[knithacker]

The Knitcoin Edition: What Would Happen If You Had To Knit Your Money? 👉 https://buff.ly/3dF29NR

[talesfromtreatment]

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Specific Gravity of that urine in the syringe is 1.005. Distilled water is 1.000

Also, we have another weird kitten and the vets are concerned about an elevated GGT of *5* with that one. And I’m sitting here like “mine is fucking NINETEEN.”

She really does have The Problems Syndrome.

[doctorfoxtor]

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that medical schools have built a culture that normalizes misery & suffering in their student body, makes me really worried about the fact that these are future members of a profession whose purpose is in large part to help minimize human misery & suffering

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

medical education: stress, anxiety, exhaustion, and sleep deprivation contribute to an uncountable number of health issues and are all major public health crisises of the modern world.

also medical education: that being said we are going to spend the next 4 years teaching you to take perverse pride in you ability to ignore your own stress, anxiety, exhaustion, and sleep deprivation. we do not expect this in any way to fuck up your perspective of what constitutes a healthy lifestyle, or your ability to empathize with your patients.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

#it definitely won’t trigger any latent god complexes that caused some of you to pursue medical education to begin with #nope we are training you to be totally normal and healthy human beings capable of advising and empathizing with others #this definitely won’t encourage ableist attitudes in a profession whose major responsibility is to support people with disabilities. #nope not at all.

[doctorfoxtor]

Insomuch as has been spoken about medical school (and frankly most healthcare courses—worldwide, not just in the West) being abusive, I will absolutely agree. I do want to qualify something that’s said here though.

Every day in med school was me schlepping my ass to classes where unreasonable expectations were placed on precisely how we memorised and spat out the information put forth before us with little room for understanding or intellectual debate, and the wards where I couldn’t do or say much when attendings and administration acted in ways that harmed patients, residents or students physically, emotionally or psychologically. Every generation of medical students is expected to do just a little bit more than the previous generation but in less time and it keeps adding up. Not having the agency to prioritise our own health or participate in earnest feedback was NOT good for our psyches.

But I think people tend to underestimate how many of us there are:

1. with chronic illnesses, disabilities and mental illnesses who not only make it to med school, but also through med school
2. who didn’t/don’t benefit from the inherent nepotism and plutarchy of med school, and
3. who managed to scrap together and hang onto every last shred of our humanity and even maybe grow to become more compassionate from interacting with patients and each other.

I recognise that OP isn’t trying to say that all med students have latent egos and god complexes that are triggered by the psychological torture med school puts us through. I also recognise that there are many many many med students who got in on daddy’s good word and money, and that there are some who will hurt a great many patients over their career. The medicine system is in dire need of severe reform. I think the takeaway here should NOT be ‘doctors are inherently egotistic and incapable of empathy/only capable of ableism’ but rather 'perhaps students/trainees/professionals in healthcare fields deserve safer, safety-net-equipped medical education and practice environments’.

I do want people, especially those who have had only negative experiences with doctors, to take heart in the fact that there are many of us out there who are always happy to sit with patients and discuss your medical concerns, needs and expectations without dismissing you.

edit: looks like @snowandstarlight shares my opinion in this post and they have very excellently put forth the point that maybe medical trainees and students could do with protections in a similar vein to worker protections. Maybe students and residents need unions idk

[honpun]

[catsbeaversandducks]

Photos by Janet Currey - Via RSPB North West England

[terrypratchettappreciation]

[noirandchocolate]

‘This I choose to do,’ she croaked, her breath leaving little clouds in the  air.  She cleared her throat and started again.  'This I choose to do.  If there is a price, this I choose to pay.  If it is my death, then I choose to die.  Where this takes me, there I choose to go.  I choose.  This I choose to do.’

It wasn’t a spell, except in her own head, but if you couldn’t make spells work in your own head, you couldn’t make them work at all.

–Terry Pratchett, “Wintersmith”
(illustration by Jon Sullivan)

[whatsdifferentincanada]

[edosianorchids901]

Bashir tries to get a drunken Garak to leave Quark's ("The Wire").

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

For the first 20 years of my life, I didn’t eat. Then, suddenly, my parents decided it was a good idea to do everything for me, even things that weren’t necessary. I’m sure they’re relieved that I’m doing so much better.

[bunjywunjy]

amethysteshroud asked:

Have you heard about the giant phantom jellyfish?

bunjywunjy answered:

stygiomedusa? yep! I’m love them.

they’re red because red light is the first light color to get filtered out as sunlight goes through layers of seawater! this actually means that a lot of deep-sea animals are pigmented red as a cheap way to be invisible, since there’s no way to actually see that color down there- it’s harder to spot a red jellyfish in the deep sea than a flock of crows at night in a coal mine.

…until a rover points its floodlights directly into their ultra-sensitive eyeballs, anyway.

“ach, mein leben!”

[bunjywunjy]

Anonymous asked:

These chocolate asks have me wondering if you can share some facts about the cacao tree. Or is plant biology not your thing?

bunjywunjy answered:

sure thing!

the cacao tree SEEDS might be poisonous as fuck to most animals, but the cacao tree FRUIT is perfectly fine!

(surprise! gaze upon the Chocolate Fruit)

the cacao tree pods are full of nutritious pulp and are eaten by a HUGE variety of animals, who generally carry the pod off somewhere quiet where they can nibble out the fleshy pulp…

…and spit the bitter and extremely poisonous seeds out onto the forest floor. the seeds sprout wherever they land, growing a new cacao tree!

it’s a pretty effective dispersal strategy, though humans did take it off the rails a bit with the whole “let’s cultivate the hell out of this plant and only eat the poisonous bits” thing. why are we like this.

(ps! try to buy the expensive fair trade chocolate when you can to make sure that the people scooping the cacao goop are actually paid a fair wage and not, you know, enslaved. this has been a psa!)