As per usual
>Do NOT give advice
>Do NOT feed the nursoids
>Do NOT engage with premeds
And most importantly
>Do NOT respond to psych patients

Previous thread >>16665240

leave it to some kind of medical doctor to completely misrepresent data kek

>all you have to do is give the sleepy juice and roll in the ez dough
>kill yourself
lmao

>>16695078 (OP)
>they get peaceful sleep but not me
why live?

>>16695078 (OP)
>mfw I can't mention c*nada because it counts as advice

>>16695098
The biggest meme spec is sports med

>>16695078 (OP)
>my speciality is the study of nor feeling things.
>proceeds to have the biggest feels and suffers
>oh the iron

>>16695152
>anaesth's job is to get shit done
>they get shit done

>>16695078 (OP)
>IM
>at the bottom
how is the dumpster specialty the least likely to suicide

>>16695736
>dumpster specialty
What's so bad about being in IM?
>t. a first year student

>>16695736
They want their lytes to be perfect before they die.

Antidepressants are a scam pushed by big pharma to generate profits

The truth is so obvious but doctors deny it because I guess they want to appear like they have a solution for everything

If I'm in a bad mood then maybe that's my instincts telling me that there is something legitimately wrong in my life? Maybe it's not a fucking "illness"?

>>16695898
kekd
>>16695736
Because we know everything, even what awaits us beyond.

Anyone here use i2p?

>>16695958
>If I'm in a bad mood then maybe that's my instincts telling me that there is something legitimately wrong in my life? Maybe it's not a fucking "illness"?
This guy's right. It's horrific that antidepressants can be used to make someone tolerate situations that would otherwise be intolerable.

Will I become incontinent if I keep using my dildo It's 2.2 inch diameter and almost a foot long two of the times the day after using it I accidentally pooped myself.

4 days to the peds exam and im on my 4th pack of winstons
i am going to fucking fail this test

>>16696614
yes, faggot

>>16696234
Why can't doctors just let people live how they want to live? Instead of gaslighting people into thinking they need to take psych meds?

When someone has bad mental health, maybe it's because of genuine problems in their life. It could be job struggles, relationship struggles, money struggles, abuse, addiction, whatever.

Society just wants to sweep those issues under the rug. "We don't care about your problems. Just drug yourself so you'll shut up and fall in line."

How do I not look like a complete fucking retard on day 1 of intern year? I feel like I've forgotten so much it's insane.

>>16695958
Just wait until you hear about antipsychotics that cause delusions.

>>16696957
Doctors can't do anything about most of those things but they can prescribe you drugs. People go to doctors looking for solutions. They don't want to hear "there's nothing I can do", so the doctor uses the only tool she can at the moment to make things feel better, even if it doesn't address the root cause.

>>16696976
Psych meds can cause exasperation of the issues the psych meds are supposed to treat. In this case a secondary or tertiary psych medication is often recommended by the expert.

>>16696976
>>16696981
I've taken antipsychotics but I didn't experience delusions. They did make me feel fucking weird though. Dizziness occurred a lot. I don't get that dizziness when I'm off antipsychotics.

>>16696977
In my case I was put in mental hospital and drugged against my will, and I tried engaging with these people on a rational level, but they're just completely fucking insistent that I should take psych meds.

Psychiatry got its teeth into me, unfortunately.

>>16695078 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kALDN4zIBT0
Did I make a mistake by going into medicine? Will AI replace me? Better yet, will AI just replace everyone? Why do literally anything?

>anon comes in with a sprained ankle
>give him a lethal dose of morphine

>>16697227
damn. this guy is a high myope.

>>16695736
If they killed themselves then who would the bedside RN call at 5 PM on a Friday to report "new seizure and DIC"

>>16696957
You can tell the doctor no for the psych med, idiot. The meds are supposed to be adjuncts to therapy and mindset, but Americans are lazy fucks who don't actually want to make the hard changes that therapy requires. It's the same reason we throw statins (and now GLP-1 agonists) around like candy - fat people refuse to stop stuffing their fat fuck faces

>>16697032
If you were under involuntary admission, by definition you were not in your right mind

>>16697290
No nurse has ever used the letters DIC in that order before.

>>16697297
Kek there's usually a k at the end

>>16695078 (OP)
>psych
nigga just read your notes
>>16696970
accept your retardation
>>16697032
Hey man they didn't put you in that institution because you were depressed or anything but because you're the first motherfucker with a flat EEG that can both spell and be a miserable faggot

>tfw interdigital fold laceration

virtual interviews fail to filter out the BO or never-brushed teeth

>>16697032
My delusion exactly from medical papers: "He thinks he can make money on internet." Since they I worked as programmer, one time I told doctor, that I can make speech to text algorythm, he laughted...

I was hospitalized, and they handcuffed me to bed, until somebody from court came to check if I can be hospitalized against my will. (2 days later). They found me shitted in my bed, they laughed very loudly and decided I can be kept at hospital.

Later I was forcefully electrocuted straight to head, because they probably want me to forget, that they tied handcuffs so much, that I had swollen arm.

That because I refused to be "we'll keep you here for 3days for diangostics"

Later my family had requested court, to take my rights(I don't know how to say it in english), that I cannot handle my own money, and can't refuse to be hospitalized, because I invested money in bitcoin when it was 5k. So now I live on weekly allowance, because I invested in crypto.

It's like taught police and ministry of truth combined. I'm afraid of those poeple.

>>16697293
>You can tell the doctor no for the psych med, idiot.
I was locked in mental hospital and drugged against my will, idiot. It's very unpleasant. It should be done to psychiatrists so they can see for themselves just how unpleasant it is.

>>16697294
I was of right mind. It was a stressful episode of my life and I wasn't sleeping very much, etc, so I was a bit disorganised and agitated. But it's my business. They should have left me alone to sort myself out.

>>16697302
They put me in the institution because they're just trying to cover themselves. They think "there's a small chance this guy could do something illegal - we better lock him up because we'll be the ones to get in trouble if he does something stupid".

>>16697432
Psychiatry is just fucked up isn't it.

>Later I was forcefully electrocuted straight to head
Thankfully I never had that. It can be done in my country, against a person's will, but only when the patient is in a very bad state, apparently. I was injected with antipsychotics against my will though. That was pretty annoying.

I hope you get to live the kind of life you want to live anon.

You will now no longer be able to have a /med/ thread without reading the name

Matthew Newman

Those of you stupid enough to deny a public confession of your sins when the time comes are already known in a professional medical directory.

>>16697951
Why am I being replaced when I have studied medicine longer than you have been alive?

why cant there be any thread on /sci/ that isnt filled with psych patients?

Doctors are not scientists
Doctors are not creative
Doctors are not caregivers
Doctors are not heroes
Doctors are machines
Doctors are complicit
Doctors are the smartest idiots of our time

>>16697998
Maybe if you don't like the sight of psych patients posting then you should oppose the institution of psychiatry which abuses those patients and makes them pissed off in the first place

>>16697244
Well, /med/?

>>16698027
Hyperthyroidism =/= Grave's ophthalmopathy
She also has neither
Why do I even bother explaining to retards

>>16697049
Imagine if you're in rural Africa and your smartphone can now (to an extent) triage that weird looking mole
>>16697998
lab bros haven’t beaten the Hayflick limit yet.

How the fuck do I treat treatment-resistant schizophrenia? Patient has had persistent delusions and auditory hallucinations for 2 years despite being on clozapine plus whatever adjunct the previous residents have decided to throw at her. Why is my senior resident giving me shit over this case she's fucking hopeless AAAAAAAAAA

>>16697032
>They did make me feel fucking weird thoug
Yeah, it's horrible

>>16698117
extremely high dose niacinamide

>>16698117
Is ECT an option at your institution?

>>16698136
No lol still waiting on a new anesthesia machine

>>16698137
Where are you typing from? Rural Senegal? Zone 1 London?

>>16697746
>It was a stressful episode of my life and I wasn't sleeping very much, etc, so I was a bit disorganised and agitated.
Kek first time hearing a BD1 describe their manic episode so nonchalantly, normally they're very sorry about it all

>>16697998
Fucking /pol/ brought these retards here during the covid pandemic. Soon the entire site is going to be taken over by facebook boomers and schizos.

>>16698027
at most she has allergies. at minimum, she's an old woman.

>>16698154
Rural level 1 hospital in the Philippines. We don't have CT or MRI and you'd laugh at the short list of shit our lab can do.

>>16698117
Assuming you've consulted every source you can on treatment-resistant scz and that the treatments proposed didn't work, ECT and trying any sort of new adjuncts are probably your last hope realistically without any extra information. There are some people who never respond to scz treatment. You will get used to it as you go on in your career, no matter how distressing it is emotionally.
>>16698212
If she cannot go to a hospital that is better suited, the PT is fucked.
>>16698008
Legitimate question to the conspiratards, what is it with the conglomeration of diverse fields into a single label that you often use in your polemics? Psychiatry is an umbrella term for many different fields and their subtypes. Calling any group you hate an "institution" or "machine" isn't taking the heterogeneity of the people who are licensed and their practicing methods into account. If a licensed psychiatrist shot your mother with a gun, the "institution of psychiatry" itself didn't kill your mother, the asshole did.

>>16698212
I'm sorry dude but this case needs to go to Manila or some other city with ECT facilities. Kudos to you guys though, you work very hard - I know a cardiothoracic/vascular surgeon from PGH in Manila, incredibly brilliant guy

>>16698117
>>16698212
Have you considered buying nicer looking shoes?

>graduate and start working as intern
>get new gf from online dating
>flirtatious nurses/admin come out of the woodwork
what terrible timing bros

>>16698117
Have you made sure that the patient is actually taking their meds? Could be simply a case of non-compliance with medications. Also consider Munchausen.

