#Medical cw

[snarp]

90% of documentation sucks. 99% of LLM documentation sucks. Why? Possibilities:

LLM devs lack the necessary skills to write docs because they're under the age of 25 and have been working on the same couple projects that whole time.

LLM devs don't understand why docs are important because they're under the age of 25 and have been working on the same couple projects that whole time.

LLM devs view their work in the way that mystery cults view their worship, and enter an ecstatic state not conducive to communication upon opening Jupyter Notebook/Google Colab/etc. (It's like when a snake-handling churchgoer picks up the snake.)

LLM devs choose not to write docs because they think that providing publicly-accessible information on how their code can be used makes their expertise less-valuable in the job market:

"If I'm the only one who understands the tools I made, people who want to use my work will have to pay me."

-- Final words of 10,000 naive LLM devs who have spent the last 2 years duplicating each other's work without realizing it, because they have never provided a coherent public explanation of what their work is intended to do, making it impossible either for them to find each other or for prospective users to find them. They died of dysentery.

If they had lived only a few months longer, they'd have gotten back in the computer chair and discovered, with mounting horror, that they no longer know how to use their own work, because they spent a few months doing something else (hospital, PT, etc) and the unwritten knowledge that they thought they had hoarded - in fact recalled only due to near-daily repetition - fell out of their heads, teaching them an important lesson about their own fallibility.

They didn't, though. They died of dysentery. Very sad.

[thedeafprophet]

^ exposing organs to the air in fallen london is. a terrifying concept in general. well.

at least laparoscopy was beginning to be invented in 1901 akfkgkgkhj

I was thinking before I went to sleep last night on how I have mixed feelings on the potential of using shapeling arts in place of surgical matters...

...because on one hand, there's a lot of really cool potential with using in universe capabilities for creative solutions to irl problems, and there's a lot of places where I'd imagine it being used.

on the other, many aspects of it could potentially hit that 'using magic to cure all things' trope that I don't personally enjoy as my own brand of chronically ill.... as someone with surgical scars and wanting to present characters with scars in the future, it doesnt hit quite right to occur to 'well it could just be avoided entierly with shapeling' [no one's said this to anything my brain just comes up with things]

so! idk. I think it's a balance and overlap with things. perhaps it would come down to an in universe characters choice too - I highly doubt every Londoner would trust shapeling with their body yknow

[curiositypolling]

pls reblog for sample size etc

follow for more occasional useless polls :)

[o-lanterns]

actually I'm having a lot of nerves about my top surgery in just a few days now but I'm coping with characters and jokes.

[ID: Hunter in a hospital bed smiling at the camera and holding up two fingers, Luz is excited and giving him two thumbs up next to him. Text reads "I don't have enough scars I'm getting 2 more" with emojis of two daggers, a party popper, a smiley with witch ears, and the healing sigil. end ID.]

[gooberscollage]

Images from New technnology coloring book by Rita Areo (1983)

[teaboot]

I hope it's okay that I took a screenshot, cause I felt that this deserved it's own post.

It's a good question, and as someone with a needle phobia myself it's one I have some experience with and feel I can speak on.

It's going to sound stupid, but it's this:

First, keep facing your fear. I personally elected to start donating blood, which sucked ass, but helped me get used to the feeling of having a needle in in safe environment, and celebrating the small victory every time I finished was a good motivator to keep going back.

What I did then was focus on what my body was doing. Was I breathing fast? Tensing up? Sweating? Going cold? Was I shaking? Where? Was it better to fidget, or hold still? Did closing my eyes help? Plugging my ears? I got familiar with my own physical reactions so I could start to separate them from my mental reactions.

Now when I experience a panic response, I'm not just objectively aware that my body is doing it's own thing- I genuinely feel that my body is acting on it's own. I'm stressed, but not SCARED, because my brain doesn't just know that it's safe- it FEELS safe. I'm emotionally strung out and on edge, but I'm not totally losing myself anymore. I can have a conversation while it's happening.

Now, sometimes I can see someone use a syringe for small procedures without flinching and closing off. Not often, but it's miles ahead of where I used to be. I can hold an epipen. I can use safety gear to dispose of abandoned needles outside my work. I don't think I could give myself an injection if I needed to, because I know I still lock up, but the idea of someone else doing one on me isn't viscerally repellant.

