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Sarah | 26 | PGY2 | based in Europe and trying to keep my patients alive |  #medblr #doctor #md

[captainmdphd-blog]

To everyone who just started intern year...

YOU’RE DOING GREAT! Trust me, everyone feels shitty. It’s the very unfortunate nature of intern year. There is no learning curve; it’s a fucking straight vertical line. Things will get easier with time. You will relax with experience. It will be okay.

How to be a good intern? Show up on time. Work your ass off. Get shit done. Have a moderately good attitude. Recognize and learn from your mistakes. That’s it, y’all. The rest will come with time and experience. Open invitation to ANYONE who wants to vent or ask questions. If I can survive intern year, so can you. It’s going to be okay.

[md-admissions]

Patient has been taking antibiotics incorrectly. He has been taking one capsule by mouth and sprinkling the contents of the other capsule on his infected foot.

Note written by senior resident on our newest admit. (via md-admissions)

[anxietyproblem]

[medxclusive]

Tiny Robotic Thread Can Slip Through Narrow Blood Vessels In Brain, Promising Treatment For Stroke

MIT’s thread-like robot can slip through blood vessels in your brain. We’re one step closer to remote robotic brain surgery. The scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) hope the invention, now in the prototype stage, can be used to break up blood clots or treat strokes and aneurysms.

A similar treatment called mechanical thrombectomy has been used for years, in which a metal wire had to be guided manually through vessels, starting all the way down in an artery in the upper thigh. But the treatment isn’t ideal — it requires a surgeon with specialized training, and involves using X-rays to guide the way, which could expose patients to tissue-damaging radiation.

In contrast, this robotic thread is controlled by magnets, and surgeons could guide it from outside of the operating room. They’d be protected from repeated radiation exposure, and they might be able to perform procedures remotely using a joystick!

It is coated with hydrogel to produce a smooth, frictionless movement. The guidewire is made of a bendy nickel-titanium alloy called nitinol covered in an ink studded with magnetic particles and is only 0.6 millimeters in diameter. The hope is that a specialized magnetic machine could be built to guide the thread through the body. 

The team also says it would be possible to delivery clot-reducing drugs using the robot or even clot-busting laser pulses. In another experiment, they replaced the nitinol core with an optical fiber and found they could still steer the robot and activate a laser.

[quilavastudy]

Pharm

In med school: phenytoin of course works by reducing neuronal excitability and the electrical conductance of the brain cells, thus reducing seizure activity. This is usually given by slow IV injection :)

Being a 1st year doctor: Oh, uh, you want me to prescribe paracetamol? Umm ok so that’s 1g … er actually let me just check that, I’m scared

[studentlifeproblems]

[medicinasanguis]

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”

This was me. 2 days before my last exams in medical school. In this moment I felt so empty. Stupid. Hated myself for procrastinating too much. Doubting myself. Thinking that all the others are better. Know more. Are more badass.

Yes medical school pushes you to your limits. 

I felt like this way so many times before. At dissection class. Or at the admission exam. Or all the other finals I’ve passed. 

Med school probably cost me a bunch of Kleenex tissues. Be it with finals or histo(love)gy boy. 

Those last 5 years (I am in a 6y program) taught me so much. Mostly about myself. And whenever situations seemed hopeless, somehow I made it through them.. 

So tomorrow I’ll write my final exam. in med school. And yes I am scared. And I still feel like I know nothing. But I’ll give it a try. 

Dear future me, please tell me everything went well. Believe in me. Because “hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”

[medicinasanguis]

Dear past Sarah! I am writing to you as a PGY2. You have survived. You have conquered from within. You have overcome all the pain that was inside you. You have overcome all the worries in your head. You have found a job. And still you are working towards you dream: Becoming an internist. You have survived so much. And yet you have lost your drive: You go to work. You come home. You go to bed. Be more ambitious. Be a fire. Be the passion that overcomes everything. You have come so far. Don’t give up. An become a fucking internist. 

[medicinasanguis]

10 things I’ve learnt in MS 5

1) You are too old for university: I can’t wait to start working, not having to change my daily routine every single week

2) “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.”

3) Having lectures after noon makes you completly unproductive

4) Mental health is as important as physical health

5) sometimes things have to be left behind to be forgotten. #histolovegyguy

6) Nothing will ever be the same

7) hello quarter life crisis: where will I work? what do I expect from life?

8) don’t let one person ruin your med school experience

9) You are stronger than you think

10) Writing frees your soul.

[medicalbasics]

You don’t grow when you’re comfortable. #inspiration #quoteoftheday #inspirationalquotes #medschool #nurses #nursingschool #motivation - https://ift.tt/2EmJg3A

[medicinasanguis]

Intern year hit me like: no time for anything. Also currently working on some research for our Cardiology Department although I do it all in my free time. Also have to make decisions again: Do I chose Dermatology (really need this because I do not have any clinical experience there) or do I chose Emergency Medicine (which I would need for my Emergency Diploma) 

Clock is ticking.

I feel like a nervous bouncy ball.

[whatwecallresidency]

This hit me on a spiritual level.

[whatwecallresidency]

This hit me on a spiritual level.

[medicinasanguis]

second 24 hour shift today

[anxietyproblem]

[medicinasanguis]

Lab results have been dogumented..

[medicinasanguis]

Let's talk about: COMPETITION (IN MED SCHOOL)

“You want to know what scares people? Success. When you don’t make moves and when you don’t climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you’re not competition.” -N.M.

Competition. Something that stresses us, something that keeps us going, but where’s the right balance? 

Good. Better. Best. - Survival of the best. (Distress)

We all have this one person in our life, that likes to show off with grades, internships & relationships. It sometimes makes us feel like nobodies, but hey not all that glitters is gold. They want us to see only the good stuff. Everyone has insecurities. 

Something that keeps people going (Eustress)

On the other hand we have to thank those prattlers because they inspire us to do m o r e: competition infrequently gives us the one push we needed for accomplishing our goals. 

How to avoid bad competition

A shut mouth catches no flies: Speaking from my personal experience it’s sometimes better to keep one’s mouth shut: Don’t tell your grades .. Say “I’m happy with it.” or “I’d like to be better next time.” or you’re planning a voluntary internship? Great, but do you really want to tell everyone? 

Don’t be too hard to yourself: So you didn’t get the grades you wanted to? You’ll survive it. It may be a disappointment in first place, but talking yourself down won’t change your situation. Try to find out your weaknesses & be better next time!

There’ll always be people better than you: Especially in med school. (& other studies of course!) Do you really want to spend all of your time studying & planing your career? Life’s too short. Travel. Laugh. Live. Try to find a balance. 

Distance yourself from phonies: Go out with your friends, distract yourself, recharge your batteries!

As an ambitious personal myself I often have to deal with self-doubts, but I’m working on it & so are you! Moreover, competition is something that keeps me going and it sometimes pushes me to go outside the envelope  …

All the best

“I’ve been up against competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it” -Walter Disney

[medicinasanguis]

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[the-doodle-chronicles]

You never know what hides behind a smile.

Mental illness: invisible but very real.

End stigma.