/med/ - Medicine General

[Anonymous No.12532505]

DRE -edition

Previous thread
>>12506892
>>12487972
We discuss research, DO NOT offer advice (just fucking go see your doctor) make fun of premeds and shitpost. Please keep vaccination/clamping/vitamin K out of this thread and start your own because it takes a lot of space.

>inb4 not science
>inb4 poor amerimutts wanting medical advice

[Anonymous No.12532512]

*ahem*

>fuck nursoids
>fuck the inferior american medical system with its mid-level practioners, DO scum and pre-meds
>fuck all other countries that have any of those
>fuck the corona
>fuck the elderly
>fuck the masks
>fuck the vaccine if we can't go back to normal after it
>do not tempt the blade

[Anonymous No.12532518]

>>12532512
based

[Anonymous No.12532522]

is it just me or is clinical lab a super comfy spec

[Anonymous No.12532525]

My shit was very dark
Am I omae wa mou shindeiru ?

[Anonymous No.12532527]

>>12532525
my stool is dark, is that bad?

[Anonymous No.12532538]

>>12532527
Idk nigga I don’t want to be bleeding out in my stomach

[Anonymous No.12532544]

>>12532538
>dark stool
>bleeding out in my stomach
i fail to see the connection

[Anonymous No.12532553]

>>12532544
Online said if it looked noticeably darker it was probably old blood when I saw it I stopped and did a double take how dark it was

[Anonymous No.12532565]

>>12532553

[Anonymous No.12532568]

>>12532565
DO I HAVE THE ASS CANCER OR NOT??????

[Anonymous No.12532596]

Should switch my concentration to pre-med? It seems more interesting and makes more money. My current concentration is physical therapy. It seems fun but it still doesn’t make as much money as a medical physician.

[Anonymous No.12532618]

>>12532522
Well no shit most clinical labs/radiology is super comfy. Usually very little need to be there outside of office hours (outside of consultations which here are limited to office hours), don't need to see patients, rarely other doctors since they are usually extremely bored about your field and only want minimal amount of information from you.

[Anonymous No.12532627]

>>12532596
Shadow a doctor to see how you like it. Ask them their feelings about medicine nowadays.

[Anonymous No.12532630]

>>12532627
>Ask them their feelings about medicine nowadays.
Don't do this if they're over 60, its never going to be good.

[Anonymous No.12532635]

>>12532630
Yeah ik that's why I'm telling him to do it lol

[Anonymous No.12532793]

>>12532505
They clamp and drug.

[Anonymous No.12532817]

>>12532618
this

t. hematology lab doc

[Anonymous No.12532840]

my tampon is stuck and i cant feel it should i go to er

[Anonymous No.12532845]

>>12532512
based

[Anonymous No.12532876]

>>12532840
Nah come here and I'll take a looksie.

[Anonymous No.12532879]

>>12532512
DOs are great outside of that weird chiropractic crap.
Generally less autistic as well.

[Anonymous No.12532901]

>>12532879
that chiropractic crap is the only reason to even have separate programs

[Anonymous No.12532904]

Favourite bants article?

Some good Christmas BMJ ones this year. My favourite: https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4290

[Anonymous No.12532908]

Bros, how do I shadow a US doctor if I'm poor and live in Mexico?
A family member told me that the easy part of practicing in the US are the USMLE tests, getting letter recommendations is what makes a difference.

[Anonymous No.12532923]

>>12532904

[Anonymous No.12532926]

A side effect of being one of the most competitive specialties is that Derm's bedside manner has dramatically decreased the last few years.
Had to go get a mole removed recently and the Derm wouldn't even make eye contact with me.
Holy autism batman.

[Anonymous No.12532929]

>>12532840
If u a gril (female) I'll take it out. I charge double on domiciliary appointment doe.

[Anonymous No.12532931]

>>12532926
lol, here it's just stacys with nail extensions

[Anonymous No.12532998]

What's the best specialty that will get my balls fondled?
I want to fake a disease so that a cute grill with polished nails fondles my balls, help me out medbros

[Anonymous No.12533007]

>>12532998
Urology, but good luck finding a female that chooses to become one.

[Anonymous No.12533183]

https://www.followcn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-2nd-Yan-Report.pdf

opinions about this medcucks?

[Anonymous No.12533224]

Redpill me on PM&R. It looks comfy as fuck.
Is there some hidden thing that makes it a miserable specialty?

[Anonymous No.12533379]

/med/cucks, how do you fail a med school interview? What do they look for from their interviewees. I have a couple of interviews lined up and I think I regret applying. I feel like I might get in

[Anonymous No.12533395]

You don't have any patients actually dying of 'rona, right? I mean you guys have had 9 months of clinical trials to figure out the drugs and treatment protocols.

[Anonymous No.12533418]

>Cervical cancer
>Not located in the cervical

[Anonymous No.12533445]

>>12533007
>good luck finding a female that chooses to become one.
What stops women from wanting to go into urology? You don't see a shortage of men in gynecology.

[Anonymous No.12533450]

>>12533445
>What stops women from wanting to go into urology?
Nothing really. They dont do it because they're already experts in the subject.

[Anonymous No.12533625]

>>12533450
kek it’s funny because women love weener peeners xD

[Anonymous No.12533751]

>>12533224
You’ll always feel inferior to the ortho chads

[Anonymous No.12533804]

Psychiatrists biggest achievements in the last 100 years is stopping using _some_ torture methods on patients. Why are psyniggers like this? Are they all sadic sociopaths?

[Anonymous No.12533864]

>>12532512
Based

[Anonymous No.12533914]

>>12533418
>Contact dermatitis
I can make calls just fine wtf.

[Anonymous No.12533926]

>>12533804
They're the real chads because they're willing to experiment on their patients unlike the rest of us

[Anonymous No.12533960]

Hello /med/. I am a type 1 diabetic (27, male). I have read articles about CRISPR being used to cure type 1 diabetes in mice and have identified the email address of one researcher involved in the project. I am not a doctor or medical student, but I am interested in anything which might cure me of this disease so that I no longer have to take shots every time I eat or sleep.
If the technique has been successful with other mammals I have no doubt it will be successful in humans. How do I convince this researcher to either administer the treatment to me or use me as a lab rat for a human trial?

[Anonymous No.12534115]

>>12533926
>Broken arm? No, the x-ray s very clear, t is just a joint dislocation. Here, bite this wood while I prepare the Eletric Betty to make you have a therapeutic convulsion. I think I'll chop your ding dong off too to be secure.

[Anonymous No.12534319]

>>12533804
Doctors biggest achievements in the last 100 years is forcing radiation into sick people which causes a dramatic decrease in quality of life to only marginally improve outcomes

[Anonymous No.12534337]

>>12533960

honestly you should seek psychological therapy to relocate your locus of control. don't get stuck on the hedonistic treadmill of chasing a cure that (most likely) will never come, or will not come to you any faster than if you'd done nothing.

you're just torturing yourself. it would be less painful to just accept the limitations and live within them.

you are causing yourself much more pain than you have to

[Anonymous No.12534340]

Here from /pol/ just wanted to say
>god I wish that were me

[Anonymous No.12534596]

>>12533379
I wouldn't know, I got an offer from every school I applied to by just being myself and telling the truth.

[Anonymous No.12534608]

>be clinical laboratory scientist trainee
>this weeks rotation had semen analysis from post-vasectomy patients
>CLS brings me and my partner samples examined from the previous few days for general screening
>one of the specimens was released by another CLS as "no sperm seen"
>partner and I actually found sperm in the specimen, albeit in low quantities
>doctor could have called the guy by now and told him he's clear to fuck
chances are low a pregnancy would be involved, but hopefully a fuck up was averted by sheer chance

[Anonymous No.12534614]

>>12533960
>CRISPR
May as well be voodoo. It won' t be viable in any of our lifetimes

[Anonymous No.12534619]

>>12534340
Once I pooped so hard it fucked my ass, and I had to go to the butt doctor. It is totally not cool having someone talking to you while they have a finger in your anus.

