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[cdmonson]

What I Learned Today In Med School

This was a new one for me: a post combining art and medicine (not my own art, I promise). Let me know what you think of the analogy. And, as always, thank you for reading!

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The “sex and gender are different” theory that cisgender people invented so they can grasp trans identity while still erasing it is toxic. It translates into “your gender may be ____ but biologically you are _____” which normalizes the concept that genitalia validates your gender. Its nothing less than bullshit.

[oudeteron]

It also creates this patronizing linguistic construction where you can just replace “biologically” with “really” and that’s the actual sentiment here, isn’t it? They’re humouring you, that’s it. Truth is that sex is as much a social construct as is gender, but admitting that debunks the status quo in a way that the simplistic sex/gender distinction doesn’t, so of course it hasn’t caught on yet.

[cdmonson]

As someone in medical school who is taught to use this duality, it’s not judgemental. We need to know how many X and/or Y chromosomes you have and which hormone-secreting organs you still have in order to understand what diseases you are at risk for. After that though, self-identified gender is all that matters. I can't imagine this ever being appropriate to bring up outside of the medical field though.

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[cdmonson]

muchtoofullofsand - Sorry for the lack of Tumbled posts recently, but I thought since this one is somewhat physics-y that I ought to make sure you saw it!

[cdmonson]

Nothing to see here! Find out about this nothing and more on post #199 of What I Learned Today in Med School.

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[cdmonson]

I will always reblog terrible biology puns.

[cdmonson]

Today was a weird day of topics in med school. Read about mummies, armadillos and Oscar Wilde in today's blog post, WILTIMS #188: The Importance of TB-ing Dermis.

[cdmonson]

Read about listeria comets and how we cause almost all cases of C. diff infections in this edition of What I Learned Today in Med School!

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IS THAT A GIF IN A GIF IN A GIF

[cdmonson]

"Our hospital is a regional trauma center, so people come from other counties to die here."

County medical examiner during a lecture to my med school pathology class. Read more in yesterday's What I Learned Today in Med School blog post.

[cdmonson]

What I Learned Today in Med School: Some nifty facts about how vaccines are designed and why there's things like aluminum in some of them!

[nateswinehart]

Being good to each other is so important, guys.

[cdmonson]

Anyone who knows someone with a severe allergy has heard of an EpiPen, but do you know how they work?

from yesterday's post on What I Learned Today in Med School (WILTIMS)

[cdmonson]

Today's blog post! Roman gods, weird biology etymology, cancer vaccine... it's a good one!

[cdmonson]

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how to be cool

A) cool sunglasses emoji B)

[bumblequinn]

is that a god damn pun. in emoticon format