>>16695078 (OP)
I WILL ALWAYS BE POOR AS A EUROPEAN DOCTOR ALWAYS I WILL ALWAYS BE A POORFAG SLAVE
EARNINGS ARE GENERALLY CAPPED AT 120K IN MY DOGSHIT NANNY STATE 'DEVELOPED' COUNTRY
EVERYONE I KNOW THAT IS WELL EDUCATED IS LITERALLY ON TRACK TO BE A MILLIONAIRE OR IS LITERALLY ALREADY A MILLIONAIRE AND I WILL BE POOR AND I WILL LIVE IN A SHITTY APARTMENT WITH AN UGLY WIFE AND I WILL BE HARASSED BY IMPROTED BOMALIANS EVERY DAY

I HATE MEDICINE I HATE BEING POOR I HATE MAKING SO LITTLE FUCKING MONEY I SACRIFICED MY YOUTH FOR THIS AND I GET PAID LIKE A POORFAG SLAVE FEUDAL SERF SUBHUMAN

>just do... le plastics / le derm / le aesthetics
EVEN THAT WAY YOU CAN BARELY MAKE ABOVE 200K BECAUSE EUROPEANS ARE POOR FAGGOTS

I WISH I HAD DONE INVESTMENT BANKING I JUST WANT TO BE A BANKER AND MAKE MONEY I WISH I HAD DONE TECH I COULD HAVE BEEN A TECHBRO IN SILICON VALLEY INSTEAD I AM STUCK WORKING LIKE A FAGGOT MORON SLAVE FOR PENNIES WHILE HOUSING PRICES SKYROCKET

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

>>16698378
European residency is a piss easy part time gig compared to American residency. American hours never get much better either if you actually wanna make the big bucks
Count your blessings, you people get weeded out of intern year all the time over here

>>16698379
Really? Why's that?

>>16698378
You should study aesthetic medicine and migrate. Man, I'd love to study that in France or Italy and the return to my country and make giga mega bucks just with botox

>>16698389
Imagine 80-100 hours every week for less than minimum wage for 3-7 years depending on your training pathway. The shorter pathways tend to earn less as attendings unless you turn your practice into a factory of patient churning and instantly refer to specialists or have a set of order sets on hand - an FM I worked with in med school saw 40 patients a day 6 days a week to make 500k

It would have been literally more worth for him to just be in finance
Surgery is the biggest scam I ever fell for

Also not to mention, you're expected to rattle off every relevant study in your field or rotation at a moment's notice, patient families think you're incompetent and trying to kill grandma Jo (102yo 200-pack-yr smoker admitted for COPD exacerbation) if you give her steroids

>>16698378
That's 10K a month, is that not enough for you? what the hell do you spend your money on?

>I feel like I've forgotten so much it's insane.
wait are you supposed to be forgetting stuff? I havent even been studying much I always forget things and its a loop. do you forget things? I will get back to it and study more if this is normal

>>16698378
>BE HARASSED BY IMPROTED BOMALIANS EVERY DA
sounds like an e-U problem

>>16698457
Yes, it's fucking normal.

>>16698464
good. actually I think this helped my mental health too, and I was probably gaslighting myself
I have also noted that some things (not vaccines debate but like the topics schizos talk about on social media) stick with me a lot, despite being the wrong thing to be learning. I mean pointless things. not good but it could possibly be changed so that I can learn about and remember info on the right things

>>16698403
>grandma Jo (102yo 200-pack-yr smoker admitted for COPD exacerbation)
She's a fighter though, they want to do everything they can (reverted DNR status after talking to estranged son of 15 years shortly after ICU admission)

Many such cases.

>>16697746
>Psychiatry is just fucked up isn't it.
I hope they are about to be obliterated by some new age people with mushrooms and LSD derivates that doesn't cause hallucination, but promotes neuroplasticity and all that good stuff(Now they've got 5ht-2c receptor agonist, JRT, LSD sybling, and it's wonderful in making brain brainy again after trauma). I hope one day the psychs will understand that memories and abilities are important for people who posses them, and psychiatry wouldn't poses thread to life anymore.

Like I really want peace, psychs are fucking jerks, but this new generation of drug assisted psychotherapy seems good. But I don't even need it from psychs, if they'd let me go I"d go get some mushes or acid on rave party, and that's best therapy for me.

I think world will heal, and practices like Haloperidol and damaging ECT will be stopped. I guess the ECT machines will be more sensitive to patient every generation, and in future maybe selectively erasing a thought pattern. But maybe they really shouldn't play god. If you like combine ECT with EEG and fMRI and TCMS, you can summon brain mode and nuke it.

Anyway,thank you anon.

why did anon swear at me

>>16698516
It's very funny how quickly some of them change their mind after they get themselves signed as life insurance beneficiaries or after they get MPOA
>>16698526
>If you like combine ECT with EEG and fMRI and TCMS, you can summon brain mode and nuke it.

>tfw this is the actual lay understanding of medicine these days
The worst part is that you people are 100% confident in what you're saying and will yell at whoever tries to correct you and threaten to sue them

>>16698526
was that anon who you replied to first? maybe you wanted them to point it out, but there is an LSD-like substance which doesnt produce hallucinogenic effects already. I think LSD is actually something like LSD-25 right?
there is also ergotamine (used in OB/GYN and (after) delivery), which in small amounts doesnt make you hallucinate. also look up "St. Johns Fire" if you are interested in "I hope they are about to be obliterated by some new age people with mushrooms and LSD derivates that doesn't cause hallucination, but..." - look up "meth".
> if they'd let me go I"d go get some mushes or acid on rave party, and that's best therapy for me.
I dont know why you are here

>>16698532
>that what you qouted
Well, it's not that difficult to cause trauma at specific mode of oscillation linked to some active brain area if you've got the data.

You don't even need to study medicine to understand that there's shitton of data, like brain encyclopedias where you've got shitton of data to process by quite simple algorythms to evaluate a neural circuit, you then can excite by TCMS and electrostimulation + visual cues + sound, and then just fucking cause a lot of pain, in short time, your brain will be very fucking dissapointed when you even try to access that neural circuit.

>>16698536
I don't have my rights to do with money, I can't live my life.

Also yes first.

Wait... a sec...
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lsd-analogue-treating-psychiatric-diseases

This ^^

It's the best thing in psychiatry since tetracyclic antidepressants.

>>16698536
Oh meth... Well, meth is exciting, what's even better is meth with a little bit of fentanyl. Fentanyl stimulates GABA neurons, so thet is like brake on meth. Fentanyl prevents neurotoxic effect of large dose of meth. I'm not fucking kidding, look it up.

>>16698547
well times are changing, maybe good can come out of that evil. that would be good
>>16698544
this paper says their chemical used is 100x less potent than LSD. also 1-methyl-LSD is apparently 1/3rd as potent (as LSD).
also sorry for interrupting your conversation with anon. i just wanted to point out the other compound and LSDs name (which maybe I got wrong)

oh theh fentanyl is stopping the meth from working

>>16698550
//topic:LSD
In recent time, there was girl in some American University which identified symbiotic fungi, that grows with Ipomnea Tricolora/Purpurea responsible for making LSA found in it's seeds. Bulk price for those seed is like $100/kg , which contains about 20 grams of LSA, when you have LSA, you convert said Lysergic Amide to Lysergic Acid, and convert that to Diamide, and viola, you have like "few doses" of LSD per $600bux of total cash you need. Also, there are mushrooms that produce 4-ho-DMT, which grows on wood chips, literally do you know how much is ton of wood chips? Like $300max, You can get several tons of woodchips being infected by fungi which produces medicinal mushees. I understand why pharmaceutical companies need to modify something in a way you cannot do it at home, otherwise they couldn't get any money from treatment... And that's also why they want to outlaw the nature's way of doing stuff.

//toppic:Meth: I seen like liter phenylacetone per $160, $60 for methylamine... Literally gram of meth has production cost of $0.50 if it wasn't illegal... Do you think somebody would need gangs and whole industry like that if it was cheaper than chewing gums? Maybe overdoses would be issue, but maan, better than people robbing stealing and stuff like that.

//toppic:JRT
100x less potent hallucinogen, but it has higher affinity for 5ht-2c, which is neuroplasticity's biggest thing of serotonin receptors in human brain... If you know what nBoMe, I think like 25e-nBOM or 25c, I don't remember, was also dope that activated 5ht-2c, and it's stuff that's not trip, but man, your brain is liquid on it, and fits the shape of container it is in on that.

>>16698554
No, it still gives you fixation from excitation of reward circuitry, but it's like you can last longer without being burned out... But pleasure is intensified.

if you all forget things from the textbooks then how are you passing university and the MCAT

>>16698641
I forgot them after the exams, as if this isn't some common thing

>>16698378
>he makes less than an optometrist
lmao.

>>16698379
FUCK YOU YOU FAGGOT GAY AMERICAN FUCK YOU
NONE OF THAT IS TRUE IT IS LITERALLY FUCKING FAKE DEMORALIZATION BULLSHIT

AMERICANS WORK "LE 100 HOURS" BY HAVING LONG SHIFTS WITH INCREDIBLY LONG DOWNTIME COMPARED TO EUROPEANS

>NOO IF YOU WANNA MAKE THE BIG BUCKS IN THE US YOU HAVE TO WORK 80-100H WEEKS
IT IS THE SAME IN EUROPE YOU FUCKING RETARD, BUT HERE THEY ONLY BILL 36 TO A MAXIMUM OF 60, BECAUSE IT IS ILLEGAL TO WORK MORE, BUT YOU HAVE TO WORK MORE EVERY TIME TO GET ALL THE WORK DONE

UNGRATEFUL AMERICAN MORON FUCK YOUUUUUUUUU FUCK YOUUUU YOU HAVE IT SO GOOD YOU DON'T EVEN REALIZE

>>16698651
THIS IS WESTERN EUROPE
THIS IS HOW MUCH WE MAKE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO? TELL ME.

