TentativelyTempting

Medical Student /Coffee Addict/ Duppy Conquerer/ Willy Bouncing Tutor/Permanently Perplexed and Bewildered Smarty Pants

[whatshouldwecallpgy1]

Going to codes as an intern

[tentativelytypingrandomthoughts]

Oh. My. God.

[fun-o-physics]

[tentativelytypingrandomthoughts]

Yes!!!

[shavingryansprivates-deactivate]

[dopenmind]

Reblogging this once more because my mom and I legitimately laughed to tears.

[idiotlibra]

this is my favorite video on the internet

[hashtagloveloses]

mental health tip: save this video. watch it when you’re sad. it’s the best goddamn thing on the internet

[tentativelytypingrandomthoughts]

Omg

[deactivated-1509]

Being an assertive introvert is so wild. Do you need a group leader? Sign me up. Want me to give a presentation? Sure, let me just get my cards. Want to take me to a party on a Saturday night? No way in hell.

[boyy-bait]

Life of a Customer Service Rep.

[blvckgeezus]

Lmfao the pause

[tentativelytypingrandomthoughts]

Lmaoooooooooooo

[doctorkintsugi]

Note to all patients threatening to leave AMA:

OK BAAAAIIIII *wave*

[tentativelytypingrandomthoughts]

Lmaooo

[apolkadotnerd]

In honor of me rejecting a boy today, here is my mom turning down a marriage proposal from a Fuckboy in the early 90s on national television. Enjoy.

[blushnhoney]

I’m the dude continuously playing the guitar

[so-meticulous]

an icon

[amateur]

[tentativelytypingrandomthoughts]

Omg

[ithelpstodream]

buzz aldrin looks like he’s about to tie trump to a rocket and launch him off into space

[gluten-free-pussy]

Do it, buzz

[anarchapella]

Now that’s a facial journey

[teknon-deactivated20190112]

Some of my favorites:

[basura-official]

Its like hes going through the 5 stages of grief but he keeps flip flopping between bargaining and anger

[onlyblackgirl]

2017 mood.

[jackironsides]

I think this one is my favourite

[skylorennn]

I normally don’t reblog things like this but honestly this is one of a kind and buzz is fantastic

[ginathethundergoddess]

God bless

[wayfaringmd]

Just saw a full grown adult

For a thumb-sucking related ailment.

[tentativelytypingrandomthoughts]

Omg

[md-admissions]

How would you describe every year of medical school?

First year: 

Second year: 

Third year: 

Fourth year:

Intern year (aka first year of residency):

All subsequent years of residency:

Attending at a teaching hospital/when you’re the attending and you see med students:

[gif87a-com]

[cobaltdays-deactivated20210208]

Me when I rode my first 13" dick

[sad--illuminati]

HOLY FUCK I HAVEN’T LAUGHED THIS HARD IN CENTURIES

[wayfaringmd]

Notice to my future patients:

If I ask you the same question 3 different ways, it’s not because I don’t remember the answer. It’s because I already know the answer and I’m giving you a chance to be honest with me before I bust you.

[thisisthinprivilege]

I work at a daycare with infants.

One of our baby girls is fat, in the 99th percentile for her age. She is super cute and sweet. Lately, she has been sick with various breathing issues, so she has been reluctant to take her bottles. Normally, she’ll take 4 ounces of formula at lunch and 8 ounces in the afternoon. Today, I was lucky to get to her take 5 all day.

There was a substitute covering a lunch break in my classroom today. We emphasized to her that we need to keep trying to get the baby to drink her bottle until she finished it. She said, “Why are you guys so worried about taking her bottle?”

My coworker replied, “That’s where all her nutrients are. She needs the nutrients and the water.”

To which the substitute replied, “But she’s so fat. She doesn’t need it.”

Thin privilege is a small, pretty baby getting better childcare because the caretaker doesn’t think she’s too fat to be allowed to eat.

[thecrazygeek-rant]

This reminds me of a cousin of mine who ended up with her kids being taken away from her by social services for a number of reasons but mostly for nearly killing her baby daughter. How?

By starving her. She insisted that her baby was ‘too fat’ and had an aim to remove any and all ‘chubbyness’ so her baby would be thin. She’d already been warned by her doctor about the baby not getting enough food, but insisted she knew best.

After several months of this her baby passed out cold one day and was rushed into hospital where the doctors found her to have severe malnutrition, a low body temperature and low pulse rate. They asked my cousin what she’d been feeding her daughter and she said “one bottle of skimmed milk a day. I don’t want her growing up fat.”

Even after nearly killing her daughter my cousin maintained her view that fat = bad and ended up with all her kids taken from her because she was starving them and neglecting them.

