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[Anonymous No.11290664]

Medicine General

Old thread:
>>11249699

[Anonymous No.11290669]

Hey I have weird white spots on my my foreskin.
It’s not any STD. They seem similar to skin but they are completely white. When I tried to remove them with a scalpel some of them hurt and some of them didn’t.
What is it?
I searched throughout the internet but found nothing similar.
They appeared during puberty (14-17).

[Anonymous No.11290685]

>>11290669
>tried to remove them with a scalpel
Do they look like hirsutoid papillomas?

[Anonymous No.11290699]

>>11290669
Fordyce spots. I got them when I hit puberty as well

[Anonymous No.11290703]

>>11290685
No, I have them as well but they are on lower part of the glans.
The spots I’m talking about are on the foreskin. I was able to remove some of them with a scalpel but others were to painful to do so.
They look more like extra skin that is white. I can’t post pictures unfortunately due to rules.

[Anonymous No.11290714]

>>11290699
I checked google pictures and it doesn’t really look like it. Also over the years they started to kinda disappear and are almost invisible now. Just looks like scar tissue.

[Anonymous No.11291020]

How do doctors deal with the depression and onset of psychopathy that I imagine comes with surgically cutting up people and seeing them die day after day?

[Anonymous No.11291029]

>>11291020
Take it out on the interns.

[Anonymous No.11291031]

wtf is going on there, anons? I have the same thing on my both left and right arm. am I pregangt or do I have skin canser?

[Anonymous No.11291032]

>>11291031
here's the left arm.

[Anonymous No.11291036]

this is stomatology rather than medicine, but here I go. few months ago I got sudden constant pain (especially in the morning) and painful sensitivity to cold in one of the premolars and it turned out to be root canal so I got it fixed. here's the problem: during winter I don't drink or eat cold, only warm, but a week ago I wanted to refresh myself or something and noticed painful sensitivity in my top left incisor. a fucking incisor. so no constant pain or anything, just really painful sensitivity. because of never drinking cold how long could have this condition be there? could it be another root canal? I also have a filling on the inner side of the back of the tooth which also seems to be the main and only source of sensitivity. could the filling be partially detached with a cavity formed under it? google isn't helping much and because of fucking exams earliest trip to dentist will be in 7-10 days. I don't want another fucking root canal, the premolar even still hurts when eating really hard food and when I knock knock it with a nail to see if it still hurts. sorry for wall of text, pls halp.

[Anonymous No.11291040]

>>11291031
>>11291032
maybe a scar/bruise leftover (don't know the exact name)? from carrying boxes or something?

[Anonymous No.11291043]

>>11291040
nope, I dont carry anything like that and I don't remember I had any bruises on my arms. I'll bee seeing a doctor next week tho, those marks look interdasting.

[Anonymous No.11291044]

>>11291020
in my shithole country it's booze, overeating and being a dick. but again it's not just sugeons and ER, but every doctor so there's that. I can only assume real doctors become indifferent to it, become mentally resilient or take legal drugs. you know what they say: death or healing, I care not which you seek.

[Anonymous No.11291093]

>>11291020
Most of then drink.

[Anonymous No.11291097]

>>11291020
Most of them drink.*
At least the ones ive encountered in my short career.

[Anonymous No.11291289]

We dont have this problem
https://www.ladepeche.fr/2020/01/10/des-medecins-se-moquaient-de-leurs-patients-en-secret-dans-un-groupe-facebook,8652264.php

[Anonymous No.11291295]

>>11290664
Obligatory reminder not to clamp before the completion of placental transfusion.

[Anonymous No.11291336]

>>11291036
if it is a cold sensitivity and it only lasts a few seconds then you have Pulpitis, but you can still get it fixed with out a RCT, even for an incisor
There might be something wrong with the "filling" if i understood your post correctly

[Anonymous No.11291372]

>>11291020
for me its murdering hookers in cheap motels on sundays

[Anonymous No.11291378]

>>11291295
even premeds know you don’t clamp until it seizes pulsation. Please stop. not again my negro.

[Anonymous No.11291557]

>>11290664
when does dick growth cease?

[Anonymous No.11291588]

>>11291557
for you in womb

[Anonymous No.11292115]

Hypothetically speaking, if one were to slit their wrists, where and how deep should they cut to reliably achieve death? Asking for a friend

[Anonymous No.11292140]

>>11291031
It's not cancer. It does kind of look like melasma but that's not a typical place. Probably just pigmentation from sun exposure, possibly a scar. I would definitely not bother to biopsy unless you have an anxiety disorder.

[Anonymous No.11292153]

>>11290669
Maybe lichen sclerosus, does it bother you at all like pain or itching? It's not concerning for anything.

[Anonymous No.11292279]

>>11291295
What do I do if my Attending is a clamper?

[Anonymous No.11292359]

Just remember, as bad as life gets, at least you aren't a urologist

[Anonymous No.11292404]

For me its getting the flu from some rando patient and be sick cunt durring the weekend

[Anonymous No.11292497]

Scientifically speaking what are my chances for passing uni entrance exams which include biology, chem and physics on end of the may if I have basically zero knowledge of any of those? (t. upper technical school)

I gave up on my cs program so I should have plenty of time to study. Also I would appreciate any recommendations for efficient study.

[Anonymous No.11292516]

>>11292497
Watch Med insider on youtube

[Anonymous No.11292533]

What did he mean by this

[Anonymous No.11292583]

>>11292533
I think he's trying to talk about HDL and LDL but is too retarded ti know about it

[Anonymous No.11292631]

>>11292115
Stupid and inefficient way to die, just OD on opioids, alcohol and benzos instead

[Anonymous No.11292643]

>>11292497

Study 8 hours a day, every day, from today to the day before the exam. There's no shortcut.

[Anonymous No.11292662]

>>11292643
>8 hours a day
I studied for around half that and still got into medical school.

[Anonymous No.11292693]

>>11292662
for how much time?

[Anonymous No.11292722]

>>11292643
>>11292662
i studied 1 hour every second day and was always on the top of my school

[Anonymous No.11292728]

>>11291336
yay! that sound better than root canal, big thank!

[Anonymous No.11292731]

How i view research as a medical student

>Pregrade and already spending my time in the lab, gotta be cool

How i view research in my first year of residency

>Insane bottleneck gatekeeping people from actually getting into university
>Doesn't matter how close i was to 100 percentile when i graduated, it's still a one in a hundred shot
>Makes little difference that i always try to work twice as much as the others, you just need to be in the right place at the right time and I may be not
>What's worse, fail in 20 years or give up from now?

[Anonymous No.11292747]

>>11292693
Not Murican so I didn't take the MCAT. I studied for around 1-3 hours a day on weekdays for the two months leading up to the medical school entrance exams. Amount of time studying during weekends varied cause I still went out and shit. I could've taken it more seriously and gotten better than 94th percentile but my scores were still enough to get a full ride scholarship.

Idk about 8 hours but people have different capacities for learning and retaining information. Find a method that personally works for you, senpai.

[Anonymous No.11292943]

How do you fix your ulnar nerves? The little fingers on both of my hands are slightly tingly, and even when they're not tingly they feel different to the rest of the hand. I've already had a neck MRI done and there's no pressure on any nerves or the spinal cord in cervical region, so I think this is an arm issue

[Anonymous No.11292956]

[Anonymous No.11292979]

>>11292943
You need a physical exam not advice from the internet

[Anonymous No.11293386]

>>11291020
compassion fatigue

[Anonymous No.11293439]

>>11292747

No, you don't have a higher capacity for learning and retaining information, you just have been lucky. Also, getting into med school is the easiest part of medical education in most cases.

[Anonymous No.11293945]

>>11292943
You might have ulnar nerve compression in your elbow. I had that and needed surgery. I still need surgery in my other elbow, but I've been putting that off for years now because it's functionally fine, although a little bit slower than it used to be.

