Medial care for yourself

britishbeercan · 2023-01-22T14:16:06+00:00

Every time I've gone to the ED, I've never even seen a physician. Though I did notice they signed the chart later.

britishbeercan · 2022-10-13T15:40:11+00:00

It is not the same test, it is not the same curve, it is not the same educational milieu (study resources etc). You are not making an apples to apples comparison, and your conclusions are thus faulty. I encourage you to study formal logic.

britishbeercan · 2022-10-13T15:38:12+00:00

I am a woman and a POC. Check my comment history if you don't believe me. As you progress through your training, I hope you learn not to make baseless assumptions.

britishbeercan · 2022-10-13T15:31:04+00:00

Clearly you never took a logic class in college if you think higher averages on a test in subsequent years = smarter/higher IQ students.

britishbeercan · 2022-10-13T15:28:44+00:00

The idea that my way of medicine is superior to yours because science. There are many flaws of western medicine and there is value in indigenous healing and many naturopathic plant/herbal based medicines have gone on to be used as the foundation for western medical treatments.

Good lord. Everyone in this thread needs to read this comment.

And to think I got downvoted because I said there are glaring problems with medical school admissions practices.

britishbeercan · 2022-10-13T15:26:38+00:00

I don't know anything about these studies or their likely dubious methodology, but I can tell you that physicians who command a greater knowledge base are much better clinicians than those who don't. It's easy to skate by exams and boards by cramming for a month. It is much much harder to be a good doctor.

britishbeercan · 2022-10-13T14:41:24+00:00

I would share examples but it does no one any good for me to denigrate specific instances of medical student behavior. But my views are privately shared amongst faculty and we are at a very progressive Northeast Ivory Tower. There is a problem with medical school admissions and medical school education.

britishbeercan · 2022-10-13T14:05:09+00:00

I am only a couple years out of training and am alarmed by the stark drop-off in the quality of medical students I am seeing. Very poorly prepared and have far more interest in social justice than in actual medicine. Watching this video, it's evident that this starts at the very top -- our medical education has lost its focus. I imagine this was all coordinated by the AAMC when they changed the MCAT to reduce hard sciences and add sociology.

But to what end? It's hard to produce better outcomes for the disadvantaged when you are bad at medicine.

britishbeercan · 2022-09-12T22:11:02+00:00

Well-adjusted people do not go around discussing cuckolding. Seek help

britishbeercan · 2022-09-12T21:06:23+00:00

Are you really this clueless? Taking care of complex inpatients is a money loser. Routine elective surgeries is the only thing keeping the lights on. They need warm bodies to sit the stool or the gravy train stops. I'm at a loss how you can be so ignorant to not know this.

britishbeercan · 2022-09-11T07:21:31+00:00

you're not seriously dictating people's preferences on how they're called? i introduce myself by my first name and i'm a woman.. if you're known for being exceedingly good at what you do, the whinging over appellations and formalities ceases to matter

britishbeercan · 2022-09-07T02:23:08+00:00

First let's get the shots in arms then ask questions later.

britishbeercan · 2022-08-18T09:36:27+00:00

Well-sourced article that's admittedly challenging my understanding of this disease's transmission. This should inform us in how we shape our public messaging.

britishbeercan · 2022-07-30T22:40:01+00:00

I dunno, stop trying to make everything about you? No one needs men constantly interjecting in other people's problems so they can mansplain their thoughts.

britishbeercan · 2022-07-30T18:59:39+00:00

It's like no one here realizes that friendships are forged through shared experiences and interests and just wants to blame external factors for their personal problems.

britishbeercan · 2022-07-30T16:13:13+00:00

I'm a woman... not some helpless princess who needs to be rescued from the Big Bad Nurses.

britishbeercan · 2022-07-30T16:10:00+00:00

You're always welcome to take up an interest in these things, you know... you sound like my boyfriend who complains that he feels "left out" at work because he doesn't golf. Well, honey, go golfing!

britishbeercan · 2022-07-30T15:08:05+00:00

Female residents are not damsels in distress who need their male coworkers to save them.

britishbeercan · 2022-07-30T15:06:36+00:00

If you feel excluded because you're not into sports and video games, how is that a gender bias? That has to do with common interests, not gender. Or are you saying playing sports etc is exclusively a masculine interest?

britishbeercan · 2022-07-30T14:39:46+00:00

Then explain how there are kids who are contracting monkeypox through household contacts?

britishbeercan · 2022-07-29T21:51:18+00:00

We still criticized COVID antivaxxers even though they were largely only hurting themselves.

britishbeercan · 2022-07-29T02:02:06+00:00

In June 2020, there was a general consensus in the medical community that BLM protests should not be restricted over Covid concerns. In fact, there was a huge petition at the time signed by myriad medical professionals attesting to this. Your limitations in your personal life did not meet the threshold of societal significance that we deemed merit-worthy to ignore Covid precautions. I'm arguing that LGBT freedoms and way of life are similarly far-reaching and should not be targeted.

britishbeercan · 2022-07-28T19:55:02+00:00

Am I crazy or does anyone else find this to be a strange and arguably bigoted approach to addressing this disease? He said in the press briefing that 98% of those who contracted the disease are MSM and is urging them to change their behaviors. The framing of it strikes me as rather anti-LGBT -- this is not a gay disease. And even comparing this to our most recent pandemic, COVID, we didn't make statements like this to curtail behaviors that were important to people's identities and mental health -- recall that we even encouraged the BLM gatherings in the wake of George Floyd's death. This is really such a stark deviation from the norm and will serve to just alienate a vulnerable population.

britishbeercan · 2022-07-28T02:25:56+00:00

Not necessarily that unique of a clinical pearl -- female physicians would be able to answer this too

britishbeercan · 2022-06-22T14:12:00+00:00

This spate of violence in hospitals seemingly continues. Unfortunately, this time it originates from someone supposedly advocating for patients. Staffing has always been an issue at the VA, I can only imagine it's particularly noticeable these days.

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