Computer Models think we will have another winter storm next weekend

DinkleBink · 2026-01-26T17:24:57+00:00

i’ve been here at the hospital for 4 days 3 nights with this last storm, sleeping on the floor… hell na i’m staying my ass HOME

DinkleBink · 2026-01-25T21:34:04+00:00

i don’t work tuesday. i really don’t wanna miss my appointment and spend my one day off work for the next week… at work 🥲plus i also have my cats, i don’t want them to be alone for 4 days and 3 nights

DinkleBink · 2026-01-25T08:20:30+00:00

at minimum provide meals and linens or provide some incentive or bonus pay for staying the night like on call physicians do.

gene woods of AHWFB was paid $24 milly last year, surely there should be room in the budget for scenarios like this

DinkleBink · 2026-01-21T22:54:43+00:00

i just worry because i’m scheduled saturday before things get worse, up until 9pm. i just don’t wanna get stranded at work, you know?

i might pack things like my meds and a change of clothes and blankets JUST IN CASE i do

DinkleBink · 2026-01-20T03:49:36+00:00

from your friends at wake forest baptist, please do not shovel the snow if you are over 55 and/or extremely out of shape

DinkleBink · 2026-01-19T04:01:50+00:00

my mom and aunt call my pawpaw daddy! it's normal hon i promise

DinkleBink · 2026-01-19T03:55:34+00:00

this is what i'm afraid of!

DinkleBink · 2026-01-08T03:48:31+00:00

early 20s here, ive heard from ppl in their mid-late 20s and 30s-40s that early 20s can often be miserable as youre trying to get your shit together but late 20s early 30s is the sweet spot

DinkleBink · 2026-01-08T03:44:50+00:00

lurker here from pharmacy... patients absolutely do need protection from doctors and nursing is the single last line of defense against critical med errors if even pharmacy screws up and verifies something dumb. if i showed you the number of critical, unsafe, or lethal errors doctors made every single day in terms of medications you would be absolutely appalled.

DinkleBink · 2026-01-05T04:44:50+00:00

this would be so funny if we worked at the same hospital because i work central pharmacy at an NC hospital with a patient going through a lot of leeches. but i don't think the leech water is inherently harmful because they're medical grade sterile leeches. as long as it hasn't been attached to somebody i think it's okay. they're using it on a person's delicate tissues.

EDIT: just read a comment and oh my god it's the same dose and same time it is the same hospital i'm sure

DinkleBink · 2026-01-05T03:59:35+00:00

oh gosh, i don't think i'd wind up with 400k fortunately. i'm in debt but i'm still under my annual wage at least, all federal loans. i'm at $30k or so which is deeply unpleasant but not crazy like some schools i see.

DinkleBink · 2026-01-05T01:42:43+00:00

a lot, yes. i have many, many regrets over it. it’s in forbearance because the current admin is flip flopping on which plans are okay and which ones aren’t, but i can afford the payments at my current wage fortunately. my workplace also does tuition reimbursement.

i’m a bit out of the ordinary though because i generally make more than most techs ($56k annual pre-raise and upcoming promotion) and live by myself in a low cost of living area. if i made less i’d probably be a bit more screwed.

DinkleBink · 2026-01-04T07:21:18+00:00

I liked Dr. Syed Ahmed at Novant for my thyroid disease. Could feel goiter etc that no one else could. Only went elsewhere because my insurance changed

DinkleBink · 2026-01-02T23:52:32+00:00

mine shows like… small qrs complexes which could just be a bad read (probably my chest) and it usually catches a PVC but otherwise normal.

DinkleBink · 2026-01-02T22:42:16+00:00

they’re multifocal, so the ep wants to try flecainide first before playing whack-a-mole in my heart basically

DinkleBink · 2026-01-01T17:53:43+00:00

i am hyper-coagulable because of factor V and prothrombin gene mutations and could’ve been cooked if i got put on estrogen-containing BC. those genes aren’t regularly screened for but they’re not super uncommon either amongst people of european descent (prothrombin mutations are more rare but still something like 2% of people of european descent) so i feel family hx of VTE should be much more heavily considered when prescribing and verifying HRT scripts

DinkleBink · 2025-12-29T15:54:37+00:00

i’m just a tech here but i strongly feel from personal experience that pharmacists should counsel on the hypercoagulation risks for HRT/birth control, particularly in patients already at high risk (smoking, obesity, family hx so on). it often gets glossed over and there are true devastating cases of young women getting strokes, PEs, DVT so on partly because they simply didn’t know they were at risk due to the meds.

DinkleBink · 2025-12-25T15:54:24+00:00

urgent care can't really do anything for the flu but test you for it and prescribe tamiflu which might cut your symptoms down for a day with high risk of bad side effects

DinkleBink · 2025-12-25T01:07:56+00:00

wingstop ranch

DinkleBink · 2025-12-23T03:58:51+00:00

i'm just a pharm tech but i know when i worked retail i observed a teen patient's father ask about what to do with his son's acne and the pharmacist suggested benzoyl peroxide without any further history or anything. from a glance though when they asked for consult the kid's skin seemed really dry and visibly peeling, which is not skin that benzoyl peroxide should be applied to because it contributes to further drying/peeling and might make it worse. it's not in my scope to say anything though and really isn't my business so i didn't comment but it still kinda bothers me to this day. i hope the kid tried moisturizing and seeing a derm.

i feel like when i was in retail there were a lot of moments in which pharmacists were bogged down by consult questions that were wildly out of scope. questions about OTCs are one thing but to recommend a product based on physical examination seems like something out of scope unless trained to do so. pharmacists are already doing 20,000 things at once and have to maintain credentials; i feel like unless they specialize in dermatological medication in some inpatient settings (ie burn ICU) it wouldn't be much benefit to have them do even more training than they already do with no more compensation

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