[docresa]

I hate getting poked with a needle as well. But still, go get vaccinated!

[emedpa]

When you explain the labwork and imaging results to the pt and explain all the deadly stuff you were able to rule out but the pt refuses to leave because “YOU ALL DIDN’T FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS WRONG WITH ME!!!!!”

EMERGENCY ROOM. Not “figure out what is exactly going on with you” – please follow up with your PCP

[creativespacetime]

Inside Waves

[medschoolgeek]

This is how heart works <3 <3 <3

[mysharona1987]

[hangrypa]

what is love

I have an elderly woman on the unit right now who’s been through hell and back again. STEMI, CVA, colitis, etc…she’s had a super rough few weeks.

Her husband is always at her bedside. Helping her sip water through a straw, cutting up her food, adjusting her pillows. All of it.

And this poor woman- the only way she can pass gas or have a bowel movement is to be held a certain way above the toilet, Which she is too weak to do.

Every day, multiple times a day, her husband carries her to the commode. And he holds his wife above the commode, Sometimes for up to an hour at a time So that she can empty out her GI tract.

It’s not pretty. Definitely not the stuff of romance stories. But it’s true love.

[girlfromthevillage]

In recognition of all the newbies that have started in Aug. 

I still vividly remember my first day as a naive bumbling doctor

Nurse: And remember never say the “Q” word.

Me: the “Q” word?

Nurse: yes…uttering that word will summon a flash flood of a thousand patients through the emergency doors, four hundred ambulances will magically park up, and a mass of patients requiring PRs will appear … chaos will ensue.

Me: *finally getting what she means* oh! You mean quiet!! Come to think of it…it hasn’t been too bad today!

Nurse:

[cranquis]

TSK: Doctor-Patients Suck

Starting your urgent care shift with a patient who is also a physician:

And then she demands an antibiotic for her “cough X 24 hours”:

[journeythroughmedicine]

Pharmacology study today! I’m loving my notebook 🙌🏻

[lilpieceofmyworld]

“Chemistry between people is the strangest science of all.”

—

[oraclesofnorway]

Your body is an incredibly bizarre machine.

“What you see is a myosin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex which creates happiness. Happiness. You’re looking at happiness.”

[andrewbelami]

Look at her STRUT!!! She is dragging that endorphin for filth and using that filament as her runway, bitch.

[deactivatingrealsoon-deactivate]

6 inch heels…..she walked in the club like nobody’s business…..godam…..she murdered everybody and i was her witness

[thequarkside]

No spoilers.

[thequarkside]

I think Pluto might be harboring some deep seeded resentment… 

[thequarkside]

Researchers came up with this theory using data from both the New Horizons and Rosetta missions. Yay, science! You can read more about the comet theory here: https://www.space.com/40687-pluto-formation-1-billion-comets.html

[thequarkside]

We’ve observed binary asteroids before, but it’s incredibly rare to see two that are the same size orbiting each other like this! Like all near-Earth asteroids, it’s believed these are remnants of our solar system’s formation. You can read more about these two here: http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/07/rare-equal-mass-binary-asteroid-discovered-near-earth

[oupacademic]

“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

— In memory of Stephen Hawking (1942-2018).

[notyourdaddy]

Gideon Mendel’s The Ward

Memories from the heart of the Aids crisis shows true love in a time of terrible tragedy.

These heartbreaking and incredibly moving images show the affection and love shown during the height of the Aids crisis. Photographer Gideon Mendel’s project The Ward began in 1993 when he spent a number of weeks on the Charles Bell wards in London’s Middlesex Hospital. All the patients on the ward were dying with the knowledge that there was no cure for the disease. During this time antiretroviral medications were not available and patients on the ward faced the prospect of an early death.