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/med/icine general Anonymous Sat Jul 8 07:09:29 2023 No.15549494 [Reply] [Original]

curse the inventor of the stethoscope edition

Previous: >>15512316

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

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 8 09:14:23 2023 No.15549606 Finally it's the weekend, no more neuropeds until Monday and no shifts. What are some cool guidelines/protocols you nignogs found recently and also found them interesting? Peds or adult.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 8 10:05:45 2023 No.15549655 How do you guys appropriately deal with frustration?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 8 11:55:04 2023 No.15549778 Anyone here a part of a medical examiner's office? What's forensic pathology like?

Anonymous Sat Jul 8 12:01:27 2023 No.15549792

>>15549494
Reminder that any medfag that got the experimental gene therapy is not worthy to give you medical advice of any kind.

Reminder that 99/100 "doctors" have simply remembered everything their superiors told them to for literally two decades of their life.

Reminder that 99% of medical knowledge is of no benefit to any patient and that 99% of actual useful information (diet, exercise, nutrition) was purposely excluded from the curricula.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 8 14:26:20 2023 No.15549971 File: 152 KB, 828x835, pigeon cardio.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] is Anking/Ankihub a scam? seems like a good resource but people are blasting the dude for stealing other people's work and trying to monetize it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 8 14:28:57 2023 No.15549974 >>15549494 I had the most peculiar experience today: I suddenly awoke at night, in complete darkness, and for few seconds I was hearing the most beautiful unearthly music (somewhat between Iasos and early Klaus Schulze.) What could it be? My first NDE?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 8 16:50:51 2023 No.15550154 >>15549971 People pay for Anki decks? My dude. Just pirate it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 8 16:51:52 2023 No.15550156 >>15549974 It means you're on the right board. Hope you get the good voices instead of the bad ones.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 8 16:59:03 2023 No.15550164 >>15549974 It's a hypnogogic hallucination, dingus. Not that they aren't perhaps meaningful, it's how the structure of benzene was discovered.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 8 17:10:08 2023 No.15550177 >>15550164 Hypnogogic hallucinations happen as you're falling asleep. Hallucinations after you wake up are called hypnopompic

Anonymous Sat Jul 8 20:20:10 2023 No.15550585

>>15550154
Ankihub is supposed to let you collaborate and share decks between you and your friends. instead of exporting a deck each time you can just push an update and your friends can just sync to update it on their own time. at least that's my understanding. seems convenient desu. the bullshit part is that all future iterations of zanki are now behind this paywall technically. and zanki never did shit besides put other people's decks together.

Anonymous Sun Jul 9 07:12:19 2023 No.15551573

>>15549971
its only $5 a month, and you get access to other decks too. not bad when fucking sketchy charges $450 a year now and changed the videos to woke crap

anking is moreso useful for step 2 as updated content is gonna be a lot more frequent for guidelines compared to basic sciences. the step 1 cards carry over for step 2 though, so i would just subscribe now. in addition to new cards, theres also a lot of new tags, such as every single uworld question having a tag

>>15550585
anking himself has created most of the newer cards, but yeah he is technically profiting off of zanki lol

Anonymous Sun Jul 9 09:06:31 2023 No.15551660

Medfags I have a question for you.
When i was about 6 years old I came down with a severe tonsil infection. Now briefly before I had my tonsils removed I got a temporary paralysis in my legs for like 40 mins before I regained it back. Was this related to the infection? Why were my legs paralyzed for a short time? It was full on paralysis i could not use a single muscle from the wait and below.

Anonymous Sun Jul 9 09:52:59 2023 No.15551702

>>15551660
I've no idea, but I'm just curious
Could you still feel things, or did you also lose sensation?
Do you remember if your leg was tense and stuck flexed, or completely relaxed and just unable to flex?
Was this in the middle of the day at home, in bed? (... after you took some drug?)

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 09:57:26 2023 No.15551708 >>15549655 Get a prescription for 5mg morphine sulphate.

Anonymous Sun Jul 9 10:31:30 2023 No.15551738

>>15551702
I could feel things iirc. And my legs were fully relaxed and were not stuck or tense, they were rather floppy. I was sitting on the couch one afternoon when I tried to get up and couldn't feel my legs at all. I don't remember being on any medicine in the few days prior and I wasn't able to eat for like 2 days. I was on antibiotics a week before it though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 10:33:51 2023 No.15551739 >>15551738 Sorry it's not "i couldn't feel my legs", i could feel them I just couldn't move them at all.

Anonymous Sun Jul 9 17:27:52 2023 No.15552278

>>15549494
>curse the inventor of the stethoscope
Laennec came up with the stethoscope only because of Fat women. Because they were too fat to observe directly. So rather, you should be cursing fat women.
>In 1816, [he was] consulted by a young woman laboring under general symptoms of diseased heart, and in whose case percussion and the application of the hand were of little avail on account of the great degree of fatness. The other method just mentioned direct auscultation being rendered inadmissible by the age and sex of the patient, I happened to recollect a simple and well-known fact in acoustics, ... the great distinctness with which we hear the scratch of a pin at one end of a piece of wood on applying our ear to the other. Immediately, on this suggestion, I rolled a quire of paper into a kind of cylinder and applied one end of it to the region of the heart and the other to my ear, and was not a little surprised and pleased to find that I could thereby perceive the action of the heart in a manner much more clear and distinct than I had ever been able to do by the immediate application of my ear.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 9 23:53:30 2023 No.15552948 What's the best route for being an MD but also wanting to live out in the middle of nowheresville in the mountains?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 10 00:11:36 2023 No.15552968 >>15552948 DO

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 10 00:41:37 2023 No.15552998 >>15552948 tribal, rural family med, accelerated programs where you promise to be primary care, etc

Anonymous Mon Jul 10 15:37:47 2023 No.15554154
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>you can only absorb so much of some metals
>absorption is mediated via enzymatic activity in your gut etc.
>some metals compete with one another, like zinc and copper
So... what is the pattern here? Are there regeneration times for these enzymes? Or you just have to avoid mixing meals and wait 4 hours between so your stomach empties?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 10 16:46:43 2023 No.15554275 >>15549494 Literally never seen a patient looking like that.

Anonymous Mon Jul 10 16:51:35 2023 No.15554283

>>15554275
Because you're not a private doctor for an 18th century European noble Aristocratic family that does home visits to personalize treatment.
You work in the ER in an American city treating fat ghetto niggers who shoot each other as if they're playing laser tag irl.
That's probably the reason why.

Anonymous Mon Jul 10 17:02:27 2023 No.15554307

>>15554154

Zinc is managed with just in time logistics. If you stop eating zinc, you run out very quickly. If you eat too much, it's just thrown away immediately.
It needs to be precisely regulated, or you get in all kinds of trouble. It's not like iron or some other things that have dedicated stores.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 11 01:30:50 2023 No.15555112 >>15554283 Dammit...I just want to be an esoteric physician à la Paracelsus.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 11 02:55:12 2023 No.15555205 >>15549606 ASA 325 mg PO x2, call MD in AM

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 11 02:59:54 2023 No.15555212 File: 28 KB, 350x319, 1687220964532777.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Do you ever lament the fact you can't prescribe the homeless pure fentynal and distribute it around your city in little baggies so they end their suffering humanely?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 11 06:05:55 2023 No.15555411 >>15555112 You still can be. Just practice esotericism in your down time.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 11 06:07:55 2023 No.15555415 File: 28 KB, 591x708, dr. chad.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15555212 Yes, for all the obese diabetics drinking coke on the renal and vascular wards. How could you tell?

Anonymous Tue Jul 11 09:15:10 2023 No.15555593

>>15554307
>Zinc is managed with just in time logistics. If you stop eating zinc, you run out very quickly.
Huh, weird. You can get copper toxicity over time but not zink? Like a metallic vit C? I guess it's water solubility. I kind of see why there's more available supplements for it then.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 11 14:01:02 2023 No.15555884 >>15552948 >>15552968 >>15552998 Can you do this but general surgery

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 11 15:12:26 2023 No.15555947 >>15555884 Med/ped residency plus a general a general surgery residency to be the town's god figure.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 11 16:35:20 2023 No.15556058 Apart from Klinefelter syndrome (and associates), what else could cause really high estrogen levels (150 range)? No smoking, drinking, healthy weight, not on hrt.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 11 17:01:59 2023 No.15556087 >>15556058 A possible higher than usual (for male) estradiol receptor expression in the hypothalamus-POA would be my endocrinological guess

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 11 17:04:09 2023 No.15556091 >>15556087 A higher than normal aromatase expression could also be responsible based on the theory behind T to E2 conversion

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 11 17:18:31 2023 No.15556104 >>15556091 Hmm, if t is within normal range, but close to being below average? Also history of hypothyroidism (forgot to mention).

