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🧵 /med/ - medicine

Anonymous No. 16610918

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

Anonymous No. 16611063

OD/MD practices are fun to learn in. one of my favorite rotations so far.

Anonymous No. 16611109

>>16611063
oh? what rotation? Family?

Anonymous No. 16611142

>>16611109
anon... i...

Anonymous No. 16611155

why not just go family med and open a health spa in LA?

Anonymous No. 16611172

>>16611142
oh.... I thought you mistyped DO

anyways glad to hear it, optometry bro
>>16611155
the world will never know.

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16611252

So all these people are cool with spike protein in their brains?

Anonymous No. 16611282

>>16611252
Can you explain to me what spike protein exactly is?

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16611289

>>16611282
a protein retard

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Anonymous No. 16611293

>>16611289
Thanks for showing your level of understanding, now we can safely dismiss it as schizobabble.

Anonymous No. 16611294

>>16610918
which meds cure long covid?

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🗑️ Anonymous No. 16611299

>>16611293
>dismiss it as schizobabble
ok clumpy

Anonymous No. 16611320

>>16611299
This tactic of posting a random figure with a snarky reply might fly on /pol/, have you considered going back?

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16611325

>>16611320
>a random figure
stop trying to hide it vaxxie

Anonymous No. 16611334

Remember
>ALWAYS give advice
>ALWAYS feed the nursoids
>ALWAYS engage with premeds
And most importantly
>ALWAYS respond to psych patients

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Anonymous No. 16611339

>>16611334

Anonymous No. 16611366

>>16611334
>>ALWAYS feed the nursoids
i feed them fresh semen

Anonymous No. 16611402

>all nursoids in my hospital are indian or fat
feels bad man

bodhi No. 16611454

>>16610918
damn, I havent seen strong bad in decades

🗑️ Mr. Barkon No. 16611456

>>16611454
>bodhi

Who let the retards back on sci I thought the Jannie was cleaning up

Anonymous No. 16611628

>>16611454
That sounds like you need to watch some sbemails

Anonymous No. 16611905

>everyone at work is much older than me and it's impossible to relate to anyone
another day of regretting not going into computer science instead

Anonymous No. 16611923

>>16611905
Have you been following the news recently? AIl the young SWEs are losing their jobs

Anonymous No. 16612118

>>16611923
friends > job stability and money

Anonymous No. 16612248

>>16611063
>OD
fuck off. its DO, not optometry

Anonymous No. 16612249

>>16611252
>muh spike proteins
moving the goal posts from modifying genetic code?

also, 99% of americans have microplastics in their organs, including possibly their brains and testicles based on prior autopsies

Anonymous No. 16612251

>>16611905
I got into med later in life, everyone is still older but i also can't relate to anyone that did nothing but med in their life.

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Anonymous No. 16612253

Just finished midterms today! I can FINALLY relax.

>>16608928
>Incredibly unfathomably grim. Stay strong, friendo. Are you an MS2? Are you planning on taking STEP? Or just COMLEX?
I'm a first year. I'm interested in pathology so I am planning on taking STEP.

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Anonymous No. 16612254

>>16612248
no, its optometry. im an optometry student.

Anonymous No. 16612333

>>16612118
I think your SWE "friends" would leave you at the first sign of not having enough money to keep up with their lifestyle, they are largely materialistic vultures at the FAANG level

Anonymous No. 16612573

are any of you familiar with exfoliative cheilitis?

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16612592

>>16611320
I have better pictures but I don't want to scare the shit out of you

Anonymous No. 16612635

How many of you guys recommended the covid vaccine for 13 year olds?

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16612665

>>16612635
I wouldn't let my patients use Pfizer gene therapy products, if that answers your question...

Anonymous No. 16612871

>>16610918
med anons, my psychiatrist diagnosed me with adhd 3 days ago and gave me 2x 5mg ritalin ir for a week, then 2x 10mg ritalin ir for 2 months. I felt some improvement in my focus and was able to stick to projects for longer than I normally did. My head is a lot more quieter and not as frantic as before. But still, it's not as big of an improvement as I thought. Would it get better when I start taking 2x 10mg after a week?

Anonymous No. 16613073

>>16612871
Stims are like the one class where the gains are instant. Long term, yes there is some neurological changes but if you keep using them every day you're not going to improve in the same way other meds would work.
Consider combining with a non stim ADHD med, or switching to an amphetamine, but try adding the non stim first.

Anonymous No. 16613120

Does brain damage from an overdose of sedatives only happen due to hypoxia?

Anonymous No. 16613125

>>16610918
Food is the only medicine: Everything else is a drug.
Corporate medicine profits off of treatments never cures or prevention.
Modern doctors are nothing more than salesmen for the pharmaceutical cartels.
>>16611293
>Schizo
Made up word used by pseudoscientist who profit by pushing harmful drugs on children.
>>16611320
>Psued chanting leddit midwit mantras

Anonymous No. 16613128

>>16612249
I'm impressed that you managed to gaslight and straw man in the same sentence while following it up with another straw man.

I can't tell if you're intentionally dishonest or so stupid you're incapable of thinking outside your CNN/NPR talking points (eg. straw mans).

Anonymous No. 16613133

>>16612871
>Taking ritalin
Enjoy your brain damage as an adult.
>>16613073
The problem is public schools are dogshit. ADHD is a made up disease used to push drugs on little boys.
The public school system caters to a specific learning style and everyone who doesn't have that learning style is essentially considered a trouble maker or drugged.

Hyperactivity isn't treated with drugs it's treated with exercise. Having children sit at a desk for hours at a time is legit retarded and only is done to condition children to be drones for corporate America and get rid of the ones who don't fit the mold.

Anonymous No. 16613267

Lotta psych patients in here

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Anonymous No. 16613412

What are your opnons on pic related

Anonymous No. 16613638

>turn 30 in one month
>virgin
>spend all my time alone
At least I'm a doctor and get to help people continue to live better lives than me amirite anons

Anonymous No. 16613640

>>16611402
>all of the nursoids in my hospital are filipino or old
They're no fun. Filipinos have no sense of humor. At least they feed me and give me coffee when I have to admit a person at 03h30.

Anonymous No. 16613669

>>16613638
are you fat

Anonymous No. 16613809

>>16613638
same boat. I take solace in the idea that I can at least help with the betterment of other's lives without caring for my own. Almost done paying off my loans so I'm planning to hemorrhage my cash indefinitely and just keep living in this shack. I thought I went into this for the money, and now I have the money with no use for it

Anonymous No. 16613826

>>16613809
if you have no use for it, start giving some to me.
or just pay people to translate a bunch of romcom manga or h doujins instead.

Anonymous No. 16613917

>>16613133
Yeah. Schools are made to reward female behavior. The fact that most teachers are females obviously enhances the bias.

Anonymous No. 16613952

>>16613826
Not that anon, but I spend some of my money on buying physical h doujins. I love fat tits.

Anonymous No. 16613972

I have two questions. I just got discharged from hospital and they said to follow up with my GP in 10 days for suture removal but I can't get there for 2-3 weeks. Do you think it will matter if they're in that long? They're permanent stitches not dissolvable.

Also they messed up my diagnosis list and wrote that I have BPSD, do you think that will matter in the future?

