Pediatrics Resident

Most of the medical research was done on white males and their response to medicine. This is why medical books should only serve as a framework but clinical expertise matters more.

Your body is an incredibly bizarre machine.

Peds Attending

It was on ‘The ethics of abortion’, and I was sorta expecting a lecture tip-toeing around the different viewpoints without offending anyone. But our lecturer slayed!

- she started out by saying how the ‘pro life’ side always get emotive pictures of babies and foetuses etc, and that there’s hardly any for pro choice. So she put up a photo of a woman lying dead on the floor, after bleeding out from an unsafe abortion her partner tried to perform on her

- she showed us statistics on how abortion rates are lower in countries with safe, legal access to abortion

- she showed us more statistics on how high maternal death rates and deaths from unsafe abortions became when countries made access to abortion more restricted 

- she put up photos of discarded babies in streets and rubbish bins in countries where abortion is illegal 

- she talked about a case in the US where a woman was ex-communicated from an ethics committee at a catholic hospital, after the committee allowed a woman with life-threatening complications to have an abortion, then our lecturer commented that ‘it’s funny how it was wrong for her to do that, yet child abuse is apparently ok’ 

- she went through cases of more women who were so desperate to have an abortion that they seriously harmed themselves

- she ended the lecture on the photo of the woman who died, and said ‘whatever your stance on abortion, the fact is that if a woman has made up her mind that she doesn’t want to be pregnant, she will do whatever she can to get an abortion, even if it puts her life at risk’

This is a great chart to know for both - USMLE and NCLEX students.

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You’re a good doctor because you try, really fucking hard, every day. 

You’re a good doctor because you exist as a person outside of medicine.  

Pediatric Early Warning Scores (PEWS) are used to alert caregivers to changes in patient stability and identify deterioration. A number between 0 and 11 is obtained over four areas (behavior, cardiovascular and respiratory with an additional 2 points for frequent interventions). For accurate assessment, a set of vital signs must be taken with each score.

If a patient’s score doubles or a 3 is scored in any one area, notify the MD for intervention. Rapid response should be called at a score of 6 and ICU transfer considered at a score of 7+. Regardless of scoring, nursing judgment should be used to escalate care for any concerns.

my whole body seized up