Ye Old Suburban Medblr

Main blog: atmiger224. Non-traditional. IMG. Class of 2022. Space for my grumpy med school feels. Current Tag: clinicals

[marta-bee]

The Abortion Absolutist

Warren Hern has been performing late abortions for half a century. After Roe, he is as busy with patients as ever.

This was an interesting read. Surprisingly nonpreachy given the subject; and well worth the time.

[the-truth-within-the-lie]

This is oaywalled but it made me weep with relief to see an honest recounting for once, so I’ve saved some good bits:

[the-truth-within-the-lie]

[findingfeather]

He's also not wrong about that last part. Or any of the other parts, but especially that last part.

There are of course potential genuine fanatics, the people so batshit they don't care - but they were already a risk and they were already looking to find people like him, so the risk with them remains stable.

What's important is that we know about him.

[dxmedstudent]

Medblrs, who's still around?

I'm aware that it's been some years since my previous medblr list and previous medblr roll call posts. Over the years we've built a thriving and supportive medblr community, which we've been really lucky to have. I'm using medblr in the widest sense, here - nurses, PAs, pharmacists abd all sorts of other professions are welcome.

Years have passed. Many of us have continued to live offline lives or post less frequently because work, kids, other interests and just life got in the way. Some have changed specialties. I know that there have been years I've been fairly quiet because life was busy! But even if you post infrequently, youre still a valued part of the community. Please feel free to reblog and add yourself to the list.

Some left the sphere of medicine, that's cool too - if you ever identified as a medblr, there's still a place for you here.

New medblr friends have joined - why not introduce yourselves? It would be great to make some new connections in this sphere.

I'm also curious about non medblrs who lurk here for fun.

I'll start first. I'm @dxmedstudent (she/her, late 30s), I also go by Tink (that predates my blog here and is somewhat unrelated). I started my blog here over 10 years ago when I was a UK med student writing med student comics which can still be found over at @dxmedicalstudent .

I spent some years in hospital medicine before becoming a GP this past summer. I haven't changed my name or icons in that time so if you think you remember me, you're probably right.

Lovely to meet you all, and to say hi to old friends.

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

(X)

[dafydd2277]

And let’s remind everyone one that the Internet Archive duplicated all of its data to locations outside the US when Trump was elected the first time.

[alexseanchai]

and if one doesn't need one's information to be US specific but does need it in English, the public health information sites run by the World Health Organization and relevant agencies in Canada, Australia, and the UK should all have it

Resources for contraception, gender-affirming care, STIs and HIV flicker in and out of existence or vanish completely

Research and basic information on subjects ranging from tuberculosis surveillance to adolescent health disappeared from federal health agenc

[thaempo]

DRAMAS in 2025

➼ 3 || The Trauma Code: Heroes On Call 중즌외상센터 (2025) dir. Lee Do Yoon

[emilianadarling]

- Timothy Snyder. The first and perhaps most important lesson from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons for the Twentieth Century (2017)

Snyder's new book, On Freedom, was published in 2024.

[thecolorblockcurator]

I know it’s scary & there are so many unknowns

But don’t make it easy for them. Don’t just step aside as they march right in like they own the place. Your freedom, your personhood, your identity isn’t theirs to take.

I’ve seen so many people already accepting extremes when they haven’t even happened yet.

So many trans folks talking about detransitioning, or making themselves less queer looking. So many people accepting that there will never be another election in the US. So many people taking down pride flags and bumper stickers.

Don’t just hand it over to them.