So... not cured here yet, but better.

TLDR: Baby steps, keep trying, pay attention to your body, celebrate successes.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Taking steps to confront a phobia has to be a choice. Forcing someone else to confront their phobia when they ARE NOT READY, WILLING, OR PREPARED is incredibly distressing and can make things way worse. And with how completely fucking miserable and exhausting a panic response feels, choosing not to "just confront it" is a totally valid and understandable choice. Like choosing not to run a 100 mile marathon barefoot. If you find yourself tempted to trick or pressure someone into amateur exposure therapy, don't. I'll fucking find you

Again, this is just what's been working for me, but if you wanna try it, I wish you luck! ♡

[lizdoart]

Go For Broke / Hivemind @terrorscififest !

scifi horror my beloved <3

[earlgraytay]

Hi, so... I'm in the hospital. I'm not, like, dying, but they've already kept me for a couple days.

please send cat pics?

[beemovieerotica]

so the same urologist who thought i got phalloplasty as a child was removing my kidney stent.

and he was pulling it out (yes the whole thing gets pulled out from down there) but for whatever reason he added a dramatic fluorish at the end and held it up for me to see (i was in a lot of pain and maybe he thought he was lightening the mood) and it ended up flicking several drops of my own piss on my face. and he just went "oops! didnt mean to give you a golden shower!"

and my spouse who's standing in the corner of the room watching this whole procedure with im sure the strength of god's bravest soldier immediately says "well, some people pay good money for that."

and the urologist just...makes this expression like it's the most absurd thing he's ever heard. and he starts wheeze-laughing. and he mutters in disbelief under his breath "what?"

GIRL YOU CANNOT BE FEIGNING IGNORANCE?? YOU'RE A UROLOGIST?????

[fictionkinfessions]

rip me, you would have loved anti depressants

2

[kidhellion]

and then another gate opens

funny under the cut

[snarp]

This form of misdirection is necessary to prevent Dad from doing things like scooping a bunch of the pie filling out with his bare hands.

He did an exaggerated Elmer Fudd "I'm hunting wabbit" tippy-toes walk over to the cinnamon roll and then dashed away with it, smirking as though getting away with something. Had a freshly-baked pie been visible to him in this state of mind, I feel confident that he would have burned himself.

[aestheticsoftheinternet]

Medic Moodboard

Requested by: Nobody! <3

[oswlld]

i don't want to go into too much detail about my life and how i connected to LT, but just know i am not entirely comfortable with what i am seeing on my dash. a few years ago circumstances lead to me losing my hearing for majority of a year and then became hard hearing for a period of time before i regained my hearing back. its not fully where it used to be but that loss, that hope, and what you take with you on the other side stays with you long after the recovery. i know because i see it every time my mom is in remission.

and then a few months ago, i got a concussion which lead to me being momentarily unable to walk without an caregiver/walker/cane. i worked hard on my PT and now am able to manage on my own two feet again as of three weeks ago.

all i am saying is sure hating on part 4 is your opinion and might not be for you but there are people in your life and maybe on your dash that are reading what you think about people who were disabled at a time of their life, are on their way to recovery now, or got the treatment they've been waiting for. the hardships, the journey, even all the good that happened during allllll that still matters after recovery.

[thievinghippo]

My mom is currently in surgery having a hip replacement and I'm in the waiting room. There is a woman watching wedding dress shopping videos on her ipad without headphones and I am about to commit a murder

No jury would convict me

[boatcats]

Was reading about Horatio Nelson (as one does) and came across quite a few articles that discuss him as a figure made famous both by bravery in battle and by bravery in the face of medical/surgical suffering. It's interesting how connected those two concepts were in naval history especially in the age of sail. It's probably obvious that they would be connected. Naval vessels in wartime were incredibly dangerous and violent and also had all their medical necessities on board - right there for when they would inevitably be needed.

And I am feeling Something (?). Possibly it's horror at the violence of empire and Nelson's role in perpetrating it all while suffering himself (empire vampirizing its young). Or possibly it's a sort of fellow feeling because, yeah, man, medical suffering does suck and it's nice to have that recognized in a way that feels mostly not patronizing.