[Anonymous No.12534630]

>>12534619
>It is totally not cool having someone talking to you while they have a finger in your anus.
>your
it's mine now

[Anonymous No.12534952]

I think I have a Periapical cyst

I had a root canal done on a front upper tooth a few days ago. There was tremendous pain from percussion testing the day of the RC; the nerve was dead and necrotic but, the dentist told me we caught it early (It was only that day that percussion was causing extreme pain). We took and looked at xrays and he said that there was an abscess at the base of the root but I was told that it had basically just started to become an abscess and there was no need for concern or anti biotics at this time. Shortly after the root canal I still had some pain from the tooth being applied pressure but my dentist told me that was basically the (nerveless) tooth pushing against the infected area which was aggravated.

The day after the root canal I noticed there was a lump above my gum line, under my nostril where the root of the tooth ends. I told this to my dentist but said to call him back if I noticed any swelling .But I don't know what that means, this is very localized swelling, does that count? I can't find any information on what kind of swelling I should expect after a root canal.

So I think I have a Periapical cyst. But is this a good thing? Does it mean my body has sequestered the infection and is absorbing it? It's been like this since the day after the RC and its been 4 days now. I don't have any pain and besides the relatively small cyst-like formation under my nostril, I dont notice any swelling. No fever etc. I will try to get in contact with my dentist as soon as I can but it would be helpful to understand if this is normal or not

[Anonymous No.12534959]

>>12534614
Single base pair changes may very well be viable in our lifetimes

[Anonymous No.12535075]

>>12534337
>>12534614
I don't really care about the FDA. I'll inject myself if I have to, just need to know what works. I have money and am willing to put my health at major risk if I have to. Fact is, they told me it's genetic -- so there must be a way to edit my genes to work properly. If they have already cured it in mice, can you think of one good scientific reason why the same method would not work for humans?

[Anonymous No.12535148]

>>12532505
>POOP WAS A LIGHTER SHADE TODAY AND A HEALTHIER SIZE
I think I'm gonna be alright

[Anonymous No.12535181]

>>12533224
It's based, don't mind the ortho shill.

[Anonymous No.12535319]

ok lads, redpill me on occupational health as a specialty for doctors. does it have a place in healthcare anymore now that there are barely any miners left or other jobs with a very high chance of getting a disease just by...doing it?

I mean, the whole pneumoconiosis stuff seems very interesting but I doubt I'll see any of that tbf. Basically, will I see interesting cases or I'll just health check every employee in a fast-food restaurant chain for a living?

[Anonymous No.12535576]

>>12533960
there are legit case reports of type 1 diabetes and type 2 being cured by tyrosine kinase inhibitors (some of them, not all of them).
BUT in some patients it worsens or gives diabetes. So we don't know what causes this dramatic difference in responses

I'm too lazy to search now in pubmed, from what I remember sunitinib had a good effect, idk, do your own research

[Anonymous No.12535600]

>>12533960

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26492832/

https://scihub.wikicn.top/10.1016/j.tem.2015.09.003


and here you go faggit, basically imatinib, sunitinib, and maybe dasatinib

[Anonymous No.12535606]

>>12535319
it's mostly ergonomics now

[Anonymous No.12535689]

>>12535606
You mean office jobs and shit like that? If that's all, then I'm pretty disappointed. Our prof shilled out on occ health and saying it's amazing and plenty of opportunities and shit.

How's research in this spec? I'm asking here for an unbiased opinion ofc.

[Anonymous No.12535769]

>>12533445
I had a female urology teacher.

[Anonymous No.12535785]

>>12535319
Its a good specialty in here because you only see actually employed people so no elderly people with millions of diseases and medications, no hobos, no low-ability drunkards/druggies, no kids.

[Anonymous No.12535887]

>>12532505
Prostate massage is for faggots and it can produce only ejaculation and not orgasm.

[Anonymous No.12535950]

>OBGYN

[Anonymous No.12536006]

>>12535785
>here
Where? I mean, doesn't a FM work with employed people most of the time too?

And compared to what you said, do you actually see any pathology as an OH doc or not?

[Anonymous No.12536031]

>>12532505
Exam in 1 week

Pray I don't get shafted lads

Also to the guy with 5 week breaks after finals in December: fuck you nigga I'm jelly

[Anonymous No.12536035]

>>12536006
>doesn't a FM work with employed people most of the time too
We don't have FM here, so they all go to General Practicioner specialty. And GP's in europe mainly see elderly, drunks/druggies, immigrants and other unemployables and kids.

[Anonymous No.12536041]

>>12535689
>How's research in this spec
Lots and lots of spirometry mixed with lots of epidemiology.

[Anonymous No.12536048]

>>12536006
>do you actually see any pathology as an OH doc or not
In europe? No you wouldn't see any at all since all your patients are work age and rarely die.

[BLAQ BROTHA No.12536130]

>>12534596
Ok I guess I’ll try and act like I’m a model student and destined to get in

[Anonymous No.12536249]

>>12535887
thanks for the info faggot

[Anonymous No.12536304]

>>12532512
clamped

[Anonymous No.12536311]

>>12534959
>>12534614
>>12533960
People are pissy about an mRNA vaccine, CRISPR isn't going anywhere till these fuckwits die out.

[Anonymous No.12536507]

>Tfw went to the doctor for bowel irregularities and projectile shat all over the fucking floor
Clean it up, doc.

[Anonymous No.12536564]

>>12536507
That's the job of a midlevel dummy.

[Anonymous No.12536655]

did any of you guys initially planned to become a researcher in bio/biochem/chem but then you did some bench lab research and realized you were shit at it and it's terrible so then you went into medicine
that's pretty much me
clinical research is so much better than lab research for me

[Anonymous No.12536672]

Emergency medicine is the most complete and pure speciality.
Change my mind

[Anonymous No.12536685]

>>12536672
you couldn't exist without radiology
>any patient with slightly complicated or rare (ie you didn't study about) diseases
UH MUST REFER TO IM

[Anonymous No.12536736]

>>12536655
how can someone be terrible at lab stuff?

[Anonymous No.12536757]

>>12536736
idk I just messed shit up all the time
like accidentally broke some equipment because my hands are too big
electrophoresis was always too messy for me
fucked up pretty much every pcr I did
I'm just bad at lab stuff so decided to do medicine
which ig is ok but I wanted to go into research initially
my professors told me I could do well in the field I was pursuing but maybe my body or hands is just bad for that shit

[Anonymous No.12536759]

>>12536672
EM is either just FM/IM stuff at a compressed time scale if practiced by competent people or a sort of aesthetic pursuit similar to being a barber when practiced by the spiritual emt monke.

The most complete and pure specs are the surgical specs and pathology.

[Anonymous No.12536764]

>>12536759
>surgical specs
lol no
Most pure specialty is pathology I agree.
Otherwise it's FM or IM/Peds.

[Anonymous No.12536766]

>>12536757
That's weird, never heard of anything like that. Did you do any lab stuff before med school?

