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Hi! It’s Lavanda, from Chile.

I’m a 1st year Pediatrics resident.

I started this either my 2nd or 3rd year of med school (I don’t remember, but I started collecting quotes in my 1st year).

Although I won’t be posting my regular content for the time being, I will still be lurking 👀.

Btw, my non-med blog is @nyanmeowmiau

Medblrs, who's still around?

I'm aware that it's been some years since my previous medblr list and previous medblr roll call posts. Over the years we've built a thriving and supportive medblr community, which we've been really lucky to have. I'm using medblr in the widest sense, here - nurses, PAs, pharmacists abd all sorts of other professions are welcome.

Years have passed. Many of us have continued to live offline lives or post less frequently because work, kids, other interests and just life got in the way. Some have changed specialties. I know that there have been years I've been fairly quiet because life was busy! But even if you post infrequently, youre still a valued part of the community. Please feel free to reblog and add yourself to the list.

Some left the sphere of medicine, that's cool too - if you ever identified as a medblr, there's still a place for you here.

New medblr friends have joined - why not introduce yourselves? It would be great to make some new connections in this sphere.

I'm also curious about non medblrs who lurk here for fun.

I'll start first. I'm @dxmedstudent (she/her, late 30s), I also go by Tink (that predates my blog here and is somewhat unrelated). I started my blog here over 10 years ago when I was a UK med student writing med student comics which can still be found over at @dxmedicalstudent .

I spent some years in hospital medicine before becoming a GP this past summer. I haven't changed my name or icons in that time so if you think you remember me, you're probably right.

Lovely to meet you all, and to say hi to old friends.

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[ANNOUNCEMENT]

As I said before, I am currently just starting my residency. This means that there are a lot of changes and new stressors for me.

Currently, my intention is to continue this blog (although with a name change), but I will take a hiatus until I can find my pace in my new environment, and also have enough quotes to make a queue.

Thank you so much for your understanding.

See ya!

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“Look at this luchbox I prepared for today. (Let’s hope I can have lunch today).”

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“My tummy hurts, and I don’t know whether it is from Irritable Bowel Syndrome or the tequila I had last night.”

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Intern 1: Hey, do you know where in the web page are our evaluation charts?

Intern 2: I am offended. Of course I already have printed copies for both of us. I am neuroticism incarnated.

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Neurologist: Come on, it’s easy, you only have to think a bit.

Intern: Doc, you are putting too much faith in my poor, fried brain.

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Neurologist: The test is going to be easy.

Interns: *Nervous laughter*

Neurologist: Okay, I lied, it’s not going to be easy.

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Intern 1: I have so many things to do, and so little time…

Intern 2: I thought it was because you didn’t want to do those things.

Intern 1: That too.

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“The art of the psychiatric interview is to make everything look like a conversation.”

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Intern 1: Does anyone know where I can find bachelorette party stuff (dicks)?

Intern 2: Your enthusiasm for securing that Urology residency has gone too far.

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Neurologist: What does this look like?

Interns: An hemorrhage.

Neurologist: Would you thrombolize it?

Interns: *chorus* No.

Neurologist: Very good. I apologize if you thought this question was too obvious, but I had to make sure you wouldn’t even think of it.

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“We actually get sad when the residents don’t do well in exams, we wonder what we did wrong.”

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“Every day I am closer to becoming a house husband.”

Boyfriend as his girlfriend is finishing up her degree.

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Psychiatrist 1: Real life is not like the DSM.

Psychiatrist 2: *sarcastic dramatics* What?!? My whole career is a lie!!

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“For fuck’s sake, PLEASE LEARN HOW TO USE PARAGRAPHS!”

About Sims’ Psychopathology.

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How did you prepare to enter medical school?

Thank you so much for asking.

First, for getting into med school: I had very good grades in high school, and I studied and practiced a lot for my PSU (my country’s equivalent to the SAT). I loved my high school and had a good time, tried to learn and understand as much as possible. The PSU prep was mind-numbing and boring, just endless repetition to score well in an standardarized test. I went to a well-known academy (I had an scholarship because of my grades) for Language and Sciences, and went to an specialist teacher for Maths, as I had the chance of getting a full score (which I did), and the other academy, while good, did not provide challenging enough material for Math.

I talked my scout leader (who was a last-year intern at the time) about her experience, and how studying medicine was. The mentality about helping people. Learning how to forget your pride in your first year, and accept that you are no longer the best student in the room. Mentally preparing myself for cadaver labs. Knowing what I would encounter later on, on clinicals, on night shifts. I asked about her worst and best experiences, and specially the things I was scared about.

TL;DR: Nothing special. I got into med school straight out of high school, thanks to my grades and PSU scores, which I worked hard for. I mentally prepared for it by talking to people who were in the same medical school system I would be.

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“What else do they want?! A photo of me begging on my knees?!”

Frustrated doctor when an insurance company kept rejecting coverage for very much necessary medical interventions.