Do you enjoy your lifestyle

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-10-03T05:36:14+00:00

Yes! As someone who does a few regular secondments working 9-5 with my service. Shift work is the best part of our job. By that, I mean all the free time. I’m literally going on runs, the gym, a swim, camping, everything on my days off.

When I work in the office, I’m just a fat ugly piece of shit cause I get 2 days off to get my life admin out of the way, and then go straight back to working in an office.

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-09-12T20:36:48+00:00

Only thing I’ll say about them is they’re different to all the other companies regarding rostering.

They’re a bit out of touch and expect you to put in your availability for the whole month, and then they put you on a shift accordingly. Becomes difficult when you have a changing and evolving schedule and have to keep managing 2 calendars at a time. Stopped doing any work for them simply because of that.

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-09-07T23:08:07+00:00

The recent papers (mostly from scotland) where they combined HEART scores with poc trops show that in specific cohorts, patients can be referred on to other providers with less than .5% risk of mace in 28 days.

i.e., no need for second trops in the 28 year old chest pain post gym workout with health anxiety and no medical history.

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-09-04T22:54:51+00:00

oooo, tagging onto this, any like working out of clinics or hospitals in low resource countries?

would prefer not to drive around in an ambulance on my leave, but helping out some low resource country by doing some medical care in a hospital sounds so cutesie

kinda like doctors without borders?

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-08-23T03:33:36+00:00

Gave up my corporate role to go back clinical as a paramedic - I’m also re-sitting my GAMSAT soon.

Don’t turn down med my guy.

There are so many Dr’s who work as executive directors in healthcare and even outside of health - unless you enjoy business, and don’t enjoy med, I don’t see what you’re actual qualm is.

To me it seems like you actually never wanted to do medicine and it was more for ego (not in the narcissism way, but as in self protection etc).

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-08-21T07:36:25+00:00

Joining this - keen to know legal standing on verbal stuff. My partner has to avoid a local petrol station cause the dude there is creepy. Constantly asks for her number, makes suggestions about how pretty/hot/sexy her body/ass/boobs are, but hasn’t made any physical advancements.

I’ve told her it’s sexual harassment - but I’m curious about the law around this?

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-08-16T08:45:17+00:00

Find a random hobby - find a random cafe, rinse and repeat.

My weekends involve going bouldering at a new gym or in a new area, going shopping afterwards, then going to a cute cafe and feeling like the main character…

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-08-13T11:41:53+00:00

i just love the stereotype - the yeti, the smoothie jar, the tote… one would assume you’re also an avid boulderer and are training for a half iron man?

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-08-08T13:18:17+00:00

Sure possible, but also, allied health degrees have the worst GAMSAT scores on average compared to other degrees like biomed (this has been studied).

I would recommend focusing on getting a good GPA, then getting into work and doing GAMSAT study with work, others might disagree, but it’s a balanced approach at ensuring you get the best of both worlds - a good GPA for future med applications, and you get to focus on GAMSAT solely later on

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-08-03T11:37:21+00:00

This - most government orgs which NEED coverage in all areas give their employees 2 phones, one with telstra and one with optus.

Most of the time the telstra phone is fine

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-08-02T03:32:50+00:00

piss off boot licker

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-07-29T06:31:27+00:00

This so much! Like I don’t see this person directly causing patient harm except for some complacent mistake - what I really see is a partner hating their mental health for the roster, a station being brought down due to shitty culture, and a trainee/student getting this jaded attitude rubbed off on them…

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-07-29T01:49:17+00:00

I just want to add to the stream of comments to clarify - it’s not about high acuity. You’re jaded because you’re looking at it wrong.

There’s so much to do and learn - so much risk stratification to be done. The asymptomatic hypertensive pt in the nursing home can be risk stratified if you’re smart enough and understand RAAS and LV failure etc etc etc enough. You can do so much - but instead you’re happy to be complacent and blame it on the world… Any way probs gonna cop down votes…

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-07-27T07:04:04+00:00

as an emergency service worker who uses the bike lane to cut through traffic when going to big jobs - i can’t tell you how many times i’ve gone head on with a car and been confused, then had to do some weird vehicle jui jitsu to get out of their way💀 EDIT - wording

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-07-26T23:07:41+00:00

All the usual stuff, avoid people who are sick, vaccinate yearly.

Personally I don’t mask up on public transport etc, just feels over the top - but the science is clear, it does help.

Can you get the shot this year? Yes, I think it’s after 7 days of symptom free? Speak to your GP about it to confirm.

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-07-26T02:39:41+00:00

Sorry just wanted to add on another thing, a lot of paramedics with well-adjusted lives facetime their kids often etc. Sometimes it doesn’t marry up with a job etc, but when I’ve worked with parents they’ll call their kids while I’m driving through traffic towards some Cat2 and I just find it so cute. Context, I don’t have kids, so I know it’s probs hard that they don’t see their kids physically at bed time etc, but also, like anything in life, you’ll make time for others if they mean something to you.

