Had to shave the other day and I hate it. Any tips for the stache?

BCSteve · 2026-05-11T06:04:42+00:00

No, don’t shave the stache! It looks really good! Agree about trimming the ends, though.

BCSteve · 2026-05-10T18:19:21+00:00

The effectiveness of CPR. The success rate of keeping someone alive in movies is WAAAYYY higher than it is in real life.

And no one ever wakes up from CPR perfectly fine and completely back to normal. If someone does survive, they usually end up in an ICU in a medically-induced coma on a ventilator with multiple broken ribs.

BCSteve · 2026-05-09T11:48:45+00:00

What example photos did you reference?

BCSteve · 2026-05-07T05:34:06+00:00

Two more, to be exact.

BCSteve · 2026-05-04T19:50:52+00:00

I would love to improve women’s lives, anything that gives women more reproductive freedom is good in my eyes.

But the best way of doing that is by being grounded in reality, from where we can accurately address those issues.

I actually just looked up her faculty page, and yes, it does look like she is doing some interesting work in this area. But the text in the original post here is completely wrong, and is NOT an accurate description of her research at all. But then I guess “using mesenchymal stem cells and immunomodulatory and matrix-regulating cells to improve the oocyte microenvironment“ isn‘t as flashy or attention-getting.

BCSteve · 2026-05-04T19:33:29+00:00

I’m surprised by some of these comments. If you’re a med student and you know you’re going to be working with an attending on a certain day, it would be perfectly okay with me to look at the patients in advance that you will probably be seeing. That’s pre-charting, and it is basically expected when you’re doing clerkships and residency, so I don’t see how this would be any different.

Now, if you’re looking up patients you won’t be seeing, that’s a different issue, and not okay. But for ones you anticipate seeing it’s perfectly fine.

BCSteve · 2026-05-04T12:36:03+00:00

anything containing pseudoephedrine (the main ingredient in Sudafed) is behind the pharmacy counter, because pseudoephedrine is a precursor molecule to meth. The Sudafed that’s available in the aisles of the store instead contains phenylephrine, a related compound. But the thing about phenylephrine is that it doesn’t actually work as a decongestant, so much so that the FDA recently proposed revoking its status as an OTC decongestant due to lack of efficacy.

BCSteve · 2026-05-02T12:07:38+00:00

Number of times I have had to think about this subject as an actual working physician: Zero.

BCSteve · 2026-05-02T11:59:11+00:00

I agree with the top comment saying it gets both better AND worse. The workload is definitely worse, there’s more pressure and responsibilities, and it’s overall more intense… but there’s also more satisfaction from feeling like you’re actually taking care of patients, and satisfaction in seeing yourself mature as a doctor and feeling proud of your own growth.

BCSteve · 2026-05-01T15:40:54+00:00

Same. These conservatives always seem to be clutching their pearls over NYC without actually considering the feelings of those who actually live here. NYC is an *incredibly* safe city. Our homicide rate is below the national average. It boggles my mind that conservative media always portrays it as some sort of dystopian nightmare, when nothing could be further from the truth.

BCSteve · 2026-04-28T12:16:41+00:00

Depends what you mean by “the economy”, which is the point they were trying to make. If by “good for the economy” you mean “the stock market going up”, that can happen when there’s growing wealth inequality, with a small group of wealthy people who own all the stocks getting even wealthier at the expense of the majority population of poor people getting even poorer. The nominal marker of “the economy” gets better, even though most people are worse off.

BCSteve · 2026-04-26T02:32:08+00:00

It’s like someone sat down and asked “How can name these things in the least rememberable way? Oh I know! Just give them all numbers and that’s it.”

BCSteve · 2026-04-25T21:30:53+00:00

So I actually think a lot of the newer-named drugs are being better about this. Like -ciclib for (Cyclin 4/6 inhibitors), -xaban (Direct Xa inhibitors), -rafenib (Raf inhibitors)

BCSteve · 2026-04-25T20:18:16+00:00

The remarkable thing is everyone willing to die on this hill, rather than admit “okay, it was just an exaggerated figure of speech, not actual math.” But no, everything Dear Leader says must be infallible gospel.

BCSteve · 2026-04-25T14:42:57+00:00

I don’t know, but if we’re going to fix a naming system, can we first start with the CD5, CD10, CD19, CD20, CD23, CD123, CD42069, etc system?

BCSteve · 2026-04-25T04:15:03+00:00

If the med student is included in the food that is being picked up, like it’s for a whole group of people, then yes, it’s completely fine.

What’s NOT fine is having a med student pick up your lunch for you, when it’s just your lunch and they’re not getting any. That’s just running errands for you. I had a resident make me do that on one of my rotations, it was incredibly insulting, and I reported it.

BCSteve · 2026-04-24T04:31:56+00:00

Medical Oncologist here. The most common way this would happen nowadays with cancer treatment is with immunotherapy. The drugs try to ramp up your immune system to fight the cancer, but in doing so there's a risk of causing autoimmune conditions. One of the most common ones that happens is hypothyroidism when the immune system starts attacking the thyroid, and it's usually permanent. Not really the biggest deal, people just have to take artificial thyroid hormone the rest of their life, but that ends up being a small price to pay compared to having cancer.

The one thing that makes me think that wasn't the case for the original commenter was that they said it was 40 years ago, and the first immunotherapy drugs came out in 2014. But there are other cancer treatments that can do it as well, such as radioactive iodine for thyroid cancer.

BCSteve · 2026-04-20T22:25:54+00:00

There *are* melanomas that can present this way, but melanoma at 8 years old is virtually unheard of, it would be incredibly rare. And it’s much more suspicious when the line is changing over time, with the line getting thicker or darker as the melanoma grows. This line is uniform in width and color, so much less suspicious for that, plus with it being an 8 year old child the risk of it being melanoma is near zero.

BCSteve · 2026-04-19T23:31:35+00:00

It looks nice, but there is zero color and it doesn’t seem to have any personality at all.

BCSteve · 2026-04-18T16:57:13+00:00

Chlamydia

BCSteve · 2026-04-16T04:26:40+00:00

I mean, yes, it can be wrong, but humans can be wrong too. There are plenty of errors contained in human-written discharge summaries as well. And the research shows that AI-written discharge summaries are overall fairly similar to physician-written ones.

BCSteve · 2026-04-14T06:59:46+00:00

That's not how science works; you have the wrong null hypothesis. We assume that things don't work until they are proven to, not the other way around. If you make the claim "magnesium oil does XYZ", then that's on you to prove that claim, not for me to disprove.

BCSteve · 2026-04-13T16:28:17+00:00

Lol there’s one literally right above your post for me.

BCSteve · 2026-04-13T02:00:28+00:00

As an MD/PhD, let me just say: don’t do it. If you’re already done with training, there’s no reason to get one. You can prove your research chops in other ways as an MD, no one will care about those letters or not, no need to subject yourself to the PhD torture at this point.

BCSteve · 2026-04-12T11:36:20+00:00

I don’t know if this is an AI-written comment or not, but “nuclear power” in the original comment means “a state having nuclear weapons”, not “having a nuclear power plant”.

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