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Chiari malformation is a malformation of the brain. It consists of a downward displacement of the cerebellar tonsils through the foramen magnum (the opening at the base of the skull), sometimes causing non-communicating hydrocephalus as a result of obstruction of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) outflow. The cerebrospinal fluid outflow is caused by phase difference in outflow and influx of blood in the vasculature of the brain. It can cause headaches, fatigue, muscle weakness in the head and face, difficulty swallowing, dizziness, nausea, impaired coordination, and, in severe cases, paralysis.

Image: A T1-weighted sagittal MRI scan, from a patient with an Arnold-Chiari malformation, demonstrating tonsillar herniation of 7mm

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jungwhee

How good is your system, if children kill themselves to fit in?

12 word story (via keeep-telling-yourself-that)

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Critical Incident Stress Debrief

Keep your mental health in order. Talk about your bad calls. Find help early or it will bite you in the ass.

after-crisis

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This time last year I was unemployed, broke, and suicidal.

Today, I just got the keys to my first house.

Give it time.

blk0912

Needed this today

youmatterlifeline

YES!!!!!!

oktotalk

Can You Help Me Out?

"This guy’s walking down the street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so steep he can’t get out."A doctor passes by and the guy shouts up, ‘Hey you. Can you help me out?’ The doctor writes a prescription, throws it down in the hole and moves on.

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TUMOR MARKERS!

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via [inspirationwordslove] #ok2talk

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thecraftychemist

pharmaustria

There is a growing refusal to vaccinate children for fear of severe side effects. And more often than not the refusers are well educated people reading semi-scientific bullshit about side effects and allergies. These diseases are rare or nearly extinct because earlier generations did indeed vaccinate and stopped the diseases from spreading. The diseases can still kill you/severely impair you or your children! Vaccinate!

nursingisinmyblood

And if not for your own kids, think about those people who can’t be vaccinated or have decreased immunity. You are protecting them as we’ll.

heart-block

Oh lawd.

#people are stupid #vaccinate

corporisfabrica

Heartbeats under magnetic resonance imaging.

We seldom consider the force with which our hearts beat through every moment of our lives. Most of us will only ever feel the dampened strength of these muscles at the arteries of the wrist or neck, perhaps through a stethoscope or in moments of excitement, exertion and fear. Take a moment to consider it now, if you will.

Credit to the VCU Medical Center for these images.

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Amazing Collages by ffoart (Artist on tumblr)

brutereason

The thing is that if someone is being shamed, stigmatized, bullied etc. for being fat, and we say “they aren’t fat” or “they aren’t even that fat” in their defense, what we are also saying is that there is a size at which they would deserve that treatment, and that’s just not true. Countering fat shaming by denying fatness says that the person doesn’t deserve poor treatment (which is true) but at the expense of reinforcing the incorrect idea that they would deserve it if they were fat (or some greater degree of fat), or that being called fat is an insult. There is no size at which people deserve to be treated poorly.

She’s Not That Fat | Dances With Fat (via tomhannigers)

This!