Caffinated Toothfairy

the best original works I’ve made so far tbh

This all changes during placements. In clinical years and internships, watching your superiors make these diagnoses, and being told “they come in all the time, they would be better if they just lost some weight”, something starts to stick. Med students become cynical from treating hundreds of cases of the same thing, in mostly elderly patients who do actually just need to live a healthier lifestyle. But when exceptions come along, they are so jaded by their experiences in the system that they won’t consider differential diagnoses. This is a SYSTEMIC problem.

Also, if you weren’t aware, the number one mental illness among medical students?

I spent two weeks in the hospital last year. Between that and chemo and everything else I dealt with last year, I probably saw eight doctors and dozens of nurses and dozens of techs.

When she had a child she had gestational diabetes and because she was a physician she had perfect sugar numbers.  She had gotten an insulin pump and the professional grade programming to micro dose herself.  Her sugar numbers during her pregnancy were better than any “healthy” persons.  An OBGYN in her practice walked into the room saw her and decided without looking at her numbers or her case history and assumed she had uncontrolled diabetes and started planning her C Section.  

Without looking at anything in her chart.

She was unlucky enough to have that doctor in her delivery and she almost bled out because the woman was so convinced she was going to C Section her that she didn’t pay attention to the baby crowning and so had no instruments in the room.  The lack of preparation meant the nicu team that was supposed to be in the room was not even called until minutes after my nephew was out and grey.  He had a terrible initial apgar score and she lost an obscene amount of blood hemorrhaging out on the floor.

When she wrote a medical journal article about it (with the review of her own OBGYN) because she’s an expert in the health care system other doctors trolled through my family’s facebook pages looking for old pictures of her to prove from our family vacation shots that she must have had weight related pregnancy complications… that she didn’t have… because they felt they could diagnose her based on pictures of her.

One even filed a complaint against her with her state medical board because they assumed she’d written the article without giving her doctors a chance to respond.

I’m still very much fat, but I am now about 30 pounds away from being bellow 200 pounds. where before I was just over 300 pounds. I feel better, and I am able to do more things, and it was because my doctor chose to treat my immediate problem, and waited for me to ask about weight loss and choose to be polite, kind and understanding. 

stills from a new study with me video on the works. (here’s my yt channel)

9/11/20

‧₊˚✩彡 November Productivity Challenge

An obligatory stethoscope picture! I haven’t posted much original content in last few days as I’ve been really stressed and overwhelmed. But I’m trying to pull myself together again and start catching up on stuff. 🩺🥼

First session of practicing OSCEs at home, today was the ✨Respiratory examination✨

Detail of Daphne turning into a laurel tree. René-Antoine Houasse ~ 1677 (Versailles) • via Bibliothèque Infernale on FB

30th Oct 2020

17.11.2020 || finishing this week’s reading assignments 📚

tuesday, november 24

i know i’ve only studied seriously for like 2 days, but i feel burnt out already LOL i think its a combo of being mentally drained from studying but also emotionally drained because of the BIG changes in my life

but im hoping to get a yummy lunch (that i’m going to cook for myself !!) and focus on studying for today