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[echoesera]

Psychiatric Ward Gothic

1. You arrive on the ward. There are no doctors there. You ask the nurses who you should report to. They tell you that there are no doctors on the ward. You stare at each other. You leave the ward.

2. Your senior makes a throwaway comment about it being the age of Pisces as you leave to assess a patient. You now know everyone’s star sign. You note that the ward is going to pieces.

3. You are introduced as The Medical Doctor. You have only had your degree for one year. Your senior asks you for a medical consult. You scream internally and try to not kill anyone.

4. Everyone on the ward - the patients, yourself, your seniors, and the nursing staff - Everyone has had a Mental State Exam performed on them. You spend hours trying to match the right MSE to the right person.

5. You and your team watch the entirety of Neon Genesis Evangelion together across two shifts. You discuss the ending. You disagree on the ending. You agree that every character in the show needs therapy. You all need therapy.

6. Your senior hands you an ECG for a patient who is taking antipsychotics. The QT interval is prolonged. You stop the antipsychotic. The QT interval normalizes. Your senior asks for a cardiology consult.

7. Your senior hands you an ECG for a patient who is taking antipsychotics. The QT interval is prolonged. You stop the antipsychotic. The QT interval normalizes. Your patient is staring at walls and talking to curtains again.

8. Your patient tells you that the country is going to hell in a basket and you agree with him. He wants to trade places with you. You consider this, briefly.

9. Your patient has had enough sedatives to take out an elephant and somehow is still walking on! his! own goddamned! two feet! and trying to throw hands with anyone who approaches. There is an unconscious elephant in the corner of the room.

10. You use the containment room on the ward to destress. No one can hear you scream in here anyway. “You need therapy, doc, the ward is going to pieces” a patient tells you. There are no doctors on the ward. You leave the ward.

[speremint]

I'm waiting for the right 🌟 emotional moment🌟 to binge read all of B&R could you please advise on the best ~feelz to be binging thanks

Probably a happy one as I’ve been told it can be a bit of a downer at times

[drferox]

33 and 37!

33. If money was no object, what would your wardrobe be like?

A big walk-in affair with hanging racks down either side and shelves at the end.

If you mean clothes, I really don’t know. I don’t have a strong sense of self and I don’t have much of a picture of myself in my mind’s eye. I guess there’s a lot of jeans, t-shirts and button up shirts but I’m really very vague about human appearances.

37. Have any tattoos?

No. The problem I have with tattoos is that they require commitment to an idea, and I just haven’t been fond enough of any one idea long enough to pursue one. Keep considering tattooing a band on my ring finger, but I hear they wear off quickly.

[speremint]

Will we be getting more Reversed Omens? :D

ehhhhh maybe will work on GO Feral but probably not just bc at the end of the day I prefer canon material over AUs lol ;v;

[echoesera]

Me: I! Don't need sleep! Stay awake! For 24! Whole! Hours! Before night shifts!

Also me: i have slept 20 hours and i am yet to feel rested truly i am not to be free of this weariness that plagues me until i am cold and in the ground

[dxmedstudent]

For song asks - 14!

14:A song that you would love played at your weddingOh, gosh. I’ve actually never properly thought about this. I don’t know. I have plenty of music I like, but I don’t know that I want to subject my friends and family to any of it. As a kid, I liked the idea of weddings in the way most kids do; they seemed kind of inevitable. But unlike some of my friends, I’ve never really put any thought into what I hoped for. Whenever I watch anything wedding-themed, people seem to already have so many strong ideas and so many people have very ornate plans. But I always reckoned that if you do end up married, there’s at least 1 other person to think about (not including parents, who always have opinions, and relatives, whose opinions are best put aside whenever possible), and without knowing that person, how can you have any idea what kind of wedding you might have? Like they might want a really big wedding? Or be quite shy and want a really small one? Or maybe they’ll be Scottish or Indian or something else entirely, and the entire aesthetic or scope of your wedding might end up very different. I am pretty indecisive, though, so that’s half me being considerate to a theoretical other half, and half me hoping someone will take some of the decisionmaking out of my hands! XD But the older I get, the more I realise it can be anything that you want; it doesn’t have to be big or traditional. The idea of actually planning a big, very personal party seems almost mortifying. Subjecting everyone to my taste in stuff? Scary. Big wedding? Scary. Go the slightly less traditional route? Scary. Traditional route? Scary, and also what traditions do you even pick, like if I did it like my ancestors, I’d be riding a horse in 30kg of wool and linen. I like the idea of getting your friends and close family around to celebrate. don’t like the idea of a big administrative mess. I’m not sure how people even do it. How does one even pick wedding music? I like classical music, so it’s not even a genre problem, it just seems like a difficult task to know what kind of ambience you’d want, since a lot might depend on the type of wedding; a church wedding could have a very different ambience to a civil ceremony. I’d say there’d have to be at least one traditional song from my culture somewhere, but I don’t even know how the things I like could fit into one event. I guess it ultimately doesn’t matter; I’ve been to a few weddings, and I don’t really remember the music, as much as I remember having fun and celebrating my friends’ happiness, so I guess it’s not something to stress about. OK, so I’m on nights and the idea of organising anything might look even scarier than usual XD

[echoesera]

(Era is a jerkarse sometimes) Part 2

Whilst taking mock histories with a friend...

Friend: I'm really concerned that this is something serious. AM I GOING TO DIE?!

Me: Well, there are many reasons why this symptom could be happening, and it doesn't necessarily mean death.

Friend: Oh, so it's nothing serious? Don't worry about checking it out, then.

Me: Wait... we check everything just to make sure.

Friend: SO I'M GOING TO DIE?!

Me: OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE EVERYONE DIES!

[echoesera]

My favourite colour is blue. The blue after the sun sets. In Italy... *trails off wistfully*

Disenchanted hospital tutor