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Anonymous No. 16614292

programmers are the biggest pseudosmart retards ever and not very nice. not that any doctors help med students at all but these faggots will just sit there jerking themselves off about taking a shit on you with the most unfunny stupid shit that they cant even fully think of because they didnt import the library of how to make a joke funny or whatever
actually im convinced that programmers only learn for their 1% of what they are doing (throughout multiple languages) and cant do anything else even if it is the same thing (malware analysis cant write a computer virus for example) if they write code at all if they dont use stackoverflow for every bit of code as is. so gay

Anonymous No. 16614293

im also learning about the energy of a spring or something as well as things like velocity and time (not counting length or area/gauge yet) and have spoken to a few real doctors on the internet and had nice discussions which found me realizing that i can cover a decent amount of /med/ topics by now

Anonymous No. 16614300

>>16612635
Depends on the vaccine, but it's generally safe. You're gambling way more with the kid having a severe case of covid than any side effect of the vaccine.
>>16612871
I strongly suggest against upping the dose too much, as you probably already reached your sweet spot with that dose. Ritalin is very...ghetto.
>>16613669
Plenty of my fat fuck friends got laid in med school. It's astoundingly easy.
>>16613972
>suture
No, just keep an eye on it, don't get it dirty, the obvious.
>BPSD
kek, no it probably won't matter unless you're 70

Anonymous No. 16614355

>>16613972
just cut it out yourself

Anonymous No. 16614359

tfw it's so hard to find male spaces in medicine you spend time on this shithole website

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Anonymous No. 16614467

>>16614386
it looks like a lowercase delta

Anonymous No. 16614470

>>16614300
>No, just keep an eye on it, don't get it dirty, the obvious.
>>BPSD
>kek, no it probably won't matter unless you're 70
thanks

Anonymous No. 16614502

>>16614467
Pic is bad, but I thought it looked like a spooky face when I first saw it. It's a brain met of a man with NSC lung cancer.

Anonymous No. 16614507

>>16614359
uh, just go outside, bro.

Anonymous No. 16614624

>>16611282
It's a protein.
Not sure why that got deleted. Your question is very stupid anyways.
the mRNA palliative gene therapy shot that was somehow classified as a vaccine by the US Congress in 2020 hijacks your body to produce a glycoprotein which is one of the proteins on the exterior of the COVOID-19 virus that helps it penetrate host cells and cause infection. Your body than produces billions of spike proteins that are supposed to trigger your immune system and build a defense against the actual virus... except it doesn't, it just gets your body to recognize one potential spike protein while also, potentially, giving you blood clots.

I personally know three people who have had blood clots where there was no family history of it.

Anonymous No. 16614642

why do people bubble HCl gas into solutions to salt out compuonds instead of just dripping the acid directly into it?

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Anonymous No. 16614658

>>16613638
>>16613809
Fellow losers
I motivate myself to do this job by telling myself than I'm helping keep some friendless poor incel's mommy alive so he has some human contact and financial support

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Anonymous No. 16614793

>>16613809
Same boat. Doe don’t have as much money I waste a large sum in whores. Young, tender but age legal whores.

The touch of their skin, the tenderness in their voices and their headstrong spirit…

Anonymous No. 16614804

>>16614292
>and cant do anything else even if it is the same thing (malware analysis cant write a computer virus for example)
Can a psychiatrist or neurologist do brain surgery?

Anonymous No. 16614857

>>16614300
>You're gambling way more with the kid having a severe case of covid
lol

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Anonymous No. 16615120

>>16614804
doctors cant do surgery you retard (legally but also, they cant)
could a psychiatrist or neurologist "do" pharma? yes pooorly. probably do "diet" better than a dogtor
what a stupid comparison. silly psychiatrist

Anonymous No. 16615124

>>16615120
>doctors cant do surgery you retard
>surgeons aren't doctors
the absolute state of /med/

Anonymous No. 16615130

>>16615124
surgeons are surgeons
i bet you dont know the first thing about doing surgery

Anonymous No. 16615151

One day I want to bring a class action lawsuit against my country's professional body of psychiatry

Fuck psychiatry to the end of the Earth

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Anonymous No. 16615161

yeah psychiatry sucks

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Anonymous No. 16615191

How do you guys do hobbies that are cognitively demanding? I've been trying to learn how to draw, but I'm mentally exhausted from studying, so practicing is hard. The only hobby I have right now is the gym because I'm not thinking when I'm lifting.

Anonymous No. 16615323

>>16614300

>It's astoundingly easy.

Maybe for some

Anonymous No. 16615328

>>16615191
instead of studying, i play RTS games.

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Anonymous No. 16615433

>>16610918
is a ketogenic diet beneficial in acquired brain injury?
also, are any antidepressants not poison?
I have secondary ADHD and depression from brain damage?
are pharmacological therapies the only option?

Anonymous No. 16615478

>>16615433
>have secondary ADHD and depression from brain damage?
damn, whats your TBI from?

Anonymous No. 16615672

>>16615478
I had a massive brain tumor

Anonymous No. 16615751

>>16615672
for ADHD pharma's the only good option. you can try non stims if you're scared of them. you can also do some psych interventions but idk much about them other than lol use a notepad

for depression CBT is basically on par with antidepressants. there's also stuff like lifestyle change (the big one being exercise and sunlight but you probs know this). in fact exercise temporarily improves ADHD symptoms as well so yeah

Anonymous No. 16615752

>>16615751
Focus therapy is quite literally just focusing

To be honest I don't know if you people are dumb or the word therapy sends you into a spiral of traumatic relations with society

Anonymous No. 16615770

>>16615752
I'm not talking about focus therapy, I'm talking about skills for managing an ADHD lifestyle, stuff like pomodoro, lists, etc. the issue is I'm guessing she has adhd-i since adults rarely seem to have h or C, so interventions for those two are going to be useless.
also I don't get your second point. CBT and lifestyle changes, as well as exercise are great for depression.

Anonymous No. 16615775

>>16615770
Yeah but at the same time they are cbts and exercise

Some people hate those you can't make someone feel better with something that feels bad

Is not like muh bitter medicine you ain't killing a bacteria you are fixing an emotional chemical neuro associated response

Anonymous No. 16615797

>>16615775
I feel like this argument applies to all depression treatments. you can start someone on literally any antidepressant and they might show no response or a negative response to it. similarly they might find CBT and exercise don't do anything for them (here I bet they don't stick with it or apply behavioural activation or don't do HIIT)

or if their depression is only a symptom like say of their ADHD then treating the ADHD would likely treat the depression too. or if it's some other random disorder causing their depression that needs a different med or therapy

Anonymous No. 16615799

>>16615797
Your issue here is that you think is a disorder

Let's make an example with the trendy psychological problem survelliance induced paranoia

The problematic is not the individual but the survelliance

Anonymous No. 16615821

>>16615799
that's literally why I said environmental changes need to occur too. therapy and medications are about providing people with enough of a lift to be able to make these changes
and depression absolutely is a disorder, even if it's caused by environmental factors (not usually the only reason)

Anonymous No. 16615823

>>16615821
Yeah but consider due to it's external nature will not always look like sadness, some days will even be enjoyment while the problem continued

Anonymous No. 16615828

I can't stop farting and burping. I am farting a lot. All day long.
All my poops are floaters and in pieces. They smell really bad.
At night I pick little bits of poo out of my butt in my sleep. Anyone can diagnose me? Is this like colon cancer or something?

Anonymous No. 16615839

>Doctors didn't warn women of 'risky sex' drug urges
>Lucy says she lost "a decade of her life" to compulsive gambling and risky sex after being prescribed a partial dopamine agonist, Aripiprazole, for mental health problems
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkmrev6z2mo

Why is medicine so fucking negligent over and over again

Never informing patients of the true effects of these drugs

Anonymous No. 16615845

>>16615823
just because you're happy in the moment doesn't mean you're not depressed. or am I missing something else to what you're saying

Anonymous No. 16615868

>>16615845
The external factors

Anonymous No. 16615901

any pediatric on /med/ ? the AAP guideline on neonatal jaundice, why does the phototherapy threshold chart stop at 14 days? what the hell am i suppose to do if my patient TCB is still high after that?

Anonymous No. 16615909

>>16615901
Not make it worst with phototherapy

Anonymous No. 16615914

>>16615839
good morning, i hate women

Anonymous No. 16615925

>>16615914
You misspelled doctors

Anonymous No. 16615927

>>16615925
They have genders insisted very much it was just two

Anonymous No. 16615928

>>16615914
>>16615925
In fact to clarify: gambling and impulsive sex are KNOWN to be side effects of dopamine agonists like aripiprazole

So don't blame those patients you utter cunt, this is a problem with medical CHARLATANS

Fuck every single doctor in the world with a spiky fucking pineapple

Anonymous No. 16616059

Anyone can diagnose me?

