Martee-Bee

🔴22, Australian. Chronic EDS, Christian, all the fandoms!, dancer, Karateka, loves making music

[stability]

[martee-bee-blog]

Never unsee

[ithelpstodream]

[tastefullyoffensive]

I can’t get a handle on this… (via Aceinyourface)

[martee-bee-blog]

Cat sure has a handle on life

[pinkniall]

I got Gay Gay Death Money which seems fitting

[martee-bee-blog]

I weed on a gay

Gay AF

Dog rich!

Sinful

Should I be excited or concerned?

[melonmemes]

[homefixin2shavemister]

This post is going to take a turn.

[bumbleshark]

I said this to a guy one time and he was immediately turned away

[martee-bee-blog]

Lol, male ego looses again

[lysanderish]

I get so mad about people who insist that doctors went to med school so they can never be wrong about your health like ???? Some Doctors hate fat people??? Some doctors hate the mentally ill or give Helpful NT Advice instead of treatment??? My ob/gyn took four years and a strong arm from my mom to figure out I had pcos???

Doctors are not gods??????

[scientia-rex]

I am a med student, literally currently going to medical school, and doctors are about 15% wonderful people who Care So Much It Hurts, about 60% Eh I Was Optimistic But Ill-Informed When I Chose This Life, and a solid 25% What The Fuck Is Wrong With You You Fucking Fucks Get The Fuck Out Of Medicine Oh Wait You’re Just Going To Retire After Decades Of Being A Bigoted Fuck-Up.

Doctors need to be held accountable. Right now, doctors are virtually never held accountable.

There are doctors who tell lesbians not to worry about STDs because they “can’t get any.” There are doctors who tell fat people to lose weight when what’s wrong is actually a) completely unrelated to weight and b) fatal. A doctor once refused to give me an IUD because I should “marry a nice young virgin man” instead of being a big ol’ queer slutbag. In my summer job reviewing medical records, I’ve seen three patients who were sent home with a disease that almost immediately killed them because the doctors (three different ones!) didn’t take CHEST PAIN seriously. One of my classmates, a future doctor, told me I was overreacting to the murder of Michael Brown and when I said the hell I am he said I must not UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES. Oh, I’m sorry, I forgot my master’s degree in social psychology is just there to decorate my shelf! My tiny lady-brain can’t possibly comprehend anything important! I once heard a doctor brag about having forcibly sterilized a Latina woman who didn’t consent because she was an undocumented immigrant and “she had too many already.” He was receiving a LOT of federal research funding for his work with our research group. I’ve WATCHED doctors be horrible, bigoted fuck-ups.

Like, if these are things someone like me, who passionately believes in medicine to the point where I’ve willingly sacrificed a reasonably comfortable job, my free time for at least seven years of training, and my right to decide where I spend at least three years of my life (because we are obligated to go wherever we’re matched for residency), is seeing at one of the top academic medical centers IN THE WORLD, what the FUCK do you think is happening in the REST of the country, where they HAVEN’T attracted “top talent”?

Doctors are not better than other people. We just have less transparency and less accountability. That needs to change.

[rattlecat]

Not to mention the rather abundant percentage of people who solely go into the medical field because it makes money. I mean really, how many times have your parents suggested you go to college to be a dentist, a doctor, a nurse, or some technical field that for some reason is tied to the medical field and requires you to work in a hospital or a clinic?

[covid-69]

don’t forget how a lot of doctors believe they went to med school to earn authority and social prestige

[heyatleastitsnotcancer]

Also doctors often discriminate against disabled people and chronic pain patients. Disabled people receive worse care than able bodied people especially when it comes to sexual health.

Chronic pain patients are labeled mentally unstable or criminals for seeking pain relief. They are often told by doctors to ignore the pain or mind over matter which is impossible when you’re in that much pain.

Basically doctors can be shitty people just like everyone else. They can be wrong because of their biases just like everyone else.

[chronicillschronicpills]

I love it when you’re a pain patient with a diagnosed illness, backed up with blood tests etc. and all they offer you is therapy. Even when you’re undiagnosed, its always therapy. You think therapy is going to cure my pain? 

And don’t get me started if you have ‘depression’ on your file, or anything other kind of mental illness. If they see that (especially if you’re a female because obviously all females are hypochondriacs and hysterical ) and you say “i’m in pain”, they immediately and without hesitation tell you its pyschosomatic pain without any further investigations. Also, if you are in pain 24/7 365 days a year, are you fucking surprised we have depression? You’d be depressed too. 

