First Year Biomedicine

_ Madeline // Australia Study Motivation | My Own Study | Study Tips Currently Studying Second Year Biomedical Science End Goal: Medicine ~

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in love with this library ✨

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This is amazing.

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if you’re not committed to antiracism, you’re not a good doctor. 

I remember when I had pneumonia I was so sick and exhausted and in pain that I couldn’t get out of bed for *days* — I eventually pushed myself to walk across campus to the doctor’s office (it took me literally 45 minutes to walk there bc I had to walk so slow) and when I got there…the doctor made it seem I was only trying to get out of writing an exam lol. I was too embarrassed to tell her that I was going to be withdrawing from the class anyway bc I hadn’t had the energy to get to lectures at all that semester. She lectured me about how she sees students do this all the time and she can’t take a risk in trusting me when the only thing that was wrong with me was exhaustion. “We all have off days” is what she said lolol. 

I was so humiliated at her insinuation that I eventually just nodded when she said it “didn’t seem like I had any issues” and went back home. It wasn’t until I fainted walking down the hallway like 4 feet outside my apartment that I started panicking and called someone to take me to the hospital. When I got there even the receptionists looked genuinely pale to see how hard it was for me to walk and how much it hurt to breathe or talk.

It would take *6* different antibiotics for the really advanced pneumonia to finally die out, the last of which was delivered intravenously in my arm for 10 continuous days — I still have the scar where the initial IV was and I have another mark on my wrist. I *literally* couldn’t walk or lay on my back for 8-9 weeks. I would sleep sitting up with pillows on a chair and when my breath would involuntarily deepen as I started to fall asleep I would jerk awake bc of the sharp pain my lung where the pneumonia was.

That same doctor who thought I was lying about being sick would then call me like 34 times in a row when my blood test results came to her office and the hospital sent her my chest x rays lolol, obviously worried about looking bad and having called me a liar and sending me home when I had such a serious bout of pneumonia.

In the 3rd year of my premed degree I would learn that doctors in North America — and specifically white women in nursing lol — often see south Asian women as malingerers who exaggerate their pain. In a UK study there were neonatal nurses who went so far as to say that south Asian women also lack maternal instincts, care more about their pain meds than their child and “can’t handle” child birth.

Yosif al Hasnawi — an Iraqi Canadian teen — died at the hands of two paramedics who did not believe he had been shot and claimed he was “acting” when he was actually internally bleeding. They made him walk to the ambulance with a bullet in his stomach, from which he would later die after not being transported to the hospital for 38 minutes.

Just yesterday My cousin, totally healthy, just died of a brain hemorrhage and often complained about ongoing migraines that could’ve been telltale signs of hypertension that were totally ignored by her doctor for years.

and just a day before that Kim porter who was otherwise healthy just died of pneumonia while having expressed her symptoms and pain to doctors for days — I would say that I’m shocked by this but the implications faced by brown people and racism in the healthcare system is 10x worse for black women who are often seen as liars and in it for the meds as a result of historical anti blackness and systemic rejection of black patients’ pain.

doctors are literally trained to perceive racialized people as malingerers who are trying to scam for meds or medical attention instead of people in pain. It’s 100% systemic and actually integrated into medical education.

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Yeah exactly this

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woke up early because of construction noises, so i dragged myself to campus and tried a new café while finishing up my reading for this afternoon’s seminar.

[scienceshenanigans]

Good afternoon, the academic culture of “if you’re not overworking, you don’t deserve success” is unhealthy.

[aaronmnrd]

monday to thursday - semester six, week three

my week can be summed up as productive, but only for classes i actually like. tried and still haven’t finished that damn report, but i consoled myself in reading woolf’s to the lighthouse and looking more into my lit classes, and the linguistics one. next week’s load of work is supposed to be lighter, thanks gosh because i need this family time in the countryside i’m suppose to have as of tomorrow. 

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fuck it up Cathleen!!!!!!!

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US medblr, what on Earth is going on?!

