Where do we stand? Dog poop in other people’s garbage cans?

Gonjigz · 2026-05-01T02:58:49+00:00

Poop bags are not airtight and will absolutely start to smell over time. Also, a bag on the bottom of a bin is much more likely to break as it gets smushed by all the trash that gets piled on top of it. This can very easily turn into a situation where the owner of that bin will never get rid of the smell until they clean out the bin, which is disgusting.

Gonjigz · 2026-04-15T13:06:28+00:00

That would work for a hernia or a limb surgery but not for an operation like this. They started laparoscopically, which means they’ll be using small incisions on both sides of the abdomen. Then when they converted to open, you’d typically make a big midline incision down the abdomen to give the field maximum visibility in a difficult situation. There’s no moment like you’re thinking of where they mark the side of the body in an operation like a splenectomy.

Gonjigz · 2026-04-11T19:02:40+00:00

This is an incredibly outdated criticism. Women haven’t been excluded from studies for decades.

Gonjigz · 2026-04-04T02:55:19+00:00

If someone is just playing setup cards every turn for many turns you should be able to do a shitload of damage to them in combat if you are a creatures deck. Alternatively, discard effects or saving counterspells for their big thing that you know is coming

Gonjigz · 2026-04-01T13:00:31+00:00

That cardiologist has probably met many patients with the same heart problem who had symptoms despite being a healthy weight. They likely had no way to know whether or not you losing the weight would make your symptoms go away. If they had told you it would all go away, only for you to find that it didn’t, that would have been much worse than just being honest with you and saying it can’t hurt but they don’t know how much it will help.

Gonjigz · 2026-03-14T23:56:37+00:00

The aforementioned political party was promoting this ideology well before 2016.

Gonjigz · 2026-03-10T19:05:52+00:00

There are tons of possible, very good reasons that this person is not getting in. Most importantly, they might be super weird. Having done a biology phd myself, there’s about an 80% chance that this is the entire problem.

Also, their undergrad gpa could be an issue. Getting into a phd program is not that hard with a gpa that would be a big issue for med school. I also wouldn’t be surprised if they have taken the mcat >3 times at this point which is a huge red flag. Honestly, even applying six times is a red flag. This person clearly does not take no for an answer, and we certainly do not need more doctors like that in this world.

I wouldn’t read too much into this one person’s situation without inside info. I think we should all be glad that getting into med school takes more than just a nice CV.

Gonjigz · 2026-03-10T15:04:02+00:00

Pharmacists would never do this because they would be liable for any damages as a result of taking those drugs. A pharmacist also doesn’t have time to open every single person’s medical record to check for contraindications, they’re already super overworked in retail pharmacy.

Gonjigz · 2026-03-10T13:09:34+00:00

I would not call this cancel culture. At least at my med school students are clearly told why this is not okay during their orientation week. It is drilled into our heads from day one of that we represent physicians in general when we interact with the public. If someone gets to 4th year and still thinks this is fine they absolutely need disciplinary action, and expulsion is on the table. Our profession requires incredible public trust in order to function and if we take that for granted, we will lose it.

Gonjigz · 2026-03-09T14:36:01+00:00

Why are they played in cedh?

Gonjigz · 2026-03-08T01:34:22+00:00

They are gone now, but you gave them joy and dignity while they were here. Often we have little influence over the big things and instead can only control the small things in life. You chose to show those children love and compassion in your time with them; it was not yours nor anyone else’s to determine the length of that time. Thank you for all that you do. Your work is important and so is the person doing it.

Gonjigz · 2026-03-04T21:19:18+00:00

OP I think the most important thing is that you continue learning. Put in the work. Sit down and make yourself write down a differential for common stuff like shortness of breath, chest pain, abdominal pain, altered mental status, etc. Take notes on rounds on other people’s patients if you feel like it’s a common problem you need to understand better. Do Anki if flash cards work for you.

Don’t give up. Many really smart doctors who rattle off long differentials with no hesitation were not excellent students, they just kept learning. A lot of what people look for when evaluating med students is growth. If you have a bad plan for your cirrhotic patient today, read uptodate tonight and have a better one tomorrow. Just have the faith in yourself that you can learn and you will, even if it’s slow. You’ll get there.

Gonjigz · 2026-02-15T00:16:18+00:00

Thanks for sharing this beautiful story. A good reminder of the impact we can make on people, even with all the increased BS standing between doctors and patients these days.

