/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.11497387]

/med/ - Medicine General: Janny has a chest-xray edition

Thread for the discussion of allopathic evidence-based medicine. We discuss research, offer advice (the best one is to see your family physician), make fun of premeds and shitpost.

[Anonymous No.11497388]

>>11497387

[Anonymous No.11497409]

>>11497388
>>11497387
Is this an american?

[Anonymous No.11497417]

>>11497387
that lloks like on of those lamin type defects, that means you have fucked up bones.

[Anonymous No.11497485]

>>11497387
is COVID chat allowed in this thread or do you want to keep it specifically non-COVID

[Anonymous No.11497945]

>>11497409
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7APmRkatEU

[Anonymous No.11497974]

>>11497409
Even if they aren't, it looks like they still have an American spirit

[Anonymous No.11498028]

reminds me of this guy, could be someone with the same sort of condition
love this gif

[Anonymous No.11498036]

>>11497387
>>11497388
>>11498028
What am I looking at

[Anonymous No.11498133]

>>11497485
there are more than 30 threads about COVID19

[Anonymous No.11498180]

>>11498133
mostly without medically trained personnel discussing non-snese

[Anonymous No.11498578]

Are there any correlations between coeliac disease, diabetes type 1 and sclerosis multiplex?

[Anonymous No.11498753]

>>11498578
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22385519
Here you go lad, next time just fucking google it

[Anonymous No.11499781]

>>11497387
What the fuck is that? Osteogenesis imperfecta?

[Anonymous No.11499866]

>>11498133
>we want a medicine thread
>but we don't want to discuss the single most important topic in medicine of the decade
???

[Anonymous No.11499878]

any way to remove scars at home? or reduce them?

[Anonymous No.11499879]

>>11497387
>Watched a CT of some dude that ate a .38 special through the back of his head.
>The round came out of his eye
>His fucking brain scan lit up like a fucking Christmas tree due to all the fragmentation
Fucking brutal.

[Anonymous No.11500045]

>>11499878
sandpaper and knives, I'd wager

[Anonymous No.11500067]

>>11499879
was it some kind of special projectile? .38 doesn't really move fast enough to fragment, pic related is the worst out of ~40 different ammo types tested here:

https://www.luckygunner.com/labs/self-defense-ammo-ballistic-tests/

[Anonymous No.11500072]

these meme rounds are pretty cool, would you just leave most of these shards in if this was a person instead of ballistic gel?

[Anonymous No.11500079]

I don't mean to troll, I just want to make sure medfags know what kind of sweet bullets they might have to pull out of people. I'd use something like wire clippers on this one to cut off the petals before extraction.

[Anonymous No.11500100]

>>11497387
anyone else having trouble breathing?

[Anonymous No.11500286]

Simple question for medbros. How many of you refuse to leave your homes for any reason and stockpiled groceries weeks ago? Or, how often do you go shopping and do you wear any PPE when out in grocery stores?

[Anonymous No.11500869]

Is it normal for a man to become so sexually aroused that he blushes like crazy? I’m not asking for me, I’m asking for a friend

[Anonymous No.11500910]

>>11498180
As if it matters.
This is an anonymous board and faggots will just larp: "doc here, dealing with thousands of infected crammed into tents, dozens of deaths every day, end of the world"

[Anonymous No.11500986]

>>11497485
of course it is allowed, feel free to discuss anything about it except shit like ‘do i hab the covid brahs?’

[Anonymous No.11500990]

>>11500286
i volunteered in quarantine on the first week, only plebs fear death.

[Anonymous No.11501001]

>>11500990
this mother fucker gets it

[Anonymous No.11501011]

>>11499879
> IM intern
> Night shift
> radiology PGY3 buddy calls me down
>"you won't believe what happened"
>old man got shot in head as teeneager, didn't tell anyone
>goes for MRI
>we laughed at his results all night.
>radiologist got fired

[Anonymous No.11501015]

>>11499866
>of the decade

[Anonymous No.11501434]

>>11501011
kek

[Anonymous No.11501745]

>>11498036
Google reverse image search results just said it's severe kyphosis.

OP is a faggot.

[Anonymous No.11501753]

>>11501011
Lmao why did he get fired? Radiology docs and techs talk the biggest shit. You always see some fun shit on night shift.

[Anonymous No.11502343]

>>11501011
>mri
>shot in the head and didn't tell anyone (meaning the bullet or what's left of is still there)
is he ded?

[Anonymous No.11502351]

>>11502343
Good fucking lord, that image makes me cringe.

[Anonymous No.11502429]

Can someone help direct me to a website that has 3d models of human bones? Specifically models derived from medical imaging.

[El Arcón No.11502645]

I was so fixated on those shallow implants around 6 o'clock to 9 o'clock, I didn't notice the huge array of gigantic bead-on-a-wire implants at 12 o'clock at twice or thrice the usual depth in my anus. Most of them I can feel by putting my finger in to the end of my fingernail but these 12 o'clock ones are at the 2-2.5 knuckle depth. Seems like they might be om the underside of the second anal sphincter while most of them near 6:00-9:00 are clearly between the first and second anal sphincters.