[Anonymous No.11293950]

"I hate med school, but I hate other schools even more"
- Grumpy german student

[Anonymous No.11294025]

My chest hurts occasionally and I often feel my left arm going numb. I would honestly be scared shitless because normally that foretells a heart attack, but I used to experience these things frequently a few years ago, and I went to a cardiologist who said I'll be fine.
What should I do?
As retarded as this sounds I'm honestly starting to think it's because of my parents complaining about their pains and aches all the time. I feel like their shit somehow carries over to me.

[Anonymous No.11294077]

>>11293439
>No, you don't have a higher capacity for learning and retaining information
how do you know he doesn't?
you either:
a) must know everything about that poster personally
b) must be able to prove that there can be no differences in learning capacity and retaining information among humans
c) must be spreading lies for purposes only known to yourself
which one is it?

[Anonymous No.11294300]

>>11290664
I hope everyone had a good interview season.
Good luck in the match =)
It's great to be done.
Does anyone else feel med school is kind of a rip off though? You spend astronomical sums of money to go to school and more money to do actual job interviews.
Such is life I guess...

[Anonymous No.11294770]

So, how hard is the usmle?

[Anonymous No.11294863]

>>11290664
What's that ECG showing?

[Anonymous No.11294893]

>>11294863
not op but a a glance looks like torsardes de pointes secondary to long QT. It's a type of Vtach and can lead to heamodynamic collapse + cardiac arrest. :)

[Anonymous No.11294897]

>>11294893
thought it might be torsades, but I, II, III, avR, avL and avF looked like they wouldn't fit that diagnosis

[Anonymous No.11294913]

>>11294077
d) We are on /sci/

[Anonymous No.11294915]

>>11291020
In my group of friends, a lot work talk, drinking and drug use. I think psychopathy is something developed more by early childhood trauma/genetic disposition, however a lot of us develop a fairly flat/depressive affect that I suppose could be mistaken for psychopathy I suppose.

[Anonymous No.11294926]

>>11294897
it starts of as sinus rhythm with long qt and progresses into torsardes. Remember that the x-axis is time (although some ecg's do record the different views simultaneously), looking at the rhythm strip at the bottom might help clarify this!

[Anonymous No.11294934]

>>11292533
looks like broscience to me

[Anonymous No.11294969]

>>11294926
thanks for the heads-up

[Anonymous No.11294987]

I think I am getting fever

should I drink Sulfonamides and trimethoprim?

[Anonymous No.11295364]

>>11294893
OP here. Stole the ECG from Twitter. The patient shivered during the procedure.

[Anonymous No.11295382]

>>11293439
I realize that my previous post might have come off as a humblebrag, sorry. My point is that spending 8 hours on pure studying isn't exactly a feasible thing that most people can do and that it's not a necessity.

I have to disagree with you chalking up everything up to pure luck though.

[Anonymous No.11296049]

>>11292747
where u from

[Anonymous No.11296050]

>>11294770
it's easy
i got 264

[Anonymous No.11296618]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNNUi7R2lck

What the fuck is happening here, bros? How she's supposed to live a life with 16 seizure attack each every single day of your existence?

[Anonymous No.11296642]

>>11290664
Why are there no p-waves?

[Anonymous No.11296663]

They should flood the market with doctors to drive down medical wages

[Anonymous No.11296752]

>Le clampy boy has returned

[Anonymous No.11296762]

>>11294897
If it was progression to TdP, you wouldn’t see it in those leads because they don’t happen at the same time point. Remember only things on the same X-axis point are happening at the same time.

[Anonymous No.11296778]

>>11296762
>Remember only things on the same X-axis point are happening at the same
What?

[Anonymous No.11296857]

Probably been asked a thousand times already, but what is some book recommendations and in what order to read to better understand the body

[Anonymous No.11296945]

THE book without question is the latest edition of Anatomy and Physiology, the big motherfucking academic textbook

[Anonymous No.11297927]

Have you ever seen any pure math major in your class?

[Anonymous No.11298148]

>>11296618
If she's having tonic-clonic seizures wouldn't she basically have status epileptics daily with this many seizures?

[Anonymous No.11298263]

>hemicorporectomy
Why did doctors bother inventing this technique? Surely at this point death would be preferable

[Anonymous No.11298285]

>>11298263
What happened to the poor zoomer?

[Anonymous No.11298287]

>be extremely stressed for months with work
>last night could not even sleep one minute

it's 26 hours going and I haven't felt any sleepiness at all, even after laying in a hot tub of water or wrapping myself with blankets in the bed
is this how mental illness starts? it's like the part of my brain that gets sleepy got shut down

[Anonymous No.11298299]

>>11298285
Zoomer-kun was operating a forklift without a license when he got hit by a car and went for a spin down a hill

https://7news.com.au/lifestyle/health-wellbeing/forklift-accident-leaves-young-construction-worker-with-several-amputations-c-619121

[Anonymous No.11298301]

>>11298299
That's really fucking tragic.

[Anonymous No.11298382]

what is the difference between a PA and a NP? don't they both fill the same niche?

[Anonymous No.11298384]

>>11290664
Today in my practice I checked a HIV+ 6 months old baby boy.
He got the infection from the mother, a eroin user who stopped taking therapy three months into pregnancy.
I can't stop thinking about it, why shit like this happens

[Anonymous No.11298429]

>>11291378
>>11291295
Yeah, wtf, that was like one of the first things they taught us in pediatrics/neonatology even in my shithole country

[Anonymous No.11298437]

>>11298429
Bring back the OP copypasta so people stop bringing up the clamp shit.

[Anonymous No.11298438]

>>11292115
t. attention seeker
>gun to head
>meds(could be hard if you're a brainlet and/or don't have access to the good shit)
>train
>heart stab/carotids cut(google the anatomy) - very cool and metal, but probably painful

[Anonymous No.11298442]

>>11292497
Realistically? If you've got 4-5 months and you're completely empty on all of those? And you're the type of person who posts on 4chan(probably low discipline/willpower)?
No chance

[Anonymous No.11298443]

>>11292747
Thing is, I doubt you were starting from 0 like that other guy

[Anonymous No.11298444]

>>11292956
moonspine

[Anonymous No.11298459]

>>11293950
Not quite med school, but that's basically what kept me in on my first year of internship
>Fuck, I fucking hate this shit, I wish I picked something different in school
>Okay, imagine you drop out right now, what else would you want to do?
>Uhh, nothing really, just sleep and eat

[Anonymous No.11298557]

>>11298384
Shits messed up. Weird how doctors get a glimpse into horrifying stuff like this.

[Anonymous No.11298619]

>>11298438
>I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.
uh?

[Anonymous No.11299314]

>>11298287
same, been extremely stressed lately and this started happening. shits awful

[Anonymous No.11299410]

>>11294770
>>11296050
What you need is a good foundation from your 1st and second year courses. If you didn't didn't commit yourself to doing well in your classes 1st and 2nd year(you just passed or got mostly 70s) you're in for a rude awakening step 1 even with a good study plan.

[Anonymous No.11299416]

>>11298384
Yeah. I get your feels. It's worse when they have neonatal abstinence syndrome...that poor baby going through opioid withdrawal...
How do I stop my self from hating these mothers as the lowest scum of the earth? Any tips?

[Anonymous No.11299536]

If I want the best major for becoming a radiologist should I apply to undergraduates other than physics?
University in my city is generally regarded as bad/mediocre by my friends but I was looking at various websites for rankings
>Canada
>~10th in province
>~40th in country
>600-1200th in the world
Is it worth it to leave the city my friends and family live in for an undergraduate degree?

[Anonymous No.11299944]

>>11299536
I'm not sure how it works in canada but in Australia your undergrad degree is not extremely important for getting into medicine so long as you do well.
I would recommend knowing the entry system in and out before making a decision.

