The Dirt On DMS

A place for reflection and an outlet duing the next 15 months of Diagnostic Medical Sonography program

[ohdreaming]

my possible career choices: cloud flower

[jollyrancher]

Highlighting the important stuff…

Art by @slimjimstudios

[studylou]

how to start studying after school

clean up your desk: it’s hard to concentrate when there’s a pile of rubbish on your desk. the chance of you fiddling with things is also higher! you’ll get more done by cleaning your desk! if you’re looking for an easy way to organise your desk, check out these handy organisers!

get your books: get out all the books you need to study that particular subject. if it’s geography, an atlas might be handy.

get a notebook: if you’re in uni or college it’s a good idea to re-write all your notes for your classes that day. make them look clean and tidy. if you’re in secondary school and you’re studying for a test, summarize everything you have learned. in any case, it’s best to have a few notebooks on your desk too. here’s a 4 pack of spiral notebooks for $7.04!

grab some pens: seems self explanatory! i recommend you having an ordinary pen, a highlighter and a pencil on hand. (a.k.a. the basics!) here are some super cute gel pens!

turn off your phone: by turning off your phone, you will get less distracted by social media. sure, people won’t be able to reach you but you’ll get some peace and quiet. obviously leave it on if you’re expecting an important call!

look for a study playlist: if you easily get distracted by your laptop too, skip this step. i personally find it harder to get distracted by my laptop than my phone, so i leave it on and look for some music to study to. here’s a masterpost of some good playlists to listen to!

get a glass of water: you really need your h2o, everyone. grab a large glass or fill up a water bottle. some super cute ones: i ii iii

get a healthy snack: if you’re like me and you love snacking on things while your studying, the best thing to do is to grab something healthy. cut up some apples and sprinkle some cinnamon on them (try it. it’s amazing.), grab some hummus and some celery or carrots or cucumber to dip in it, fill a little bowl with nuts, treat yourself to a square of dark chocolate! if you’re studying during dinner time or lunch time, make yourself a nourishment bowl to nibble on. for more study snack ideas, go to pinterest and snoop around the study snack tag for a while. try out my favourite smoothie bowl too!

take a deep breath: i know from personal experience that sometimes the workload can be really scary and freak you out. the most important thing to do is to take a deep breath and to tell yourself you can get through all your work. you can do anything if you try hard enough!

get cracking: now that you’ve done steps 1-9, you can actually start studying! good luck!

[thisfuturemd]

List of Medical Documentaries

History of Medicine Ancient Egypt: Medicine and History (History Channel, “Where Did it Come From?) Forbidden Knowledge: Ancient Medical Secrets (Discovery) Getting Better: 200 Years of Medicine (New England Journal of Medicine) Human Anatomy and Medicine (Discovery) Lost Tomb of Imhotep (Ancient Egypt Documentary)

Antibiotics/Antivirals Frontline: The Trouble with Antibiotics (PBS) Rise of the Superbugs (Dailymotion) Origin of AIDS: The Polio Vaccine (CBC: Witness)

Business of Medicine The Business of Being Born (Barranca Productions)

Disease/Infection Siddhartha Mukherjee - The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Lecture (Harvard Book Store) Pain, Pus and Poison - Pus, The Search for Modern Medicine (BBC; @medicine-nerd)

Global Medical Missions Médicins sans Frontières: From Action to Words (MSF) Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors without Borders (MSF Australia)

Health Care Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare (Lionsgate; @stayingmedicallyinspired)

Human Behavior Pleasure and Pain Documentary with Michael Mosley (BBC)

Pioneering Physicians Present and Unaccounted for: Black Women in Medicine (URU, The Right to Be, Inc.)

Pharmacology Pain, Pus and Poison - Pain, The Search for Modern Medicine (BBC; @medicine-nerd)

Medical Dramas Boston Med, Season 1 (ABC) Emergency Room: Life + Death at Vancouver General Hospital (Knowledge Network) Hopkins (ABC) NY Med, Season 1 (ABC) NY Med, Season 2 Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 (ABC)

Medical Education Doctors’ Diaries: Part 1 and Part 2 (PBS NOVA) “I am a Medical Student” - The Motivations and Interests of 5 Future Physicians (Mauch Scott)

Research Science Documentary: Stem Cells (UCL)

Surgery & Surgical Procedures Surgery’s Dirty Secrets (BBC) The Lobotomist, Walter J. Freeman: Part 1 and Part 2 (PBS) Extracting a Deadly Brain Tumor (University of Miami School of Medicine; @medicine-nerd) The Human Face (BBC)

Toxicology Pain, Pus and Poison - Poison, The Search for Modern Medicine (BBC) The Venom Cure (PBS; @medicine-nerd)

War & Medicine Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial (Parts 1-3) (BBC) Battlefield Medicine (History Channel) Modern Marvels: Battlefield Medicine (History Channel) Surgeons at War: Combat Surgery in World War II (Unknown) Frontline Medicine (BBC)

Please note: This list is updated regularly. If you have any documentary suggestions, please share!