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 11 17:25:56 2023 No.15556114 >>15556104 It's possible. Just because T is being converted to estradiol at an abnormal rate through aromatization, it won't have an effect unless the expression of E2 receptors in the hyp-poa complex are also higher.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 11 17:46:11 2023 No.15556132 >>15556114 Interesting, thanks. Will wait on the karyotype and go from there

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 11 20:54:48 2023 No.15556534 >>15549494 how hard is it to match an anesthesiology residency? what do I need to make?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 11 21:47:15 2023 No.15556655 >>15556534 >what do I need to make? can you turn dials? remember to look at a computer screen every couple of minutes? maybe if you're not too busy push a syringe so the MAP isn't 34 on my open heart? if so, congrats gas passer!! here's your stool

Anonymous Tue Jul 11 21:52:54 2023 No.15556670

>>15549494
I can not stop worrying about not getting into medical school my cGPA is abysmal at around 3.3-3.4 and I have just a year to bring it up. I am applying to low-midtier MD schools and DO schools. I am an ORM. Shooting for the highest MCAT score I can get. Graduated college in 3 years. I should've slowed down and taken the time to do 4.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 11 22:00:27 2023 No.15556685 >>15556655 I meant what I need to make to get such a match. What should my curriculum look like

Anonymous Tue Jul 11 22:01:52 2023 No.15556689

>>15556670
My GPA wasn't much better than yours, but the fact that I went back to school, this worked a salary position to pay for it, and made all As through the struggle of paying bills and going hungry is what got me accepted quickly. My advice is to just be honest with them.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 11 22:10:34 2023 No.15556703 >>15549655 Drinking, smoking weed abusing antipsychotics.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 12 01:51:21 2023 No.15556980 >>15556689 >My advice is to just be honest with them. >I was struggling with changing meds to treat my life long depression exacerbated by social isolation because I'm an outcast from my peers I don't think that would go over well

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 12 02:37:38 2023 No.15557031 >>15556980 Yeah never tell them about any mental illness or being an asocial autist. Always act mentally normal. They don't like mentally ill people at all.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 12 03:02:15 2023 No.15557050 >>15557031 So then how do I explain my low GPA and what advice can you give me

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 12 05:08:59 2023 No.15557188 >>15556534 >how hard is it to match an anesthesiology residency? went from piss easy, to now everyone and their mother wants to do it same shit happened to rads and pm&r

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 12 05:14:41 2023 No.15557197 I went into fourchan to avoid the failure of God's world. I emerge from it as a God.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 12 09:42:39 2023 No.15557478 >>15549606 >What are some cool guidelines/protocols guidlines and protocols suck

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 12 14:08:49 2023 No.15557755 >>15557031 Oh, yeah don't be honest about that. I assumed you were a normal, well adjusted person, not a fucked up mongo. Sorry.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 12 16:24:24 2023 No.15557907 >>15557755 So what do I do then

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 12 17:48:29 2023 No.15558082 >>15557907 Lie. Whatever everyone else does.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 12 18:39:54 2023 No.15558201 >>15557907 have an upward trend also lie to their face and tell them your dream is to do primary care in an underserved area

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 12 20:18:04 2023 No.15558413 Burnt out tech engi looking to be an ER nurse. Thoughts? B.S. in math, love high stress environments (deployment experience), but have never done any medical stuff.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 12 20:37:00 2023 No.15558450 >>15551660 >When i was about 6 years old I came down with a severe tonsil infection. Inaccurate memory probably caused by the sedation and memory effects. You dreamed it.

Anonymous Wed Jul 12 20:56:54 2023 No.15558469
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I started looking up evidence (randomized trials) behind treatments and a large part of what I found was shit effects or outright false results fabricated by Big Pharma by torturing statistics.

I want to go back but it's too late

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 12 20:59:41 2023 No.15558476 >>15558450 Dreamt* sorry I'm retarded

Anonymous Wed Jul 12 21:06:04 2023 No.15558484

I was a pre-med, but recently I have been thinking about switching out to pre-dental. Every Med student I meet and every doctor I shadow seem to be miserable, and many openly advise against the Med path.
Sure the pay is good, but honestly, not much of a difference between $300k as a dentist vs $500 k as a physician, especially considering that schooling takes less longer as well (You can be working full time in 4 years as a dentist, <1-2 years for most optional residencies). On top of that, getting in is easier, dental schools themselves are easier, and Dental Jobs are much much easier and more comfortable than Med jobs.

Why I say this is I wanted to ask, aside from the "It's my passion" bs, why did you decide to stick with Med instead of dental? Genuine question because I can't seem to think of a good reason except for slightly more money. Which comes at disproportianately much greater costs though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 12 21:08:02 2023 No.15558485 >>15558484 Clinical research in bacteriological infections. Always wanted to be a research physician, so internal med-infectious disease was for me. Won't make much as an "academic" physician, but idc.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 12 21:26:58 2023 No.15558514 >>15558485 >bacteriological that cant be a real word

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 12 21:29:58 2023 No.15558519 File: 189 KB, 1080x1621, Screenshot_20230712-172830_1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15558514 Unfortunately it is

Anonymous Wed Jul 12 21:41:35 2023 No.15558544

before becoming a doctor
>enjoy several hobbies in depth
>have sex
>have enjoyment in life
>carefree

after
>can't follow hobbies
>have to atcually start reading medical literature and even papers
>work sleep work sleep with 4 hours to myself if i'm lucky where i mostly take a shower and eat
>constantly worrying
>low libido

yeah nah bro i am getting my specialty and going down in hours, i dont give a shit about the money
i'll be 33, it's not so bad

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 13 00:57:38 2023 No.15558990 >>15552998 >accelerated programs where you promise to be primary care I'm interested in doing something like this but won't medical school but harder since it's accelerated?

Anonymous Thu Jul 13 01:09:18 2023 No.15559013

>>15558484
>Why I say this is I wanted to ask, aside from the "It's my passion" bs, why did you decide to stick with Med instead of dental?
Pussy. Or in other words social prestige. Though that often translates to pussy. People just don't fuck with me anymore when I tell them I study medicine. But maybe it's all because I'm a thirdie living in the third world. I know white people nowadays frown upon making any effort at all so I don't know what I would do in your position.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 13 01:54:55 2023 No.15559092 >>15558990 What? We're talking about residency, not medical school. Anyway, go med-ped and then never stop working until you want to kill yourself. Enjoy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 13 02:10:05 2023 No.15559124 >>15558484 Consider optometry.

Anonymous Thu Jul 13 04:44:41 2023 No.15559361

>>15558484
dental school is often higher debtload, lower average pay, and specializing requires being in the top 10% of the class. also, residency costs expensive tuition dollars

there was an orthodontist who made national news for $1 million+ in student loan debt. this isn't far from the truth

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 13 04:45:58 2023 No.15559365 >>15559361 >$1 million+ in student loan debt wtfff

Anonymous Thu Jul 13 04:46:54 2023 No.15559368

>>15558990
it's often accelerated by compressing clinical years. 4th year is largely a waste at most med schools so this is easy to cut down
you want to keep your options open. i wanted primary care going in, and now I'm considering other options too.
also, if this is LECOM, it's a shitty ass school. they're cheap for a reason...they cut many corners

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 13 04:48:13 2023 No.15559373 >>15559368 Where did the myth that MD and DO are equal begin?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 13 06:44:06 2023 No.15559527 >>15554275 i do t. plastic surgery anesthesia fag >>15554283 but also this when i'm at my normie hospital wagecucking

Anonymous Thu Jul 13 06:45:04 2023 No.15559528

>>15559361
>The average debt for a dental student was $292,169 in 2019 while medical students owed about $215,900 in 2018, the last year data was available.
With the additional 3- 6 years of full time work that dental students do (depending on what residency, if any, the Dental and Med student do), it really makes up for the small difference in average debt. And by the time a Med student starts full time practice with full pay (again, depending on the specialty), the dental student has been working full time long enough that he can take initiative if he wants, save up $500k-$700k and even start up his own practice, at which point he's earning more than the average MD. The debt difference isn't great enough to offset the other financial benefits.
Just a thought though, just purely financially speaking, Dental seems like a smarter choice in the long run, especially with starting private-owned practices (Which majority of Dentists do), but I could be wrong.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 13 06:48:07 2023 No.15559533 >>15556655 umm shitposting on 4chan while machines work for me is serious work, sir it's real medicine unlike your cutting&suturing, there's a reason surgeoids used to be merged with barbers and dentists back in the day

Anonymous Thu Jul 13 06:48:17 2023 No.15559534

>>15559527
Is anesthesia in danger of collapsing soon? It seems to be going the way of EM with the number of new positions even as they keep introducing more midlevels into the mix to replace the majority of gas docs long term
>>15559528
Dentistry is oversaturated as fuck, if you don't inherit a practice or move into bumfuck nowhere you are absolutely screwed

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 13 06:49:21 2023 No.15559535 >>15558413 Terrible idea

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 13 06:53:25 2023 No.15559540 >>15558484 >Why I say this is I wanted to ask, aside from the "It's my passion" bs, why did you decide to stick with Med instead of dental? Dentists are low iq and my pride forces me to pick a spec that makes me feel superior to others

Anonymous Thu Jul 13 06:57:13 2023 No.15559542

>>15559534
I'm not American, so the midlevels thing is not an issue here; but it is getting oversaturated because too many brainlets want a high paying position while getting filtered by surgery's workload
They make terrible anesthesiologists though, and good ones are always gonna be in demand

Anonymous Thu Jul 13 11:41:44 2023 No.15559843
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>>15558484
I always wanted to do medicine. Mom is a nurse and since I was young she encouraged me to do it because job stability. In my country the government agencies pay you since internship. I can't tell you if it is my passion since it's the only thing I've never tried anything outside healthcare. I wasn't accepted at my first try in med school so I did six months of dentistry but quit it because it lacked diversity. In my mind being an orthodontist was similar to being a endodontist while in medicine there is a huge difference between anesthesia (my spec) and psychiatry. In my young twenties as a student I switched from being interested in psychiatry, ENT, orthopedics and so on.
Bottom line I did medicine because I felt like doing it. Nowadays I'm 30 and looking back I've missed a whole lot of time with my family, relationships, money and life.
I've come to enjoy medicine, specially my spec. The thing about that is that I don't like it that much as in to have multiple jobs and shit. Would rather invest, get into entrepreneurships and do anesthesia on the side as a hobby rather than a job. I like it that much, if it makes sense.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 13 11:45:07 2023 No.15559847 >>15559542 >good ones are always gonna be in demand You mean the eye candy femoid anesthesiologist?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 13 13:34:59 2023 No.15559972 >>15559373 DOs are even lower scum than Caribbean trained MDs

