(Dr.) Dom's Medical Adventure!

One student's musings through medical school! || Rank: OMS-I 8).

[drdomblog]

Apparently blowjobs can measure your lung functon

Patient with acute exacerbation of asthma: I don't think the problem is my lungs you know

Me trying to put a cannula in: oh really?

Patient: I think the problem is more my chest

Me: ... right

Patient: It's definitely not my lungs because I give a really really good blow job

Me: ....

....

...

[larstheyeti]

overindulgence (poor Liver)

[drdomblog]

This. 1000% this. (Especially the night after block exams..)

[drdomblog]

This is no joke, it really happened in my first responder class today

My EMR instructor: You arrive at a scene with a patient laying on the ground. You check their level of alertness and they appear unconscious. You have already opened their airway with an adjunct and are administering oxygen.

What do you do next?

Student: Call 911!

My EMR Instructor: YOU ARE 911.

[dxmedstudent]

These are the hands

These are the hands That touch us first Feel your head Find the pulse And make your bed.

These are the hands That tap your back Test the skin Hold your arm Wheel the bin Change the bulb Fix the drip Pour the jug Replace your hip.

These are the hands That fill the bath Mop the floor Flick the switch Soothe the sore Burn the swabs Give us a jab Throw out sharps Design the lab.

And these are the hands That stop the leaks Empty the pan Wipe the pipes Carry the can Clamp the veins Make the cast Log the dose And touch us last.

Several years ago, Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen wrote this poem to celebrate 60 years of the NHS. It remains as true now as it was then. The NHS is the sum of all those who dedicate their lives to it, millions of workers doing all sorts of jobs from open heart surgery to disinfecting the floors every night. I can’t think of a better tribute.

[wayfaringmd]

Vitamin C...alcium

Wayfaring: Tell me about all these vitamins you’re taking.

Patient: Oh well I quit taking vitamin C because it’s full of calcium and my cardiologist said my arteries were calcified when I had a cath so it was definitely making my heart go bad so I stopped it. 

Wayfaring: That’s not…what…how…any of that…nevermind.

[larstheyeti]

Weekend planning

[drdomblog]

The quintessential med school struggle: the balance/ battle between being a social butterfly vs the vast amount of knowledge I need to understand for exam day.

[medicowesome]

Gastroschisis vs Omphalocele

[pagingmedicine]

Cannot emphasize this enough.

[md-admissions]

legit. if the studying ever gets you down, remember this.

[drdomblog]

What it all boils down to..

[gethealthynotslim]

Please absorb this information

[enlightened-health]

LMFAO I LOVE THIS OMMGGG

[gethealthynotslim]

Me too, it popped up on my FB this morning. Everybody ever needs to see this

[fatmomsgetfit]

This made me happy in so many ways

[drdomblog]

Bumped to help spread the cooling breeze of common sense

[drdomblog]

It's crazy to see how prevalent this injury is now that the blockbuster movie had shown a light on it... (And shout out to my Alma Mater!)

[larstheyeti]

why would you use caffeine as your example? that’s impossible

[teenscoolest]

[docitaliana]

WHY IS THIS SO PAINFULLY ACCURATE???

[drdomblog]

When you need to wake up for 8am classes that aren't recorded...

[thenotquitedoctor-blog]

Advice for M2s?

[flyonthewallmedstudent]

I was hoping an American in MS3 or MS4 would answer this one. 

In the meantime - I offer up some generalized advice, but I call ‘straya home and attend school there. 

So, essentially - take what I say with a grain of salt. I know most of you reading this probably won’t be from my part of the world

MS2 is much like MS1. They still hit you with a lot of information and it still feels like a shit tonne of bricks every time. 

Keep reading

[drdomblog]

Good to know it only gets “better” from here.. lol

[drdomblog]

I like when you post about your lyfe. You're a real cool dude. And you'll make a great DOctor.

Thanks, Anon! 

[drdomblog]

Coming up next in personalized medicine: 3D printed drugs

Over the past decade, 3D printing has been blurring boundaries between imagination and fabrication.

Will probably be a bigger deal once we start Pharm next year, but still an awesome article and proof that there’s still room to advance the field of medicine! (The fact that it’s Boston is a bonus for me!)

[wayfaringmd]

Yet another "help, I got a bad grade" post.

Ok guys, not to pick on these three askers, but I AM SICK OF THESE QUESTIONS ABOUT GPAS!!!!!!!!!

How many times do we medblrs need to tell y’all that your life is not over after one B, C, or even D? How many freaked out first semester undergrads do I have to pet and say “there there” to before you guys figure out that ONE BAD GRADE OR ONE BAD SEMESTER IS NOT THE END OF THE WORLD!