[gomedorgohome]

#MOTIVATIONALPOSTERMONDAY

[intrainingdoc]

Learn your surgical terms! This is a lifesaver for students in the operating room.

[wayfaringmd]

I swear

if I gotta ‘splain

ONE

MORE

‘GAIN

about these &%#&$@%# “new” (y’all, they’re like 5 years old) pap smear guidelines and fight with an 80 year old lady who had a hysterectomy in 1962 for “female problems” about why she doesn’t need a pap smear anymore

I’m gonna lose it. 

I take it back. I don’t mind explaining. That’s my job, to educate my patients. It’s the battle that ensues afterwards because heaven forbid I suggest that guidelines and medical knowledge changes or gets updated or that a study of 400,000 people has more scientific validity than your anecdote about your neighbor’s cousin’s wife. I am tired of fighting that battle. I fight the same battle ten times a day. 

Y’all, at least the AFP understands my struggle. What is this week’s title article? Cancer Screening in Older Patients. With editorials about how we’re over-screening and over-treating people for cervical, breast, and prostate cancer. These are my daily struggles, y’all. I spend an inordinate amount of time every single day going over the same. dang. spiel. Yes, I’ve made handouts. Do they get handed out? Do they get read? Negative. Why? Because even my OFFICE STAFF doesn’t believe me. Because every other doctor in this area is still following screening guidelines from 1986. I got people getting colonoscopies every 2 years for no go reason whatsoever; 80 year old ladies getting annual paps and they haven’t had an abnormal since 1953; 40 year old women asking for CA-125 testing and CT scans because their neighbor’s cousin got ovarian cancer and now they’re scared they caught it from them. I got 38 year olds getting Pneumovax because they had a cold once. I got 92 year olds with end stage dementia whose families insist they get mammograms. WHY?! Does nobody educate their patients anymore? Does nobody talk about shared decision making? 

And Lord help me with the Zpaks. I’m sick of seeing eyes roll when I explain to the same patient for the 4th time in 6 months why the Zpak won’t treat their allergic rhinitis and if they’d just taken the dadgum Flonase they would have been better 3 months ago. 

I feel like I am constantly bucking against the medical establishment around here. I’m doing what my professional organization –and every other major organization in this country–recommend and people look at me like I’m this sketchy new doctor who doesn’t know what they’re talking about. How bout realize your doctors haven’t read a journal article in 15 years and they’re SUPER behind?! I’m not the radical one here. I’m the one following standard of care. But when the local standard is 20 years behind the national standard, how can I get my patients to catch up?

This has been a rant. 

/endrant. 

[freshbrewedlife]

[defineyourgrind]

[letstalkmidwifery-blog]

A diagram showing what happens to the uterus postnatally and how it decreases in size below the umbilicus at various intervals.

A = after delivery B = one week following C = two weeks following

[purplebuddhaproject]

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[shanny-do]

Cardiovascular disease isn’t just about the heart itself; plaque development can happen in any major arteries, causing symptoms for any tissues it supplies with blood. Peripheral vascular disease affects major vessels not supplying either the heart or brain (most commonly affecting the lower extremities.) Plaque development results in ischemia (lack of oxygen) causing severe pain and extremely limited exercise tolerance. The biggest risk factor for PVD development is smoking on top of aging. Though more commonly seen in people over the age of 60, the incidence is increasing for younger populations, especially diabetic smokers. The presence of PVD equates to 4x the risk of heart attack and stroke. Aside from this, complications include gangrene necessitating amputations and loss of limb use. Watch out for lower leg pain/fatigue in your loves ones- a swift lifestyle change along with medical intervention is crucial in preserving these individuals’ quality of life 👌❤️ P.S… I love cardio. #cardio #pvd #medicine #quitsmoking #livewell #startswiththecart #getmoving

[officialunitedstates]

wife is pregnant, due any day

suddenly the contractions start

“CAN’T, WON’T, I’M, HAVEN’T, DON’T, ISN’T"  she says

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*accidentally does something well* ah shit i’ve given them standards now

[diaryofalawstudent]

Sunday evening motivation 😎

[wayfaringmd]

Chest Pain at 4:20

Resident: Did you take any drugs or medications before you started having chest pain?

Patient: I smoked some weed about an hour before.

Resident: Anything else?

Patient’s spouse: No, we called the weed man on the way up here just to be sure there wasn’t anything else in there!

[purplebuddhaproject]

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