Thread 16790504

horse anatomy while horse wearing jeans edition


no giving/asking for medical advice or psyche patients

>>16790504 (OP)
best ankii/notes or flashcards for learning about bacteria and virus info/notes from MCAT prep. GO

>>16790537
i dont have any

>>16790567
sucks

/med/ is /dead/
time of death: the weekend. time of death: right now rn

>>16790537
>MCAT

Most doctors are fine but the evil doctors are psychiatrists.

If someone has cancer do you forcibly give them chemo? No. It's their choice.

If someone is distressed do you forcibly give them antipsychotics? Unfortunately this does happen, but it shouldn't.

Of course the public should be kept safe if a distressed person is dangerous. But we should do that without forcibly giving people shitty antipsychotic drugs.

Life-saving pepcid

premeds are pathetic
can't even help with my research

>>16790898
Evil Dentist is a thing.

>>16791166
whenever i was forced to help people with research, i purposely fucked it up. fuck you and your free labor.

>>16791166
whats your research

>>16790901
thats a sexy horse anon

Is AI good for studying for shelf exams? I haven't touched it all yet

>>16790898
literally every doctor and dentist is a hack
except psychiatrists
my shrink saved my life

>>16791605
Brave and beautiful aon, you will no doubt be ruthlessly attacked by the schizos for your acceptance of treatment and willingness to move forward with managing your psychiatric illness

>>16791620
Big Schizo(TM) doesn't want you to know that medicine, generally, has to actually work to continue existing and that no field of medicine undergoes greater scrutiny by the public than psych

>>16790770
>cause of death:
>premeds
>psych patients
>that one pakistani avatar fag

>>16791698
How can laypeople be so confidently stupid, while we are so timid and scared to say anything that could be even slightly inflammatory?

>>16791620
>>16791622
No schizo wants to medicate and I was no exception.
But my shrink told me something that changed my life.
In fact I believe this phrase should be added to psychiatry manuals.

I was ranting about how my schizophrenia is a good thing, because it expands my brain.
And the drugs are limiting me.
And in the past I would be worshiped as a shaman.
Yada yada, typical schizo stuff.

And then he said:
>OK let's assume everything you tell me is true.
>Do you really prefer life without meds?
>Or do you enjoy it more when medicated?

And then it hit me. Idgaf if the drugs are limiting me or whatever. Life is more enjoyable when medicated rather than being in a constant war with hallucinations and delusions.
And that's when I decided I would keep taking my meds.

>>16791656
What's the reference to on the last one?

Can someone give me a new invite link to the /med/ discord my old account got banned

There was a fucking /med/ discord? What kind of shit happens in there?

>>16791922
Surprisingly less drama than you would think but I fear if they post the invite here all the undesirables that plague this thread will join

>>16791927
I've been in here for years... where's my invite? Do you guys talk about medicine or is it just a bunch of guys who happen to be in medicine just talking about other stuff?

>>16791656
pol

>>16791930
It's not really strict so it can be one or the other depending on whatever is going on

send me an invite. my email is totallynotaschizo@psychpatient.moe

med bros
I'm not asking for advice, but just curious if this is normal and/or makes sense:
>be me
>get flu/covid last year
>soon after develop eczema patches on my fingers, only my fingers
>itchy, dry, scaly, randomly breaks open from movement
>lotion makes it worse, but helps the rest of my skin
>bandaids with aquaphor prevent broken skin from being contaminated
>get flu/covid 2 weeks ago
>get through it in about a week
>eczema patches clearing up now
I never got tested but from what I've heard it's a bit more likely that both of these were covid. I live in a college town and both cases hit as soon as students came back for fall classes.

>>16791988
you do not fit in

>>16791605
If you had a good experience with psychiatry then fair enough. I just think patients should have a choice regarding whether they receive "treatment" or not. Patients should have the right to refuse antipsychotics.

>>16791620
I'm not a schizo, my diagnosis is only depression and anxiety. Yet I was still locked up in mental hospital (not the worst part) and I was drugged against my will (that's the worst part).

>>16791622
Antipsychotics "work" at making patients docile and compliant. But do they work at helping the patient have a successful future? I'm not so sure. When I was in mental hospital I saw patients on antipsychotics who were just completely dependent on the health system. Their antipsychotics allowed them to vegetate, but the drugs didn't allow them to have a normal, active, successful life.

>>16791855
Interesting. Do you have a productive life when you're on meds? I don't have schizophrenia myself, my diagnosis is depression and anxiety, but I have tried psych drugs multiple times. Antidepressants and antipsychotics. Perhaps they help me sometimes, but I'm not sure I trust the drugs, especially when I read about their side effects.

5 weeks left on sub-i's then I can finally relax

>>16792674
pol

>>16792827
idgi

is it done this way intentionally (to aspirate into the needle)?

Holy shit bros I would've aced my peds shelf if we were using the Trump method of loading the baby with 80 vaccines at the first pediatrician visit instead of splitting them up over the first 10 years+ of life

>>16791166
>DO MY RESEARCH REEE!!
No. Go fuck yourself.

>>16791314
>>16793417
again, pathetic premeds
literal babies

>>16791356
retrospective study on recurrent h&n cancer s/p definitive chemoradiation on outcomes with reRT with canadian vs quadshot vs sbrt vs brachy

>>16792803
>Patients should have the right to refuse antipsychotics.
You do have the right.
Unless you are a danger to yourself or others, nobody is gonna force you.

But if you are a danger, now we are stepping into legal territory.
So if you wanna blame someone blame the legislators not the doctors.

If the law said they must lock you up for refusing cancer treatment, the doctors sure as hell would.

This isn't an issue with psychiatry but a social one.

>>16793525
sounds boring. talk to me about myopia management and i might care

>>16793609
eyes are boring af
ophtho is a meme specialty

>>16792523
The first time you got covid you ended up starting to do some habit that gave you eczema, when you got it a second time you quit that habit. Figure out what habit you dropped.

>>16793525
Are you even a Physician or are you just some lowly r*searcher with a mere phd

>been on /med/ since 2018
>meme discord server still exists
discord trannies will be rooted out and shot

My company is hiring foreskin engineers

>>16793860
discord is bad but poltards are worse
discord is bad for poltards because you people can finally get banned

>>16793541
Fair point, it is a legal issue.
>Unless you are a danger to yourself or others, nobody is gonna force you.
It's just a judgement though isn't it. And it's in the interests of doctors (and other health professionals) to play it safe. They might think there's a very small chance of a patient being dangerous, but if that patient does do something stupid, the doctors will get in trouble. So it's in the interests of doctors to cover themselves by liberally drugging patients.

>>16793634
Is it at all surprising that human beings don't like it when they're forcibly drugged?

Would you like to be forcibly drugged? Maybe you'll say "oh yes if I was in a really bad mental state, I would trust the doctors to drug me in the right way". In reality though, if you were forcibly drugged, you probably wouldn't like it.

you dont fit in

>>16793997
what happened to your rat slut avatar?

