The "whispering-type" med student

So, having given some thought to my EKG class indiscretions, I'd just like to add one small thought.  HOW ANNOYING is it when you're sitting in a class and the teacher is asking rhetorical questions (with obvious answers) and the person you're sitting next to is quietly answering them all.

It's like they think they are the ONLY ones who know the answer!  The rest of us are quiet because we know it's rhetorical, not because we DON'T know!  You'd think by the time you get to med school (again, 20 years in a classroom) you'd get this.

The person I was sitting next to today in the cardiology lecture did just that (I'M SO PROUD OF MYSELF, I didn't ask ANY sarcastic questions or make any comments except when called upon!!).  Every question the doctor asked, she answered.  Loud enough that the other students could hear (guess we were supposed to be impressed) but not loud enough that the doctor would hear and ask her to explain her answer, just in case she was wrong.

Well, about half the time she was wrong. Ok she definitely got a few right, but a lot of the ones she got right she said right after the doctor quickly answered his own question.  He would say something like, "what is the organ most affected by heart failure,that'srightthekidney" and just as he would start to say "kid" the girl next to me would enthusiastically utter under her breath, "KIDNEY!" like it was some huge surprise.

One whole hour of this.  Plus I was desperately trying to hold my tongue when someone said that nuclear stress tests were the primary immediate management for acute coronary syndrome, followed by someone else answering NSAIDs to the same question when the doctor gave us a dirty look.

Anywho, I'm just saying. 

Least I was RIGHT!