>>16698456
10K IS LITERAL DESTITUTE TURBOPOVERTY SOMALIAN BOMALIAN IRANIAN PAKISTANI SYRIAN ILLEGAL MUSLIM IMMIGRANT TIER WAGE

IN WESTERN EUROPE YOU NEED *AT LEAST* 20K A MONTH *AFTER TAXES* TO BE COMFORTABLE. IF YOU DON'T MAKE THAT YOU:
1) CANNOT BUY GOOD PROPERTY
2) CANNOT ENJOY NICE THINGS
3) ARE OUTCLASSED BY EVERY ONE OF YOUR PEERS

FUCK YOU YOU POORFAG INDIAN FUCK YOU

>>16698456
10k a mo the sounds swell for me bro. Damn I'd retire after 3 years of money hoarding

>>16698653
>AMERICANS WORK "LE 100 HOURS" BY HAVING LONG SHIFTS WITH INCREDIBLY LONG DOWNTIME COMPARED TO EUROPEANS
This is verifiably false, at least when I visited the UK I met a lot of residents/junior doctors whatever on my trip and they were taken back by the rigor of American med school and residency
From what I've read and heard, I would say an average American MS4 after their subinternship (and especially after their aways if they need them for matching) is on the level of a end of 1st year resident in the UK in terms of conceptual knowledge about their field

Also if you have to work 80-100 hrs/wk on your laughable patient censuses, you are just slow lol

The funniest thing I still remember years later is hearing that europeons don't screen annually for breast cancer and that they laugh at us for having such high cancer rates
In reality they're just following rule 10 of the house of god

>>16695078 (OP)
1. are there new treatments regarding hiatal hernia? I've been taking omeprazole for more than a decade (1 x 20g a day)... I was told I needed surgery, but some other doc told me not to do it, so I didn't.
2. is it bad to mix omeprazole and esomeprazole? esomeprazole doesn't have an effect as good as omeprazole for me, but sometimes I feel pain from reflux when the effect of omeprazole goes away (usually during the night) and I don't want to take omeprazole just to avoid the reflux
3. I am supposed to not wash my mouth after brushing, but I have an issue with that: it gives me reflux. wtf do I do in this case?

>>16697049
nah. AI is a glorified, unreliable assistant. it might help you, it might replace a small % of docs, but it won't replace you all.

Imo having good bedside manner and speaking multiple languages is what will maintain a healthy patient population in the era of AI

>>16695078 (OP)
stay strong

>>16698888
i dont want to speak spic though. speak American or get out.

>orientation starts tomorrow
halp

>>16695078 (OP)
I'm taking a bioethics course and it is really unbelievable. I feel like the only sane person left in this world.

>>16699080
they taught me in biomed ethics to just let an illegal immigrant use her fake ID and fake medicare card because if you report her to ICE then she can sue you for violating HIPPA, and if you were to submit an insurance claim with this fake information then you're at fault because it's a crime to submit false insurance claims. you just need to take the hit on the chin and smile. overall, illegal spics are above the law.

>>16699080
The neonatologist/ethics committee member at my school is pretty cool. Hates everyone who doesn't DNR/DNI in hopeless situations and "seagulls.".

>>16698938
>refuse to speak second most spoken language in America for le politics
>>16699137
You can just refuse to treat if it's not an emergency and send them home. Just don't report them to ICE.
Most undocumented immigrants are cash-pay though so whatever

>>16699175
>undocumented immigrants
kek.

>>16698162
I've never been diagnosed with mania or bipolar. You are jumping to false conclusions.

>>16698213
I'm not a "conspiritard", I'm just a person who had an episode of not-so-great mental health, during which I was put in mental hospital and injected with antipsychotics. I think my opinion of psychiatry would be more positive if psychiatric drugs were completely voluntary. I just don't think it's fair to drug a person against their will, especially considering the many negative effects of antipsychotics (they shrink the brain, they cause extrapyramidal symptoms, they can cause tardive dyskinesia, etc). These are real effects on real people. But it all just gets waved away.

Surely if a person is not committing any crimes then their freedoms and rights should be respected.

>>16698526
To be honest I have no idea if magic mushrooms or LSD are good for the brain. I know someone who took LSD and he seems fine these days. I've never done those drugs though.

Psychiatry's medications are imperfect, and so are medications in other fields of medicine. But normally patients have a choice. A person could reject chemotherapy if they want. So maybe psych patients should be allowed to reject meds too, given that the meds have a lot of bad effects.

Some might say "but psych patients could be dangerous". I actually think locking someone up is not so bad, if they're a potential danger. I didn't mind being locked up too much. The thing I minded much more was being drugged against my will. It should be my decision which substances I put in my body.

>>16698532
>The worst part is that you people are 100% confident in what you're saying and will yell at whoever tries to correct you and threaten to sue them
I'm not him but I can understand his annoyance at the involuntary psychiatry that was done to him (I think he's the guy who said ECT was done to him). In my case I was injected with antipsychotics against my will, but thankfully I never had ECT.

Treatments in many areas of medicine are imperfect, and often have bad side effects. So maybe it should be a patient's choice to decide if they want antipsychotics, or if they want ECT. If a patient is genuinely a danger, maybe they could be locked up, but not forcibly drugged. I didn't mind being locked up too much. I was much more bothered by the forcible drugging which made me feel extremely strange. Then I looked up the side effects (e.g. raising prolactin, potential tardive dyskinesia) and I was even more annoyed at having been forcibly drugged.

>>16699218
Psychiatry is not a science.

>>16699220
I could not explain people like psychiatrist, that I really do need internet connection a some computational means, to maintain in loop. I lost everything I've had on my computer, many times in history, because I haven't remembered password after they medicated/electrocuted me. Imagine, having crypto funds, people you know online, like everything digital from you lost.

>>16699260
I think they use science. But I also think the science of psychiatry is distorted by Big Pharma's money. Here's an example of that:
>a third of meta-analyses of antidepressant studies were written by pharma employees
>these were 22 times less likely than other meta-studies to include negative statements about the drug
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-hidden-harm-of-antidepressants/

We should be pro-science and anti-corporate-manipulation of science. I do think psych meds can have some beneficial effects, but studies also indicate negative effects. That's why I think it should be a patient's choice whether to take meds or not.

>>16699273
That sucks if you've actually forgotten your passwords after medication/ECT. Sorry to hear that. Perhaps I am lucky because that has not happened to me after I was injected with antipsychotics. And I was lucky to not have ECT. I said in a previous post that in my country, I think they can administer ECT against a patient's will, if they think the patient is in a very bad state. It's pretty worrying to think that doctors, according to their own judgement, can just decide to give you ECT against your will. I do think I'm lucky to have not had that.

>>16699323
Well, I wonder what would happen to healthy people if they ware given anti-psychotics and told they are insane and only on that pill they can be sane.

>>16699331
True. It's easy for "normal" people to not give a shit about psychiatric treatment, because it isn't done to them. If it was done to them, they'd complain immediately, like anybody would.

I think people should be free to take psych meds if they want. I think it should be the patient's choice, with informed consent, as is normally the case in medicine. I also think locking someone up who is potentially dangerous is probably okay, if that's the only way to keep other people safe. But drugging someone against their will - I'm not a big fan of that. Antipsychotics, according to medical sources, do have bad effects. So maybe it should be the patient's choice rather than something which is imposed upon them against their will.

>ears get blocked with earwax
>oh wow this is annoying
>pour water in my ear
>AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
>call my doctor
>you have to use oil, silly bitch
>pour oil in my ear
>eww
i better wake up with a clean ear tomorrow

>>16699349
i just use 3% hydrogen peroxide

>hypothetically a virus that could easily wipe out humanity could exist
>viruses with genetics resistent to vaccines survive vaccines
>more people = larger sample that could contain a ~ 1 in 100 billion virus capable of extinction
Should the human population be capped for this reason?

>>16699678
>genetics resistant to vaccines
That's not how vaccines work, they aren't antivirals

>>16699680
Ok resistant to antivirals or bacteria resistant to antibiotics

>>16699678
an extinction event from a virus is basically impossible
as the population dwindles so does the rate of spread
covid was such a let down imo. black death caused the greatest increase to wages in history

>>16699678
>>hypothetically a virus that could easily wipe out humanity could exist
Not, it couldn't. High lethality reduces spread, it would also have to overcome all of genetic variation within all humans which is highly implausible, literally basics of epidemiology. Not to mention isolated pockets of population with little to no contact with the global network.

>>16699678
You've not accounted for the fact that humans can evolve too.

2 shifts left of 3rd year med school its finally over

>>16699762
>as the population dwindles so does the rate of spread
You are assuming it can only be spread by humans. There are viruses that can infect humans and non-human animals and freely spread between them and even examples of those viruses which don't cause significant damage to their animal hosts. Another alternative to preserve rate of spread would be shit like HIV or rabies or prion diseases or chicken pox where the terminal phase is significantly removed from the point of infection.

Basically what I'm saying is imagine airborne rabies carried by asymptomatic migratory birds and also city birds. Or don't if you'd like to be able to sleep at night.

i guess failed surgery = pretty good reason to sewer slide?

>>16699349
got an appointment at the doctor tomorrow
ear feeling swollen and constant white noise is very annoying

>>16699678
>hypothetically a virus that could easily wipe out humanity could exist
if it could easily wipe out humanity, it wouldn't spread too far.
the most advanced parasites are the ones that don't kill their hosts (i.e. hiv)

>>16700000
Failed the rotation or the shelf? Or just really bad evals?
>>16700149
>This nigga gave hisself otitis externa
Omegalul

is oti- even the out (3rd) layer of the ear

>>16700318
Anything before the tympanic membrane is otitis externa, between the tympanic membrane and oval window is otitis media and anything after the oval window is otitis interna more commonly known as labyrinthitis

>>16700324
did you mean to say "has [given themselves] otitis externa" still

>>16700328
No, I meant exactly what I said. I'm learning AAVE to communicate more effectively with my patients in the safety net hospital who speak AAVE. Do you have a problem with black people, otitis externa anon?