Truly the GOAT of all specialties. The lowest malpractice rate there is. Impossible to fuck up. [spoiler]Unless you're an NP[/spoiler]

The idea that a real doctor is using 4chan is fucking horrifying and you all need to be disbarred

>>16794001
>And it's in the interests of doctors (and other health professionals) to play it safe.
no not the good ones.
the good ones know that the greatest danger is you deciding to stop your meds
so they "play it safe" by giving you the minimum dose to keep you safe but also with the minimum side-effects possible

and anyway even if you are detained in an asylum and then released and you initially agree to take your meds
after a while it's gonna be up to you to keep taking them
the doctor will not come to your house to force you to take them

you can still stop any time you want and if you don't relapse behaviorally, nobody will ever know

anyway yeah psychiatrists can limit your freedom and perhaps a tyrannical one decide to commit you without reason or because he is a psycho or whatever

but that's usually what happens in the movies
this has not been my experience
and in reality there are multiple safeguards to protect against that
in the end a court will decide whether your freedoms need to be limited indefinitely, not a doctor

>vaccines and tylenol bad
>meanwhile fda approves expensive stuff without trials even to back them up
capitalism will end medicine, the best is behind us

>Vaccines
eradicated diseases and literal plagues. smallpox, typhus, diphteria, polio, tetanus...eradicated hib meningitis, SSPE, rubella encephalitis, hep B...
>tylenol
one of the safest meds EVER, just werks. nurse made a mistake and gave double dose - whatever... take it for years, no matter. best drug for febrile kids ever
obviously no drug is perfect but tylenol comes pretty damn close. And most importantly - cheap af, which is why corporats want it gone, they've wanted tylenol gone for decades now but they just can't beat it lol

As a med student, I know that I should go to a gp and get referred for an endoscopy over my partial colon blockage which has now recurred several times over several months and this time is keeping me from shitting anything substantial for the past three days and causing sharp pain and pressure in my descending colon
But as a broke man with no insurance, I am hoping the exlax will fix it for now when it kicks in in a few more hours

>>16794161
>The doctors who don't get malpractice claims are those who treat children and psych patients - people who cannot fight back
Pretty interesting isn't it.

>>16794205
>no not the good ones.
>the good ones know that the greatest danger is you deciding to stop your meds
>so they "play it safe" by giving you the minimum dose to keep you safe but also with the minimum side-effects possible
Maybe some psychiatrists are like that. In my experience, when I was a psych patient in mental hospital, I saw patients who were in there for long periods of time, on drugs. Some of the patients were in and out (they were discharged for a while, then were brought back). The doctors were stressed because they had quite a few patients. So I guess they just thought "fuck it I'll just put this person on an antipsychotic to reduce the chance of them acting out in a way which might risk my career".

Should I get my paramedic?

Give it to me straight lads. Is it better to have bowel movements in the morning right after breakfast or after dinner, but about an hour or two before sleep? I find it hard having them in morning as I only have them right before leaving for work and many a times I find myself controlling it after pooping only a little as it takes about an hour or two of intermittent bowel movements to empty myself. However I also fear that retraining my bowel movements towards the night can fuck my circadian rythms and ruin my longevity. So, is it unsafe to my bowel movements at night or it doesn't matter?

is going into psychiatry worth it? im on path for a psychology degree rn, thinking about completing pre med requirements and going to med school after im done. it's either med school or i just go on to get masters in psychology

>>16794335
>Maybe some psychiatrists are like that. In my experience, when I was a psych patient in mental hospital, I saw patients who were in there for long periods of time, on drugs. Some of the patients were in and out (they were discharged for a while, then were brought back). The doctors were stressed because they had quite a few patients. So I guess they just thought "fuck it I'll just put this person on an antipsychotics to reduce the chance of them acting out in a way which might risk my career".
Yeah these are the unsalvageable ones.
When I was involuntarily incarcerated in the mental asylum, I was given like only a few pills.

But the patients who were there for a while, were literally taking like 30 each time.

Tbh it's so boring and depressing in there, that even a sane person would beg to be medicated just to pass the time.

But you got out and I got out, and that means the system works to some degree.

For the truly bad cases there is nothing you can do other than medicate them to stupor, just like there's nothing you can do for a terminal cancer patient rather than pump him full of opioids.

In fact this would be the most humane treatment for terminal psych patients as well.
A life on opioids is quite enjoyable, if you don't have to worry about anything else. Even locked inside a cage, if you got opium and cigarettes it's a fulfilling life.

>>16794462
just poop when you need to, man. and if you cant, holding it cant be too bad since youll just shit yourself if you need to go bad enough.

>>16794462
You’re supposed to take one shit a day within two hours of waking up. This is considered baseline normal. If you’re doing anything else other than this something isn’t right.

>>16794698
>sauce:literally my bleeding ass
>>16794628
I can't whenever I want as the restrooms in my office are dog shit and even if they're clean, I'm viscerally disgusted by restrooms that many random strangers had used

>>16794495
Go into PM&R it's what you actually want to do. You're going to insist that it isn't but trust me, 9/10 people who think they want to do psych end up liking PM&R better because of the reasons they liked Psych. Shadow a physiatrist and you'll see. Super underrated.

Why do my consultants keep insisting on using psychodynamic theory to explain psychopathology? Am I too much of a brainlet to understand this shit because it reads like hogwash to me.

>>16794169
We dont take the bar

Please limit discussion to real medical specialties that actually practice medicine

>>16794501
>For the truly bad cases there is nothing you can do other than medicate them to stupor
There are probably different things that can be done. But society doesn't care of course. For society, distressed people are just an inconvenience. And psychiatric drugs are cheap. So society chooses to drug distressed people into a state of zombification, because it's convenient.

>>16794501
>>16795248
Also
>Tbh it's so boring and depressing in there, that even a sane person would beg to be medicated just to pass the time.
Yes I was bored in there sometimes but I still wouldn't choose to be drugged in there. I actually spent a fair amount of time in there without taking drugs, until they decided to drug me against my will. I much preferred the time in there when I wasn't drugged. I chatted to patients, played cards, that kind of thing. Sometimes it was boring but I'd rather be bored than drugged.

will doctors prescribe tylenol to women now that the govt says it causes autism or will it open them up to lawsuits if their kid gets autism?

>>16793630
brainlet specialties won't understand a tenth of what i am doing

>>16794169
you would preffer a redditor to treat you?

>>16794169
>disbarred
retard brainlet lefty

hi all :3

they are gone. post medthings
tell me what I should know, and how to learn about the virus/bacteria section of the MCAT prep books, and ankii or some other flash cards things to help me memorize things

>>16795553
I think the pharmacist is legally responsible in these cass, but paracetamol (Tyrenol isnt ibuprofen right?) is OTC so idk why it would require a script

>>16795250
Yeah yeah typical schizo.
I bet you've done all sorts of hard drugs to end up a schizo.
But no the "doctor drugs" are evil, but the drugs you buy off a zombie nigger on the street are "good drugs".
Typical schizo.
Friendly reminder that heroin was invented by doctors, Bayer to be specific.

If schizos lived in the 1900s they would loathe to be medicated with heroin, because the evil doctor said so.
But today when it's illegal they will literally suck zombie nigger dick to get it.

That's why you are a schizo.

if I were born 300 years ago I would be taking heroin responsibly for toothache or something

>>16796282
>MCAT
Do mcat prep. I did Princeton review. Go away, come back when you're done with clinical rotations.