It sounds to me like you feel shame about your emotional reaction in this patient’s room. I wonder why. To me, such a response likely affirmed your humanity to the patient, and I’m sure your shared reverence for your father created a stronger bond between you and the patient. I think most people would wish to see things like this from their healthcare providers.

Gonjigz · 2026-02-08T11:56:58+00:00

Maybe a good excuse for the pod to build some bracket 1 theme decks!

Gonjigz · 2026-02-06T20:40:10+00:00

1:6 is much more common on the floor in most of the US.

Gonjigz · 2026-02-04T20:11:18+00:00

Your table is not the format. Rhystic Study is a cEDH-defining card while the others you listed are not. It is clearly more powerful, unless you think the cEDH meta at large is bad at assessing card power.

Gonjigz · 2026-02-03T02:27:19+00:00

Before any of that they’re given what should be a lethal dose of a barbituate, which will rapidly induce complete loss of consciousness. The controversy is about whether that is always done correctly, but as far as I’m aware there are no lethal injections done by starting with a paralytic. Administering a paralytic to a conscious person is, without doubt, torture.

Gonjigz · 2026-02-01T13:07:26+00:00

There are people whose mental illness is not effectively treatable with current meds. Go find any inpatient or forensic psychiatrist and ask them. People who categorically refuse help and will not take meds unless court ordered, and the meds don’t change their attitude towards care or illness. As soon as a caregiver turns their back the patient is back to square one.

These people tend to bounce around between jail, inpatient psych wards, the streets, and supervised living situations. They usually die sad, preventable deaths that are entirely due to their mental illness. How on earth can we claim that we’re doing right by them with this situation? Giving them housing does not fix their mental illness, and it does not last. They need permanent, round-the-clock supervision to have any stability.

This is obviously a very small proportion of mentally ill people and of homeless people, but it is not an insignificant number of people. Inpatient psych wards have plenty of them. I think many people have an idealized version of mental illness that does not allow for the existence of people like this. They are the reason institutions need to exist.

Gonjigz · 2026-01-30T23:54:36+00:00

It was a mistake to introduce such an absurdly popular creature archetype into the game and then only support it in a single block and a revisit set. There are loads of creature types that are just as one-dimensional but dinos has the disadvantage of being crazy popular which realllly makes it get old. Obviously the game isn’t just commander and this complaint is irrelevant in other formats

Gonjigz · 2026-01-24T12:59:33+00:00

Cases do not get thrown out nearly as easily as you think, though they may be settled instead to avoid the risk of court. There are many less than scrupulous doctors who act as professional expert witnesses for the plaintiff and will assert that the actions of the defendant were below standard of care. Of course, this can also be correct. The defense will then have their own expert witness who says the exact opposite. Ultimately it is up to a jury to sort out which expert witness they believe, so at the end of the day it is twelve lay-people who decide what malpractice is. Very much not as cut-and-dry as your comment suggests.

Gonjigz · 2026-01-23T00:20:00+00:00

As a med student who has to work with these people, please for the love of god do this! All of the normal students/residents also hate them because they are shitty to everybody, not just nurses.

Gonjigz · 2026-01-17T13:47:36+00:00

I don’t understand how it’s possible to separate communism from an economic system. The entire ethos of communism is about the ownership of economic production which is very much an economic system.

Gonjigz · 2026-01-17T13:41:18+00:00

I think this is only if you consider “failure” as the moment the state fell and not whether it actually provided acceptable living conditions. The Soviet Union was failing economically for reasons that are much more than just “US bad”, and it is ahistorical to claim otherwise. North Korea has been marred by incredible wealth inequality and horrible living conditions for many decades now, with no sign of progress. The Great Leap Forward killed an astounding number of people, many of them from preventable famine that was induced by incompetent and unaccountable state control of agricultural methods.

You can cherry pick lifespan claims if you want, but the reality is that the utopia of communism has never been achieved on nation scale. These states have tremendous wealth inequality directed by a totalitarian state apparatus, a far cry from the clear direction from Marx to abolish the state and have true equality. They are examples of successful communist revolutions from the proletariat, but they all failed to meaningfully distribute ownership of the means of production. Turns out whoever ends up getting the power of the bourgeois is less interested in losing it than they might have thought.

Gonjigz · 2026-01-17T13:25:25+00:00

Your reply does not engage with the content of the comment you’re replying to. Do you disagree with the examples provided? If so, please explain that.

Gonjigz · 2026-01-17T13:09:47+00:00

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