When your fatphobia leads you to starving your own children then you’ve got serious problems.

(Note. She still, to this day, maintains the view that she was right and the doctors were wrong. “They just want fat kids so they can keep employed treating them for all those diseases that being fat causes.” = her actual words.)

[sinthiasweet]

My mom had me dieting with her when I was eleven. She had me eating less than 600 calories a day because she was worried I was going to “get huge.” She even grounded me once because she found out my friends were bringing me lunches! I ended up passing out, going to the ER, and getting two IVs at once BC I was so goddamn dehydrated. Soooooo surprised they didn’t call child services… And looking back, this was the root of my anorexia. I’m nearly 22 and still fighting it. Please don’t starve your fucking children.

[viergacht]

For fucks sake babies are SUPPOSED to be fat, what is wrong with people? It’s just stored energy, and growing children need stored energy - an 11 year old is just about to hit some major growing years. Damn. 

[fattyatomicmutant-deactivated20]

Fatphobia

Is

Real

and it kills

[mexicanxthighs-deactivated20190]

This is no joke. people will literally starve their own babies cause they don’t want them getting fat. A parent brought in their six month old baby who was having breathing issues and kept getting sick. the parent was asked if the baby was eating regularly and the parent straight up told the doctor that they only feed the baby once a day. ONCE A DAY. A FUCKING BABY. they even had the nerve to say because they didn’t want the baby to get fat. people like this are real. they would rather have a dead baby than a fat one.

[bigfatscience]

My youngest son is a very big boy and has been since he was born. When he was 10 months old I took him for his well-baby check and vaccinations. The nurse noted his weight and said, quite casually, “He is in the 99th percentile for weight so he is at risk for obesity. You may want to keep an eye on that.” I said, “He is exclusively breastfed. He refuses to eat any solids yet.” What did she expect me to do? What would it mean to “keep an eye on” an exclusively breastfed baby’s weight? 

She backed off saying, ‘Well he looks fine!” – proving once again that weight bias is not truly about health – But I know many other parents who are not as informed as I am about weight science and size diversity would react to this interaction by policing their child’s food intake, if not as an infant, then when he was an older child. This is exactly the type of seemingly-inconsequential interaction that starts the ball rolling on a lifetime of dieting, disordered eating, negative body image, and weight-based abuse for too many fat people.

Years later when he was five, another doctor measured his weight and height and commented that he is off the charts on both, but “at least he is in proportion.” And if he was not “in proportion,” I am sure I would have been advised once again to “watch his weight.” 

I no longer allow healthcare providers to weight my children unless it is absolutely medically necessary. They are unable to control their weight talk, which is a known harm for children.

We need to completely eliminate weight talk from medicine, especially when it comes to children. Even the smallest exposure can have terrible consequences.

[loverofbrownsugar]

Wtf…

[mainstreamqueen-deactivated2020]

A friend from college had been going to the doctor because she was having trouble breathing. She was told to lose weight. Over the course of several years, she went back to the doctors time and time again, telling them that she’d been sticking to the diet but because of her breathing problems she had been unable to even walk for more than 20 minutes at a time. The doctor got her into an exercise programme and told her that she just needed to really try to lose weight because that was clearly the reason for her breathing problems. By the time they found the tumour on her lungs, it was inoperable. She only lived three months after diagnosis. She was 25. She’d had the tumour for over five years. The doctor was so focused on the fact that my friend was “fat”, that they refused to look for any underlying cause. They killed her.

[thisisthinprivilege]

Weight-first treatment KILLS. Fatphobia KILLS.

[lady-yomi-deactivated20171102]

I have 2 scary stories to share about fatphobic doctors & parents harming their childs/patients’ health:

1. The 4 years old daughter of a friend of mine came to our house to spend the weekend. She gave me a letter from her mom that said that the child was in a glutenfree diet because she was getting ‘awfully fat’ when eating cookies or bread (my celiac ass; who gets dhiarrea and loses a scary amount of weight whenever I eat something with gluten was like ’???’).

You can bet that I went to the supermarket with the kid and told her ‘go & take whatever you feel like eating’ and the poor child came back smiling with her arms full of biscuits and cupcakes.

She didn’t got sick (as a celiac would get) and told me later that she hated the diet her mother made her follow; because her cousins didn’t had to pass through that.

And what’s the scariest thing about this story? Her mother was a NURSE. A fucking nurse who didn’t have a clue of the harm that she was doing to her daughter’s body!

2. My little sister started to feel fatigued and dizzy at 9 years old. She felt nauseated at the sight of food and had abdominal pain that increased with physical activity.

