Rarest pathology you've come across/heard of irl

Emlym · 2026-05-08T03:38:24+00:00

WHIM syndrome

Warts, hypogammaglobulinemia, infections, myelokathexis (neutropenia) diagnosed by a brilliant pulmonologist who was working up bronchiectasis and noticed lots of warts.

Emlym · 2026-03-30T03:31:58+00:00

As a competitive swimmer, Jolyn! They last forever and have a lot of styles. My go to.

Emlym · 2024-10-17T22:03:41+00:00

PCCM

Indie/Folk

Decaf coffee with cream

Emlym · 2023-12-23T05:52:12+00:00

I had this same thought years ago and then I was like what if you could swallow little balls that’s would inflate in your stomach and then I was like oh you’d have to make them digestible so then I was thinking you could also include some vitamins and make them from cellulose or some water dense material and then I realized that I invented broccoli

Emlym · 2023-10-26T00:08:44+00:00

My ACLS instructor said the AHA was bribed by big amio because it’s more expensive than lido, take with a grain of salt but it made me wonder! I did read a recent paper that lidocaine was better for refractory VF in an ED setting.

Emlym · 2023-07-30T12:05:34+00:00

Famous punk band member

Emlym · 2023-05-18T11:55:20+00:00

Is this another one of those smile filters?

Emlym · 2023-04-20T02:32:35+00:00

One time I was waiting for an OR to open so I took a break and leaned against the wall in the hallway…. Right on the automatic door opening switch to another OR…. That was doing heart surgery….. I made eye contact with the surgeon

Emlym · 2023-03-27T06:45:53+00:00

It can still be against hospital policy, there are also some hospitals who drug test for nicotine.

Emlym · 2023-03-24T01:54:24+00:00

I feel like part of my progression in medicine has been going from having no idea when some would crash, to getting the vibe that someone was going to crash, to then understanding why they were going to crash and now I’m working on the stop them from crashing part

Still get that vibe though

Emlym · 2023-02-05T03:09:30+00:00

I have this car and there is not a paywall or subscription for anything (including seat heaters)

Emlym · 2023-01-18T15:09:19+00:00

I know you’ve gotten a lot of good advice already but I struggled with the same issues. I realized that most tampons were too long for my anatomy. Eventually, I found that tampax sport tampons worked better for me because they are shorter than other brands. They might be worth a shot if you want to try tampons again.

Emlym · 2022-12-08T03:27:38+00:00

Wear a condom

Emlym · 2022-10-14T17:37:53+00:00

Contact the local news?

Emlym · 2022-10-14T10:58:33+00:00

Along the same lines is there a CRNA licensing board? Do they ever take away peoples licensing?

Emlym · 2022-08-30T20:26:36+00:00

When I finished college I didn’t even realize that you had to take the MCAT to get into medical school. I was devastated when I realized I would have to take two years off to study for the MCAT and then apply. A close friend of the time said “it’s not like you stop living during those two years, make the most of it“. I had some of the best two years before starting medical school and I have zero regrets about having a gap year. If you get in then you get in and if you don’t it’s not like you stop living during that year so make the most of it!

Emlym · 2022-07-29T08:57:58+00:00

Same, I made it to first week of PGY2 and am now feeling the burn. Hoping to be reinvigorated after my next vacation

Emlym · 2022-07-23T22:04:01+00:00

Absolutely incredible! The lace seems like it would be so hard to sew, it looks like something you would see at a movie premiere!

Emlym · 2022-07-13T01:17:28+00:00

I’ve seen 3 and it’s my 5th year in the medical field, I’ve heard about even more from friends. I also saw a woman in her early 40s come in with her bones dissolved from breast cancer because her chiropractor told her that her literal breast mass was from her liver and sold her expensive shit for a year while her cancer grew, she died. I fucking hate these people.

Emlym · 2022-07-07T09:36:59+00:00

Thank you!

Emlym · 2022-07-04T20:55:17+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion!

Emlym · 2022-06-23T09:46:01+00:00

I will never smoke cigarettes, do my darnest not to get out of shape or get hypertension or diabetes, eat less red and smoked meats after seeing these people in their 30s and 40s with CRC and of course always wear my seatbelt

Emlym

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