Surgery Mode On

Surgery residen, 3rd year, halfway through|ravenclaw| INTJ. Main blog: bw-defender-of-the-earth.tumblr.com

[needtofocus]

StuDYING 😪

[just-shower-thoughts]

Medical professionals are the people you would most WANT to get enough sleep and be well-rested, but in reality, they get less sleep than most other professions.

[er-cryptid]

[just-shower-thoughts]

The greatest trick the health care industry ever pulled was to convince us they have to work in their pajamas

[copingnurse-deactivated20240217]

A round of applause for those that came before us. You might have given us antibiotic resistance and aided an opioid epidemic, but you also gave us work pajamas. And don’t worry, we’re also continuing your tradition with misuse of antibiotics and opioids!  We thank you for the beautiful gift of work pajamas!!!

[morebaffledlessbrooklyn]

Surgical Resident Breaks Down 49 Medical Scenes From Film & TV | WIRED

This is mandatory viewing for all Medblrs.

[doctorofwhut]

This was amazing. 

[dxmedstudent]

I needed this.

[justinesattendingadventures]

Undergrad: there are midterms and finals and you’re gonna be stressed out but don’t worry, we give you time off to recover after finals week

Med school: EVERY SINGLE WEEK IS AS STRESSFUL AS UNDERGRAD FINALS AND FINALS ARE GOING TO DECIMATE YOU INTO A QUIVERING PUDDLE OF STRESS AND BY THE WAY BE READY FOR THE FIRST QUIZ OF THE NEXT BLOCK MONDAY

Also med school: hmm… why do we have such issues with mental health??? I guess we’ll never know 🤷🏼‍♀️

[yaaasssdoctor]

Yup. This.

[alexandrasprout]

GIVEAWAY TIME

To show my appreciation for following me and to celebrate the new beginning of this blog, I wanted to do a little giveaway for you guys! 

This giveaway includes: - A5 lined notebook from HEMA - 3 blue-inked pens with design from HEMA - 6-pack coloured washi tapes - 6-pack STABILO BOSS Original pastel highlighters

Rules: - this giveaway is open internationally - you need to be 18+ or have parental permission to share your address - this giveaway ends on May 12th, 2018 at 8PM CEST (Amsterdam timezone) - winner will be notified within an hour after the giveaway ends!

How to enter:

- Reblogging this post is 1 entry

Extra entries (do need to share your usernames of these in a message to me on here) - Following me on instagram (littlenerdworld) is 1 entry  - Subscribing to my youtube channel is 2 entries - Mentioning what you would like to see on Little Nerd World in a message to me on here (easy to do when you’re doing the insta/youtube entry) is 1 entry

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to leave me a message!

xoxo

[alexandrasprout]

TWO DAYS TO GO!!!

[sixpenceee]

Stabbing His Own Heart

Werner Theodor Otto Forssmann, a German surgical trainee in 1929, is famous for an experiment he performed on himself. Without any direction, he put himself under local anesthetic, incised a hole in his arm and pushed a catheter all the way up his limb and shoved it into his heart. He performed the procedure on himself with two feet of cable after which he walked to the X-ray room. He was fired after this stunt, but was awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Medicine for developing a procedure that allowed for cardiac catheterization. (Source)

[lamentations44]

😳. That is the last way I would have guessed the cath was invented. Wow.

[insert-nursey-name-here]

There is a fine line between crazy and genius.

[micromultiverse]

Maybe I should start a tag for people that experiment on themselves??

[scienceshenanigans]

This reminds me of the guy that drank H. pylori to prove it causes ulcers.

[eintsein]

A MIND MAP ABOUT MIND-MAPPING

If you know me, you’d know that I am a highly visual person. I love learning from images and layouts, and my spatial intelligence is probably my strongest type of intelligence. Because of this, I often use mind maps to study, and so do a lot of other people. However, there are people who don’t really know how to make and utilize a mind map effectively. That’s what this post is for! Here’s how you can make your mind maps more effective and thus enable you to retain more information. (P.S. you might wanna zoom in)

By no means am I an expert in mind-mapping; these are just some habits I have when making a mind map that successfully does its job of helping me remember the topics I’m studying.

If you have any questions, feel free to drop an ask!

xx jo

[flyonthewallmedstudent]

haikuuuu for residency

studying

it does not end

after med skool

More exams.  Await.   

I just watched 3 lectures. Yes. Lectures. For me. In residency. After work. 

And research. 

What research?

Oh shit. 

My research. That research.  The hell is life like for attendings/consultants then?

[cupcakesandcarbapenems]

…*heavy sigh*

Nurse: Hey, Doc - your patient is GCS 8.

Me: …uh, what?

Nurse: yeah. He’s not responding to me at all, doesn’t follow commands –

Me: He doesn’t speak English, and I think he’s a sexist bag of dicks? He ignored me, too.

Nurse: oh.

Nurse:

Nurse: So. If he stays GCS 8 because he won’t listen to me…?

Me: No, we cannot punitively intubate him.

Me: Being a sexist dick is not an indication for intubation.

Nurse: … lame.

[thepremedgunner]

Today was an important day. I crossed one thing off of my bucket list I didn’t think I ever would get the chance to do. I want to keep what it was private but I’m so happy with myself. What a great day to spend a day off! I took the best nap afterwards and I’m recovering still but I feel better than expected! 💉🔬

[homotology]

Getting to that point in a study session when you just can’t take in anymore information

[needtofocus]

I need money

Here’s the thing, I have some bills  that I have no money to pay for, so I decided to start selling stuff online

First, I made some filofax inserts that I’m selling on etsy, check them out they’re cute

https://www.etsy.com/shop/SunnyPlanners?ref=l2-shopheader-name

Also I foud a place to sell my med notes (they’re in spanish, but I think they’re good)

https://www.omeganotes.com/marketplace/seller/profile/MarisolRM

Check them out and help me if you can

Thanks!

[needtofocus]

Brain is best.

Student: But aren't you worried about the hypertension in stroke patients? It could damage other organs...

Attending neurologist: Other organs? Well they're all subsidiaries.

[noosphe-re]

We never see the world as our retina sees it. In fact, it would be a pretty horrible sight: a highly distorted set of light and dark pixels, blown up toward the center of the retina, masked by blood vessels, with a massive hole at the location of the “blind spot” where cables leave for the brain; the image would constantly blur and change as our gaze moved around. What we see, instead, is a three-dimensional scene, corrected for retinal defects, mended at the blind spot, stabilized for our eye and head movements, and massively reinterpreted based on our previous experience of similar visual scenes. All these operations unfold unconsciously—although many of them are so complicated that they resist computer modeling. For instance, our visual system detects the presence of shadows in the image and removes them. At a glance, our brain unconsciously infers the sources of lights and deduces the shape, opacity, reflectance, and luminance of the objects.

Stanislas Dehaene, Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts (via inthenoosphere)

This is why I love neurology, the brain is the most amazing organ

[captainsblogsupplemental]

[aspiringdoctors-blog]

This is what intern year is like.