I FUCKING HATE HAVING TO DEAL WITH SPICS WHO CANT SPEAK ANY ENGLISH. LEARN THE FUCKING LANGUAGE YOU FUCKING FAGGOTS

>>16796400
1. I'm not diagnosed with schizophrenia or any other form of psychosis
2. Illegal drugs were nothing to do with why I ended up in mental hospital - I was just stressed out due to life events
3. You're an idiot

>>16796650
>hey Alexa, play dispazito

>>16796992
then stop talking out of your ass you absolute faggot
most people there are schizos who were dragged screaming and kicking against their will
not some little attention whores like yourself who got depressed and went crying to the shrink

>>16797028
>then stop talking out of your ass
I'm not. I've been in mental hospital and I've seen what it's like.
>most people there are schizos who were dragged screaming and kicking against their will
Some patients in there are schizophrenics. Others are people who got into bad life situations and some doctor decided they were a suicide risk.
>not some little attention whores like yourself who got depressed and went crying to the shrink
I didn't do that. I didn't reach out to any doctors at all. Someone I knew contacted mental health services and they took me into hospital against my will.

>>16796500
>>16796500
I will be posting here during clinical rotations time. to get experience working in a building so that I can learn more from this place at the same time
this post didnt send yesterday :(
and didnt send today because I was still connected to the VPN

My colon continues to heal from its retard spasm fusing itself shut, and I feel much better, and yet with every passing day my impulse to stab something into my left side and slice it open grows stronger.
How do patients do it?
Physical ailments are so maddeningly inconvenient.

>>16797058
>Someone I knew contacted mental health services and they took me into hospital against my will.
Of course they did
Cause you were saying stuff like "I want to kill myself" like the little attention whore you are

The only mental illness you have is attention whoring.
And dare to compare yourself with venerable schizos.
Unironically kys.

But you won't. Cause you are LARPing as mentally ill for snowflake points and you presumed everyone else in the asylum were little LARPing bitches like yourself.

>>16797810
Wow, I wonder if one of the two had a psychosis that severely impacted their ability to function and the other didnt? One of them had enough insight into their condition and the other didnt? It's almost like quotes out of clinical context without a patient-centered outcomes primary end point are valueless! Let's all speculate endlessly without having any of the actually important details.

>>16790504 (OP)
What do yall think about propranolol to control nerves during surg rotation? Maximizing chance of passing out or life hack?

>>16797994
I think you will never become a good surgeon if you use beta blockers to stop being a beta

>>16797994
At my school, some people take propranolol for the OMM practicals. My school is pretty OMM heavy and the practicals are high stakes since there are no redos or anything.

>>16797930
psychology

>>16798025
DO schools are such a fucking scam lmao

>>16798037
Yeah, it's fucked. My school places the OMM practical in the middle of midterms/finals. We have our last summative exams on Monday, the OMM practical on Wednesday and midterms/finals on Friday. Obviously, in such a busy week, it's hard to set aside time for OMM when there's bigger fish to fry.

That said, the class above us would just not practice enough for the OMM practical and focus on other subjects and redo the practical later. That system got abused enough that starting at my class, they got rid of the opportunity to redo the OMM practicals.

I haven't personally failed any OMM practicals, but holy fuck do I get stressed practicing for OMM when I have other shit to worry about.

>>16798041
Continued. If you fail an OMM practical at my school, you have to have a meeting with the academic dean. Not sure what happens but that shit has to be a humiliation ritual.

Any anons have advice for studying for bellringers in a full cadaveric dissection class in med school? Kind of at a loss for how to prepare properly in my own time. The dissections really don't feel anything like any illustration or honestly even really any dissection photos

>>16798043
>so, anon-kun, why did you fail the practical? are you retarded and want to be kicked out?

>>16797760
>Cause you were saying stuff like "I want to kill myself"
Nope. I wasn't suicidal when they put me in mental hospital. I wasn't expressing any suicidal intent at all.
>And dare to compare yourself with venerable schizos.
I was a locked up patient and so were they. I had good conversations with some of them. I might not have had the exact same mental problems as them but I don't think that really matters.

Why are you so emotional about this? Why does it anger you that I was locked up in mental hospital?

>>16798139
>Nope. I wasn't suicidal when they put me in mental hospital. I wasn't expressing any suicidal intent at all.
So you didn't have a real issue?
Why were you locked up then?
Even if you didn't have a real issue, others do and are danger to themselves or others.

> I had good conversations with some of them.
Yeah I'm stopping this discussion
Obvious LARP you've never been near an asylum ever.
What joke wasting my time on this troll.

>>16794161
>[spoiler]Unless you're an NP[/spoiler]

BSN applicant reject, detected. Go shit up some other boards, especially with your zero critical thinking skills and your useless attachment. if you had an education you'd realize psychiatry involves a large chunk of involuntary admissions and individuals whom cannot fully consent/dissent as well as make for good litigants when they show up to court with neck tattoos hung over and the needle still sticking out of the arm screaming about radio waves and flat earth shit.

>>16794311
>go to a gp and get referred for an endoscopy over my partial colon blockage which has now recurred several times over several months and this time is keeping me from shitting anything substantial for the past three days and causing sharp pain and pressure in my descending colon
>But as a broke man with no insurance, I am hoping the exlax will fix it for now when it kicks in in a few more hours

do you go to some island vibes irie man diploma mill? i think so. if you have acute SBO sx you may want to go to idk, maybe an ED to get worked up for something serious.. or wait 5 months to get that GI initial and c-scope appt in 8 months which by then you no longer have any problems to worry about in this life, any longer.

>>16798041
>1744492753441997.jpg

4th year neurological surgery resident.tiff

>>16798016
Not talking about forever, just to get over the beginning nerves

>>16798443
You're a moron.

>>16798052
Don't study locations, study relationships. The ureters run UNDER the uterine artery, in normal anatomy. They will not pick cadavers with anatomical variants for a practical exam.

Again, dont learn where the vertebral artery is, learn that it's the first takeoff from the subclavian.

>>16798707
Left subclavian, whatever. Same principal.


Relationships will always steer you right, if the dissection is done correctly they will show you landmarks that will give you the right answer.

sup /med/ ! I'm trying to get involved in things to show my interest in specialities and gain portfolio points as well as being involved in things at med school. Theres a position open to be a social secretary for a speciality club im interested in. I know a few people but ive never done this role before.
>Should I just jump in ?
>Is there any point ?

>>16798802
yes you should jump in
will it help your CV? unlikely
will it help establish connections in the field? yes
is this why you should do it? yes
is being an officer of a club an important skill in life? yes

Have any of you done those medical surveys that allegedely pay nedical professionals to do them? Need money desperately, anything I can get even if it is few bucks. As a resident I can't add in anymore real work, but doing few surveys at work for some coin seems doable.
Any other remote international work that can be done on spare time?

>>16799073
surely you would do telehealth?
apparently, very easy to make money as a resident at least here in Australia
just slot in a few hours here and there
you'd have to check your indemnity insurance though

Daily reminder that the updated human behavioural biology course is here
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-_KSRJxlAgwYUQ08vSWN11Fbwsjv5Gl2

>>16794244
>denounces schizos in one breath and proceeds to spew schizobabble the next
Pottery

>>16799277
are there lib-shit tirades in it now?