[Anonymous No.11502655]

>>11502343
cursed image

[Anonymous No.11502704]

>>11500067
depends on grain and the gun it was fired out of... a .38 out of a snub vs a 6 inch barrel are super different. look down the rifling of a taurus 627 vs a highway patrol 4.25 vs a snub nose and terminal velocity is very different.

[Anonymous No.11502730]

>>11501011
I don't get it ;_;

[Anonymous No.11503020]

Hi. Sometimes when I hear sharp of loud, sudden noises it sounds like something in my ears resonates with it, there is a response of something ringing in my head(although the feeling is more accurately described as some ball rolling in my head with a lot of friction, the response is low-pitched).
What causes it? Does this condition have a name or does everyone experiences this?
It's not regular too, sometimes I hear noises and there's no response in my head.

[Anonymous No.11503040]

>>11502343
I had to work in a room with one of these in it, they showed me this training video where they slowly fed an end wrench on a fish scale (for weighing fish) into the center of the hole, and it weighed 50 lbs at the point it entered the hole. I'd never take off my belt like I was supposed to and it would pull on my belt buckle if I got close to it.

[Anonymous No.11503047]

>>11503020
sounds like you have a gremlin, they are similar to toilet witches but they live in heads instead of toilets. you have someone blow sage smoke into your ears, they hate it and will leave after a few days, but you have to make sure it's awake. it sounds like you have one that sleeps sometimes.

[Anonymous No.11503049]

>>11497387
>premeds
what is that? /med/ is an european thread

[Anonymous No.11503052]

>>11502704
Hitting 1/4" of skull first also might tend to knock a bullet apart where bare ballistic gel wouldn't.

[Anonymous No.11503217]

>>11503049
when do euros start med school?

[Anonymous No.11503220]

>>11503049
>>11503217
i mean what age

[Anonymous No.11503388]

Some time ago I had a weird feeling in the back of my head, but inside, like someone was poking my brain. It lasted for a few seconds then as it got stronger it ended with a loud popping sound and some crackling after that. I felt dizzy for a couple of minutes then nothing else.
What can it be?

[Anonymous No.11503395]

>>11503220
around 19, after high school

[Anonymous No.11503453]

kys fat fuck

[Anonymous No.11503580]

how does juuling compare to regular cigs?

[Anonymous No.11503594]

>>11503049
>an
Stop being retarded, you're embarassing the other Europeans in this thread.

[Anonymous No.11503996]

Desperate for advice. There is a spot circled here that is both tingling and itching almost 24/7 and it's driving me insane. My right arm is also weaker than usual and a bit cold. What do I do to make this stop? Don't feel like going to a doctor right now for something non corona related.

[Anonymous No.11504014]

>>11503996
see a neurologist

you might have herniated a disc

[Anonymous No.11504018]

>>11497387
Why doesn't /med/ like premeds if all the US students were premeds at one point?

[Anonymous No.11504035]

>>11504014
Is there anything I can do in the meanwhile? Getting an appointment for that kind of doctor isn't immediate

[Anonymous No.11505051]

>>11504035
One more bump in desperation

[Anonymous No.11505302]

>>11505051
massage therapy

[Anonymous No.11506360]

>>11504018
because premeds are shits niga

[Anonymous No.11507113]

I submitted my application at the last minute and I have interviews next fucking week
What the fuck do I say

[Anonymous No.11507205]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MT072688

someone explain how this sequence of random letters are supposed to encode a form of life? evolutiontards are pathetic

[Anonymous No.11507282]

>>11497387
in case anyone here cares: Papers about effectiveness of basic masks
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HLrm0pqBN_5bdyysOeoOBX4pt4oFDBhsC_jpblXpNtQ/preview#

[Anonymous No.11507329]

my wisdom tooth has been bleeding for more than a week. wtf do I do to stop it? I fear it may get infected.

[Anonymous No.11507332]

>>11507205
>someone explain how this sequence of random 0s and 1s are supposed to encode a program? programmers are pathetic

[Anonymous No.11507386]

>>11507205
viruses aren't alive

[Anonymous No.11507411]

I've been on ritalin for one month now, currently on 20 mg of ritalin la (it has another name in my country but its pretty much the same thing).

I have been diagnosed with adhd (as well as autism). Ritalin obviously help me with focus, but even with the la I still feel like it's too short acting, I can only read up to about 4-5 hours total a day on very specific hours (the two times the dose start taking effect).

Also another thing despite my focus being better I still can't get ride of some anxious memories that keep poping in my head (always had them, the ritalin even helps control them better but they are still there).
I'm reluctant on talking about it to my pratician because I'm afraid he will put me off ritalin thinking I have something else than adhd (law is very strict here on that kind of medication).

I don't know if it's just the dosage that is too low or me that is excepting too much from the medication?

[Anonymous No.11507541]

>>11507411

>feel like it's too short acting, I can only read up to about 4-5 hours total a day

If those are 4 to 5 hours of uninterrupted focus, you're asking ritalin to make you a superhuman. That's the limit unless you want to do crystal meth.

[Anonymous No.11507649]

does taking a base help with acid reflux? nothing crazy just some sodium bicarbonate.

[Anonymous No.11507679]

Well /med/?

