to the eye doctor, I'm sure they used the same eye drops on you to dilate your eyes, and it messes up with your focusing and makes any bright light hurt like crazy. But it was worth it, being able to see what the doctor sees when they're inches from your face and all you want to do is laugh out loud. They actually do see something. It's pretty cool :)

Doctor doctor

we learned more details in how to read ekg's today! yeyy! we finally learned something that actually feels useful in being a doctor