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hey guys check it out I can do a frontside 180 with my stomach haha

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I'm keeping an eye out for heat stroke in my area and I can't figure out what a full body flush would look like on dark skin since all the pictures are just fake training pictures. Anyone have video/pics of a heat stroke flush on black skin?

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damn people rly hate type 2 diabetics don't they

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damn people rly hate type 2 diabetics don't they

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Hey friends,

I have not blogged before but my children are expert bloggers. Many of you have read the thoughts and stories of inbabylontheywept, lizardho, and flowerologist. I am going to practice and share a few stories.

For now I will say hello. I am a retired ER doctor. After the ER I owned and managed some Urgent Care centers. I have amazing children and my wife is awesome.

Jjst for practice here is a story from my ER days.

I once worked at a trauma center near an Indian reservation. I loved my Indian patients, and they tolerated me.

One night the am ambulance called to tell me they were on their way in with a TWICE ejected passenger from a roll over crash.

Ejected passengers are often in a bad way. When a car flips it can sling unbelted passengers right out the window. When this happens they skid down the road and sometimes they end up under the car then on top of the car then back under the car.

I did not understand how this man had been ejected from the car twice. I was curios.

It seems my friend had gone to the bar drinking with friends. There were more friends than there were seats so after they bar closed they drew straws to see who got to ride up front in the heated cab of the truck and who had to ride in the bed. George drew the short straw so he climbed into the back. On the road home he got cold and he realized he had to pee really bad. Everyone in the truck was extremely drunk. George pounded on the back window but everyone inside was singing with the radio and nobody could hear him.

He decided he could get their attention by climbing onto the roof of the truck and sliding down the windshield. When he did this it startled the driver who slammed on the breaks and sent George shooting down the road in a series of somersaults and cartwheels. He ended up in the ditch next to the road. The guys in the truck slammed on the gas and went home.

In the morning one guy woke up and recalled a vivid dream in which George had been launched from the truck down the road. He called one of the other hung over friends to tell him about the terrifying dream.

His friend said he had experienced the exact same dream. That spoke for a minute about how weird that was before deciding that perhaps it had not been a nightmare, but had actually happened.

They hopped in their Ford pickup and drove up the road and sure enough there was George in the ditch covered in boo boos and frost because it froze that night. They panicked and put him into the truck and raced towards the hospital while calling 911. They were all still pretty drunk and in their haste they drove off the road and into the ditch and flipped the truck and George was once again launched down the road.

The ambulance that responded to their 911 call found George and brought him to me. He did fine because he had a blood alcohol level that confers on a man temporary immortality.

That is the story of my twice ejected passenger from a roll over MVA.

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I don't like that you look gross when you're sick. you should get to look really hot and cool and tragic

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this is insaaaane, our brains are so fucking weird

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Hi, thank you for answering my questions over the years, I really appreciate it! I'd be really grateful if you could answer another question I have haha - how did you go about approaching your finals 1 month before your exams? E.g what was a typical day studying for you after placement? What was a weekend like studying for your exams? What study resources would you recommend? Thank you again!

Hi anon!

I'm glad i have hopefully been helpful to you and it's exciting that the end is in sight for you now!

I have to be totally honest I graduated in 2020 when the world was on fire and they graduated us early to get us out into the hospitals to work, so I didn't actually do the final written exams

However we had done a lot of MOSLERs through final year for each rotation and so I hope this advice is still useful

To practice history taking and examination I revised with my housemates, practice on each other and then answer questions about the condition we had diagnosed, I also practiced examinations on my non-medical parents, because they had no clue what i was about to ask them to do, so i had to explain everything clearly (this was especially helpful for neurological examinations). We would tend to do this at weekends

We also had big sheets of paper and would pick a condition or a presenting complaint and then each write everything we could remember from it, and then swap and add things that the other had missed, and then explain things to each other, which was really helpful

A typical day after placement was often spent writing summary cards about conditions/presenting complaints and treatments, although i would have at least one night off a week to relax