[Anonymous No.11507709]

>>11507679
most to least: 3, 1, 2, 4

[Anonymous No.11507783]

I have tremendous burning pain in my left leg every day. The doctors have put me on gabapentin, lyrica, cymbalta etc and it hasn’t helped. Any temporary solution ideas? Some kind of food vitamin oil etc that doctors don’t normally advocate for ? They think it’s nerve damage from an accident on my right leg

[Anonymous No.11508049]

>>11507386
*tips*

[Anonymous No.11508665]

>>11502645
Based anal obsessed schizo with no Anatolia knowledge

[Anonymous No.11508850]

All my exams got cancelled so there goes my bachelor degree this year. Any tips to maximize my studying untill this is over? Also can I be of any use during this pandemic or do hospitals etc just want residents at this point?

[Anonymous No.11509201]

>>11508049
cringe incel

[Anonymous No.11509457]

>>11508850
>tfw got accepted into top school easily because I already had my bachelor's

[Anonymous No.11510815]

Are there anything better to treat severe acne than retinoids?

[Anonymous No.11511145]

>>11507709
agreed

[Anonymous No.11511159]

I am curious /med/, do you do any academic learning beyond medicine? Like dabble into astronomy or some shit? Or do you have no time at all?

[Anonymous No.11511244]

>>11511159
Depends on what you mean.
Lots of my colleagues are incredibly well read.
And astronomy's for chumps and fags

[Anonymous No.11511252]

How does insurance work? Do I just see a doctor, give them the insurance card, and then get a bill, or do I have to call the insurance company myself and deal with all of that?

[Anonymous No.11511328]

>>11509201
when someone has only one thing of value it's natural that their go-to insult would be accusing their opponent of a lack of that thing

[Anonymous No.11511355]

>>11511244
I just mean that do you do other shit beyond learning anatomy. Like learning about Geopolitics or Quantum Mechanics etc... Or do you have no time?

[Anonymous No.11511455]

>>11511355
If you know how to manage your time, you won't have a problem.

[Anonymous No.11511493]

>>11497387
Someone should run CT scans on jannies, find out why they are so retarded.

[Anonymous No.11512073]

>>11511328
>opponent
*teleports*

[Anonymous No.11512134]

>>11500067
>fired through a skull
>the same as hitting fancy jello
gunfags always prove themselves retarded the second they post

[Anonymous No.11512185]

>>11502730
MRI machine is an extremely powerful magnet, the poor guy could have his brain scrambled into shit

[Anonymous No.11512196]

>>11512185
but aluminum has a higher interaction than lead

[Anonymous No.11512683]

I've had a mild pain in this area since last night. Is it appendicitis? It's happened to me many times in the past with varying degrees of severity and went away on its own, but now it feels a bit different.

[Anonymous No.11512783]

Guys, I have a question about Corona.
The experimental hydroxichloroquine treatment, as far as I understand it, aims at getting Zinc into the cells, where it inhibits the viruses ability to replicate. Apparently this has only been proven to work in vitro, and we'll have to wait on the outcome of the various studies that are currently done to see if it works in humans.

My question is this: Why can the theoretical mechanism that is suspected to make chloroquine work NOT be replicated with a different type of ionophore. For instance, Quercetin is an ionophore and should, in combination with Zinc, produce similar results in vitro. In fact, if this worked, it would be much preferable to Chloroquine since Quercetin (and of course Zinc) are non-perscription supplements which come with a much lower risk of creating side-effects (which can be severe with Chloroquine, such as sudden cardiac arrest). However, since Quercetin is not being used (or even considered) there must be a fairly apparent reason why it wouldn't work at all. If a medfag could elaborate that would be great, this has been nagging me.
I'm just a NEET trying to survive...

[Anonymous No.11512790]

>>11507649
you have something against ppi?

[Anonymous No.11512861]

hey /med/, non-medical/biology fag here. is cytokine storm the one and only lethal effect of coronavirus? as in, death by COVID-19 = having the immune system react badly + (possibly) having a precondition?

[Anonymous No.11512881]

>>11507649
it does. I do that when I lack pills.

BTW, from what I've read, omeprazole prevents the absorption of minerals in the stomach, which can cause damage to the stomach and bones if omeprazole is taken for too long. what other damage can it do? what are some similar alternatives? is esomeprazole better regarding damage?

I have hiatal hernia. I've been taking omeprazole daily (20mg before breakfast) for almost 10 years... am I fucked? been eating seafood (lots of magnesium and other minerals) once a month or so (in the morning, before taking omeprazole) in case it helps.

[Anonymous No.11512886]

>>11511252
Someone help, I have autism and I'm going to cry if I embarrass myself

[Anonymous No.11513025]

>>11512861
nope

[Anonymous No.11513810]

>>11512790
it's a prescription drug and my acid refluxes are an occasional thing not a daily thing.

[Anonymous No.11513971]

When dealing with patients, how often do you just nod and say "I understand" when you really you have no idea what they're talking about? I'm a mechanic (a different but equal kind of doctor) and I do that quite often.

[Anonymous No.11514005]

what do you people think about >>11512738 ?

[Anonymous No.11514007]

>>11514000
Asking for a friend

[Anonymous No.11514040]

>>11512683
Do you have fever or are vomiting?

[Anonymous No.11514195]

why are my balls sore?

[Anonymous No.11514197]

>>11513971
If it's irrelevant, all the fucking time. If it's potentially relevant, very rarely if ever.