[Anonymous No.12536779]

>>12536766
Yeah in undergrad
I was part of a research program starting freshman year
on all my projects never was able to publish anything
all deadends
always failed at producing any results
always fucked up
my PIs always said I was "brilliant" but they were surprised I never accomplished anything lol
So midway through junior year decided to be premed and forget research entirely

[Anonymous No.12536800]

>>12536672
Nah you're just the faggot that has to deal with the hassle of emergency patient care while the rest of us get a good night sleep and can be consulted when needed. Being EM doctor is literally 3-shift factory work tier job where you stabilize patients and keep them stabilized while someone else actually does all the thinking and treatment. Also have fun fighting to get your patients to be moved to actual wards from the ER when no one wants them and you're constantly running out of beds.

[Anonymous No.12536895]

>loved reading leaflets because my mother takes a shitton of meds including antidepressants so id always check if it interacted with something and the possible side effects
>loved organic chemistry in hs and even stole a chem book from the library to study
>love reading about chemical compounds
should i study medicine bros
I dropped physics because i didnt really like it
I considered doing chemistry or pharmacy but in my country it wouldnt be worth it, if i were to be a researcher then id rather do medicine which has a lot more funding and opportunities

[Anonymous No.12536950]

>>12536895
>basing your career choices on 4chan's opinions
Medicine isn't for you.

[Anonymous No.12536960]

>>12536895
yeah if you're interested think medicine or pharmacology

[Anonymous No.12537022]

>>12536950
you know when people ask those things they are basically set on it, they just want others to approve or support it

[Anonymous No.12537056]

>>12536672
The hours are nice, but the smelly hobos aren't.

[Anonymous No.12537080]

>tfw no blonde small titted big assed labrat gf
Why even live, bros?

[Anonymous No.12537100]

Could we please not use a homosexual image for the OP next time? Thanks

[Anonymous No.12537106]

>>12537080
good taste

[Anonymous No.12537122]

>>12537100
>he doesn't perform a DRE on every patient to establish patient rapport

[Anonymous No.12537153]

>>12537106
thank you kind sir.

>>12537122
>to establish patient rapport
you mean dominance?

[Anonymous No.12537156]

>>12536672
Are you allowed to conceal carry?

[Anonymous No.12537164]

>>12537156
why are amerifags like this?

[Anonymous No.12537166]

>>12537153
When a patient allows you to enter their rectum, they'll stay with you and trust you for life. These are the pearls of wisdom you learn from old rural GPs.

[Anonymous No.12537178]

>>12537164
>Not wanting to shoot the druggie holding up your ER looking for their next high
>Not wanting to practice treating bullet wounds to further your ER education
>Not wanting to bill the insurance companies for the life you just saved
Not going to make it

[Anonymous No.12537201]

>>12537156
There's literally carrying security guards all over the ER. And whenever a patient comes in who committed a crime or was in some sort of shootout, then you have a bunch of dumbfuck police officers standing in the ER looking like idiots.
>uh when can we arrest the guy
>he's bleeding out
>yeah so can we handcuff him right now and take him back to the precinct

[Anonymous No.12537227]

Med students, how often do you study?

[Anonymous No.12537242]

When will chronic pain be treatable?

[Anonymous No.12537244]

>>12537227
everyday
3-5 hrs
during dedicated usmle studying it was around 12 hrs

[Anonymous No.12537247]

Flesh is weak

[Anonymous No.12537266]

>>12537247
Go frak a toaster

[Anonymous No.12537267]

>>12537166
holy based

>>12537201
idk man

>>12537227
2 hrs every single day if it's not the exam session. if i'm in session, then it goes up to 3 or 4 depending on the subject(s).

[Anonymous No.12537275]

>>12537227
0 hours a day, maybe a few hours a day in the weeks leading up to an exam

[Anonymous No.12537301]

>>12537056
>The hours are nice

Where and how?

[Anonymous No.12537334]

>>12537275
Are you naturally high IQ?

[Anonymous No.12537365]

>>12537227
Not this anon but I have a question for med students too.
How much Anki each day?

[Anonymous No.12537503]

>>12533960
They edit the zygotes of the mice in very controlled laboratory settings, there is no way to cure diabetes in a grown mammal.

[Anonymous No.12537789]

>yes i forgot everything i learned in med school the year i finished, how could you tell?

[Anonymous No.12537885]

>>12536685
Truth be told, most specialties couldn't exist without radiology nowadays

[Anonymous No.12537888]

>>12537885
if you're a hospitalist sure
but if you want to be a comfy rural GP it's not necessary

[Anonymous No.12537927]

>>12537789
Only premeds think that the shit they study has any relevance once you get the degree.

[Anonymous No.12537932]

>>12537927
>premeds
>med school
wat

[Anonymous No.12537934]

Disclaimer: I’m not asking for any specific medical advice, just advice on how to get help.
I think I have a behavioral disorder called Onychotillomania. Basically I compulsively pick at my nails to the point where they bleed. I also think I have a fungal infection which is what started the picking habit, because the nails were so easy to pick at.
I have a psychiatrist, and I have a dermatologist, but I’m afraid of going to the dermatologist with something that is rooted in my brain. I just want to have normal looking hands and feet again.
Are there doctors who make it known that they are “friendly” to mental health issues? Like I said this is something I’m terribly ashamed of because I know how bad it is and I don’t need a lecture from a doctor who doesn’t quite understand the root of the problem, because then they won’t be able to help me.

[Anonymous No.12537956]

>>12537932
They are in medschool in here. You apply to medschool and 2 first years are what I think amounts to premed in USA.

[Anonymous No.12537957]

>>12537934
What is your psychiatrist telling you to do? Like what therapy are you doing?
Ask your psychiatrist for recs of dermatologists who can help you and ask them if you can contact them beforehand for the referral.

[Anonymous No.12537982]

>>12537334
>naturally
is there another way

[Anonymous No.12538008]

>>12537982
You know what I mean. Anyway, I think I’m a midwit. Is it over? Will I have to study all day throughout my degree? Will I end up as a GP?

[Anonymous No.12538019]

Post some interesting cases you saw recently.

Saw a case of ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis recently. Most likely MPA. Poor fuck had hematuria for days. No other bleeding. Gave some steroids and cytoxan and he recovered. Nurses kept fucking up his cath though and his daughter was an annoying bitch who kept on wanting to get her father out of the hospital because we were "taking too long to fix him"

[Anonymous No.12538022]

>>12537934
Your disorder is entirely mental. I'd advise you to meet with your psychiatrist and set an appointment with a psychologist to help your anxiety and compulsive behavior.
Don't need to waste your dermatologist's time with your nasty ass nails. That's GP shit.

[Anonymous No.12538149]

>>12538019
bump

[Anonymous No.12538292]

Will I regret neurology?

[Anonymous No.12538331]

>>12538292
As a residency? If you're in the US, they do a few months in IM in their intern year. Some people decide to switch from neuro to IM during that time so if you have doubts and like IM more you can switch then.
Otherwise neuro is a pretty good field. Lots of potential research.

[Anonymous No.12538343]

>>12536960
Dont go the pharma way. Less money and the market is saturated. Most of the jobs pharma graduate can do, somebody else could do it better.

[Anonymous No.12538365]

>>12538019
No one?
Anyway what's your favorite EKG book?

[Anonymous No.12538441]

>>12538292
Neurology is fight against psychiatric psychopath who gives patients neurodegenerative medication.

[Anonymous No.12538645]

>>12534952
Can I please get a reply to this

[Anonymous No.12538676]

>>12534952
It needs to be drained. Are you the anon who posted in one of these threads before? I'm pretty sure they told you to go to a doc to prevent this from happening.
Just go see your dentist or see a doc.

[Anonymous No.12538704]

>>12538645
Go fuck yourself. You asked for it, now pay the price of your sniveling.

