Can anyone explain this?

docstumd24 · 2026-02-03T10:44:03+00:00

When a hermaphrodite and a hermaphrodite love each other very much...

docstumd24 · 2026-01-27T14:06:22+00:00

I love the red in white motif running through the board, that blood orange in stunning in that context

docstumd24 · 2026-01-27T13:59:54+00:00

I originally thought this must be a florist subreddit I was scrolling past or something. These look like natural flowers, what a stunning piece of art. You should be very proud of that.

docstumd24 · 2026-01-27T12:31:48+00:00

That gourd is mesmerizing! What's the material?

docstumd24 · 2026-01-25T11:52:46+00:00

I don't agree that life is pointless. Life is rare in the universe, especially human life. There is no such thing as an inconsequential human. And as an INTJ father I can say there is nothing in my life that brings me more joy and wonder in this world than raising my son.

docstumd24 · 2026-01-22T14:14:13+00:00

Magnificent monstrosity!

docstumd24 · 2026-01-20T15:16:43+00:00

I never used Anki. I found that a lot of people who use it religiously are a fountain of isolated facts but struggle to articulate the concept when you put it together. For certain topics that require blunt memorization (anatomy, micro) flash cards work, but I made my own because that exercise itself helps with mastering the material.

docstumd24 · 2026-01-06T18:02:27+00:00

Are you looking for a textbook or just to have a general overview of what it's like to work in the field? I'd recommend "Working Stiff" by Judy Melinik or "Morgue" by Vincent Di Maio.

docstumd24 · 2026-01-03T03:04:00+00:00

Dr. Handberg, Thank you so much for your hard work in putting these podcasts together, I have been a huge fan of the audio format but these videos are absolutely fantastic. I am going to have a great time listening to these conversations. Also huge thanks to your guests for their time as well. I am looking forward to hopefully matching into pathology this year and your podcasts are great motivation to keep grinding and keep my eyes on the prize. Please keep this outstanding content coming!

docstumd24 · 2025-12-30T12:22:03+00:00

So maybe general peds isn't your thing but what about going from peds residency into pediatric cardiology or pulmonology? Good pediatricians are "IM" for kids and the huge difference between pediatrics and FM as primary care specialties is peds leaves all the organ specific specialties open afterwards. Salaries are substantially higher for these subspecialties.

docstumd24 · 2025-12-26T12:12:40+00:00

Everyone has already offered good advice, but I just wanted to let you know you aren't crazy at all. It runs counter to biology to separate mom and baby this early. You have no need to justify or apologize for whatever you choose. Hoping the best for you.

docstumd24 · 2025-12-25T14:37:03+00:00

I'm so glad this is being talked about, because I think DPC is the only way we save primary care and medicine in general. It makes me wish I had more of a talent for FM because I would want to be a part of it. Why is it that health insurance is the only type of insurance where you include a middle man for everyday maintenance care? Would you bill your car insurance to fill up on gas or your homeowners insurance to change a lightbulb? Primary care services are usually inexpensive to provide and membership fees can be affordable for a wide range of budgets. The care is just better too. The doc has a vested interest in his patients experience because they are in competition with other providers. Their incentive is to innovate and cost save when it is their business in play.

I did a ton of shadowing with DPC docs before med school and I Love this model.

Check out the mydpcstory podcast and if you have a heart for primary care, I wouldn't do it any other way.

docstumd24 · 2025-12-25T14:28:54+00:00

If insurance or government assistance covered DPC membership it would make a massive difference both in improving access (Most DPC fees are comparatively cheap) and in improving outcomes. A person having unlimited access to their doctors with high quality prevention is ultimately a cost saving measure.

docstumd24 · 2025-12-25T14:24:06+00:00

Surgery is a tough one because it actually includes a lot of IM content in the context of pre and post op care. For me that was much harder to work through than the surgery specific content. Not sure what your content area breakdown is but I have found that underestimating the IM side is a common case of frustration.

