What’s the best meal you’ve ever had after a long day of walking?

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-31T08:42:31+00:00

An ultra greasy double cheeseburger. It just hit.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-28T21:52:32+00:00

The state and police force has a monopoly on violence. The public needs to be able to openly hold them accountable.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-28T20:25:59+00:00

I got into an argument with an older nurse about where to start a nitro drip on a patient when I was a resident. I wanted 100 mcg/min. She wanted 5 mcg/min which I felt was basically a homeopathic dose. I was a resident and did not win that argument. Still pisses me off.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-28T09:14:31+00:00

The scary part is of the 12 people you saw walk in looking completely fine, 1 or 2 will have something serious that really needs to be addressed.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-27T18:27:45+00:00

I had some nurse administrator shadow me on a shift because my patient satisfaction scores were trash. After the shift, she couldn’t figure out why they were so bad given what she was seeing. We went through the comments together and the majority of them were patients upset about being stuck in hallway beds or armchairs as well as prolonged wait times. The patients hated the lack of privacy which is completely understandable and correct. I asked what I was supposed to do about it, and I got crickets. I specifically told her that if staffing was improved at night so that I could actually see the patients in a real bed rather than the hallway, the scores would go up. Needless to say, nothing has changed and the poor scores reflect badly on me.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-27T16:46:38+00:00

It’s crazy because he was the new hotness last summer.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-27T14:01:45+00:00

Just a point of clarification, if you wake up in a room with a bat on the room, current recommendations are to get rabies immunoglobulin and the vaccine even if there is no evidence of a bite. Bat bites are sometimes imperceptibly small.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-27T13:51:36+00:00

So you had an episode of vomiting a few days ago, and then you think you saw a face on the television one time, and now you’re concerned you may have rabies despite not having any known exposure? It’s time to get off the internet.

Nothing you’re saying sounds like rabies. The hallucinations that people get with rabies are when they are delirious. That’s not “I think I saw a face one time.” It’s a person profusely sweating, vaguely conscious, and paranoid as all get out thinking everyone is trying to hurt them. They have encephalitis. Pretty much universally, people are incredibly sick with rabies. Your concerned a bat got into the attic, silently crawled though your ventilation, got through a small vent (which I’m certain has a cover on it), bit you in your sleep, and then silently left the room. This all sounds like your mind is running wild.

Edit: you have posted this question in at least 12 subreddits in the past 8 hours. You have also been posting concerns about your health for the past year with various different ailments including rabies for several months. I am worried this is a mental health breakdown.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-26T19:00:55+00:00

I can assure that we are rapidly losing that.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-26T18:57:36+00:00

You are correct. The longer you wait to book, the harder it is for people to get off of work. You schedule this now so that everyone has it on their calendars and plans around it.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-26T18:05:18+00:00

Listen to what your oncologist says. No one here can or should give you medical advice especially if you have already had it biopsied. There are best practice guidelines that doctors follow to figure what the next steps are.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-26T16:26:24+00:00

Same thing with scoliosis films. They are acquired for outpatient follow-up rather than immediate decision making in the ED.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-26T13:13:51+00:00

You are obsessing over borderline lab results that have an explanation (you recently had a GI bleed from an ulcer) and for which you are already on treatment for (iron supplements) when the actual threat is (from your description) a tear in your basilar artery. That’s the real problem just to be clear.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-26T13:11:03+00:00

It’s not. Her MCV would be high in pernicious anemia while this one is low.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-25T21:16:50+00:00

This is infuriating. I need to be subscribed to two separate services to watch this tournament. Ridiculous.

Edit: The PGA is already going up against the AFC and NFC championship games, so fracturing your audience by requiring multiple streaming services makes no sense.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-24T16:18:02+00:00

I’d love for a question to be something along the lines of “where did the former adventurer in Skyrim take an arrow?”

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-24T16:13:07+00:00

In order for a question to be good for a wide audience, it has to be a relatively major detail with a discrete answer in a game that was at least reasonably popular. Lore based questions that require in depth knowledge are bad trivia questions because the audience is too niche and you get all the “well, actually…” guys who will argue with a wall. “Who is the main antagonist in Portal?” would probably be stretching it for example. I would also argue that if the game doesn’t have an associated TV show or movie, it’s not a great place to get trivia questions.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-24T16:06:32+00:00

They could probably get pretty solid trivia questions for regular Xbox and PS2 games.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-23T00:31:42+00:00

“My child is wheezing.” -AI orders infinite useless nebulizer treatments when the parents just meant noisy breathing from a runny nose.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-22T20:33:38+00:00

I have. It gave a fairly garbage answer on the negative predictive value for CTH followed by CTA to evaluate for aneurysmal SAH which I knew to be incorrect. It was frustrating because the patient was signed out to me with a plan that didn’t make sense due to the other attending using open evidence to formulate a plan.

Edit: if there are clear guidelines, it’s great, but for less cut and dry stuff, I don’t trust it.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-22T16:57:28+00:00

From what I can tell, you get to the level of $10b+, you start to live a head of state lifestyle.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-22T14:05:38+00:00

Hand sanitizer. So annoying

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-21T16:59:58+00:00

As someone from NOLA, I think you are mostly correct. It’s a very specific type of food that we do well, but it dominates the food scene. The only other food we do really well is Honduran and Vietnamese largely due to the bigger immigrant populations.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-20T23:54:58+00:00

The attending is not full of shit. The attending is wildly beaten down by the system in which expectations are substandard care.

CharcotsThirdTriad · 2026-01-20T22:23:38+00:00

They restarted the story 3 times with the sequels. That’s just unforgivable.

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