#medlife.

[despazito]

The absolute irony of this podcast doing an ad read for a telemed service to "speak to real doctors instead of using google and sparking your health anxieties" being immediately paired with an ad read for some health tracking gadget that takes your biometric data and can allegedly flag an undiagnosed illness

[dukhdardkashtpeeda]

In other college they search boys to date but in medical college we search for boys to make them subject to the apex beat examination

[a-young-doctors-journey]

I'm at once very bitter about residency training, but so grateful to get to be a resident in my dream specialty.

I'm increasingly frustrated by the insane work hours, the low hourly wages, the lack of support for residents... but simultaneously grateful to have a car that I can drive to work, a condo that I own, a steady income that I can support myself with, and so much more.

It's hard to reconcile these two people (sometimes one side gets way stronger), and I often feel alone, like no one understands how I can be very bitter but equally as grateful, all at the same time.

[flyonthewallmedstudent]

Random thoughts while rounding

Always have to swipe ourselves into the internal medicine wards. Swipe access in, swipe access out. It's to prevent patients with dementia from escaping.

One comes up to us, as we're discussing a case in the hallway. Some of them will just randomly join the walking part to rounds. He patiently waits for us to finish then asks if we can open the door for him, he needs to go home. Ask him where his nurse is, best to ask them, he goes, 'bloody useless" and walks off.

It's not entirely uncommon to get a call from families sometimes (usually disgruntled and frustrated) to go, so Mum or Dad's just escaped from hospital or the ED. Shall I ring the ambulance to bring them back? At the extreme, I've had patients barricade themselves in random rooms.

Mr H is still making his laps around the wards with his walker, if he bumps into something, he some how manages to troubleshoot it or wait for a staff member to move it. Usually a Wow (Workstation on wheels).

Another patient confidently walks past us to an alcohol hand wash/purell/hand sani. Picks up and tries to drink it, when her bedside nurse runs up and stops her. She goes, aww I was only going to take a sip.

Reminiscent of the woman who drank the perfume sample on tiktok. Addiction is hard.

[i-love-tubbs-the-cat]

decided to start watching scrubs again

[drbrevity]

In limbo

I’m currently deployed for 6 months now after 4 years of gruelling residency training in an undermanned tertiary hospital. Thankfully, I was allowed to proceed with deployment even if I haven’t finished my final research paper. I became chief resident when I was in 3rd year and grappled with the struggles of running an 8 man-team of training residents handling almost 300+ patients a day. I was delayed for a year, I was only able to finish my research protocol when I stepped down as chief.

PRDP is an eye opener. I have more time now for myself, my family and I can do anything I want now because of less demanding duty hours. With only 6 months of PRDP remaining, I am more anxious than ever: I am still to submit my final paper and present it in a fora by year end so that I can graduate, diplomate exams is looming and I have a number of trips booked (revenge travel) in the next coming months.

I am confident that I will graduate this year but I don’t want to go back in that old life again, back to my mother hospital, after PRDP. My mother hospital is so undermanned, what with 3 juniors quit the training program, it will spread you thin. Returning PRDP residents, my seniors, and even newly minted diplomates are now asked to cover, IKYKWIM. No, we don’t have a choice.

Hence, my current plans are: graduate by finally submitting my research, resign in my mother hospital and try to be absorbed temporarily in the hospital that I’m currently deployed at, review and pass the diplomate boards so that it becomes my Plan B because I’ll finally give in and have my wife pluck me out of this God forsaken mess and take me to a Nordic country where she works, have our babies and raised them there and live my life there as a nurse, a barista or even a cleaner.

Nakatulong naman na ata ako sa napakaraming Pilipino, babalik na lang ako pag masaya na rito maging doctor.

[phosphomilky]

I honestly don't get why ppl hate biology, maybe we just have to apply Nietzsche's philosophy and let the weak ones die.

—a premed girl who has a crush with a biology hater.

[dreamerperson0]

Recent days have been very unproductive, so now I have a bunch of studies. I will try hard to stay on track so I decided to start with physiology which is the biggest topic in my module. I have about 24 or 25 topics in physiology which means I will stay day and night in the coming days to finish them. I know it's gonna be tough days, but I have no choice.

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[delusionalnerdt]

38 days till my 2nd internal exam. And I'm freaking out here because I'm left with entire syllabus.

So, made some plan today to complete everything (includes making notes/mark in book)

Week 1 : Lower limb (notes), Protein metabolism (notes) , Fats metabolism (notes? , Excretory system (study+notes)

Week 2: Abdomen, TCA cycle, ETC, GIT

Week 3: Abdomen, Fat metabolism, CVS

Week 4: Abdomen, nucleic acid metabolism, CVS, CNS.

(Will be covering Xenobiotics, ECM, embryo whenever I have time)

Week 5: Revision + Internal examination

Week 6 : Practical exam.

[sevyamhiims]

[medsblogg]

So finally I am in med school. I am a medicine student

[a-young-doctors-journey]

Trauma senior (to our first year): your job as the intern is to not have the attending need your phone number.

Context: he made a mistake and admitted a patient to the wrong service, resulting in 3 hours of administrative chaos.

[flyonthewallmedstudent]

A house in virginia.

House in Virginia clinics are hard. Just emotionally. A couple of my patients joke about it in the way you have to alleviate the pain, "let's call it a house in virginia"

All the history particularly of the older patients who lived this crazy experience in the 80s epidemic days before the age of HAART (highly active anti retroviral therapies) can be particularly soul destroying - if it wasn't for their upbeat outlook on life having survived. I had a hard time but an illuminating one watching the Dallas Buyers Club. Because now we treat it like we treat any other chronic disease, it's mostly manageable, liveable. So long as you take that one tablet a day.

Think about my LGBTQIA friends all the time after these clinics. How different everyone's lives are now compared to 30-40 yrs ago. We are the lucky ones. Would my friends have survived had they been born in another country or another decade. They have access to PrEP if they need it. I try not to contemplate this. But these clinics do hit me in the face from time to time.

[keytaryourheart]

I’m finally watching Tom Scott’s Money and my bisexual heart is melting over Rohin and Mia. TScott making worlds collide like no one else.