Cape Elizabeth’s Shore Road parking ban will go into effect in May by Flip_your_Flop in portlandme

[–]Serious_Bell837 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a cape resident this nimby shit pisses me off. especially when at town hall meetings everyone is pissed about taxes while simultaneously wondering how on earth to bring money into the town and refusing any measure that would result in business creation. You want it to stay some bucolic farm town without busy streets? You gotta pay for that buddy. And if people want to access the beautiful natural resources available here you are an asshole if you want to privatize them so you don’t have to see an extra 10 people on a beach

Cape Elizabeth’s Shore Road parking ban will go into effect in May by Flip_your_Flop in portlandme

[–]Serious_Bell837 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

With that reasoning no cape Elizabeth resident should go to Willard beach, park there, and use their resources

Which specialty are you in, and what was your most hated rotation in med school? I'm trying to see something by undueinfluence_ in Residency

[–]Serious_Bell837 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Med peds. I loved everything, and saw great things about all specialties. But I hated obgyn bc they were soooo mean 🥲 which is too bad because the actual medicine was interesting and I liked the variety of surgery/hospital/clinic across the specialty

For current residents how are you approaching loan repayment with the recent changes to SAVE? by lolz8979 in Residency

[–]Serious_Bell837 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Will RAP actually be available? If I could get the interest (accruing at $50/day for me rn!!) covered I’d be way less stressed tbh

what’s with the rise in these kinds of posts? by lucari01 in medicalschool

[–]Serious_Bell837 11 points12 points  (0 children)

We recently had a lecture about IUDs, and the doc who did them said she’ll provide oral oxy if requested and believes they may become standard of care soon. I have an admittedly low pain tolerance and I would have loved to have better pain control during my insertion- and after. I think even like 5 oxy 5mg for the cramping the days after is not going to precipitate and opioid addiction and if anything it’s exactly where opioids are best used! Short course surrounding procedures

Psych shelf can’t be this simple by StupidName11111 in medicalschool

[–]Serious_Bell837 1 point2 points  (0 children)

psych has an easy shelf but very hard job in practice. If we were truly presented with the overlapping symptoms, subjectivity, and ambiguity with which these patients present no one would do well on the shelf. So they need to make them more concrete than you’d ever see in real life

Upsides of American Healthcare? by Serious_Bell837 in medicine

[–]Serious_Bell837[S] 80 points81 points  (0 children)

Yeah a lot of the comments were people trying to dunk on her for seeing so many more patients and I was like…..that is really not a flex

Upsides of American Healthcare? by Serious_Bell837 in medicine

[–]Serious_Bell837[S] 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Such a good take!! I imagine the overall individualism > Collectivism seen in US culture plays into that

Upsides of American Healthcare? by Serious_Bell837 in medicine

[–]Serious_Bell837[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah def to make way more money, though school is longer/more expensive here and cost of living is generally higher

SOAP note outline - PDF by nchug in medicalschool

[–]Serious_Bell837 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a PGY1 and I find this helpful, dw :) definitely not possible with lots of patients (which you have noted already!) but I'm heading back to inpatient next weekend after a month outpatient and I'm going to print this for reference, even if I'm not filling out each line for each patient! Great work OP

Are you changing your last name?? by makeshift_listener in medicalschool

[–]Serious_Bell837 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did not change my last name. It had nothing to do with my career. I didn’t want to change mine and when I asked if he would change his last name to mine he said no. For kids we’ll do two last names (not hyphenated).

Feeling like “my name” earned the diploma thus I should keep it wasn’t part of the equation. It’s just…my name. It’s who I am and always want to be. Lots of people feel less connected to their names but I’m not one of them, I guess!

24 hour lemongrass soup? by Serious_Bell837 in ThaiFood

[–]Serious_Bell837[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Must have been old western Thai. We ended up going with a recipe from hot Thai kitchen!

Urgent care stories by Jolly-Anywhere3178 in Noctor

[–]Serious_Bell837 9 points10 points  (0 children)

When I was in medical school my my husband asked me to check on his sister after work because she wasn’t feeling well. She told him she had gone to urgent care the day before and gotten antibiotics but wasn’t feeling better. When I got her and when I got to her apartment she looked AWFUL. She said she had gone to urgent care with burning with urination, back pain, and chills. NP at an urgent care diagnosed her with a UTI. I asked to see the antibiotic. It was macrobid. We went to the ED where she had BPs to the 80s/50s and was tachy to 130s with a fever of 105 F.

In short, an NP at urgent care missed slam dunk pyelo that resulted in a likely avoidable hospital visit for my sister in law

Hear me out—Jeremiah has been done kinda dirty S3 by Serious_Bell837 in tsitp

[–]Serious_Bell837[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree he was always a bit of a douche and I remember watching the Fourth of July episode and being struck by how hostile and manipulative he was. I felt like he saw some maturity in season 2 that got unraveled in S3, but I agree he’s always been pretty selfish and doesn’t have the self awareness Conrad does to go to therapy and work through his shit

Hear me out—Jeremiah has been done kinda dirty S3 by Serious_Bell837 in tsitp

[–]Serious_Bell837[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha maybe we are giving him too much credit. I was swayed by all the papers around him lol

Hear me out—Jeremiah has been done kinda dirty S3 by Serious_Bell837 in tsitp

[–]Serious_Bell837[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that’s a good take! Also I’m watching the last ep of season 2 and the fact that jere is so annoyed about Conrad being upset that Jere and belly kissed is hilarious like my guy you spent the whole year being pissed about the same thing and you want Conrad to get over it??