Anonymous No. 16616143

>>16615928
Not that anon but I guarantee these whores all have borderline personality disorder and have been acting like this (and blaming others for it) for the majority of their lives.

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Anonymous No. 16616229

>>16616059
profound mental retardation, done.

Anonymous No. 16616261

>>16614857
plastic newfag nigger cunt
>>16615323
For most. I'm serious about this. The only problem I've ever had in medschool was to pick the sort of girl I was going to get involved with, and I'm a 5/10 in a good day.
>>16616059
terminal case of faggotry

Anonymous No. 16616272

>>16610918
I have some weird issue that happens from time to time and I have no clue what to do about it:
sometimes (like once a month or less) I feel dizzy and my vision gets blurry, to the point where I have to stop doing whatever I'm doing and sometimes have to go to bed for a while. when this goes away, usually my head hurts. I think this happens when I rest/sleep less than usual, or maybe when I eat too much sugar, or both.
I've been told I might have dysautonomia. I do feel dizzy sometimes when I get up fast, for example. could it be? is dysautonomia a meme?

Anonymous No. 16616277

>>16616272
btw, in (what I assume was) one of my first episodes, I actually kind of lost my memory, consciousness or something, becuase I walked home like 1km from my school and I don't remember much of what happened. I even crossed some streets and I have no clue how...
also, I think I did measure my blood pressure once and it was normal, it didn't drop, but I guess I'd have to check during multiple episodes, right when the symptoms are starting.

Anonymous No. 16616297

>>16616261
>For most. I'm serious about this. The only problem I've ever had in medschool was to pick the sort of girl I was going to get involved with, and I'm a 5/10 in a good day.
Not that anon, but I'm 24 right now in medical school and I honestly see myself reaching Wizard status. I don't have any experience with any girls at all. People legit have thought I was gay because of that LOL.

Anonymous No. 16616323

>>16616059
sure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlsiKSQBIeI

Anonymous No. 16616329

>>16613412
my ex took shrooms/acid/lsd or something once and she tripped balls for like 3 hours. The cat was a demon, she went from ecstatic happy to screaming scared. She just kept saying she fucked her head up forever. It was incredibly annoying.

Anonymous No. 16616340

>>16616272
go to a primary care doctor or eye doctor.

Anonymous No. 16616346

>>16616329
acid is LSD btw, I've never done it but I think the first time doing any drug you need a trip advisor with you

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Anonymous No. 16616369

>>16616329
when people start the perma-braindamage talk, calm them down by telling them the effect of drugs is only temporary and then once they're receptive again to your input give them something shiny so they get distracted from their irrational fears. it's basically like manipulating children ...

Anonymous No. 16616441

>>16616340
>eye doctor
can you elaborate on this? AFAIK I don't have any vision issues

Anonymous No. 16616462

My turds have been floaters for 8 years straight, is it cancer or something?

Anonymous No. 16616681

>>16616143
No, you're wrong. As I said, impulsive gambling and sex are known to be side effects of dopamine agonists like aripiprazole. But many patients don't get told this, because the medical industry doesn't give a flying fuck about the welfare of patients.

Dr. Barkon No. 16616682

I can't take a poo. I'm completely healthy down below but I'm having a hallucination that has paralysed my mental in such a way I cannot squeeze a poo out. What do I do?

Anonymous No. 16616696

I might stop taking my antidepressant

Basically I just hate the medical establishment

Simple as

Anonymous No. 16616746

>>16616696
which one? just try another

Anonymous No. 16616750

>>16616746
The specific med isn't really important.

Maybe the reason my doctor advises me to take one is because that's just the official advice. "Just be a compliant little slave and take your meds, so it will be easier for you to work some shitty job and pay taxes."

I did a lot of fun things when I didn't take psych meds. So why should I believe anybody who says "you can't do those things again unless you take pills"?

Anonymous No. 16616881

Doing a read:
>For [Thomas] Szasz... mental illness is not a disease... it is rather a myth, fabricated by psychiatrists for reasons of professional advancement and endorsed by society because it sanctions easy solutions for problem people
- Roy Porter, former professor at University College London

Interesting.

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Anonymous No. 16616899

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=ipsrj1jJ1eM
sad that Fauchis talks and info about those things is released as some retards art project instead of in a proper form because they dont want to make it naturally accessible for us
zzz

Anonymous No. 16616919

>>16610918
I think they are just jealous that she really wants to do something for me that she never did for any of you.

Anonymous No. 16616925

whatever that means ^
and who invited the psyche posting faggot

Anonymous No. 16617018

>>16616925
Who invited you faggot?

Anonymous No. 16617020

>>16617018
big words from someone that will probably start crying from their "depression" in 2 posts

Anonymous No. 16617210

>>16617020
I don't have anything like that, I was put in mental hospital against my will because they thought I might harm someone (which I thought was a ridiculous suggestion - I wouldn't do that)

So yeah, you're a moron

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Anonymous No. 16617367

Will he be alright?

Anonymous No. 16617383

>>16617367
why wouldnt he be? not only do humans only use 10% of their brain, 7.62x39 is a shitty bullet. now, if it was 22lr, it would've bounced around in his skull and killed him dead on the spot.

Anonymous No. 16617636

>>16616750
you're the little bitch boy who was complaining about muh fee fees in the first place

Anonymous No. 16617639

>>16617367
Maybe, if you consider being a mouthbreathing retard with right side paralysis alright.

>>16617383
7.62x39 is corrosive though, so it might have melted some of his brain.

Anonymous No. 16617645

>>16617639
>right side paralysis alright
He got shot on his left side, moron.

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Anonymous No. 16617655

One additional reason I want to become a pathologist is so I don't get shot up. What are some hidden benefits of other specialties?

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>>16617639
>corrosive
i dont know about you, but my brain isnt made of metal.

Anonymous No. 16617661

>>16617645
It's clearly the right side on the picture, silly.

>>16617659
>doesn't have brain implants
ngmi

Anonymous No. 16617775

Psyche patients need to fuck off to/x/

Anonymous No. 16617778

>>16617775
I don't psych patient post but I would if the psych patient thread didn't consistently get nuked.

Anonymous No. 16618067

>>16615828
>Anyone can diagnose me?

go see a GI
you probably got some steatorrhea though, might need pancreatic enzyme replacement

Anonymous No. 16618068

>>16616681
>But many patients don't get told this,

they do. but you can't blame bad lifestyle choices on everything else.

Anonymous No. 16618149

>i was recently in a mental hospital and heres why you should listen to me

Anonymous No. 16618178

I hate myself and I hate the gunners in my class. They casually talked shit to my face today and it ruined my day. Everyone here sucks and I have become a bottom feeder :(

Anonymous No. 16618188

>>16618178
>me when programming time

Anonymous No. 16618220

>>16618178
Just talk shit back, quit being a bitch. No one wants a bitch in charge of their health.

Anonymous No. 16618244

>>16615130
Surgery is incredibly intensive with medical management. Any monkey can cut, but GI is essentially doing the same as gen surg on the medical management side

Anonymous No. 16618265

>consult for TB pericarditis
>no constriction, no rub, no murmur, negative antibodies, literally zilch

Anonymous No. 16618272

>>16618265
sounds like they need glasses. send them to me :)

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>>16618178
>I have become a bottom feeder
What does this mean? You're bottom of the class?

Anonymous No. 16618491

I live in a state where NPs can prescribe and I heard a PMHNP say that they had a patient on 24 mg xanax + 24 mg clonazepam + 600 mg clozapine daily. I'm not a medical professional I'm just a patient, is this safe? The doctor made a face when I asked him about it and sort of dodged the question

Anonymous No. 16618495

>>16617778
>dedicated psych patient thread
>psych patients shit up their dedicated thread
>spill over into sterilized thread to shit it up too because they don't want to be in a shat up thread
The jokes fucking write themselves

Anonymous No. 16618497

>>16615839
What happens if you give this drug to a woman who experiences this side effect but also gives her hormonal birth control that fucks with her sexual preferences

Anonymous No. 16618500

>>16612254
How's the job market?

