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drpathetique dxmedstudent

The PR exam…

flyonthewallmedstudent

My fingers are tiny. I’m a petite/tiny woman. 
When I need to do a PR on a huge guy… 

I ended up grabbing the male intern, went up to him and went, “show me your fingers.”. Darn. your fingers are too small like mine. 

intern, I feel inadequate for some reason. 

Trust me, you don’t want to feel adequate for a PR exam. 

dxmedstudent

I wish I had long elegant fingers. It’s not that I don’t like my hands; I do. But as a petite lady I wear a 6 or 6.5 surgical glove size, max.

Long fingers look a bit prettier on men and women, AND they are useful for feeling the prostate. It’s like a win-win.

monk3ydizziness

On the subject of hands,

I pity the people who wear size 5.5 gloves. They pretty much don’t exist.

BUT if you’re hands are 8.5, you better not go into GYN. Just saying.


Although, 7 and 7.5 are the first to be out of stock so you’re pretty much hosed no matter what.

dxmedstudent



OOH, I’ve always wanted to make a medblr horoscope based on glove size:

5.5 - You are a tiny, rage-filled pixie,possibly moonlighting in making shoes for impoverished  shoemakers on your nights off. You might never feel a prostate in your life, but you could probably be pretty good at escaping out of handcuffs. People are a little afraid of your hands because they seem a little too small, but that only fuels your power.

6 - The kind of person others should fear. Any other glove size than ‘small’ is basically like strapping a bin liner to your hands, but that probably only evens the scale given your manual dexterity. Your hands can do strange things that seem inexplicable given their limited size.

6.5 - Fortuantely, you have the finer details of fiddly procedures, down pat. Which is just as well, because most surgical tools were made for brawny peeps with much larger hands so you’ll feel like a kid borrowing their dad’s tools. There’s always an inexplicable shortage of ‘small’ gloves on the wards, because most nurses and junior doctors are women and therefore slightly more petite, so you’re probably still a little angry from having to dig out new packs of small gloves because nobody took that into account.

7 - You live a charmed existence; small gloves are probably bearable, and large ones probably aren’t the end of the world. You can use most tools and kits without struggling to adapt to their size, though you’re slighty below average in technicality. You can just about feel a prostate gland without having to try too hard, and yet you can examine gynaecologically without horrifying patients with your alien-looking digits; isn’t that all you want out of a pair of hands? You could consider being a hand model if medicine doesn’t work our for you.

7.5 -  The good thing is that your size comes standard with most ready made kits; you’re statistically average for a male doctor, which means most things will be designed with hands just like yours in mind. Out of everyone, you might struggle the least with the manual aspects procedures and surgery for that reason. I’m not calling you basic, but well; I am.

8 - You get to make the most of the reach that your hand span gives you, without struggling too much to find gloves, which makes you relatively chill. This is probably the best size for most tools, but you might struggle with finer, fiddlier details in your procedures because sometimes less is more. On the plus side, you can probably reach the top shelves at work. People might remark that you have big hands, but they aren’t really freaked out by them.

8.5 +  - OK, so people keep telling you that you might have Marfan’s, or at the very least, you’d probably make a good musician with those hands of yours. Unfortunately, you’ll never find gloves that fit you, and patients will probably be a little afraid if you suggest inserting those entrancing, eerily long fingers into any of their orifices. You’re a gentle soul who just wants to be able to do their procedures in peace without having to hunt down ‘large’ gloves, and you’re probably intimately familiar with the feeling of wearing gloves that are too tight to be comfortable.

pharmdup

6 but I still gotta concentrate on compounding because I don’t do it as often as a tech. At least I’ve never stabbed myself like my co-resi did! So maybe that counts as good at fiddly things.

Also when I put on a size 6 glove for the first time I felt like Cinderella with the slipper. I had no idea gloves could fit like that.

drpathetique

7 and yeah p much spot on

Being a leftie plays in a lot. I can do fiddly shit none of you can’t, only to produce the same results.

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