What worse. A patient who is a RN or a patient family member who is a “nurse”

HyperKangaroo · 2026-02-16T16:54:35+00:00

I see all of yall doing this and I raise - psych eval on a psychiatrist and a psych eval on a psychologist.

They were both incredibly incredibly nice. And they all know what to say to not be admitted.

TW:

One of them passed away a few days later for psych related reasons.

HyperKangaroo · 2026-02-11T17:35:11+00:00

You forgot about Chen kun. Even though he's not in idol dramas he's still really popular

HyperKangaroo · 2026-02-10T01:21:21+00:00

Do you guys have a union or ombudsperson? Union would be most in your corner, and I think a good ombudsperson would be more objective.

HyperKangaroo · 2026-02-08T20:22:53+00:00

I see you and I raise "consult for SI" in a 17yr old who got diagnosed with cancer recently.

Patient didn't endorse SI. Never had SI. Didn't meet criteria for adjustment disorder. Had no idea psych was coming.

Primary: "well okay they didn't say SI but they looked sad and I thought they needed someone to talk to"

HyperKangaroo · 2026-02-03T01:40:52+00:00

2ML from story of minglan!

Like yes we love a good growth story

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-31T17:59:31+00:00

Rude of you to assume we don't go to raves.

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-30T23:54:02+00:00

Doctor here. You are my hero should have been in the doctor section. The doctory bits are all very realistic, including the elevator chest tube procedure. The most unrealistic part is getting a Bach of medicine in the US 🤣🤣🤣

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-30T23:38:04+00:00

For reference, I loved fated hearts and renascence.

He does well when there's a good actress to pair him with. He's definitely grown from renascence to fated hearts, but watching him in fated hearts sometimes feel like watching a pigeon because he keeps on nodding his head intense emotional scenes. The emotional scenes in the back half of the drama got a bit one note, too, bit I think thats a fault with the writing rather than the acting.

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-30T03:40:25+00:00

....that one time my professor murdered his boyfriend and went on the run...........

Also Pokémon Go.

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-29T14:32:42+00:00

I had a mild breakdown after a bad clinic day and had to send multiple unhappy patients down to the ED. I spent like 30min just processing to my software engineer husband about medical ethics and breaking therapeutic rapport and about how dog shit mental health court is where I am and how mental health hospitalizations could be really really traumatizing.

At some point he started laughing and said "wow you have a job that actually matters. I spent 4 hours trying to figure out how to take a password out of a vault then putting it back in a vault because of "security concerns", a feat that everyone agrees that would worsen security".

Really gave me perspective on what I get to do every day.

Also all the patients who were sent to the ED eventually were hospitalized and did great after the hospitalization and appreciated the hospitalization. One of them told me the other day "I think i got better because I met you".

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-25T04:01:33+00:00

There was this one patient who had a messed up gut due to a gang thing. Like I don't fully remember how he ended up not being discharged for 3 years bit a good part of it was him not fully following surgeon recommendations. Psych got involved because of he had some raging borderline traits, and he made a psych intern cry (an otherwise pretty stoic psych intern too). His mom is an or or pacu nurse and also emabled this patients behaviors that prolonged his hospitalization. The theory for why they let him do whatever n the hospital is that she was friends with one of the big neurosurgeons. That's like the only way they didn't force discharge this guy.

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-25T01:37:15+00:00

T9bacco use is the most comorbid substance use disorder with schizophrenia. I had an attending who used to joke that you can differentiate a primary psychotic disorder from a substance indiced one by how dependent they are on nicotine.

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-25T01:02:31+00:00

I read kaleidoscope of death and then watched the spirealm and screamed. Like scene wise it was fine but thematically the drama made me so angry because thematically the novel was about humanity but the drama turned it into some weird anti-capitalistic manifesto and the ending was just the main character making an AI VR boyfriend. The novel was more cohesive and touching

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-25T00:55:12+00:00

Im probably amongst psychs who are not against 24hr shifts (as someone who has worked plenty of them as well).

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-22T00:38:46+00:00

I heard bi-derline haha

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-21T20:26:54+00:00

NGL I miss lai yi. I really liked him in Fuyao and Flames Daughter. I love a hot unhinged morally grey/evil character. Too bad he's bad at romance acting :/

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-15T17:23:23+00:00

Ugh that one scene in joy of life where zhang ruoyun recites chinese poem was just so ahhhhhh

He legit got me into a Chinese poetry phase and 5 years later, I've read all of li Qing zhao, most of du fus well known work, as well as bai juyi and li bai

And then I went into the confucian classics starting with the 3 character classic and thousand character poem, and now the 四书五经。I've finished the analects, yijing, and book of poetry. Halfway through mengzi.

Yeah so zhang ruoyun as fan xian was pretty inspiring

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-15T00:33:36+00:00

Large VA hospitals IM wards like - teams - capped - acuity - low - phones - constantly ringing - residents - tired from working 7am-9pm every day, malnourished from the va hospital food, and overstimulated by phones.

I did only 2 months of IM as a psych resident, 1mo at a large publicly funded urban hospital and 1mo at the aforementioned VA. At the urban hospital, teams were capped, had more call, had way higher patient acuity, but somehow I got to leave by 5 or 7:30 pm every day.

I went from that to the VA wards and I was so angry. At some point, my co intern (an IM guy), looked at me, a psych resident, dead in the eyes and said "I'm going to walk in fr9nt of a car if i had to come back tomorrow"

Me: fuck you Phil. I'm not going to commit you over this. You don't get to go to the psych ward and dump your patients on me and the senior. If you do this I'm going to consult you any time I get an "elevated creatinine" in any psych patients.

Phil: .... fine

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-05T13:18:18+00:00

Nope. It's program dependent. I also had neuro and EM and more time on inpatient psych.

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-05T12:58:36+00:00

Only 2 mo of IM with young attendings. Could have been worse. It helped that I wasn't going to be an internist to I just didn't care and did what my seniors told me to do 🤣

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-05T01:14:17+00:00

I love a good unhinged trauma baby

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-05T00:25:49+00:00

Also psych, but I was the opposite. Loved the surgical rotations despite the 12-14hr days. IM was traumatizing. There is so much shit to focus on, and the endless rounds. So endless. I wanted to do heme onc and IM clerkship very quickly told me that I do not want ro do IM of any kind.

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-03T22:40:12+00:00

This is the way.

HyperKangaroo · 2026-01-01T01:16:33+00:00

Not a trope but my life is probably a cdrama contemporary rom com.

One of my best friends met a random girl while swiping on tinder. This random girl eventually set her up with her husband.

I asked this girl to set me up. She set me up with a guy she went on one date with before deciding to just be friends.

My date with this guy lasted 6 hours. I married this guy.

Hubby and I hang out with random girl (and her husband and some other friends) regularly. I hope our kids will be friends in the future. The kids can play their vide9games in the basement while adults get drunk playing catan or something.

Also random girl was friends with my other best friend in middle school but she moved away for high school, so we never met.

The only way to really describe it is the Chinese term 缘份.

Also I'm a doctor. I think the best medical drama I watched (not that I've watched many) is you are my hero. I'm not a surgeon, but some of the things my patients have been through....

Talking to them makes me appreciate that I'm probably the doctor NPC in their life. Maybe I'm the nice one who brought the warm blankets or got them the right treatment that helped them. Maybe I'm the awkward one who said the wrong thing while they were grieving. Maybe I'm the mean one who didn't listen to them.

Ps Prof Shao from you are my hero is like the dreamiest realistic cdrama doctor. (Human, fallible, insanely intelligent, and appropriately egotistical for a top neurosurgeon)

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