[Anonymous No.12538735]

>>12538704
that's mean

[Anonymous No.12538742]

Suppose I wanted to put out a candle by grabbing it with the tip of my fingers. I already know how to do this by removing my hand quickly to avoid being burned. Suppose instead of immediately withdrawing my hand, I just hold the wick for, say, 10 seconds. If I ensure my fingers are pretty covered in saliva, how bad will I be burned, if at all?

[Anonymous No.12538750]

>>12538742
At most you'll get a superficial epidermal burn. Most likely you'll just feel pain.

[Anonymous No.12538761]

>>12538750
So if I just mind-over-matter I should be alright, nothing permanent?

[Anonymous No.12538774]

>>12538761
What? I would recommend that you don't do it regardless because other factors can come into play like how fragile your skin is, the intensity of the flame, if you touch the wax, if the candle drops.

[Anonymous No.12538809]

>>12538774
Suppose I am doing this with Yankee Candle, which uses refined paraffin wax. Of the times I've been exposed to wax, it burns a tiny bit but leaves nothing permanent on my hands, not even a burn. Paraffin wax burns around 50-70C. I'm just trying to gauge whether I will be seriously burned if I hold the tip of a candle.

[Anonymous No.12538831]

>>12532505
I have good day and night vision, but I want to augment my vision with thermal imaging. I have a thermal camera and I want to direct the output to a pad with many tiny electrodes so I can place the pad on my tounge have my brain combine the electical signals from my eyes and tounge together, but will this damage my normal eysesight? I am almost done and waiting for the patent.

[Anonymous No.12538854]

>>12532998
Radiology

I had an ultrasound done on my testicles and the technician was a qt young woman, I spent like 20 minutes concentrating really hard on not getting an erection while she rubbed my balls with the probe.

[Anonymous No.12538873]

>>12538854
what did you have? a tumor or hydrocele?

[Anonymous No.12538878]

>>12538873
Nothing. The pain and inflammation are as of yet unexplained. Getting a CT scan done on my abdomen this week.

[Anonymous No.12538888]

>>12538878
can you explain your presenting complaints and history of illness please? might be interesting

[Anonymous No.12538907]

>>12538676
>I'm pretty sure they told you to go to a doc
I was told to go to the ER for the purpose of getting on antibiotics which didn't sound right to me. I called my dentist and he basically said they don't prescribe antibiotics unless the situation worsens. Which makes sense I guess because if the root canal was not done properly and sterile, and infection still remains, then by prescribing antibiotics aren't you just delaying the problem?

I explained to him the day after the root canal that there was a lump by my nostril at the end of my tooth and he said to get back in touch if I have "pain or swelling".

I tried getting in touch with my dentist because the lump in my gums is harder than it was a few days ago. It is now almost like a marble under my nostril... I was unable to get in touch with my dentist because it is the weekend. How urgent is the situation?

[Anonymous No.12538926]

>>12538888
Just testicle pain, mostly. Started earlier this year, felt so painful I thought I had a torsion or something. Since then it went away and came back twice over the year, albeit not as painful.

Within the last few weeks though I've gotten horrible bouts of tendonitis all over my body, wrists, ankles, shoulders, knees, jaw, etc. Weird shit. I'm beginning to wonder if it's a neurological problem since I went to a neurologist in high school for chronic migraines. Other than that I'm very healthy and never really had medical problems.

[Anonymous No.12539085]

>>12538704
Apologize to him

[Anonymous No.12539110]

>>12539085
I dont need an apology but I would like to know exactly how urgent I need this developing cyst/fistula/abscess at the root of my tooth to be attended to, if at all. Lots of literature online is saying pockets of pus are normal but this is so high up, I can't see how the pus is supposed to drain into my mouth. This is also right by my nostril so I worry about this rapidly becoming a problem which spreads to my sinuses and other areas. I keep googling around and finding conflicting answers

[Anonymous No.12539500]

>>12537956
pre med isn't first 2 years in med school. it's an entire another school/major for people that couldn't get into med school.

[Anonymous No.12539523]

>>12538854
Should have got the biggest massive boner. That would be funny as fuck.

[Anonymous No.12539711]

>make account on reddit because it seemed interesting
>go to medicine sub
>total shit
>go to residency sub
>crying sissies about midlevel creep
>delete reddit account

Never again, bros.

[Anonymous No.12539759]

>>12539085
>>12538735
fuck off

[Anonymous No.12539918]

>>12539711

based and medpilled

[Anonymous No.12540145]

>>12532505
Anons, I really don't trust /an/ to give me any insight, so I came to you.
>be me, working on horse farm
>one horse has been on iron supplements
>see other horse eating fresh droppings of ironed up horse
>come to find out Vet says other horse had iron deficiency as well
Cut to
>be me, have two dogs
>one dog has residual cough, damage from bad URI
>cough dog "habitually" licks (neutered) other dog's penis
>see cough dog having an hack attack, starts licking other dog's penis
>cough stops instantaneously, could otherwise go for a full minute or more, even with honey or coconut oil
What do you think guys? Is it psychosomatic?

[Anonymous No.12540153]

My asshole/gooch area keeps itching, what the fuck is going on down there

[Anonymous No.12540235]

>>12532544
coagulated blood in stool from upper gi bleeding. lower (as in closer to asshole) bleeding = bright red blood in faeces

[Anonymous No.12540238]

>>12532596
don't go into it for the money. You'll end up being a burnt-out shithead that doesn't care abt their pt

[Anonymous No.12540272]

>>12540153
Shit ain't clean nigga, take a shower. And wipe your ass better next time.

[Anonymous No.12540358]

What kind of technology will be needed in order to treat things like Central sensitization syndrome?

[Anonymous No.12540366]

>>12536779
you are the literal personification of apu lol

[Anonymous No.12540385]

>>12540366
yeah I am lol
felt a connection to apu too when I first saw him

[Anonymous No.12540399]

>>12540235
>>12532565

[Anonymous No.12540404]

>>12536779
>always failed at producing any results
You mean to say you failed at data analysis or that the data you got was bad and you got negative results?

[Anonymous No.12540406]

>>12540358
summary corporal punishment

[Anonymous No.12540407]

>>12540153
lose weight you fatty

[Anonymous No.12540415]

>>12540404
data was bad because I would fuck up somehow
it would work for the grad students and postdocs
just not for me

[Anonymous No.12540422]

My knees crack/pop all of a sudden. Should I ask for an MRI? It might be a deep tissue damage?

[Anonymous No.12540425]

>>12540422
probably just crepitus
go to a doc if there's unbearable pain, inability to move joints and walk more than 4 steps, and/or swelling and redness

[Anonymous No.12540457]

>>12540425
>go to a doc if there's unbearable pain, inability to move joints and walk more than 4 steps, and/or swelling and redness
There is pain sometimes but not constantly. I can still walk and go to the gym. But the crepitus is irritating. I decided to take collagen supplements but it's not helping me. My legs feel heavy and weak

[Anonymous No.12540528]

hi /med/, my father is a chain smoker and a heavy drinker with hypertension/high blood pressure(he takes meds for it). Can I feed him psychedelic mushrooms, I want to help get rid of the addiction?

[Anonymous No.12540541]

>>12540528
you can't get someone to stop their addictions unless they really want to
I've seen patients who smoked for 30 years and they were determined to quit and did
and patients who smoked for 15 years and said they wanted to quit but were iffy about it and they later develop COPD or lung cancer

[Anonymous No.12540553]

>>12540541
>you can't get someone to stop their addictions unless they really want to
Maybe, but look at this--
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/magic_mushrooms_help_longtime_smokers_quit

my main concern is whether is it okay to feed magic mushrooms to a person with hypertension. I'm afraid they might give him a heart attack or a stroke.