>>16700339
im not that anon i stole you from his conversation to ask my question

>>16700341
um okay

>>16700328
I thought you were asking if inflammation of the pinna is also considered otitis externa, which it is unless it's the cartilage which is perichondritis.

>>16700344
nice wojack you posted because youre here not as a doctor or future doctor but a stalking little faggot. youre in /med/ because of that, despite not wanting to get into medicine

>>16700345
>um ackshually erythema extending FROM THE MEATUS of the auditory canal into the proximal concha, tragus and antitragus ackshually make it an ENTIRELY different disease process.... because.... the cartilage!
It's still otitis externa, premedoid. Nearly the entire canal is bordered by auricular cartilage except for that distal osseous portion - it's all one structure.
>>16700347
Yikes sista get off your high horse

>>16700354
Otitis externa is inflammation of the skin while perichondritis is inflammation of the cartilage which is much deeper than the skin. They are different disease processes and this is evidenced by their treatment (the former is treated topically while the latter systemically)
You shartniggers are insufferable faggots, you're not interested in discussion you just want to show off your stupid niggerjak collection that nobody cares about. I won't lecture your stupid niggerfaggot ass more than this. Now leave before you get humiliated further.

actually I think he made a pretty good point as his argument for simplicity about this makes sense

>>16700365
It's the same disease process retardfaggotnigger. Malignant OE does not magically require DIFFERENT antibiotic agents - topical fluoroquinolones have excellent tissue penetration and the skin of the pinna AND auditory canal have very thin skin. The dependence on oral fluoroquinolones is because people freak out at malignant OE and stop thinking about the actual clinical context or stage of the OE to just over treat it. Does MOE become yet another totally different disease process when you have to admit them for their growing baseddomonas-related VST you midwit

I am literally working on a project studying this to push people away from dependence on oral fluoroquinolones for Carney 1 MOE (basically just intern-diagnosed OE) before we all get raped by AIDSoydomonas ear-igunosa dumbass

>>16699940
why a horse picture?

>>16695098

I thought about doing anesthesia but it's a trap. You spend your career being disrespected by the surgeon as well as scrub techs and your CRNAs.

Rads was the superior choice.

>>16700366
He was right btw I do want to show off my jak collection
BUT he's also retarded

hes right fyi nobody gives a shit about your wojack collection

>>16700377
>

>>16695736


IM is the shitbox of the hospital. Doesn't get any respect from anyone even the nurses and techs. The reason everyone specializes in IM is because no one wants to be a hospitalist.

>>16698251

Hey good for you. I tried to get with the nurses as an intern and it almost never worked. Probably should have tried getting a gf first though.

>>16698378

But you get to live in a walkable city, and the women there are skinny, and you don't have a bunch of seed oils in your food, and a bunch of other stuff you guys say about America.

Only decent thing about this education system is that I can at least start earning 500k+ in my early 30s, but right now I'm a brokie resident with no bitches and not many friends so even when I have free time I just play vidya or shitpost here.

>>16700387
what vidya?

>>16700388


I play all kinds (even though I suck compared to my friends that have more free time to git gud) I've played Dark Souls, Counter Strike, Starcraft, Expedition 33, recently caught up with pic related because someone said that there was a medical themed plot (lol)

>>16700391
>andy and leyley
>medical
lmao. you play a nice variety of games. i used to play csgo but then all my friends drifted apart. these days it's just RTS or other old games for me.

>>16700399


I mean I get why they said it but they just wanted me to play the game. Speaking of RTS games I was recently trying to make my way through OG Starcraft after I realized I've never beaten it. Whats your favorite RTS?

>>16700402
i cant name just 1 favorite because i play a few depending on what type of setting i want to play that day. age of empires 2:definitive edition, starcraft broodwar, dawn of war 1 are the 3 i consistently come back to. it's almost solely compstomps with my 1 friend, but i've played a few multiplayer matches in the past with anons.
army men rts has a fun little campaign for an RTS if youre looking for more campaigns.

>>16700405

Everyone seems to love AoE2. It's definitely on the list once I'm done with Starcraft, although I have a bunch of stuff I need to get through desu lol

>>16700368
i like horses

>>16697049
>>16698867
>AI is a glorified, unreliable assistant
Think of AI as one of those shitty droids from star wars that nobody takes seriously and everyone disrespects

>He doesn't play the official videogame of med school and autists in general everywhere

medicine virgins round for 8 hours a day wishing they could be back home playing vidya
surgeon chads be bumping reggaeton in the OR then dance the patient over to the ICU to have the Latina nurses twerkin on dey shit
https://youtu.be/s4ftEdW2wdo

>>16700459
you can tick manip gemstone cutting by the way for insane gains

>>16700459
you can tick manip gemstone cutting by the way for insane gains
its super useful on private serves which have the "tasks" system, if they have it so you can choose a skill (and do the 2 highest skill req items)

>>16699980
>don't imagine something that doesn't exist
okay I won't

>>16698378
Get a CFA
then join an investment bank as an analyst for biotech firms. they'll slobber over your MD

>>16700529
By the time he gets his CFA every company will have switched to using 10T parameter LLMs to do investment and fired 90% of their workforce

What is it with the europeon fgt bitching about being a physician in Europe? Motherfucker go die in a fire. I live in a country at war, guvurmunt is delaying contracts at the public institutions while also paying 2M USD for Cuban “doctors” to watch netflix and live in hotels.

Only good thing about this shithole is that I can pay cheap cocaine and expensive whores with my private practice monis.

Greetings from Mexico. Hope you find your backbone, fgt.

>>16700535
eww there are thirdies in this thread. disgusting

How many of you grind Anki? Any tips or suggestions?

>>16700603
Do ur reviews every day:))

There's an addon for uworld and one for amboss that will look up Anking cards for any question as well. That's how I use it.
>do uworld
>anki for questions I miss or just got a lucky guess
>repeat ad Infinitum

Psychiatry is immoral.

It's actually pretty normal to be unhappy or stressed in certain circumstances. It's not an "illness". It's a normal human reaction.

Psychiatrists think they have the right to drug you against your will, and then tell you that you'll amount to nothing if you don't take drugs. Fuck psychiatry.

>>16700149
nurse used a super soaker on me ear and we got a whole goddamn nut of earwax out, goddamn it was nasty
but now ear and sound are normal again

whys it take so long to get my license AHHHHHHHHHHH

>>16701079
optobro?

ENT head and neck, vascular surgery, anesthesia, or IM-> cards (potentially interventional)
I realized I want a good balance of hospital of saving peoples' lives in dicey situations and chill clinic

I go to a good school, great clinical evals, expect an excellent step 2 score based on my performance so far in the shelf exams, have a small amount of research but before I start pumping up my numbers, and the faculty in the surgery specialties personally liked me on my 2 week intro electives

What would y'all recommend for somebody who also wants to be able to make a great amount of money but also get a good amount of vacation (like 6 wks/yr) and time during the work year to spend with family/friends

>>16701092
yep. the executive director of the board is on vacation, so she only checks it once every week and my transcript is taking forever to mail to them... sooner it comes in, sooner i can get my NPI, apply to insurance boards, etc.

>>16698378
Would you rather live in a country with free healthcare or broken $1 million per symptom healthcare? Thinking it's better in America because you get paid more is dumb

>>16701099
Ophthalmology. Good luck homie.

>>16701177
I'm not competitive nor do I have interest in being competitive. My opthalmoscope exam is STILL ass and I hope to never touch one in my career

>>16701193
>med student
>expects any of his exams to be decent
lol, lmao even

>>16701210
says you i'll have u know that i successfully identified that a patient was sedated and intubated

>>16701193
direct or indirect?

>>16701210
actually I was able to diagnose a zebra case in a psych ward transfer schizo with my detailed history and exam

what vitamins do you guys take?
for me it's multi and d3 + k2

>>16701330
I don't take any, because my diet is actually good.

90% of diseases are somatic symptom disorders. The other 10% are from gut biome disturbances. This is an uncomfortable truth.

>>16698378
I AM STILL HAVING A PANIC ATTACK OVER MY NONEXISTENT EARNING PERSPECTIVES. I CANNOT *JUST EMIGRATE* TO THE US, I HOPE DUBAI WILL HAVE ME. LITERALLY ANYWHERE THAT A LIVING WAGE IS PAID, I WILL GO TO.

>>16700535
YOU ARE A FAGGOT. A THIRD WORLDER FAGGOT. YOU WERE BORN A SLAVE, SO YOU ARE HAPPY LIVING IN THE MUD AND BEING A SLAVE. I WAS BORN A FREE MAN, PROMISED A GOOD QUALITY OF LIFE IF I BECAME A DOCTOR. THIS WAS *ROBBED* FROM ME. I WILL HAVE TO LIVE IN A SHITTY APARTMENT NEXT TO FORMERLY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. MY KIDS WILL HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL WITH SOMALIANS. I WILL HAVE TO DRIVE A SECOND HAND TOYOTA. MY WIFE WILL BE UGLY AND ANNOYING AND I WILL BE ASHAMED TO BE SEEN WITH HER, SINCE I AM A BROKE MORON SLAVE WITH NO MONEY, CLOUT OR FREE TIME. I WILL NET 6-7K/MONTH MAX AFTER TAXES. THIS IS NOTHING. AN APARTMENT COSTS A MILLION FUCKING EUROS WHERE I'M AT. ONE MILLION. A HOUSE COSTS 4-5 MILLION EUROS. DO YOU UNDERSTAND MY PREDICAMENT YOU BROWN FAGGOT?

>>16701477
FUCK YOU FOR POSTING ON HERE FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I FUCK YOU I FUCK YOU I FUCK YOU
I JUST WANT TO TALK TO OTHER DOCTORS THAT ARE NOT NORMALFAG RETARDS AND YOU WANT TO TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME? GO POST ANYWHERE ELSE, LITERALLY ANYWHERE ELSE ON THIS SITE, LEAVE THIS THREAD TO ACTUAL DOCTORS YOU DUMB FUCK

>>16701556
Are you in the Netherlands?