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 13 14:11:51 2023 No.15560013 File: 78 KB, 644x677, 1557436112930.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15559535 Why?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 13 15:01:11 2023 No.15560087 >>15558484 >$300k vs $500k is not much of a difference a 67% increase is not much of a difference?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 13 15:24:15 2023 No.15560127 >>15559972 I mean comparing US MD and US DO End of the day, Caribbean MDs are literally just scams

Anonymous Thu Jul 13 15:56:28 2023 No.15560175

>>15559843
My mom really wanted to me to be a doctor. Back then, I didn't think I could be one because of aversion to blood and talking to people. Now I don't have either of those things. Honestly, my educational experience was rough and now in a physics PhD. I think I would have made a decent doctor, perhaps in imaging or neurology. Any anons in either of those? Was it easy to get matched into those specialties and is it as comfy as I picture it?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 13 16:59:33 2023 No.15560254 >>15560175 Being honest I did it because having relatives inside the institution puts you on the fast lane at the time of being contracted. Taking the most secure and easier way I guess. Chinks call it wu wei.

Anonymous Thu Jul 13 19:16:32 2023 No.15560496

Hey medfags, do teeth grow?
All of a sudden my lower canine teeth have been feeling really sharp and cutting into the back of my lower lip. I pull my lip in the mirror and it's all red and I see some healing wounds. I thought it might just be a inner lip being sensitive by when I run over the teeth with my tongue it does feel very sharp.
It this normal?
The only solution I found was to chew on wood, but the wood breaks after a while or I feel sick from chewing gross wood. The other solution I found was to push out my jaw so it was more turned in and lower my lips so that the teeth fit into the space between the lips, but it make my jaw and lips tired.
Last time I was at the dentists they said the quality of my teeth looked fine, but is there someone I should talk to in particular about this issue?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 13 20:31:25 2023 No.15560627 Can I become a doctor in Canada if my Bsc Physics average was only 79%? Seriously, could I even make it?

Anonymous Thu Jul 13 21:12:43 2023 No.15560723
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Should we go back to huge psych wards where people were hospitalized more?

Schizophrenics nowadays are absolutely destroyed by large doses of anitpsychotics and all are fat, diabetic, ugly and zombified with brain damage. They also get hospitalized in somatic wards for all the different comorbidities they have and die at the age of 60 from a cardiovascular event. They all just look so unhealthy and sickly.

Isn't it better to have less medication allowing more psychotic episodes but also offering more acute management centers where you can both support people, but also medicate them acutely with anitpsychotics and benzos. Wtf is with people swallowing anitpsychotics for years on end.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 13 22:46:18 2023 No.15560907 >>15560496 not sure but you might be a beaver

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 00:14:53 2023 No.15561037 >>15560907 do you think it's safe to file down my tooth a little? they are really sharp and scratching the shit out of my bottom inner lip

Anonymous Fri Jul 14 01:19:25 2023 No.15561119

>>15560723
Money.

Your first mistake was assuming altruism on the part of the policymakers.

The government doesn't want to pay for millions of mentally ill people to be put long-term in Psychiatric Institutes. Because the money mostly comes out of their pockets (A schizophrenic is NOT paying for his own time spent in a psych unit). So, unlike before, they now try to keep them there for as short as possible. To minimize costs.
What you are proposing is simply way too expensive, and it is for the treatment of a people that government officials deem to be not economically productive. So the government is simply not willing to pay that large of an amount for little return.
Medication probably same reason. Money. Somebody is making money from selling all the meds, so long term medication is better for them making more. But in this regard, I'm less sure.

Anonymous Fri Jul 14 01:19:50 2023 No.15561120

>>15559528
most dentists now are corporate paid associates making $150k or less

>>15559373
they're equal in the sense that DOs can theoretically do any specialty and make the same pay.

but obviously thats not the reality. you get a few hundred new MD neurosurgery residents per year, and maybe a dozen DOs lol

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 01:20:58 2023 No.15561124 >>15559972 caribbean trained MDs had a 56% match rate into Family med this year, and thats the bottom of barrel specialty not a good path

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 03:05:01 2023 No.15561238 >>15561124 I'm in internal med to go into infectious disease, and even I wouldn't touch family medicine. Yuck.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 03:13:17 2023 No.15561251 >>15561238 >infectious disease Is it just me or is everyone in Infectious Diseases so nice? The nicest people in medicine to me are usually in Emergency Medicine and Infectious Diseases.

Anonymous Fri Jul 14 04:11:13 2023 No.15561305

>>15560013
Being an engineer you're probably used to working alone/collaborating equally with others; as an ER nurse you're gonna be in a subordinate position taking orders in a potentially bitchy mostly female team while in a high stress environment with patients(and patients relatives) also whining and bitching at you too
Also if you're smart and have that math degree, it's likely you're gonna be in a situation where you see your order is suboptimal, but you're gonna have to do it anyway because the doctor said so(but maybe you're used to that from the military)

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 04:35:27 2023 No.15561346 why is pseudoephedrine still prescribed? nobody has ever said "wow, sudafed really works and is worth the side effects". for any of the symptoms it is prescribed for, there is a better alternative. is it just lazy doctors/NPs?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 05:21:10 2023 No.15561420 >>15557478 You suck and your mother sucks dick lmao

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 05:23:15 2023 No.15561423 very surreal to finally go into a pharmacy and write a prescription for myself

Anonymous Fri Jul 14 06:04:41 2023 No.15561475
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>>15561305
Through military I've become used to everything you've said except for the relatives. I would choose medicine if it wouldn't involve blasting my 30s away as well as essentially my 40s. Plus I've been eyeing going from ER to a flight nurse. I understand medical high stress is different from a deployed environment, but I am also looking at medical volunteer opportunities. Not junping blind, and plus tech as a fallback is a fortunate position.
>Being an engineer you're probably used to working alone/collaborating equally with others;
I actually hate working alone. I have the autist dream job of working alone/remote 80% of the time and the rest of the time doing basic interactions. I'm a normalfag extrovert I can't help it. Team environments get me going. Financially there's no risk for me. It's all about time, but 2years for either a master's + RN, BSN, or just the RN ain't the worst involvement. I've had this jump to medical in my mind for about 3 years now.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 07:06:34 2023 No.15561530 Any mouth experts here? My saliva doesn't smell good and I'm afraid I have bad breath, through I've never gotten remarks on it and why I breathe into a plastic cup or bag I don't smell anything. Is saliva supposed to smell not-good?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 08:05:20 2023 No.15561592 Does general anesthesia make your dick bigger or does every patient just have a massive dong? Has to be cause of vasodilation right, it's not that I have a small dick surely

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 08:36:28 2023 No.15561617 >>15561592 I've noticed that too, they often have these semi erect chubs that make it look like they've got massive shlongs

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 08:37:54 2023 No.15561622 >>15561475 I'd recommend looking into anesthesia/ICU nurse, OR nurse, or ambulance paramedic too as alternatives that might be more fun for your background

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 08:44:43 2023 No.15561630 >>15561592 >>15561617 dicklet cope

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 08:56:58 2023 No.15561658 >>15561630 it's over for small cock anesthetits

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 15:24:58 2023 No.15562145 >>15561592 >>15561617 wtf i went to my anesthesia residency interview and they had a penis inspector lady and they said i can't become anesthesiologist because I didn't 'fit the criteria'

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 15:31:21 2023 No.15562154 >>15562145 penis too large surgeon would feel his masculinity is threatened anesthesoids should be submissive and small in every way

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 16:19:59 2023 No.15562216 >>15561622 >anesthesia/ICU nurse, OR nurse, Admittedly I don't know a whole lot about nursing so thank you. I'll keep this in mind as I explore options. Definitely considering doing part time EMT work.

Anonymous Fri Jul 14 18:27:44 2023 No.15562432

>>15561592
The penis is full of blood and vessel’s so it’s very reactive to temperature changes and cardiac output. Theoretically it could be possible for cocks to appear large under the vasodilation produced by local anesthetics and sevofluorane.
I mostly deal with obese patients so their penises hide under their bellies. I haven’t witnessed that phenomenon but it could be possible. I honestly spend my time watching the monitor instead of the patient’s cock. It gives more information about his haemodinamics.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 20:20:01 2023 No.15562649 >>15562432 >I honestly spend my time watching the monitor instead of the patient’s cock. ngmi

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Anonymous Fri Jul 14 22:32:50 2023 No.15562913

Can an X-ray continuously output radiation in the event of a careless operator? Or can it only output radiation when the button is pressed and there’s a beep?

Just got back from a chiropractor with an X-ray machine in their office and I spent like a minute in front of the X-ray machine while the electricity part was loudly humming and pointed at my belly button. The operator only took two X-rays but didn’t seem very competent. Seemed like he just wanted to go home on a Friday afternoon

Is it possible my guts were blasted with X-rays while I was standing there and the device was humming? I assume there’s a
Mechanism inside that should keep the radiation from blasting constantly and these devices are built to not expose people to dangerous amounts of X-rays… but still

Anonymous Fri Jul 14 22:44:28 2023 No.15562951
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How much does a high GPA and MCAT overlook autism? I just got an interview invite and I'm now seriously regretting putting anime on my application... I hope no one brings that up.
That's the only red flag on my application.