I think i must have used a question bank but i can't remember which one and i didn't use it that much because i was worried about becoming too good at just spotting patterns in the questions and not having an underlying knowledge (i think question banks for specialty exams/MSRA are better because they are designed for a clearer curriculum, but might not be the same style for your university's exams)

For online resources I used throughout med school see this post

If anyone can add on to this i would be very grateful! Good luck for your finals anon :)

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I'd still trust you with my life doctor tbh

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like the fact that PrEP and PEP just kinda became a normal part of life one day without fanfare is something I think about a lot. Thousands of people died gruesome horrible deaths and now when I go on Reddit or ride the subway I see dinky little ads like "start this medication today so you don't contract/spread HIV! and if you get accidentally exposed there's a different medication for that to keep yourself from contracting!" and it's just an everyday thing. all those people who died fought for it to be this way.

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red blood cell girl bringing you oxygen on a cute little platter and then curtseying

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(the surgery was laser retinopexy btw. this is hugely important info)

> be me > medical student dealing with exam period stress for the first time > history of brief psychotic disorder > getting weird small shadows in my vision > think oh im hallucinating. damn. > one time im working at my desk and jump because i think i see an insect crawling towards me -> check -> nothing there. > Damn. Weird. > keep thinking im seeing my phone flash at me with notifications -> check -> nothing there. > WEIRD. but not a big deal. hallucinations should stop after my stress stops > 2 exams down, 2 to go > see my phone flashing at me out of the corner of my eye > look down > phone isn't even there. not there. good god. > making tea later that evening. its dark and cloudy > see a flash of lightning out of the eye not facing the window > girl its not even raining. girl where the fuck is lightning from. > mention it to my dad (optometrist) (it's 9pm) > he says ok we gotta go get that checked out NOW > remind him that its 9pm. No. > look up my Symptoms and realise he's probably worried abt a retinal tear. which. ok. weird. surely that'd be painful though? > nope. > right. well thats fun. still got 2 exams though so im too busy to think about potential life changing eye issue > 1 week later (both exams over) > my mum's cousin's husband gets a retinal detachment and after she tells me the story i say oh thats what dad was worried about > mum goes Oh Yeah. taking you for an eye test tomorrow > still think its hallucinations but agree anyway > make a tumblr poll so people can hedge their bets (retinal tear wins) > go to the eye test > dad looks at me. hey chaos. you've got a hole in your eye. > What. > I mean, What? > dad: yep > me: i straight up dont believe you. > me: ok maybe i believe you a bit. are you serious????? > dad: Yeep. we should go to the hospital > [discuss going to the hospital. decide to wait till the next day because its already pretty late and everyone's sort of busy/at school] > go hospital the next day (friday) > end up getting seen super quick (triage 1 by a nurse, triage 2 by another nurse, seen by a doctor literally within an hour or so?) > she goes ah hm. yep. you've got a little hole <3 we can leave it or have it lasered shut. up to you. it won't get bigger but lasering it means you aren't at risk of detachment > well then. lets do that. > sign the consent form > halfway through the ?? surgery ?? laser therapy ?? i start feeling dizzy > right towards the end of it im feeling faint enough to want to say something but the doctor seems like he's concentrating so i don't want to interrupt > the second he says ok all done he looks at me and says hey are u ok (im not ok) (about to pass out) > he sounds very worried (i cant see him) (on account of my eyes are very shut) and goes CAN I GET SOME HELP OVER HERE > girl im not dying chill out > my dad's like haha he gets like this sometimes (he's right. i do) > [3 nurses have entered the room] > get my legs on a chair > also take my blood pressure > Girl. its 70/32. > what the fuck. > move me to a bed so my legs can go higher up > laugh about it > they dont think i should be standing so quickly after that but i swear im all good 👍👍 > get out the hospital. its been 2 hours. > ow. head hurts. (its because my pupils are still dilated from the eye drops) > this is the third time i've fainted in the eye department of my local hospital. is there something in the water.