[Anonymous No.12540570]

>>12540553
Yeah I'm saying that even giving meds without the patient prior wanting to change their habits won't do much.
You can give chantix, nicotine patches, or psilocybin to someone who doesn't want to quit and they won't quit.
Psilocybin can cause increases in BP so if they have preexisting HTN can lead to a hypertensive emergency leading to acute kidney injury, visual changes, headache, pulmonary edema, etc.

[Anonymous No.12540604]

>>12540570
>Psilocybin can cause increases in BP so if they have preexisting HTN can lead to a hypertensive emergency leading to acute kidney injury, visual changes, headache, pulmonary edema, etc.

thanks for the advice fren, guess I'll have to look for some other way.

[Anonymous No.12540607]

>>12540604
No problem. The only thing you can do is talk to him and find out why he still smokes and what he thinks about quitting.
If he's willing to try, then chantix or patches might be good for him.

[Anonymous No.12540908]

What's your take on Fibromyalgia?

[Anonymous No.12540944]

Does rubbing your face stimulate beard growth?
I ask this because everyone I knew with adolescent acne have sick beards now.
Most of them, I've noticed, compulsively touch their faces.
Is there some connection?

[Anonymous No.12540950]

>>12540908
It's a diagnosis most often found in the mentally ill.

[Anonymous No.12541053]

>>12540944
no

t. ex pizza face/ current moon face with a really shitty beard

[Anonymous No.12541058]

>>12540908
it's fucking terrible to have and fucking terrible to deal with those patients

[Anonymous No.12541072]

>>12541058
Why do they get this condition? Is there any hope for them that they can get better?

[Anonymous No.12541087]

>>12541072
Etiology is unclear. Could be stress, trauma, autoimmune, maybe viral. There are treatments like the gabapentinoids and duloxetine which can alleviate symptoms. But exercise and physical activity are important too which most of these patients don't want to do so they keep whining about their pain.

[Anonymous No.12541174]

Osteogenesis imperfecta is terrifying when a 20 year old male is wheeled into your ER because he broke his femur AGAIN

[Anonymous No.12541220]

>>12532505
>>12532512
>>12532522
>>12532525
>>12532527
>>12532538
>>12532544
>>12532553
>>12532565
is covid hijacking all other known diseases,

covid form of aids,

covid form of gonorrhea,

covid forms of syphilis

in adfinitum,

[Anonymous No.12541223]

>>12541174
sad they just have to be defective like that

[Anonymous No.12541393]

>>12541072
>Why do they get this condition?

Because they are mentally ill. The treatment is to treat their mental illness.

[Anonymous No.12541418]

Fellow medfags, I'm a (relatively) young hand surgeon (3 years in my practice) and the opportunity to get into hospital administration appeared and I seized it.
The thing is, it takes all my time, meaning I can't get into OR anymore. I'm not in USA, so take it into consideration when I ask: what would you do? Follow this administrative path, which leads to bigger payouts or get back into surgery?

My salary here is much better now, but I'm still not sure what to do.

[Anonymous No.12541431]

>>12541418
If you're passionate about surgery, I would've stayed as a surgeon until aging fucks up your skills and then go into administration. But since you're in administration now then it's your choice if you think you like it enough to leave medicine.

[Anonymous No.12541481]

>>12541431
Thing is, I always found it very interesting, but at least here, in Brazil, it doesn't pay so much for 99% of the surgeons (like 40k USD/year to a mid level surgeon). There's the socialized medicine that killed most of private practices and, in the last few years, the whole malpractice sueing is getting to huge levels.
So I was already burnt out, I guess. My biggest concern is to "lose" my hand skills and deeply regret it someday in the future.
I guess I'm asking it here so I can find someone that have been through some similar choices.

[Anonymous No.12542389]

What spec should I specialize in for a GF like this? Nephrology?

[Anonymous No.12542476]

>>12542389
Psychiatry or Rheumatology

[Anonymous No.12542700]

Between switching doctors so im sorry for asking.
I think I have some kind of vocal cord lesion. I have this weird lumpy sensation on the right side of my throat when I lay down or lean back in a chair and swallow. Sometimes it's hard to burp. No pain. It started after a cold I had 2 years ago. Told my doctor about it but it went away for a few months then came back. I don't smoke but I think I do have acid reflux. It feels like it is just below my right tonsil but I dont see anything in the mirror.
Should I get this checked out?

[Anonymous No.12542705]

>>12542389
Pediatrics and Satanism?

[Anonymous No.12543090]

Is there any way to forget information, how to MK Ultra myself into forgetting if I have to? Been looking into pills and some could do it but I don't know what to do.
Neuroplasticity at 20? Decent or bad? Capable of change?

[Anonymous No.12543098]

>>12538926
>Random unexplained tendonitis
>Chronic migraines
Are you me?

[Anonymous No.12543464]

Is Leaky Gut a real thing?

[Anonymous No.12543478]

>>12541393
Might aswell be Lyme's disease that is causing them problems

[Anonymous No.12543619]

>>12533804
Neurosurgeons performed the procedure and in any case it had a fairly high efficacy for alleviating horrendous symptoms of severe mental illness. The issue with lobotomy was that it was used by proxy on people who didn't need the procedure.

[Anonymous No.12543813]

why isn't artificial respiration recommended for individuals undergoing seizures?

about a year ago, my girlfriend had a tonic-clonic seizure, i'd never seen one and i didn't know what to do. i put her on the ground and moved stuff away but unfortunately i kept her on her back and saliva pooled in her mouth probably. she went cyanotic and i didn't record the time when she started seizing but it felt like 4 or 5 minutes. maybe it was only like 3 minutes.
she had labored breathing and snoring type stuff afterwards, and i carried her to the car and brought her to the ER. ran tests, MRIs, and shit and she was fine but i've been feeling really guilty about it ever since.

i failed to put her in the recovery position, and she may have had brain damage from failure to clear her airway. i knew what the recovery position was, i just didn't really think about it outside of like, a blackout drunk. i also could have done mouth-to-nose resuscitation, but i didn't think to do it either.

why is it that mouth-to-nose resuscitation is not recommended in this case? to me, it seems like it wouldn't do any harm, and you could at least force fresh air into the lungs (which is being forced out by the diaphragm contractions). the heart is still pumping, after all. why is it just recommended to put them in the recovery position?

this is the only article i've seen talking about it, and it's from 1961.

https://sci-hub.do/https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/331116#

[Anonymous No.12543826]

how do I make my girl cum without clitoris stimulation?

[Anonymous No.12543832]

>>12532505
How much do you lads study a week before exams? Should I start pulling 10 hour days?

[Anonymous No.12543887]

>>12543619
It didn't alleviate anything, it's just lying you dipshit, because you wanted to see how person without piece of brain behaves and everybody know that.

[Anonymous No.12543900]

>>12543887
>dipshit

[Anonymous No.12543972]

>>12543813
recovery position should be enough to keep the airways clear and the seizures should not be enough to cause anything serious if the airways are clear

most people suck at doing artificial respiration, it would distract from putting them in the recovery position and it might be pretty hard to do on a person having a seizure

[Anonymous No.12543973]

>>12543826
Being African. Alternatively you can try the elephant sex position. In my experience the majority of girls experience orgasms with this one, it just takes figuring out the cadence and power of her liking.

[Anonymous No.12543975]

>>12542389
psych with a drug problem

[Anonymous No.12543981]

>>12543973
which elephant?

[Anonymous No.12543983]

>>12543973
Which elephant position? When I look it up there's one from behind and there's one where you're on your knees

[Anonymous No.12544001]

>>12543973
she already says I'm too deep usually in elephant position and that it hurts, not anymore now that I'm more careful tho but still

[Anonymous No.12544008]

>>12544001
The one from behind.