>>16701556
If you are so smart and deserve so much shit handed to you why don't you use that brain of yours to come up with a scheme that'll make you rich? Do you think you're the first person who has ever felt like they deserve better? The difference is that those who came before you and had this feeling acted on it to give them the determination to actually get to where they wanted to be

>>16701558
NO BUT IT LITERALLY DOESN'T MATTER
NORDIC COUNTRIES, BELGIUM/NETHERLANDS, GERMANY ARE MOSTLY THE SAME REGARDING PHYSICIAN EARNINGS AND COL IN THEIR CAPITAL CITIES. BRITAIN IS ARGUABLY EVEN WORSE. FRANCE/SWITZERLAND HAVE SOME MONEY MAKING LOOPHOLES FOR SPECIALTIES NO ONE WANTS TO DO.

>>16701561
FUCK YOU FOR TRYING TO GASLIGHT ME. MY SCHEME WAS TO SACRIFICE MY YOUTH FOR MED SCHOOL AND RESIDENCY, WHICH USED TO WORK UP UNTIL 10-15 YEARS AGO, WHEN I MADE THE DECISION. I DO DESERVE BETTER. I WAS ROBBED.

IN THE GENERATION OF MY PARENTS, DOCTORS GOT PAID THE EQUIVALENT OF 1 HOUSE/YEAR (600K-1M IN TODAY'S BANANA REPUBLIC ZIMBABWE HYPERINFLATED EURO), THEY GOT FREE SHIT AND TRIPS FROM BIG PHARMA, THEY WERE WELL-RESPECTED AND SET FOR LIFE. FOR LIFE. YOU FUCKING FAGGOT. I BET YOU'RE NOT EVEN A DOCTOR. I BET YOU'RE NOT EVEN A MED STUDENT. YOU'RE PROBABLY SOME FAGGOT X-RAY TECHNICIAN OR A BIOMED UNDERGRAD. DUMB FUCK. POST WHAT YOU DO IF YOU'RE SO SMART.

>>16701567
What country are you from? It matters because some Western European countries have a bridge program where docs can work in America in undeserved states for American wages

>>16701576
I'M DOING A MAXIMALLY COMPETITIVE SPECIALTY THAT US MUTTS KILL AND DIE TO GET INTO. WHAT, YOU THOUGHT I WAS SOME HOSPITALIST OR GP UNDERACHIEVER THAT IS NEEDED IN RURAL IDAHO OR WHEREVER THE FUCK? I WAS LITERALLY A MAX TRYHARD MEME GUNNER IN MED SCHOOL. I AM NEVER GETTING IN THE US, FOR ANYTHING, EVER.

>>16701583
Why do you think you won't make it in the US? You know even primary care in the US makes like $200k minimum and more in places with shortages. Do you not want to switch specialties?

lel

>>16701588
ARE YOU EVEN A DOCTOR?
>JUST SWITCH SPECIALTIES, BECOME A GP BRO AND GO WORK IN A VILLAGE IN UTAH BRO

ARE YOU JUST A MED STUDENT OR PREMED FAGGOT? NO REAL DOCTOR, ESPECIALLY ONE THAT GUNNED FOR A COMPETITIVE SPECIALTY IN HIS PRIME YEARS WOULD THINK LIKE THAT.

200K IS LITERALLY NOTHING FOR THE US. NOTHING. EVEN IF IT WAS $400K, IT IS NOT WORTH BEING A GP IN VERMONT. HOW MUCH OF THAT REMAINS AFTER ALL THE INSURANCE SHIT YOU NEED IN THE US BUT COMES FOR FREE IN EUROPE? LET ALONE COL FOR RAISING A FAMILY, COLLEGE FOR THE KIDS, 401K ETC.

REAL SALARIES IN THE US ARE 600K-1M+. IF I DID MY ACTUAL SPECIALTY IN THE US, THAT IS WHAT I WOULD MAKE. I AM LITERALLY THE CREAM OF THE CROP IN EUROPE AND I AM DOOMED TO BE A POOR FAGGOT.

I FEEL LIKE I AM THE ONLY SANE PERSON IN THE ASYLUM. I DISCUSS THIS WITH PEOPLE AT WORK, THEY ARE ALSO A BIT DEMORALIZED BUT THEIR DAD WILL BUY THEM A HOUSE SO IT'S OKAY. I DISCUSS IT WITH FRIENDS IN TECH, THEY CAN'T EMPATHISE. I DISCUSS IT WITH FRIENDS IN FINANCE, THEY PITY ME AND HAVE NO SOLUTIONS. I DISCUSS IT ON THE *MEDICAL* THREAD ON 4CHAN, I AM DOOMED TO HEAR THE MORONIC THOUGHT VOMIT OF UNDERGRADS, NURSES, AMBULANCE DRIVERS, PREMEDS, BIOLOGY MAJORS, HOSPITAL JANITORS AND OF LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE THAT IS NOT AN ACTUAL DOCTOR.

>>16701606
Vermont is beautiful. Even smithcucked Utah beats the infested cities for sure.

>>16701606
Stop writing in caps, spastic. Jesus Christ.
No wonder no ones to give you good advice.

Enough psych ward ramblings, what are /med/‘s thoughts on this?

>>16701674
women give birth everyday, so i dont know why they singled out this one.

>>16701674
Ghoulish politicians wasting limited resources to force the birth of a likely oxygen deprived baby
They took the baby out because she was decomposing. Really fucked up case

>>16701970
Surely it makes sense to try to save the baby's life if possible.

>>16701674
i think we're going to learn a shitload from this case, that's my immediate thought.

Antidepressants literally fuck up the brain, pic related.

We should have a society that acknowledges people's real-life stresses (job problems, money problems, abuse, bullying, etc). Instead of a society that says "your brain is obviously broken, so you should drug yourself".

>>16702057
You should get 4-ho-dmt for that problem probably, or JRT.

>>16702057
Atypical Antidepressants like Bupropion are much better choice

>white woman SP starts freaking out at me for counseling diet, exercise, and therapy in a caregiver stress scenario
>end up fumbling my words and flubbing my plan
They're too good at being Karens

>>16701674
I don't know how this became a pro-life/pro-choice thing. The woman is dead but her baby is not. The woman did not want an abortion before her injury. The family want the baby.

It's obviously the right thing to do to try to save the life of the baby. The only reason to be against it is if you're part of a death cult and just want to see more death.

>>16702692
That's my take as well. "SHE WAS KEPT ALIVE FOR NO REASON" uh how about because there was a baby?

>>16701606
Glad to see the European nanny state system is working and producing entitled codependent citizens just as intended

>>16702403
"don't worry, we'll send you home with some pamphlets"

>>16701674
If the baby is able to thrive and goes on to live a normal life it will be successful medicine that I'd be proud of if I was responsible for

>>16701606
Swiss docs make pretty good money I think

>>16698661
The average wages in Western Europe are less than 3k a month. You're saying you need to make 7 times what the average person makes just to live comfortably?

>>16703066
She only calmed down when I said I'll change her prescriptions to improve HTN compliance

>>16703495
The average person makes the average wages. The average person has no internal monologue. The average person forgets to wipe their ass. The average person voted for Europe to be flooded with bomalians. The average person falls for 'your computer has a virus' ads. The average person is programmed by what they hear on national news. The average person didn't study. The average person didn't sacrifice their youth in service of medicine.

I was a gunner in medical school. I am smart. I am tall. I lift weights. I am handsome. I am capable. I deserve AT LEAST 7 times more than the average person. I just hope the corrupt bureaucrats in Brussels that dragged us into this one day face legal, proportional justice for what they did to the history's greatest continent and her people.

>>16703642
buddy, you post on 4chan.

>>16703642
>looking down on your patients
shiggy diggy
also picrel

>>16703646
I look like this, I say this and I do this.

>>16703643
I post on 4chan.

>>16695078 (OP)
Men are more successful at suicide than women, in part, because men choose more violent methods to commit suicide and are more likely to be gun owners. Shotgun blast to the head is more likely to kill you than trying to overdose on pills (the latter gives you time to change your mind & call 911, or for someone to find you and call 911). The surgery profession is dominated by men, far more than the other medical fields listed there. Anesthesiologists are going to be good at committing suicide, for obvious reasons (entire job is putting someone on the brink of death). It's also very male heavy.

The overwhelming majority of suicide attempts fail (47,500 successful suicides out of 1.4 million attempts), so one of the biggest factors to examine when analyzing suicide numbers is whether the person is likely to use an effective method.

>>16703789
women only fail because they're attention seekers rather than really wanting to kill themselves.

>>16703789
any trained physician should know how to commit suicide properly

>>16703642
>I deserve AT LEAST 7 times more than the average person
You're not 7 times smarter than the average person though. If you have a 130 iq, you're only 30% smarter. In a perfectly balanced, just world you should be making only 30% more than the average person.

>>16698007
YWNBD

>>16695098
>>16695724
they probably just know best which fumes to huff if you want to end it all.

>become catholic
>get to sterilize people
I am really conflicted and I don't know which one to pick. Please help

This guy - >>16702057 - again

I think I might just go back on an antidepressant, because according to that picture, my serotonin receptors are currently fucked up, due to the antidepressants I took.

So I either:
a) Don't take antidepressants and wait for my serotonin receptors to get back to normal (this could take weeks or a couple months)
b) Go back on antidepressants because my brain expects them - this will allow me to function better within the next few weeks

So basically your shitty drugs have made my brain dependent. Psychiatry is so shit.

>>16704828
being catholic is gay. imagine being an incel then converting to catholicism because you need an excuse for not getting pussy

>>16695078 (OP)
Who the fuck made this chart, and are you sure they didn't already kill themselves? This is a cry for help if I've ever seen one.