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> be me > medical student dealing with exam period stress for the first time > history of brief psychotic disorder > getting weird small shadows in my vision > think oh im hallucinating. damn. > one time im working at my desk and jump because i think i see an insect crawling towards me -> check -> nothing there. > Damn. Weird. > keep thinking im seeing my phone flash at me with notifications -> check -> nothing there. > WEIRD. but not a big deal. hallucinations should stop after my stress stops > 2 exams down, 2 to go > see my phone flashing at me out of the corner of my eye > look down > phone isn't even there. not there. good god. > making tea later that evening. its dark and cloudy > see a flash of lightning out of the eye not facing the window > girl its not even raining. girl where the fuck is lightning from. > mention it to my dad (optometrist) (it's 9pm) > he says ok we gotta go get that checked out NOW > remind him that its 9pm. No. > look up my Symptoms and realise he's probably worried abt a retinal tear. which. ok. weird. surely that'd be painful though? > nope. > right. well thats fun. still got 2 exams though so im too busy to think about potential life changing eye issue > 1 week later (both exams over) > my mum's cousin's husband gets a retinal detachment and after she tells me the story i say oh thats what dad was worried about > mum goes Oh Yeah. taking you for an eye test tomorrow > still think its hallucinations but agree anyway > make a tumblr poll so people can hedge their bets (retinal tear wins) > go to the eye test > dad looks at me. hey chaos. you've got a hole in your eye. > What. > I mean, What? > dad: yep > me: i straight up dont believe you. > me: ok maybe i believe you a bit. are you serious????? > dad: Yeep. we should go to the hospital > [discuss going to the hospital. decide to wait till the next day because its already pretty late and everyone's sort of busy/at school] > go hospital the next day (friday) > end up getting seen super quick (triage 1 by a nurse, triage 2 by another nurse, seen by a doctor literally within an hour or so?) > she goes ah hm. yep. you've got a little hole <3 we can leave it or have it lasered shut. up to you. it won't get bigger but lasering it means you aren't at risk of detachment > well then. lets do that. > sign the consent form > halfway through the ?? surgery ?? laser therapy ?? i start feeling dizzy > right towards the end of it im feeling faint enough to want to say something but the doctor seems like he's concentrating so i don't want to interrupt > the second he says ok all done he looks at me and says hey are u ok (im not ok) (about to pass out) > he sounds very worried (i cant see him) (on account of my eyes are very shut) and goes CAN I GET SOME HELP OVER HERE > girl im not dying chill out > my dad's like haha he gets like this sometimes (he's right. i do) > [3 nurses have entered the room] > get my legs on a chair > also take my blood pressure > Girl. its 70/32. > what the fuck. > move me to a bed so my legs can go higher up > laugh about it > they dont think i should be standing so quickly after that but i swear im all good 👍👍 > get out the hospital. its been 2 hours. > ow. head hurts. (its because my pupils are still dilated from the eye drops) > this is the third time i've fainted in the eye department of my local hospital. is there something in the water.

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i think we should be talking about the semi-recent advancements in cystic fibrosis treatment like all the time every day. there hasn’t been a drug like this since AZT medications for HIV infection it is truly fucking miraculous and very important

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i promise i have good and fun posts to make about med school i am just in the pit (med school finals) AT THE MOMNET. HOWEVER THEY ARE OVER ON MONDAY AT 3.30PM THOUGH FOR ME IT MIGHT BE MORE LIKE 2.30PM BECAUSE I AM INCAPABLE OF USING THE WHOLE TIME FOR EXAMS!!!! anyway . sorry for yelling. point being i have NO time to be funny and silly but i have a lot of things to be funny and silly ABOUT. i'll get to it. i prommy. ok love u all bye

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my fuckign veins

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fatphobia and ableism is so insidious. You can look up like, food, and it'll say "eating a lot of food causes diabetes" and you're like oh dang what? I thought we didn't know the cause of diabetes. So you look up what causes diabetes and it says "we still don't know what causes diabetes" bruh they're just making shit up to give people eating disorders