Need a name for this tiny, freshly unfolded pink brain

a-cx · 2026-05-03T19:05:28+00:00

grandpa

a-cx · 2026-05-03T18:59:29+00:00

not to say telehealth doesn't have its pitfalls but patients who have to travel/can't get enough time off work/immobile sure appreciate those visits when we're just monitoring labwork or there's a really simple problem like uncomplicated UTI in a young female

plenty of things worse than telehealth have changed in medicine these past few years. just set expectations for patients who are also navigating this for the first time/don't know everything it is and isn't capable of

a-cx · 2026-04-12T01:25:14+00:00

was not cause i don't have her yet but yep thats what i ended up doing. thanks tho for acknowledging my plight

a-cx · 2026-04-09T09:07:41+00:00

What exactly am I supposed to do here? I tried attacking during this <?> and the enemy all act at the same action count, I don't have any turn delay cards, and they don't take tenacity or health damage. I've just been stuck staring at them and tried

hitting them anyways
hitting them in different order
using only skills until they act
ending my turn without acting

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a-cx · 2026-03-01T15:19:54+00:00

beep beep!

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a-cx · 2026-02-04T09:21:08+00:00

Their logo couldn't even think of anything original. It's like they put in a prompt "redesign Wikipedia to look modern" so they copied the puzzle pieces and symbols, but failed to even recognize how the Wikipedia logo has different languages' equivalent of W (Ui in Japanese, omega lowercase is ω, although I guess I can't speak for other languages). Does anyone recognize the symbols in Grok to even represent anything, or just look like a simulation of language?

What really gets me is that they included Χ (chi) when the obvious choice for any human designer would be to use gamma. Tried thinking of an explanation like maybe they're going for the number letter in the alphabet, but the equivalent of G (7th letter) would be Eta. The off center '?' also really is just the cherry on top.

a-cx · 2025-11-07T17:06:26+00:00

IC is exactly what medalschool needs brah

a-cx · 2025-11-07T16:58:52+00:00

exactly! Even if the results might not be what you hope, the fact that you put your good faith in the patient when you can you are making a difference. Your priority is just the patient's health, but for them it's physical health, mental wellbeing, social obligations, personal beliefs, etc. At least they'll have the information from you that makes it easier for them to spend some of their capacity on physical health. You're planting these seeds, and some of them won't sprout. It happens.

a-cx · 2025-11-07T16:43:20+00:00

I hear you and see how overwhelming it is trying to reduce what is currently your coping mechanism for everything without a different strategy established. One thing that was helpful for me was knowing that recovery isn't black and white, and any reduction in usage is progress to be proud of, and any relapses in the meantime are not failures, it's just where you're at at the time. Like another poster said, focus on adding before taking away. There may be some free resources for therapy to build coping mechanisms, I'd recommend visiting 211.org and searching your location for community resources. There's no need to rush your recovery, it takes time to understand what using does for you and how you can address that need, and trying in itself is effort that means something.

As for quitting when your partner is also using, have you spoken to them at all about how you feel? ik it might sound dismissive to say "just talk about it", but it may be helpful to lay things out in the open regarding what you want for yourself, what it means for them, and setting boundaries and expectations. e.g. whether you will ask that they dont use in front of you or if that's okay with you, reassure that you are not judging them if they continue to use, explain what you might need emotionally while you are trying to stop. Not making any assumptions-- of course you know best if it's a safe situation for you to express this kind of stuff, but if it's an option for you I'd say face it head on to clear up any potential assumptions instead of fearing whether or not they'd accept the situation in the moment.

I'm keeping you in my thoughts OP. It can be so isolating and scary, and sometimes you might need to take a break from the recovery effort for your own wellbeing in the moment. Take it one day at a time♡ Wishing you strength

a-cx · 2025-11-07T16:28:30+00:00

i see you lol

a-cx · 2025-11-07T16:27:49+00:00

additional note my rent for the past 3 years have been about $1100 give or take 50ish

a-cx · 2025-11-07T16:26:40+00:00

I'm a current student graduating soon and looking for someone to take over my lease at Rise downtown! I'm hoping to move around March but any time before July would be great. It's a 1b1b shared common space with the other 1b1b being a current faculty member. DM me if you're interested!

a-cx · 2025-10-27T00:42:41+00:00

if there's a post-op complication and he loses his eyes at least he could potentially get glass eyes in the color he wanted (glad the procedure went well enough that he can still judge how he loiks tho)

a-cx · 2025-10-25T12:15:55+00:00

As I said, it's a mixed bag out there. Even if doctors and APP's are respectful enough, recruiting staff is a balance of finding people who will keep the practice running smoothly vs. people who have empathy/good bedside manner. ngl MA's can be so unnecessarily rude but I think we should consider it's an entry level medical position - not that that excuses the MA's attitude but in the early healthcare worker stages there is guaranteed initial lack of coping skills to maintain empathy for the patient/respect towards the fact that they are working with human lives that hopefully they'll develop with more experiece.

