Purple Queens and Orange Llamas

23 year old final year medic in the UK Imminently sitting finals Stories are always anonymous. They may be tweaked slightly to preserve confidentiality. Ask box always open.

[zepedroalvarez]

Liquid Gold

| Portugal | 2015 |

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I’m a doctor now

[nexya]

I love how humans have literally not changed throughout history like the graffiti from Pompeii has people from hundreds of years ago writing stuff like “Marcus is gay” “I fucked a girl here” “Julius your mum wishes she was with me” and leonardo da vinci’s assistants drew dicks in their notebooks just for the banter and mozart created a piece called “kiss my ass” so when people wish for ‘today’s generation’ to be like ‘how people used to’ then we’re already there buddy we’ve always been

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Fin

Finished with finals. 

For now at least. 

Now there’s three weeks til results and I plan to think as little about medicine as I can possibly get away with. 

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Eckart Tolle, The Power of Now

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Also in the news

My cousin is pregnant With twins Her 14 year old son told me on facebook yesterday. She was 18 when he was born so she's 32 and has remarried so it's generally reasonable but TWINS. Twins!

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Sending good vibes, crush those exams

Thank you!Let's smash them out of the water.

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God I’m tired

Just completely exhausted. 

Revising is hard

Had complete freak out yesterday and cried lots

Library today. Library tomorrow. Library forever. 

Got to rank all the jobs. Don’t know what jobs I want. 

Brain is mush

I think my thing is that I just really really want to pass. Everything that is coming up after is so good. After my exams I can chill completely and not do anything. I can go shopping for elective. Then I’m going to Belize for 6 weeks. Then I come home and do the last three weeks of med school. I’ll move to wherever it is my job will be. I’ll be a bridesmaid at my friend’s wedding, I’ll go to Berlin, I’ll graduate, I’ll be a doctor. 

This has to happen. 

I need to pass. 

Generally I think I match up to the rest of the year. I don’t constantly live in a state of not knowing what’s going on. When I did the resits I was probably depressed. I have not been depressed this time. I have worked. I have revised. My brain is working. 

ARGH. 

Please let it be over, and please let me pass. That is all. 

[staypozitive]

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Dopamine and prolactin inhibitory hormone are the same thing. 

Well this explains a lot of my confusion regarding endocrinology. 

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Random fact I learned while revising today

Prednisolone is four times stronger than hydrocortisone, even though it is PO and hydrocortisone is IV. So a patient who takes 10mg of pred OD who become NBM will need 40mg hydrocortisone IV (probs 10mg QDS). 

This is why in acute asthma it's 40mg pred orally or 100mg hydrocortisone IV. 

Maybe this is one of the many things that doesn't sit right with me but is not confusing at all to other people. 

[hannibalmontanibal]

so my mom is a dispatcher for our town’s police and one time a man called 911 saying that he was with his kid and he didn’t think he was breathing and so my mom rushed a few ambulances out and directed him on how to give cpr over the phone and the man told my mom that his son was breathing again and my mom was so pleased but then once the ambulances got there they radioed in asking for a psych eval because apparently the man had been giving cpr to a cantelope

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YES

Guess who got into her first choice deanery?

I did!

Guess whose boyfriend also got into it?

Mine did!

I smashed the SJT out of the water. Got 43.4. Huzzah. Fucking yes. 

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D-Day

On Thursday we find out where we're going to be for out foundation years. It's the UK equivalent of matching in the US. We'll be allocated a deanery, hence, D-Day. 

I didn't link with my boyfriend because at the time of applying we had only been going out for six months and it seemed a bit much. 

But I've realised that actually I don't really care where I end up. But I do really want to be with him. He does care about where he ends up. All I can hope for is that we both get our top choice. God I really hope we do.