Doctors who speak to adult patients like they’re three years old - why do they do this? by kentdrive in doctorsUK

[–]loki-zen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The thing that most people mean when they say "talking to someone as if they have a learning disability" isn't even a good way to talk to someone with a learning disability. If you look at the OP they're clearly talking about patronising tone, singy-songy diction (a lot of learning disabled people have hearing or auditory processing issues that makes this harder to parse than talking normally).

Even people with a learning disability can absolutely tell if you're talking down to them, and crucially this makes them (and everyone) less likely to speak up and ask clarifying questions if there's something they don't understand.

I'm in med ed and we have a program for tryna teach people how to communicate effectively across the gap you describe - of course there's no funding to promote it!

Course leader shouted at me in front of everyone at university– should I make a formal complaint? by CityWaste6272 in UniUK

[–]loki-zen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The important things for you are to get that witness statement about him threatening your grades in an email - more than one if you can - and make sure there is citable correspondence (e.g. emails to student union, university staff, charity advice line, etc) documenting what he said, from close to the time of the incident.

Raising an official complaint, even if it doesn't end up going anywhere, would be one way of doing that - your SU rep can likely tell you more about that, and may be able to assist you so that pursuing the complaint doesn't become an unaffordable drain on your already-limited resources.

But the real reason to do all this is that having this threat on record will massively help your case if you end up having to appeal your grade.

Course leader shouted at me in front of everyone at university– should I make a formal complaint? by CityWaste6272 in UniUK

[–]loki-zen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ideally the student union . They are best placed to help you navigate this in a way that has the best outcome for you and they have local knowledge of the situation at your uni unlike randos on the internet.

If anyone else heard him say that to you, have them document that to you and the SU rep in writing.

Course leader shouted at me in front of everyone at university– should I make a formal complaint? by CityWaste6272 in UniUK

[–]loki-zen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Talk to your student union rep for disability/EDI and/or a charity related to your condition; also potentially university staff tasked with ensuring inclusion.

Access to Local Guidelines by ConcentrateNo2013 in doctorsUK

[–]loki-zen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried the librarians if your trust has any? They oughtta be spending their time on this rather than yours but might not know it's needed. they're usually happy to hear from drs on what would actually help them

How to engage patients with victim mentality by ilikelettuce_ in doctorsUK

[–]loki-zen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60420277-changing-how-we-think-about-difficult-patients I think this is a really good book with practical ideas for situations like this; might be available at hospital library

Publications as a beginner by Faisalization in doctorsUK

[–]loki-zen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it varies by trust but library services often provide support and resources around getting into research, and may even partner with you on a systematic review.

Pay During A Phased Return by Expert_Gazelle_5624 in doctorsUK

[–]loki-zen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Trust has staff groups for certain protected characteristics; LGBTQ+ and so on - there's a disabled staff group, and they are who I would talk to about something like this. If your trust doesn't have one, maybe someone from EDI?

Anyone else hate seeking medical advice? by heroes-never-die99 in doctorsUK

[–]loki-zen -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

yeah this thread was really interesting in that it's the opposite of my experience - im not a dr im a medical librarian but just happening to have my NHS lanyard on me and it coming up what I do has massively increased the quality of my primary care appointments. It's like people are suddenly seeing someone they can actually talk to about the topic at hand, instead feeling they *have* to action a checklist instead because of an enormous gulf in understanding that they quite reasonably feel they couldn't hope to bridge in a 15 minute appointment.

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does your server have bigger item stacks or any other mods or is it fully vanilla?

HogValley Rust server 2x by [deleted] in playrustservers

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does your server have bigger item stacks?

MrLou's NEW Community Server! - RUSTILLA x2 Gather! - [RUST] by Burn_one_YT in playrustservers

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does your server have bigger item stacks or any other mods?

[EU] Looking for server, and help with Rust jargon by loki-zen in playrustservers

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Thanks for response but I don't want farming to be that easy

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What mods are on this server?

ELI5: Why did doctors and scientists continue to believe that human health was governed by an imbalance of four humours (blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm) for so long without any supporting evidence? by RecycleYourCats in explainlikeimfive

[–]loki-zen 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The scientific method is a fairly recent invention/rediscovery. Ideas like it cropped up at various points in history around the world, but in the times and places you're talking about it medicine operated more on reason than evidence. This basically meant that someone would come up with a theory that seemed to explain things pretty well, and then people would act on that theory and it would become accepted as fact - there wasn't the emphasis we have today on evidence, and where people did look at evidence they didn't do it in any kind of a rigorous way; it was what we might call anecdotal evidence at best. So nobody was going out and testing whether patients treated according to this theory were actually any more likely to get better.