[Anonymous No.11514345]

>>11514040
No.

[Anonymous No.11514673]

>>11512783
your post is nothing but schizo ramblings

most times medicines don't work by 100 IQ-tier logic, there are numerous factors that can be controlled, can't be controlled, could be known, are not discovered

>I'm just a NEET trying to survive...
you are a midwit doing the equivalent of crystal healing but with worthless multivitamins and minerals

[Anonymous No.11514693]

Every month I get a furuncle growing in (almost) exactly same place. Any advice?

[Anonymous No.11514709]

>>11502343
/fit/ here, I could remove that for you.

[Anonymous No.11514710]

26 yo anon here
am i too old to study medic?

[Anonymous No.11514721]

Anyone here have experience with Australian medschool?
Is there anything I could do part-time which could knock time off going full-time in the future?
I'm a research scientist in a medical company and they've got a pretty decent education allowance for doing part-time degrees but obviously I wouldn't be able to go full-time and still work.

[Anonymous No.11514724]

>28 year old skellington
>need to take a piss, do so
>2 minutes after leaving bathroom i feel the need to pee again
>go back to toilet and wait for something to happen
>old man dripple.png
Been like this for a year now, what is this bullshit?

[Anonymous No.11514725]

>>11512783
You want a medicinal chemist not a medfag. Doctors are technicians working with the tools they're given, aside from the odd person with a dual degree or the clinical researcher most of them will have no idea what to look at with the stuff you're talking about.

[Anonymous No.11514751]

Any pathfags? How's the US market for us? Looking to leave Londonistan once and for all

[Anonymous No.11514752]

>>11514724
check your prostate

[Anonymous No.11514754]

>>11514724
Sounds like prostate warning light.

[Anonymous No.11514757]

What is better for your lower back? A more firm bed or a soft bed?

[Anonymous No.11514767]

regarding zinc and chloroquine >>11512871

[Anonymous No.11514795]

what us the highest IQ spec in medicine?
Lowest?

[Anonymous No.11514855]

>>11497387
Who is the ultimate doctor?

[Anonymous No.11514857]

>>11514757
whichever hurts less when you wake up

[Anonymous No.11514920]

a good internist or EM

[Anonymous No.11514928]

>>11514855
a good internist or EM
hon. mention: some of the old school general surgeons

[Anonymous No.11514947]

When are we going to end the overinflated self-worth of medical doctors?
We are losing billions every year paying these retards more than they are actually worth.
>1) All evidence shows that the average IQ of a medical doctor is roughly in the 110 - 115 IQ range. Meanwhile, the mean IQ for Engineering and Physics is around 125 - 130. That's up to one standard deviation higher on average.
>2) Much of the typical intellectual content is rote learning and the general quality of the intellectual content is much lower than most other fields in STEM. Biologists learn more difficult biology, Chemists more difficult chemistry, and so forth.
>3) Doctors are only highly paid because of artificial supply. If you removed the limit of doctors that can be trained every year, salaries would crash immediately and doctors would be paid closer to their true economic value as the market will reach equilibrium.
>4) Any retard (as shown by the average IQ) can get into medical school if they grind enough and practice psychometric tests
>5) Most of the work done by the average medical doctor can soon be automated or delegated to other medical professionals. The only necessary medical doctors are specialists and surgeons.
Why are we letting these midwits extort us?

p.s.
I'm a chemical engineering Chad and I hate the smugness of med students. I have yet to meet one that wasn't a completely self-satisfied midwit.

[Anonymous No.11515001]

When I was a youngun I probably had an infection around my testicle, I'm sure of this because my ejaculate had blood in it for a short time.
Now I have a cyst on my right nut.
Does this thing have any effect? Or is it just gonna lumpily hang around doing nothing?

[Anonymous No.11515154]

>>11515001
If you to go a doctor about this they'll probably want to remove it. If you're lucky you might be able to bargain with them and get the other one removed at the same time.

[Anonymous No.11515204]

>>11514928
Good general surgeon should also be a good internist while the opposite isn’t necessary and is hard to achieve

[Anonymous No.11515211]

>>11514947
wonder if you’ll change your opinion once you are on a ER bed having heart attack and shitting your pants

[Anonymous No.11515270]

I'm a retard and got radiation dose

>gf had a radioiodine pill therapy
>go visit her next day
>ask how long we should keep distance (she told me there are some limitations before she got the therapy)
>she said that she asked doctor (or nurse) and they said we could cuddle for about hour a day and sleep in same bed as long as we are 1 meter apart
>spend the night, kiss, have sex
>see the written recommendations form next day
>we shouldn't sleep together for 7 days, no kissing/cuddling for 3
>read about this stuff, even saliva and sweat are radioactive
>get into fight, she call me paranoid

>tfw I may get cancer because my stupidity and not looking it up myself

I don't know if the personnel is retarded and really told they that we can sleep in same bad and cuddle or she lied to me. But Im wondering how much radiation did I really get and If Im gone be fine.