>>16704828
why cant you do both?

got an 85 (numeric converted) on my pediatrics shelf I wasn't even remotely confident on that one

waheyyyy

/blog

>>16705290
In Catholicism it is forbidden to sterilize people and it constitutes a grave sin, you will go to hell if you're a doctor and you sterilize people on purpose.

>>16705341
heathens arent people

>>16705341
source?

>>16704186
NTA but minor baseline disparities can create large outcome disparities in competitive environments.
Look at boxing weight classes. No way a heavyweight-v-middleweight has 1.3x the win rate of middle-v-middle.
Being prey that's 30% slower than the predator is not going to end up well either.
And there are things that lower IQ people simply can't do without exceptional effort/training that come natural to higher IQ people. So the higher-IQ people are a limited resource that a proper market economy would reward appropriately.

>IQ is fake and gay
I don't care.

>>16703495
>>16703642
>europoors are actually poor
Be born Swiss or emigrate to the US, no other choice.
Imagine making less than a midwife lol.

I just remembered the obese nurse who told me not to bother applying med as a white male, and now I smiled

>>16706084
what about neurosurgeons

>>16705197
>This is a cry for help if I've ever seen one.
lol

Hey gamers

I'm 32 and an RF engineer who wants to be a doctor, specifically Rads.
how late is it for me? i double-majored in EE and Math, but I don't have much Bio and Chemistry. I did take OChem for fun back in college though. I really enjoyed it. I've been self-teaching myself Physical Chem and Bio out of Campbell's during work, just for prep when I go back. Also reviewed all my calculus and differential equations/linear algebra and analysis for upper div bio and chem classes which may be math-intensive.

>>16707036
>specifically Rads
If this is the only thing you'd tolerate, don't go. It's competitive and there's no guarantee you'll get what you want.

>>16695097
How are they misrepresenting it? The bars seem to correspond to suicide rate (i.e. number/doctors), which I think is appropriate, although they could've made it a little clearer.

>>16695098
It's just we have access to the good stuff and know how to use it.

>>16707036
do you really want to go into school for another 8 years just to MAYBE become a radiologist? if you're happy with exploring other specialties, then it should be fine but like >>16707048 said, it's tough to get into rads.

I noticed lot of elder patients with UTI have altered mental status but can't find anything about the mechanism of it. Any thoughts?

>>16707036
AI will replace that spec first. What about just buying some rads books, and doing practice rad interpretation tests for fun? Maybe you just want a hobby.

>>16707277
Cortical thinning, sepsis related enceph, uraemia...take your pick.

>>16707277
Da beeg poopoo in brain (sepsis-related encephalopathy) is the direct cause

redpill me on the collins' in layman lingo. I've heard that IVF is super unsuccesful but this woman breeds like a b-2 bomber, alien like in appearance but excellent in deliverance. I bet she would've fucked like a fighter jet had she chosen the path of bonnie blue. Corny jokes aside, how in the world do they perform embryo screening and what is their secret to such high IVF success rates?

Landed a job in my childhood dream hospital. Got snubbed of a promotion so I took what was left of my honor and quit.

Good evening, /med/:

Whenever I poo I have hard, pebble-like poo blocking the rest of my poo (which is diarrhea the consistency of soft-serve ice cream). It causes really bad bloating that I can visually observe in my stomach. It used to happen only a few times every week but it’s literally every time I go now. I had a colonoscopy a year or two ago because I kept finding blood on my stool (this hasn’t happened in a long time now, but I’ve experienced it off and on for around 5 years). I had a small polyp removed during the colonoscopy but was told it wasn’t medically concerning. I occasionally (once every two or three months) take Dulcolax for bad flare ups and it helps, but I’m hesitant to use it more as I’ve heard it can cause more issues with regular use. I’ve expressed to doctors how frustrating it is but the only suggestion has been a FODMAP diet which I didn’t find hugely helpful. Should I just take the Dulcolax more regularly? I’m not worried about it being anything too serious because I had the colonoscopy and I figure if it was serious it would have killed me by now, just trying to find a solution.

Early 30s, 5’11 @ ~215 lbs, white, vegan diet (carb-heavy, I probably eat too much).

>>16708321
shouldve been black and/or female and sued for discrimination

>>16708321
What are you going to do now?

>>16695078 (OP)
How likely is Foregen to work?

shes so hot though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00-T8PcbStE

1. Dentist Suicide Rates Compared to Others
- The general U.S. suicide rate is about 0.42% of total deaths.
- One controversial study claimed dentists had a 7.18% suicide rate (8.02% for males, 5.28% for females).
- More reliable studies estimate around 1.8% of dentist deaths are suicides, slightly higher than the general population (1.2%).
- The CDC (2016) grouped dentists with other healthcare workers, ranking them 11th in suicide rates (19 per 100,000), far below jobs like farming (85 per 100,000).

2. Gender Differences
- Female dentists may have a slightly higher risk, but recent data (Austria, 2023) found no significant increase.
- Male dentists generally do not show elevated suicide rates in modern studies.

3. How Dentists Compare to Doctors
- Female physicians have a suicide rate 2.39 times higher than the general population.
- Male physicians have a lower overall rate, though older males may be at higher risk.
- Anesthesiologists have the highest suicide rate among doctors (290 per 100,000).
- Dentists were once thought to have higher rates than doctors, but current data does not support this.

4. Suicide Methods
- Doctors and veterinarians often use drug overdoses.
- Dentists have access to nitrous oxide, but there’s no strong evidence it leads to higher suicide rates.

38 dentists die by suicide annually in the U.S.

This would place them below:
Suicides
OB/GYN & Psychiatry (45 per year)
Dentists (38 per year)
Pediatrics (36 per year)

Just filling in the missing data for a very concerned party who cares deeply about a LONELY DENTIST DEMOGRAPHIC of comicbook buyers.

The old rule used to be:
MALE SUICIDE: guns, rope, drowning, car exhaust hose, jump off cliff/bridge/boat

FEMALE SUICIDE: pills, laughing gas

Comics MATTER w/Ya Boi Zack
JUST ANOTHER TRANS LUNATIC- DC Hires Writer Who Celebrated 9/11 And MIGHT Want To Kill JK Rowling
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QhUYe8z-0ZI

How much time do I realistically need to study for step 1 if I got a 50-something percent right on my free 120

https://i.4cdn.org/hc/1750967643605719.jpg
What is wrong with her pussy /med/?

>>16708463
what did you think roastie meant? it's burnt, brother.

>>16708405
i have a hard time believing that female doctor suicide rate is higher than male doctor.

In your opinion, docs, do psych meds actually help people? Or are they just used to make patients shut up and stop complaining about their problems in life?

>>16708323
increase fluid intake, add more fibre to diet
start movicol 1 satchet daily and then uptitrate until you have bulky but soft stools. add in psyllium husk as well
people like you need regular aperients. it is up to you to find your correct dose.
I will not respond to any replies

>>16704936

Liberal artist, impossible to image a non-interracial couple.

>>16708564
I saw a lot of people on my psych disorders get better from mood and anxiety disorders on SSRIs. Whether or not that was due to the medication... who can say?
I find anxiety disorders tend to be better treated than mood disorders. People with OCD in particular - their symptoms get a lot better with a little prozac.

Some of the stuff we've evolved with makes me laugh
>liver is the most important organ for preventing massive free radical damage throughout the body
>delivers lipids for energy to all external muscular tissues
>metabolizes so many substances going through
>gets its own special glycolysis pathway
>BUT only 30% of its blood flow comes from an artery with the remaining 70% being spent portal vein garbo mixed with all those toxins

>>16703642
>I am [THIS], I am [THAT], I deserve [SUCH]
What a typical case of narcissistic personality disorder
You get what you get, not what you deserve, either do something about it or learn to accept the world and shut up.

>>16704186
>If you have a 130 iq, you're only 30% smarter
Man that's the worst take on statistics I've ever heard, why are medfags so mathematically illiterate.
Learn how the fuck a probability distribution actually works, 100 IQ means you're smarter than 50% of the population, but a 130 IQ means you're smarter than 97.725% of the population (assuming 15 IQ points represent 1 standard deviation)

What should I use to study for step 1, I'm planning on taking it dec 1
My school gives 3 months uworld, so I don't want to use it just yet

I am currently in rotations, so just want to make a long-term sustainable study plan alongside my second half of rotations

For reference, I haven't touched preclinical material since last year. Currently going through pathoma videos to get myself caught back up on basic sciences. I have a physical copy of first aid but no USMLE-Rx. I have sketchy. I don't have any q banks - should I get USMLERx, amboss, or just wait until they give uworld 3 months before my test date?

>i hope my license is finally approved today
>it is.
>but it doesnt allow me to do injections even though i had the requisites for it
sigh... time for more emails and more delays...

>>16708969
>>16708974
start with amboss if you must, just know that it's generally harder than uworld. If you want a quick catch-up, I would disable the 5 hammer questions as they're certified horseshit most of the time. Get the addon that pulls amboss questions into anki cards and have that guide your study.

>>16709093
1. Would you recommend USMLE-Rx? I always felt kind of weak in preclinical because I was half-assing it the entire time (p/f preclinical)
2. If I go through the full amboss deck and review appropriately, will uworld be a significant hurdle?
3. How long to study for step 2 after doing step 1 dedicated?

>>16709116
1) I dunno i didnt use it
2) no, but do as much as you can anyways its generally considered to be the most consistent with USMLE
3) Idk man im studying for step 2 rn and only have 4 weeks

>>16709133
>>16709116
3) being said, our institution did some analysis and theres no significant difference between studying for 6 weeks and studying for 6 weeks plus. At least not among our students. I just dont have 6 weeks.

>>16709133
So what exactly did you use and how long did you study? How were you scoring in preclinical and did that translate to your study strat for step 1?
Uworld is definitely numero uno for me, but I feel like I need to do content review first

Also for step 2 studying being 4 weeks, what score are you aiming for?