[Anonymous No.11300032]

>>11299416
>How do I stop my self from hating these mothers as the lowest scum of the earth? Any tips?
develop compassion for all beings regardless of their actions

[Anonymous No.11300145]

>>11299416
just start hating everyone else as the lowest scum of the earth too

[Anonymous No.11300252]

>>11299536
>radiologist
I wouldn't count on it, they might be replaced by AI by the time you graduate

[Anonymous No.11300417]

>>11290669
Time to get a circumcision chap

[Anonymous No.11300430]

>>11298384
There's real evil in the world. Many people fuck babies while giving them meth. Many people fuck puppies. Many people fuck kids. The world is fucked.

[Anonymous No.11300462]

>>11300252
Stop repeating this meme you dipshits. They don't even let overnight tele do final reads, they are not letting a computer diagnose you.

[Anonymous No.11301700]

Some weeks (3-4ish) history of red (erythematous), raised patches on the scrotum. Very itchy. Antifungal cream and drying the area very very very well has not worked. Also had a rash on my hands (that I now realise looked like a syphilis rash) that doctors dismissed.
I'm starting to worry this is syphilis and I need penicillin, but I haven't had sex. I did have a lesion on my elbow mid-late last year which I now realise could have been a chancre (I also have extensor surface eczema which flared up just before the "chancre", leading to cracks in the skin as a route of entry).
How do I convince my GP it's bacterial and not fungal without making up a sexual history? If this doesn't get treated right, I will be brain damaged. I don't want to be dismissed again.

[Anonymous No.11301747]

>>11301700
>I'm starting to worry this is syphilis
>but I haven't had sex
It's not syphilis

[Anonymous No.11301767]

>>11301747
Then what is it? All you need is contact with a chancre.
I'm fairly sure I need antibiotics.

[Anonymous No.11301786]

>>11290664
Is there a way to tell whether a disease is bacterial or viral just based on the symptoms?

[Anonymous No.11301791]

>>11298287
Turn down all the lights. Don't look at screens or use a pc or cellphone. Try journalling, tidying up, make a list of shit you've needed to do forever, start tackling them. Don't eat or drink water. Eventually you will start to feel very tired.

[Anonymous No.11301859]

What is the youngest age at which a vagina can safely be penetrated by an adult penis?

[Anonymous No.11301864]

>>11298619
Doctors are Jews and Jews are backstabbing oathbreakers

[Anonymous No.11302469]

>>11301859
I'm pretty sure lots of muslims have 6 year old wives, but it should also depend on how big they are
T. Not a medfag

[Anonymous No.11302701]

I need a home remedy for sleep bruxism. It developed recently and now I wake up with intense excruciating toothaches in my left middle molars top and bottom. Wake up wanting to scream and rip the teeth out with pliers. I shovel max doses of tylenol and ibuprofen down my throat, it takes a couple hours for it to go away. The toothache in the bottom one randomly comes back during the day but less intense than when I first wake up. My face is constantly sore and tired now. My right TMJ gets so stiff and sore sometimes that I can't touch my teeth together on the right side and it becomes difficult to eat. I'm a neet with no money so a dentist is not an option for me right now. I have an SSI case and am waiting for the judge's final decision, my lawyer thinks I have won so if I do then maybe I can see a dentist after that. I need something to get me through until then. I dread falling asleep now because I know every time I'm going to wake up to that maddening pain.

[Anonymous No.11302707]

>>11302701
>I'm a neet with no money so a dentist is not an option for me right now

if dental isn't even part of the deal how do they get you shills on the hook?

i clench my teeth a lot too. have you tried supplementing magnesium or soaking in some epsom salt to relax?

[Anonymous No.11302725]

>>11302707
Not sure what deal you're talking about. I do have some magnesium tablets here somewhere, I'll use those and see if it helps any. As for relaxing nothing ever helps with that for me. Baths, music, nothing does. Home life is shitty and other problems contribute. They gave me hydroxyzine pamoate to help settle my nerves but it doesn't do anything, it's snake oil.

[Anonymous No.11302906]

>>11302469
And the kids enjoy it?

[Anonymous No.11303182]

>fix my posture, sit properly in chair at work with both legs towards the ground instead of having one leg tucked under body on chair
>stop sitting in a ball on the chair at home and sit in that one properly too
>95% of the ongoing chronic pain from L1 fracture goes away
What the fuck bros, why did nobody ever tell me about this hack

[Anonymous No.11303546]

>>11290664
>pic
oopsie
>>11291295
this still going on? or it's a /med/ meme now?
>>11292115
This is one of the most inneffective ways to die. I'll never forget a forensic medicine case we were shown. A guy slit his neck vessels and it took so long to die he had the time to write on the floor in his own blood "it's too hard to die" Spoiler:neck vessels are way larger than your wrist vessels.
>>11298384
Cuz retarded people.
>>11302701
Kind of same. When I went to the dentits they refered me to a cranio-facial surgeon and he wanted to extract all 4 of my wisdom teeth. Not sure how evdence-based is that.

[Anonymous No.11303559]

>>11303546
>he wanted to extract all 4 of my wisdom teeth
fuck that, try a nightguard

[Anonymous No.11303618]

Dumb question but how many symptoms of hypothyroidism do i need to start being concerned about it

[Anonymous No.11303648]

>>11303182
>one leg tucked under body on chair
Sorry bro there is no cure for stupid.
Some things are self evident if you have two digit iq.

[Anonymous No.11303656]

>>11302701
As the other person said mouth guards but the ones sold are silicon based,they tear and break down.
Dental technicians manufacture sleek thin transparent flexible acrylic protectors that will help you out.
Look into dental tourism.
t.dentist

[Anonymous No.11303657]

>>11303618
like maybe all but 1 or 2

[Anonymous No.11303791]

>another grandpa who has more sex than me despite his bionic hip and heart failure

[Anonymous No.11303840]

I once passed out from smoking a joint extremely fast on an empty stomach, only had 1 beer prior to that joint, I remember feeling the sun was very bright/seeing white noise before I passed out.
Didn't eat the whole day, because lab work was too much, only had coffee around noon.
I know that when I was passed out, my lips were purple and face was pale, woke up to a girlfriend gently tapping my cheek and saying my name.
Felt pretty groggy afterwards and a bit the day after it.
What happened , did I green out or something like that?
This was a couple of months ago , and recently I've been worrying about it.
Also it was only the sixth time I ever smoked, but the first time to ever smoke a whole joint withouth sharing.

[Anonymous No.11303879]

>>11292516
>>11298442
>>11292643
Thanks lads that will do

[Anonymous No.11303883]

>>11303840
If you weren't retarded which by using drugs you are,you would have known that marijuana gets laced with different kinds of chemicals to make it stronger or to artificially appear that its of good quality (some use hairspray to make it sticky).
God knows what you inhaled.

[Anonymous No.11303899]

>>11301700
>>11301747
>>11301767
Apparently I have genital psoriasis, and yeah there are family members with psoriasis too.
Fuck my fucking life. I wanted to be an astronaut and itchy balls could stop that.

[Anonymous No.11304274]

>>11302906
I dont think mudslimes are concerned with women feeling good

[Anonymous No.11304304]

How much iv air is needed to actually cause embolism anywhere in body instead of it coming out of las air bubbles through lungs?

[Anonymous No.11304306]

>>11302701
do you have GERD?

[Anonymous No.11304308]

>>11303883
>marijuana is laced
no it isn't, trust me it is literally never laced with other drugs. The issue with marijuana are the neurotoxic pesticides large scale grow ops use, the very poor quality control, smoking excessive non-psychoactive plant matter and the damage to your brain and lungs. You aren't going to end up with research chems or pcp in your weed ever, this makes no sense financially and people who smoke are much to attuned to the high to not notice something like that. The worst thing you can do with weed is buy from idiots who don't use proper growing techniques or don't know how to make proper oil.

[Anonymous No.11304309]

>>11303791
tfw virgin resident

[Anonymous No.11304312]

Is there any way to straighten flared ribs that doesn't involve using a corset?