>>16798025
ATSU? What other schools take that OMM BS seriously?

>>16798802
Why not just do research? What specialty are you gunning for anyway?

>>16799937
Not ATSU, but I'm at a "top 5" DO school. One of the earliest DO schools founded. I would be fine if there were redos but the class above mine ruined it for all of us.

>>16790504 (OP)
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/woman-hospitalized-with-pain-and-vomiting-a-diet-soda-cured-her/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10921151/
funny stuff

>>16799968
>top 5 DO school
What does this even mean, do you have to have a special shrine to harness the power of AT Still or something

>fatty falls over in clinic
>cant get back up by herself
>even with 3-4 people helping she has a hard time getting up
always surprised at how people feel no shame or humiliation to lose weight when they cant even stand up from the floor by themselves. hate fatties.

rank-list submitted boyos, military applicant so will find out in December

there is literally NOTHING to do now, just gotta cruise and perform on this last sub-i and I get the promised land of doing nothing at all

>>16799968
MWU CCOM?

>>16801152
Dear God you didn't actually apply for a military residency did you? Did you?? You always pick the civvie residency!

>>16798489
>0 reading comprehension

>>16801152
Doing military match under the current clown car administration driving us into war with China has to be ethical grounds for stalling your graduation, no way can somebody be THAT stupid and still pass the boards

You are going to die on some manmade barrier island in the South China Sea my man/woman

>>16801221
>he wants to serve an extra 4 years
Retard
>>16801232
I am completely demotivated, ziggger!

I'd love to contribute to the annihilation of all of BRIC

>>16795936
Redditors are infinitely more socially adjusted than you dregs

>>16799145
Dab me up unc

>>16791855
Not gonna lie my life did improve quite a lot since I began to experiment with psych meds (under psychiatrist's orders, ofc) and now I found the best combination ever for my case, fluoxetine, aripiprazole and magnesium valproate. I have energy, I want to go out, I want to improve and not just lay in bed all day, even though I still feel a bit depressed and tired and stressed 'cause my environment also impacts me a lot.
If I have to choose between being medicated or not, I will choose medications 'cause they help me function better. I can definitely feel the difference if I miss more than 1-2 doses.
>>16794161
Where'd you get this chart? In my country at least I feel like psych malpractices are a common thing that are reported. And pediatrics too, parents can be wild with pediatric doctors. I value the work they do cause I could not be able to deal with shitty parents who don't want to actually help their kids.

>>16790898
before psychiatrists came around, you'd just get tossed in the slammer or be exorcised by a priest

>>16801839
True. Distressed people have been abused for centuries. And they still are.

>>16801839
>exorcism
Based. I want to see one

>>16801959
What's abusive about exorcism? It's just prayers

2 days with the psych team in the ED and I am blown away by these people. They are saints with the patience of a rock, pillars against the writhing fury of your average manic or psychotic patient

They even get hit face first at my local safety net hospital with all the insane drugs coming off the street and have to wrangle an interview/assessment out of these patients who are completely zonked out or extremely agitated

Again, literally the kindest and most empathetic physician team I've met yet in the toughest circumstances

>>16801773
>I can definitely feel the difference if I miss more than 1-2 doses.
hmm not so sure about the specific meds you mentioned, but be aware that a lot of psych meds have INSANE withdrawals
trust me I've done heroin and meth and it's worse with psych meds
and no I'm not talking about the ones classified as "addictive" like xanax etc, I'm talking about the "normal" ones

you simply CANNOT quite cold turkey, you need to gradually reduce by cutting your dosage at half every month

if I skip a dose I will never sleep and if I skip a second one I'm fucked

>>16802172
They try to make everyone believe that a distressed someone is "possessed" but in reality that person is probably just distressed about some event that happened to them. Maybe they were sexually abused and they're distressed about that.

>>16802413
When I was in mental hospital, some of the staff were genuinely very empathetic and kind. Others weren't as much. Thankfully I never saw any abuse from staff or anything like that.

>>16802441
Not the guy you're replying to but there's a forum full of people who have had a difficult time trying to quit psych meds. The people on that site recommend that if you're finding quitting difficult, you can try reducing your dose by a small amount every month. Some people reduce by 10% of their most recent dose every month. This is the site:

https://www.survivingantidepressants.org

>>16802441
Absolutely, I've heard cases of people trying to quit psych meds cold turkey (something that you should NEVER do) and the splash back of their symptoms and side effects returning was insane. I personally managed to quit psych meds this year and felt pretty good without them, but once winter hit... Man. I got kicked in the fucking face with a broken molar, and severe depressive symptoms due to the extreme weather changes.
I'd rather just take my medication and know I can rely on them to work efficiently than be unmedicated and constantly feel like shit.
I do have the blessing of being able to withstand a lot of side effects of medications, but antipsychotics in general do knock me out. Risperidone, olanzapine, those would put me to sleep for like 8+ hours.
>>16802821
>in reality that person is probably just distressed about some event that happened to them
In many cases the patient could've also been under the effects of a psychotic episode, fever, the illnesses of the time, or might've had neurological issues like epilepsy. Yeah, we suck at treating mental illnesses even nowadays, but I think I prefer the treatments we have now over before.
>you can try reducing your dose by a small amount every month
I've seen that apparently a solution to try and quit antidepressants is... Switch to another one who's easier to quit, and then quit that one. Like imagine you're on fluoxetine, switch to bupropion, and then slowly try to quit that one.

Mike Mehlman looks like a fucking Fallout ghoul lmfao, and now I'm learning that this faggot writes pickup artist nonsense to harass Japanese women with his freakish plastic surgery face in weebland

>>16803641
literally who

Your thoughts on this guy, and of his contributions to modern medicine?

>>16804317
lmao. nice ears

>>16804350
Same thought

>>16804317
He looks a bit like Netanyahu.

ginger (in drug-eluting stents) potentially helpful for stentings effects to be made more permanent:
10.1002/ccd.22047
https://sci-hub.ru/10.1002/ccd.22047

>>16804317
I think his treatments are severely unappreciated nowadays, and more people should be lobotomized.

>>16804317
He probably got in with a 3.3 GPA and no MCAT. Never should have been allowed in. ECs? Probably shit. Essays? Probably shit. He would be bewildered by simple glycolysis and memorizing all 20 amino acids. I think doctors should need to retake the Mcat every 5 years for relicensing. If you can't do basic science then why are you allowed to do anything else.

>>16802821
If some prayers worked instead of drugs, doesn't that make you happy? You're the psychiatry hater after all.

>>16802872
>In many cases the patient could've also been under the effects of a psychotic episode, fever, the illnesses of the time, or might've had neurological issues like epilepsy. Yeah, we suck at treating mental illnesses even nowadays, but I think I prefer the treatments we have now over before.
Yeah today's pills are less bad than previous pills. But today's pills still aren't great. And maybe we should try to solve people's mental problems without drugs, where possible. If someone truly needs drugs then fine, they can take them of course. But I think many mentally distressed people are just experiencing stressful circumstances (job stress, money worries, whatever it is), and maybe we should acknowledge the real toll of those issues, rather than pretend that a person must have some kind of dysfunctional brain, and therefore they require pills.