Anonymous Fri Jul 14 22:46:57 2023 No.15562958

>>15562951
>I just got an interview invite and I'm now seriously regretting putting anime on my application... I hope no one brings that up.
I forgot to add but I mentioned that I draw anime. If someone asks to see a drawing, I would seriously consider death.

Anonymous Fri Jul 14 22:53:18 2023 No.15562979

>>15562958
>>15562951
assuming this was near the bottom of your work and activities section, you can spin it as drawing interest and that your current interest is manga/anime particularly the styles of (insert good/unique artists here).
Don't let this trip you up, and be prepared to speak on the rest of your application and your 'Why Medicine'.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 23:10:12 2023 No.15563043 >>15562979 Okay, I will do that. Do you think my race (I'm Asian) would make it less weird? It's part of my culture (I feel so stupid for saying that) so it's not like I'm a White guy that purposely went out of the way to draw anime.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 14 23:24:03 2023 No.15563082 >>15563043 boss, i talked about playing videogames in multiple interviews if you included, you value the activity, and have likely learned from engaging in it. personally, i would avoid the 'cultural' route

Anonymous Sat Jul 15 00:30:29 2023 No.15563222

>>15563082
>if you included, you value the activity, and have likely learned from engaging in it.
Oh wow, you actually made me feel better in that case. Drawing in general really means a lot to me. If I can show that (if asked), I think I'll be in the clear. Thank you, King.

Anonymous Sat Jul 15 03:42:41 2023 No.15563561

>>15562913
>just want to look up if modern xray machines can be put into a continuous emission state by a negligent operator, and if the cathode/anode loudly spinning means EMF emission is taking place -- or if cathode/anode spinning can mean no EMF as long as no high voltage is applied
>literally just trying to figure out if xray machines can emit radiation outside of the length of the beep
>google for an hour
>get nothing but results written for children "uwu da big xway machine wiww make a noiwse when its weurking... de doctwr is taking ur picture pwease stay stiww uwu"

Anonymous Sat Jul 15 04:16:18 2023 No.15563611

>>15563561
Gotta hope that a rads technician comes by to this thread or find a forum of theirs
For everyone else it's just a magic radiation machine that makes diagnostic images
But, based on how anesthesia tech is built - with lots of safeties, retard-proof functions and blaring alarms - I would assume all other medical tech is similar

Anonymous Sat Jul 15 04:47:06 2023 No.15563654

>>15563561
>>get nothing but results written for children "uwu da big xway machine wiww make a noiwse when its weurking... de doctwr is taking ur picture pwease stay stiww uwu"
This is the best you can expect from google for anything medicine related nowadays. You legit have to add a combination of words like "journal" "pdf" etc. to get anything aIl and even then its still mostly shit. I am not surprised that the general population is dumb as rocks about anything medicine related, you cant even find information nowadays unless you know

Anonymous Sat Jul 15 06:13:58 2023 No.15563793

>mexicans who don't speak any English get better coverage than most Americans and if they don't, have a million services to go to for free/vastly reduced treatment
>I have to act like I care about them
I'm tired of having to evaluate and treat mexicans all day, can't wait to move to a rural white area with minimal mexicans

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 06:19:20 2023 No.15563797 >>15563793 Were you racist before medicine or did you become racist because of medicine?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 06:27:20 2023 No.15563808 >>15563797 Race realist before but became more race realist during.

Anonymous Sat Jul 15 06:31:47 2023 No.15563812

>>15563808
Same. I kind of feel bad for being racist though. I'm tired of treating so many Mexicans and Blacks and I want to get away from them but at the same time, I feel guilty for having these feelings because I do see some kind patients from these demographics.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 06:33:25 2023 No.15563814 >>15563812 I'd be extra kind too if I were getting everything for free after having uncontrolled diabetes and hypertension, so I don't feel too bad.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 06:38:26 2023 No.15563818 >>15563797 I don't see how anyone can have a bio-adjacent education and not be 'racist'(in the modern sense) without some advanced mental gymnastics

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 06:40:01 2023 No.15563819 >>15563818 Maybe those people never had extended contact with minorities before?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 06:41:49 2023 No.15563822 >>15563654 it's impossible to find any useful information on google in general these days

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 06:42:36 2023 No.15563823 >>15563814 Do you think Mexican and Black doctors become racist against their own kind after treating Mexican and Black patients?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 06:45:25 2023 No.15563827 >>15563823 To some degree unless they're hyper liberals who can excuse away all the wrongdoing by blaming slavery/oppression and socio-economic factors. They're still probably more racist toward whites/asians though.

Anonymous Sat Jul 15 07:00:42 2023 No.15563845

>>15563819
I mean rather from a purely scientific standpoint everyone will agree that different subspecies/strains of a species ARE different, but you're expected to pretend that different subspecies of h. sapiens sapiens are totally equal and all variations are purely cosmetic and 'social constructs'

Anonymous Sat Jul 15 07:07:27 2023 No.15563852
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Does vertebra fusion actually work? My t12 compression fracture is absolutely destroying my mental health and I'm considering checking out in my 20s

Anonymous Sat Jul 15 07:22:04 2023 No.15563857

>>15563845
There's a reason why ethnicity is a part of any EMR. The push these days for a race-agnostic eGFR calculation seems valiant and just, until DaQuan develops end-stage renal disease that went unnoticed. Haplogroups are a thing.

>>15563823
Doctors from Africa kind of really hate treating Black Americans as a whole. Mexicans just hate chicanos, that has nothing to do with being racist.

Anonymous Sat Jul 15 09:19:15 2023 No.15563997

>>15561475
I second the other anon. Being an ER nurse is chaos but it's not like a charming or fruitful or silver linings kind of chaos. Maybe a trauma floor but even then it could depend where you work. Anesthesia is more relaxed, OR nurse sounds up your alley too

>>15558469
What you're feeling is normal. It just means the dose of your ACEI-statin-SSRI 3-in-1 needs to be higher

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 10:02:45 2023 No.15564051 I want to write a book about a doctor but I don't know anything about that shit should I become a doctor? I don't really wanna

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 10:25:52 2023 No.15564078 A weird question. Is there a chance that a patient with VERY RARE medical condition that has no mentions in medical literature or medical articles at pubmed could interest any researcher who would be willing to investigate it?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 12:32:21 2023 No.15564259 Why is using normal saline in IV form fine but if I ask a doctor is it safe to drink normal saline they look at me like i am crazy?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 12:41:52 2023 No.15564278 >>15564259 >if I ask a doctor is it safe to drink normal saline they look at me like i am crazy? Because it's just salty water you dumb fuck

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 12:55:23 2023 No.15564304 Is bone pain, crippling exhaustion and regular bloody stools (daily for 1.5 month; ranging from tarry to bloody or maroon) can indicate something else cancer aside?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 14:14:28 2023 No.15564397 >>15556058 Gay chemicals in water

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 14:58:47 2023 No.15564461 >>15564304 could be crohns but i hope youre shitposting cause it sounds like you're might be dying

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 16:20:17 2023 No.15564574 File: 58 KB, 358x379, 1656196625643.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15564461 Lol

Anonymous Sat Jul 15 16:36:59 2023 No.15564605

>have "normal variant" partial right bundle branch block
>speaking to doctor, say i prefer citalopram
>he refuses to prescribe it out of fear i could have developed long QT since then, so the drug's QT prolongation effect might kill me
>changes the subject when i ask him to explain why he thinks pRBBB could turn into long QT
>can't find any info saying that might happen
>looks like the drug is not contraindicated even in cases of complete RBBB
What is this, superstition?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 16:56:25 2023 No.15564634 >>15549494 Good med schools in Europe that aren't Belgian or English? I've around a year to prepare, currently working in a lab.

Anonymous Sat Jul 15 18:42:34 2023 No.15564809
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>>15549494
>be me
>anesthesia resident in Italy
>doing some months in childbirth ward (don't know if it's the same in other parts of the world, here in Italy an anesthesiologist must always be present at childbirth)
>we are called for some girl going in labor, nothing out of the ordinary
>easy peasy
>recognize the girl
>she's my ex, my first gf ever in fact, from some years before
>got over it after so much time, but still, you know how it is
>she doesn't recognizes me under the mask and cap, probably, or at least she feigns ignorance
>she gives birth without problems, obstetricians give her the baby
>she's happy, her bf (husband?) is happy, everyone's happy
>be happy too but now can't help but wonder at what never was and never will
>mfw

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 19:15:05 2023 No.15564855 >>15564809 never had a gf so i won't experience that

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 19:16:53 2023 No.15564861 >>15564809 Relationships don't exist. I've never seen one.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 19:20:51 2023 No.15564869 >>15563043 >>15563082 I talked about my exquisite boomeroid taste in music in most interviews and got a full scholarship at a high tier school where I bonded with the interviewer with fucking Weezer Literally just bee urself

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 19:22:18 2023 No.15564874 >>15564809 I know the feel

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 20:14:33 2023 No.15564967 File: 51 KB, 709x595, 2a6.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15549494 How long is SSRI discontinuation going to last? I was on Lexapro for about 4 months and it sucked balls. Wikipedia says 1-4 weeks. >Inb4 taper

Anonymous Sat Jul 15 20:37:28 2023 No.15565013
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>be me
>develop a literal ALLERGY TO HUMANS as a covid complication
>cant go out without a full-face mask with P3 filter
>cant kiss
>have to maniacally clean everything I touch without mask
>have to eat only germetically sealed food
>every flare up when I touch something "not clean" and then touch my face results in my neuropathy getting worse
>doctors dont know what the fuck is it, consider just psychosomatics
>EP tests shows neural conductivity disruptions
Life sucks, guys

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 20:39:30 2023 No.15565016 >>15565013 Have you tried vitamin d?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 20:59:52 2023 No.15565065 >>15565016 I have. Vitamin D3. No effect. The only thing that allows me to put off the mask when there are other people is pouring dexamethasone into my eyes, nose and mouth 2 hours before

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 21:08:53 2023 No.15565075 File: 234 KB, 1548x1024, adam-sandler-oct-27-2019-ap-billboard-1548-1583340301-compressed.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15565065 Wowzas

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 21:21:30 2023 No.15565084 >>15564967 Months. What didn't you like about lexapro? I often read that word followed by "saved my life"... but sometimes "made me projectile vomit."

