Growing into a doctor

Graduated!! | Opositora al MIR22 | Barcelona, Spain | main is thegirlinthesparklydress.tumblr.com

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Heartbeats under magnetic resonance imaging.

We seldom consider the force with which our hearts beat through every moment of our lives. Most of us will only ever feel the dampened strength of these muscles at the arteries of the wrist or neck, perhaps through a stethoscope or in moments of excitement, exertion and fear. Take a moment to consider it now, if you will. 

Credit to the VCU Medical Center for these images.

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rainy nights . . . . #medstudent #medicine #studying #studygram #rainyday #mir2022 #medicina https://www.instagram.com/p/CTqDF6-oIJS/?utm_medium=tumblr

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I Heart Anatomy

- Watercolor art by LyonRoadArt (Follow the artist, Kaitlin Walsh)

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almost done 🤍

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so these past couple of days i’ve been revising all the neurology i learnt (and forgot) two years ago, and i’ve managed to fall in love with it once again ✨

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Hemoglobin Breakdown [Quick Review - Video]

[As the red blood cells disintegrate, the hemoglobin is degraded or broken into globin, the protein part, iron (conserved for latter use), and heme. The heme initially breaks apart into biliverdin, a green pigment which is rapidly reduced to bilirubin, an orange-yellow pigment.]

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September 1st, 2020. The first day of my last year of medical school.

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From Arabic to Iranian: How A Medieval Physician Changed How Medicine Was Taught

Ismā‘īl ibn Ḥasan Jurjānī (1042–1136 CE), known popularly as Hakim Jurjānī, was one of the most famous Iranian physicians in the 1100s.

Since the time of the Arabic conquests, Iranians wrote scientific books in Arabic. It was the lingua franca of the educated and the elite. Jurjānī’s medical encyclopedia, Zakhīrah-i Khvārazm’Shāhī (“The Treasure of Khvarazm’Shah”) was the first major medical book in post-Islamic Iran written in Persian. Although the alphabet was Arabic.

Jurjānī’s textbook soon became a primary resource for Iranian physicians, used for many centuries. It had ten parts, similar to Ibn Sina’s earlier “The Canon of Medicine,” and was often written with illustrations. The above illustration shows a skeleton as a medieval Iranian physician would have learned it.

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one year left of university before a whole year of studying for the national exam, after which I will have to choose a specialty: for now my options are neurology, haematology, paediatrics or internal medicine

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Could My Symptoms Be Covid-19?

These days, every cough, sneeze or headache makes you wonder: Could it be Covid-19? Medical experts are viewing Covid-19 as a multi-organ disease that can affect the body from head to toe and everywhere in between. Here’s a guide to help you understand the symptoms.

These four symptoms are very common among Covid patients. Unlike flu symptoms, which typically come on fast, Covid-19 symptoms may emerge over several days.

Many patients commonly report one or more of these symptoms too. Some patients have only mild illness, but others begin to feel terrible, with worsening symptoms and a sense of constant discomfort.

Covid is not just a respiratory illness, and can show up in a number of unusual ways. These symptoms are less common or rare, but they can also be signs of Covid.

The nose is ground zero for Covid-19. It’s rich in a receptor called ACE2, which the virus uses to get into our cells. As the virus replicates inside the nose and spreads down the respiratory tract and into the lungs, patients may develop various respiratory symptoms.

Painful headache is common, but more serious neurological problems are less common or rare. Mild symptoms include dizziness or feeling lightheaded. Symptoms needing urgent care include confusion, an inability to wake, uncoordinated movement or signs of stroke like facial drooping, numbness or garbled speech.

Some patients develop Covid pneumonia as the virus attacks the lungs. Sometimes oxygen levels can drop so slowly that the patient doesn’t notice. Short, rapid breathing or severe shortness of breath, particularly at rest, are signs that require urgent medical attention.

The virus can show up in unusual ways across the body. Strange rashes — bumpy, smooth, itchy or innocuous — have been reported. In rare cases, the virus inflames joints or damages muscles in the thighs, shoulders or back, causing severe pain.

The virus also appears to attach to the insides of blood vessels, and in rare cases causes life-threatening blood clots that travel to the lungs, heart or brain. In very rare cases, clots can cut off blood flow in the limbs, requiring amputation. Patients sick enough to visit the hospital may be given blood thinning medications to prevent or treat blood clots.

Covid-19 typically is mild in children. In very rare cases, it can cause a severe inflammatory response. Seek emergency care if a child shows any of these warning signs or symptoms that cause concern.

If you have a symptom that might be Covid-19, doctors say you should isolate until you can be tested. Most patients will recover on their own within a few weeks.

It’s a good idea to monitor oxygen levels at home with a pulse oximeter. Pay close attention to symptoms during days five to 10 of the illness, when oxygen levels may drop to dangerously low levels.

Seek medical care at any time if you experience trouble breathing, any concerning symptom or take a turn for the worse.

From a sniffle or cough that feels like allergies to severe body aches and crippling fatigue, the symptoms of coronavirus can be unpredictable from head to toe. Read more about the many symptoms of Covid-19 and join the conversation.

By By Tara Parker-Pope and Mika Gröndahl (The New York Times). Additional work by Josh Williams and Lalena Fisher. 

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Perfect Sunday combination- Anatomy , heavy rain outside , warm tea & piano in the background ❤️ 🎹

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A Visualisation of the Airflow with and without a Facemask. This is done by Utilising Schlieren Imaging.

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Health care professionals signed up to take care of people and save lives. They did not sign up to martyr themselves in a system unprepared to protect them in the face of an emergency. 

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Second patient cured of HIV

Adam Castillejo, the "London Patient", is free of the virus more than 30 months after stopping treatment.

A man from London has become the second person in the world to be cured of HIV, doctors say.

Adam Castillejo is still free of the virus more than 30 months after stopping anti-retroviral therapy.

He was not cured by the HIV drugs, however, but by a stem-cell treatment he received for a cancer he also had.

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Hip fractures #studygram #orthopedics #medicine #medicalstudent #orthopedicsurgery #medical #orthopaedics #morning 
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