It's Glitz

Glittery things, school, music, CrossFit, and recipes in a death-match for my affection.

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Can we talk about how beautiful this DVI packaging is for arguably the world’s most expensive operating headlamp?

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Ok. I’ll admit it. I miss the friggin’ alpenglow. 

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We Found Out Whether Kim Kardashian's Tape Trick Actually Works

Spoiler alert: Gaffer's tape hurts like hell!

In a moment of desperation while planning how to wear a backless dress for an upcoming black-tie wedding, I tried this out. Fortunately, the local hardware store doesn't stock the suggested variety of gaffer’s tape so I turned to the old faithful tape I keep in my backpacking kit: Medipore.

No joke - this was magical for holding my 32DDs in place. It made the most secure, most comfortable, most customizable, longest-lasting, and most gentle-to-remove strapless-bra-thing I’ve ever used in my life. 

Bonus: Medipore works admirably as a drywall patch. 

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Me: Excuse me, where did you find those metal chopsticks for sale around this area?

Elderly Korean woman: You have to be part of the Korean club, sorry. 

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TMW your mom uses a single, 25 year old Cutco paring knife to cut *every* kind of food item.

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When you ask the circulator to ensure that as she preps the surgical site she is careful to remove all of the glitter that is inexplicably embedded in the areas of dry gangrene

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Just bought an ultrasound unit from China and... who commissioned this hand-drawn gem for the user manual?

[arabellesicardi]

I’m just waiting to board my flight to Berlin rn but a quick thing I wrote on buzzing came out earlier today. Okay bye lol

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Done it two times. Regretted it zero times. Would buzz again.

[aspiringdoctors-blog]

Y’ALL LOOK WHAT AN URGENT CARE SENT IN WITH A PATIENT. LOOKING AT IT WITH MY OTHER RESIDENTS I FELT LIKE WE WERE IN HOUSE OR SOME SHIT.

[cranquis]

what’s the big deal? i handle razor-edged grainy awkward flappy oversized bone-selfies all the time.

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My last rotation in residency, one of the attending’s offices still used regular cassettes. It was miserable, even with the automated developer, because we had to re-shoot images at least once per day due to poor quality or accidental double exposures.

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TMW you try to make a yuzu old fashioned only to find out that your yuzu concentrate contains a substantial amount of salt.

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Since my parents don’t have cable TV and have a pitifully-slow ISP, you can only watch public TV …unless the signal goes out as it did over Christmas.

This is an odd concept in the modern day. The fact that I can watch countless minimally-interrupted hours of a series on Netflix in my own apartment is crazy when you remember that the local PBS station growing up simply turned to static after a certain hour in the evening.

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The patient I operated on yesterday morning somehow smuggled a not-that-small flowering plant in to their isolation room and has convinced the nursing staff to help water it QOD.

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Free research question:

What proportion of doctor-patient encounters that involve the patient making sexual commentary to the provider affect the care plan enough to prematurely limit or terminate the doctor’s involvement?

Asking for a friend.

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Patient, while I’m examining their feet: “Want to see something neat?”

Me: “Sure!”

Patient: *demonstrates cogwheeling of their arms* “My spine surgeon said I’m not supposed to do be able to do this!

Me:

[wayfaringmd]

Reader Quiz

What gift were you most excited to give this year? 

What gift were you most excited to get?

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I got one of my brothers a Pampshade!

More than anything else, I was overjoyed that my mom bought me a jar of lupini beans from the Italian grocery store.

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I wrecked every single part of my clinic outfit today EXCEPT the indestructible black pencil skirt I’ve had since high school.

Nylons: got snagged on fungal toenails (because of course they did)

Black boots: covered one ankle in plaster while casting for orthotics

Pale pink sweater: shot blood across it while debriding an infected ulcer

[cranquis]

TSK: Ask your doctor if rat poison is right for you

90+ grumpy old man (who has been objecting to all medical advice I’ve given so far): Ok, doc, you seem like an honest guy, so tell me the truth – isn’t my blood thinner made out of rat poison?

Cranquis: Basically, yes. When you give warfarin to rats, their blood gets too thin, and then they bleed internally and die.

Man: I KNEW IT! And you’re the first doctor to admit it when I ask. So I guess I’ll do whatever you say now.

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I’ve started explaining to my patients that the 5.07/10g monofilament used in the USA to quantify diabetic peripheral neuropathy was originally set as the standard for people in India who had leprosy. The concept of a “protective sensation” threshold was if these patients could tell if their toes were being eaten by rats while they slept, and the 5.07/10g monofilament predicted this successfully.

This is why 2 point discrimination is so much more sensitive than monofilament testing for patients who have symptoms of neuropathy but otherwise have an intact monofilament exam - the standard was never intended to be used for other causes of neuropathy.