Anonymous Sat Jul 15 21:32:35 2023 No.15565094

Ok this may be off-topic but Psychiatry I think counts as medicine so I'll ask out here.

Gist is, Vyvanse is causing hair loss, what do?

I have recently started Vyvanse for about a month now. It's been really good mentally, But I'm experiencing a lot of hair loss. Like a lot, extreme hair loss. The drain is clogged after every shower and if I run a hand through wet hair, it's full of hair. Now genetically, I don't believe I'm that prone to early hair loss, my uncle's all have a full head, heck even my grandfather has a full head of hair, though some in the family are bald so It is still possibility. And I'm just 20 rn, which I don't think anybody in my family was bald at 20, so I doubt it's just genetic male pattern baldness.
I really don't wanna be bald at this age, but I also don't want to stop the meds because they have been so helpful. Is this going to stop at some point? Is this even related to the meds (my psych insists it's not, but it started right after I started the meds)? What should I do in this instance?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 22:07:20 2023 No.15565157 >>15565094 Yes, psychiatry counts, since you have to earn an MD to be a psychiatrist. Didn't read the rest of your post, since it's about psychiatry.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 15 22:50:53 2023 No.15565213 >>15565075 What?

Anonymous Sun Jul 16 01:46:54 2023 No.15565466 [DELETED]

What are some substances that induce depression that aren't pharmaceutical grade? I'm thinking dopamine and serotonin antagonists that aren't sold as antipsychotics. Also, what are some substances or drugs that interact strongly with cocaine? I don't wanna overdose next time I go partying lol

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 01:54:57 2023 No.15565477 What are some substances that induce depression that aren't pharmaceutical grade? I'm thinking dopamine and serotonin antagonists that aren't sold as antipsychotics.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 04:23:42 2023 No.15565657 >Learn that the girls I found cute in my class are all taken At least I never talked to them... heh....

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 04:27:41 2023 No.15565663 >>15565657 Why is this always the case though? All the cute ones in school are all taken, so what the fuck are we even supposed to do? It's over unless you get into a relationship before med school.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 04:29:49 2023 No.15565666 >>15565657 >>15565663 Be a Wizard like me and enjoy your arcane powers.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 05:06:52 2023 No.15565720 >>15565013 Have you tried risperidone?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 05:09:30 2023 No.15565723 >>15549494 Dxm is lyfe

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 05:11:14 2023 No.15565725 >>15565663 Become a doctore, acquire money and status, snatch cute med students later

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 07:47:46 2023 No.15565913 >>15565477 Explain why you want to "induce depression".

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 12:36:08 2023 No.15566322 >>15565720 No, I didnt do any self-prescriptions besides Dexamethasone. From what I read its a neuroleptic; Not sure how this can help if the problem is autoimmune/crossautoimmune

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 12:37:35 2023 No.15566326 >>15565657 >first you value "extrenal" qualities like cuteness >then you are surprised that they might also value boys who are more cute/masculine than you

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 13:35:27 2023 No.15566448 >>15566326 what the fuck is the point of a woman if she's not attractive i can be friends with guys

Anonymous Sun Jul 16 14:43:05 2023 No.15566610
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So i was reading about chimerism in human (because rare and interesting) and was wondering why the body doesn't just outright reject the foreign DNA, I know there is an autoimmune response like in pic related.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 19:29:13 2023 No.15567066 >heart disease mortality decreasing >cancer mortality decreasing >diabetes mortality decreasing >suicide mortality increasing what gives, psychies?

Anonymous Sun Jul 16 20:01:42 2023 No.15567119
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>Fat bitch has a medical condition
>Feels better if there's someone to blame
>Refuses to elaborate
>Comments are all "that's a lawsuit right there gurl", "that doctor needs to be executed", "I'm a medical trauma survivor myself"
It's all envy isn't it

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 20:05:57 2023 No.15567126 >>15567119 >It's all envy isn't it Envious of what exactly?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 20:08:21 2023 No.15567131 >>15567126 Other people walking maybe?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 20:10:14 2023 No.15567138 >>15567131 That's a fair thing to be envious of.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 20:11:25 2023 No.15567141 >>15565094 Get your test levels checked, as well as anything else that may be related. If it’s not the meds / you don’t want to get off them just start trying to save it with a fin prescription and over the counter minoxidil.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 20:12:42 2023 No.15567142 >>15566326 >Surprised No, I'm just autistic and never talked to them or anyone else to learn if they were taken. I only learned about it by overhearing it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 20:12:45 2023 No.15567144 >>15567141 Also stop the meds for the time being of course. Unless you think you can pull off the bald look

Anonymous Sun Jul 16 20:16:40 2023 No.15567151

>>15567141
By anything else I mean thyroid and other shit btw. I was the only one to start balding at all within atleast my past 3 generations so trying to trace it back wont really matter
t. hairlet at an earlier stage than you, have a full head of hair now due to protecting it early

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 20:31:46 2023 No.15567174 >>15549494 guys use anti oxidants for covid covid makes your blood ionized and that makes it so your body cant metabolize fat anymore you will literally gain weight forever if you dont clean your blood

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 20:42:19 2023 No.15567186 i love ionized blood

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 22:11:18 2023 No.15567395 Is it worth making notes? There always seems to be a better online resource

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 16 22:57:48 2023 No.15567504 >>15565013 whatever this is, it's not treatable with antipsychotics >>15565720 it's one thing to not give out free advice on /med/ but a different thing to outright suggest harmful therapies

Anonymous Sun Jul 16 23:30:00 2023 No.15567556
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>>15567066
>what gives, psychies?
I could be wrong, but i think psychiatry is either neutral or perhaps even outright harmful
just look at >>15565094
the guy is 20 and some psychiatrist started him on literal METH. Anon's brain isn't even fully formed yet.
They do this to children too. Putting children on meth.
This only makes things worse and is harmful for the brain. What, are those people expected to take meth forever until they die? What about when they are 50, how will they function?

It's CRAZY that we are allowing psychiatrist to do this to young people.

and now look at >>15567141
telling the guy to get his test levels checked?? and also suggesting to him to start a whole new drug to disturb his hormones
Double win for pharma right there.

In reality dude is using meth and going bald, likely because he's 20 year old male and got bald genes. Oh well, in modern society you can't be bald, that's unattractive according to media even though it's perfectly natural and healthy for men to go bald

It's all fucked up
WAKE UP
OPEN YOUR EYES

Anonymous Mon Jul 17 00:31:48 2023 No.15567677

>>15549494
Okay i'll post off thread, but just this once, since i do not give a shit about your little big pharma lackeys.
Imagine thinking the germ theory of disease is true, in mid 2023.
Imagine thinking cancer is not psychosomatic, but some ridiculous explanation about cells dividing infinitely in an anarchic way.
You people really really are dumb, obedient sheeps.
No matter how white your coats is, for me you are stupid fucks, and ignorant lackey, just good at learning stuff by heart, and spitting it out, thinking this is smart, without having the first clue about how to question something.

Anonymous Mon Jul 17 00:55:28 2023 No.15567727

>>15567677
>You people really really are dumb, obedient sheeps.
>No matter how white your coats is, for me you are stupid fucks, and ignorant lackey, just good at learning stuff by heart, and spitting it out, thinking this is smart, without having the first clue about how to question something.
these are both true

You are a pharma false flagging little shit trying to discredit justified scepticism like>>15567556

day of the discontinuation is coming, shill

Anonymous Mon Jul 17 01:21:48 2023 No.15567768

>>15567677
intelligent anon, please prove:
>germ theory is false
>cancer is psychosomatic
Just diagnosed a guy in his early 50s with lymphoma - huge distended abdomen with pain. He'd really like to know how he can change his mind about his cancer and get better. I'll relay it to him for you.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 17 01:40:50 2023 No.15567799 >>15567677 BEEP BEEP SOMEONE PAGER THE JANNIES PLEASE

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 17 02:03:13 2023 No.15567818 File: 180 KB, 518x568, 1668679105142140.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15564809 I honestly didn't need feeling the feels at this moment.

