bmouse
Today’s adventure
This is wholesome
Lursa &/or B'Etor
doing what they do best : being mean
being cool sisters, for @worshipthesquid, who was the 400th person to click that “follow” button on my blog :)) thank you !
kaelio
deep-space-bi
terrypratchettappreciation
aeshnacyanea2000
Before you could sell glass as diamonds you had to make people really want to see diamonds. That was the trick, the trick of all tricks. You changed the way people saw the world. You let them see it the way they wanted it to be.
Terry Pratchett - Going Postal (via aeshnacyanea2000)
ladyyatexel
cancerbiophd
astudyinphd
Tue 11/13/18
After yesterday’s failed experiment (another one), I’ve been feeling very dejected in lab. What’s the point of even going if everything I touch just disintegrates? Luckily, I stumbled upon a podcast that really changed my outlook. It is “How to Be Truly Unhappy in Grad School” from the Hello PhD podcast, which discusses the article of the same name.
The gist of the episode and article is that we shouldn’t define our experiences by whether we are happy or unhappy since the definition of the word “happy” is inherently binary and does not encapsulate the entirety of our grad school experiences: the misery of (multiple) failed experiments, the dread of networking, the excitement of learning how the world works, the joy of trying to answer questions no one has answered before, etc. Instead, we should define it by whether it’s “meaningful.”
By that definition, my failures are meaningful since I’m learning (the painful, unhappy way) to be a better scientist, and my failures will feel especially meaningful the day I finally get results, whether it’s statistically significant or not, because that means I have answer at least one question about how my protein work within the manifestation of Tourette Syndrome.
“So go forth, find meaning in your failures, rejoice in your successes, and thrive in unhappiness.”
decorademon
tokyo-fashion
Japanese nail artist Maiko Neuron on the street in Harajuku wearing a sheer Dolls Kill top with a holographic bustier top, a pink pleated skirt from New York Joe, and Jeremy Scott x Adidas gold teddy bear sneakers. Full Look
pharmdup
pharmdup
My new favorite thing
When you’re in a group of adult hospital pharmacists, ask if their institution uses ECMO. The answer is yes if they do this:
Pharmacist: Do you even know how to dose adjust for lack of pulmonary elimination?
Pharmacist: I’m not being sarcastic. Does anyone on God’s green earth know how to do that.
Pharmacist: Oh god they’re using it for CPR now.
It only happens with pharmacists who work primarily with adults because pediatrics have been doing ECMO longer. Also pediatric pharmacists are tougher than everyone. They can stare the devil in the eye and the devil will blink first.
Sometimes pharmacy students get frustrated when we assign drug information questions to them that don’t have easy or clear answers. They don’t understand yet that these are the real questions that we get. If a provider can find the answer through Lexicomp or UpToDate or a quick literature review, there’s no need to turn to the pharmacist to ask.
Do the research, get to the closest answer that we have so far, then we bridge the gap using our extensive knowledge about pharmacokinetics/dynamics.
Which is all pretty rich for me to say about ECMO since I’m not like an ED or ICU pharmacist or anything. I’m the guy who makes patients come out of code situations by walking in the room like
100% success rate still. Yes I realize I’m cursing myself. Never been asked to dose a single damn ECMO thing. Bet you poor suckers wish you’d gone into psych now, huh.
Fuck I just educated myself on ECMO dosing. You try to trash talk the ICU cowboys and end up learning shit on your night off. This is what I get for talking smack and adding a link.
walrus-queen
dailyhiddles
limitglove
t00thpasteface