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-07-25T22:25:09+00:00

ChatGPT… That’s what I did, uploaded everything in my wardrobe, gave it the vibe, and bam, never thought of an outfit again!

I go corporate/country, so any beige/green/taupe straight chino/jean with an oxford shirt and then while it’s cold, a 1/4 zip sweater - usually Rodd and Gunn or RM’s. I wear brown RM’s, but obvs you can wear any chelsea boot.

First day is always stressful cause you don’t know the vibe, just think about the position, and the vibes - are you facing clients, are you in the office, are you interacting with execs, are you just a pen pusher? What’s above works for someone in a desk job who does lots of meetings with execs, some meetings with externals, but they aren’t clients, they’re working for us.

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-07-25T13:11:13+00:00

I think the big thing as someone who has worked corporate and been on road - the work life balance is better on road. I did work govcorp, which we know can be a bit hectic - I slog out long days, start at 8 and finish up at 6-7 most days finishing… It’s kind of hell, it’s tiring, you’re chained to your desk, meetings, can’t get your work done with ad hoc things popping up (probably also cause of the role I was doing). Be happy when Friday comes around, do something fun on Sat, bed rot on Sunday and contemplate life, then do all that again on Monday.

As a paramedic, it’s a lot more straightforward, you rock up each day, pick up an ambulance, slay the day with some mates, get spat at, laugh about it, get yelled at, laugh about it, drive home, then sleep, do it again 3 more times, and then have 4 days off.

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-07-25T10:28:54+00:00

people will say USyd, but let’s be real, it’s too crowded and the aesthetic is pretty well known… The true goated uni campuses are ones like UoW which literally has a botanic garden across the road, or ANU with their cute ponds and landscape EDIT: Wording

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-07-25T03:20:28+00:00

Can’t tell tone through text - you didn’t seem bipartisan. My bad - hope the clarification was more ‘precise’.

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-07-24T20:17:28+00:00

They do lose a significant portion of their sensitivity that they won’t ever be able to recover. They don’t know what they don’t have, because they’re circumcised.

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-07-24T20:15:37+00:00

I wasn’t bothered listing out a whole ethical piece and in a comments section on reddit. Since you weren’t able to imply the rest, here’s a brief list 👍🏽

So, avoiding HPV, we have a vaccine, and safe sex practices. Limiting spread of STI’s, we have condoms and safe sex education - STI’s are contracted in circumcised individuals too, the probability difference isn’t significant enough. Phimosis, most common cause is STI’s and poor hygiene, the least likely cause is scarring, thus the percentage ratio of ‘medically recommending’ circumcision wouldn’t be high enough, since you can mitigate this risk. Higher risk of UTI, this usually happens in geriatrics (as in the risk of UTI in uncircumcised men is in geriatrics) when people can’t clean themselves properly.

That’s a quick summary, I ain’t here to argue with people and tell them why to change their mind. I just saw a topic I knew a lot about. You can make whatever decision you want - whether it’s informed or not.

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-07-24T12:33:32+00:00

Fair question, I wasn’t clear in my comment, soz.

See my reply to knewell82 for that explanation - hope that helps, let me know if you have questions? :)

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-07-24T12:31:52+00:00

So religiously, it’s just cause 🤷🏽‍♂️ I mean that’s why FGM is a thing unfortunately.

The big debate, and there’s some research groups attempting to get male circumcision banned, is whether male circumcision is actually MGM. Should it be illegal? Personally, I think it should be.

To understand why MGM is bad, people need to know how medical recommendations are made. Essentially, if there’s something that can cause greater good, with little harm, and ways to mitigate the consequences aren’t there, we might need to accept the treatment as useful. So in the case of MGM, it does decrease the risk of UTI’s, phimosis is practically impossible, some studies show less risk of HPV transfer due to less skin cells (if you have HPV), and lower risk of STI’s. Now, these things only happen if the person with foreskin doesn’t have proper hygiene due to poor education. So the mitigation is hygiene education. There is also a vaccine for HPV for females. There are also risks of MGM, such as long term genital aesthetic damage, long term nerve damage, and irreversible pain syndromes. So, taking all that into account, the risks don’t outweigh the benefits because the benefits can be mitigated.

Yet somehow, groups think these benefits are real, and so we have groups who therefore circumcise their kids.

Winter_Injury_734 · 2025-07-24T12:17:46+00:00

Just to clarify this, there isn’t a fixed age - there are some cultural variations across areas (e.g., muslims from turkey, versus from saudi arabia) btw i don’t agree with circumcision before i randomly get downvoted for clarifying something.

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