[Anonymous No.12544123]

>>12544008
yea that's what I mean
prone bone

[Anonymous No.12544125]

>>12544123
That sex position is the most anatomically compatible with G spot stimulation. Just figure it out with your sexual partner. Now stop asking me sexual shit I haven't gotten my dick wet in two years.
Fuck you.

[Anonymous No.12544136]

>>12544125
<3

[Anonymous No.12544149]

Help me out, guys. Last saturday I had a covid-19 serology exame. Both igg and igm came back negative, however, igg had a 3,80 UA/ml. The threshold for igg positive was 15,0 UA/ml. Does it mean that not once did I catch covid?

[Anonymous No.12544177]

Depression hinders areas of the brain related to development, memory and learning, can this damage be undone or is the only solution a bullet to the brain?

[Anonymous No.12544542]

>>12532505
Does TurnItIn being used mean you can't use the lecturer notes as the answers? I memorise the shit word for word

[Anonymous No.12544557]

>>12542476
>Rheumatology
Why that exactly?

[Anonymous No.12544559]

>>12543090
What do you need to forget?

[Anonymous No.12544584]

>>12532527
Have you taken any iron supplements lately? If not, you might have an upper GI bleed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melena

[Anonymous No.12544592]

>>12544557
Do you know how many psychiatrically disturbed young women also have autoimmune disorders and arthritis? Do a rheum elective if you’re in med school. There will be girls who will ask straight up to suck your dick in the office. They’re fucking crazy lol

[Anonymous No.12544623]

>>12544177
The game is rigged from the very start.

[Anonymous No.12544685]

>>12532926
This, went to remove some moles and the fucker couldn't take a minute to explain shit for me, even said to the nurse "send this mole to AP" like I wouldnt understand, autistic piece of shit

[Anonymous No.12544699]

>>12544177
Get treatment for depression.

[Anonymous No.12544878]

wtf is this shit lmao

[Anonymous No.12544943]

/med/ I come to you for help. Does any of you have any advice on how to pass CASPER and the med interview (tried 2 years ago in Quebec litteraly worst ranked candidate casper wise the acceptance committee probably thinks I'm the biggest red flag) so now basically coping in engineering until I get a degree or whatnot
any advice aside from be yourself would be nice.
thank you

[Anonymous No.12544985]

It’s over. I’m going to end up doing Medicine. Bros, how do I cope? Why tf did I apply to this shit degree? I think I’m retarded. I should’ve picked Chemistry.

[Anonymous No.12544990]

>>12544985
>Bros, how do I cope?
MD here
You don't. If you haven't started the studies yet just do a no show and get a welding certificate instead.

[Anonymous No.12545036]

>>12544990
I only applied to the unis and got interviews. The issue is that I’m going to prepare for these interviews too because I ordered a book of mock interview questions. I think it’s over. I’m going to end up getting a place. I’ll have to pray that I manage to fail my interviews anyway. It’s not that easy to get into med school anyway

[Anonymous No.12545068]

>>12544943
be a real human bean

[Anonymous No.12545091]

>>12535887
Not my experience.

[Anonymous No.12545109]

>>12544943
Just be yourself senpai.

[Anonymous No.12545413]

Draining stuff is the most satisfying thing ever

[Anonymous No.12545482]

How do I get all the knowledge of a doctor without going to med school
I mean the stuff you learn in the first 2 years of med school

[Anonymous No.12545537]

>>12545413
yummy

[Anonymous No.12545544]

>>12545482
posted it here >>12545513
now git gud nerd

[Anonymous No.12545551]

>>12545109
I hate you faggots so fucking much but meh
Time to change myself and become a nun

[Anonymous No.12545558]

>>12544943
>>12545551
idk what exam is casper but ironically go to reddit
they have better advice for this shit than here
people here just shitpost and are fucking idiots

[Anonymous No.12545698]

>>12544943
>on how to pass CASPER

go on SDN or reddit

[Anonymous No.12545705]

>>12542389
I might just write some porn about her.

[Anonymous No.12545721]

>>12542389
Just find a nurse that looks similar, done

[Anonymous No.12545790]

>>12545413
This picture gave me flashbacks to the first overgrown toenail I removed.
The numbing injections were fun.

[Anonymous No.12545916]

>>12545721
Few nurses go that way. I mean, a lot of them are psychiatric cases but not that kind.

[Anonymous No.12546162]

>>12545721
This. Find a fresh one, dump a load in that piece of shit and it's done.

[Anonymous No.12546172]

>>12538019
The fact that no one responded to this shows you're all fake pseuds :(

[Anonymous No.12546276]

>>12544943
I'm guessing you tried getting into McGill? How did you fail? Did they give any constructive feedback?
I know one friend who needed to take the CASper for his program, and he said that you really can't study for the thing, just look at sample tests and be comfortable with communication skills in general.

[Anonymous No.12546356]

>>12546172
Nigga I'm unemployed. The most exciting thing in my recent life has been not being able to change my Volkswagen's spark plugs before night and the state government sending me an email to join a mobile consultation module with regular destinies into buttshit nowhere.

[Anonymous No.12546420]

>>12537227
Zero. I really should do more since I'm not intelligent in the slightest (undoubtedly double digit IQ), but I've never failed, so there's little impetus to drive me to do more than I have to.

>>12537365
Anki is for cucks. Passmed and attending clinical placements is the only thing you need to do.

[Anonymous No.12546440]

>>12538019
Strangest presentation of small cell lung cancer I've heard of.
The guy is on our onco unit now with a poor 2 year outlook. He went to his family physician 3 months ago with the only a complaint of left sided shoulder pain that radiated down the back and arm. After his doc tried the usual meds for a back strain for a couple weeks with no success, the guy got an x-ray that showed a lesion in the left lung. Ultimately, he went for his biopsy and a PET that showed mets in the liver. He's on his 3rd round of chemo with no real improvement. Guy still has no bad respiratory symptoms other than an occasional dry cough.

[Anonymous No.12546442]

>>12537227
>>12537244
this basically, it sounds bad but when you do it for a while it just becomes part of your routine rly.
I've known a few legends who managed by barely studying once a week or so tho... so it really depends on you personally.

[Anonymous No.12546494]

>>12536764
>>12536759
>>12536672
>most pure specialty
>not intensive care

[Anonymous No.12546498]

what the fuck kind of faggot studies to become a urologist? handling dicks and balls every day. you have to be a fag or a pedo to get excited about this specialty

[Anonymous No.12546507]

>>12546498
I'm ultraheterosexual and for a long time considered urology. The procedures are as straight as A to B and w*men memediseases monopolize most of the public founding and healthcare protocols while men are left to fuck themselves.

[Anonymous No.12546517]

>>12546498
Urology is not andrology.

[Anonymous No.12546567]

>>12538019
Just saw the luckiest person on earth...
~40 yo female with a history of strong oh consumption and hepatic encephalopathy is brought to a random ED due to psychomotor agitation and confusion; there she gets into SCA and aspirates during acls. She is transferred and admitted to our unit where we diagnosed and treated her for septic shock, aspiration pneumonitis that got complicated to ards, sigmoid perforation, acute on chronic liver failure with a MELD Na of 40, MODS, etc you name it.
After about 4 months she fully recovered to her basal, and was discharge. The fact that she managed to walk out of the hospital after having a mortality rate close to 90% is just mind blowing to me.

[Anonymous No.12546588]

>>12546498
easy job, easy schedules, juicy payment, I don't see why someone wouldn't want to become an urologist

[Anonymous No.12546634]

Is there a single word for the pair of iris and pupil- i.e.- the coloured part of one's eye?