Mom got her to the ER and the doctor dismissed it saying: ‘she’s fat and probably is feeling ill after eating too much burgers, get her to make some exercise and she will be better in no time’.My mom didn’t felt ok with the diagnosis and took my sister with a second doctor who also told her that ‘the child was just fat’.

My sister’s skin was starting to get yellow as the days passed and the abdominal pain was getting awful so my mom (heaven bless her!) got her to the ER for the third time:

SHE HAD STAGE 4 HEPATITIS AND WAS ABOUT TO DIE.

She survived after a long and painful recovery who involved being in bed for a whole year (remember that we’re speaking of a 9 years old child). Luckily they saved her liver and she didn’t went through a transplant… but let this sink:

If it weren’t for my mother, fatphobia would have killed her. Fatphobia kills kids and teenagers, fatphobia kills inocent people everyday. It treats human beings as lesser than others and hurts them in their most vulnerable times.

It’s a real shame that we all have so much stories to share about this issue. A REAL SHAME.

[agreekdoctor]

Future doctors, interns, and residents following me:

FUCKING TAKE NOTE OF THIS!

Don’t let bias against your fat patients kill them!

[clatterbane]

(#and this is just when we actually go to the doctor and tell them we have problems #how many of us just give up #or won’t mention anything that seems like too much of a ‘fat’ problem)

[willowofthehearth]

This is a big part of why I’m becoming a herbalist.

[meadowsofashandwisdom]

My doctor was concerned because I’d suddenly (in like a fortnight) put on 30kg of weight, we ran bloods and found problems with my liver enzymes, not being a specialist, she sent me for detailed scans of my liver, and referred me to the hospital to see a gastroenterologist.

The Gastroenterologist without taking a look at my scans, without looking at the history from my GP, only having a casual glance at my blood test decided my liver isn’t working because I’m fat. He also decided he needed to feel my liver, and just casually groped my breast while doing so, my liver is not under my breast there was no need to touch there.

Needless to say I went back to my GP crying, becaue I’d not only had my medical problems dismissed as “because you’re fat”, despite the sudden rapid weight gain being ruled as a symptom, not the cause, but I was sexually assaulted by a man who I was supposed to be helping me fix my medical problems.

My GP ended up having to by trial and error figure out what was causing my problems, to stop me going into liver failure, luckily for me, it ended up being as simple as changing the brand of a tablet I was taking, bit it could have been worse.

[agreekdoctor]

Here’s that post again. With more depressing stories. Reblogging it in hopes my medical followers use it as a “what never to do as a doctor” guide.

[medxclusive]

Can you answer this USMLE Question?

Answer and Explanation: Click on the picture above or click here –>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knmZ9fJOwPE

[drdessertfox]

Chlamydia runs in my family

Patient who was very confused about how STDs spread (via medschoolmanic)

[wheresonichedgehogwnt]

Also, anyone who is all “Ugh DOCTORS delivering BABIES are IN IT FOR THEMSELVES and are MEN who have THE SAME TIMELINES for EVERY LABOR and MAKE YOU GET AN EPIDURAL and make you PUSH ON YOUR BACK BECAUSE IS EASY FOR THEM and will CUT YOU OPEN if you don’t deliver according to THEIR TIMELINE which is usually 5 PM ON A FRIDAY so they can SELFISHLY GO HOME TO THEIR FAMILIES” can come talk to me and my attending, who are both women physicians who did not intervene with a labor that was going slowly because it was a first time mom whose baby looked great and was progressing along (just very slowly), who used OMT to control pain that wasn’t controlled by the epidural the patient wanted, who palpated that the pelvic outlet was small compared to the fetal head but knew they were still making progress and so decided with the patient to push and deliver while she was lying on her side both for her comfort and to help get baby through the narrow pelvic outlet, and who didn’t get home to their families until well after 9 p.m. on a Friday, even though my shift was over at 7 PM–I wasn’t going to abandon my patient in the middle of pushing, and we weren’t going to c-section because the baby looked great and the patient didn’t want to and they were making process (albeit slowly), so we stayed and delivered that baby, slowly and vaginally, and have a safe, healthy mom and baby.

I’m not saying there aren’t bad doctors who aren’t selfish, or that medicine as it is practiced today isn’t a product of a society that was and is profoundly sexist, nor am I passive-aggressively putting down CNMs, who are awesome and who my program works with and who I learn a lot from and respect like woah.

But seriously, give we docs who are trying to practice evidence-based medicine and empower women and change the culture of medicine for the better while practicing Obstetrics a smidge of credit.

[pleasedotheneedful]

A therapist once made a snide comment towards me for no reason “You guys get such minimal training with alcoholism”

This was not even part of a debate, it just came out of her mouth.