I was denied the treatment I needed because my sexist, ableist doctor would not refer me to a rheumatologist because I had depression on my file and therefore, nothing could physically be wrong. After I insisted, he said he would only refer me privately, not publicly, meaning I had to pay $400 dollars for the appointment instead of free. He only did this “to give me piece of mind” because “there was nothing physically wrong” (regardless of physical evidence and positive blood tests for autoimmune markers). On my first appointment, I was diagnosed with a mixed connective tissue disorder and given treatment that helped me so much. He chose to ignore evidence of an illness because he was blinded by bias toward mentally ill people.

And finally, this same doctor denied me any pain medication for over a year as he ‘felt uncomfortable prescribing it to someone so young” (i’m 23 for reference). You’re uncomfortable!? I’m in pain everyday and you’re uncomfortable? There is a way to prescribe pain medication in a way that is safe and controlled.  

So no, having a medical degree doesn’t stop you from being an ignorant, prejudiced, unprofessional assholes. 

[hunterinabrowncoat]

See also: doctors often get REALLY uppity about you doing your own research. Regardless of what your sources are, regardless of how much research you’ve done, regardless of whether you can provide them with evidence that you match every symptom or diagnostic criteria, they will often ignore it completely, or worse, label you as a hypocondriac. If you dare to be invested in your health, if you care enough to continually use their services, if you want to know what’s wrong with you, you are a bother and a neusance to them.

[martee-bee-blog]

This is why it’s so exhausting. Being palmed off from Doctor to Doctor because none of them want to deal with you or listen, crushes your spirit

[marisatomay]

calendar: it’s december!!

me: IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE S T A R W A R S

[martee-bee-blog]

Pew pew

[coolsaddad-blog]

Roses are red, that much is true, but violets are purple, not fucking blue.

[feels-for-the-fictional]

I have been waiting for this post all my life.

[marzipanandminutiae]

They are indeed purple, But one thing you’ve missed: The concept of “purple” Didn’t always exist.

Some cultures lack names For a color, you see. Hence good old Homer And his “wine-dark sea.”

A usage so quaint, A phrasing so old, For verses of romance Is sheer fucking gold.

So roses are red. Violets once were called blue. I’m hugely pedantic But what else is new?

[ineptshieldmaid]

My friend you’re not wrong About Homer’s wine-ey sea! Colours are a matter Of cultural contingency;

Words are in flux And meanings they drift But the word purple You’ve given short shrift.

The concept of purple, My friends, is old And refers to a pigment once precious as gold.

By crushing up molluscs From the wine-dark sea You make a dye: Imperial decree

Meant that in Rome, to wear purpura was a privilege reserved

For only the emperor!

The word ‘purple’, for clothes so fancy, Entered English By the ninth century

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Why then are voilets Not purple in song? The dye from this mollusc, known for so long

Is almost magenta; More red than blue. The concept of purple is old, and yet new.

The dye is red, So this might be true: Roses are purple And violets are blue

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[squeeful]

While this song makes me merry, Tyrian purple dyes many a hue From magenta to berry And a true purple too.

But fun as it is to watch this poetic race The answer is staring you right in the face: Roses are red and violets are blue Because nothing fucking rhymes with purple.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

[young-il-long-kiyoshi]

IT GOT SO MUCH BETTER.

[farrentalon]

My reaction, only with coffee.

[thetiredpianist]

Hang on, need to send this to my literature prof

[shenanigans-of-a-young-person]

“really?” I say to inanimate objects that are not working like they usually do

[martee-bee-blog]

*grumpily stares and threatens* “you do that one more time and I’m throwing you in the bin”

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

[martee-bee-blog]

This guy for real? “Why don’t they just get a job,” yeah, did that

[theglowpt2-deactivated20200101]

it’s really easy to be anti-funko pop until you’re stanning a character super hard and a funko pop is the only merch that exists for them so you spend the $10 or so on it and bring it and it’s weirdly proportioned head into your household and sit it on a shelf and every time you look into its dead vinyl eyes you can’t help but smile fondly as this weird little doll has begun to feel like a part of your family and that’s when they strike

[martee-bee-blog]

Exactly what happened, I don’t even know where it went from there BUT NOW I HAVE DOZENS OF THE THINGS

[positivity-in-pain]

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Lol! It’s so grumpy, look at its little face

[confusedspoons]

Where’s the logout button for my health issues?

[kid-khidr-deactivated20201030]

reflections from an underwater wave 

[kaneshiro-takeshi]

#king of parkas

[martee-bee-blog]

Such a babe

[babyanimalgifs]

[memehumor]

Grammar on point

[dameg1-deactivated20220106]

Isn’t it they’re???

[martee-bee-blog]

I feel bad for her