caffeine and a will to survive

[my-beloved-patroclus]

the feminine urge to be noticed by all of my professors and having my work used as an example in front of the whole class

[softest-archive-deactivated2023]

I’m ok. I’m gonna be ok. I’m gonna live a beautiful life and I’ll get to know beautiful people. I will create things of beauty and be surrounded by flowers. And I’ll love myself, and I’ll be soft, I’ll be kind. And I’ll be ok.

[sand-at-c]

Sometimes studying feels like drinking soup with a fork.

[weltenwellen]

Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

[pglang]

due to personal reasons i need a hug

[pharmdup]

So I’ve got a relative admitted in a rural hospital out of state. I’m the only person in the family with any medical training and I’m trying to get ahold of the attending because the second-hand info I’m getting about my relative’s health from my siblings is all:

People are calling me to ask if they should go visit her to say goodbye before she dies and I’m like, hang on, she’s on the general medicine floor, not even the ICU, of a rural hospital. Larger hospitals in the area have beds for her if she was critical. There’s no way that a rural hospital would hold on to someone like that.

After a long discussion with the nurse, I found out everything is fine. Sometimes needed 1 liter of O2 via nasal cannula, afebrile, VS and labs WNL. Not even on death’s sidewalk, much less death’s door.

I never got ahold of the hospitalist because, get this, that person is the only hospitalist for the entire 24 bed hospital PLUS another slightly bigger hospital 40 minutes’ drive away AT THE SAME TIME. In the daytime on a weekday!

What

What

What

I’d freak out at that case load as a pharmacist, depending on the EHR and med rec duties, and my load is usually four times a physician’s! What is happening!

[lilcowgirl7-deactivated20210223]

I needed this drag. Let’s change guys and not look back

[user87262893]

working out your brain is a must!!

• hydrate it by drinking lots of water

• eat dark chocolate and blueberries and walnuts and salmon and other foods high in antioxidants!!

• play little brain games on your phone; I like wordconenct! anything that makes you think!

• read books. It’s simple but necessary. Even better - join a book club, or read with a friend, so you can have discussions after. This will improve your reading comprehension.

• do puzzles - it doesnt have to be sudoku, I love playing Beat Saber on the Oculus Rift because it makes my brain have to match colorful patterns to physical movements very quickly!

• learn a new dance - even a tik tok trendy dance. Learning new dance moves are proven to strengthen synapses!!

• go bird watching, or foraging, or anything outdoors that requires you to explore pattern recognition and visual searching

• watch a movie with the intent of analysis - this is best done with a cinephile friend!! talk about tropes and symbolism and character growth

• cross stitch, or sew, or do anything that requires matching nimble hand movements to patterns

• play or learn an instrument!

• develop a consistent sleep schedule (or as close to consistent as you can get!)

• when eating, try to identify the ingredients and flavors you’re perceiving!

I hope this helps :)

[ifihadmypickofwishes]

Dear Med Students,

I am an autistic adult. In light of several terrible doctor's appointments in a row, it's become clear that they teach you all absolutely nothing about autism. Here are some things you need to know.

I am not a child. Do not use your baby voice on an adult, regardless of whether or not they have a developmental disability.

I know when someone's dismissing me. We pick up on nonanswers like "we'll cross that bridge when we get there" very easily, because we depend on concrete answers for peace of mind.

I know what my own sexual orientation is.

I understand more than I can express to you. There is a substantial gap between what I am capable of understanding and what I can get back out of my mouth in a way that makes sense to neurotypical people.

Pain scales mean nothing to me. It's like asking me to count backwards in Sumerian. You are asking me to apply an arbitrary scale to an abstract feeling that I may experience atypically because of my whacked-out sensory system. Ask me questions about what the pain prevents me from doing instead.

My sensory system is different than yours. I cannot tell what is "normal" bodily sensation and what is not. My body interprets many inputs, like loud noises, as pain. On the other hand, I may have almost no sense of where my body is in space at a given moment. If you had to differentiate all that from a symptom of another medical condition, you'd be confused and inarticulate too.

[themedicalstate]

Medical Art 

- by LyonRoadArt (Kaitlin Walsh)

[yoojkim]

As much as it is reasonable, I try to send my medical students out of the hospital early, like my own residents did for me when I was a student. Some students see it as a test of their devotion to medicine and give me some pushback. Meanwhile, I just want them to get out, study some high-yield material, and enjoy their afternoon off as a medical student, because we all know that the drudgery of residency is inevitable.

[ley-med]

I'm a med student and always happy to help, but not stupid, whenever anyone tells me to go home... I'm out.

[a-young-doctors-journey]

Aaah this always feels like a test of character - does she flee the first chance she gets? Or does she want to stay and learn?

[med-engr]

As a new intern, I am absolutely not testing you. I am

1. Remembering being a med student

2. Wishing I could leave myself

3. Just need some quiet alone time to work

4. Recognize that you aren't doing anything and can just as well do nothing at home (or study or have a life)

5. Realized that the afternoon will be me frantically working through my checklist and will have no educational value for you

And I'm someone who really likes teaching and would keep you around if I could teach you stuff

[espressomademedoit]

Update! I’m alive! I’ve taken 4 medical school exams already! I love it!

[topherchris]

Live Puppy Cam

Live

Puppy

Cam

Live Puppy Cam

Live Puppy Cam

[dogs]

live puppy cam

[191195-deactivated20240210]

losing my mind over this

[rannedomblr]

STUDYING WITH DEPRESSION INFOGRAPHIC

This topic is really close to my heart. I’ve struggled with Depression for 4 years but I didn’t reach out for help until this year because I’ve been scared. It took a toll on me as a person and especially my grades. 

If you’re suffering from the same issue, PLEASE REACH OUT FOR HELP. DON’T BE AFRAID TO SPEAK OUT. IF THEY DON’T RESPOND POSITIVELY, YOU HAVE A WHOLE COMMUNITY SUPPORTING YOU, REMEMBER THAT. TALK TO ME, OR TALK TO SOMEONE YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH. 

Some rannedom links:

THE POMODORO TECHNIQUE

ONE HOUR RULE

10 APPS THAT BLOCK DISTRACTIONS

VENT TO SOMEONE

CLICK HERE TO SMILE

FEELING LONELY?

COPING WITH DEPRESSION

CHOOSE HAPPY PLAYLIST

CONQUER SCHOOL PLAYLIST

HOTLINES FOR EVERYONE

MENTAL HEALTH HELPLINES

STUDY PLAYLIST

MOST RELAXING TUNE

WANT TO FEEL UNDERSTOOD?

Anyways, please share and add links that helps. :))

Have any questions? Send me an ask. 

@justjasminestudying

:’) I made another one. Yayy!

[constellationsandcombustion]

“To name an illness is to describe a certain condition of suffering–a literary act before it becomes a medical one. A patient, long before he becomes the subject of medical scrutiny, is, at first, simply a storyteller, a narrator of suffering–a traveler who has visited the kingdom of the ill. To relieve an illness, one must begin, then, by unburdening its story.”

— Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

[beachdeath]

[everythingfox]

A good boy

Billy