Confessions of a Medical Student

26. Made it. Married. Doctor. House. plus a rabbit. Always exploring. Med school was tough though. It kicked my ass gotta give it that. Residency… at least the salary's a plus. moneyyyy!!! can't believe I made it. Bet you can too. keep up the good work! we can all make it <3

[medicalstudentconfessions]

god today was one of the worst fucking depressing days.

I was the first person in a hospital that this woman met and had to console a mom who’s 30 year old son shot himself in the head.

God what an awful christmas.

Not going to lie. had to go and hide in the locker room and cry for 10 minutes. Then came out with my game face and kept right on working.

[thatdiva]

[athelind]

“Where has all our money gone?”

“Hey, look! There’s lots of money over there!”

“No, no, don’t look at us, look over THERE, where there’s NO MONEY AT ALL.”

[heroofthreefaces]

“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” Lyndon B. Johnson

[ronracer]

^^

[thatdisneyloversphotography]

Mickey’s Halloween Harvest Celebration! http://flic.kr/p/P6zAMV by Laura Knighton / ThatDisneyLover

[nightworldlove]

teratomarty:

my-feminism:

In the Netherlands, abortion is freely available on demand. Yet the Netherlands boasts the lowest abortion rate in the world, about 6 abortions per 1000 women per year, and the complication and death rates for abortion are minuscule. How do they do it? First of all, contraception is widely available and free — it’s covered by the national health insurance plan. The Netherlands also carries out extensive public education on contraception, family planning, and sexuality. An ethic of personal responsibility for one’s sexual activity is strongly promoted. Of course, some people say that teaching kids about sex and contraception will only encourage them to have lots of sex. But Dutch teenagers tend to have less frequent sex, starting at an older age, than American teenagers, and the Dutch teenage pregnancy rate is 9 times lower than in the U.S.

I endorse evidence-based medicine, and evidence-based activism.

[hollyoakhill]

do you ever think about how little Michelangelo cared

[dandraco]

All right, everyone, grab a chair and sit back because I’m going to share with you what I learned about Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel in my Art History Class.

The man NEVER wanted to paint the damn thing. But the pope at the time “forced him to” According to my teacher. Michelangelo hated this man, I MEAN REALLY HATED HIM. So did a majority of people. The pope’s nickname translated literally means “Terrible pope”.

And the working conditions were awful. He had to work on his back with all that paint, which is filled with some toxic shit that gave Michelangelo a limp for the rest of his life. (Also, our teacher made us get on our backs and try drawing with both hands JUST to prove how bad and uncomfortable it is.)

At the time, the ceiling was so high, you could barely see it. You need binoculars to get a good look at what’s up there, by the time people could see the paintings, there was a lot of weird symbolism that Michelangelo hid up there.

This one? The creation of the sun and moon? God is mooning you. And the pope and all others after him prayed under that without knowing.

This one? At the time, dissecting was sacrilegious and everyone found out how behind God was what looked like half a brain. blah blah, science, science, that pissed everyone off.

And also, ALLLLLLL the men and women in the Sistine Chapel are all on fucking steroids. My teacher described the women’s bodies as “Men bodies with boobs slapped on.”

And then there is this:

Now this is the back wall. Michelangelo actually wanted to paint this one after he finished the ceiling. (and there was a different pope too, I believe.) However, originally, EVERYONE in that painting was naked. And they didn’t like it. Adam and Eve naked? That’s cool. But Jesus? Now you crossed the line. So the pope at the time hired someone else to censor it and give the important figures clothes. He worked on it for 6 or 9 months before he died.

And then the symbolism in this one is great. Somewhere in the right, there are homosexuals in heaven. (No matter what, the Vatican will say “Those straight men are happy” I’ll get to that in a second), Michelangelo painted himself near Jesus, and the terrible pope is in hell with a snake biting his balls.

And if you were to point ANY of this out to the Vatican, they will deny all of it and claim Michelangelo was a catholic hero. In fact, when they discovered the symbolism around the 60s or 70s, the guy who told the Vatican was kicked out of the Vatican for life.

TL;DR: Michelangelo hated the pope and made the best “fuck you” of all time.

[humanpersonface]

YO. ALL OF THIS^. Michelangelo was hella grumpy all of the time. It was fantastic.

However, as beautiful as this commentary is, I’m gonna make a little correction. The Pope isn’t the one in hell getting his balls bitten; that guy is actually the Papal Minister of Ceremonies a the time, Biagio de Cesena. 

See, when Michelangelo was painting this, as you said, lots of people were uncomfortable with all of the nudity (especially because the Last Judgement [back wall mural] was painted much later when nudity in religious art was even more controversial than before), but the dude who was the angriest was de Cesena. 

He was so angry that he reportedly burst in on Michelangelo while he was working (which is already a big no-no because Michelangelo’s requirements for working were mostly “fuck the hell off and leave me alone or else I quit and I will stab you in the eye with my paintbrush/chisel”.). He then proceeds to tell Michelangelo that this fresco is disgusting and obscene and shame on him etc etc. He also referred to it as “i stui di nudi”, which means “A stew of nudes” which is one of the best descriptions of a thing ever, if you ask me. 

