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well this is scarily realistic

dr robby eating one singular candy bar 8 hours into his shift. now let's not get too nutritionally crazy

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so important to take breaks. Even more important to make sure your team takes breaks

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am i like... out of touch or being grumpy old man to say that maybe clinical practice shouldn't be based solely off a single published case study??

SAMIRA MOHAN & EMERY WALSH in The Pitt 1x13 — "7:00 PM" // 1x14 — "8:00 PM"

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I wish i too had a rooftop that I could spend five minutes decompressing with my work buddy, instead of, like, a dark corner of the unit or where the bins go out

THE PITT 1.15 • 9:00 P.M.

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Literally every single Neuroscience guy I listen to on audiobooks and podcasts: Multitasking is a lie. You are not more efficient. You're just rapidly switching between tasks and doing all of them slower but your brain is tricking itself into thinking it's more efficient because you get a little dopamine reward when you activate the 'change task' neurons. And you're burning up way more glucose in the process, leaving you more tired with less done. STOP MULTITASKING. JUST DO ONE THING. PLEASE IT'S ONLY WORSENING YOUR ATTENTION SPAN. WE'RE BEGGING YOU, PLEA--

My ADHD: Don't listen to them, babydoll. You are sooooooo efficient and attractive. Whoop. You got an email. Whoop you got a text. Whoop you got a blog ask. WOW look at all the tabs open on this window. Do you even remember what they're all for? Better look through them and close the ones you're not using because you're soooo sexy and efficient. Whoop, email again.

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the way that running the er is cutting into his ipad time

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me in anaesthetics while waiting for the next patient to come in fr

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FYI

“I don’t know how you do it! I could never be a vet/tech/nurse, I would get so sad all the time, I just care about animals too much!”

Isn’t the compliment you think it is??

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met a guy from saudi arabia last night at a bar, he came here with his sister so she could have surgery. he told me “i love your country for healing my sister. there are many wonderful things here, but there’s one thing you do not have. mercy” and then he asked if that was a boston thing or an overall american quality

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ER (1994-2009) 2.01 • Welcome Back, Carter!

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been there

my girl...

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feeling feelings about this occasionally. it's easy to be Nice to Nice patients. it's easy to feel bad for them, treat them well.

it's less easy, and far more important, to be kind and listen to the not-so-nice, be they anxious, defensive, terrified, angry, rude

Lookit, Newbie. The only way to judge your growth as a doctor, hell, as a human being... is by making sure you don't repeat the same mistakes over and over.

SCRUBS 1.18 • My Tuscaloosa Heart

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who is only relying on half a face to tell someone's mood??? Eyebrows speech body language CONTEXTUAL CLUES and ASKING THEM just beyond the pale now???

How is Claire feeling? 

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Doctor Who - not a doctor in the medical drama sense - but speaking truth; this is much of medicine, where one is forced to choose the least worst option.

this is often true in prehospital care but we talked about this loads on our anaesthetic simulations too

favorite doctor who quotes: 74/?

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ST. DENIS MEDICAL • S1E02 ↳ “A Very Robust Personal Life”

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Everything I have learned about plastic surgery watching every single episode of Botched:

Never go to Tijuana

Never go to someone on a billboard ("If they have to advertise, they aren't getting patients.")

Have an actual plastic surgeon do your plastic surgery

your nose is fine. seriously your nose is fucking fine, don't touch it