[Anonymous No.12547182]

>>12545551
Look its apparently a fucking test to see how you interact with patients. Just stop trying so hard and be yourself, listen to the patient, empathize, give encouragement. It is not a test of how much medical knowledge you have or if its correct but how you interact.

[Anonymous No.12547202]

>>12538365
The only EKG book you'll ever need. Only ever needed to look a few rarer things from other books.

[Anonymous No.12547206]

>>12546172
I haven't seen anything that interesting ever and don't see any patients now.

[Anonymous No.12547243]

Why do so many people think that Covid is a hoax?

[Anonymous No.12547396]

what is here? I personally think it's a hydatid cyst because of the large septum separating the lesion.

[Anonymous No.12547405]

>>12547243
Becuase they don’t understand its mass hytria

[Anonymous No.12547425]

why do /med/fags all turn out to be bureacratic betas

you're all betas here arent you

[Anonymous No.12547432]

>>12532904
This year's Christmas edition of Danish weekly doctor's journal contains a bunch of med children's quotes
https://ugeskriftet.dk/nyhed/julehilsen
>Mila, 2 år
Helikopteren flyver syge mennesker til mors stuegang, og far drikker bare kaffe.
(Mor er på medicinsk afdeling, og far er i almen praksis).
>The helicopter flies sick people to Mom's ward and Dad just drinks coffe
(Mom is on medical ward and Dad is a GP)
GPs btfo kek

[Anonymous No.12547487]

>>12547432
That sounds literally like the mom wrote it and send it in her daughters name.

[Anonymous No.12547522]

>>12546588
What are the five comfiest specialties (low hours, easy work, low stress)?

[Anonymous No.12547529]

>>12547522
ROAD to happiness

[Anonymous No.12547538]

>>12546440
>>12546567
Nice. Recently also saw a patient with lithium induced ndi AND uremic frost. First one. Poor bastard taking way too much li

[Anonymous No.12547550]

MEDIC! I am Indonesian who will take Chinese Sinovac Vaccine, I am going to be fine? Honestly, I am afraid of the Winnie the Pooh

[Anonymous No.12547556]

There is blood in my urine (I'm certain it is blood I haven't eaten beetroot or something like this), it hurts a lot when I pee and I have a frequent urge to urinate even if only a little comes out.
I most probably have a bladder infection/ cystitis. The question is whether I have to go to a doctor in order to get antibiotics or if drinking enough and applying warmth to it would be enough. I don't want the inflammation to spread to the Ureters or the renal pelvis. Also it's not an STD because I'm a virgin.

[Anonymous No.12547566]

>>12547556
Could also be a stone or a stricture
I'd go to a doc to do a full workup

[Anonymous No.12547571]

>>12547566
>>12547550
Answer me pls

[Anonymous No.12547579]

>>12547550
>>12547571
Sorry idk anything about the sinovac vaccine because haven't bothered to read research on it since won't be used where I live
Ask some doctors you know about it irl

[Anonymous No.12547580]

are there any orthopedics/physios with experience with feet deformations?
>t. three different physios told me different shit and all told me to buy their fucking insoles

[Anonymous No.12547587]

>>12547580
See a podiatrist
Weird they didn't refer you to one

[Anonymous No.12547592]

>>12547587
there's no real "podiatrists" in my cunt, in here they just treat hygienic feet problems and change dressings for diabetics with their retarded rooting feet etc.
but i'll look harder into that again, thanks for the reminder

[Anonymous No.12547600]

>>12547592
Ah shit sorry to hear that.
Otherwise I'd trust ortho over a PT

[Anonymous No.12547615]

>>12547566
Eh I'm 20 y/o and healthy, I don't think it's a stone. I'll wait until tomorrow and see how it develops. If I still have symptoms I'll go to the doctor.
Initially I thought I caused some microtrauma in the Urethra because of masturbation. But the symptoms regarding frequent urination don't match that, do they ?

[Anonymous No.12547626]

>>12547615
No not really
Sure if you want to wait you can. Drink plenty of water. What abx do you have lying around

[Anonymous No.12547657]

>>12547626
I'll see if I have Ibuprofen lying around. That should be a good choice with little to no risks. At least it's anti inflammatory

[Anonymous No.12547662]

>>12547657
Abx means antibiotic not nsaid
Ibuprofen won't help much

[Anonymous No.12547674]

>>12547662
I won't self administer antibiotics. I'm only 4th semester and healthcare is free here.
I know ibu won't help much,but might as well take it while waiting if it gets better or worse

[Anonymous No.12547682]

>>12547674
Ok that's good
Thought you might have been a poor uninsured American so tried giving suggestions that would work for them

[Anonymous No.12547696]

>>12547396
We need more info. Sex, age, sexual activity level, etc. Do you have an hCG level?

[Anonymous No.12547701]

>>12547682
Thank God I'm European. I just want to avoid sitting in the crowded waiting room wasting time. I'm just wondering how I got infected ?
No sex, normal hygiene, haven't had any wet clothes on.

[Anonymous No.12547705]

>>12537365
About 500 cards a day. That's 400 reviews and 100 new

[Anonymous No.12547714]

>>12547396
Yeah could be
What are other details of the case?

[Anonymous No.12547717]

>>12545482
First, get the AnKing deck for Anki. Next, get Boards & Beyond, Pathoma, Costanzo's Physiology, Amboss, Sketchy, and Pixorize. Using all of those resources will get you all the info needed for med school's curriculum years.

Hell, you could probably get a decent chunk with just Boards & Beyond, but if you want to be really ready for anything then you need pretty much everything I listed.

t. Medical student who just finished curriculum with As and is about to take STEP

[Anonymous No.12547727]

>>12547717
t. someone who's not going to make it
You're just giving him review resources. Won't understand the material.

[Anonymous No.12547802]

>>12547615
>Initially I thought I caused some microtrauma in the Urethra because of masturbation. But the symptoms regarding frequent urination don't match that, do they?
Extensive stimulation of the glans can lead to a strong urge to urinate, not sure how long it's supposed to last though

[Anonymous No.12547831]

>>12532505
Guys I've graduated from medicine but I have a possibility to get a degree from engineering too, should I go for it or just forget I ever started there. Anyone else with a dual-degree from engineering and medicine? Is there any career use for both.

[Anonymous No.12547886]

>>12547831
If you really want to pursue engineering either be a medical advisor for producing medical tech or prosthetics or get md/phd in ee or bme and do med tech/prosthetics
Maybe start your own company

[Anonymous No.12547935]

Got an exam in neuroanatomy tomorrow and feeling pretty fucked. Is there any point at all in me memorizing the specific locations of cranial nerve nuclei in relation to each other or the receptive fields of neurons in the occipital lobe?

What do you actually end up using on a regular to semi regular basis?

[Anonymous No.12548031]

>>12547935
For the exam it really depends
>Is there any point at all in me memorizing the specific locations of cranial nerve nuclei in relation to each other
memorize the general system, so what the qualities are from medial to lateral, everything else location wise you should be able to get from their exit points. Maybe some extra stuff like the genu nervi facialis. Word from my neurology-prof is that a lot of the specific stuff isn't that important later on as it rarely comes into play with common injuries
>or the receptive fields of neurons in the occipital lobe?
Doubtful that this will be useful or that relevant in the exam, more which field of vision projects into which general lobe and which fibers cross over where

Can't say it with authority, just what I've gotten from my neurological lectures, but it seems later on it mostly comes down to testing reflexes and knowing general signs of lesions. You'll usually be presented with either broad damages from trauma, or specific damages from infections, tumors or strokes. You can go pretty insane with with the extensive details of neuroanatomy, having a practical understanding of it seems to be the way to go

[Anonymous No.12548205]

when will mankind be able to reverse aging?

