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Heads off to whoever had to decipher Beethoven's Handwriting

That is wild😂

Just for reference...this is what it should look like:

One of Mozart's scores

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not inaccurate

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When STEM people have fun.

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some memes I made to express my current frustrations with academia feel free to add your own

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are people becoming more annoying or am I becoming more angry

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Things I greatly dislike about the academic research process:

- So. Much. Expended. Time. And. Energy.

- Much of it feels shallowly motivated by the academic rat race—getting ahead, earning those promotions, winning that fame.

- There’s definitely a lowest common denominator, and it’s not great.

- How journals make the submission process such a damn clerical chore. Like, you’re gonna make me reformat all of my citations, change all of my word counts, and convert my entire manuscript to British spelling conventions just to conform to your tedious specifications? Are you not already paying editorial staff to do this shit?

- Editorial Manager. You are a relic of the early 2000s and need a serious facelift. Or you need to die. Thanks for eating my submission, jerkface.

- That one middle co-author/peripheral collaborator with a bloated sense of self-importance and ALL the feelings. Kindly shove your trivial opinions on word choice, sit yo’ ass down, and just let me submit this thing.

- Reviewer #2. You know who and what you are.

- The sadomasochism of repeated rejections and/or slow review turnarounds.

What (sometimes) makes it all worth it:

- Genuine curiosity, good mentors, and honest intellectual discourse.

- The satisfaction of finally seeing your words in print.

- Just being done with an excruciatingly lengthy project. Finally.

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The last two years have really plunged me into cynicism.

Curiously, this has had little to do with the suboptimal (occasionally abusive) work conditions of residency or the poignant human tragedies I observe unfolding daily in medicine.

It’s all the sociopolitical stuff. I still think of myself as falling somewhere on the optimist end of the spectrum, but seeing so many people say and do so many frankly stupid/plainly malicious things re: COVID-19, social policy, capitalist corruption, environmental disasters, etc. really knocks the wind out of my generally positive worldview.

Anyway.

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Both. Why not both?

I'll tell you a secret; SO many doctors are also anxious adults with many abandoned hobbies who easily spiral into doubt and self recrimination after even the smallest mistake or perceived rejection. Some mask this very well in public, and even in private.

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At my most recent family gathering, I had the pleasure of being not only the Gay Cousin™️ as usual but also the Cousin Who Worked in the COVID-19 ICUs and Intubated Dying People and Continues to Wear a Mask Because He Knows the Science but Is Also Low-Key Traumatized for Life™️.

“Some of you haven’t spent the past year and a half zipping bodies into body bags and it shows”

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Agreed on the superiority of generic names.

Except for hydromorphone, ondansetron, and ketorolac. For unclear reasons, I always get weird looks (and feel pretentious?) when I use those in place of Dilaudid, Zofran, or Toradol.

hey so random question: I have an old thing of ranitidine that I occasionally (like, only several times a year) take for acid issues. I know this stuff was recalled for carcinogen potential, but would this very occasional use be a major risk?

One reason why it was recalled us because the FDA found that the levels of NDMA actually increase over time as you store it. Your risk of cancer is very low, but does get higher the longer you’ve kept the pill bottle. I recommend disposing your old ranitidine.

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When graduation is dooming...