Anonymous No. 16618503

>>16608256
Because podiatry schools have an 80% acceptance rate, their average GPA is 3.3, average MCAT is 492, and they force you to go into a surgical residency for a $200k salary that you would never have achieved otherwise all the while you can tell all your friends you're a surgeon even though you put in 1/10 of the work

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>>16618503

Anonymous No. 16618514

>>16618503
>you're a surgeon even though you put in 1/10 of the work
Not a DPM but at my school, they're mostly taking the same classes as medical students.

Anonymous No. 16618515

>>16618514
>don't have to be nearly as competitive to get in
>nonexistent competition in the podiatry match for surgical residencies because ALL residencies are 3 year surgical residencies
Yes, it's 1/10 of the work. They just need to pass their medical school classes, assuming they go to one of the better institutions that shares classes with a DO/MD school.

Anonymous No. 16618517

>>16618515
Fair enough. And even if they are taking the same classes as us, their tests have fewer answer choices; 4 vs our 5 lol.

Anonymous No. 16618518

>>16618517
Jesus, you need to date a podiatry student for those sweet sweet answer choices. At my school there's a lot of intermingling and even a few marriages

Anonymous No. 16618520

>>16618503
>>16618515
Fuck off, you have it way easier

Anonymous No. 16618521

>>16616696
Have you considered alcohol? It's naturally occurring so it must be good for you

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Anonymous No. 16618524

>>16618518
I got so upset when I learned that the DPM student at my school have less answer choices on their exams lol. Unfair shit. They don't have to take the professionalism courses like we do either lol.

Anonymous No. 16618550

God I hate pelvic floor clinic.
It's like the psych of gen surg.

Anonymous No. 16618584

>>16618524
It's pretty hard to fuck up professionalism when you don't deal with life-threatening cases. The only impulse they have to resist is not to ogle the rich women's feet too long. Speaking of: https://www.reddit.com/r/AMA/comments/o4i8jf/i_am_a_podiatrist_with_a_foot_fetish_ama/

Anonymous No. 16618585

>>16618524
>he doesn't know that PA lobbying groups are pushing PA programs to use that same setup where they take easier versions of shared preclinical classes and have already implemented this in several states

Anonymous No. 16618591

>>16618495
The threads were fine they just got nuked by jannies. Hell I think talking with psych patients is useful unless they're anti psych schizos. Basically figured out I needed to switch off Quetiapine to Olanzapine because of talking with several psych patients on the ward and some online bpd friends.
>sterilisation thread
can I talk about wanting a bisalp or hysterectomy here?

Anonymous No. 16618685

>>16617636
You're the little bitch boy who is crying like a faggot because you didn't like a post

Anonymous No. 16618686

>>16617775
>>16617778
>>16618495
>>16618591
There's actually a very simple solution to this problem. Doctors should stop drugging people against their will. Then you won't have all these angry patients who (rightly) hate the medical establishment.

Anonymous No. 16618691

>>16618686
*injects you with HRT*

Anonymous No. 16618762

>weirdo on 4chan has obsession with sex-changing
Many such cases!

Anonymous No. 16618767

>>16618584
>when you don't deal with life-threatening cases.
Podiatrists at hospitals do plenty of CLTI amps for anything distal to ankle, it's important work for a life-threatening condition. Kind of unfair though, the podiatrists get to make bank off the easy amputation and debridement work while vascular is stuck doing the more time intensive amputations (more delicate with BKA/AKA than Ortho), and longer bypasses/endovascular procedures to actually ensure that the ray/TMA/Charcot whatever is actually viable

Anonymous No. 16618780

>>16618767
Biggest cope I've ever seen. It's podiatrist saddled with the unwanted cases with vascular and ortho f&a makes bank

Anonymous No. 16618785

>>16618691
nta but my hrt shot is tomorrow :)

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Anonymous No. 16618799

>>16618780
Cool story bro

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Anonymous No. 16619544

so is this thread still unusable because of polshits, yanks, and psychepatients?
damn it must really suck to be a neg negative on the world. even if youre "totally trying" to be that, you cant be anything else. its just cope

Anonymous No. 16619577

>>16619544
yeah, im a yank. a yanking my cock haha.

Anonymous No. 16619595

So is cancer a hoax made up by big pharma to sell radioactive medicine that kills you? If it were a real virus then it would have been cured by now. The people who say it's real and that there's a conspiracy to not cure it are retarded because they're not accounting for non-capitalist countries. Rather, it's a conspiracy to fake the existence of a fake condition meant to scare people into compliance and silently remove dissidents. So many cancer deaths are really deaths from old age or dementia or other things that they label as cancer as if it's a blanket label for anything that isn't obvious to a layperson because you're all fucking in on it.

Anonymous No. 16619596

>>16618524
What is the right mousth special for it looks normal

Anonymous No. 16619725

>>16619577
By "my cock'
Do u mean
Jorkin it
My peanits

Anonymous No. 16619763

How can I use nepotism to get into medical school if I don't know anyone

Anonymous No. 16619777

>>16619763
make a grindr account and clean out your asshole (optional)

Anonymous No. 16619935

>>16619596
It's got no legs, dummy.

Anonymous No. 16620001

>get in-person eval from attending who says everything is great, presentations are great, etc.
>written eval from same attending says the exact opposite, i'm shit, everyone hates you, etc.
Bros, wtf is going on

Anonymous No. 16620052

>>16620001
One of them wants to fuck you. No, I am not telling you which.

Anonymous No. 16620085

>>16620052
It's the same guy.

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Anonymous No. 16620087

Why did I think critical care would be a good idea? I belong outpatient.

Anonymous No. 16620132

>>16620085
Oh, well, silly me. At least you know which one it is then.

Anonymous No. 16620141

>>16620087
>not becoming an ophthalmologist
>not convincing patients to get $6000 IOLs in each eye which they then hate and have to deal with for the rest of their lives
>not sending them back to the optometrist that referred them so they have to deal with your greed
rookie mistake

Anonymous No. 16620259

>>16620141
I would do ophtho but it sounds impossible to match

Anonymous No. 16620484

>>16620259
You should have been a super genius like me :^)

Anonymous No. 16620518

>>16620141
>be optho
>try to explain job to civilian
>get confused for an optometrist every single time
>optometrists pretend they're your equals talkinf about how they're also 'doctors'
Overrated

Anonymous No. 16620520

>>16619935
Does it need those?

Anonymous No. 16620521

I read that medical students are no longer exempt from the draft
So are we fucked or what

Anonymous No. 16620523

>>16620521
Why should they be exempt?

Anonymous No. 16620525

>>16620484
I am deciding to take the easier path into another surgery sub instead

Anonymous No. 16620528

>>16620523
Because it's retarded for a country to draft its medical students into generic infantry when the government could just wait a few more years and have a qualified doctor
It makes no sense to interrupt medical training for something you can get literally anywhere else
It's like if you tried recruiting for construction workers at Harvard, it's just an inefficient and wasteful use of resources

Anonymous No. 16620529

>>16620528
Medical students shouldn't be exempt. It's not fair that only poor people have to fight.

Anonymous No. 16620531

>>16620528
Most medical students are worse than useless on the wards

Anonymous No. 16620535

I am starting to notice the effects of urging nicotine since starting nicotine in December

Anonymous No. 16620537

I swear to god everyone in my class is an npc, im still trying to find another conscious person

Anonymous No. 16620541

>>16620518
>confused patient
yeah, the confusion is common lmao. my favorite is when patients come in and say optometrists arent real doctors. why did you make an appointment with an optometrist then?
>equals
i like how optoms are pushing for the use of the term optometric physician. i think the term optometrist is better, but i see why they're pushing for it. always have to be pushing for increased scope.

Anonymous No. 16620548

>>16620537
>t. guy with no friends trying to cope

Anonymous No. 16620551

>>16620548
Yes pretty much

Anonymous No. 16620567

>>16616899
his last name means sickle.

Anonymous No. 16620621

Doctors after prescribing lobotomies:
>yes it was bad but we know better now
Doctors after prescribing thalidomide:
>yes it was bad but we know better now
Doctors after prescribing blood-letting:
>yes it was bad but we know better now
Doctors after endorsing cigarettes:
>yes it was bad but we know better now
Doctors after prescribing antipsychotics:
>...

