medpool

Third-year osteopathic medical student. Occasionally I'll talk about medicine or medical school.

[sparreauxchirps]

When I’m reincarnated, I want to come back as a bookstore cat.

[sparreauxchirps]

Livin the life.

[sparreauxchirps]

[momijihyuga804]

Here be my addition

[nanobomb-enjoyer]

That’s actually a thing? I thought my local bookstore was the only one living their best life tbh

[cryptidlesbiangorl]

This one guides me to any sections he’s feeling that day

[iwilltrytobereasonable]

Mice like things they can tear up to turn into comfy nests. Like paper. Shop cats used to be everywhere, but the food industry doesn’t get to keep them any more. The book industry still finds them useful and has no such legal restrictions.

[ginnyvos]

Also bookshop owners and patrons alike are crazy cat ladies/gents, so it makes them feel at home.

[jasperskywalker]

You man not purchase records today without first paying the “petting” tax.

[chewilly]

We all know the “riches beyond your wildest dreams” is just getting to pet the cat some more. And yes, please.

[kaijutegu]

Go OFF, mr mouth.

[angingerton]

So... we have all kinds of double checking in medicine (chart flags, mortality and morbidity reviews, etc.), the flu vaccine, suicide hotlines and PSAs, seatbelts and airbags and speed limits, and, oh yeah, that last one is still guns.

Maybe we should regulate guns like we do other dangerous things?!

[dxmedstudent]

But here is the truth of nostalgia. We don’t feel it for who we were, but who we weren’t. We feel it for all the possibilites that were open to us, but that we didn’t take

Welcome To Night Vale. (via doctorspork)

[dxmedstudent]

One of the major problems we face as doctors is the sheer amount of blood… The best thing to do if you are unable to stop bleeding is to first take a few breaths. Calm yourself. This should help you concentrate on not bleeding. Then, once you are not bleeding, come to a doctor’s office. “

Welcome to Night Vale (via dxmedstudent)

[theoppositeofadults]

[cwicseolfor]

https://twitter.com/DavidJuurlink/status/1129811903776198659

We deserve autonomy.

[theglowstickchronicles]

This.

[homotology]

This is the best description of MAiD I’ve read yet…I know it’s a long post but please read this

[pleasedotheneedful]

 

residents: hey this system isn’t really fair, maybe our first jobs out of med school should adhere to standard antitrust laws

acgme, aamc: we sold you for a pack of cigarettes sorry

[omghotmemes]

Show some respect, people.

[your-naked-magic-oh-dear-lord]

THANK YOU

[grandpanerd-world-deactivated20]

The story of Balto is interesting. He led a team of sled dogs across the Alaskan wilderness in the dead of winter with diphtheria antitoxins to stop an outbreak in Nenana Alaska. Diphtheria is a deadly infectious disease that could wipe out a third of a town’s population. It is mostly unknown to the public today because of vaccines. Balto’s body is preserved in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

[your-naked-magic-oh-dear-lord]

He’s a big hero of mine!

[pugcrumbs]

Let’s not forget Togo! Who, at 12 years old during the serum run, lead his team 200 miles through much more dangerous conditions during the first leg of the journey before Balto ran the last 55-mile stretch.

[space-buns]

Togo and Balto didn’t bust their asses for dying children for you to turn around and not vaccinate your damn kids

[medp00l]

Third year

I don’t remember the last time I posted on here but it has been a while.

Third year is busy in a weird way. It’s much less studying than year 1 and year 2 and feels way more like busy work intermixed with occasionally applying medicine at a clinical level.

Boards in a couple months. Ugh.

[ultrafacts]

Source

Video of Tama

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[majikkant-deactivated20180504]

The picture in the background of the second one

[pizzaismylifepizzaisking]

Tama is boss

[ultrafacts]

[cat-fandom]

THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM

[ultrafacts]

Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]

[retro-geek-deactivated20220412]

For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.

[karinanotcinerina]

Beautiful.

[system-fail-ure-deactivated2021]

Now I’m crying thanks

[sapphic-matriarchy]

and a new cat was hired right?

[clarenecessities]

yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy

she works very hard

[beasti]

Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.

[lafayettelabaguette]

Law

[tooiconic]

I’m crying at 11pm over train cats

[sighinastorm]

Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016).  There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

[linkislost]

a legacy

[bemusedlybespectacled]

okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back

[kindaoffkilter]

“Sun-tama-tama” (a pun off of “Santama”, lit. “third Tama”) was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tama’s successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up writing, “I will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.” [25]

As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tama’s Twitter account.

[venhediss]

AAAAAH IS THAT WHAT HAPPENED TO SAN-TAMA??? I was JUST in Kishi last weekend and I was wondering about that

jsyk, as of November 17 2018, Nitama is still working very very hard.

If they don’t name Tama #5 Tama-go, I’ll be upset

[medp00l]

Being a guy who is interested in OB/GYN is a complicated state of existence as a M3.

[medp00l]

Pediatrics

My peds rotation has been a blast. Really making me thinking about going into peds for residency.

Deciding what to do with my life is hard.

[medp00l]

I’m a third year...?

When did that happen?

[politicalsci]

[medp00l]

While I don’t think socialized medicine is perfect, it does seem like it would mitigate some of these problems. What never ceases to amuse me (amuse is not the right word, but there distress isn’t right either) is the people complaining that socialized medicine removes their choice. They might not be able to go to the best hospitals in the country and see the most trained specialists in a socialized system. But these are the same people that would refuse to buy health insurance or go to the doctor in the first place.

Dying because of the high cost of access is not “a choice” in my opinion.

[sixpenceee]

Dr. Alistair McAlpine shared a series of tweets from his terminally ill child patients, after asking what they enjoyed in life, and what gave it meaning 

[mediamattersforamerica]

☝️☝️☝️

[babyanimalgifs]

me: i have to start eating healthier

me feeling even the slightest amount of stress:

[medp00l]

^ me before board studying vs. me while board studying

[miss-sassmaster]

What did you match with???

I’m assuming this means what did I match into which is pediatrics but I matched with tenacity and a lot of anxiety.

[medschooldreamdiary]

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