What makes you excited? What makes you feel accomplished? What makes you like you've really learned something?
When you watch a drama and one of the characters is on an antidepressant, and the husband wants to drink wine together to cheer his wife up, but you know that there is an adverse reaction with alcohol and antidepressants, so you talk to the computer screen and say, "NO!! That will exacerbate her condition!" And later on in the episode, the wife is in the hospital for attempting suicide by slitting her wrist and the doctor tells the husband that wine will make her mental state more depressed. It's nothing to smile about, but I felt excited for knowing this little detail. Alcohol is one of the substances that can have an adverse reaction with many drugs.
One would think that dramas or tv shows are full of lies and make-believe, but when there is some sort of scientific basis that goes into the story (for example, in Juui Dolittle, a J-dorama about a veterinarian), it's amazing how much you actually know and can see pop up in entertainment. This is what I love about learning. This is what makes me feel my education is worth it.
It's exciting to be able to apply knowledge to life. But I have to keep in mind that these can be serious cases, and that is not exciting.
Haha, I love it when I watch a medical show on tv, like House, and they mention some complicated disease and I understand what they're talking about b/c we learned about it in class.
ReplyDeleteBut then again, I feel that way a lot, like if on a tv show they start speaking another language and I understand it, like French or Italian. Or when I read a novel by Balzac in French class and he starts talking about the theories of some scientist I know from bio, like Cuvier or Buffon. I guess I just like it when different things I like are mixed together, like tv and science or art and bio or something like that :D.
are you watching juui dolittle now? my roommate keeps telling me watch nagareboshi with her. seems sad.
ReplyDeletei'm watching korean dramas now though haha. dream high.
I hope some day I can watch doramas without english subtitles, but at the rate I'm going with my japanese (or mandarin haha), I'll be relying on subtitles for a while. :P But I get that same excited feeling when I understand what people are saying in another language. I found someone else in pharm school who can speak some japanese! =)
ReplyDeleteI finished Juui dolittle cuz there are only 9 or so episdoes. so short. :( but it was gooood and my sister says that the vet. facts are pretty accurate. very cool. Oguri Shun is awesome~ and nariyama hiroki! kekeke :P
hmm haven't heard of dream high before.
On Thurs, in my neurobio class we were learning about the synergistic effects of alcohol with barbiturates, and how that can easily lead to death from overdose... I totally thought of this post, hehe.
ReplyDelete:D cool! we should teach each other interesting stuff we learn in class. :] I kinda want to work with a physician.
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