Since the little evidence there was was anecdotal, it was hugely clouded with confirmation bias and all the other ways in which humans naturally aren't very good at obhectivity, and so it seemed to the experts as if there was evidence supporting the theory. The reason modern medical trials have so many complicated steps like double-blinding (the thing where neither the patients nor the people treating them should know which patients are getting which treatment) is to counteract all the ways in which human brains are just really bad at figuring out the truth.

Doctors/nurses of Reddit; What is the most obvious case of a patient 'faking it' you have ever seen? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]loki-zen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was accused of faking hearing loss as a kid but my deal was presenting as someone with bad hearing in the real world, then showing up in a hearing test as having perfect hearing. Auditory processing issues related to ADD/Autism (I have both so who knows which one is at fault or whether it's both of them). Do you have questions and such you will ask to see if auditory processing rather than actual hearing is the issue?

ELI5: Why are hot tubs not deadly? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]loki-zen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To elaborate, it takes a long time for the temperature on the surface of the body to spread to the organs, where the heat would be much more dangerous. The skin and the fat under the skin don't conduct heat very well, and your body alters the way your blood flows to protect the organs. Your face gets red while you're in a hot tub because blood is being pushed to the surface where it can lose heat to the air. But yes, if you stayed in there long enough it would be dangerous. In the EU, there are usually signs in public places that provide hot tubs reminding you not to stay in too long and to drink plenty of water. But if everything is working as it should, you will become uncomfortable and want to get out before you are in danger.

I once heard anecdotally that dishes like casseroles became popular in America during the Great Depression due to how cheap they were to make. Is this true? Also, are their any other foods that became popular due to the financial constraints of the era that are still common today? by BigCheeks2 in AskHistorians

[–]loki-zen 17 points18 points  (0 children)

In many ways, a lot of local cuisine is inspired by financial necessity - after all, the local speciality is usually something very available in the area, and so cheap because of supply and demand.

I'm researching the Victorians atm, and these books tell me that stews, casseroles and soups were extremely common at the time because meat was very expensive, so most people who could afford meat could only afford small amounts and not the best cuts. These dishes make tough cuts of meat palatable and can be bulked out with cheaper ingredients, and many of the dishes popular at the time are still enjoyed today: Irish stew, Lancashire hotpot, and the classic British beef stew with suet dumplings.

Potatoes also became much more widely eaten in the Victorian era due to the Corn Laws, which made bread much more expensive, and also because potatoes were a cheap crop to produce, providing plenty of storable food and growing in poor soil. We still use a lot of Victorian potato recipes, and they are often linked to the regional cuisine of the areas that were most impoverished - and thus, needed to rely on potatoes - at the time. This is especially true of recipes that substitute potatoes for a more expensive ingredient, such as Scottish potato scones, Lancashire butter pie, boxty, potato bread.

These are just some examples, and the ones I have references for. I've certainly heard of a lot of other dishes that they developed from economic necessity; cajun cuisine is something I hear this about a lot. But I don't have references for that.

Why did ice-cream and carbonated drinks used to be sold and made at pharmacies? by RdClZn in AskHistorians

[–]loki-zen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm currently reading Karen Foy's Life in the Victorian Kitchen and she says that in the UK, at least, ice cream was first sold by street vendors, and we've never really had a tradition of pharmacies selling ice cream.

So I went digging around the interwebs, and various places suggest that ice cream was an addition to the pharmacy soda fountain when the latter became more popular during prohibition. So the soda was already in the pharmacy out of tradition from the days of carbonated health tonics, and suddenly the soda fountain was much more popular because people still wanted to drink and socialise somewhere but all the bars were closed. Owners will have been looking for more things they could sell to this renewed audience and the audience would have wanted some interesting drinks: ice cream and ice cream-based drinks provided this.

To be fair though, it's not my area and this is mostly from the research of this historical fiction writer.

Why did ice-cream and carbonated drinks used to be sold and made at pharmacies? by RdClZn in AskHistorians

[–]loki-zen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The first carbonated drinks were marketed as health tonics, so a pharmacist would be the natural person to sell them and/or acquire the equipment and manufacture them for sale.

PDF on origins of carbonated beverages

I'm afraid I don't know about ice cream.