#ask a nurse

[notmedicaladvice]

Gender is not Biological

XX is not always female. XY is not always male.

XX and XY are not the only options.

Upwards of 1.7% of people do not fit your biological definition. That is more common than Type 1 Diabetes in the US.

Gender assignment surgery is routinely done on intersex infants.

I apologize for pathologizing these states, but if you fall under one of the headings mentioned above, then you already know all this and you're not my target audience.

Any arguments about gender having a biological basis are made in bad faith. You're just wrong. Flat wrong. Full stop.

Health care decisions for transgender and intersex individuals need to be made between the individual and their doctor. There is no one-size-fits-all approach.

[notmedicaladvice]

please reference the dead-salmon-in-the-MRI study. This is the point, this is why that was a big deal. All of the 'brain isn't mature until 25' comes from the exact same sort of fMRI imaging as the dead salmon study.

they teach 'brain mature at 25' in med school. I got it during psych nursing. it's supposedly the average age of schizophrenia diagnoses (it's not, that is better described as a range from late-teens-to-early-thirties, and with medicine the way it is the age of diagnosis means exactly nothing) and used as a benchmark in psychiatry. It's used as a legal precendent (ex: Scotland). it's USED. Which means people 'referencing it in jokes or posts as if it's a fact' isn't what's causing the problem.

The National Institutes of Health has it right there on their damn website. I get what you're saying but just telling people to stop calling it a fact and then not giving any context or receipts to counteract organizations with frankly more clout than a random tumblr user, well... it doesn't help your cause much.

IFLS did a write up on this, as did Slate, if you want an explanation on why OP is calling it pseudoscience.

genuinely especially with everything happening in britain rn with regards to trans healthcare we need to start shutting down the "your brain doesn't fully develop until 25!" pseudoscience bullshit asap

[askanurse]

Good morning!

OOO I'm making a post. Lol.

Anyhow, I have friends that are constantly asking questions about nursey stuff.

Also, I read a lot of stuff and am just like oh honey no.

I will attempt to check this regularly. Or maybe I'lll just post stuff I read and am amused by.

[sharkest-sharks]

why do we have to go to school for six years for a nursing degree when nurse sharks get the job without any credentials

Oh! That's an easy one! So basically nurse shar

[thatneoncrisis]

halloween special. they got bad directions to a party

10 made up points to anyone who can guess nonas costume bc thats the only one thats a real character

[densewentz]

Guess who's been playing Don't Starve while watching Dead Boy Detectives 💕

[lemongogo]

sister hunna will see u now

[themarydragon]

I have not seen this post, but more info for people in the US:

As a nurse, I renew my licensure every 2 years. My state also requires physician license renewal every 2 years. Every state has different requirements, but saying every TEN years is actually much much worse than what we already do.

i keep seeing this post going around about how doctors should have to do relicensing every 10 years and it includes a thing about how 'if lawyers have to do X hours of classes every year' and im like............ doctors DO have to take X hours of classes every year. at least in the usa, doctors have to complete 'continuing medical education' courses every single year. there's an entire organization called the ACCME that oversees this. im not saying op's point that many doctors dismiss their patients experiences and aren't up to date on all relevant research is wrong. im just saying like. doctors very much do have to keep learning as they practice in order to stay licensed.

[ebi-noodle-doodles]

Clearly, we need to supply you with Chubby nurse Mikus to make you feel better

Yeah I need more nurse Meegu- I still feel really sick (but still wanted to get back in drawing)

[miguxadraws]

Question bout your swap AU,

Do you have an images of legit interactions with Jax and Ragatha? Maybe a bit of conflict, maybe a bit of goofiness, dealers chouce.

why are you dressed like that

[notmedicaladvice]

Let's Talk About Fat

First things first.

Obesity (not being overweight, but obesity) is correlated with something they call "all-cause mortality." Meaning, the heavier you are, the more likely you are to have something kill you.

That's it. That's the whole thing. Everything else you've ever read about the dangers of being fat are linked to that. Here's the most up-to-date thing on the CDC website about it (as of February 2024).

What does that mean?

Fuck all.