[Anonymous No.11515316]

>>11515270
ok mongoloid, I'll waste my time by replying to you

the dose you received will never be higher than the dose your gf received
and your gf would have not received a dose that really put her in danger
so can you understand with simple logic what I am trying to say?
do you need me to spell it out for you?

you are over-reacting because you are just a simple minded midwit
>>get into fight, she call me paranoid
way to go you dumb bitch

the precaution is in place because someone wrote some shit paper 3 decades ago that probably said that standing too close to someone that received radioiodine pill therapy increase your cancer chances by 1% or some other irrelevant number
so to not be sued by midwits such as yourself, doctors exagerate the precautions a little so they don't have bands of drooling retards getting them into court because they believe that their colon cancer was caused by standing too close to someone that had radioiodine pill therapy 4 decades ago

do you get it?

[Anonymous No.11515420]

>>11515270
>>tfw I may get cancer
Well, in that case your girlfriend, who obviously got a higher dose, should already be in some serious trouble.

[Anonymous No.11515555]

>>11515270
You wont get it for one exposure retard

[Anonymous No.11515599]

>>11515316
>>11515420
>>11515555

well thanks, even tho you called me a retard and mongoloid.

But at every other site I looked, there were instructions how you should keep contact to minimum and users writing that they strictly followed the rules.

Im a bit less worried now.

[Anonymous No.11515638]

>>11513971
>that image
Mfw inmates swallow weird shit just for a trip-arino to the hospital to check out nurses and a change of scenery.

[Anonymous No.11515676]

pain in mid back, right side, under/beneath lowest rib where the torso folds if you bend sideways. piss fine, shit fine, no yellow eyes, no fever. what the fuck is it? its not debilitating but it fucking bugs me

[Anonymous No.11517092]

Tfw ICU doc. Can you cunts just stay inside for a few goddamn weeks I swear to god. In Aus we haven't been hit too hard yet but it's ramping up every day.

[Anonymous No.11517112]

>>11497387
>Graphene Substrates for Photothermal Therapy and Photodynamic Therapy

How long before MRI surgery and vaccines via WiFi?

[Anonymous No.11517194]

>>11497387
How do you all feel about physician assistants? I'm interested in my local university's program.
I was initially interested in going into medicine, but I'm now in my 30s and need another 2 years worth of prerequisites I never took in university before.

[Anonymous No.11517358]

>>11515599
you should follow those instructions tho

[Anonymous No.11517723]

>>11517092
What do you think about how health services in Asian nations encourage the public to wear masks but in the west they discourage it?

[Anonymous No.11517734]

>>11517092
Hey ausbro, any insight into my post?
>>11514721

[Anonymous No.11517782]

>>11517358
After that I did we didn't meet for next few days.

[Anonymous No.11517906]

>>11512683
Update on this: today I couldn't shit and the pain persists, so I called my physician (couldn't go because of the pandemic) and told her about the pain too. She didn't mention appendicits, just prescribed no-spa, debridat and ibutin and told me to call back if the symptoms worsen. Am I gonna be fine?

[Anonymous No.11518259]

Anyone know of anywhere with medical supplies available or reserved for med professionals? Doctors at my hospital are buying shit off ebay and wearing speedo swim goggles at this point.

[Anonymous No.11519605]

Medical anons, is there any evidence or theory that suggests some cases of connective tissue disorders can be caused by disruption of the endogenous synthesis of collagen, rather than by inherited genetics?

I'm an Env Sci grad, but here's why I ask:

When I was born, I didn't breathe for over 5 minutes due to umbilical cord round the neck, which left me with a hypoxic brain injury that was not diagnosed until years later as the effects became more obvious as I grew up; MRI taken at 19 (now 25) picked up that part of my right occipital and parietal lobes are missing, totally broken down and re-absorbed, but I don't know enough about the capabilities of MRI to know whether there may be other damage that wasn't picked up or not.

Obviously this in itself leads to some pretty wild experiences, as I have a Weschler score of 150 for linguistic comprehension (think single-metric IQ scale) yet in working memory I'm in the low 70s and can barely follow an episode of an hour-long TV show because of my terrible memory and face blindness. E.g. Don't even know what I did today and have to keep track of my actions with notepads Memento-style, yet I might remember this day 10 years from now, so it's believed it's specifically short-term recall that's affected in my case and not the creation of memories. Didn't do too great at exams, needless to say.

Quite aside from the various cognitive symptoms, from the age of 11 onwards I began to have increasing physical difficulties starting with join pains and worsening physical stamina and by 15, numbness in the right side of my body, deformation of the bones in my right leg, and right-hand-side lower costal cartilage. I've always had some amount of palsy in the right side of my body but this got worse during puberty too to the extent I can't even wave with my right hand now (I've been checked for nerve compression- negative).

cont.

[Anonymous No.11519631]

>>11519605
After a dislocation of my neck when simply leaning my head back washing my hair a couple of years ago, I went to my GP and the now-ruptured disk in my neck + the deformations of the right side of my skeleton now being grossly noticeable at a glance led him to say I had a connective tissue disorder & referred me to a Marfans specialist, even though I don't have any of the specific symptoms you'd expect to see in a Marfans case e.g. arm length, palate height, general build etc.- So I expected I'd be diagnosed with EDS on top of my other problems and that'd be it.