[Anonymous No.12548209]

>>12548205
After you die probably

[Anonymous No.12548226]

Tell me about ethics
Will I actually have to care about them as a biomed?

[Anonymous No.12548230]

>>12548226
What do you mean biomed? Engineer? Researcher?
Yeah you have to care about ethics bc we’re dealing with peoples lives

[Anonymous No.12548233]

>>12548230
Ugh

[Anonymous No.12548240]

>>12548233
Might want to get tested for aspd lol

[Anonymous No.12548247]

>>12548226
No one has to care about anything in this world if they don't want to. No one is imposing anything on you, however if you break the law you will still be punished for it.

[Anonymous No.12548617]

>>12532512
What? Some of the best docs are DO's. I have nurse practitioners that are better than the doctors, and nursoids run the unit and are the ones responding to a brady event and respiratory arrest in seconds with a bag-mask/atropine and paging anesthesia stat while the doc shows up afterwards and says "well damn". Nursoids run the show on these ICU's, the only bad ones are the ones that don't know when to quit playing doctor and get the actual doctor.

Doctors can bitch all they want but when I have to move them to the side and fix the EVD to get an accurate ICP reading they sure are appreciative.

[Anonymous No.12548622]

>>12548617
t. nigger noctor
Get the fuck out

[Anonymous No.12548643]

>>12532512
Fuck this autistic bullshit in every thread?

[Anonymous No.12548653]

>>12532908
Shadow a Mexican doctor first

[Anonymous No.12548661]

>>12532505
How bad is covid in your hospitals? DFW here and my hospital is basically one of the big three here and we're 3 full covid ICU's, two out of the three PCU's are covid (not to mention all the med-surge covid floors) while the other is PCU is ICU overflow. We have poor staffing, regular Three to ones when one of your pt's should be one to one in ICU's and now we are considering switching to two pt per one room. ED has called safe harbor twice in the past two weeks because they had 12 nurses to a 90+ bed ED on hallway protocol. We can barely keep one ICU bed open if that, I think the numbers are 40% covid+ pt's in the hospital, 60% of ICU pt's are covid and 50-60 covid vents. It's a nightmare

[Anonymous No.12548679]

>>12536672
Then why did you shoot my pt with an AKI/elevated creatinine full of contrast for a non-essential scan and put them on dialysis?

Besides, my dad worked ER level 1 trauma for 30+ years (RN) and with how bad ER holds are getting it isn't what it used to be.

[Anonymous No.12548691]

>>12548226
>Care
No
>Follow
Yes, sadly

[Anonymous No.12548710]

>>12547538
damn, haven't seen uremic frost since my rotations on onco. poor bastard

[Anonymous No.12548738]

>>12547615
Go see a doc, if it's an infection it needs antibiotics, every male urinary infection is treated as a complicated urinary infection so if it is one you can't simply ignore it (also your symptoms are consistent too, I'm not saying that it is, I'm saying that you couldn't say that it isn't)

[Anonymous No.12548776]

>>12538019
Had a pt present w/ progressing weakness, AMS, hemiparesis (no history of MS), FLAIR symptoms on MRI etc. I'm thinking autoimmune, so we run our CSF cultures, mayo clinic viral panels etc. In the meantime we successfully extubate and my RN came to me saying he's officially neurologically declining. So we re-intubate, get the MRI which shows significantly increased FLAIR and things are coming back negative on the CSF and I realize "holy shit the doc that first took him started him on abx and antivirals quickly, I need to run some blood panels from blood that was drawn prior to med administration (and repeat LP's etc)". So my nurse, albeit new, was luckily a very competent individual and despite lab saying bullshit about how they couldn't get us those samples he dug around and figured out that there was blood to be tested.

Family is two intelligent college aged kids who lost their mom to seizures with a lot of outside pressure as this pt is stupidly rich, so he has a fiance he dated for a year that likely was after the money per the kids, and they are being pressured by his friends for "second opinions " even though there are multiple competent docs giving second opinions every shift. Luckily he's cool, reviews the case, and just recommends I drop a quinton, consult nephro, and start PLEX treatment in case of autoimmune and he'd follow along.

So of course this blood doesn't show much of anything and finally some CSF cultures come back and lo and behold it is just herpes encephalitis so he was fucked. Was tough giving the kids the poor prognosis talk and watching them come to realization of what was about to happen. Luckily the nurse told me he had done "the ole DNR talk and please talk to the Dr. about it at rounds" so he had them prepped for me to explain the benefits of DNR based on prognosis. After that it took a few days of the poor kids having to sort out family dynamics and we withdrew.

[Anonymous No.12548783]

>>12540908
As a nurse I fucking hate these patients. I just can't imagine that my light touch is truly hurting you that bad when I turn you. I'm sure there is some people with true "fibromyalgia" but I bet most of them are just mental illness

[Anonymous No.12548786]

>>12541418
If you love surgery stay in surgery, but admin is cushy and you may grow to love it.

[Anonymous No.12548795]

>>12548783
You mean that they could recover through psychiatric help?
I think some of them have Central sensitization syndrome

[Anonymous No.12548816]

>>12543813
We intubate for intractable seizures all the time and start burst supression (where we basically keep your brain activity to a minimum w/ sedation and restart your brain like a computer)

For regular seizures we can medically manage it and ER/Neuro nurses are competent enough to manage the airway. The problem is that the airway isn't being protected so it's better to just put them in the recovery position and protect the airway to prevent aspiration as ventilation always carries significant risk. Now if you're just talking mouth to mouth etc. you can bag somebody to bring their sats up and prevent hypoxia but you have to fix the primary problem which is seizures and keeping the airway clear to prevent aspiration. No point doing mouth to mouth or bagging a patient if they are just going to aspirate (which basically means sucking something into the lungs that shouldnt be there), unless they are critically low in oxygen and you're just trying to keep them from coding. You most likely would just fuck up the more important things trying to bag them.

Don't feel guilty, you're not a trained medical professional, there's nurses that don't even know to do this shit outside of neuro/ER/ICU. It's not your fault you didn't know what to do man. Next time just put them in recovery position and protect the airway. It sounds like your smart enough to do your own research so start there

[Anonymous No.12548861]

>>12546498
It's fucking easy and you get paid big bucks to drop foleys for nurses who can't pass past the prostate

[Anonymous No.12548869]

>>12547935
Yes and no, memorize the general lobes and cranial nerves but the esoteric stuff shouldn't show up.

Just don't dive down the rabbit hole w/ neuro if you're not planning on being a neuroscientist.

[Anonymous No.12548884]

>>12548622
....Huh? Do you even work in a large hospital? If not your opinion is fucking irrelevant to me. We practice nurse medicine because you want to take a million years to respond to a stat situation not because we want to.

I'm a white male ICU nurse, you get the fuck out I bet you haven't seen shit.

[Anonymous No.12548891]

>>12548795
I think they could if they were receptive to it but many aren't. Your second point is interesting and likely correct. Hadn't thought of it that way before

[Anonymous No.12548915]

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[Anonymous No.12549736]

>>12532505
I think I have a bilateral posterior dislocation of both my shoulders, that has gone misdiagnosed for over 4 years, I live in constant pain and suffering, it feels like my shoulders hinge on the wrong point of my scapula, and that I can not move my shoulder blade back and down correctly.
I can not sleep comfrotably on either my left or right side or my back. Sleep and any kind of comfort is a struggle..
>What should I do?