>>16709166
>but I feel like I need to do content review first
This is a trap. UWorld IS your content review, as long as you're using it correctly.

>>16709176
I don't think you understand. I don't know anything about anything. Preclinical was essentially a haze of binge eating and drinking followed by cram sessions before every exam

>>16709188
You probably remember more than you think. If you really need content review, focus on Boards and Beyond, Sketchy pharm/micro, and Pathoma. Anki might be worth doing for more spaced repetition depending on how much time you have. Just remember that the bulk of your improvement will come from doing practice questions. You won't feel ready at first, no one does, but you should see steady improvement if you keep at it. Active learning is always more efficient than passive learning.

>>16709166
I studied for step 1 for 5 weeks, mainly using uworld, NBME exams off of reddit or the class drive or whatever, and FREE120

I also used anki.

I dunno what score I got, I passed.
Step 2, I'm aiming for above 248 since I'm applying emergency medicine. As high as possible, but it's not the most important thing in the application so I'm not losing sleep over it.

Of note, I got honors in my E med rotation and more of my rotations are honors than not, so that's good.

>>16709166
>Uworld is definitely numero uno for me, but I feel like I need to do content review first
I recommend watching Boards and Beyond and doing UW when you get tired of watching 8 hrs of videos a day. I wouldn't wait to start UW in the last 3 months either, might as well spend the money yourself and start doing Qs.

Just took level 1 bros, and holy fuck it's the worst feeling seeing all the easy shit I missed while prepping to take step in a couple of days. FML I literally convinced myself that a BCC was an actinic keratosis.

To all the attending anons, I fucking salute you for surviving all the bs and making it out with your sanity.

I found a pretty cool series by a german forensic. I can't understand shit but I'd never think I'm gonna watch a man's skull getting open and the brain removed on youtube of all places.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdE_MRIPHVg

>>16708611
Maybe I should go back on an SSRI then, I think that stuff does have positive effects, but then I always hate myself for using a drug so I end up stopping and starting the drug over and over again, which just messes up my life.

How serious are the fouling agents in alcoholic mouthwash and hand sanitizer? Do they just make your hangover worse, or is there some special risk involved? And what other forms of alcohol are safe to drink e.g. can you drink isopropanol?

>>16709499

>>16709203
>>16709208
>>16709223
Okay. Thank you all. I think I'm gonna do this:
Continue pathoma and start amboss qbank for the next week. Take free120 at the end of this week.
Then my rotations start back up - going to go hard on studying for my shelf during weekdays, then Friday night + Saturday will be step studying (finish up pathoma vids + amboss within 3 months). Sunday to relax.
Replace amboss with uworld and nbme's in September, then do a month of dedicated leading up to the test where it's uworld everyday except one day for nbme's. Take step 1, do a rotation for a month while doing step 2 prep (uworld + reviewing shelf exams), then month of dedicated for step 2.

Does that sound reasonable?

>>16709647
sounds good to me if u can swing it

I've got kids so it's fucked for me

Pubmed and google scholar would save countless lives if they implemented a way to filter out “publications” written by med students

>>16709765
agreed
my papers during med school were dog shit

>>16709765
Don't hate a playa, hate the game

erm i must be allergic to penicillin because my tummy hurts :(

>get 5 am ward call from the neurodevelopmental ward
>puke found in the middle of the ward
>nurses don't know who puked
>asked patients
>at least two claim that the puke is theirs

I'm gonna miss my boys in the ND ward. Fucking going to be admitting psych patients for the next three months. Wish me luck, anons.

>>16709934
what kind of janny ass doctor are you that you get called to investigate a puddle of puke on the floor at 5 am when there's no patient actively vomiting or anything

>>16709765
>filter out “publications” written by med students
and chinks
and Indians
and two separate filters for anything before 1990 and before 2000
i regularly get confused when i'm trying to search for something that doesn't have much literature on it, find an article, start reading and it's some bizarre medieval shit only to then look at publication date and it's 1967 or something

>>16701099
this general is all anesthesia chads posting on 4chan during surgery, so

>>16709954
>what kind of janny ass doctor
A psychiatrist

>>16704433
i've had a comfy suicide plan prepped for years now

>>16700373
>surgoid gets uppity
>pump syst bp up to 180
>loser starts sweating because he can't control bleeding
get owned sucker

>>16709954
A soft-spoken autist who doesn't wanna start shit with the nursoids desu

can someone please help me figure this shit out because I want to be able to sterilize people.
I'm having a hard time deciding between Catholicism and being able to sterilize people.
Is catholicism real or not.
Wouldn't God want me to sterilize people? Can someone prove to me that the church father's are incorrect in this regard and that i in fact should be allowed to sterilize people for the betterment of society

>>16709961
Janny is pretty apt. I barely do any medicine. I order rapid tranqs, convince schizos to take their meds, and wrangle patients to try to prevent the wards from devolving into a fight club.

god imagine being a psychiatrist in the good old days with low supervision when you could just restrain and fuck all the insane qts at your asylum that you run like a prison colony

I just found out that one of my favorite patients died last week. Crying in the club and pouring one out for them right now.

>>16709765
>1 on going RCT
>published the pilot study with less than 3 patients
>published "systematic review" regarding topic with 3 prosective studies that is nothing more than an introduction to the topic
>published follow up of 1 month
>follow up of 6 months
>1 year
>published another systematic review regarding what has changed over the last year and what the new RCT has found out (nothing)
>publish single arm prospective study about one of the secondary outcomesbecause there was a significant difference in one of the parameters (p<0.1)
>publish position paper

i fucking hate academic circlejerks so much

>>16709499
swallowing a little mouthwash is not gonna harm you much. it is designed to make you barf or have diarrhea. what it is, though, is a “wakeup call” that you are starting to act really pathetic—get your shit sorted man

>>16710046
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU-IqbTvKjE

>>16710386
Kek

>>16710235
fewer than 3 patients
FEWER

Former psych patient here. I came across this comment about psychiatry which strikes me as true:
>I often sit with people with serious mental health diagnosis and they will tell me about the traumas that drove them mad, often child sexual assault and family violence. I ask them if the serivces know about this and they say not. They have often been in contact with services for years, decades in some cases.
>Yet these same people are foreced to take dangerous medication that Big Pharma make huge profits out of.
>I am appalled and disgusted by this.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/may/12/psychiatric-drugs-more-harm-than-good-expert#comments

Basically psychiatry doesn't care about the welfare of patients. Psychiatry just wants to shut psych patients up because they're seen as a nuisance. Drugging patients is an effective way to shut them up.

>Former psych patient here
sorry stopped reading right there

>>16711012
Ah yes, that famous caring attitude from the medical profession. I should definitely trust doctors who try to convince me to take poisonous psychoactive drugs.

>>16711021
Are these doctors there in your home with you when they're telling you to take drugs?

>>16711030
They have been. A few years ago a couple doctors visited where I was living and they had me detained in mental hospital.

Maybe every doctor who carries out involuntary detention should themselves be involuntarily detained for a few months, and injected with the same antipsychotics that they prescribe. If they think this practice is so beneficial for mental health, then surely they would want to go through the process themselves.

Why does every /med/ thread attract psych ward patients and hypochondriacs

>>16711081
>why does the thread about the medical industry attract people who have been abused and broken by the medical industry
I wonder

>>16711057
I agree with you, insane retards shouldn't be involuntarily confined in medical facilities, they should be involuntarily confined in a big stone tower-dungeon somewhere remote like back in the day

>>16711091
Interesting idea. Let's test this policy out on you first to see how well it works. You shall be involuntarily confined in a tower dungeon for a year and we'll see how much that process will benefit your life.

>>16711091
Can we put those danger spikes like for long term nuclear waste management planning? Also put a great eye, lidless, wreathed in flame on top of the tower (to save on money compared to a panopticon) - that way the schizos can be reassured that someone IS watching them after all!

>>16711081
If you admitted, that psychiatry is not medicine, and not science, you could ban them for being offtopic, but you love money you get in that industry so you can't let go, and that is something like bestiality, it cannot be tolerated in civilized society. You found abstraction for the stream of money, which makes you parasitic organism. Psychiater is man of culture of course, like bacterial culture that causes diarhea, it's full of shit, wet, liquid stinky shit.

>>16711096
I can imagine tech, that somehows alter the half life of meterial, by exposing it to something, that in the end makes nuclear danger neglible. Also there's a mold that eats radiation.

>>16711097
The ultimate goal of medicine is public health(hence it focuses not only on directly treating illnesses as they arise, but also on prophylaxis and informing the public to promote healthy lives)
Psychiatry serves public health by humanely isolating and neutralizing individuals who are harmful to the public

>>16711198
But with it's financial model, they just hide everybody... Like I was there first because of I had delusion I'll make money on the interwebz when I was 17, they didn't trust me, they didn't even wanted me to show them(I was actively grinding freelancer.com then, with profile with fake age, I've also got gmail with fake age and I was google+ beta tester) That said, I've been there, fed those pills I couldn't refuse, because I left highschool, smoked cannabis ocassionally and did what I was good at. When I was 15 year old alcoholic, nobody stopped by and said that I am sick or something, but it's psychosis when you refuse to cut grass for your mom, because you're being paid like 30 times her hourly wage.

Last thing my family got on me, was restricting my legal rights to manipulate my own property because I invested all money into bitcoin, binance blockchain and ether in 2019, and later I got loan, so I don't have to sell my crypto assets. I understand the fact, that every second ad on facebook in that time was some crypto scam, but holy shit, I was there when people changed few bytes just to have different checksum, and whole evolution, I've even had got 50 bitcoin somewhere when it was cheap as fuck... But somehow, I got ECT because bitcoin doesn't put food on table, and got refused my rights to do as I will with my property...

Please tell me more about how your aunt got scammed of all the cash when she won 0.25btc but needed to deposit 0.5btc to withdraw it.