At this point my right leg had gotten so warped that I could not (and can not) any longer put my foot flat on the ground and facing straight forwards at the same time, and the portion of my ribcage that was deforming is now buckled inwards and presses on my guts which hurts like fuck if I sit straight up for any prolonged period of time; if I hook my fingers under the ribcage and push hard outwards I can pop the errant section back and forth into place and feel a tremendous relieving of pressure on the affected area when I do so. This is the diagonal section of the cartilage *below* the sternum, not a pectus deformity. After the MRI I had also been diagnosed with hypotonia (alongside dyspraxia and a host of other learning difficulty-type diagnoses as part of university health assessments) which I think plays a significant role in my difficulty with physical stamina, palpitations and fatigue.

Anyway, last year my Marfans referral came up, saw the specialist, he said obviously it wasn't Marfans (as I'd expected), thought it might be EDS and asked me about my family history. None of my family have any symptoms of connective tissue disorders and the main cause of death is dementia, most of my relatives living til their 80s or 90s except one death due to TB and another due to smoking emphysema.

cont.

[Anonymous No.11519674]

>>11519631
The specialist said I had significant hypermobility in the right side of my body, quite independent to the hypotonia and palsy in that side of my body, but none that registered in the left. In fact, the only significant symptoms of a connective tissue disorder he could find were in the right side of my body and in the end he just slapped a "Connective Tissue Disease (Not Otherwise Specified)" label on it and left it at that, saying I had a connective tissue disorder of genetic origin despite the lack of inheritance. We had some spare time left and I asked him, using EDS incidence as a benchmark, what the statistical likelihood was of me being born with a connective tissue disorder of a genetic cause (especially a spontaneous genetic cause, not a hereditary one) such as EDS - 1 in 5000 live births - *and* independently suffering a hypoxic brain injury at birth due to an unrelated circumstance - 20 in 1000 live births. To me that would be (1/5000)*(20/1000) = 1 in 250,000.

To me it seems less likely, though far from impossible, for these two spontaneous and independent events to occur, than it is for one longstanding condition to be related to the same cause as all the others are in a single occurrence- especially since the connective tissue disorder symptoms began to appear and get worse at the exact same time that the palsy and hypotonia also got worse, in my early teens, and incrementally getting worse year on year ever since. The Marfans specialist said there was nothing in his knowledge that would directly disprove such an idea but also zero proof.

cont.

[Anonymous No.11519708]

>>11519674
The reason I am so interested is because if my ideas have substance to them, this would make mine an acquired connective tissue disorder rather than a genetic one, and other than perhaps exposure to toxic chemicals I'm not aware of any such classification that currently exists.

Misc.; I also have that type of scoliosis that comes and goes activated by strenuous activity, some zany autoimmune symptoms such as dermatographia that I have to take fexofenadine all year round to suppress, and so on. Total laundry list, I know. The pain caused by the ribcage deformity is so bad I was addicted to ketamine for nearly 3 years after uni and am only just now getting my life back on track the past two years by taking a ton of codeine instead (got spooked out of it by incoming reports of it possibly causing early-onset dementia in Asian students); I don't feel like I have a lot to work with since every doctor I've mentioned it to has looked at it and shrugged saying they don't even know a name for it, let alone any management or treatment for it.

Anyway, I'm not suggesting an occipital lobe injury would itself interrupt synthesis of collagen by the body, but I'm wondering if the same hypoxic event may have caused other kinds of damage not yet identified in my case, and since I'm poor and live in the UK and the overstretched NHS isn't about to do any wild exploratory work on account of my armchair-scientist musings I thought it'd be interesting to ask around online for peoples' thoughts.

[Anonymous No.11519751]

>>11519708
Bonus: How fucked my right leg is now at 25. My left leg and foot are facing straight forwards in this photo. Tough to get a good angle with my dyspraxia, can't get a decent photo that displays the rib deformity adequately.

Needless to say, P.E. wasn't my best subject.

[Anonymous No.11519888]

Is being a doctor nice? I kind of always wanted to be a doctor but I was a lazy shit in school.

[Anonymous No.11520494]

>>11519888
Nightmare fuel img. To answer your question, it's a lot of work so it might not be your thing unless you suddenly want to work 80 hour weeks.

[Anonymous No.11520519]

>>11520494
>Nightmare fuel img
Imagine being this gay

[Anonymous No.11520961]

>>11520519
T. coomer who can only get off to exaggerated sexual features. What the fuck are aesthetics and proportions even?

[A̶͞͠no͞ny̨͘m̧o̵͟us̷ No.11521108]

>>11506360
Can confirm

[Anonymous No.11521114]

>>11519888
Well being lazy and having to actually study like a madman don't mix up too well

[Anonymous No.11521150]

>>11514947
>paid for their true value
what did you say, mr banker? You want to pay me no more? I'm sorry, I can't hear you very well I've the sound of your failing hearth and your raging diabetes

[Anonymous No.11521212]

>>11497387
Hey medanons, question about Covid 19 here. I am a bit puzzled by this flatten the curve stuff being said nowadays. Let's say that we do flatten the curve, and in a few months, we ideally see a drastic halt in new cases, and deaths. Quarantine/state of emergency is lifted, schools re-open, etc. Basically back to normal. Well, won't this entire situation just repeat? There is probably no way to test every single person in a major city. So even if there was just a small handful of sick people with covid-19, they would end up spreading it again and we'd just have a second wave as they say, wouldn't we? Aren't we basically fucked until a vaccine is developed?

