#trust me I'm a doctor

[dr-skara]

*pulls on leather gloves* It is my professional opinion that you need less blood. Let us begin.

[dapg-otmebytheballs]

Actually the lighting didn't change at all, Dan and Phil just have the Honeymoon Glow｡*♡

[anatheyma]

Yes we DO have unfinished business. My jugular vein is still in my neck and I’m very upset about it.

🤺🤺🤺

oh yeah! let's fix that!

[thatfrenchacademic]

More and more I feel like the need to 'appear' successful and fulfilled, both on social media and outside of it, is not driven by vanity culture, or wanting to prove that I have made it, or whatever it is that pressures most of us into posting only the nicest selfies and artsiest pictures on IG.

I need to be the driven, resilient, passionate one, because.. because someone needs to be, in this fucked up, bleak, unappealing world we live in. And there is nothing else I can do to *do* something.

When a fellow academic woman is feeling the pressure of the institutional sexism, of online harassment, of precarious jobs, of publish AND perish, and tells me that it's good to see I found a way to make it work, that it's reassuring, I can't answer "I am not making it work. It's grinding me down, it's shredding me, I don't know how to make it work"

When a student with mental health issues fails her year, and tells me she was glad I had said that I had been there and still made it to academia, how could I answer "actually, I'm still 21 and screaming at night, I came off meds last year, and I don't know if I should have. Once again I have my best friend on speed dial."

When a kid I train says they are afraid of competitions, and I explain that competition can be scary ! But they help us grow! It's not about winning, it's only about challenging yourself! How can I say anything else, even if that evening I have a panic attack about my own competition.

I just remember how seeing anyone that looked like me do well was inspiring to me, important to me. And the world is bleak and everyone is crushed by generational and institutional inertia, and I cannot, I CANNOT accept to contribute to that bleakness. I'm not smart enough or brave enough to solve anything, to be part of what hopefully will be a generation that will act up, act loud, find a way out, but I can at least be part of those who will lift them up. The most brilliant people are too often the ones who will doubt themselves; and that the world beats down, silences.

I can't solve institutional sexism, mob mentality online or the messed up greed-driven world of academic publishing, but I can do everything to make sure the brilliant people who will bring new solutions to the world don't give up on their passion and get crushed before they can even share their ideas with the world.

I can't solve a higher education institutional system that treats student like cash cows and performs allyship when convenient and not to financially costly ; but I can do my best to make sure students still get out of it alive and with their self-esteem.

I can't bubble wrap a kid who should not be already worried disappointing their parents, their friends shaming them or having no talent and therefore no place in the world, but I will be damned if I don't show that they do not have to worry about it, that they can enjoy themselves! try things! have fun! like a kid should!

And that's all I can do. "I wish I was as outspoken as you" I am not ! I am not outspoken! or assertive ! I am terrified! My self esteem is reaching the core of the earth and I am more and more convinced the world will end during my lifetime! But "I wish I was as outspoken as you" is an opportunity for me to say "You can be! It can be hard, but you are smart, and talented, and full of great ideas that deserve to be heard! How can I help you do that?". Now that it looks possible for you, to be outspoken, let me lift you up. Why does it matter that I am or am not, actually, outspoken.

I just really, really have to appear to be. That's all I can do, these days.

[lilacthebooklover]

yes, i know my doctorate is just a piece of scrap paper with a stethoscope drawn on but i promise i know my stuff. you can trust me with your organs, don't i have a trustworthy face? i mean really, who needs a doctorate when u have a growth mindset. follow your dreams people, don't let a sheet of paper stop you living your vivisectionary truth <3

[angrypedestrian]

A Joyce Manor pit is medicinal, actually.

[random-doctor-on-the-internet]

Like usual.

Your Tumblr username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?

[lobjohn]

This is just a glimpse into my dark and twisted reality.

[femvaylin]

My knee finally scabbed over and I think you all need to hear about it

[thirdeyeblue]

What normal people see

What I see

[c-schroed]

That's a nice idea, thanks for sharing! Though I personally always felt that Structural Equation Models look even more like summoning circles. This one here, for instance:

I can clearly remember visiting some psychology conference, seeing a Powerpoint slide and thinking "Wait. Are we going to summon some demon now or what?"

Since then I learned a few things about these models. I now have my PhD, and I know quite well what these figures mean. But still. Part of me will alway think "Are we going to summon a demon, or what?"

So. Maybe math is quite close to magic, too?

i unironically believe electricity is the closest thing we have to magic in this universe. consider:

it's basically what human "souls" are made of (your consciousness is the result of miniscule amounts of electric charge jumping between neurons in your brain)

when handled incorrectly or encountered in the wild, it is a deadly force that can kill you in at least half a dozen different ways

when treated respectfully and channeled into the proper conduits, it is a power source that forms the backbone of modern society

if you engrave the right sigils into a rock and channel electricity into it, you can make the rock think

there is a dedicated caste of mages (electrical engineers) tasked with researching it in ivory towers

whatever the fuck Galvani was doing with those frog legs

look at this and just try to tell me it isn't a kind of summoning circle

[mizgnomer]

Behind the Scenes of New Earth - Part Fourteen

Excerpt from Manchester Evening News:

BILLIE Piper enjoyed snogging the new Doctor Who. "I couldn't wait to kiss him," she confesses. "We only got three takes. That was a bit disappointing," adds the actress, who plays Rose Tyler, alongside David Tennant as the tenth Time Lord. "I actually got to kiss Chris Eccleston three times - or was it two? Rose is such a little minx. In with the new, out with the old. She can't get enough." "They're two very sexy people," Manchester- based writer and executive producer Russell T Davies explains, "but I think if they ever had a relationship it would kill the series stone dead." David and Billie are sitting inside the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, one of the locations in the new series. They sip from champagne flutes but have to be back at work in the morning. "We've got three days to go and an awful lot of scenes that aren't filmed yet," says David, on what is day 175 of the exhausting shooting schedule.

Link to [ part one ] of the New Earth Behind-the-scenes posts or click the #whoBtsEarth tag, or the full episode list [ here ]

Bonus from David's video diary:

[crookedfivefingers]

3.13 | ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴀꜱᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ ʟᴏʀᴅꜱ

link to the post I accidentally wound up prattling endlessly about in the tags 💀

[gobald]

[whitelotusherald]

Every now and then I watch Trust Me, I'm a Doctor and it's the most entertaining and educating healthcare programme I've seen in ages

I love how he tended to interview all sides when controversial topics were debated

I truly hoped he'd make it by some miracle :(

R.I.P Michael Mosley you were a wonderful presenter who made health accessible and interesting to everyone.

Thoughts are with your family.

[lenievi]

(DC Comics February 1995, issue 68)