Anonymous Mon Jul 17 04:45:01 2023 No.15568048
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>be hospitalist
>*pager beeping*
>recognize the extension…
>PACU…
>*sip coffee*
>*pager beeping 30 seconds later*
>it’s ortho
>look out window
>ortho is already in civilian clothing rearranging fishing poles in the bed of their truck
>mfw

Anonymous Mon Jul 17 05:43:18 2023 No.15568144
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So, at my old apartment I fell asleep on the couch (this was around last summer) and I woke up. Felt like my whole body was asleep, like pins and needles. I also had a lot of trouble opening my eyes and was having weird visual distortions. I shook myself extremely hard and managed to roll and sit up. Extremely dizzy and nothing like I had felt before, I honestly just thought it was my time to go. I stood up took a few steps to try and fight it and passed out. Woke up after honestly seemed like at least 30 seconds to a minutes and pushed myself to get up. The room was spinning, I was having extreme visual distortions. I started doing deep breathing like I do in weight lifting to oxygenate my blood.
Walked over to the bathroom and my face was bleeding and I could barely hold myself up. Started walking back to the couch to call 911.
I passed out again and smacked my head on the hardwood floor. This time for about 2-3 minutes, a lot of time had passed. I woke up extremely dizzy and numb feeling, and stood up. The couch (and my phone) weren't far away, but I blacked out again. This time on the carpet, I felt my head hit both the second and third time. I woke up and called 911 and could barely speak.
By the time the ambulance had arrived the feeling was already beginning to pass. They only gave me a CT scan because I had fallen and hit my head. Could this be an indicator of something worse?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 17 06:03:40 2023 No.15568195 >>15568144 >this was around last summer my nigga drops unconscious three times in 10 minutes and waits a year to think about it

Anonymous Mon Jul 17 06:12:29 2023 No.15568213

>>15568144
Potentially
Have a history of seizures? Diabetes? Structural heart disease?
Any health history at all?
Drug use?
What meds do you take if any

You probably need an EKG just to rule out the serious stuff, and if there’s anything questionable you need an echo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 17 16:12:46 2023 No.15569014 >>15568144 I have zero medical training but is CO poisoning possible? I’ve known it’s an issue with some apartments

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 17 16:18:39 2023 No.15569032 >>15564078 You should kill yourself instead of bugging docs with your functional neurological disorder

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 17 17:13:08 2023 No.15569161 File: 318 KB, 2048x1474, Robocop - %22Fuck!%22.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15564809 Damn... It's funny because they say time heals but I still never forgot...

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 17 23:16:16 2023 No.15569923 File: 25 KB, 500x500, avatars-000742309378-7414id-t500x500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >tfw stuck myself while suturing I hate surgery so fucking much bros

Anonymous Tue Jul 18 01:27:26 2023 No.15570157

>>15562951
autistic people can squeak through med school, but it becomes hard to avoid once you hit clinicals

its nearly impossible to get below a "pass" on your evals at a US medical school. usually the people online who fail rotations mention they are autistic

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 18 01:35:22 2023 No.15570181 >>15570157 >usually the people online who fail rotations mention they are autistic Autistic doctors need to rise up and take over the system.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 18 02:05:42 2023 No.15570248 >>15552948 Psych so you can see everyone remotely.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 18 03:46:52 2023 No.15570390 >>15570181 na there'd be no teamwork every autistic doctor thinks they're autistic and that everyone else who says they're autistic is lying

Anonymous Tue Jul 18 04:15:09 2023 No.15570433

>>15561119
Why did the governments use to fund all that mental ward shit back in the day?? Look up the columbus mental hospital

Doctors are smart people trained to be dumb
The root of disease is toxicity and malnourishment
Vaccines are for retards
No we dont need them to survice

Bacteria is good
Stop washing your hands

Stop taking antibiotixs
For petty shit, or even for heavier shit
Mamy retard doctors prescribe them for viral infections lmao

Once you learn that being sick is actually a detox is when you can finally call
Your self NOT RETARDEd

Modern Medicine is for profit not for
healing
Almost all it treats symptoms
,
I hope
Your faggots can treat the cause instead

Anonymous Tue Jul 18 04:46:44 2023 No.15570495

>>15569014
Absolutely, CO poisoning is actually under diagnosed in the US. It’ll be higher on the differential if somehow, when obtaining the history, the patient reveals use of a gas powered generator or mentions a faulty heating system in their home, or having the stereotypical poorly ventilated area with a running vehicle.
It would be also be a stronger possibility if people living in the same apartment building went to the ED reporting similar symptoms.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 18 05:04:48 2023 No.15570529 How much will nurse practitioners take over in 10years?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 18 05:07:56 2023 No.15570533 >>15570529 CRNAs took over anesthesia with 300k salaries and 36 hour work weeks, and yet med students are still cumming in their pants to try and match into it nurse practitioners will take over neurosurgery, and that wont stop anyone either

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 18 05:09:38 2023 No.15570535 >>15570529 Despite the very recent study of worse outcomes with the use of nurse practitioners in the ED with increased costs with ordering unnecessary tests… they will probably take more of the share in primary care.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 18 05:26:45 2023 No.15570570 >>15570533 >>15570535 How much will it reduce the respective fields by, or will it remain relatively static due to legal concerns?

Anonymous Tue Jul 18 06:16:17 2023 No.15570659

>>15570157
Define what you mean by "autistic".
Most autistic docs (high IQ, low "EQ") I've met have been great. Just straight to the point and get shit done.
It's the retards who did average on exams and squeezed in based on interview performance that usually cause problems. (charlatans)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 18 06:17:37 2023 No.15570660 >>15570533 Come to a country where the anaesthetic college is actually based and bitch slaps CRNAs from entering the country.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 18 09:13:16 2023 No.15570827 >>15570390 >every autistic doctor thinks they're autistic and that everyone else who says they're autistic is lying Gatekeeping autism lol.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 18 14:17:17 2023 No.15571179 >>15570535 >they will probably take more of the share in primary care. midlevels are going for specialties now. the bar is lower than ever there was an NP who got a heme-onc job for "less than 15 minutes of heme-onc learning"

Anonymous Tue Jul 18 18:09:09 2023 No.15571620

Stop whining about your midlevel shit, americans
It's your own fault for making your medical education into a club of pointless rituals and titles and jumping through hoops for 12 years, instead of just normal education+training like any other skilled job(i.e. engineer); so now the free market is finding ways to efficiently replace you
It's not an issue in normal countries where doctors are done in 6-8 years and nurses are just worker goons with a 3 year training

Anonymous Tue Jul 18 20:27:56 2023 No.15571914

>as retard I am, I didn't acknowledge doc on ultrasound saying I have mild ascites despite liver, kidneys and pancreas being fine, no swelling in lymph nodes there either, no major inflamation in appendix
>my sed was low and crp so low that it was unmarked
>no family history of ibd and no signs of tb in relatives I've been living with. There is family history of thyroid diseases, cancer and sjorden syndrome tho
>yet I was vomiting, shitting blood on regular (from bright red to dark), lost weight despite not eating less, have swollen painful lymph nodes under jaw, crippling physical exhaustion that doesn't get better with rest, random acute flare that feels like I'm boiling (sometimes accompanied by adequate sharp raise in temp), regular night sweats and immense umblical pain and bone pain (fatigue and pain gets worse at night) for past 1.5 month
Place your bets on how likely it is cancer and which kind, I will get colonoscopy in like a month. I'm betting 90% cancer (GI or blood one) and 10% on lupus

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 18 20:34:49 2023 No.15571930 i like nurses, they're mostly OK doctors are ok technicians are for the most part bros and so are the lab folk secretaries/administrative assistants however are mostly just very toxic

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 18 20:36:59 2023 No.15571937 >>15571620 tsm

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 18 20:38:20 2023 No.15571941 >>15571914 Just do CAR-T bro Also, why are they making you wait an entire month for a colonoscopy when you're shitting blood. Do you live in bumfuck, nowhere? Does the secretary want you dead?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 18 23:10:56 2023 No.15572274 >>15552948 Radiology.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 18 23:22:55 2023 No.15572293 How do I induce hypomania?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 18 23:37:26 2023 No.15572311 >>15572293 Low dose metamphetamine oral..?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 02:15:37 2023 No.15572470 >>15572311 any way that doesnt involve me getting hypertension?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 05:10:51 2023 No.15572645 >>15569014 Just keep your windows open. Way too many people have their windows closed 24/7.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 05:52:25 2023 No.15572708 >>15571620 >It's not an issue in normal countries where doctors are done in 6-8 years nurses are taking out hernias in the UK. we haven't stopped that low in the US yet

Anonymous Wed Jul 19 06:39:35 2023 No.15572752

This is my last week in neuropeds and will start neonatology for the next 6 months. Just received a transfer from neurosurgery. 17 y/o, bike crash into a tree, no helmet, missing half of his skull. Doesn't talk, cries a lot, shits and pisses himself, he has convulsions daily that barely stop after the basic Diazepam. When I see this kid, I wish he was dead because that is no way to live. It's a burden on his family and in this semi-conscious who the fuck knows what is going on through his head is scary.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 06:42:17 2023 No.15572755 >>15572752 >retard doesnt wear his helmet >becomes more retarded

Anonymous Wed Jul 19 06:55:20 2023 No.15572777

>>15572755
Yup. And his father is even more retarded. The kid didn't have a license and decided to take his dad's bike without his knowledge AND the parents said it wasn't the first time when he took it. Well, if it wasn't the first time, why didn't they hide the fucking keys.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 07:23:39 2023 No.15572817 >>15572708 >nurses are taking out hernias in the UK Wut. Link please now. You just love to see the NHS in action.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 08:09:00 2023 No.15572878 >>15571941 Poland lmao. ICU here won't take me in unless I'm literally on death's door and I still ONLY have to wait month for colonoscopy, because I'm doing it private otherwise I would wait like 3-4 months if I did it on universal lol