I feel like I am hurt, because people are dumbfucks.

>>16709987
sterilizing, no. Removing from the gene pool, yes. Can anyone condemn to death? No, except in self-defence. Just a magistrate can arbitrarily judge and kill. This becomes more complex when you consider overthrowing a government which is detrimental to society: it is in no way sedition, but instead a virtue to preserve the spiritual and material well-being of society.

For this reason we observe that if the health of the whole body demands the excision of a member, through its being decayed or infectious to the other members, it will be both praiseworthy and advantageous to have it cut away. Now every individual person is compared to the whole community, as part to whole. Therefore if a man be dangerous and infectious to the community, on account of some sin, it is praiseworthy and advantageous that he be killed in order to safeguard the common good, since "a little leaven corrupteth the whole lump" (1 Corinthians 5:6).
[Summa, B2, P2, Q64, A2]

>>16711198
>Directly talking about psychiatry to the unsatisfied psych patient
Classic mistake

holy moly i triggered a legit schizo rant with just a bit of trolling

>>16711254
You think trolling is healthy habbit? I think you deserve cage in hospital room that have camera listed on shodan, so people can see your despair.

>>16711261
nta. Trolling is the Internet's past time. Always has been.

>>16711268
Well, I'm adult, and you have to be 18 to post here you edgy crazy genzy gaysi cringe trap femboy loli.

>>16711261
>>16711270

>>16711273
The fact you have 5342 images saved in your computers mean that you're probably autist.

>>16711198
The purpose of medicine is to help the health of individuals. By your logic, the criminal justice system is part of medicine, because it "serves public health by humanely isolating and neutralizing individuals who are harmful to the public".

Also doctors are all about doing no harm, right? If psychiatry is harmful to its patients then that automatically makes it wrong, regardless of whatever benefit it might give to the public.

>>16711283
He confuses threatening status quo, which often happen with psychiatric patients, with threatening society. He's sociopath. He won't understand human speech.

>>16711283
That's where you're wrong
Just like a doctor will have no mercy killing cancer cells to save the organism, there should be no mercy containing the psychos to save the public
Think my example is too extreme? Consider a traveler arriving to your city carrying an infectious deadly disease. He's begging to be let in, he's hungry and exhausted. Should a doctor 'do no harm' and help the poor man, thus condemning thousands of people to die by disease spread?
You should be thanking modern psychiatry, because if it weren't for that you worthless psychos would be simply exiled or euthanised

>>16711297
Why nobody does shit like psychiatrist does, unless they get paid?

>>16711301
Because psychiatrists are the designated jannies that get paid to handle scum like you

>>16711309
Why they don't kill me humanely by giving me 0.1 grams on fent intravenous then, but have long procedure of giving me crippling toxin, that detoriates my health, that cost much more? Because they're capitalistic pig, just like you?

>>16711318
>Why they don't kill me humanely by giving me 0.1 grams on fent intravenous then
That's what would happen under T4, but the good guys lost

>>16711320
So you admit psychiatrist nowadays are not good guys, but dipshits?

>>16711329
They're the best we can get in modern politics
Don't worry, any doctor, including psychiatrist would gladly exterminate you schizos if that was legal

>>16711333
Yes, I've been prescribed neuroleptics, because on examination said:"I have slight paranoia, that you're going to prescribe me neuroleptics and I don't like it." Which is cited as paranoia I was having, they are medicating with neuroleptics.

They are viligant scum.

>>16711329
Most specialists are hyper-specific retards who know maybe a dozen factoids to do their job. We have no more polymaths among any worthwhile philosophy of science. Psychiatrists are inferior to psychologists in my professional experience.

>>16711348
>Robert Root-Bernstein is considered the principal responsible for rekindling interest in polymathy in the scientific community.[17][18] His works emphasize the contrast between the polymath and two other types: the specialist and the dilettante. The specialist demonstrates depth but lacks breadth of knowledge. The dilettante demonstrates superficial breadth but tends to acquire skills merely "for their own sake without regard to understanding the broader applications or implications and without integrating it".[19]:857 Conversely, the polymath is a person with a level of expertise that is able to "put a significant amount of time and effort into their avocations and find ways to use their multiple interests to inform their vocations".[20]:857[21][22][23][24

>>16711283
>getting filtered by the trolley problem

>>16711352
So basically a polymath is a dilettante with Dunning-Kruger syndrome and lots of free time

>>16711460
And yet you can't achieve polymath status.

>>16711485
Because I don't care to. I want food on the table and time for my hobbies, not to know everything about all of medicine to be a dancing monkey for admin abuse. That's why we have specialists and generalists to begin with, although one person COULD do everything (you can do surgery in America with just an MD and license without board certification) it isn't advisable to spread yourself too thin

I began having temporal to generalized seizures at 23yo
No structural issues, EEG shows both temporal hemis can be foci
Drug resistant, currently on 1500mg Keppra and 200mg Lacosamide
I'm not interested in trying another med because side effects/risk during the taper
Only remaining option is surgery, VNS device

I live good life working from home but the focal seizures are consistent, every 2-4wks, and they put me out
Generalized seizures are rare, 1-2/yr

>>16711495
>hobbies
Video games aren't hobbies. Pick up a subject of text and into polymath. Nobody said you had to max out your medicine knowledge.

oh boy i love when patients escape from the asylum

reminder to NOT ENGAGE WITH PSYCH PATIENTS

They are not here for help, they are not here to have questions answered, they are not here to learn about medicine. They are here to have their schizo rant into the void. Ignore them.

>>16711520
I play the guitar and am writing scripts to record history videos on YouTube about my favorite niche topics

>>16711549
Just add 5 more hobbies and then join my dunking-upon of the darkened minds. The succor of victory shall coat our palates.

>>16695078 (OP)
Is it possible to get HIV from masturbating in a condom
>be me, virgin
>hmm, I wonder how condoms feel
>buy some
>put one on, jack off
No one else was involved, it was just me. The condoms were sealed and in an unopened box but I worry someone could have tampered with them (inject HIV or something like that) before I bought them

>>16711701
That way you can catch 5 HIVs at time, not only one.

>>16711701
No but masturbating in a condom causes too much friction which creates mustard gas

>>16711739
It causes Fourier's gangrene right? Gosh it's been a long time since I derived those series

>>16711784
Yeah jacking off into a condom causes fourneir's gangrene OR is like 1.3 (p=0.0029) in men under 40

Wish you retards would come up with stuff that actually fixes discs and vertebrae arthritis. Medical space is the slowest at developing anything novel

I can imagine it causes a lot of frustration and confusion being a patient with chronic pain. It must seem like fixing things is simple, and that underlying biological constraints are not a major limitation. "Why can't you just do a pancreas transplant?" etcetera. Seeing the options that are available doesn't show the decades of options that were tried and had worse outcomes. Ignorance is an immense burden.

>chronic pain
doesn't help that most of these are hypochondria
and we encourage them by legitimising bullshit like fibromyalgia and clong covid'

>>16711527
Psych patient here
>They are not here for help, they are not here to have questions answered, they are not here to learn about medicine.
I would like all of those things
>They are here to have their schizo rant into the void
I am not diagnosed with any psychotic condition, my diagnosis is just depression and anxiety. So my "rant" is not a delusion or anything.

But even if I was diagnosed as a schizo, I think it's pretty appalling that doctors can just wave away what a patient says as a "schizo rant". What if a schizophrenic patient is trying to tell their doctor about real abuse that the patient has suffered, and the doctor says some shit like "no that's just a schizo delusion"?

Psychiatry is fucking terrible. I think voluntary psychiatry can be okay, if a patient wants to use psych meds. But locking people up and drugging them forcibly - surely this is immoral.

>>16711840
What *is* odds ratio in one sentence?>>16712264
>what about abuse
theres a book written about this. the boy who cried to a wolf or something

>>16712370
>>what about abuse
>theres a book written about this. the boy who cried to a wolf or something
You think every schizophrenic patient who says they were abused is just making it up? How many instances of real abuse are you going to dismiss if you take that attitude?

>>16712387
>the CIA is hot on my tail! Quick, eat the mudpie I have tucked away in my pocket
>also, <insert serious thing> happened.
>WHY DONT YOU BELIEVE ME?!
Everyone has to agree on reality to trust each other.

>>16712370
OR is an association between exposure and disease state discovered in case-control studies.

Par example
300 people attend a concert. 50 of them get legionnaire's pneumonia.

300 matched (assume appropriate control of cofounders) people did not attend the concert. 10 got legionnaire's. OR 5. Im not bothering to calculate p value or confidence interval i dont care enough and it's made up data anyways.

>>16712416
If psychiatrists actually cared about helping patients (as they claim) then they would want to know why a person is distressed. For many patients, traumatic events will have contributed to their distress.

But nah fuck it. Just drug them so they can't think properly anymore. Drug them so they're fat. Drug them so their personality disappears. Lock them up so they don't have the freedom to build a life - the freedom that everybody else gets to have.

>>16712438
holy shit i should stop typing when i first wake up, that's a cohort study

case control is take 300 people with legionella and compare exposures to see what's common between them. 50 attended a concert.

Then take 300 matched controls without legionella and see how many attended the concert, in this example 10

OR for legionella attending this concert was 5

christ that's a fuckup

>>16712460
Vro is NOT passing those step 2 biostats questions

>>16712484

>>16712488

>>16712492

>>16712484
Jokes upon thee. I was merely testing thou. You're are welcome. Send 100USD in google play credits to my venmopal thanks.

>day 1 of intern year
>new hospital
>new EMR
>only intern on service, no upper
>just wrote the shittiest admission H&Ps known to man
>beg attending to look them over before I submit, "nah it'll be fine"
Oh boy I sure hope my bipolar attending doesn't fucking kill me tomorrow

>>16713069
give 'em the ol' gamer wrist if they do

>>16713069
interns admit patients in america?

>>16713144
Interns do everything in America