[Anonymous No.11304338]

>>11304306
Yeah, I do. I ran out of my omeprazole a couple weeks ago and my family has been too broke to get all our meds refilled. I've been using famotidine in the meantime but it's garbage and doesn't work the same as omeprazole.

[Anonymous No.11304590]

>>11304308
Ive seen people spraying it with Methado e right in front of me.
Do what you will

[Anonymous No.11304597]

>>11304308
Ive seen people spraying it with Methadone right in front of me.
Do what you will*

[Anonymous No.11304982]

Any advice for MGH vs UCSF radonc residency? I literally don't know which one to put over the other.

[Anonymous No.11305021]

>>11290664
>Bicuspid aortic valve
>mitral valve prolapse
>minimal pectus excavatum
>minimal regurgitation
>no diabetes
>cholesterol levels ok
>haven't smoked in 7 years

Here's the fun part

>choose 2 supposedly very good cardiologists that specialize in congenital heart defects (going by curriculum/scientific output/awards/prestige/surgery results)
>go on a consultation with both, not telling one or the other that I'm already seeing another cardiologist
>Cardiologist 1 says I can't lift weights, I have to do exercise but should stick to running/swimming or any non-isometric exercise
>Cardiologist 2 says I can safely do any form of exercise I want

what fucking do?

[Anonymous No.11305034]

>>11292115
I believe slashing through the solar plexus is the best way if you can do it properly, keyword being "DO IT PROPERLY''.

>Why
You'll cut off the abdominal aorta meaning you'll pass out really soon and die within minutes.

It'll probably be really painful and I'm not suggesting you do it, but it's metal as fuck if you decide to do it.

Best of luck anon, there might still be hope for you.

[Anonymous No.11305049]

>>11305021
Doc 1 might just be being cautious, use your best judgement.
How did mitral valve prolapse happen?

[Anonymous No.11305726]

What medical testing equipment can buy and use at home without training similar to hear rate monitors, blood glucose meters, pulse oximeters, etc and where can I buy them?

[Anonymous No.11305794]

>>11305726
Stethoscope
sphygmomanometer

[Anonymous No.11305806]

Should I worry if I had acute ataxia before? Do I have brain cancer?

[Anonymous No.11306173]

>>11303899
OK so the cream stopped the itching but now the red patches have turned dark and scaly and are peeling. Is this normal for antifungal+steroid cream? Is it working?
As a medical student, I am well and truly stumped.

[Anonymous No.11306196]

20 year old United States-ian here. Is there any way to get experience in surgery, preferably heart surgery, as someone with only a highschool diploma? I can spend 3 months in the summer getting an EMT license if that opens options. I plan on being a perfusionist.

[Anonymous No.11306203]

>>11298438
Carotid cut doesn't seem too bad if you get it right. I hear you lose consciousness after 30 seconds. Stabbing your own heart sounds horrifying, though.

[Anonymous No.11306287]

>>11304338
Cure GERD and you won’t have bruxism anymore.

[Anonymous No.11306289]

>>11305021
i wouldn’t lift heavy

[Anonymous No.11306689]

>>11306196
Yeah get an heart disease

[Anonymous No.11306731]

I have PPP and also some small bumps on the shaft that look like fat deposits (had them since puberty). Is there any way to get rid of this shit?

[Anonymous No.11307498]

my ears make crackling and popping sounds randomly and especially when i yawn or move my mouth/jaw, its also worse when im using earphones, i thought it mightve been a problem with those or the devices i was using but i got a brand new phone and brand new earphones and it still crackles but not as much, should i go get my ears cleaned or buy some ear drops?

[Anonymous No.11307562]

>>11298148
no. status epilepticus is 1 seizure 30 min or longer or 2 seizures in a day, between which the person doesn't fully regain conscientiousness.

[Anonymous No.11307671]

What do you guys do with excess limbs and body parts after amputation/major surgery?

[Anonymous No.11307706]

>>11304982
UCSF gets more of that fat grant money for research

[Anonymous No.11307726]

>joints in wrists are so shitty and loose that they crack all the time and I get paraesthesia in some fingers some of the time, but when I have a bath the two smallest fingers on each hand feel very heavy while the rest of the hand is either fuzzy or fine
What exactly can I do in terms of treatment? I've already had a neck MRI and there was no impingement there

[Anonymous No.11308135]

What's actually mechanically happening after you have a really hot bath and then get dark green/black eye shaped images superimposed onto your vision for ages afterwards?

[Anonymous No.11308165]

>>11308135
I've never experienced that but I'm gonna guess it's a simple effect of peripheral vasodilation (to prevent hyperthermia) and subsequent drop in blood pressure, like when you get up too quickly, except it takes longer to subside.

[Anonymous No.11308174]

I feel a sweet taste but I wouldn't say it's in my mouth per se, more like in my throat. Is it diabetes?

[Anonymous No.11308258]

>a total cutie comes in for a medical check, exactly like the pure wojak girl in look
>collect some data
>already tested for hiv when she was 12
>on the pill since then
what the hell, the bodycount meme was true then

[Anonymous No.11308261]

>>11307671
Freeze them and keep them for people who need them

[Anonymous No.11308266]

>>11290664
So my wife and I went to see a doctor and ask what we need to know before going to Indonesia.

My wife gets told to get on malaria pills, but not worry about anything else. I get told Malaria is a non issue, but I absolutely have to get hepatitis injections. We both said the same thing to two different doctors. Why is there no fucking consensus here?

[Anonymous No.11308274]

>>11308266
At least one of the docs isn't up to date with recommended vaccinations for foreign travel (if your country has those guidelines)

[Anonymous No.11308287]

>>11308266
Pretty sure there are mandatory vaccinations for traveling in asian countries

[Anonymous No.11308292]

Will finasteride erase my masculinity if I take it while already having above average estrogen levels, a vitamin D deficiency and average testosterone levels

[Anonymous No.11309178]

>>11308258
what bodycount meme?

[Anonymous No.11309366]

>2 years unpaid internship

[Anonymous No.11309416]

HELP GUYS IM TAKING AMOXICILLIN AND IM SO ITCHY.

ON MY SCALP ESPECIALLY

THERES RED MARKS BUT NO REAL HUGE RASH.

FUUCJCJRJRHEGEGEG

[Anonymous No.11309438]

>>11308258
you know that birthpills are also given to girls with hormonal problems, right?

[Anonymous No.11309836]

I want to play a game...

Guess what happened to my leg. I have an idea but multiple doc's and a paramedic had no clue.

Background: mid 20s caucasian male southern Ontario area no obvious environmental causes and no pain whatsoever.
Pic 1

[Anonymous No.11309841]

>>11309836

[Anonymous No.11309848]

>>11309841
Goddamn file sizes sorry

[Anonymous No.11309867]

>>11309438
PCOS and endometriosis don't exist and every woman who's on the pill is a whore. HIV is only transmitted through sex and getting tested means you're a promiscuous slut.

[Anonymous No.11309948]

>>11309848
Spider bite?

[Anonymous No.11309970]

>>11309948
That was the doctors' guess but no signs of bite marks, and no pain. The other theory was giant hogsweed or similar but at the time I was in Ontario. I have more photos of the gore but they're too big. My guess is battery acid. A battery exploded in the engine compartment of a boat from overcharging, dried overtime, then when my sweaty leg contacted it, the acid activated. I came here to see if you guys had any ideas.

[Anonymous No.11310138]

>>11291020
Dude most surgeons do pretty well for their patients - surgeries can have some of the biggest positive impacts in patients lives, including otherwise fatal diseases like cancer if it’s caught early enough. But eg ortho surgery and lots of gen surg stuff is really helpful. Think alleviating the pain of gallstones or helping someone walk after their arthritis wrecked a hip. The real burnout specialties are like oncology or internal medicine where lots of people are on more of a managed decline.