Anonymous Wed Jul 19 10:37:30 2023 No.15573045

one year into my physical medicine and rehabilitation residency. I'm having fun and I like it, although I know it's not the best money wise, but the work suits me and am currently working in a seaside resort town and I get to go chill out at the beach and I am not overworked. Any other physiatry docs here?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 11:29:49 2023 No.15573106 Did you have any non traditional old people in your class? How’d they hold up through it all?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 11:40:42 2023 No.15573114 >>15572645 >Way too many people have their windows closed 24/7. I have the AC running, its 100° out

Anonymous Wed Jul 19 12:27:15 2023 No.15573165

>>15572708
The UK is a special hellhole for doctors on its own.
You make minimum wage after graduation, have to rotate to a different hospital/city every couple of months while working as a doctor, you have no bargaining power because the NHS is a monopoly employer, nobody respects doctors because the NHS is free anyways, it takes like 10 fucking years after graduation to become a specialist.
No wonder they are leading the way in replacing doctors with nursoids that can't tell a migraine from a tension headache appart.
Anyone with half a brain left years ago

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 12:33:48 2023 No.15573166 >>15549494 What benefits of sunlight are actually true? and out of those which are decreased/stopped by using sunscreen?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 13:17:15 2023 No.15573213 >>15558514 >be american

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 17:56:06 2023 No.15573599 File: 333 KB, 1900x2500, E6rPyt9XEAcPGvl.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Last semester of pre-med here. Orgo II, biostatistics, micro cell bio lab, and neurobiology. >Pic unrelated, my first waifu

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 18:05:56 2023 No.15573615 >>15573106 They're holding up alright (through optometry school so far). I think more young'uns dropped out than older individuals.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 18:06:18 2023 No.15573617 Does science know why I wanna kill myself?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 19:32:41 2023 No.15573854 is working in a hospital as comfy as it seems? I'm sure the job can be stressful, but I moreso mean just the environment of being in a hospital

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 19:50:59 2023 No.15573909 any radiologist basedjaks?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 21:46:26 2023 No.15574159 >>15573599 Premeds need to be beaten and taught a lesson. Fuck premeds and fuck gunners.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 23:08:01 2023 No.15574329 File: 84 KB, 723x1024, 1689031759097996.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15574159 Okay faggot

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 23:25:24 2023 No.15574355 >be in neuro rotation >hey anon go do a basic history on this guy and learn his story >27 year old >brainstem damage from a ruptured AVM >locked in syndrome >only communicates with his eyes I don't like neuro

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 19 23:42:44 2023 No.15574409 >>15574355 fuck

Anonymous Wed Jul 19 23:59:12 2023 No.15574441

>>15574355
>>15572752
Why don't we just do the right thing and let these people die?

On a related note, I had to put a catheter in some poor man who had anoxic brain damage s/p a cardiac arrest. He should have died instead, honestly. Poor dude, he just lies in bed the whole day.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 00:14:58 2023 No.15574469 >>15574355 Was the resident just fucking with you or did he not know? I mean TECHNICALLY you could work something out but damn that's dark.

Anonymous Thu Jul 20 00:24:31 2023 No.15574484

>>15574469
>Was the resident just fucking with you
I think so, but its also a case of the whole you need to learn how to get histories from all sorts of clientele thing. Asked a lot of yes no questions, held up boards, and I just had to see which he stared at. He's actually a pretty cool guy and I hope there's some way he can show improvement in anything.
Neuro is so fucking interesting but you really do have the darkest cases just like >>15572752

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 00:40:49 2023 No.15574509 >>15574159 >Premeds need to be beaten and taught a lesson. They already get beaten plenty by the AAMC and they keep coming back for more, I don't think that would work.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 01:09:05 2023 No.15574534 File: 39 KB, 600x800, back pain frog.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15561124 >56% average match even to FM wtf that can't be real. what happens with all that debt if you don't match into anything?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 01:20:28 2023 No.15574565 >>15558201 >your dream is to do primary care in an underserved area make sure you have shit to back this up, work or volunteer at a rural primary care clinic

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 01:29:30 2023 No.15574588 >>15563818 I had some dumb bitch proclaim how "there are no biological differences between black and white people" in a bioethics class. I fucking HATE admissions.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 01:47:11 2023 No.15574618 >>15573615 I’m worried I’ll be too old to get past the adcoms and to get in and will be even more isolated than the regular med students and residents being old.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 01:48:12 2023 No.15574619 >>15574534 Chief medical officers maybe?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 03:18:37 2023 No.15574721 >>15574509 The AAMC needs to intensify the beatings. Making the MCAT longer and harder is a good first step.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 03:33:38 2023 No.15574745 >>15574588 there is a biological difference between every living entity race isn't a very useful classification, however

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 03:52:33 2023 No.15574782 >>15563818 No advanced mental gymnastics, and I'm not racist. I used to be at one point, but it just didn't make any sense the more I thought about it and the more I experienced life.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 05:34:15 2023 No.15574962 >>15574618 Stop worrying. As long as you don't isolate yourself, no one cares. They're too busy caring about themselves and more important/interdasting school drama. Also, you can either apply and become a doctor now, or wait until you're even older.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 12:01:10 2023 No.15575472 Is there anyway schools can force you to prove you are bi? While its small, my local school gives you a slightly higher consideration for being part of the LGBTABCXYZ+

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 13:34:37 2023 No.15575571 Why are osce's such bullshit?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 14:10:40 2023 No.15575611 >>15575571 practice your physical exam skills

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 14:37:45 2023 No.15575653 >>15575472 they'll assign a male penis inspector for you. If you don't get an erection, you will be outed as a liar

Anonymous Thu Jul 20 15:10:30 2023 No.15575708

>>15575472
The fag shit bonus is completely retarded and I don’t blame you in the slightest for abusing it if it gives you an edge

also no they legally cant force you to take dick in your ass, maybe volunteer at a pride event (normal ones, not the ones with naked trannies and shit) if they somehow doubt you

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 15:11:30 2023 No.15575711 >>15575708 >no they legally cant force you to take dick in your ass false

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 15:14:40 2023 No.15575715 >>15575711 I mean med school can’t force you to take it in a literal sense

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 15:18:13 2023 No.15575716 >>15575715 >take this dick or im failing you happens to the best of us

Anonymous Thu Jul 20 20:32:49 2023 No.15576284
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Do large breasts produce more/better milk for infants? Is there a size above which a woman's breasts correlate with better outcomes for her children?

I'm asking you guys because this seems like the kind of thing where it's hard to find real answers because of social factors.

Anonymous Thu Jul 20 20:41:19 2023 No.15576308
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If I graduated college a decade ago with a 2.5 but manage to get really good MCAT scores do I have a hope of getting into med school?

I studied accounting+economics and it was a really bad fit but I stuck with it. Wound up bouncing around in restaurants and am now doing programming.

The one thing is I'm real good at standardized tests. I got a 33 on the ACT both times that I took it, without any sort of study or prep material. Hell, I think I was high one of the times. I don't use substances anymore except an occasional drink.

>anon wtf makes you think you'd be a good doctor

I get obsessive about stuff I'm into. The way I was raised, doctors and medicine seemed stuffy and boring. But a couple of my good friends became doctors and I'm realizing medicine is actually really cool and would be the kind of thing I could endlessly nerd out about for the rest of my life.

Also I like interacting with people. Seems like most of the nerdy jobs where you get to be obsessive separate you from people and make you unrelatable, but medicine is a topic everyone has a reason to relate to.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 20:45:25 2023 No.15576312 >>15576308 Most med schools filter <3.0 gpa automatically. Do a post-bacc or master's before and raise your gpa first.

Anonymous Thu Jul 20 20:49:01 2023 No.15576323

>>15576284
No, Breast size is positively correlated with poverty, facial unattractiveness and mental illness. They don't produce shit and there's no better outcomes with large breasts except for the fact that they feel soft jiggly and juicy when you place your face in them, and give you a hard erection.

Anonymous Thu Jul 20 20:51:45 2023 No.15576329

Im 28 and have had a very rough go at trying to get back into school. Im not making excuses because im an idiot but a lot of work and relationship stuff happened and my GPA is straight garbage, >3.
In winter start of finals week i rolled my truck and missed them, and this last quarter week of i got fired and lost my house.
Do I have any hope of clawing my way out of this? I dont know if schools offer veterans preference but fuck i am banking on that hard to get just about anywhere at this point.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 21:25:41 2023 No.15576445 >>15575716 >Fellowship in getting her tits licked and pussy pumped

Anonymous Thu Jul 20 21:52:16 2023 No.15576518

>>15574441
because he can communicate with his eyes and maybe he was asked that question and he said he wanted to live
your example is very different with anoxic brain damage
>>15574484
yeah, neuro does teach you how to take a history off any patient
also, I don't think the resident wasn't trying to fuck with you. It's probably just his way of telling you to develop a skill and to learn a patient's story. Locked in syndrome is important to know so the resident just wanted you to acquaint yourself with it by taking the patient's history

i think every specialty has sad or dark cases

Anonymous Thu Jul 20 21:53:54 2023 No.15576526

>>15576329
I'd say there's a preference depending on the school. You ideally want to get your cGPA and sGPA above a 3.5, upward trends are also looked on favorably by most adcoms. A good MCAT can also help especially in the context of an upward trending GPA, but I'm gonna be honest a straight 3.0 gpa might be difficult to compensate for. It also helps if you can craft a narrative for your application. Volunteering taking vitals or something at the VA would look great, anything that you can tie into your past.