Surround yourself with supportive people, make and find communities where you can rely on each others. Don’t hide and isolate, don’t preemptively comply with fascism

[trishmishtree]

The funniest part of doing my KSA modules (to keep my board certification) is getting to see a bunch of other random doctors complaining in the comments of each question about how dumb or unfair a question is

There was one question asking us to calculate a positive likelihood ratio and the comments were full of people complaining about how clinically irrelevant the question is

Every time I see a question with like 10+ comments under it, I know it's going to be a doozy that everybody got wrong and is salty about

One dude is so sick of this question set that he's just started leaving sad face emojis in the comments

Pretty much every question has comments under it that are either "the test writers are in the pocket of big pharma, always pushing to start drugs!!!" or "your question is bad and you should feel bad," with the occasional "your question is out of date, they updated the guidelines in 2022"

Every time I get one wrong after multiple tries, I can always count on the slew of angry doctors in the comments airing their grievances and know that the problem is the question, not me 😂

Oh boy, you know they're gonna tear this question a new one

[wayfaringmd]

“Shouldn’t my insurance pay for it if you ordered it?”- patient exasperated about the cost of a necessary but uncovered test. Welcome to America, where insurers without medical training determine what service is medically necessary.

[atmedicine]

Im having such decision paralysis that I haven't started applying for jobs yet and it's now officially terrifying. I'm terrified.

[fridayindulges]

[atmedicine]

Any ideas for an off-site elective that will take a resident for a month?

[st-just]

From the 16th century to the 19th, scurvy killed around 2 million sailors, more than warfare, shipwrecks and syphilis combined. It was an ugly, smelly death, too, beginning with rattling teeth and ending with a body so rotted out from the inside that its victims could literally be startled to death by a loud noise. Just as horrifying as the disease itself, though, is that for most of those 300 years, medical experts knew how to prevent it and simply failed to. In the 1600s, some sea captains distributed lemons, limes and oranges to sailors, driven by the belief that a daily dose of citrus fruit would stave off scurvy’s progress. The British Navy, wary of the cost of expanding the treatment, turned to malt wort, a mashed and cooked byproduct of barley which had the advantage of being cheaper but the disadvantage of doing nothing whatsoever to cure scurvy.

-Michael Hobbes

[ley-med]

Doing the rounds in the ICU and we are discussing a pretty complicated case and The Boss is talking and it's honestly very interesting and finally I can learn more about CVVHD and there's a spot of blood on my shoe oh right that happened yesterday night in the OR I wonder what happened to that lady how she's doing anyway that was a pretty good night shift but I should really get rid of this spot of blood wait *tuning back into the conversation* oh no we are already at the next patient

[atmedicine]

“As my friend Maud once said, 'There are times when you must speak, not because you are going to change the other person, but because if you don't speak, they have changed you.'"

—Melissa McEwan

[meg2md]

I'm gonna try and do 80 UWorld questions today, and a CCS case. It's wishful thinking, but I'm starting to get STUPID stressed about Step 3. My friend took Day 1 yesterday and said there was a lot of peds and Step 1 shit on it. Guys, I'm dreading this test so much.

[thesaltyoncologist]

Dear intern,

You are doing awesome. There are no mistakes, only opportunities to learn. Just remember that no one walks into intern year knowing WTF they’re doing. You’re not alone. If others got to the other side of training intact, so can you. You’re doing great.

[lizziedoesvetpath]

Watching Grey's Anatomy and the first line of this episode is:

"The problem with being a resident is you feel crazy all the time"

And I felt that

[atmedicine]

39/159 weeks of residency: The Bad: The anxiety is ever present and its hard to not feel like I’m going backwards in my learning. The once “simple” algorithms are complicated by new knowledge. I wonder if I’ve forgotten things or if I ever even knew them in the first place. I’m always worried I’m not covering enough ground during rapid responses/Codes. Seeing colleagues burned by staff/admin for not documenting their management of care makes me even more paranoid about extraneous tasks even during emergency situations. Talking about goals of care with patient’s family is exhausting, but its even more distressing hearing the patient’s voice hale and healthy on a voicemail message when you call home to inform family that theyve died. Did I give them the right medications? Did I give them too much? Am I learning all of this fast enough? Im not here to make friends but the social politics of the hospital makes me always feel like I’m being judged. Am I someone that people like to work with? Do people consider me a good doctor? Why do I even care?

The Good: -I survived this long, I can survive some more