Anonymous No. 16620648

>>16620621
Phlebotomy is still a valid medical procedure.

Anonymous No. 16620659

>>16620621
Doctors after prescribing gender reassignment procedures

Anonymous No. 16620664

>>16620659
>Yeah society thinks it's bad but it mostly leads to positive psychological outcomes in trans patients

Anonymous No. 16620672

>>16620648
>Bloodletting, as traditionally practiced, was not always medically useful and could be very risky for patients.
https://www.britannica.com/science/bloodletting

>>16620659
That's not relevant to my post

The point is, why should I trust doctors now, given the huge number of medical mistakes in the past?

Another example is sodium valproate which was given to pregnant women without warning them that it causes birth defects. Imagine the horror of a medical intervention harming your child, after a doctor assured you the intervention was safe, but it actually wasn't.

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Anonymous No. 16620673

>>16620621
Topical steroids

Anonymous No. 16620678

>>16620672
>Bloodletting, as traditionally practiced, was not always medically useful and could be very risky for patients.
>not always
It's still a valid procedure that is used today to treat conditions such as hemochromatosis, porphyria cutanea tarda, polycythemia vera, blood donations are also a form of it.

>The point is, why should I trust doctors now, given the huge number of medical mistakes in the past?
You don't have to, but i find it unlikely that you will actually keep your integrity and refuse all medical treatments in the future. Were you to suffer from heavy abdominal pain and get diagonsed with appendicitis for example, you would most likely beg the evil doctors to remove it before it bursts, like the hypocrite you are.

Anonymous No. 16620686

>>16620678
>It's still a valid procedure that is used today
Taking blood for tests is obviously not the same thing at all as traditional blood-letting.

>You don't have to, but i find it unlikely that you will actually keep your integrity and refuse all medical treatments in the future.
Again that's not my point. You're deliberately reframing my points into different points.

I'm not saying all of medicine is worthless, because that's obviously not true.

I'm just saying that there will be some current treatments which are actually pretty harmful. It's sensible to weigh up each treatment on its individual pros and cons. But there seems to be an attitude that if you're a patient then you're just not allowed to question what a doctor recommends.

Anonymous No. 16620705

>>16620686
>Taking blood for tests is obviously not the same thing at all as traditional blood-letting.
Nigger can you not read?
>https://www.saintlukeskc.org/health-library/understanding-therapeutic-phlebotomy#
>Therapeutic phlebotomy is when blood is drawn to treat a disease. It's also called bloodletting.
It's not drawing blood for tests, it's literally bloodletting. It is still being done today.

>But there seems to be an attitude that if you're a patient then you're just not allowed to question what a doctor recommends.
>what is second opinion

Anonymous No. 16620712

>>16620705
Clearly you can't read:
>Bloodletting, as it is traditionally understood, is no longer practiced save for treatment of a few specific medical conditions.
https://www.britannica.com/science/bloodletting

It's no longer practised in the way it used to be.

>what is second opinion
Something that only rich people can afford. And even if you get a second opinion you might still get the same dogmas that are written in current treatment guidelines, even if there are some good reasons to question those dogmas.

Anonymous No. 16620722

>>16620712
>>Bloodletting, as it is traditionally understood, is no longer practiced save for treatment of a few specific medical conditions.
>save for
You will re-read this 100 times as your reading comprehension homework.

>only rich people can afford 2 consultations
If "rich" means "not living month to month on the street" then sure I guess.

Anonymous No. 16620723

>>16620722
It says it's not practised in the way it used to be practised.

And the wealth required for a second opinion would depend on the country you're in.

Anonymous No. 16620751

>>16620686
>It's sensible to weigh up each treatment on its individual pros and cons.
Yeah that's literally what's being done. You think doctors are omniscient? When they learn about things like e.g. thalidomide's teratogenicity and adverse effects, the pros get outweighed by the cons for those populations

You can question as a patient, but you are operating off vibes compared to someone prescribing - who is ideally up to date with the literature concerning the topic in their specialty. Medicine and surgery is applied science, consensus is built on experimentation and report back to the wider public

Anonymous No. 16620823

>>16620664
>41%
>positive psychological outcomes in trans patients
I agree.

Anonymous No. 16620827

>>16620823
A lot of them don't get sex changes though

Anonymous No. 16620841

>>16620751
>you are operating off vibes compared to someone prescribing
Nope. I find papers from medical journals online, e.g. The Lancet. I read those and I tell my doctor about them. And the doctor says bullshit like "oh I wouldn't believe everything you read online".

>someone prescribing - who is ideally up to date with the literature concerning the topic in their specialty
Doctors I've seen in recent years are only really up to date with what the prescribing guidelines say. They're not up to date with more recent studies.

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Anonymous No. 16620854

Thoughts?

Anonymous No. 16620880

>>16620823
Isn't it weird how access to hormones and surgery massively reduces this number?

Anonymous No. 16620937

>>16620880
Literally doesn't though. No RCT for surgery-vs-no-surgery in people-seeking surgery.

Anonymous No. 16620964

>>16620854
It's sad. I don't think there's really anything you can do about it ahead of time

Anonymous No. 16620971

>Impaired swimming skills surfaced as an unexpected risk of the procedure; several Parkinson's disease patients lost their ability to swim after receiving deep brain stimulation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_brain_stimulation
Thoughts?

Anonymous No. 16620996

>>16620937
how the fuck could you conduct a RCT for that? you're trolling

Anonymous No. 16621002

>>16620996
>100 people ask to transition
>Randomly assign 50 to the turning-their-dicks-into-a-banana-split treatment arm, and the other 50 to no-thats-fucking-stupid arm
>assess subjective and objective outcomes in 10 years
If you think RCT means placebo-controlled necessarily you're retarded. You're trolling for asking such a stupid question.

Anonymous No. 16621017

>>16621002
it's unethical and would never be approved

Anonymous No. 16621022

>>16621017
>it's unethical and would never be approved
You're right, it's unethical to mutilate people in an attempt to affirm delusional thinking. That hasn't really stopped scum like you from trying, though.

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Anonymous No. 16621089

I just found out my summer break is only 2 months long :(

Anonymous No. 16621136

fauchi is cute :3
also i have to learn about tremors. but im going to do this using the NHS website and probably some other things that i come across, that will also be "public-facing" or as info for the public
any trained doctors want to give me a walkthrough or some info on tremors?
then after that i can go back to reading

Anonymous No. 16621138

>>16621089
Lol mine was 1 month. Don't make my mistake, study for step 1 in those two months and take it at the end

Anonymous No. 16621143

*libtard showing image of the ovary*
*going off on some rant i forget what it was, but he was talking about the ovaries*
*le me: [scoffs] clearly that is the left ovary*

Anonymous No. 16621148

>>16621143
Agartha calling for their best man anon, heed the call

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>>16621138
>Lol mine was 1 month.
Pain. I'm sorry bro, I shouldn't be complaining.

>Don't make my mistake, study for step 1 in those two months and take it at the end
I'm currently in my last block of my MS1. Shouldn't I slowly start the Anking deck right now for Step 1 (like 50 new cards a day) and start going hard at it in my short summer? I fucking see 25k cards lol. Plus, my memory is hazy for stuff during my first semester. I'm a DO trying to match to pathology and I'm sort of relying on getting a good foundation for Step 1 and then hopefully a high Step 2 since I have no extracurriculars or shit.

I saw the match rate for pathology dropped to 83.5% for DOs and I'm hoping that shit doesn't drop even further by the time I apply.

Anonymous No. 16621218

>>16621215
>Anking
If you haven't started yet, there's zero point starting now. That deck is so large and unwieldy that it needs 2 years to get through it meaningfully. Read first aid and start banging your head against uworld or amboss question banks

Anonymous No. 16621219

>>16621148
going to study ob/gyn and read the MCAT again

Anonymous No. 16621284

>>16621017
I don't really see how that wouldn't be ethically allowed when placebo surgeries are. Or if you want a slightly less politically ringed, but somewhat similar RCT, evaluate the outcomes for plastic surgery where the non-treatment wing gets placebo surgeries and the surgeons gaslight them.