>>16804883
Prayers don't work because God doesn't exist
>You're the psychiatry hater after all.
Psychiatry might work for some people. If someone feels helped by it then I support their right to keep taking whatever treatment they're taking. I just think we should listen to patients more. And we shouldn't push drugs on patients as the only solution.

>>16804923
>And we shouldn't push drugs on patients as the only solution.
Nobody does this fyi, drugs come only after therapy or if you're in the ER as an active threat to yourself or others without being verbally redirectable

>>16804953
Every scheduled med in my state requires consent from anybody with capacity

>>16804953
>drugs come only after therapy or if you're in the ER as an active threat to yourself or others without being verbally redirectable
Maybe in your country or region. But in my experience doctors love to push drugs on you. I had many doctors pushing me to take psych meds, without therapy.

DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THE PSYCH PATIENTS

>>16804985
Always engage with psych patients.

>>16804965
>Maybe in your country or region. But in my experience doctors love to push drugs on you. I had many doctors pushing me to take psych meds, without therapy.
psychiatry is about drugs, not therapy
if you wanted therapy you should have gone to a psychologist
a psychiatrist is a doctor and he treats patient with medicine
that's his job in modern society
you visit a psychiatrist if therapy is not enough

>>16805016
based, we're here and we lov /sci/ence

My gf and I have recently discovered that she really likes being punched in the lower tummy during sex. Not hard like a proper punch (although it's possible she might start wanting it harder) but just kind of tapping with my fist extending the elbow joint.
I'm worried that if we do it regularly then it might mess up her fertility and cause her womb to be the kind of womb that miscarries much more easily or something.

But I can't find any medical information about how it might effect the woman's reproductive system long term.

Is there a plausible mechanism that lots of very light punches to the lower belly could increase risk of fertility?
The only info I can find talks about the obvious risk of very hard pucnhes.

>>16805018
Or, in my case (and in the case of other patients), you're having a bit of a rough time in life, so somebody you know calls the local health services, and they send a psychiatrist to where you live. That psychiatrist has you locked up against your will. Initially in mental hospital they will pressure you to take drugs (without offering therapy), but eventually if you don't take their meds, they'll just forcibly inject you with drugs. They might offer you a bit of talking therapy but not much because the health system doesn't have many therapists. You can pay for a private therapist when you're out of the hospital but that's very expensive.

>>16805022
Good post. I am actually completely pro-science. I want more science so that we can learn more about the effects of psych meds. I think psych meds can have some good effects, but they have bad effects too, and I think we need to learn more about the bad effects.

>>16805065
idk. become a case study youve always wanted to be

Hello /med/, what are the best resources one can follow to survive internal medicine residency? Books, docs anything will help. Uptodate is good but its not organized. In year 1 the residents will be posted in ICUs and emergency department, from second year the residents must attend inter departmental calls, out patient department postings, regular rounds. From the third year onwards they will be assisting subspecialists like neuro, endo, cardio, obs-gynae etc. So what resources one must follow not only to survive but to excel and get the best out of residency?

>>16805070
and whats' the big deal?
you got released didn't you?
you can stop the meds once you are released can't you?

you are focusing on the meds you were forced to take for a little while(days? weeks? a month tops), and not on your life which was complete and utter shit for a shrink to decide to forcibly lock you up
typical mental illness response

>a bit of a rough time in life
why don't you elaborate on that a bit, though I'm sure you will downlplay it every way you can
cause you are just trying to prove a point
although the point you are trying to prove is "le doctors are le ebil" which doesn't help you case at all

>>16804923
Take your meds and talk to God lmao

>>16805444
>stop being a schizo and engage in another schizo activity
okay buddy

>work wife dumped me
this time i think its serious too
youtube lectures for this feel?

Hi everyone. I tried putting this on Reddit and it got removed so I'm putting it here as I don't have better options right now

I went to an eye clinic a few days ago and realized my vision is really really bad after failing the reading tests early on to the point that glasses actually don't help. The doctor diagnosed me with keratoconus and I will be seeing a professional about it in a few days.

After doing a bit of research beforehand, I realized I'll probably need to get CXL surgery done so that it doesn't get worse in the future, and I don't mind that, I saved up enough money to get it done. But I'm worried about the financial aspect when it comes to getting the right lenses later on, since I found out they can be really expensive depending on the type. I'm from Serbia and I'm just a student so spending 1000+ euros per eye on scleral lenses every year is a bit too much for me

The way I understood, RGP lenses are a more affordable option, but are they enough for me or is my keratoconus so severe that I need scleral lenses at this point? My right eye is diagnosed at VOD 0.6, AR OD 46/48.25, and my left eye VOS 0.5, AR OS 50.0/57.75. I'm more worried about the left eye and it is pretty blurry when I try to read. My right eye isn't that bad and I get things done just fine

Go ask sdn and crosspost me the link

>>16805810
You guys had work wives? I don't even have a regular wife!

Im on wards next week starting on surgery, any tips ?

Will report back after my first week

>>16806404
most of the jobs aren't that hard
you just need to be organised and make a good prioritised list of the jobs
also make sure you top up electrolytes - I remember general surgeons being anal about that even if they were essentially normal

>>16806404
Grug tier service, recommend reading Pestana and find a surgical atlas PDF or video for each new case (for ENT, Cape Town has a stellar one)

>wanting to do surgery
Please talk me out of it.

>>16806432
it's shit

>>16806432
Lol I'm stuck between vascular surgery and anesthesiology and everybody keeps telling me to do the latter but there's something about surgery that draws me back even though I know the work life balance is utterly fucked
Like my attending mentors in that field still work 14 hour days of physical labor just randomly + take Q3 call to make like 30% more than medicine doctors and about the same as anesthesiologists, it's utterly fucked

>>16806502
>even though I know the work life balance is utterly fucked
Do you have any hobbies? Do that shit instead.

>>16806506
I used to play the guitar and talk to women, but that was before 2nd year

>>16806507
Become an anesthesiologist and then go back to doing that shit.
>but that was before 2nd year
Are you American? I'm a second year and things are somewhat chill for me... at least until dedicated.

>>16806509
I haven't actually flirted with a woman in 1.5 years now, I think I forgot how
My med school has 1 year preclinical
I would want to do crit care or peds in anesthesia

>>16806511
>I haven't actually flirted with a woman in 1.5 years now, I think I forgot how
I'm a khv, kneel.
>My med school has 1 year preclinical
Were you still prepared for boards?

i was talking to a nursoid (note: i am a fellow traveler but not in the field) about prostate exams.
i argued that it's hypocritical that women self-examine their breasts for breast cancer, but there's no push for men to finger their own assholes to check for prostate cancer.
i 100% think that if the average male was educated on the concept and prodded their prostate every so often, they'd be just as likely to notice if something changed with it.
i imagine men would be more willing to finger their own assholes than to have to have their doctor do it and there would probably be more compliance.

if DREs are effective, why aren't we having men finger popping their asses on the reg?

