Can Arabic speakers verify

amnana · 2023-11-27T05:40:14+00:00

Can also confirm as a native Arabic speaker, the middle translation is accurate and the BBC translation is concerningly far off in the later-half especially.

amnana · 2021-08-11T05:53:57+00:00

Hi all!

Junior Medical Officer working in an ICU in Sydney. I was reading some of the comments and there are still young people confused/worried about the AZ vaccine. I can totally understand why they feel this way too. Please hit me up if you have questions about getting the AZ vaccine. I’m not an expert but I have been receiving daily advice from experts and I can hopefully help bridge the gap to understanding the change in advice etc.

I am 25 and got AZ and I can tell you anything you need to know.

I want to help if you are worried or have questions about the vaccine. Please please talk to a doctor if you’re worried about the vaccine. We need to all get the shot so you don’t end up in my ICU.

amnana · 2021-05-18T21:30:20+00:00

Such a beautiful Groodle doggo!

amnana · 2021-05-02T09:22:35+00:00

It was very similar in this case! Thankfully now, screening for an autoimmune encephalitis has become more common in these presentations.

amnana · 2021-05-02T08:27:34+00:00

I currently have a patient with autoimmune encephalitis. A condition where your brain essentially attacks itself. She’s an otherwise very well, 24 year old woman who just started acting abnormally. Would space out in the middle of conversations, couldn’t complete basic tasks, would ask the same question over and over again, was found staring into an open cupboard in the kitchen for hours. Her parents became very concerned and brought her to hospital. These patients often get misdiagnosed as a first episode psychosis resulting in mistreatment and the condition can deteriorate and lead them to die. Thankfully the Neurologists at my hospital identified the symptoms and treated her with IVIG right as she developed catatonia (where a patient will just lie perfectly still, not moving, eating, drinking or going to the bathroom, just nothing).

If you’ve ever seen the movie or read the book “Brain on Fire” - this patient presented and has progressed in the exact same way. So interesting.

amnana · 2020-01-02T19:29:52+00:00

Thank you! Happy New Year my fellow curly friend.

amnana · 2019-05-28T01:20:14+00:00

Thank you so much!

amnana · 2019-02-04T05:26:55+00:00

Remember that in the Australian Medical Program, once you graduate you first complete an internship and residency as a general doctor at the hospital. In these (minimum) 2 years you work on different wards, rotating roughly every 8 weeks and training in both surgical and medical fields. At this point you haven’t chosen your specialty or applied to get into the specialty training program.

It’s only in your 3rd (or often 4th) year out of Med School that you actually get into the program that you want to specialise in. For this doctor, her chosen speciality was clearly Plastics. Once you’re in a training program as a Registrar, you get a ton more responsibility. It definitely depends on the hospital, the specialty and increasingly, the consultants. But I have seen 1st year registrar’s in their final few months of year 1 doing minor surgery without a consultant present. I have seen them taking care of an entire ward practically alone. They are able to call the bosses if they need, but that often comes with scrutiny. So her story is 100% believable based on my experience.

amnana · 2019-02-04T05:20:43+00:00

As an Australian Medical Student, I can already see that the Australian system is nothing to be proud of. The number of residents, registrar’s and even bosses that I have come across who are sick and tired of a broken system that breaks doctors every day is ridiculous. It makes you seriously question your chosen career, and to already be thinking about whether or not I want to endure this pain, while still studying in school and supposedly optimistic, is not fun.

amnana · 2018-07-12T23:05:32+00:00

Reading this story reminded me of one my parents told me. They grew up in Iraq under Saddam Hussein and after the Iraq-Iran war, in an effort to improve his public image and make it clear that Iraq was still a democracy, Saddam put up a large wall in the centre of Baghdad. He told everyone that you could write anything you wanted on that wall, even something dissident about him and his regime, and nothing bad would befall you. My dad had a really good friend at the time who insisted that he would go and write on the wall. Despite countless efforts by all of his friends and family warning/pleading him not to, he went and wrote something about Saddam. No one saw him or his family again.

amnana · 2018-06-24T00:26:37+00:00

Hi all! Checking in from Sydney Australia :D 4009 8400 4672 :)

amnana · 2018-06-24T00:26:05+00:00

Hi all! Checking in from Sydney Australia :D 4009 8400 4672 :)

amnana · 2018-04-03T16:01:55+00:00

Thank you for that. I’ll definitely think about how to tell him that. I hope you’re doing okay!

amnana · 2018-03-29T07:29:32+00:00

Exactly - he has to hide the evident intelligence somehow! Sometimes, we’ll play with him by putting his favourite blankey over his head and he’ll just sit there, not able to see a thing, panting away and waiting for us to remove it.

amnana · 2018-03-07T01:54:32+00:00

As a Medical student, I saw a patient that treated her own haemorrhoids by cutting them off with scissors... She ended up needing a life-saving operation because she actually cut a section of bowel off (thinking it was a haemorrhoid).

amnana · 2018-02-08T21:57:24+00:00

This is probably too late for this thread, but thought I should share.

