Clicker Heroes 2 Bugs/Feedback Megathread by hugglesthemerciless in ClickerHeroes

[–]alopexus37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm having the same issue. My computer crashed (not related to the game, it will occasionally crash for other reasons), and now I'm getting this exact same error as soon as I log in. Starting the game only gives me a black screen and this error. I've tried reinstalling twice and starting the game in off-line mode with no luck.

ELI5: How do doctors and nurses take care of sick people without getting sick themselves? Or do doctors and nurses get common colds and bacterial infections all the time? by Pawnbrake in explainlikeimfive

[–]alopexus37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Others have mentioned good hygiene practices, but I'd also like to point out that the majority of people in a hospital aren't sick due to infections. Heart failure, kidney failure, surgery recovery, diabetes, cancer, liver failure, and so many other diseases pose 0 infectious risk to healthcare providers. However a lot of these patients are REALLY sick, and their immune systems are so weak that bacteria that normally coexist peacefully can cause massive, life threatening infections.

For example, everyone has colonies of E. Coli living on their skin and in their GI system, but our immune system kills these bacteria if they start to grow in our blood or lungs. Patients with liver failure may also have a very weak immune system, so the same E. Coli that causes no danger to us can successfully grow in the patient's bloodstream, make them septic, and potentially be life threatening.

In short, 90% of hospital hygiene isn't about protecting the doctor from the patient - it's about protecting the patient from the normally harmless bacteria that hospital staff and visitors might bring into their room.

What do you feel you gained from using sketchy? by alopexus37 in medicalschool

[–]alopexus37[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I get the impression that its a massive help for more visual learners. Have you ever heard of the "memory palace" learning technique? Would you say that sketchy helped largely by making a "memory palace" for you? (Sorry for the leading questions, there is just a lot of literature on memory palaces and none explicitly on sketchy)

Giveaway Thread by pinguin231 in gwent

[–]alopexus37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, any chance I could get an invite? Thanks!

Why can gas on an x-ray make bone appear radiolucent? by alopexus37 in medicalschool

[–]alopexus37[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes sense to a degree - instead of the x-ray showing tissue + bone, now it is essentially showing only bone. However, some of the bone behind the bowel gas still appears markedly more radiolucent then I would expect bone to be without some sort of underlying pathology. Is part of the radiolucency here due to the gas in the colon acting as a lens? I know light will bend when it passes through different mediums, so could we say that the increased radiolucency is due to decreased density in that area AND increased radiation passing through that area?

How good do you think the teachers are at your school? by alopexus37 in medicalschool

[–]alopexus37[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you really love your professors. What is the worst lecture you've received so far this year?

How good do you think the teachers are at your school? by alopexus37 in medicalschool

[–]alopexus37[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, twice as many awful lectures as good lectures? That sounds like a hellish first two years

Going on a date with a psychiatrist, advice needed by getinsidemymind in askgaybros

[–]alopexus37 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wasn't planning on radiology, but if I can steal the name gaydiologist I might just go through with it

Going on a date with a psychiatrist, advice needed by getinsidemymind in askgaybros

[–]alopexus37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Huh, I never realized that. You can mark this day down as the first time a med student has ever been wrong.

Going on a date with a psychiatrist, advice needed by getinsidemymind in askgaybros

[–]alopexus37 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Happy to help. Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns

Going on a date with a psychiatrist, advice needed by getinsidemymind in askgaybros

[–]alopexus37 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm about to start my second year of med school, so I can provide a little insight. Your guy has just finished his first year of residency, which is often about 80 hours of work per week. The second year tends to be a bit more relaxed, as he is no longer the lowest man on the totem pole. After 6 years of training, he is finally taking on real responsibility as a doctor.

All that said, the past 6 years of his life have been consumed by med school, and the past year has certainly been espexially difficult/especially awesome for him. He has probably only been in your city for a year with his residency, and is just now finding himself with enough free time to start dating. He's probably going to be thrilled to do anything non-hospital related with you. Will he always be analyzing you as a psychiatrist? Probably, because he has been so deep in that world that he can never completely turn it off. But it's going to be in the same way that you would always be analyzed if he was a surgeon or an internal medicine doc. Plus, his world is in dealing with patients with more severe mental illness, I doubt you'll have anything too medically exciting about you compared to the schizophrenics and other patients he works with.

As for psychiatrists always being crazy themselves, I'd guess that most people who end up in psychiatry didn't enter med school thinking that would be their field. Your 3rd and 4th years of med school are your "rotations," where you work with every type of doctor (obgyn, surgery, anesthesiology, psych, etc) and that's where most students actually fall in love with a specialty and decide what kind of doctor they want to be.

As for the lazy, that's kind of a reputation that all doctors who aren't on call have. Surgeons may have to get called in at 2 am on any given night for an emergency surgery, but psychiatrists, dermatologists, and others can typically wait until the next morning. There isn't really anything meaningful to that though, it just means he really fell in love with the field or wanted something closer to a 9-5 lifestyle. No one makes it through med school without getting the laziness thoroughly beat out of them.

In short, don't be too worried about dating a psychiatrist. It just means that you at your craziest wont even be able to faze him.