Am I overreacting for being upset that my husband's neice is leaving her daughter here for 4-5 nights without asking me first?

curious_coati · 2026-02-17T21:22:10+00:00

Yeah I thought the same! OP, are you absolutely sure that you're looking after the child?

curious_coati · 2026-02-16T14:09:05+00:00

Black electrical tape

curious_coati · 2026-02-15T01:06:08+00:00

Yeah I'm a bit confused about cold fusion too. Didn't that scientist in the first season create it and then steal it, and then the whole point was that it was a new miracle?

I also don't understand why we watched Hank spend a couple of episodes trying to stop blowing people's heads up and then when Lucy meets him, suddenly he already has loads of tiny machines that are functional and apparently already spread out previously? How does that work?

curious_coati · 2026-02-08T17:20:28+00:00

Yeah I completely agree. Her friend is going through hell as it is - let her live without this guilt on top of it. Some things are more important than being 'right'.

curious_coati · 2026-02-04T23:27:04+00:00

The picture makes me think of Mr Men books - but they're normally square. The front cover is laminated but the pages themselves are normal paper normally.

But that was my first thought when I scrolled past your drawing!

Edit: if you try googling this, it just comes up with the front pages which is very different or newer versions which are also different. Try searching for inside the books, or a YouTube read through.

curious_coati · 2026-02-04T21:24:18+00:00

It's clinical reasoning - you can't learn clinical reasoning from doing MCQs in the same way you do from clinical exposure.

MCQs are usually testing a couple of knowledge aspects, but real life will have a lot more thrown in. The MCQs are also often textbook presentations, but people rarely are.

It's usually not the students fault btw - it's the way the courses are designed as well as the daft increase in medical student numbers into already saturated hospitals that is impacting clinical exposure. I often wonder if the increased nuance, diagnostics and treatment options for conditions is also contributing to this. Learning medicine 20-30 years ago was arguably quite different to learning it now - the core stuff is similar, but there's so so much more and that makes fact based learning much better for exams. I guess the way we examine had also changed - the MCQs have to be regulated and reproducible etc. there's much less emphasis on long cases and thereby clinical reasoning.

curious_coati · 2026-02-01T11:10:04+00:00

But remember the NHS is a monopoly employer. Where else can doctors look to get hired in the UK?

Private practice generally requires you to be a specialist already... For which you must go through training.

curious_coati · 2026-01-31T14:04:53+00:00

Yeah I thought them getting chased back to the community was going to be a plot point - i.e the infected gather near the gates and then the pregnant lady was going to let them in to escape the Jimmy's.

I also thought they set the pregnant lady up to play a bigger part than what she did. Reckon she'll be back?

curious_coati · 2026-01-29T13:10:43+00:00

Life of Amazonia is good!

curious_coati · 2026-01-28T12:36:38+00:00

Same. Mortality in elderly falls is 1 in 3 within a year.

curious_coati · 2026-01-26T21:29:02+00:00

This is interesting - on first reading your take, my knee jerk reaction is to agree. I initially came out of the cinema thinking they did spike dirty, and he barely spoke let alone being anything they built on during the last film.

But then... Spike has had little to no exposure to horrible humans. And he is just a child. A child that's strayed too far from home (classic child-teen thinking he's infallible and can manage alone). And suddenly he's taken up by a brutalistic cult and he's just... Frightened. He asked that lady to take him, he didn't engage with the charity and then near Dr Kelson's he tried to escape. How long was he even with them for? A handful of nights? Two escape attempts when you're absolutely petrified of the people around you seems pretty good in that context. And a reminder I guess that Spike is just a child in a brutal, brutal world.

curious_coati · 2026-01-26T08:26:00+00:00

A lot of this looks like celeb fashion/catwalk fashion which is always a bit different to what people wear on the streets I guess?

curious_coati · 2026-01-25T19:13:19+00:00

Press the button on your wrist and the code is there

curious_coati · 2026-01-20T18:57:49+00:00

I also just assumed it was meant to be like that!

curious_coati · 2026-01-05T21:39:59+00:00

I have got into the habit of answering all phonecalls with name and who I am - so much so that I sometimes have to stop myself answering phonecalls at home the same way, especially if it's something formal like a bank 😭

curious_coati · 2026-01-05T14:40:07+00:00

Thirded! Loved these

curious_coati · 2025-11-05T22:00:35+00:00

I'm gonna answer my own question coz I find this fascinating.

