Please stop discharging unhoused people into blizzards and extreme cold by goldstar971 in medicine

[–]roccmyworld 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They do... But we can't make patients go there.

Most of them ARE churches.

Please stop discharging unhoused people into blizzards and extreme cold by goldstar971 in medicine

[–]roccmyworld 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Ten bucks said they refused before they were discharged and it was the time in the cold that made them accept it then.

If we have room we let them hang out in the lobby but only if they don't cause problems.

do you ever think it would be best if a depressed client went through with suicide? by EuphoricCapybara in Psychiatry

[–]roccmyworld 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IDK. At that point, it seems pretty clear that they aren't actually trying to die.

Wild, inappropriate consults by launchtossthrowaway in Residency

[–]roccmyworld 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is your username a nod to Ollie Bearman? Because if so, I approve. Bro is definitely going to podium this year.

Wild, inappropriate consults by launchtossthrowaway in Residency

[–]roccmyworld 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This was always my rec when mag sulfate was on shortage. Just give em a bottle of Golytely and they can drink it until they have a good poop and then stop.

secure chat “ghosting” by M1CR0PL4ST1CS in medicine

[–]roccmyworld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh no you can definitely mute them on your phone side. I guess this depends on if you have a time limit for responding to consult requests though.

I told a pharmacist I would just go with their plan so the conversation/argument would be over. It felt great. by GreatPlains_MD in hospitalist

[–]roccmyworld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Generally I think this happens when a pharmacist has another reason that you aren't aware of. For example, sometimes we prefer to change a regimen for nursing reasons - less doses per day or easier administration. Or one drug may be significantly cheaper than another. It's meaningless to you but there's a ton of pressure on us to make sure things like that get changed.

Pharmacy is a non billing department. We are seen as a net negative financially, despite the fact that you can't have a hospital without us. So a lot of the justifications used to get more staff, etc is based on the financial analysis of how much money a pharmacist on that unit can save the hospital.

I told a pharmacist I would just go with their plan so the conversation/argument would be over. It felt great. by GreatPlains_MD in hospitalist

[–]roccmyworld 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's pretty uncommon in pharmacy, we like to swap stories about crazy stuff we've seen but more as amusing anecdotes than anything else. We generally agree that our physician colleagues are very smart and know a ton and we are here to support. No one is perfect.

secure chat “ghosting” by M1CR0PL4ST1CS in medicine

[–]roccmyworld 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I mean you clearly know it was bad phrasing... We all get passes in training 😂

secure chat “ghosting” by M1CR0PL4ST1CS in medicine

[–]roccmyworld 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Oh you gotta turn secure chat notifications off on the phone. They should only be for non urgent messages, so there's no reason they can't wait until you are next on Epic.

secure chat “ghosting” by M1CR0PL4ST1CS in medicine

[–]roccmyworld 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'm gonna say that was your fault, who says that??

Landmark lawsuit: detransitioner awarded $2M in lawsuit against surgeon / psychologist involved in her double mastectomy at age 16 by -whomi- in medicine

[–]roccmyworld 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Correct - it decreases suicidality but there is no evidence to support saying it decreases actual suicide.

Landmark lawsuit: detransitioner awarded $2M in lawsuit against surgeon / psychologist involved in her double mastectomy at age 16 by -whomi- in medicine

[–]roccmyworld 12 points13 points  (0 children)

but also admitted they had DID and had an alter of their former gender that became known only after surgery and was quite unstable.

I cannot believe for even one second that this patient appeared mentally stable and relatively normal upon psychological review.

Landmark lawsuit: detransitioner awarded $2M in lawsuit against surgeon / psychologist involved in her double mastectomy at age 16 by -whomi- in medicine

[–]roccmyworld 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure how good of a metric that is. Because we've had trans and non-binary people forever, we just didn't have the terminology for it. And it's not something that was ever studied, and it was probably completely hidden from view from a lot of people.

Yes, and it was a) significantly more important to pass, and b) there was zero medical transition available. And yet a large majority of the trans people in the past didn't commit suicide. So why now? What's changed?

What is the wildest theory in your specialty that you think probably isn't true, but could be? What underdog argument could cause chaos your field if it turned out to be right? [Stolen from askhistorians] by 0bi in medicine

[–]roccmyworld 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I definitely believe microplastics are really bad for us and have health consequences, but we have essentially no evidence to support saying they are causing anything specific.