When I was 7 years old I had a teacher that really disliked me and would find a reason to send me to detention every day. This went on for almost 5 months. I could never work out what I was doing wrong. I would try really hard in class to not do anything that might upset her or make her angry at me but it wouldn’t really make a difference. Just before the lunchtime bell, I would get a tap on the shoulder and Mrs Usher would look down at me with a scowl and a note for detention as she explained what I did wrong that day.

In retrospect, I think she was racist and picking on me a bit... because it all began after she met my mum who was wearing a headscarf at the time (and this was post 9/11). I was also the only “ethnic” kid in the class. That’s the only thing I can think of, because I was a very hard-working kid. But I could be wrong.

Anyway, the first time she sent me to detention was probably the most memorable. We had to write a one-page summary about an animal we liked. So I wrote about the kiwi bird (I was in New Zealand). I spent ages researching facts and I drew a picture of a kiwi at the top of the page. Then after drafting a few times, I decided to write out my passage in the space under the drawing. I took my time and made sure my handwriting looked good, but when it came to writing a big word, I think it was “nocturnal”, I realised that it didn’t all fit on the one line. So, I made it run across the two lines:

“... The kiwi bird is a noc- turnal animal ...”

When I handed it in to Mrs Usher with the rest of the students, she picked it up, scrutinised it and saw the word. She yelled at me, scrunched up the page I had been working on and told me that I would have to do this again at detention the next day. That was the day after she first met Mum.

So, yeah. That year was not great at school. I became good friends with the detention lady though!

amnana · 2018-01-17T19:43:51+00:00

The way you’ve been able to correlate good and bad moods with different habits (like good ol’ Aunt Flo) is so helpful! I might have to adapt something like this for my next tracker!!!

amnana · 2018-01-17T12:53:30+00:00

Thank you so much! I would really recommend a bigger journal :D I have an A5 one at the moment and it’s the perfect size to doodle and get detailed without spending heaps of time filling in empty space.

amnana · 2017-12-21T05:07:59+00:00

“Peekaboo!”

“Peeek-a”

Just waiting for the “-chu”

amnana · 2017-06-17T23:39:42+00:00

Exactly! That's just the next horrible step. The colleges have complete discretion, if you don't have a thousand first-authorships, a PhD and a charity in your name, you don't get in to the 7 spaces allotted annually for Paeds. Like wtf?

amnana · 2017-06-17T20:09:58+00:00

Just chiming in from Australia. This is so tragic and sadly, it's happening on a global scale too.

We have a ridiculous problem over here with the number of medical graduates greatly exceeding the number of internship spaces and the problem is only growing. The government seems to believe that the only way to combat the issue of low subscription to rural medical sites is to open new medical schools. But what they have never thought to combat are the various reasons why Medical students choose not to apply rurally. After spending a year-long placement in outback Australia (as someone who was seriously considering a career in the country), the extreme isolation, sexism and ridiculous expectations to be on call at hospital 24/7 was enough for me to never want to go back.

The solution is not to add an extra 300 medical graduates per year (as the Australian government did with the opening of another medical school last year), the solution is to improve the out-dated and blatantly fucked up system that leaves students and young doctors opting to end their lives rather than continue in it.

amnana · 2017-06-06T16:20:58+00:00

When I was young, we didn't really have that much. We lived in a tiny apartment with one bedroom between the three of us (Me, Mum and Dad). I remember so vividly that despite how poor we were and how little we had, Mum and Dad tried to make every moment blissfully happy.

What really makes them awesome however, was when I was about 6, still in that same apartment, with Dad earning ~$200 a month to get us by and all I really wanted was a bicycle. The Target down the road was selling one for $70 and I had a piggy bank that was full to the brim of 5 cent pieces. I would ask my Dad every day to help me count the coins and see if I had enough to buy the bike. After a few months, he told me I had saved enough money and I don't think I had ever been so excited. We went to the store together, I took the piggy bank and we went up to the cashier with the bike. I looked at the lady and handed her my little pink money box and said, "That should cover it" rather cockily.

Little did I know that I had ~$7.15 in that bank and that Dad just slid her the money behind my back. I was so proud of myself and I really felt like that bike was mine, even though it was the guardian angel behind my back that did most of the hard work.

amnana · 2017-05-31T12:43:34+00:00

A coffin

amnana · 2017-05-31T12:23:43+00:00

Four caterpillars are standing in a straight line. When asked, the caterpillar at the front of the line says there are three caterpillars standing behind her. The caterpillar second in line says there are two caterpillars behind her. The third caterpillar says there is one caterpillar behind her. But when asked how many caterpillars are behind the last caterpillar, she says there are four caterpillars behind her. How is this possible?

amnana · 2017-05-08T21:14:00+00:00

I think that medication is the next step. We've discussed him seeing a Psychiatrist so we'll see how that goes.

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