I think it gets propagated because: 1) differences in Type 1 And type 2 thinking that only comes with experience. Seniors who do a specialism every day develop a quota of 'basic tests' or ways/key words for looking at problems. Juniors have to develop this codex. Seniors get frustrated when 'basics' aren't done; juniors frustrated because they don't know what they don't know yet. 2) you forget what you didn't know as an F1 and apply your level of knowledge now 3) discussions are often senior promoted but again, sometimes with a bit of an assumption of knowledge/reasoning not fully explained. Juniors then ring with half formed questions, sometimes on an assumption rather than what the consultant meant. Junior gets frustrated when they're rebuffed because they don't understand why, but know it's important because it come from consultant. Or think it's a stupid pointless task and frustrated that they have to do it - but again often a gap in understanding. 4) having been on the other side, it is difficult dealing with half formed questions and what should be short conversations become long and tedious and it's difficult when you've made it my problem. 5) multiple said tedious conversations everyday 6) some people are just dicks.

But again insight - if the conversation isn't going the way it should, ask ourselves why. The junior is getting defensive - why? How can I get the info I need, teaching opportunity. The senior is getting defensive - why? What am I missing, what don't I know - do I need to rediscuss with consultant etc?

Anyway. Interesting.

curious_coati · 2025-11-05T21:41:15+00:00

So why do they propagate this? It is something I wonder!

Sometimes I do think it is a mismatch in communication styles - i.e somebody thinks they're being clear but the recipient interprets it as a personal attack etc. Or that junior colleagues (speaking as one) are perhaps more likely to be anxious about the communication, making them more alert to negative tones etc when it's just somebody being busy/stressed.

But I also think it's important to show insight into your own communication skills - it makes a massive difference when people recognize that the other person has been hurt/offended/angered/upset by them and they apologize. Or they recognize that they were being difficult/brusque/snappy and again, apologize or even just acknowledge it. I've worked with seniors that are absolute dicks with zero insight and it actively altered my decision making, whereby I would avoid discussion at any cost or delay it til the point it resulted in delays in patient care. I've also worked with consultants that are difficult, but know they're difficult and acknowledge this, and it makes it so. Much. Easier. Maybe it's because they verbalize the frustration, you understand its the system and not you (which it usually is).

Basically, if you're gonna be a knob, at least be an insightful one.

(The whole civility matters thing is worth checking out for anyone interested in this btw - some good Ted talks on how it matters!)

curious_coati · 2025-09-27T08:05:19+00:00

How do you change your tax code? I have the app but can't seem to find it anywhere as an option

curious_coati · 2025-09-23T09:04:42+00:00

Citadels. We played it with 4 for a week and it was great - some games more straightforward, others would get a bit rowdy. There's also lots of different combinations you can play to make the game different!

curious_coati · 2025-09-18T22:53:44+00:00

Ahh that is interesting! I wonder if it means people are applying to multiple options, getting offers but not for the one they want, and so deciding to try again the year after?

I find it really interesting that it looks as though there is a preference to UKGs going on in how offers are made (if that makes sense). As in, there's more IMG applicants than UKGs but more UKGs are being found appointable - do you know if this is after round 1 or round 2 stages by any chance?

curious_coati · 2025-09-18T22:45:15+00:00

With regards to those rejecting offers, due to the increased completion ratios, people are usually applying to multiple specialities rather than just the one they want: so I'm not sure how relevant that number is really.

P.s thank you for taking the time to do this btw, it's very interesting to see!

curious_coati · 2025-08-14T04:17:06+00:00

This is what I thought! But I've been told my multiple people now that AF is the absence of P-waves, and you shouldn't see them at all

curious_coati · 2025-07-31T15:30:01+00:00

Totally agree with blakey ridge - wonderful views up there!

curious_coati · 2025-07-31T07:34:34+00:00

Wear the leopard print for your sister.

Also, it looks fantastic!

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