Anonymous No. 16621302

>>16620664
If we simply just let heroin addicts have all the heroin they desire I’m sure their mental wellness would be improved as well

Anonymous No. 16621304

How do you Americans survive your pre-med? All the pre-clinical shit lasts for only 3 years here (while you have it for like 6) but I'm already so tired of it. I've learned not a bit of fucking medicine yet, why the academia are so retarded?

Anonymous No. 16621308

>>16621302
The problem with heroine is consistent product quality. If Heroin were legal you would have no idea you were ever talking to most addicts.

Anonymous No. 16621318

>>16621302
Um yes? We have data to support that legalised opioids of pharmaceutical quality lead to functional addicts who can hold down jobs.

Anonymous No. 16621340

>>16621318
Perhaps average joe folks with a budding addiction dysphoria should really lean into it, and be prescribed a whole gift basket worth of pure black tar to give them a jump start into finding their true selves

Anonymous No. 16621354

>>16621340
Not only do you know that's not how it works, but the alternative is people dropping dead from a nitazine od.

Anonymous No. 16621409

>>16621308
>>16621318
Do they spoon themselves on work hours?

Anonymous No. 16621451

Reminder to not get into this field as a man if you aren't gay or a chad, you'll be very alienated
don't make my mistake

Anonymous No. 16621452

>>16621451
Primary reason you shouldn't be getting into it if you're not a chad because no one wants a fucking loser to be taking care of their health. I cancel my appointments if the doctor is fat, i mean get fucking real, tubby can't even take for himself but thinks he can take of others?

Anonymous No. 16621454

itt a bunch of secretaries and assistants pretend to be their bosses

Anonymous No. 16621462

>>16621454
t. janitor

Anonymous No. 16621470

>>16621451
>if you aren't gay
What does being gay have to do with being a doctor?

Anonymous No. 16621520

>>16621470
female brain makes it easier to get along with people in a female dominated field

Anonymous No. 16621558

>>16621520
>females
>getting along
lmao, someone needs to brush up on their evolutionary psychology and female ntrasexual competition.

Anonymous No. 16621663

anyone have torrent link for medicosis perfectionalis videos?

Anonymous No. 16621792

>>16621663
sent ;)

Anonymous No. 16622047

again, i remind you

DO NOT REPLY TO PSYCH PATIENTS
they will not go away if you keep feeding them.

Anonymous No. 16622056

Psych patients are so fucking funny it almost makes me want to go into psychiatry. I love finding scathing YouTube comment sections with an army of them chimping out over some e-celeb fag shilling a BetterHelp sponsorship, as if they truly expected anything more from gas station therapy

Anonymous No. 16622091

>>16622056
Better help and all online psychs are garbage though, so the reviews are justified

Anonymous No. 16622096

good afternoon. my hatred of women stands strong again today.

Anonymous No. 16622235

>>16622096
It's like I'm really in atoga.

Anonymous No. 16622311

My mother accidently took gabapentin meant for her cat, i asked her how much and she said 200 mg. Why the fuck do cats take 200 when the human dose is 100-300?

Anonymous No. 16622326

>>16622311
because in cats Gabapentin and trazodone are used as anxiolitics

Anonymous No. 16622411

If i finish IM residency in my country and decide to do subspecialty fellowship in US, is it mandatory to pass USMLE?

Anonymous No. 16622416

>>16622411
You need to redo IM residency in America, silly

Anonymous No. 16622523

>>16622416
what the fuck? why? what if i have years of work experience after finishing my residency?

Anonymous No. 16622529

>>16622523
Doesn't matter
If you want to work as a PCP it's alright you can practice in Tennessee. We don't trust your degree here

Anonymous No. 16622559

>>16621215
Hello path chad. Just wanted to inform you that yesterday I found out I matched pathology through DO, it seems like the trend is more and more DO's are applying and replacing the IMG's who used to apply path. As far as prepping for step 1 as MS1, my advice is to be curious and read stuff like Tobbins or whatever text you like and understand how stuff happens on a deep level. My main resources for studying and learning for step 1 were first aid (which is basically just a list of stuff to know) and uworld. Uworld was my main resource for step 1 and 2, I didn't use anki and scored well for step 2.

Anonymous No. 16622641

my dad seems to be diagnosed with multiple myeloma.
i love him so much, he's 65, am a GP so i know somethings to a certain degree and i know that MM is basically a death sentence, just a matter of when.
is there anything to be hopeful about or is it all gloom?

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Anonymous No. 16622651

>>16622559
Congrats on matching, bro. And thanks for the advice.

>it seems like the trend is more and more DO's are applying and replacing the IMG's who used to apply path.
So I don't have to worry too much about pathology being too competitive?

>My main resources for studying and learning for step 1 were first aid (which is basically just a list of stuff to know) and uworld.
I believe the Anking deck has tags for First Aid content and I was thinking about first getting through those high-yield tags and then hitting UWorld. When did you start studying for Step 1 by the way?

And did you do any extracurriculars or any research? I don't really have either...

And finally, why did you pursue pathology? Did you always want to do it? I always hear about most people not seeking the specialty they wanted when they first got into school.

Anonymous No. 16622682

>>16622651
Good questions, I'll try to answer them. I started studying earnestly for step 1 during my dedicated, which was about 1.5 months, but I think I had a good foundation by studying and reading in house stuff during preclinicals, not just for the sake of passing, but to understand stuff. Pathology may be getting a bit more competitive because slightly more US grads and less IMG's are applying. For my extracurriculars, I had no med school research. I did have pathology shadowing in my 3rd year, and then 3 pathology rotations during 4th year, 2 of which were through VSLO at academic places. Pathology experiences, ideally at an academic program, are highly valued in a path applicant. The reason I decided to do pathology was that I liked histology in preclinicals and didn't really like management as much as diagnosing. I also get pretty tired and bored in a clinical setting, because it feels kind of monotonous. From what I've seen, there's plenty of interesting cases different things to do as a pathologist. I went into med school considering gen surg, EM, and IM. I didn't know pathology was an option going in.

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>>16622682
Appreciate your response, bro. Congrats again on matching. Try to enjoy yourself as much as possible before residency :)

Anonymous No. 16622757

>>16622559
Congrats on matching bro, I wish you luck in suplexing many a frozen section in your career

Anonymous No. 16623315

Are merit scholarships a meme or do you actually have a chance of getting one with a good GPA and a near perfect-perfect MCAT?

Anonymous No. 16623635

I'm going to be real, my sleep has always been fucked and it's just gotten worse over time because of trauma and nightmares. But I want to focus on the sleep, not the psych stuff.

I've tried cbti and several meds, but now I'm not sure what to do. Strong benzos seem to work the best but doctors are very hesitant to prescribe them long term. Antipsychotics work but give me insane side effects and I need relatively high doses (eg Olanzapine 10mg).
My current med stack is
-prazosin 5mg
-melatonin 10mg
-guanfacine 4mg

and Ive got the choice between lemborexant 5mg or Mirtazapine 15mg (I've got a box of both with me). I will probably also start progesterone at the end of the month.

I feel like this is kind of fucked up. Zolpidem didn't work for me. Lorazepam 1mg actually works incredibly well when I've been given it. This isn't all of my meds, but like isn't it too many? I don't know what to do because I've talked to 2 psychiatrists about my sleep.

Anonymous No. 16623669

>>16623315
I got a full ride + stipend to a T20 with 3.9+ GPA and 525 MCAT. So yes it is possible, but still as much a crapshoot as everywhere else. I didn't get NYU at all and WashU only gave me half tuition merit scholarship. It definitely depends on more than just MCAT and GPA though, pretty much anybody at a good school has amazing stats on paper

Anonymous No. 16623682

>>16623669
Hmm.. my GPA is a bit lower, but I did get a 528, so I’m hoping that sets me apart from people with 3.9s and high 520s (but not perfect) scores. Do you think that it will?