[Anonymous No.11310229]

What's the long term prognosis if you get an L1 vertebral body replacement?
Considering it because I've had picrelated for two years, and it's really fucking awful having to spend an hour lying down exhausted with most of my back in lots of pain after spending a literal minute vacuuming my room, filing documents or scrubbing something. The pain isn't bad enough to need meds but it's so fucking constant that it's resulting in massive insecurity and depression even when I'm just sitting in a chair or trying to get to sleep. I'm only early 20s and these issues are likely to get worse with age from what I've been told. Even though this is apparently a stable injury it's becoming extremely hard to live with because it affects everything I do and means I have zero confidence in my body or capability to do things

[Anonymous No.11310409]

how do you improve circulation, /med/? It's mostly my face, hands and feet that go extremely red/blue in minor climate differences

[Anonymous No.11310413]

>>11309366
why? where from?

[Anonymous No.11310418]

>>11310409
-no ciggies
-no alcohol
-exercise
-generally moving more and reduce direct exposure to cold
in your case you also need to find out if your condition is primary or secondary. how old are you now and how old were you when you first noticed this?

[Anonymous No.11310482]

>>11310418
24, early puberty years when I started actively noticing it
It's very very noticeable when I go for a swim even in heated waters, my nose, hands and general face get this very pallid blue undertone to them. Feet go pink/red around the edges in contrast while the centre is normal, I'm not sure why this is the case

[Anonymous No.11310560]

>>11310482
it’s probably primary, but i suggest you have rheumatologist and cardiologist consultation

[Anonymous No.11310931]

>>11308174
Seriously what the fuck is this? It hasn't gone away but I haven't eaten anything sweet. The internet says it could be anything from diabetes to Alzheimer's and lung cancer kek. I'm personally tempted to think it's some kind of infection because it occasionally hurts whjen I swallow.

[Anonymous No.11310948]

>>11310931
Maybe it's gastroesophagal reflux

[Anonymous No.11311094]

>>11310931
Sometimes I get it if I eat too much bread.
In any case limit carbs and see what happens in a day or two.
It if doesn't go away go to a doctor.

[Anonymous No.11311098]

>>11309416
Stop taking it.
Looks like they are allergic to it.
Go to your doctor and tell him about it,there are suitable replacements like erythromycin that you will get a prescription for.

[Anonymous No.11311114]

>>11290664
I have rest pulse rate of 45 and my base body temperature is 35,6 celcius. I am 27 years old and I have no sports background or ain't too fit either. I wonder what is causing this?

[Anonymous No.11311119]

>>11311114
Also to add I don't use any medicine or drugs.

[Anonymous No.11311121]

>>11311114
>>11311119
Do you eat and drink enough?

[Anonymous No.11311123]

>>11311114
See doc

[Anonymous No.11311133]

>>11311121
Yes I do. 2,5-3,5 liters of water a day and I eat homemade food. I also avoid sugar as much as possible. I don't feel sick or have any symptoms that I have noticed. I am just very curious what is the cause of this.

[Anonymous No.11311136]

>>11311133
Maybe you have hypoglycemia

[Anonymous No.11311153]

>>11298263
>Why did doctors bother inventing this technique?
Because SCIENCE

>Surely at this point death would be preferable
Maybe now, but in the future he'd be fitted up for a rad cyborg body paid for by his at-fault employer.
Without this vital technique he'd be dead instead of a member of the bitchin' post-human elite

>why would someone still be doing manual labor in this era of super science?
For the same reason people are still making cheese by hand in France.

[Anonymous No.11311185]

>>11311094
The thing is I hardly eat bread.

[Anonymous No.11311239]

>>11311136
Would the doctors have spotted these through blood tests etc? I have had these "stats" my whole life and not once have they said anything. My blood pressures are 130 and 75.

[Anonymous No.11311284]

>>11311239
>My blood pressures are 130 and 75.
Sounds like isolated systolic hypertension to me.
You should get it checked out, maybe you have anemia, diabetes or something similar.

[Anonymous No.11311293]

>>11308174
You probably aspirated a piece of sweet food into your nasal cavity. As it dissolves, some sugar will leak back down the back of your throat. Your throat clearing helps move these particles across your taste buds.

[Anonymous No.11311299]

>>11309970
Damn dude. Get some fresh maggots on that. And maybe a solution of water and baking soda on the boat parts before it sinks

[Anonymous No.11311305]

>>11310229
I told your dumb ass to get a fucking brace

[Anonymous No.11311309]

>>11311114
The device your using to measure is faulty

[Anonymous No.11311345]

>>11311309
4 different devices?

[Anonymous No.11311379]

>>11309867
this but unironically

[Anonymous No.11311720]

Are old med books (pre-1960) still good for learning? Or should I try and find something better? (If so, what?)

[Anonymous No.11311794]

>>11311720
Pirate the recommended books on the /sci/ wiki.

[Anonymous No.11311897]

>>11290664
Hello. I believe I have developed some stomach ulcers and my stools are beginning to blacken and I'm starting to feel noticeably more tired each day. My stomach also hurts when eating/drinking. I'm currently on proton pump inhibitors, but do I need to go for an endoscopy or should things just fix themselves over a couple weeks?

[Anonymous No.11311905]

>have to get med images for various categories
>enter the disgusting department
>look up cats on google image to get a clean cut
>get that uncanny valley movie shit screenshots

As I am just learning mostly on my own with a side med job I am lucky that I haven't seen 99% of the disgusting stuff, but does everyone get used to it?

[Anonymous No.11311921]

>>11311897
Go to a Dr./ER ASAP.

[Anonymous No.11312181]

>>11311305
I've heard that braces are worse over the long run as you get very very reliant on them and you don't develop the stabilising muscles that you actually need. Besides that the injury happened two years ago, I really can't see a point in getting one now as the injury has well and truly "healed"

[Anonymous No.11312207]

>>11311905
never had a problem with it, the more fucked up the more interesting it is for me

[Anonymous No.11312253]

>>11311905
You get used to it quick but there will always be that one thing you'll always be slightly squeamish about.

[Anonymous No.11312270]

How is Khan Academy as a non Student? I would like to learn about medicine but I want something that gives me a sort of path and feedback and I have no time/money to go to Uni.

Of course is not like I would use it to pretend to be a doctor just to know more about the human body, how it works.

[Anonymous No.11312331]

What's the general medical community's view on transgender total genitalia surgery? As an outsider it just looks like mutilation

[Anonymous No.11312463]

>>11311921
Just went to doctor. Showed him picture of my stool and he said wasn't dark enough to worry about. But my blood tests show some higher than normal bilirubin levels which could indicate liver issues, and he felt lumps where I said there was pain in my stomach area. I'll go for an ultrasound.

[Anonymous No.11312466]

Are there actual doctors on 4chan? wtf

[Anonymous No.11312467]

>>11312466
Yes.

[Anonymous No.11312475]

>>11312466
I mean, pathologists aren't what I'd call "actual doctors"

[Anonymous No.11312480]

>>11312475
Why not

[Anonymous No.11312544]

>>11312480
The 3 "P"s
No patient interaction.
No prestige.
No pussy.

[Anonymous No.11312561]

>>11311114
Get your thyroid checked, hypothyroidism can cause hypothermia and low heart rate.

[Anonymous No.11312717]

>>11312181
Muscles are sacrificed to build bone and tissue. That is true of any immobilization.Your problem is you have ceased dealing with your symptoms. Don't come in here asking for help if you're not going to take it.

Now shut up and read this: Get the brace indicated in pic related. Whenever you are vertical, wear the brace. Straighten your back in good posture. Adjust the length to the maximum setting. Each day, adjust the stop to the maximum setting (will advance day by day). Maintaining this perfect, hyper-extended posture will allow for maximal bone remodeling, which is occurring all the time, not just "right after" injury.

Its your only hope, aside from reconstructive surgery at this point. Fire your doctors if they disagree with this treatment modality. Time in brace may extend many months, perhaps to years. Continue 3 month evaluations by X-ray. If there is no improvement you must continue to use the brace indefinitely until there is improvement.