>>16806559
Because (1) no fucking way you can convince the general male population to conduct a self DRE (2) the finger's poor range of dorsiflexion would make it ergonomically difficult to palpate one's own prostate and (3) they wouldn't know what to feel for anyway because a DRE is such an ordeal that nobody would do it often and early enough to establish a baseline
My guesses

>>16806562
>finger
>dorsiflexion
you're not using that word correctly

>>16806575
whoops, I had written "hand" to begin with

>>16796500
when i was premed it was go away until i get into medical school.
now that im in medical school its go away until im done with clinical rotations.

>>16806227
missing out
i don't even have real wife either, work wife is way better deal.

>>16805400
>although the point you are trying to prove is "le doctors are le ebil" which doesn't help you case at all
I'm definitely not saying all doctors are evil. Most areas of medicine are not evil. Because most areas of medicine cannot force drugs on patients. Psychiatry however can force drugs on patients. If psychiatrists and members of the public were forcibly drugged themselves, maybe they would question the practice. It's easy to support the practice when it's not being done to you.

>and whats' the big deal?
>you got released didn't you?
>you can stop the meds once you are released can't you?
Yes. But psych drugs can have lasting effects:
>Antipsychotic drugs linked to slight decrease in brain volume
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/antipsychotic-drugs-linked-to-slight-decrease-in-brain-volume
>Risperidone is associated with an increase with the risk of gynecomastia in adolescent and young adult males.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26287371/
>Gynecomastia... is an increase in the amount of breast gland tissue in boys or men
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gynecomastia/symptoms-causes/syc-20351793

which sort of graph is this? I mean if the growth of bacteria is shown on a logarithmic graph then what growth (of the hormone levels) is seen here as they increase

>>16805810
need this

>>16806794
Wtf are you talking about? What connection do you want to show between bacterial growth and hormone levels? Can you go get your crayons and demonstrate?

what kind of increase is it when the line goes up at a steady rate

>>16804923
>maybe we should try to solve people's mental problems without drugs, where possible.
Absolutely, I tend to constantly see it in memes where people say "alright, nice, I'll take the meds, but now what about the unemployement, low payrate, everyone's too busy or stressed to be friends, dating is impossible, everyone is skinnier or more muscular and posts about their perfect lives on instagram, my life sucks in comparison, when will I retire" and etc etc...
I will never think that someone who goes through depression or a mood disorder is suffering it only 'cause of "bad brain chemistry", it's a whole entire concept. The surrounding environment can kill or heal a person, literally. Hell, some people get depressed 'cause of mold intoxication, anemia, hypothyroidism, but doctors don't try to research for THOSE clues first.
>>16805016
I'm both a psych patient and med student. I just love studying stuff and want to help people. It ain't much but it's honest work.
>>16805065
You might be stimulating her G-spot, I doubt it's gonna cause any real damage as long as she's not bleeding out, having cramps, or any side effects after sex. If anything it could be preventive of other illnesses, getting all zones stimulated.
BUT avoid hard punches and try to press as if you were trying to squish her tummy, not punch at it.

>>16806818
>I'm both a psych patient and med student.
Interesting.
>I will never think that someone who goes through depression or a mood disorder is suffering it only 'cause of "bad brain chemistry"
I guess my position is this: maybe some patients do have genuine brain problems, but how would we know? Psych patients don't usually have their brains tested. For some psych patients, their problem might be a faulty or unusual brain. But other patients might have very normal brains, and maybe they're just unhappy/distressed because of life stresses.

Also I just hate psych meds personally. I remember when I used to deal with my life problems by doing things. Whether that was going for a walk, or going on the internet, or whatever. Now my brain is dependent on a stupid antidepressant, and if I try to come off it, I become lethargic and unproductive. I will probably have to gradually reduce the dose over time if I want to come off it without getting withdrawal symptoms.

>>16806918
>but how would we know?
At this moment in time, we can't know, sadly. And it's not a... One single reason phenomenon. Kind of like any illness, it's a mixture of environment, nature, nurture, CULTURE, and a whole lot of stuff. Some people might be depressed because they lack sleep, sunlight, vitamin D, friends, money, food, their countries are at war, they had personal trauma (like me), already have a family history of mental health issues (also me), it's basically like a bingo. A lot of people have the "capacity" to put it in a simple way to become depressed, pretty much everyone, and I think feelings of depression can be a common part of life.
The *issue* is when those feelings are permanent, don't go away with treatment, are persistent, worsen, or just make the quality of your life horrible even if you do your best to feel good.
It's normal to feel kind of shitty after quitting a medicament, since your body has to adapt to regulating the neurotransmitters and chemicals that the pills helped with. But you should never quit cold turkey. And you should be under a good psychiatrist's care.
I think I said before but switching to easier to quit medications is one of the best alternatives to slowly quit antidepressants & other psych meds. Do you have a very stressful life, anon? Chronic burnout syndrome is also a thing, and it's not just depression.

>>16790504 (OP)
Why can't CTE be diagnosed in a living patient?

I do not like the ICU

>>16807400
ICU is literally the best place in the hospital imo
What do you dislike about it?

Why is my school making us attend lecture at 8:00 AM? I hate it here. I hate my life

>>16807480
wait until you have to do surg rounds at 6:30 am

Can someone send the /med/cord invite link

>>16807521
Carry on, /med/izen. There is no such thing as a "/med/cord". This is purely nursoid propaganda to distract you from doctor struggle.

>>16807630
I’m on a 36 hour shift tonight. Just fucking give me the link, anon.

imagine being such a disgusting piece of shit (the whole community) that, wherever you, the poltard goes, you make people run away to some discord. now you sit here posting this shit alone to one of two people ITT to still cling to control. poltards are a disease + hes not a doctor

the person who just used the stalin picture is a literal pedophile FYI

Fucker brings his aunt in at 10 pm with a chief complaint of “hanging out at a vet clinic because her cat was admitted there.”

Fuck outta here.

Dumbest cc i got recently was for "altered mental status," he had just started a new insomnia med the previous night and was fucking sleepy

>>16807268
Yeah you are making sense to be fair. I am currently on prozac which apparently is meant to be easy to quit because it leaves the body gradually, which should reduce withdrawal effects. But when I tried stopping prozac I became lethargic, unmotivated, lazy, and inactive.
>Do you have a very stressful life, anon?
Well there are things I need to deal with. Maybe I should just stay on the prozac for the moment and wait until my life is a bit more settled before quitting the prozac.

I only have one more OMM practical left. BOOYAH!

Why do Americans obsess over amino acids?
>bro I need another mnemonic
>bro please
>just spot me a mnem bro
>*gets mnemonic*
>I'm men polio policing
>hnnnnnggggg uhhuhhhuhhh AAAAAAAAAAAA (i.e amino acids)
Shit makes me cringe. Total brainlet behaviour. On par with psych posters. For shame. I'll keep typing until the countdown goes away. Pharmacists > nurses. Why are nurses hot anyway? 4...3...2...1

>>16807709
>>16807712
>>16807713
you need to calm down bro

>>16808130
>On par with psych posters
Aaaand you outed yourself as a psych patient

My preferred workup? Make EM do it and read their notes. Thanks for the income, nerd

>>16808287
EM med cleared a known chronic bronchitis patient with a 40 pack year smoking history who was coughing so bad with mucus she couldn't even speak to the psych team

Trusting their workup is basically playing Russian roulette with your license

tfw no evidence-based boyfriend

>>16805879
if you have insurance, theyre typically covered as medical necessity contacts (in the US)

OD RGPs should be enough (depending on eccentricity etc) but OS will likely need sclerals. you can always ask about a yurop doctor about RGPs vs sclerals for your specific case.
sclerals can also last 3+ years if you take good care of them and dont progress much.