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Quick & dirty explanation for all y’all not in the good ole USA:

the sudden prevalence of #thisismylane posts is a response of physicians to a tweet by the NRA (National Rifle Association) which accused physicians of being anti-gun without knowing anything about guns/gun ownership, and that this is outside of their scope of practice.

Unsurprisingly, members of the medical field took this quite badly given the unfortunate prevalence of gun violence in this country and the fact that, despite their best efforts and all of the medical advances on hand these days, they still lose patients to gun-inflicted wounds… and not infrequently.

Edit: more info from the NYT

[dxmedstudent]

Ah, interesting. So, basically, there are people out there um… disingenuous enough to claim that people being injured and or dying by preventable means is allegedly outside medical personnel’s scope of practice. Because said personnel are suggesting that maybe people could look for ways to try reduce the number of injuries. I’ve said it before, and had some interesting conversations about US gun culture, which is completely alien to me because in the UK you just don’t grow up with an expectation of an entitlement to guns. Like, I rarely see them at all; I saw one in a museum last week (it was Winston Churchill’s), and very infrequently I see armed police at the airport or something, but for the most part guns are almost a theoretical concept, like lightsabers. Like, they look cool in films and in a particular setting, as a concept, but in real life? Wild. I can no more envisage carrying a gun around than I can envisage turning up to work with a bow and arrow, or in full plate mail or something. And I know that’s partly because I’m a city girl (people in the countryside are more likely to have licensed firearms for protecting livestock etc), and there is occasional gang-related gun crime. But it really pales in numbers compared to knife crime in the UK. So I’m sheltered, but guns also really aren’t nearly as much of a thing over here, and it’s interesting (but also exasperating) seeing the way in which US folks wrestle with their collective deep-seated issues on this.

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September 11, 2018

Had my heart broken three times this summer and I’m just really over it /: Hopeful for better and brighter days to come

I have a final in two days and there’s only one orientation session left and summer production for Daily Bruin is over and THE SUMMER IS ALMOST OVER it’s all hitting me right now

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11.8.18: had the library to myself this morning, currently prepping for a tutorial this afternoon :-)

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Independence and Int

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Do you have a post that has the links to all your freebies?

All of the freebies are linked below :-)

2018:

2018 free student printables (2018 overview + calendar, daily + weekly + monthly planner, 30 habit tracker, class overview and timed worklog)

2018 monthly printables

2019:

2019 student printables (2018-19 overview, 2019 overview, 2019 key dates, year in pixels, monthly portrait planner)

monthly printables to be added soon

Timed schedules/planners:

study schedule printables

week at a glance printables

weekly planner (monday and sunday start)

weekend planner

daily planner

Studying:

languages study pack (two options - 16 pages of premade tables or 8 pages of customisable/blank tables)

study planner pack (daily + weekly + monthly study planner, 10 minute planner, study plan, study tracker, subject and chapter summary, and priority breakdown)

DIY flashcard printables (2 covers, dotted, lined, grid, Q&A versions)

assessment planner (two options)

subject to do list planner

study session planner

back to school printable set (includes 2017-18 academic year calendar (monday + sunday start), semester overview, assessment + grade tracker, revision checklist, untimed weekly organiser, study session tracker)

exam printable pack (includes topic revision checklist, definitions + formula sheet, essay + project planner, weekly schedule)

binder / subject covers / topic pages (16 colours)

Misc:

to-do list printables

100 days of productivity tracker printable (explanation of 100 days challenge here)

literary techniques and devices sheet (goes with this post)

note taking printables (includes dotted, grid, lined, Cornell paper)

organic chemistry printable

Motivational quotes/art printables:

motivational monday quote printables

Handwriting:

cursive handwriting cheatsheet (goes with this post)

normal handwriting cheatsheet

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I do plan on adding more and am always open to suggestions so feel free to leave requests for me! xxx

[1036th]

just a bunch of school notes 🌻📔💡

[iknowthis]

16.04. Rewriting my Histology notes and already hanging behind in the second week of the semester 👍 But coffee, plants and the blue sky keep my heart happy 🌱

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in hindsight I probably should’ve studied French more this summer :/ oh well live and learn