Yes, I got less than a B in a science course. I got 3 C’s to be exact, in Orgo 1&2 and in Physics 1. I don’t share my GPAs and MCAT scores because 

1) I don’t remember them, 2) because I’ve seen people not get accepted with scores better than mine and others get accepted with worse scores than mine, and I don’t want people to look at my grades as something that will “guarantee” them an acceptance to med school because there is no guarantee, and 3) because THEY DON’T MATTER. They didn’t matter then, they didn’t matter in med school, and they sure as heck don’t matter now, 6 1/2 years after college graduation.

Why did they not matter? Let’s review:

I got other good grades that balanced out those few bad grades. 

I did other things with my life that made me a well rounded student, which med schools like.

My overall graduating GPA was obviously good enough to get me into med school despite my fair share of Bs and Cs. 

I friggin EARNED those C’s. They weren’t surprises to me. I knew they were coming and I was just glad they weren’t F’s. I worked hard for those C’s. Those C’s taught me how to study. 

I was and am a grownup who doesn’t place her self value on a single little number given to me by a crotchety near-retirement organic chemistry professor. 

WHAT’S DONE IS DONE. I couldn’t change a bad grade I had already gotten, so rather than moping over a bad grade I worked harder to make the next one better. 

I never considered a bad grade to be a permanent obstacle. I didn’t think “oh crap, I got a C, now I can never be a doctor.” I thought, “well, I guess I’ll just work harder next time and I’ll be a doctor who got some C’s”. 

I had backup plans. Sure, I wanted to be a doctor, but I wasn’t so naive as to think that it was ABSOLUTELY going to happen for me. So I made other plans just in case. 

Med school was not my ultimate goal. My goal was to do God’s will for my life. If that meant med school, which was what I wanted, then great. But if it didn’t, then it didn’t. And I’d move on. 

Seriously guys, you have GOT to stop letting your whole life fall apart over one little bad grade. Has nothing bad ever happened to y’all? Did y’all not learn how to deal with disappointment and failure growing up? Were y’all all in activities that gave you “participation trophies” and in sports where there were no winners or losers? 

Welcome to the real world. 

One grade does not determine your future. One semester does not make or break your life plans.

If you fail, try again, but don’t make the same mistakes twice. If I got all upset and heartbroken every time I got a diagnosis wrong, do you think I would still be a doctor? Geez, I would have had to quit on day 1. No. You get something wrong and you figure out why you got it wrong and then try to get it right the next time. 

If you have decided that you want to go into medicine, then one thing you need to learn now is that you will meet TONS of failure in your life. You need to get used to that now when it doesn’t matter a whole lot so that you can handle it when it really does matter. Because there will come a time when a patient dies despite you doing everything you possibly can for them. There will be times when things go wrong for no reason. And if your world is falling apart over a measly B- or C, how the heck do you think you will manage the real tough stuff? If your mind is made up to be a doctor, then do it. When you get knocked down, pick yourself back up and do better the next time. 

Finally, let me drop one more little reality bomb.

I try to stay away from telling people “follow your dreams!” “You can still be a doctor despite your terrible grades!” I am a realist. Now like I said, one bad grade or one bad semester shouldn’t put the brakes on your whole life plan. But a pattern of failure or a pattern of mediocrity? That should be a wake up call. Maybe you need to re-evaluate your goals a little bit. Or maybe you need to overhaul your study methods. Do something. But to keep doing the same thing over and over despite it not working is insanity. 

Now, get off Tumblr and go study something.

[wayfaringmd]

Bringing this one back for the undergrads who just finished finals and might get a low grade or two back. 

[mdhopeful]

I’m reblogging this with love. Just know you’re not going to not make it to medicine with one bad grade. Love you all <3 ! 

[drchelsearar]

“I earned those Cs”

Let’s talk about how that is the most refreshing take on a not-stellar grade that I’ve ever ever seen.

This literally just snapped me back to senior year of college when I was depressed beyond belief and couldn’t finish a course. I, too, was thankful it wasn’t an F, but always felt a little ashamed that I didn’t do better.

But I really did earn that C. I barely scraped through, I barely held my head above water, but I did finish enough to get that C.

[drdomblog]

Re-blogging this for anyone who stumbles upon a poor grade and thinks for even a SECOND that it will define them! (I posted a winded personal post about this very subject earlier this week as well, if you would like some personal inspiration from me). YOU WILL PERSEVERE!

[nikolace]

All I need for work! Genius!

[md-admissions]

this diagram is a gift

[medicalmotivation-deactivated20]

A gift from the cardio gods!

[drdomblog]

A little late since we just finished our cardio block exams, but still a great diagram!