Only after this adjustment occurs will you begin the very slow process of adjusting to weight bearing activities. Failure to follow these instructions may result in additional aggravating injury and disability. That pathway leads to pain management of nerve damage, which is frankly a poor prognosis.

[Anonymous No.11313001]

>>11312717
All right, thanks for the breakdown anon. I'll give that a shot

[Anonymous No.11313108]

>>11312466
yeah, one day your doctor treating you could be from these threads. how do you feel about that?

[Anonymous No.11313126]

>>11310138
General surgeon here.
I agree there is some job satisfaction, but the negatives far outweigh the positives for most of us.
Long hours in OR, following several inpatients to the brink of being unsafe, Clinic time and outpatient follow ups, it’s exhausting.
Medicaid and Medicare pays enough to barely break even if not lose money with gen surg.

[Anonymous No.11313383]

>>11312466
im a dentistry student and lurk here

[Anonymous No.11313418]

>>11311905
This. >>11312253
>>11312331
It's not popular in my country. My personal opinion is that I don't mind people doing it, but the data is inconclusive about people's wellbeing getting improved. So basiclally it has to be done more so that we know how it affects the mental status of trannies. But I'm quite liberal and biased (sometimes I fap to shemale porn) , my colleagues look at them like the general public does and their opinion isn't great.
>>11312544
This is retarded and you know it.
>>11312466
Why not?

[Anonymous No.11313427]

I had an abdominal ultrasound (for something unrelated which is now better) and they found a gallbladder polyp 5mm by 6mm in size. What ive read seems to say this isnt much to worry about, but my gp who ordered the ultrasound has sent me to get an opinion on whether or not i should have my gallbladder removed.
Generally id prefer to keep my organs if possible. What should i expect from all this?

[Anonymous No.11313572]

>>11313108
I would feel marginally safer.

[Anonymous No.11313677]

>>11303840
Bump

[Anonymous No.11314152]

I had a fever and a headache 4 days ago, but I felt fine the day after, and I don't know what virus or bacteria was making me ill, am I still contagious? I read online that people with the flu are contagious 5-7 days after they first felt ill, but I don't know what disease I had, and I recovered the day after. Can I be around elderly people without me infecting them?

[Anonymous No.11314200]

>>11313572
what. why?

[Anonymous No.11314539]

>>11314200
I feel any medanons here would have an attitude towards their patients that isn't neglectful. Don't ask me why, just a feeling.

[Anonymous No.11314609]

>>11314152
Yeah ur fine. Wash your hands

[Anonymous No.11314636]

>>11313427
>>11313427
I wouldn't trade a current state of health for a future state of health without an organ. The risk/reward assessment must take into account the risks of surgery and organ removal. Don't be talked into it. As long as it is benign, you can breathe easy, as polyps are common and frequently aren't a cause of problems. For your own research, look for studies of outcomes of gallbladder removal, and malignancies polyps on gallbladders to inform your decision making. Good luck.

[Anonymous No.11314746]

>>11303840
If it helps it October 2018, was 19, am 20 now. Still in college

[Anonymous No.11314759]

>>11314746
It was October 2018* I know it's been a long time but recently I started worrying that maybe I fucked something up.

[Anonymous No.11314812]

>>11314539
why?

[Anonymous No.11315379]

>>11290664
(I'm a dirty ESL, sorry if it doesn't make much sense, I have trouble making myself perfectly clear in english).
I have a specific question, I suffered what is called a jersey finger of the 3rd type (or rugby finger in my country) when I was younger, and my ring finger never fully recovered despite the surgery. I can't completely close my hand or apply much force because of it.
Is there a way to fully return to what it was once capable of or am I stuck with weak grip and a deficient finger for the rest of my life ?
I definitely intend to ask this question to my doctor but it might be in a little while and I want to start researching possible solutions now.

[Anonymous No.11315868]

>>11291031
B12 deficiency?

[Anonymous No.11316182]

>>11305034
Is that the thing Cato the Younger was trying to do but fucked up, so to prevent Caesar from saving his life he reached into his own stomach, grabbed his intestines and forcefully ripped them out of himself?

[Anonymous No.11317675]

>>11315868
Practically no one is B12 deficient

[Anonymous No.11317785]

>>11317675
t.b12deficient vegan

[Anonymous No.11317904]

why do kids with angelman’s syndrome have fascination/love for water?

[Anonymous No.11318473]

>>11317785
Practically no vegan is B-12 deficient.

[Anonymous No.11318477]

>>11315379
http://www.myhand.com.au/handouts/anatomy/tendon/flexor-tendon-injuries-tendon

[Anonymous No.11318480]

>>11318477
Thank you very much anon.

[Anonymous No.11318686]

>>11312463
Just came back from ultrasound. Found something in my liver, not sure what it is though. Will likely have to go for a CT scan. Feeling tired and weak.

[Anonymous No.11319048]

What are NPs, PAs, DOs?

[Anonymous No.11319128]

>>11290664
Hey, how does one cure schizophrenia?

[Anonymous No.11319149]

>>11318473
But how will I feel superior to people if I can't say they get less nutrients?

[Anonymous No.11319165]

>>11319149
personally seen even vegetarians with b12 defficiency. Listen fucker i was vegetarian myself and started eating meet agaun after having so many patients that were not meat eaters having b12 and/or iron defficiencies. even orthodox monks who only abstains from meat seasonally had it. you can believe what you won’t and fall for shilling thinking it doesn’t do any harm but not me.

[Anonymous No.11319180]

>>11319165
to add, you are not deficient for first 2-4 years of starting strict diet. after that it is basically unavoidable. specially if you’re a female.

[Anonymous No.11319217]

>>11319180
>after that it is basically unavoidable.
Why do /med/ threads attract people with the exact opposite of medical knowledge?

[Anonymous No.11319245]

>>11319217
you are gay

[Anonymous No.11319634]

>>11290664
Does bisoprolol lower anxiety?
I know it's cardio-selective, but through inhibiting the physical reaction concomitant of anxiety, it should eliminate the feedback loop, fairly comparable to propranolol, right?
Or is propranolol effective for anxiety through it's non-cardioselective effects

[Anonymous No.11319689]

The last few days ive been staying awake 24 hours and then sleeping 12 hours. Im kind of stuck in this pattern now.

Is this unhealthy or am i maintaining the correct ratio of awake to sleep and it doesn't really matter? I kind of have to do this again today for appointments. Am i going to be ok?

[Anonymous No.11319722]

>>11319689
as long as you get enough sunlight, eat correctly and your sleep schedule not interfering with appointments you should be fine

[Anonymous No.11319792]

>>11319634
Any beta blocker has efficacy for anxiety

[Anonymous No.11319884]

probably a bad place to ask
im starting to lose hair i think. im seeing a lot in my hands when i shower, maybe 10-15 the first time i run my hand through my hair. seems like it comes from the top right where my dad is bald instead of the front or sides. im 23. What should i do to slow this down?

[Anonymous No.11319925]

>>11319884
Depends how much money you’re willing to shell out

[Anonymous No.11319940]

Any docs got any tips for the GAMSAT? Planning on taking it for the second time this coming march.

[Anonymous No.11319943]

>>11319884
First make sure its not medical condition related.
I was in same spot as you and went to a dermatologist and been diagnosed with L21 - Seborrheic dermatitis so taking care of that slowed down hair problems.

[Anonymous No.11320074]

>>11318473
atrophic gastritis?

[Anonymous No.11320140]

>>11314812
why why?

[Anonymous No.11320373]

>>11319884
Nothing you can do, nothing you should do.

>>11319165
And so instead of supplements you convinced them to eat animal flesh, mmmkay.

[Anonymous No.11320380]

>>11318686
No harm in starting the physical fitness regimen you've been avoiding your whole life. Maybe a good time to pour out what's left of your alcohol collection. Maybe put your affairs in order.

