A Vital Sign

Patty | 24 | ❤️| Indonesian/Dutch | a student nurse with a passion for: music, fashion, medical stuff, art & body modifications

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By Scott Metzger Cartoons 

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I would rather stick a cactus covered in chilli powder up my arse than see another research assignment.

[accident-and-emergency]

Same story.

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Sleep is life

☆ funny pictures

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justsomescience 

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Pretty dirty

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[lustik]

 Dream Anatomy by Devon A Urquhart.

Etsy Shop

Lustik:  twitter | pinterest | etsy

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Ella Frances Sanders

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[medicalstate]

Graphic Brain Heart by Emilio Garcia.

Measuring 8.5 x 5.5 x 5 inches in size, these hand crafted graphic brain hearts are one of a kind and look fantastic. They would make an excellent display piece for any anatomy lover.

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This is the work of Jung Lee, a South Korean artist. Please don’t delete the credit! She deserves recognition for her work!

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You may think you know more than the nurses. You do not. [requested by anon]

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Amputation of digits of the hand and the foot, 1857.

[mikelaughead]

I hope this helps some people the way it helped me.

After giving this same advice about affirmations to a few people in the past few months, I thought I would put this together in comic form.

I actually recorded myself saying my affirmations and I repeat them as I listen on my drive to work. For a while, I got out of the habit of doing it and I realized I was feeling really down on myself. I’ve made it a priority lately and it’s made me feel more upbeat and capable. :)

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Anecdotes by medical practitioners

“A woman came in for a baby check with her 6-month-old and she had what looked like chocolate milk in the baby’s bottle. So he started explaining to her as kindly as he could that she shouldn’t be giving her baby chocolate milk. At which point she interrupts him and says, ‘Oh that isn’t chocolate milk. It’s coffee! He just loves it!”

“I had a patient come in for an STD check. She was very upset and continued to tell me that she only had one partner. Progressing through my assessment, she further divulged that even if he was sleeping with other people it shouldn’t matter ‘because he uses a condom every time and he makes sure to wash it thoroughly after every use’.”

“Had a lady who measured her baby’s temperature by pre-heating the oven and putting one hand in front of it while the other hand was on the baby’s forehead. She told the nurse her baby’s fever was about 250 degrees.”

“Lady has to have foot amputated and is given waiver forms to sign pre-op. Buddy asks if she needs time to think about it. She’s very nonchalant and doesn’t seem to care much what they do. He gets suspicious and probes a bit as to why she’s not more concerned. She says she gets that they have to operate and it’s OK because the foot will grow back.”

“I had a couple who had been trying to conceive for over two years. I asked all the usual questions, how often do you have sex, any previous pregnancy, etc etc. Something seemed off to me during the consult, so I continued to ask questions. Finally I asked if he ejaculated while inserted into the vagina. Both parties looked confused.Turns out the couple was not having insertional sex at all. I had to awkwardly explain to them how insertional sex works. Diagrams were required.”

"Patient comes in, she’s upset. She’s pregnant, and she doesn’t understand why. She’s on the pill. Upon talking to her at great length, I find out that she only takes the pills on the days that she is sexually active – no other time.”

"Patient comes in with her bf. They are indignant, as if somehow I could’ve prevented [the pregnancy]. The problem? Well, the pills were bothering the girl’s stomach, so, being a gallant bf, he decided to start taking them instead.”

“I was explaining the treatment to the husband of a patient about to be discharged. He kept nodding and agreeing with me, but I knew it was flying over his head. Turned out a fundamental problem was that I was describing the drugs as ‘tablets’ and he had no clue what those were.”

Reddit thread 

This literally astounds.

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this whole thread us fucking gold i’ll tell ya what

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This is why we need sex education

[kelluoe]

:( how sad . We need to have more comprehensive health education.