>>16808106
you better pass, bro

>>16808320
Ywnbaw
>tfw no evidence based girlfriend

We should make a new /med/cord

>>16808378
I will, bro. I did well enough on the previous practical that I can bomb the next one and still pass overall. It's a huge weight off my shoulders.

It sounds absolutely insane but OMM has always been my weakest subject in school. I've always had higher grades in my other pre-clinical classes.

>>16808438
If you helped your uncle jack on the horse, would you help your uncle jack off the horse?

update i think this time its literally over with the work wife. this will be awkward. any advice?
virgins ignore the post please.

Should I got to med school? I'm finishing a PhD so I'd be starting around 29. I work with doctors, surgeons, and patients on a daily basis, had a 4.0 for all of college, and a 520 MCAT seems attainable if I apply myself.
The PhD has terrible job prospects in both academia and industry, and I just want to be able to have some choice over where I live, good job stability, and plenty of time for hobby science. Getting into a cush attending role seems like my best bet.

>>16808877
Do you want to do the job? Do you know what it's like?

>>16808958
An attending position in a lot of specialties seems exponentially more enjoyable than any other STEM job.

>>16808774
just get a new one

>>16807767
UTI, confusion.. could be the plague
no wait, she's actually a man who is getting poisoned by her husband

>>16808877
I'd say «no» but that is just me. Stay in your career and get a fun hobby or two.

We will see in our lifetimes the administration’s efforts to amend HIPAA to disqualify documentation status from being covered under protected health information

just got a 519 on the MCAT. how can i use this fact to get some pussy?

>>16809149
>how can i use this fact to get some pussy?
Awesome score but who the fuck is throwing pussy around just because of a high MCAT score?

>>16809155
I got laid because of a series of events extending from getting a 525 and telling a female friend

>>16808877
you should only go if you really really REALLY want to. it's a lot of time, effort, and cash to pay for medschool when you'd be better off doing something easier for a nice amount of cash and just get some hobbies.

I'm in love with my medical student. Please advise.

>>16809149
The MCAT is retarded.

T. In med

>>16809357
gay sex is for faggots

>>16790537
Theres barely any pathology on the mcat. If you weren't asleep in microbio you'll be fine
>>16795686
The chad premeds vs the virgin "doctor"

>>16809135
Don’t give them ideas

Where’s the /med/cord link aaaaaaa I need to talk to medfags who are just as fucked up as I am I’m tired of pretending I’m normal all the time

>>16810156
Admins covertly create these as honeypots to sniff out the medtards and dismiss them right before graduation

>>16810158
I graduated already :(

>>16790504 (OP)
>>16790504 (OP)
Anyone fellow Histologist/Lab techs here?

>>16807476
>best place
That's the gaming chair on my anesthesia machine. Stop saying nonsense.

so there's a /med/ discord all this time? link now.

>>16809160
bait used to be believable

>>16810826
Because of certain retards that lurk this thread we've been trying to think of a way to share it without him figuring it out. We're considering maybe a Step exam style question with an answer that will reveal if you're legit medbro or not that can't be solved by AI. Open to any suggestions if you have them.

>>16810970
How about we just show a picture of a stethoscope with a time stamp?

>>16810970
>>16810988
>can't be solved by AI
chatgpt can crack both of these in seconds

Make the clues based on niche sketchy video references that the bots probably haven’t bothered to train on yet

>>16811021
I don't use Sketchy though. I just memorize shit the old fashioned way. I still get A's too.

Let me in the Discord rrrrrah

>>16809041
update: we are so back

why would anyone go on /med/ discord i can barely tolerate coworkers bru

>>16811089
Correction: you can't tolerate r*sidents, nurseoids and patients (you should have gone into path)

Look I’ll give ya the link as soon as I git back to my gaming PC. It will take a while cause I’m in a bus across state to be patient. Also there’s a chance i will absolutely forget about it and not give a fuck.

Don’t lose hope I guess.

>government shuts down
>number of psyche patients posting goes down

just got my ass handed to me in lower limb practical.
absolutely brutal.

>>16811659
DPM?

There it is. You can fuck off now.

jthTHcEn

Haven't posted here in a few years. Full blown orthobro now. Life is good.

>>16811789
Hi I've got a patient with cellulitis overlying a hip joint, can you come and aspirate it to confirm it's not septic?
thanks.

>>16811789
Do you have a workwife?

What are your thoughts on current hair treatment products?
There are some commercial brands (like L'Oreal) that currently sell products which claim to strengthen the hair, or even stall hair loss, yet I wonder if they do any significant treatment.

>>16811849
Old hags have been using the foreskin of gentile children to reverse aging in their creams over the decades (centuries?) So maybe start there.

>>16811789
nice :). too bad this place died in the meantime

Thinking of getting my stethoscope engraved but not sure what to put on it. Any suggestions?

>>16812404
Your name.

Why do opioids do nothing for me unless mixed with something like ibuprofen or paracetamol?

>>16811743
Fuck

>>16812404
Don't. You'll lose it anyway. Spend that money on an airtag and a clip to attach it to it, never let it out of your sight, and never set it down inside the hospital.

>>16811662
What's that?

>>16812404
Something cringe so nobody takes it.
>RIP MOM 2025
If someone steals that, then they're soulless. The serial number is good enough for ID.

>>16790504 (OP)
Going to be an emt because i got the adhd and the brainletism. Whats in store for me?

>>16812993
Not being able to afford anything at the store. Go be a nursoid, it's equally as brain dead.

>>16813263
I don’t want to hang out with a bunch of irritating women as a grunt.

>>16813484
Go EMT, realize it sucks, unfuck your shit, and go into medicine for emergency med.

>>16813313
What specialty?

>>16813501
Some med schools make you do EMT training for the first 6 weeks.

I put off my whole life for med school. I've never dated, I've lost all my friends, I made so many sacrifices and I'm not happy. I don't know who or what I am anymore. I feel like an empty shell with no control over my life, I just go from task to task ans doing whatever is immediately needed of me. I don't see a light at the end of the tunnel.

>>16813564
What year are you?

>>16811288
I can never escape autists however high I go I life

>>16813564
same but i never went to medschool. i'd end up this way no matter which path i took lol

>>16813610
What are you doing now?

>>16794169
>disbarred
lol

rate my OR setup

FUCK IT
FUCK IIIIIT
FUCK THIS LIFE
FUCK IIIIT
FUCK IT AHIT FUCK FUCKING FUUUUUUUUUCK
SHIT FUCKN
FUCK IIIT
FUCK IT
FUCK
NEVER AGAIN
NEVER AGAIN
FUCJ THIS.