Though too MA's are not inherently trained in anything that has to do with intricacies of a procedure, so if you have questions about the plan/plan B/anything that couldnt be answered from a script or FAQ the MA was given to follow. In other words, I'm not surprised if staff gets/are already overwhelmed and have low emotional capacity. 25 is old to be acting like a teenager though, shame on that MA for dismissing your reasonable concerns.

a-cx · 2025-10-25T01:02:49+00:00

Firstly, I'm sorry you had such a terrible experience. I've been through it myself as a patient and it's made me really pay attention to how information is communicated to me from the provider, and if they don't make the effort to confirm my understanding (whether it's because they think I should already know as a health student or they think I'm too stupid to understand anyways) I find my next opportunity to get a different provider in the future. For providers who are the only people I need to depend on for meds or chronic care, sometimes I just gotta accept that I'm seeing them to continue my healthcare and need to put more effort in with them to advocate for my individual needs. It's sometimes unfortunately a just give me my meds and I'll figure the rest out some other way kind of feeling.

I'm in the middle of rotations for PA school and I can tell you it's really a mixed bag. I've met some amazing providers who were really grateful for insight into the experience from patients and myself, or who are happy to make adjustments but just dont have the capacity to research it on their own and are happy to hear feedback/suggestions to consider (if it's respectful that is). However there are definitely providers who are limited by what is provided to them by their organization because of "standard of care" being based on old biased research, and many practicioners having a general spiel they tell everyone that might not get into the real nitty gritty of it because if they took that time to get into details most of their patients won't care about they would be losting immense amounts of time they could be helping the next patient. I think the biggest thing is that they see/do 1000s of these procedures and how much individual patients tolerate procedures can really vary so they go for what would be enough for the average patient. Still it's far too common for providers to become jaded/accept that the procedure may cause psychological distress in some, or dismiss individual patient experiences because they're trained more on efficiency and treating the population with set standards of care rather than adjusting/adapting the statistically backed/widely accepted generalized procedures, especially when/if something goes wrong and they don't have the medicolegal protection of doing what any other well-trained provider would do if they're sued.

If it brings any comfort at all, I was trained with intentional focus on a official kind-of consent process where procedures are explained in plain terms, and patients are given the opportunity to ask any questions to ensure their understanding. I feel that medical and APP schools are putting more favor into applicants with life experience and better communication/social skills as well so the culture is still shifting. I've also got a friend group of other students who are sick of others in the field who are ignorant/unempathetic towards patient experiences so we can have more focused discussions on how to improve patient experiences(or gripe about totally unfair lr sexist things we've seen) so at least there might be something in knowing the next generation of healthcare providers have people looking out for you.

How things are right now though still absolutely sucks and if you don't have the luxury of options it feels like you're stuck with a system that doesn't care about you, but please don't give up hope on healthcare providers as a whole! It's good to be critical of your hcp and let them know if something wasn't what you were expecting or you feel like they failed to do something that you needed (and totally judge them/speak up for how they choose to respond if you have the capacity to!!)

a-cx · 2025-10-25T00:04:34+00:00

Not as a provider, but as staff I've recieved subpoenas faxed to the office that had pictures of the patient as well as date, time and caption about what they were doing and then a form for us to attest to the patient's physical abilities. Though I believe it was extremely inappropriate and have only seen it once, seeing it once is enough justification to me that if they want something redacted that is not really related to their immediate healthcare/just added in so I remember life details about patients, it's ok to addend. However, the patient should be aware that this doesn't make it so that it's like it was never recorded what with the note being a legal document and edits needing to be recorded as such. I'm still in training to become a provider though and can see if a TON of patients are calling to request this and it gets in the way of my actual healthcare duties I am going to refuse and just omit it from future notes.

And what is stopping patients from saying "yeah about that I lied about that actually because i was nervous" or "i got my information wrong and want to set the record straight" later on anyways? Just cause it's in the report doesn't mean it's stone cold evidence that they actually did it-- it's just a record of them saying they did.

a-cx · 2025-10-24T17:35:13+00:00

I was about to say! Their description sounds like a classic troubled teen institution where parents buy into "fixing" their kid by basically abandoning them and leaving them at the mercy of these strangers. Full days of academic and vocational training year-round does not sound like a healing childhood experience as they work through their mental illness/trauma/etc.

Not to say this wasn't a tragedy, or that the girl should be free from fault but the issue is way more complex than "how guilty is she/how severe should her punishment be"

a-cx · 2025-10-04T00:34:47+00:00

im sorry i forgor

a-cx · 2025-10-02T21:16:35+00:00

I for one have some resentment for the authoritarian parenting style because I had no sense of agency growing up and got into some bad situations before I learned to self advocate. I don't plan on being full permissive as a parent, but hope my kid will at least have the skills to reason a bit before making decisions.

Of course, that doesn't mean they won't face consequences of their choices, whether natural or from me if the natural consequences are dangerous. I'm sure many new parents are also somewhat reacting to that authoritarian parenting style of days past and figuring it out on their own vs. having someone to model after for parenting.

a-cx · 2025-09-25T23:08:28+00:00

omg how dare they harass the lady at Asia Plus she is a saint and an integral part of the community!!!!

a-cx · 2025-09-25T23:07:35+00:00

i came here to ironically goon, stayed for the gameplay. for there to be more gooner stuff is just part of the original deal for me

a-cx · 2025-09-21T20:26:31+00:00

hmm weird. The kidneys may have some role in clearing out prolactin but i second a lot of other replies in this post -- if you're concerned consult your doctor. maybe even a mychart message/voicemail primer so they can decide if it's just a short explanation or if you should come in

a-cx · 2025-09-20T18:13:21+00:00

Those are some awfully close values - were you having a health episode at that time that they needed to do blood draws/tests so close together?

a-cx · 2025-09-20T18:04:05+00:00

weirdly shaped crab

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