i am jack's raging pituitary adenoma.

did you know that 11betaHSD2 inactivates cortisol thereby protecting the mineralocorticoid receptor for aldosterone in distal collecting duct cells of the kidney?

no?

it's okay, i didn't either.

a typical psycho pre-med student in undergrad, i worked my butt off in every medically-related subject: biochemistry, toxicology, immunology, endocrinology, physiology. i'm happy to say that it paid off for me back then.

now i'm in medical school working off what's left of my butt--which isn't much, by the way--and i find no solace in my stack of notecards, no peace in my review sheets. just frustration at every turn. we are covering so much material in so little time that it begs the question of 'are we really learning anything at all?'

::grumbling::