Anonymous Thu Jul 20 22:00:28 2023 No.15576541

>>15576526
I was a volunteer firefighter for 2 years and im working at a hospital now so ive been building on my patient care hours.
Im still early in my academic career so ive got time to pull it up a bit but yeah this last year i was dealt a shit hand and i didnt handle it very well. I just finished my first year at community college.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 22:01:59 2023 No.15576548 >>15576541 Oh you're golden. Just make sure to get As in all your 4 credit hour classes like med micro and virology so you'll look good to med schools

Anonymous Thu Jul 20 22:03:32 2023 No.15576552

>>15576541
Shit bro you've got another three years to bring that GPA up, I thought you were a sophmore/junior getting ready to apply. Being a non-trad student, veteran, having real world experience and actually putting your hands on patients before you apply is great. Practically an adcoms wet dream.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 22:03:53 2023 No.15576553 >>15576329 >In winter start of finals week i rolled my truck and missed them, and this last quarter week of i got fired and lost my house. Imagine being White and still losing lol.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 22:06:11 2023 No.15576558 >>15576552 >three years *two I guess, I can't remember how all that shit goes

Anonymous Thu Jul 20 22:08:01 2023 No.15576564

>>15576548
>>15576552
Thanks for the encouragement guys, ive been down for a while because of how poorly things went this year. I was so excited to start college and then everything went south.

>>15576553
Cant win every time. My girlfriend left me too so i havent been on top for a while.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 22:13:20 2023 No.15576578 >>15576564 Are you White trash?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 22:17:34 2023 No.15576583 >>15576578 Nah i dont think so. Ive got a clean record, i dont do drugs, im not in debt, i feel like im as mentally healthy as anyone else, and im in decent physical shape. Would being white trash help?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 22:25:42 2023 No.15576598 >>15576583 If you aren't White trash then why are you performing so poorly in school? Even niggers got you beat.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 22:30:26 2023 No.15576610 >>15576598 I missed some finals due to the reasons listed above and those counted for a lot of the grade in those classes. I might also just be an idiot.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 20 23:22:05 2023 No.15576729 >>15576610 Samesies

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 00:36:56 2023 No.15576863 >>15576729 My only saving grace is im too stupid to know when to quit. Keep at it man, hopefully well see each other out there some day.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 00:45:19 2023 No.15576877 >>15576598 rope yourself cunt you wouldn't talk to anybody like that in real life, and you'd get your ass beat real quick if you did

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 00:58:00 2023 No.15576899 >>15576863 Med schools love someone who never quits bud

Anonymous Fri Jul 21 01:07:12 2023 No.15576910

>>15576877
Not sure why you're mad on his behalf. I gave him the honest and objective truth. It's not a good look to have even niggers outperform you in academics. He's not even White trash/poor so there's no excuse for why that happened. He simply needs to get serious about academics.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 01:29:05 2023 No.15576952 >>15576899 I hope thats not sarcasm. Or is it a joke about how theyll love me because i have to keep paying?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 02:09:51 2023 No.15577011 >>15572817 https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2017/aug/30/nurse-perform-surgery-patients-alone-surgical-care-practitioner 2017, who knows how far they've gotten now

Anonymous Fri Jul 21 02:12:28 2023 No.15577013

>>15576308
>The one thing is I'm real good at standardized tests. I got a 33 on the ACT both times that I took it, without any sort of study or prep material

not impressive. most people prep minimally for the ACT. MCAT is definitely harder to do well on

Anonymous Fri Jul 21 03:07:44 2023 No.15577097

Bros, I realized I hate medicine.

I hate those fucking 24 hour shifts, having to dig for information and guidelines since everyone else does whatever. I'm tired of the kids yelling, parents coming at 2am for vomit, patient after patient coming, the phone ringing every 20min like a call center. skipping meals and so much bullshit. Bullshit reports when a kid becomes critical or dies, making presentations etc. I hate it all.

I quit but I still need to work 12 more days of this. Been on leave for a week since I said I had depression. Because of some contract fuckery I may have to pay back all my salaries from the past year and a half, but whatever. Slavery exists in some parts of the world and it's called residency.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 03:08:33 2023 No.15577098 >>15577097 Should've pursued comfy optometry.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 03:59:56 2023 No.15577169 >>15577097 You knew what you were signing up for.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 06:36:31 2023 No.15577358 what is even the purpose of specializing in FM over IM, when moms are just going to see the obgyn or take their kid to the pediatrician instead? and rural life is gay, not a good excuse to pick FM

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 08:39:07 2023 No.15577534 >>15577358 >rural life is gay Shitty slicker detected. Go back to your ratcage.

Anonymous Fri Jul 21 08:56:56 2023 No.15577546

>>15577534
>ruralites when there are rats in the city
haha, look how dirty you city slickers are
>ruralites after cleaning ten dead mice from traps around their house and also they had to kill an armadillo that was nesting under their porch
well that's just part of livin in the country, fella

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 10:35:22 2023 No.15577643 >>15577358 >what is even the purpose of specializing in FM over IM low iq but enough persistence to finish med uni

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 11:12:59 2023 No.15577694 >>15577534 Are you the Asian rural FM that complains about racism?

Anonymous Fri Jul 21 13:27:20 2023 No.15577864
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I know y'all dont want to offer advice here but I did see my doctor and I don't want to follow her advice. She wants to put me on blood pressure meds but I think that's ridiculous. I'm a /fit/, healthy 22 year old. I had an EKG a few years ago but no abnormalities. Any other tests I can do to find out wtf is going on?
Also, I donated blood yesterday and that seems to have helped bring it down a bit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 13:36:35 2023 No.15577875 >>15577864 I dont drink coffee, smoke, drink alcohol, or do any other drugs. Started taking 10mg cialis every day 2 days ago. And i can feel my blood pressure going up while working out. Going to see a different doctor next week.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 14:34:49 2023 No.15577950 File: 70 KB, 568x317, 1674445948699868.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>15576863 >My only saving grace is im too stupid to know when to quit

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 14:43:15 2023 No.15577954 >>15577864 stop neglecting cardio and lose weight if you dont want to take meds

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 14:45:20 2023 No.15577957 >>15577954 I cant fucking do cardio without getting extremely light headed and dizzy, which I assume is due to my blood pressure. >lose weight I'm not that fat. 5'10 180lbs ~15% bodyfat. I am on a diet tho.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 14:57:17 2023 No.15577971 >>15577864 I'd take the meds to be quite DESU It's not like you're on statisn or antipsychotics, you won't even notice

>>	Barkun Fri Jul 21 15:16:59 2023 No.15577991 >>15577950 It should be done already, what are these rules actually saying, what is the consequence? Just do it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 15:30:32 2023 No.15578012 >>15577971 Why are medfags like this? I want to figure out WHY my blood pressure is high. What if there's something else going on that is causing it?

Anonymous Fri Jul 21 15:34:18 2023 No.15578018

>>15578012
That's orthogonal, my brotherino in chrisentema
You can keep trying to figure it out without walking around like you're trying your best for a future aortic dissection

I'm not saying you shouldn't try to figure out why your house is on fire, just step outside while they put it out. You have all the time to figure it out after.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 15:36:53 2023 No.15578021 >>15577097 >peds-fag gets btfo'd lmao

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 15:41:20 2023 No.15578027 >>15577957 you are fat lose weight dont take BP drugs just lose weight you should be 160-165 pounds max you fatass >15% bodyfat yeah right

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 15:52:15 2023 No.15578038 >>15578021 Where do you hide a dollar from a ped? Plain sight, they never seen one

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 15:53:17 2023 No.15578041 >>15578027 Hey anon what's the NNT on telling people to just lose weight

Anonymous Fri Jul 21 16:11:11 2023 No.15578068

>>15578018
The reason I posted in this thread is to ask for advice on what tests I can do to determine the underlying cause. Hopefully I can get a referral to a cardiologist next week
>>15578027
>you should be 160-165 pounds max you fatass
Eat shit, twink.
And if this is in fact due to my weight, explain why my heart rate is so low.

Anonymous Fri Jul 21 16:16:03 2023 No.15578074

>>15578068
>And if this is in fact due to my weight, explain why my heart rate is so low.
Two different things. Heart can grow beefy both to fight the hypertension and because of exercise.
The hypertension is not your heart beating too fast, it's something else.

Your heart beats at a perfectly normal 60 because ventricles are thick. And actually the heart can become thicker because of hypertension, so there's no contradiction at all.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 16:23:45 2023 No.15578087 >>15578074 Fuck you. I'm going to lose the 20lbs just to prove you wrong. And when you're wrong, I will choke you out with your stethoscope. See you in 4 months bud

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 16:24:30 2023 No.15578089 >>15578087 I better see your sorry ass 4 months there on the dot, punk As if you're not going to forget in a week

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 21 20:28:23 2023 No.15578452 >>15577546 Cut your grass if you don't want mice. Simple as. >>15577694 No, white. Why would I like rural life if I were that complaining asian?

Anonymous Sat Jul 22 02:02:46 2023 No.15578875

>>15549792
if my partner got ONE vaccine, but detox'd right after, at this point, is damage done, or are they possibly still contagious? i haven't seen them in 3 years and they got the vax 1 time and never anymore after that. worried about sex with vaccinated lol

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 22 03:05:31 2023 No.15578971 >>15577864 149/92 is pretty atrocious

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