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The journey of your enzymes is a long one, and something that can be difficult to explain. We made this infographic to help show how enzymes work for CFers by breaking down the fats, proteins, and carbohydrates consumed at every meal. Taking meds every day may not be fun, but being healthy is. Share this to help educate your friends on why enzymes are so important—they might even decide to become a helpful reminder for you when you eat!

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an anatomy book from the 1960′s my mom used during nursing school. i love the hand drawings and labels.

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please don't ever think that no one cares about you

I work in an ER and we see suicides all the time. And we get at least 3 suicidal ideations a night. We all care about you. I promise, we do. A team of complete strangers who have worked 3+ 12 hour shifts this week who are being screamed at all day and night and probably haven’t had lunch and trust me, we still love you and care about you.

We had a 16 year old patient last night who we couldn’t save. We were in that room with this patient for over an hour, we did everything we could. And let me tell you, we all cried. The EMT’s, the nurses, the doctor. We all huddled together in the doctors dictation room and cried.

I went through the rest of my shift with smudged mascara and tracks on my cheeks.

I remember the names of all the patients that have taken their lives on my shifts.

I remember squeezing the hands, smoothing the hair, kissing the foreheads, and wiping away the blood and the vomit of every patient that has left me too soon.

I can still see every face that I have zipped into a body bag.

Trust me, someone cares about you. You have never met them yet. You don’t ever think about them. They are never remembered when you talk about heroes and role models.

But someone loves you.

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damn….

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This made me cry

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When I was in hospital being seen to, being bandaged and sedated and surrounded by medical staff, my family was ignoring my calls, my friends hadn’t cared to check in. I felt terrified and hopeless and so very unimportant that it was taking everything it had in me to not drink the cleaning products left nearby by one of the cleaners, to make sure I finished the job properly.

There was a nurse though, who came into my room with a soft smile, who held my hand, who took away the bottles when she noticed me watching them for too long. There was a nurse that plugged in my phone to charge in case my family called back, that took away the bloody cloths the paramedics had left me with, that helped me put my hair up when it was sticking to my tear streaked face, because my arms were too sore to do it myself.

There was a nurse that saved my life twice in one night, who made me feel that I was worth being looked after, and her name was Emma and she was the most beautiful person I’ve met.

Months later, I was visiting my mother at the same hospital whilst she was incapacitated with back concerns. Whilst I sat and watched my mum sleeping, a nurse approached to check up on her. She met my gaze and she smiled immediately, face lit with recognition, and she said “oh my gosh, hey! How are you doing?”

People definitely do care about us even if we don’t think they do, and to the original poster?

Your faces are never forgotten either.

You’re more than heroes to me.

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Im not crying you are

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I am the gun, the bullet, and the wound. I will not leave without you knowing, I was here.

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I’m gonna call shenanigans on any allergy that isn’t this epic from here on

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On being a fat medical student, at the start of our metabolism module

We’re starting our “metabolism” module at med school this week, and I’m dreading it with every fibre of my being. You see, I am going to be a doctor, and I am fat.

I’m not the type of fat you feel after you’ve had a big lunch, and your usually flat belly is protesting against the waistband of your jeans. I’m the real kind. My BMI hovers a couple of points below “morbidly obese”.

I worry a lot about what people will think of me as a fat doctor. For the smartarses among you, of course I’ve tried to be non-fat, it goes without saying. The thing is though, bodies don’t really like weighing less all of a sudden and are pretty good at reversing things in the long run. Mostly my body settles back to the same size 18 shape eventually.

I am always aware of my fatness, but perhaps more so here at medical school. We are training to work with bodies, and mine is a type of body we warn our patients not to have. It is the first thing described in every list of ‘modifiable risk factors’. A colleague suggests “just don’t let yourself get too fat” as we talk about preventing a certain type of cancer. A final exam question asks us to list four poor health outcomes associated with obesity. I sit through lectures with slides that have sniggering titles like “how BIG is the problem?”

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These bubbles are actually a twin pregnancy. Each of the amniotic sacs has a 6-week-old embryo inside.

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Coagulation cascade made simple.

Someone shared this with me on my surgery clerkship and I wanted to pass it forward.

1) Everything centers around the perfect 10

2) 7 is a lucky number so I keep it to myself

3) 8 and 5 are cofactors

4) 3, 4, 6 do not exist

5) When you draw it out, it looks like a gun, and your trigger finger (TF) would go by the 7. so TF (tissue factor) goes by 7

6) You use guns and trigger fingers in war, so that’s the part effected by warfarin. The other one is heparin

7) The shorter path has the test with fewer letters (PT). The longer path has the test with more letters (PTT).

The last “rule” was told to me by someone else, but it helps me every time, so I’ll include it here:

8) PET is WET (PT, extrinsic, warfarin) and [Brad] PITT is a HIT (PTT, intrinsic, heparin)

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Beautiful Nature & Anatomy Inspired Surreal Paintings by Trisha Thompson Adams

Artist Trisha Thompson Adams produces macabre and mystical art prints that depict nature and the human anatomy. Inspired by old folklore, astronomy and her dreams, the artist’s paintings lean away from bright colors and create mystery through scenes depicted in somber colors and strange subjects converged with realistic and whimsical concepts.

Adams’ artwork is artistically spiritual, celebrating nature through the human body and the flowers that bloom, as well as cosmic scenes. In order to sustain life, the body must be connected with nature, and her flowers entwined in the heart and ribcage symbolise new life that blooms forth. The universal balance of life and death, the struggle between humanity and nature, earthly and cosmic elements become the heart of her artwork. You can find her work in her Society6 and Etsy shop.

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“Nurse, if only you knew… That you are often the best part of a sick child’s day. That you bring peace to the weary. That your heart holds the world. If only you knew… That you are the best of what humanity can be. That the tears you shed for those you lost aren’t in vain. That you give so much more than you ever hope to receive, and you’re good with that. Nurse, if only you knew… That people you’ve long forgotten will never forget what you did for them. That miracles have come from your hands. That what you do…and who you are…are sacred. If only you knew how much more glorious, loving and beautiful the world is because of YOU. Now. You. Know.” ~Rich Bluni, RN

(via nursingdiary)

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This cardiac MRI scan shows a heartbeat in high resolution. (Video)

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Know your Heart Sounds.

*HOCM = Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy

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Inserting an NG Tube (Not an NC Tube)!

On occasion (but not routinely) trauma patients need to have their stomach decompressed. The reflex maneuver is to insert a nasogastric (NG) tube. However, this may be a dangerous procedure in some patients.

Some patients may be at risk for a cribriform plate fracture, and blindly passing a tube into their nose may result in a nasocerebral (NC) tube (see picture). This is a neurosurgical catastrophe, and the outcome is uniformly dismal. It generally requires craniectomy to remove the tube.

The following patients are at risk:

Evidence of midface trauma (eyebrows to zygoma)

Evidence of basilar skull fracture (raccoon eyes, Battle’s sign, fluids leaking from ears or nose)

Coma (GCS<8)

If you really need the tube, what can you do? If the patient is comatose, it’s easy: just insert an orogastric (OG) tube. However, that is not an option in awake patients; they will continuously gag on the tube. In that case, lubricate a curved nasal trumpet and gently insert it into the nose. The curve will safely move it past the cribriform plate area. Then lubricate a smaller gastric tube and pass it through the trumpet.