[Anonymous No.11521216]

>>11521212
Not to mention the r0 being so high, I would think that 1 person having Covid-19 would just be enough to fuck everything up again.

[Anonymous No.11521233]

>>11520494
What if you do a primary care specialty like fm or psych? I heard those are more 40-50 hours a week during residency.

[A̵nơ̧ny҉m͢ǫus No.11521260]

>>11521216
low infection rate in this thread, nice it wo-


*COUGH* *COUGH* *COUGH*

[Anonymous No.11521273]

It bans you

[Anonymous No.11521274]

>>11521260
Fug. Cooof. Coof coof. Shit.

[Anonymous No.11521466]

Is there anything obviously wrong with my wrist/joint positioning? It might just be me but it's always felt like everything is off centre and every time I've tried to use a bench press I've struggled to maintain proper grip position because my wrists seem to be extremely weak, especially when it comes to overhand or side grips

[Anonymous No.11521675]

>>11521260
This muffuka infected kill him

[Anon̴y͢mou͏҉s No.11521686]

Y'all are gonna DIE

[Anonymous No.11521785]

>>11500072
>>11500079
You don't pull bullets out of people unless you're certain the benefits outweigh the risks.

[Anonymous No.11521824]

>>11497387
>allopathic evidence-based
Wonderful oxymoron.
Both allopathy and homeopathy are quackery, you fucking either-or fallacy midwit.

[Anonymous No.11521899]

>>11514947
This. I was wondering why some doctors are acting like an idiot. If what you’re saying is the case then I’m right to point out that their average IQ is what is resulting in delays for my problems. All I have to do is literally search for shit online and hey presto it’s there.

[Anonymous No.11521906]

>>11515211
Wonder when you’ll actually stop being a smug faggot and only being a doc because the money like Jewish nigger. It’s fucking CCP crap again where the CCP are going to expect offers from others countries to receive help in exchange.

[Anonymous No.11521961]

MD2 here, my ancient laptop finally exploded. Any recommendations for a replacement? I like the idea of being able to scribble notes on lecture slides and draw with a stylus but also need a keyboard to make ankis and shitpost. What do you guys use?

[Anonymous No.11521974]

>>11521233
Imagine all the work you have to do before you even start thinking about a specialty. How will you make it through med school if you're too lazy to study?

The material isn't exactly complex big brain shit but it is a looooot.

[Anonymous No.11521985]

>>11521824
>In the United States, the term is used to contrast with osteopathic medicine, especially in the field of medical education.

It's to narrow down the thread topic to stop people from posting woo and filter out alternative medicine. Feel free to change the OP to whatever though.

[Anonymous No.11521990]

>>11521961
This bad boy: https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/laptops/thinkpad/11e-and-chromebooks/ThinkPad-Yoga-11e-5th-Gen/p/22TP2TX154E20LM

[Anonymous No.11522010]

>>11521990
>intel celeron 1.10Ghz
oof

[An̛ony̴͝mo͟͠ùs No.11522934]

medanons *coof* I need some *coof* meds

[Anonymous No.11523022]

>>11497387
Can I do body weight exercises (push ups, pull ups, chin ups, bulgarian split squat, single leg glute bridge) if I have mitral valve prolapse and m a y b e Loeys-Dietz?

[Anonymous No.11523029]

>>11522934
Oh no here's some chloroquine fish food anon :(

[A̴no͝n҉y͢mo͘u̧҉́s̵͝ No.11523085]

Hmmmmm

[Anonymous No.11523092]

big and superior brain, blacks are the smartest race and created whites. Look up Yakub

[Aǹ̵͏ony҉͘m͢ou͘͢͝s͘ No.11523093]

>>11523085
what the fuck im infected bro? How?

[A̕no̢͜ny̕m̨ou͡҉s͡҉͞ No.11523173]

>>11523093
Maybe you shouldn't have sucked all those dicks

[A͜n̡͠ơ̴n͢ymǫ̶u̸̴s No.11523391]

>>11514710
Just tell people you're a veteran

[An̸o͞ǹy̷m̢͝҉ǫu͟s̨ No.11523397]

>>11514947
There's a reason doctors in France make only 100k

[Anonymous No.11523714]

Checking

[A̛̕no͟͠n҉ymo̡ú̵s̕͏ No.11523715]

Im cured mofos

[Anonymous No.11523963]

>>11521985
>osteopathic medicine
You really don't know what the fuck you're talking about, do you?

>Osteopathic medicine provides all of the benefits of modern medicine including prescription drugs, surgery, and the use of technology to diagnose disease and evaluate injury. It also offers the added benefit of hands-on diagnosis and treatment through a system of treatment known as osteopathic manipulative medicine.

[Anonymous No.11524126]

>>11523715
Lel

[Anonymous No.11524616]

>>11523963
>osteopathic manipulative medicine
Is that evidence-based?

c:

[Anonymous No.11524659]

Any nursing students here? I'm entering my 3rd quarter of nursing school here in california but due to covid19 no hospitals are taking any students for clinicals right now so the quarter got pushed to fall. So now.im out of school for 6 months and I just recently quit my comfy job as a phlebotomist.