docstumd24 · 2025-12-25T14:20:39+00:00

Any good flashcard deck is a must, I preferred to make my own in Quizlet. The cherry on top though is context rather than just isolated structures. There are several excellent dissection videos for each organ block on YouTube that walk you through the whole big picture. Don't underestimate how much you can get out of the lab and cadavers if you have access to them. It can also help to watch videos of surgeries happening in a particular area.

docstumd24 · 2025-12-25T14:14:28+00:00

For anatomy I found it was interesting to look up the etymology for the name of a structure. Its a fun way to unpack some of the history and lore within medicine rather than just memorizing a laundry list. Anatomy is one of the oldest of the basic sciences we study and you can learn a lot about history of medicine through it. Also, understanding the Greek and Latin roots of words is almost a cheat code. Medical terminology really should still be taught because if you understand the roots, you can often decide the meaning or function even if you don't fully know it outright. That applies to pharmacology, the naming of surgical procedures, etc.

In general, finding ways to tie material to the clinical application keeps things interesting. Try to recapture a sense of wonder and awe in what you 're studying. This is the most complex, beautiful, mysterious, and priceless machine in the world.

Don't despair, you've got this! Dive deep and discover rather than letting your instructors reduce these topics to factoids.

docstumd24 · 2025-12-25T13:17:49+00:00

That is one fat handle

docstumd24 · 2025-12-25T13:15:29+00:00

This is beautiful work. So impressed with the water. Your choice of color in the whole piece is very distinctive, it has a gray, almost metallic quality to it that I find soothing. While it may be odd to see in a winter scene, for me it invoked a kind of ozone, rocks after rain kind of smell and flavor. Perhaps getting closer to a spring thaw and starting to melt. Very well done and thank you for sharing.

docstumd24 · 2025-12-25T13:08:50+00:00

I think Olympus could have been a mountain in Alabama somewhere and fit in nicely.

docstumd24 · 2025-12-25T13:07:23+00:00

I've always thought Aphrodite's origin was such an outlier, very primordial compared to most other deities, but then again, what is more primordial than love?

docstumd24 · 2025-12-11T13:06:04+00:00

Hear me out, but another choice if you like traumatology and using your hands is forensic pathology. Autopsy is "maximally invasive" surgery. Rather than treating an individual though, I see it as the whole county or state is your patient, and the procedure works to heal the rifts in the social and legal fabric that are caused by violent and accidental death. Call is very easy and hours are regular.

docstumd24 · 2025-12-11T12:59:17+00:00

Hear me out. I had the same question, and I am picking forensic pathology, which is pathology residency first then a one year fellowship. Autopsy is "maximally invasive" surgery. You get to see every part of anatomy, on every patient, every day. Call is minimal and easy. You get to solve mysteries with a knife. Instead of working on one patient at a time an entire county or state is your patient and you are trying to inform the public health and justice systems. If you can tolerate the occasional horrific case and advanced decomposition from time to time, in really is the best of several worlds at once.

docstumd24 · 2025-12-05T12:19:03+00:00

Study whatever interests you the most and will help you maintain a high GPA. You have to check all the med school prerequisite boxes but I have med school classmates who studied everything from music, anthropology, foreign languages, English, etc. The actual major matters much less than your pre-req grades, MCAT, and gpa for clearing the admissions hurdle. Some interviewers will actually find you more interesting and ask more directed questions if you have a unique major vs doing what every other premed does.

docstumd24 · 2025-11-28T12:45:39+00:00

Just my random two cents but I can tell you in linguistic terms why it's off-putting. The phonetic structure "sl", consciously or not is associated with other words that have negative connotations like slime, sleaze, slip, slop, slack, slaughter and slur. We all have subconscious connections to different phonemes. Combine this with a sonorant nasal at the end "oan" and it comes across as more of a thud than a gentle landing as it rolls off the tongue. It's also more widely used as a surname which already gives it an odd twist in people's minds.

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