I don't care if you know someone whos had every disease that we talk about!

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There is this one girl in my class that has a friend or family member who has had every single disease that we talk about. Its really annoying that we have to stop class to talk about how someone she knew had this or that. It disrupts my learning and its really annoying. You are the reason we get out of class late and have to finish the powerpoint slides on our own time. Please stop!

Does this annoy anyone else?

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Yup. I recently had a girl in one of my classes who thought that because she was a Vet Tech prior to nursing school that she automatically knew everything about the medical field. ..

She had to put her own input in about everything whether it was relavent or not. I dreaded going to to class because I had to sit next to this girl and it interupted my learning as well. Thank goodness the class is over.

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Thats so funny. I just want to tell her that everyone knows someone who has something so just shut up! LOL...I would never say that but I can think it. I will have to find a nice way to let her know.

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OMG, yes! There was one girl in my A&P class that seemed to have had so many different diseases herself...she just had to pipe up. You could tell the instructor was like, "Um, yeah, well, moving on..." LOL

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Specializes in Medical.

We had one of those, too. She shut up when we got to sexually-transmitted diseases, though!

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I think there's one in every class! There's one, maybe two, in my LNA course...

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Specializes in Hospice & Palliative Care, Oncology, M/S.

I've spoken up a couple of times about what it's like having mono, or a blood clot in my leg, BUT only when the professor asked if anyone had experienced such things. There were people in the classes who would comment on everything, though!!!

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We had one of those, too. She shut up when we got to sexually-transmitted diseases, though!

I bet! LOL

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haha, are you in my class? We had a girl like that, unfortunately she wont be moving on with us, shes a wonderful person but it can be very annoying

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Haha. That's hilarious. You should just pretend she's a television show running in the background and tune her out. She sounds like a bad sitcom.

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We've got one too! She sits right in the front and just blurts stuff out. Like one day last week we were talking about not getting melanin confused with melatonin and we got so off topic because she started talking about her dad's sleep disorder and problems with Ambien for like 20 minutes. It was RIDICULOUS.

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Specializes in Critical Care.

How do the big talkers do on their tests though?

-I hate that too but I think it's probably good to learn how to appreciate (or at least tolerate) people with different perspectives, personalities, temperaments, etc. In our careers we'll have to do more of the same in complex, diverse, and even political environments such as hospitals. This is just one more hurdle for us that makes us better.

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