Did you get scholarships at most/all of the schools you were accepted to? I feel like I have a pretty good story, but my extracurriculars aren’t the best so I really am kind of confused on where I should apply.. thanks for the advice

Anonymous No. 16623684

>>16623682
MCAT is something that can be gamed - GPA is much more indicative of actual performance over the course of med school. Also ECs are more important than grades after you hit a certain threshold, best of luck

Anonymous No. 16623771

>>16613128
>elon and rkf tell me what to believe

Anonymous No. 16623772

>>16614300
>It's astoundingly easy.

getting laid is easy if you significantly lower your standards

Anonymous No. 16623773

>>16618244
>Surgery is incredibly intensive with medical management

this is a gen surg cope, especially when GI mostly does scopes and punts out medical followups to their midlevels
tell an ortho to manage a patient's HTN and diabetes in the hospital, they wont

Anonymous No. 16623774

>>16618585
this, U Iowa already combines their MDs and PAs, and they do not get along from what i understand, with the PA class being far more competitive to get accepted to
MSU, one of the "best" DO schools, merged their DO/PAs, though PAs dont have to score as high to pass

Anonymous No. 16623775

>>16620621
>Doctors after prescribing antipsychotics:

they make you obese, but at least its a better option than going on a manic epsiode and ruining your arrest record and credit score again

Anonymous No. 16623789

>>16620971
I did some time as a med student in a hospital that specialized in DBS surgery. I doubt that they care about loosing the ability to swim as most of the people getting DBS are over 70 years old and already need a caretaker or orderly 24/7 to take care of them. Most at least saw reductions in their tremors and rigidity.

Anonymous No. 16623795

>>16622651
>So I don't have to worry too much about pathology being too competitive?

only 3 soap spots this year for path
you need to accept this caveat; specialties like neuro, psych and path are still "doable" for DOs but now they require multiple aways

Anonymous No. 16623796

>>16623635
>melatonin 10mg

way too much
probably dumb question but you get tested for OSA? even skinny women can have it. OSA is honestly underdiagnosed these days

Anonymous No. 16623797

>>16620971
DBS is a net positive. most parkinsons patients benefit from it

Anonymous No. 16623799

>>16621136
parkinsons and essential tremor are the 2 primary "bread and butter" specialties for movement neurologists
tremor is not the main symptom of parkinsons, its bradykinesia
intention tremor is a common early symptom of MS

Anonymous No. 16623908

>>16623669
>>16623682
Damn, we got real shooters in here with those high ass MCAT scores. Good job, dudes.

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Anonymous No. 16623926

>>16623908
525 here. I hate every waking moment of my life due to my inability to talk to women, got a clinical diagnosis of ADHD-depression and crashed out hard in preclinicals and shelves (nothing over 85 despite studying super hard). I was offered medication but I feel ashamed to take it despite the fact that I know it'll be good for me. Recently I've been watching this one ENT on Instagram who didn't match and how she describes ego death after needing to SOAP into ENT and I get more and more terrified about match day. At least after I get into residency I just have to kind of finish it up and I can get a nice job in NYC or some other cool city for my 30s.

Anonymous No. 16623929

>>16623773
Ortho is the monkey I'm referring to

I still don't get how they consistently take the most stellar med school applicants every year and seamlessly mold them into idiots about everything except the bones

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Anonymous No. 16623932

>>16623926
>I hate every waking moment of my life due to my inability to talk to women
Are you a virgin? Almost a Wizard here. And are you trying to match ENT or was that just a story you wanted to bring up?

Anonymous No. 16623945

>>16623932
Just a story. I'm the guy interested in vascular. I've had sex before (even that has been >1 yr ago now) but never a real relationship. I think I will die without ever having true love.

Anonymous No. 16623963

>>16623926
>unvirgin
>cant talk to women
wtf is this normalfag shit?

Anonymous No. 16623989

Has anyone written a parser which extracts information on the ethnic/national background of potential doctors?

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Anonymous No. 16623990

>>16623963
He's a fakecel.

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Anonymous No. 16624019

>>16610918
Why is society OK with AI giving medical advice online but not doctors giving medical advice online
What specialties will be replaced?

Anonymous No. 16624074

>>16623963
It takes me basically 3 months of completely making myself into someone I'm not with utmost focus to get laid at all. Since I started med school, I barely have enough time or energy to be who I am, let alone someone desirable.

Anonymous No. 16624079

>>16624019
>the screenshot totally happened I swear! This is definitely not a marketing bit

Anonymous No. 16624089

Is going into FM wasting my potential? I want to have a private practice and be left alone by hospital admins and nurses and HR

Anonymous No. 16624090

>>16624089
FM is literally the default specialty for starting your own practice. If you can master the business side and are willing to move to an underserved area, you can easily clear >300k+ working 40 hrs q week.

Anonymous No. 16624108

>>16623796
I've heard so much weird stuff about melatonin dosage. Here it's a bit weird, 2mg is the standard prescription, my first psychiatrist told me to take 5mg, but the psych I see for ADHD/autism stuff said people with ASD sometimes need higher doses. I know it's probably way too high I agree.
I'm not sure about osa but I will bring it up, I think my biggest issue is with falling asleep, not so much waking up during the night (though in the mornings I usually wake up to nightmares).

Last night was the first night I took lemborexant and that shit is whack. Seriously the dreams arent just vivid but I woke up an hour after taking it thinking "what the fuck was that". Time just disappears on it.

Anonymous No. 16624186

>>16623775
>they make you obese
Olanzapine does. Other ones aren't so bad for weight gain.

>at least its a better option than going on a manic epsiode and ruining your arrest record and credit score again
I dunno. Is it better to live life as yourself, with all the ups and downs, or as a drugged up zombie?

It should probably be the patient's decision. Rather than a doctor's decision.

Anonymous No. 16624193

>>16624186
>Other ones aren't so bad for weight gain
nta but Olanzapine is like the best sga imo, yet it makes you so fat

Anonymous No. 16624194

>>16624193
Aripiprazole is my preferred SGA because the side effects are arguably not as bad as the others
>low chance of weight gain
>doesn't raise prolactin
>sleepiness is pretty minor, compared to something like quetiapine
A downside of aripiprazole is that it can cause impulsive behaviour like gambling and reckless sex, but thankfully I haven't had those effects.

Anonymous No. 16624196

>>16624194
that's fair, I'd argue they're both good choices but for different presentations

Anonymous No. 16624434

I fucking hate Anki. I know that “Spaced Repetition” is the best “evidence-based” way to learn all this shit but the program has no convenient way to shut it off. And Quizlet has sunk down into pay-walled bullshit. Infuriating trying to make my own cards

Anonymous No. 16624600

Are there any specific or broader classes of medication I should be looking into for anxiety that DON'T have negative sexual side effects?

To clarify, I have general issues with anxiety and depression, and Aspergers/Autism, OCD, and ADHD (severe ADHD in terms of execution dysfunction: I either bounce from task to task rapidly, or I hone in on one thing for like 6 hours I didn't even intend to)

But the specific sort of anxiety I want to solve is anxiety and panic attacks when trying to start tasks that often aren't even really that hard to do or take that long, but I've built up in my head as a huge pain, and then I try to give myself a few minutes to prepare doing something else and then I get distracted and postpone it over and over and over, which obviously exacerbates the issues I already have with ADHD and getting shit done

I have Clonazepam prescribed As Needed, but it makes me dizzy and what I imagine being drunk is like (I don't think), with being overly chatty and kinda loopy, so it's not effective in terms of helping me do tasks. I was on Lexapro and Sertaline at various points, and both I didn't notice doing anything, other then it taking forever to cum when fapping, the latter might have actually caused longer term permanent erectile dysfunction even after I stopped taking it, but I think that was Venlafaxine or Buspirone which I took once and noticed issues with then stopped and since then I've had problems getting/mantaining erections.

I'm not sure it even matters at this point since it seems like my ability to have functional erections is shot now anyways, but are there any anxiety meds that DON'T have that issue, in the event I can get the lasting side effect resolved somehow?