[Anonymous No.11320382]

>>11319128
There is no cure (yet) stay tuned

[Anonymous No.11320384]

>>11319217
Hes right. Females can't find the supplement aisle

[Anonymous No.11320507]

>>11320074
Shots of B-12 straight to the dome for these unlucky individuals

[Anonymous No.11320572]

>>11319792
why do so few people report anxiolytic effects with beta blockers other than propranolol then?

[Anonymous No.11320626]

>>11320380
It's likely been a mix of lifestyle factors. I can be quite sedentary with poor diet and routine at times, but I'm also active at the other times. The omeprazole I'm taking for my acid reflux may be having a negative impact on my liver, so I'll try coming off it and just handling the reflux symptoms. I haven't been able to eat much lately due to nausea/discomfort, so that might actually help with forcing me to control my diet for my stomach issues.

[Anonymous No.11320645]

>wake up every morning with rapidly racing heart
>throughout the entire day it never really subsides to a normal pace
>constant sense that there's an active barrier keeping me from taking full breaths, I have to actually focus on breathing to do it
>constantly exhausted, probably due to how my heart is working overtime
How do I improve this? I'm not overweight, and don't use alcohol or any forms of caffeine, only medications are the ones I've been prescribed for asthma

[Anonymous No.11320702]

>>11320645
Could be hypertension or more urgent issue. You need to see a doctor immediately.

[Anonymous No.11320749]

>>11320645
go to a cardiologist anon.

[Anonymous No.11320861]

>>11290664
What's your take about CoronaVirus from Wuhan; China, /sci/entists ?

[Anonymous No.11320979]

>>11320861
We don't know yet. Its spread pattern should resemble the progression in China, unless the CDC can limit the spread. If it takes off there will probably be public health emergencies declared and schools will be closed

[Anonymous No.11321583]

>>11320373
no they needed supplements because you can’t replenish that state with foods anymore, but why go to that state even if you can avoid it with eating adequately?

[Anonymous No.11321613]

>>11292497
if you're still around, look up examkrackers and berkley review for MCAT.

they have a lot of material out there and essentially compressed books that might give you the knowledge you need to know in enough depth to do alright. They're obviously a lot better for MCAT than they are for GAMSAT (Aus/NZ) and UKCAT or w/e it's called for the UK.

the exact exam will help to dictate what type of study you do, what your focuses are on etc. MCAT is very content heavy and you NEED the knowledge to pass. You could be einstein himself and not pass that exact if you haven't done the study. GAMSAT is getting less content heavy in favour of contextual/derived information from graphs/tables etc which makes GAMSAT less easy to study for, but easier to excel in without study.

it all comes down to working hard, identifying your flaws and patching them, and praying that the shit you're better at turns up on the exam and the shit you suck at stays off it.

[Anonymous No.11321616]

>>11307498
sounds like eustachian tube dysfunction desu.

do you find that you get muffled/hollowed hearing occasionally, and made worse with exercise/dehydration?

[Anonymous No.11321635]

>>11292722
Do you consider yourself a good doctor anon?

[Anonymous No.11321895]

>>11319128
Like all chronic desease, it's managed, not cured.
>>11320861
With propper epidemiological meassures it shouldn't be a problem for the world.

[Anonymous No.11322075]

>right lower back is slightly duller than the rest of my back in terms of sensation due to falling off a wall a few months back
>there are no other ill effects
Is this fixable, or should I just count myself lucky that I didn't end up like the L1 hypochondriac?

[Anonymous No.11322165]

>>11320861
Propaganda.
This boy cried wolf shit is going on for some time and frankly it starts to scare me.
I love how every media outlet started to report on it the moment 1 person died.
Total casualty count is 6 and we dont even know if the virus is the cause,just that they had pneumonia and not much more.
Right now there are dozens of people dying from the flu every hour throughout the world but I dont see anyone reporting on it.
What happened to the swine flu?
Who knows the main thing is that my country decided as a preventative measure to _eradicate_ all swine and the price for a piece of bacon to skyrocket.
Oh yes and to this day there is not a single swine was confirmed to have the disease.

[Anonymous No.11322644]

>>11302701
Treat your anxiety.

[Anonymous No.11322918]

>>11320861
I searched into the Who and CDC page, is there no microscope image available yet?

It seems other journals are republishing images of other corona virus right now.

[Anonymous No.11323779]

>>11291031
maybe pityriasis versicolor? do you have more of those on your neck, chest or back?

[Anonymous No.11324160]

About to start bactrim for acne after being on doxycycline then minocycline for about a year each. My derm said I could try that or accutane and because I'm scared accutane is going to give me depression I'm going to wait and see if this works first- is this actually a good recommendation? I posted about this here a month or so ago and someone said my derm was full of shit and that I shouldn't have been prescribed this

[Anonymous No.11324168]

>>11324160
Forgot to add I've been using Epiduo (adapalene & benzoyl peroxide) most of this time and this new script is also for a sulfur & resorcinol cream

[Anonymous No.11324214]

>>11324160
What the fuck is wrong with your face

[Anonymous No.11324243]

Are there any good books and textbooks that can give me a good insight about performing as a surgeon?

[Anonymous No.11324281]

my hematologist said my body is suffocating and that it is increasing hemoglobin to compensate for my shortness of breath, I no longer speak to other people because it is exhausting to hold a conversation it makes it hard to breathe...

I got a chest x-ray and the radiologist said it looks like chronic bronchitis. I also constantly have a heart rate of 100 bpm for over a year.

everything started almost 6 years ago when I noticed I was losing my memory it was around my 16th birthday and I became very aware that my brain cells were dying, I went and told everyone I was terminally ill and nobody listened and now its happening for real and everyone thinks its a delusion.
I told the doctors and they misdiagnosed me as a hypochondriac, with delusions...

next week I will go to the pulmonary functions lab and demonstrate that I am unable to complete the test, I tried last year but the machine is extremely painful and challenging to breathe into so the nurse sent me home because I failed to breathe strong enough for an hour.

[Anonymous No.11324333]

>>11324214
Wish I knew, shit just doesn't go away. It's not super bad otherwise I would have tried accutane earlier but it's bad enough that I want to treat it

[Anonymous No.11324401]

Anyone got any input on applying for med school in Australia? About to turn 25 and debating if I wanna apply right away. I've got some things I'd like to do before going into medicine, namely help my friend with his energy startup, and maybe tefl for a year or two as a means to travel. Gonna to start working on the gamsat soon. Anything I should know about various schools? I've heard different things about various programs, some people say they have no free time and others say it was easier than undergrad. I'm not adverse to hard work but I'd like to know what I'm getting into so I can plan. I should note I also have Canadian citizenship so I could apply there too but honestly I doubt I'd get in since I'd be applying out of province making things much harder. Plus I'd have to start studying for the MCAT and gamsat, thoughts?

[Anonymous No.11324478]

>>11324401
currently doing gamsat study now and interviewed (unsuccessfully) at USYD in 2019.

it's hard to be really specific because it's ultimately based on your background. if you have no science background, it is a giant pain in the ass whereas a strong science background helps a lot for obvious reasons.

australian medical schools are basically massive cash cows that lure in enormous amounts of foreign students (UQ literally changed from MBBS to MD to please chinese and american students whose countries recognise MD more so than MBBS). This makes it a giant shit of a process for domestic students, where you can have thousands of candidates who all did very well in the exam fight for 60 spots in some instances. If you aren't from smackbang in the middle of a major city, look up the GEMSAS rurality guide to see if you classify as rural. If you do, you can literally get scores of like 58-60 and be accepted into the best schools in australia, versus scores of 70+ for metro students.

the best thing you can do is look at which schools interest you, and see what hoops they want you to jump through. UOM has 2nd year pre-requisites that they're scrapping after this year, Deakin uni has all of this BS bonuses that stack and reward study at their uni as well as financial hardship, work full-time etc. The entire process remains convoluted because you still pay to apply, and if you don't meet their criteria or your score doesn't match up because of stupid bonuses or conditions, you have still paid so they don't give a shit.

as for gamsat, it's fucking hard. people enjoy this weird flex shit where they come out and say it was easy no worries, but it really isn't. I know people who did umat and gamsat, and everyone has said gamsat is much harder. it's also now a giant pain in the ass to prepare for because it's far less content heavy than it used to be in favour of context. that makes it a giant fuck around and can tear strips off 3 months of solid study in 6 hours.