[A͘n̨͘o̷nym̴o͝u̵s͝ No.11524730]

>>11519751
My condolences for the absolute trash hand life's dealt you, but I can't see any aetiological mechanism by which cerebral hypoxia could interfere with collagen synthesis

[Anonymous No.11524796]

>>11524659
They graduated a class of nurses early in NY so they could tackle the Kung Flu

[Anonymous No.11524844]

>>11524796
Yeah thatd be cool if I could do that but I doubt it since I'm barely halfway through the program

[A͜non͞ým̕o̵͜͜us̵̨͞ No.11525122]

>>11524616
>Is that evidence-based?
It depends: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6897345/
Not that you care about what the concept "evidence based" actually means. You just like using the term as a weapon.
>The major criticisms and limitations of Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) appearing in the literature over the past decade can be summarized and categorized into five recurring themes. The themes include: reliance on empiricism, narrow definition of evidence, lack of evidence of efficacy, limited usefulness for individual patients, and threats to the autonomy of the doctor/patient relationship. Analysis of EBM according to these themes leads to the conclusion that EBM can be a useful tool, but has severe drawbacks when used in isolation in the practice of individual patient care. Modern medicine must strive to balance an extremely complex set of priorities. To be an effective aid in achieving this balance, the theory and practice of EBM must expand to include new methods of study design and integration, and must adapt to the needs of both patients and the health care system in order to provide patients with the best care at the lowest cost.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15036077

>c:
Another weapon.

[Á̛n̕o̕n̨͝ym̕͢ouş͘ No.11525136]

>>11525122
ok quack

[A̸no̢ny̢̢m̀ò͞u̴s̶̷ No.11525152]

>>11525136
In the US, both "physiotherapy" techniques and "osteopathy" techniques are practiced by licensed MDs. As a midwit pseudoskeptic, you assume that the physiotherapy techniques are evidence-based while the osteopathy techniques aren't. You aren't interested in seeking the truth on behalf of patients, participating in the collection of evidence, as a scientist. You're an authorityfag who gets of on base deduction from prejudice.

[Anơ͟n͝͝ỳmo̷͟͠u̧s̶ No.11525155]

>>11525152
ok quack :3

[A͜nónymous No.11525161]

>>11502343
Nice made up story.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/ivantoday/44413

[À̴̕no̡nym̴o̴̸̡u͜s͟ No.11525179]

so, from what I've read, antioxidants and probiotics may help regulate a cytokine storm. but I haven't seen many people recommend eating oranges or buying milk with probiotics. which is kinda odd, because, well, why wouldn't you at least TRY diminishing the worst stage of the illness???

>>11517092
I've read about a few cases of people who supposedly took every precaution and still ended up in the hospitals... of course this must happen in a very small % of people (or they are lying), but apparently not even staying inside may help 100%

[A̸̡no̢n͠ym̶̀͡ou͝s̵̛ No.11525180]

>>11525155
You're not smart enough to become a doctor. Quit now.

[Anonymous No.11525183]

>>11497387
>>11497387
IM dumb as shit but why cant we use steroids to knock out cytokine storms?

[A̛no̷͘͜ny̴̶͠m̕o̧͠us No.11525186]

>>11525179
btw, I'm far from knowledgeable, as I'm not a doctor or a biologist

>I haven't seen many people recommend eating oranges or buying milk with probiotics.
also, lots of people say they may not work because "hurr durr they only work against influenza" which, from what I've read, is bullshit. cytokine storm modulators aren't associated with anything specific to the virus itself, I think

[A̛ńo͜͏ny̴m͟o̵u̷͏̕s No.11525187]

>>11525183
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4711683/#Sec4title

[Anonymous No.11525237]

>>11525180
99% of doctors are retards

[Anonymous No.11525248]

>>11517092
How many in ICU?

[Anonymous No.11525254]

No one is infected it's all a lie to make people willingly give up their freedom and rights. Wake up sheeple the NWO is upon us

[Anonymous No.11525255]

>>11525237
t. osteopath that couldn't get into med

[Anonymous No.11525275]

>>11514724
prostate cancer

[Anonymous No.11525288]

>>11525268
Because it's better than nothing, but ideal distance is 1 mile away which is not practical, so compromise to slow growth.

[Anonymous No.11525290]

>>11515270
imagine being this dumb (and i don't mean dumb for "exposing yourself to radiation")

[Anonymous No.11525299]

Because social distancing also includes coughing into a tissue or sleeve, not just letting rip.

It also includes staying the fuck indoors if you have a bad enough cough in the first place.

[Anonymous No.11525300]

>>11517092
no, what do you think you are being paid for? now clean it wagie

[Anonymous No.11525453]

>>11525255
Osteopaths are MDs in the US. In the UK they still go through 7-8 years:
>To become an osteopath you usually have to complete a degree in clinical sciences at university with a major in osteopathic studies, followed by a postgraduate qualification in osteopathy. Alternatively, you can complete a double degree in health science and applied science (osteopathy).

[Anonymous No.11525527]

>receptionist
>always let some people go without paying the check ups fees and everything that goes through me
suck my dick you overpaid snakes

[Anonymous No.11525555]

>>11525527
bruh you aint shit, us surgery boys never let patients pay for consultation even though there is fee for it

[Anonymous No.11526500]

>>11525290
Im not a medfag or a physicist. I don't know shit about radiation except normie tier knowledge that it is bad and that I got some dose of it. That's why I asked.