>>16813789
Thats so punk rock. What happened my dude?
\m/

>>16813656
I'd rather practice med with things lookojf like that than hanging out with BBL figs nurses all day. What do you do for anastesia?

>>16813836
propofol, fent, ketamine, midazolam

>>16813856
Do you hook up garbage bags to your bvm? Post more of your tools. Why was money spent on that huge screen but everything else looks like a career-ender trip and fall? I have so many questions.

>>16813867
i fear you lack the necessary cognitive skills for this thread if the context clues presented in the image aren't enough to figure out the setting

also the 'huge screen' is some cheap-ass chink ventilator, the rest of the enigma remains up to you

>>16813931
>cognitive skills
>doesn't understand baiting replies
Cut your stethoscope in half.

>got baited to reply
interesting

Baitception. You could call me the masterbaiter

Comfiest non-absorptive footware for hopital? Clogs are gay, so dont reccomend.

>>16790504 (OP)
What did you guys think of Covid as a provider during the pandemic?

>>16814136
I like seeing how the us government has taken a stance against vaccines, but trump got a vaccine booster recently. It's top tier gossip material to distract from things coming down the pipe. The big question is whether or not people have been this engrossed in "happenings." Did peasants care about the black plague as much as modern people do about covid? Covid was pretty benign, all things considered. I think stress kills more people per year than covid. Basically nobody is dying with covid these days and nobody is getting boosters, largely.

>>16814174
take meds schizo
>>16814136
just like seasonal flu gave me several severe viral pneumonias/ards every year in elderly and fat/unhealthy patients, this one gave a whole lot more of the same
was problematic for normal patients who are hospitalised and weakened for other reasons but now had a risk of getting additionally fucked up by covid, especially post-op patients
that is, as a provider
otherwise it was(still is) just annoying to observe the retarded sociopolitical circus around what is a medical event and gave fuel to antivaxxers

>>16790898
>If someone is distressed do you forcibly give them antipsychotics?
Yes they fucking do, especially when the "distressed" person is agitated and acting violent towards normal people. Fuck it either take the meds or just get shot, god fucking damn I hate schizos so fucking much.

>>16801839
based fucking priest, this is how you deal with fucking schizos. Either a bullet or an exorcism.

>>16814306
100 emoji
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx2s_O3K1c8

i tried looking up answers for this but google is worthless, and my doctor had no advice.
i am prescribed xanax for panic attacks. it's pretty rare i have them. maybe once every month, maybe every two.
i keep a 1mg alprazolam in my wallet in a little pill baggie but it always turns into dust. i don't sit on my wallet or anything, it's just a weak pill. if you try to break them in half they'll crumble.

do you have any ideas for what to do about this? i don't know if i ought to try a different benzo. maybe the 2mg bars are more substantial?
sorry if this isn't what this thread is for. i'll delete it if so. but i figured maybe some of you are in pharmacy or have patients that carry meds around. maybe you have some ideas.

>>16813618
optometry

>>16815165
forgot to mention, im not that unhappy. just wish i had some vidya frens or a cute gf, but cant win em all.

>>16802821
The ritual of exorcism is performed after a medical examination rules out mental illness. Historically, the banishing of demons came with Jesus Christ but the ritual itself and its procedures were standardized after the XVIII century.
Some mentally ill individuals may have been wrongly accused of demonic possession but those were in the early days.

>>16815174
Optometry programs are like 80% women aren't they? Just marry one of them. Divorce rates between two doctorate holders is <5% compared to the overall population's divorce rate of 50%. No infidelity (cheating goes down the more eeucated a marriage partner), no worrying over money (the #1 cause of divorce), no worrying about impressing her or having to be a sugar daddy spending all your money on her (you are equals).

>>16814497
Naturopath consult would probably recommend you stop your pharmaceuticals in favor of smoking some ganja whenever you get all anxious

>>16815827
Damn. Advice straight from the synagogue.

>>16814024
Look up Clove

>>16815827
yeah, except 90% of them come into the program already with a longterm bf or fiance, and the ones that dont typically have a reason why they dont.
at least from my experience

>>16815827
>evidence based marriage
Brother plz.

straight up mega FAILED my first anatomy practical. Please give me advice on how to not do this again.

>>16816876
study

>>16816876
I failed my first anatomy practical, too, with a grade in the 50s. I still ended up passing in the end. Don't give up.

>>16815871
I was wondering what you meant until I looked it up

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10908782/
>surgery specialty and Judaism were associated with higher marriage satisfaction

https://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/divorce-because-of-medicine.1054600/
>There are stats that show relationships that begin prior to or during medical school have a substantially higher rate of divorce than those that start during or after residency. Also, physician-physician marriages are incredibly successful, with divorce rates of only 11%. Physicians have a substantially higher marriage rate than the general population, with nearly 9 out of 10 married, and nearly 9 out of 10 physician spouses saying they are happy or very happy in their marriage. The simple fact is, many doctors emerge from residency as completely different people that live a completely different lifestyle than existed before medical school. This leads to couples splitting because the nonmedical spouse signed up for a life that was completely different than anything they could have imagined, and end up with a spouse that is a largely different person than the one they initially began dating. If you meet someone in residency or afterward, they generally know what they are in for, because you already are that person and are living that life, leading to substantially lower divorce rates.

>>16816876
Anki + AI

>>16813656
oh my exposed brick wall
this must be in a williamsburg loft oh my days where are the closest Funko pops and craft beer gardens and IPAs ermehgerd

which procedure leaves scars similar to what i pointed at here with arrows?

Psychiatrists know that psychiatric drugs have bad effects, but they stay quiet about this, because they want to put their kids through private school

It's actually insane how evil psychiatrists are

https://x.com/coopercdavis/status/1975549536761151979

>>16817036
Also I want to clarify something: I'm not an anti-science quack, and I'm not implying that doctors are somehow plotting to harm patients - that's not the allegation at all

What I am alleging is that psychiatrists just don't care about the welfare of their patients. Psychiatrists care about themselves. They care about getting that fat paycheck, and they care about reducing their chances of getting sued. If drugging their patients means they're less likely to get sued (even if it means harming patients), they'll do it.

>>16816900
Anon was talking about women in education and the workforce directly cause low birth rates for nations. That, and working women spend more time with her coworkers and boss than her husband. Then you'll have to dump your kid(s) off at a daycare while you and your wife go work. That's not a healthy family.

erm i have some itchiness around my balls and on the inner thigh there are some red dots and my ballsack itself is red
truecel so no stds. did i seriously chafe myself this badly wearing shitty boxers?

>>16816876
The trick is to go in there on your own time and practice finding the structures on every single cadaver you have available. I had to understand to see the same nerve on a nicely preserved one compared to one that was a poorly preserved dry husk. I went from failing to getting 100%’s when I stopped fucking around.

Society when there's a problem with non-psych drugs:
>Yeah Big Pharma is evil, those profit-hungry bastards
Society when there's a problem with psych drugs:
>Psych drugs are safe anon, don't question the expertise of doctors, take your meds

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c797wv928g8o

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/jj-settles-most-risperdal-lawsuits-with-800-million-expenses-2021-10-30/

>>16816922
kek

Why are woman?