[Anonymous No.11324492]

>>11324478
Appreciate the info man, I wasn't aiming for UQ myself since I'd heard about it being a factory for foreign med students fucking up the process for domestic. I was looking at ANU (I know Canberra lol but they seem the least BS to get into), Deakin, Griffith, Usyd and others cause GEMSAS. I did a BSc at UBC in Canada and managed a 6.93 GPA so ideally if I can hold down this gamsat test I hope to be competitive. I don't count for rural though, checked but good call. Good luck anon.

[Anonymous No.11324508]

>>11324492
Different guy but I can vouch for gamsat being hard. Most of the people I know wanting to do med have had to wait a few years because they've failed the first few times. Deakin is fine and I think ANU is too, though I don't know much about their med schools or med school in general.

[Anonymous No.11324513]

>>11324508
Welp fuck. It's either that or the MCAT in Canada so not getting off the hook either way. If it takes a while that's life. Thanks for the info anon.

[Anonymous No.11324523]

>>11324401
Would tefl not help your application in some instances? I know in NA schools you want lots of varied extracurriculars, so you could use that if you applied to portfolio schools.

[Anonymous No.11324547]

>>11324492
Griffth is apparently a very good school and their graduates along with Bond are favoured in hospitals as the most competent and not aspergers.

ANU do have a bit of a fuck around process with rewarding higher degrees like masters, PHD's etc so whilst their gamsat + GPA are pretty attainable, there is also a 2% or something bonus if you have done a higher degree which doesnt make itself apparent. That's also why Deakin's scores look so low - because they're scores before the bonuses which makes them fucking huge (stacks up to 12% score onto your gamsat + GPA).

Your GPA is very good though, so a school like griffith would be a good bet because they don't fuck around with bonuses, take GPA into account for your score as opposed to it being nothing more than a hurdle, and take roughly 2/3 of interviewees. If your weighted GPA is 6.93, the usual calculation for a score is (GPA/7) + (gamsat/100), and Griffith usually take a 1.61 to 1.62 minimum. That means you need a gamsat of like 63 which is easily doable.

[Anonymous No.11324765]

I'm working on a new OP for the general.
What would you like to see in it? Also post useful resources (links, books, videos) which could be added

[Anonymous No.11324772]

>>11324281
You have to do the functional test anon.
>>11324765
Some useful links. Replace spacebars with dots.
gen lib rus ec
gettheresearch org/search
en bookfi net/
www pdfdrive com/
radiopaedia org/
sci-hub tw/
abg ninja/abg

[Anonymous No.11324868]

>>11324547
Good to know. I'll have to preference griffith higher, I've been preferencing places that take into account GPA as a factor rather than a hurdle.

[Anonymous No.11325027]

>>11324765
your tits desu i would like to see those

[Anonymous No.11325043]

>>11324765
I would like a discussion that once and for all concludes whether it is or isn't worth getting into medicine.

[Anonymous No.11325071]

Is it humanly possible for a doctor to work 36 hours in a row?
Asking for a friend of a friend who works as an auditor.

[Anonymous No.11325088]

>>11325071
Yeah, happens a lot in residency. They used to all be on coke during WWII or some shit and afterwards the hours just never improved (depends on the type of residency and location as well). Now it's stimulates or willpower and naps

[Anonymous No.11325095]

>>11324478
>>11324401
I wouldn't do Canada since it's competitive as shit for generally worse pay and working in what's rated as a worse healthcare system overall. That said DO NOT do full fee international in Australia, there's a significant chance you won't match back or get internship etc. after having spent all your money.

[Anonymous No.11325103]

>>11325088
Huh, neat.

[Anonymous No.11325188]

>>11325071
yeah but after 24 hours you are more harm to patient than good

[Anonymous No.11325211]

>>11325071
Sure but its not needed.

[Anonymous No.11325263]

>>11325188
>>11325211
Don't most countries now limit how much docs can work without a break and even weekly with significant compensation? I think only the USA still has crazy hours for residency (like 80 to 100 per week) and even then that's in stuff like ortho or plastics. Even in residency it supposed to be between 37-50 hours MAX depending on where you're practicing so you don't get tired and fuck up

[Anonymous No.11325300]

>>11325263
yeah there are limits

[Anonymous No.11325307]

>>11325300
What are they in you're area if you don't mind me asking?

[Anonymous No.11325491]

>>11325307
well in my country there were no regulations at all and it was thirdworld tier but now there are some laws being made up that does not allow doctors to work more than two clinics, limited hours(im not sure about actual numbers), limited work related electronic screen exposure times etc. But im not sure when it will go into action or will it be checked and monitored. we have WAY bigger problems in health care and medical education.

[Anonymous No.11325655]

Is there something to make me less angry? A chill pill?

[Anonymous No.11325691]

>>11299410
>>11296050
Thanks, I haven't started medschool yet, so thanks for the advice.

[Anonymous No.11325955]

>>11292115
You'll have a better shot at cutting the carotid.
More messier, requires you to know a little about anatomy or you'll end up cutting wrong and bleeding like an idiot.

[Anonymous No.11325958]

Why is urology full of total bros and girls who are chill but obgyn is mostly full of bitches? It makes me sad as a female that a lot women are like this in one of a few female dominated fields in medicine(and professionals in general). It also made me consider family medicine (women's health focus) instead. Why is this a thing? It's almost worst than the personalities in general surgery. Perhaps it's stress? The schedule for obgyn's are more hectic(OR and deliveries all day + primary care).
Urology is straight up Urogentital surgeries and some clinic days thrown in.
Idk, but its completely off putting. =(

[Anonymous No.11325974]

>>11325655
Are you bipolar or have you ever been diagnosed with ADHD?
Do you find yourself staying up all night multiple nights in a row with no need for sleep?
Do you go on spending/shopping sprees and regret it later?
Do you feel that you're unstoppable sometimes?
Do you have racing thoughts?
Do you find it hard to concentrate?
Have you always been figity?
Do you get easily distracted?
Give me straight answers to all these questions.
I'm assuming this is what you want eh? For people here to give you a free evaluation on the internet?

[Anonymous No.11326075]

>>11325974
>no
>no. I sleep a lot. Sometimes 11 hours
>no
>not sure what you mean by unstoppable
>no
>only if its boring or im anxious
>only when anxious or irritated
>yes

[Anonymous No.11326262]

>>11325958
Women's ability to be tolerable goes down dramatically as they stop being surrounded by men. Women without external masculinity acting as a social barrier/containment, become bossy, bitchy, arrogant, neurotic, narcissistic, etc.

[Anonymous No.11326386]

>>11292359
lmao literally matched urology a week ago. Urine is the Champagne of body fluids anon

[Anonymous No.11326742]

>>11324765
I have nothing to contribute, just want to say thanks for making these.

Rather than ask you to put it in the OP, I'll just ask it here. What specialties do you guys foresee making significantly more/less in the next 10 years or so? I'm in 2nd year in Canada and was strongly considering IM (specifically cardiology), but I did a psych elective and really enjoyed it. The pay for psych is (relatively) shit though, and desu it deters me. Even outside of psych, wondering what specialties you all foresee making more $$

[Anonymous No.11327019]

>>11292359
what's wrong with urology?

[Anonymous No.11327036]

>>11326262
Based and incelpilled

[Anonymous No.11327042]

>>11327019
>spending literally your entire adult life looking at dicks

[Anonymous No.11327094]

Who's making the new thread?

[Anonymous No.11327172]

here
>>11327170