Anonymous No. 16624602

>>16624600
Also, are any of the recent appetite suppressant/weight loss meds stuff you don't need to get via injection?

I am litterally almost always hungry, I can eat a ton of food and then still have urges to eat an hour later and repeat that for the whole day/night, even though I'm a manlet and don't actually need that many calories; I can easily eat 3000-4000 calories in a day if I don't make an active effort to basically starve myself and rely on my ADHD meds to cut my hunger

Not sure if it's genetic or taking ADHD meds my whole childhood and teens when in school (which suppressed my appetite) meant I never built up the brain chemistry and self control shit needed to regulate my appetite and sense of hunger, but either way it's a bitch

Anonymous No. 16624627

>>16610918
>frontier models make more accurate diagnoses in 5 seconds based on vague text descriptions of my symptoms than doctors do with evaluations and lab tests
i hope regulations are changed asap so that you all can be replaced with ai for 100 times cheaper and 10 times better medicine

Anonymous No. 16624654

damn this thread lasted long as fuck
>>16623799
was going to note that post down for "shit that gets replies here" but i think your reply is mostly just introducing another disease and then mainly using that for what youre going off for the majority of the post
unless you somehow knew that i was looking at PD earlier which is unlikely

thanks for the reply anyways because tremor and PD (and MS) are two things that i am interested in, which i think is maybe a little more the essential/primary "two" for a speciality
let petit gauss :3

Anonymous No. 16624656

>>16624627
damn you are still going around on this board hoping that doctors are replaced with AI soon
mustve been seething extra hard at getting fired when AI took your job
maybe if you werent so mean and didnt gatekeep then your shitty personality wouldnt be showing right now with you lashing out and showing it (your usual is just hate)

Anonymous No. 16624657

>>16624602
just eat 3000-4000 calories a day unless you are fat (and other things relate to WHAT you are eating rather than what might be making you unhealthy in other ways)
unless you are a woman i guess (in which case you only need to take off about 500 calories from the low end there)
one tip that people usually give for eating less is eating bigger meals and not snacking. you should also chew your food more (at least 20 times) to feel fuller

Anonymous No. 16624673

>>16624602
Eat cabappi max (1 cup shredded cabbage + 1 egg is one portion)
It's massive. You need to fill your stomach with high volume protein and fiber rich foods, with plenty of liquids to make it all go down. Slowly start reducing the quantity and increasing variety of foods to build healthy habits as you shrink your stomach's baseline capacity.

Anonymous No. 16624687

>>16624657
I barely leave my room, 3k calories is way too much for my size and activity level, from what I can tell for a 5'5" guy, I'd need to be like 120lb or some shit to be a healthy weight, i'm 170

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Anonymous No. 16624690

>>16624687
Do you look like this

Anonymous No. 16624696

>>16624690
No, thankfully, I have a pretty attractive twink face which doesn't show my weight at all

Anonymous No. 16624698

>>16624602
Why don't you want to inject? The needle on a wegovy pen is super tiny and thin, and if you push hard you don't even feel it

Anonymous No. 16624718

>>16624656
not sure what youre talking about

Anonymous No. 16624747

>>16624687
yeah you should eat less sry

Anonymous No. 16624750

>>16624718
seems like a you problem

Anonymous No. 16624757

>>16624698
1. I have enough trouble keeping a consistent schedule and doing the shit I need to do even when there is minimal friction or effort in doing those things. Something that actively requires me to stab myself or go to somebody else to do the injection is gonna add steps and mental effort/energy that's gonna make me not keep up with it

2. I don't trust myself to not fuck up and injure myself

Anyways, I am less concerned about the diet/hunger stuff then I am about anxiety >>16624600

Anonymous No. 16624799

>>16624757
I have two suggestions.

the first is you can ask your pharmacy to do your injection and its usually done for free. if they can keep your semaglutide at the pharmacy you could just swing by once a week for it

the second is to try and schedule it. I inject myself each week with something else and it's a more involved process since I'm drawing from a viral. semaglutide pens are super easy to use, you screw on the needle, twist the back of it, stab it in (it's like 1cm long) and push the button. it's nowhere near as bad as a normal needle is because it's thinner and shorter. it's incredibly difficult to mess it up. I help a relative do hers and all I did was watch a 2 minute video on how it works

Anonymous No. 16624986

>Osteopathy is psuedoscience
>but if you have a doctorate in it you can practice medicine
you people use words wrong

Anonymous No. 16625626

how am i supposed to study if im always tired...

Anonymous No. 16625672

>finally match into residency
>have to pay ~200$ a month for three and half years to the clinicwhile, working there for free.
this country is hell, i basically run on my enthusiasm for the calling of being a doctor. i basically work for free in my residency, not even that, i work for negative sallary, i am worse than 4chan janny. what kind of evil mind thought of this.
which brings me to the point: have any of you managed to find cracked version of uptodate or/and uworld qbank apps? i work separate job on top of my residency to finance this and can barely afford to eat i have no additional income to buy the membership for these but i feel like i need them to stay up to date. or is there any free alternative with similar quality and degree of evidence-basedeness?

Anonymous No. 16625932

>>16624602
just eat a shitload of fiber, that'll bloat you hard

Anonymous No. 16625935

matched bottom rank in my specialty while my friends all got top choices in the same specialty

shit sucks

Anonymous No. 16625944

>>16625672
People don't want to hear this but the right way to do medicine is to get a real job first, then get into it for fun.

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Anonymous No. 16626107

what could this be on my tongue?

not painful. I don't even feel it's there.

I wonder if I hurt my tongue somehow.

Anonymous No. 16626109

>>16626107

my own research says it could be "Leukoplakia of the tongue". what do you think?

Anonymous No. 16626130

>>16626107

I just noticed the shape fits perfectly on my teeth. I think I clenched on my tongue while sleeping.

Anonymous No. 16626183

>>16625935
why arent you as smart as your friends?

Anonymous No. 16626209

>>16626107
Do you have HIV/AIDS?

Anonymous No. 16626241

>>16626209

no , why

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Anonymous No. 16626259

>>16626241

Anonymous No. 16626373

>>16626107
>>16626209
>>16626259
Tongue fungus was my first thought as well. Please get checked for some kind of immunodeficiency because the normal average person’s immune system should be able to fight off this fungus easily and it’s a hallmark AIDS or Lupus symptom. Also shows up in chemotherapy, they call it “chemo tongue”

Anonymous No. 16626412

>>16626373
dude, it's never lupus lmao.

Anonymous No. 16626428

>>16626412
I don't know why that show decided to make all patients unanimously think that lupus is some ultra rare disease which is a misdiagnosis
I remember reading a paper about how people who had watched the show were actually more wrong about lupus sx compared to not

Anonymous No. 16626466

wtf
I think the nurses actually like and respect me

Anonymous No. 16626947

>>16618500
pretty good like any healthcare field. lot of options to choose from. the salary in my state is around 130k starting but you also come out of school 250-300k in debt and it only goes up each year.

Anonymous No. 16627171

I am an OMS1 and it looks like I'll probably have to repeat the year. I'm just wondering if I can still get into a pathology residency? Like are my chances pretty much done now and I should just go for primary care instead? Would really like some advice on what to do.

Anonymous No. 16627208

that picture above and shit is retarded
because of course it is going to be

Anonymous No. 16627231

when will medicine develop a cure for virginity?
and don't say pussy, because that shit isn't real

Anonymous No. 16627245

>>16627171
Pathology is still easy to get into, shouldn't be an issue assuming you get to the point of applying.

Anonymous No. 16627292

>>16627171
>I am an OMS1 and it looks like I'll probably have to repeat the year.
What class or what in general are you struggling with? I'm a first year too and it's like being thrown in the deep end of the pool.

Anonymous No. 16627349

>>16627292
I mainly struggled with anatomy this year. I feel like Anki doesn't work very well for me. I understand information best when it's organized into structures like tables.

Anonymous No. 16627371

>>16626466
Don't let a woman, wiggling her behind flattering and coaxing, decieve you; she wants your barn.
--Hesiod

Anonymous No. 16627380

new
>>16627378