So Michelangelo, probably on the cusp of homicide is like “Thank you for the notes. Now get the fuck out,” and de Cesena reluctantly does. 

Later, he comes to see the finished product and finds that Michelangelo had painted his portrait down in Hell to represent the Minos, King of the Dead. He has the ears of an ass and the above described crotch biting snake:

Upon seeing this and being enraged, de Cesena went to the Pope to demand that it be changed and that Michelangelo be punished. However, the Pope was SO incredibly done dealing with Michelangelo’s snark, tantrums, and general hatred of the world and everyone in it, that he didn’t want to do shit. 

The Pope’s response to him was literally to say “As Pope, I have a lot of influence on Earth and up in Heaven, but I have no jurisdiction in Hell. You’re shit out of luck.” 

And it stayed.

Michelangelo, grade A artist, snark master, and professional dick.

[felix-nyx]

The painter who covered the nudity of the bodies in the Last Judgement is known as Braghettone, literally “the man who gives pants” and I think this is beautiful

[katjohnadams]

Can we talk about that BLUE though?! At the time it was one of if not THE most expensive blue paint you could get. Why? Unlike today, pigments had to be made from natural things, and if you wanted the absolute most brilliant blue that nothing could match, you got it made from Lapis Lazuli, a mineral that was most definitely NOT local and had to be imported. It was called Ultramarine, and it was worth more by weight than gold. By a decent margin. The pope, looking at how much it was going to cost to paint ALL THE BLUE SKIES IN THE CHAPEL said “No. Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself with a cheaper blue paint. Hell no. Piss off.” Michaelangelo did what any painter who didn’t actually want to do the job would do. He threatened to quit and hoped the pope would “make him” quit so he could go back to architecture and sculpting, the things he ACTUALLY wanted to do.

But no, his tantrum worked (this time. Michaelangelo quit a couple times and was brought back to do more work. This chapel took forever to finish). He got his paint. A paint that, at the time, could only get the raw materials sourced from Afghanistan. A paint usually reserved for the virgin Mary’s robes. And then there’s Mikey, making a fucking sky out of it.

And hey, look at all those big columns and capitas with the painted figures sitting on them! How did Michaelangelo make the painted figures look like they’re sitting on the carved stone pillars like that? Oh, he didn’t Like, half those big stone carved pillars you see aren’t carve, they’re paint. Dude was so salty about not being allowed to do what he really wanted he fucking did it in paint, because fuck you, that’s why.

[memewhore]

[fuckiminmytwenties]

So I saw this advice

[papasfritas]

Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and one to be creative.

I kind of like it.

[thecommonchick]

this is the best thing I’ve seen today

[tastefullyoffensive]

(via imgur)

[corgisandboobs]

good lord.

[arabellesicardi]

Half of Dermatologists Say They Weren’t Trained to Spot Cancer on Black Skin

Racial disparities in health care start in med schools.

[christel-thoughts]

Remember when we said medical training is racist and sexist in itself because it treats white and male as the norm and then “anti-SJWs” threw a tantrum instead of looking it up? Welp, they’ve taken yet another L.

[catastrophiccharlie-deactivated]

WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKK

[medicalstudentconfessions]

this is so true yall have no idea it’s what we get when all of our administrators and senior doctors are old white guys.

[medicalstudentconfessions]

Anyone know any good blogs?

I’m looking for funny/insightful blogs who don’t reblog anything and everything. need to improve my feed a bit. 

[animalsnaps]

Nothing to see here just walking my duck

baby animals here

[bigfatphallusy]

[kiskolee]

THIS.

[professorbutterscotch]

I have never thought about it in this context

that’s actually really, really creepy.

[purplespacecats]

I… fuck.

[casuallystudious-blog]

Yeah, basically.

[avoiding-catatonic-surrender-de]

I once pointed this out to my mother and she just stared at me, in stunned silence for ages. 

[rosefire]

There will always be a girl who is less sober, less secure, with less friends walking in a darker part of town. I want her safe just as much as I want me safe.

[baronessvondengler]

THE BOLDED

[rochejii]

The holy trinity

[tastefullyoffensive]

[acutelesbian]

A lot of people ask me what my biggest fear is, or what scares me most. And I know they expect an answer like heights, or closed spaces, or people dressed like animals, but how do I tell them that when I was 17 I took a class called Relationships For Life and I learned that most people fall out of love for the same reasons they fell in it. That their lover’s once endearing stubbornness has now become refusal to compromise and their one track mind is now immaturity and their bad habits that you once adored is now money down the drain. Their spontaneity becomes reckless and irresponsible and their feet up on your dash is no longer sexy, just another distraction in your busy life. Nothing saddens and scares me like the thought that I can become ugly to someone who once thought all the stars were in my eyes.

[mindnumbingmess-deactivated2022]

Everytime I read this it fucks me up more.

[medicalstudentconfessions]

How far did yall get in the harry potter play before stopping?

I think I made it all of 3 pages. 

So glad I found it on tpb first.

Really hope it’s not just me. Otherwise I’d feel like an asshole.