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*sweats nervously*

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Med students are like Magicarps. You don’t have any useful skills, you get thrown out first in every encounter just to take a couple hits and gain experience, and one day you turn into a fabulous, overworked dragon.

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make no mistake i love the ocean with my whole heart but deep water terrifies me so much.. what’s goin on down there? nothing i want to be a part of

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Besides training all the major Greek heroes, Chiron was also a doctor.

That would make him the Centaur for Disease Control.

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Why are all my best passmed streaks after 3 am, yet all my exams in actual people hours

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A man has built Ogo, a hands-free wheelchair for his paraplegic friend (video)

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I had no idea about the appalling history of this painful device :(

https://www.thelily.com/women-behind-speculum-redesign-say-we-need-gynecological-tools-designed-by-people-with-vaginas/

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Mom gets real in Facebook post about why the anti-vaxxer movement is so dangerous for her daughter.

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https://twitter.com/NPR/status/998576678363435008

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“We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being. And well-being is about the reasons one wishes to be alive. Those reasons matter not just at the end of life, or when debility comes, but all along the way. Whenever serious sickness or injury strikes and your body or mind breaks down, the vital questions are the same: What is your understanding of the situation and its potential outcomes? What are your fears and what are your hopes? What are the trade-offs you are willing to make and not willing to make? And what is the course of action that best serves this understanding?… If to be human is to be limited, then the role of caring professions and institutions — from surgeons to nursing homes — ought to be aiding people in their struggle with those limits. Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person’s life.”

— Atul Gawande, a second-generation surgeon, from Being Mortal (via eelhound)

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Paywall if you don’t have JAMA

good editorial in JAMA on millennial doctors and the traditional medical/academic establishment

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Hi! So many things!

It’s been a while since I did anything but reblog, and also wow there are a lot more people seeing this now! So I thought I’d do an update.

I matched into ENT residency and will be moving from here to the west coast (deets withheld for anonymity). I graduated medical school and am now actually a doctor! I can still hardly believe it.

I’m very excited to start this new part of my life but also mildly nervous about finding balance. I’m not sure where the next years will take me, or how I will accomplish everything I feel brewing inside of me. But I feel sure that I’m going to a supportive environment that will allow me to ask questions, be creative, and go at my own pace. Keep your fingers crossed that I’m right about my program!

It’s also hard leaving my mentees behind. I spent a lot of time and energy the last couple of years trying to provide mentorship and guidance for younger students who wouldn’t get it otherwise (because we’re minorities). If I did a decent job, they’ll manage ok and get their papers out without much delay. Plus they can always email me.

And the last part... I’m leaving behind a lot of friends. We kept each other intact during medical school and it’s hard to imagine being on the other side of the country from them, unable to hug or be hugged. We’re going to have a shared call calendar so we know who’s awake when (for night call texting) and also do video chat dinner dates, so hopefully it’s not too bad.

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Airway for life!

The medblr crowd would totally appreciate this. 

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