Because as we all know, correlation does not equal causation.

If you read thru that link (it's like 500 pages, good luck) you'll find a lot of studies that talk about blood sugar improvements with weight loss, and cholesterol improvements with weight loss. That makes it sound like the weight was the problem, right? Except they're using correlations, here.

How did people lose the weight? Did they cut carbs? That will reduce your blood sugar. Did they reduce the fat in their diet? That will reduce cholesterol.

The point: whatever it is that is causing us to have a higher BMI is also what is causing us to die. And while, yes, some of those things we arguably have control over, a lot of them we don't.

The critical questions are:

Is my BMI actually indicative of my health? Answer: Probably Not.

2. Should we be using BMI at all, ever? Answer: No. Here's a good introduction to its problems.

3. Is there something else contributing to BOTH obesity and poor health outcomes? Answer: Yes, and everybody in power knows it.

4. Why are we so focused on what people weigh, if the relationship between body fat and health isn't 1-to-1? Answer: Follow the money.

The entire point to medicine should be to help individuals live the best life they can. There is not one weight that is good for everyone. There is not one diet that is good for everyone. Keto was developed to help with intractable epilepsy. Some people can't eat protein. For every diet one person needs to be on, there's someone else who cannot eat that way and survive. There is no sweeping one-size-fits-all advice, and anybody who tells you otherwise is selling something (or has fallen victim to fatphobia and/or propoganda).

The bottom line is, if your doctor answers a concern with you need to lose weight and come back thinner if the problem is still there, you need a new doctor (because even if that IS the problem, there's ALWAYS a cause that needs addressed and they need to help you address it). If you feel the need to tell someone their weight isn't healthy, and you're not a doctor currently looking at their CMP and medical history, you need to learn to mind your own business.

If there's something here you want more information on, drop an ask in my box. Also give me suggestions for tags!

[doctorwhommm]

I hsve an idea. Could u draw rose and ianto as besties

absOLUTELY I CAN

they’re chatting shit (lovingly) about their tall, long-coat-wearing, time-travelling, death-cheating, alien boyfriends who have spikey hair

[mspaint-flower]

hi all!! first of all i wanted to give huge thanks to everyone who helped me and my family, whether it be through comms or donations! it means so, so much to all of us!! secondly, unfortunately we still are in urgent need of help: my mom got a terrible job that barely gives any payment as she's still looking for better jobs, and we're still full of debts while we're also trying to sustain food for both us and the animals we rescued from terrible conditions (such as chickens). this was my first post about it if you want to check it out, i'm willing to explain our situation better if needed!

my and my brother's comms are still open and i remade my sheet with more info and examples!

you can contact me through here or discord (sleepy_nurse), any amount seriously helps!! we're so grateful for everybody who helped us out 🥹🙏

[sharkest-sharks]

hey man get nurse sharked

i will not take on this attack

sorry dropped my grey nurse in there

[ask-mirage-mews]

Joyce: “They hadn’t been doing it long enough for it to become a habit, so it was easy to convince them otherwise with Nemo’s help.”

@the-coments-jester

[dykedvonte]

I haven’t really talked about Jimmy’s hallucinated version of Polle but I do subscribe to the idea that that is the closest thing to Anya’s true thoughts and feelings along with the representation of the hypothetical baby.

Text color, the whole horse attraction and monsters based on pregnancy/female anatomy, it joking about calling Jimmy old man? It’s both Jimmy purposely trying to ignore Anya and what he did but also not being able to cause he knows, in the back of his mind it all links back to her. But the closet thing he can accept about it is that it fostered something that would be undoubtedly linked to him.

It’s not exactly Anya and it’s not exactly the child. It’s his manifestation of all the things he would’ve failed doing for it and have already failed to take responsibility for. He failed as a decent person, a captain and he would’ve failed as a father which are all things Anya would subtly acknowledge throughout the game in little ways.

It specifically being Polle, the mascot to the Pony Express is more likely a call back to how the pony express is used to mean things that were never going to make it or were rearing for an end. It’s all symbolic and it’s all in Jimmy’s head because he refuses to acknowledge the real person and events his subconscious is basing it on.