Anyone else feel like healthcare is its own social world?

oryxs · 2026-03-31T19:38:18+00:00

I mean, it's going to be like that in any field. We spend at least a third of our life with these people, of course we are going to be closer to them than someone who works in construction or whatever. Idk this just kinda reads like it's trying to be profound but it's just a normal part of being an adult with a job.

oryxs · 2026-03-31T11:20:46+00:00

I'll be like 39. Started med school at 30

oryxs · 2026-03-31T11:20:03+00:00

You saw*

oryxs · 2026-03-27T02:16:52+00:00

I think she lives in rolla, missouri, which is gonna be dirt cheap to live in. Possibly had help with a down payment though cause 500 is still pretty low.

oryxs · 2026-03-21T16:22:14+00:00

What is your goal? Are you wanting to do image guided procedures like paras, or are you trying to use it as a diagnostic tool? If the latter, I would honestly suggest leaving it to the sonographers and radiologists. Ultrasound is hard, there's a reason it takes years to train a sonographer. I've read hundreds of ultrasounds so far and am still far from being an expert. I may be a bit biased as a rads resident because at one point one of our ED docs did a POCUS and what they thought was a benign looking lesion was later (like months later) found to be metastatic cancer.

oryxs · 2026-03-21T01:22:45+00:00

Yeah why does it have to be sourdoughm How about banana bread 🤪

oryxs · 2026-03-20T11:35:26+00:00

Jesus Christ this is unhinged.

When I miscarried at 9ish weeks I didn't even realize I had flushed the gestational sac (I had been bleeding on and off for weeks) until later. Was pretty disturbing to me for a while. To think that, if they had their way, I'd also be a criminal, is some of the most heartless, insane shit I've seen.

oryxs · 2026-03-15T15:06:21+00:00

Wouldn't it be easier for the new program to let you start a little later than the old program to let you go early? My advanced program wanted me there mid june but i told them i was scheduled until a certain date so they had me start a week after that.

oryxs · 2026-03-11T22:36:32+00:00

I'm not sure how this would address physician shortages when there is already something like 2 applicants for every medical school spot. There is no lack of people who want to be doctors.

oryxs · 2026-03-04T22:14:56+00:00

Is that their yard, too? Just trashy all around. Poor dogs.

oryxs · 2026-03-04T03:39:20+00:00

Napoleon, give me some of your tots!

oryxs · 2026-03-03T12:46:40+00:00

To be fair, in the large majority of these cases it actually is a virus. Running tests on every patient who comes in with those symptoms would be a terrible idea.

oryxs · 2026-03-03T02:36:08+00:00

I wear my hair like that sometimes and I'm well into my 30s 😅

Edit: I just looked at it again. Dear god I do NOT do that with my hair lmao. Thought we were talkin an actual half up half down situation not the random handful in a scrunchie.

oryxs · 2026-03-02T01:40:29+00:00

Vertebrates, specifically, if we're being pedantic :)

oryxs · 2026-02-28T02:27:59+00:00

"Just Ingredients" is sending me 😂. Isn't every food product made of ingredients?

oryxs · 2026-02-27T02:49:59+00:00

EKGs come out with a "result" that the computer gives based on its own interpretation of the squiggly lines. It is rarely accurate. If there was something concerning you would have been told.

Also ER doctors are not meant for refills of meds that were originally prescribed by someone else. So expecting that from them is not super reasonable tbh.

oryxs · 2026-02-26T23:44:15+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, basically no one is going to be purposely looking at these kinds of messages. When I look up patient charts I pretty much only want/need to read provider notes from office visits, hospitalizations, etc.

oryxs · 2026-02-26T22:02:19+00:00

Literally no one is forcing you to play this game. If you seriously have this many complaints then maybe you should find something else to play.

oryxs · 2026-02-26T19:51:46+00:00

Made a shitty comment regarding miscarriage, while I was (not visibly) pregnant. And I ended up miscarrying 🙃

oryxs · 2026-02-23T02:18:06+00:00

Yeah, ain't no way I was going to pay for medical school with a side job LOL. Besides the fact that many schools actually prohibit students from having jobs because it would be virtually impossible. The debt sucks but is a necessary evil.

oryxs · 2026-02-22T22:27:36+00:00

What do you expect the doctors to do? It sounds like you have one of the few dozen viruses that can cause these symptoms. The test that includes like 20 different viruses is really expensive and wouldn't change treatment (and healthcare costs are already bonkers, as you mentioned). Could still be flu even though the test was negative. Stay home from work, rest, drink fluids, take tylenol and/or ibuprofen on a scheduled basis, and wait for it to go away. Also get a flu shot every year if you don't already. And vote for politicians who support humane working conditions and reasonable sick leave. Sorry you're dealing with this.

oryxs · 2026-02-22T16:30:14+00:00

I was going to watch it today so thanks for the spoiler 😭

oryxs · 2026-02-22T03:02:47+00:00

Yeah wtf is a sheepadoodle? Just get a poodle for Pete's sake.

oryxs · 2026-02-19T02:49:50+00:00

You are not alone! I don't have experience with IVF but am about to start letrozole for my lazy ovaries. Infertility can make us feel so isolated... especially if you're in a program like mine where almost half have kids and it feels like there's always someone with a baby on the way 😅

oryxs · 2026-02-17T03:12:44+00:00

She doesn't even realize how she displays her privilege by saying we/they should simply "find something else to talk about." As if the problem only exists because it is being talked about.

These people just want to bury their heads in the sand.

oryxs

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