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god my absolute favorite feeling is devouring a book, when you get so into the pages and the words that you have to stop your eyes from skipping lines and force yourself to read every word, when you’re so impatient for what happens next that you can’t sit still while reading, when you have to re read whole pages because you were too busy predicting and anticipating that you missed the actual events, when you read a part that’s too good for words and you have to close the book and scream into your pillow, that’s what reading a truly great book is about and the feeling is even better when you haven’t found a book like that in a long time and then you stumble across one and something inside of you awakens

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newyorker.com (Instagram)

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Blind people must save a lot on electricity.

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You don’t want your patient to die while you’re on your intellectual journey. Start empiric course of antibiotics and change it once you know the cause.

MD, pulmonary medicine (via coffeemuggermd)

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So true :’(

Basically

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how dare no one ask me questions about my extremely boring life

#haha

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I was going through my drafts and found this. I wrote this when I was extremely angry and irritated at someone.

you know people who make EVERYTHING about themselves?? and have zero patience? and rarely take a break from making you feel like shit? and never give you the benefit of the doubt? and never teach you anything but that doesn’t stop them from incessantly making rude comments about how you don’t know this or that? and are extremely rude to strangers? and just assume the worst about people? and never seem to notice the good things you’re doing and how hard you’re trying? arrghh!!

Remember to point out and appreciate the good things, folks.

#fourth year

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It doesn’t happen like that. You don’t just wake up one day and find that everything has worked itself out. You must get out of bed, morning after morning, and make a conscious effort to control the circumstances of that given day. You must learn to handle your issues with grace because you respect what they are attempting to teach you. You must drown your insecurities slowly, one self-realization at a time. You must allow yourself to feel the fear bubbling just beneath your skin but you must never allow it the satisfaction of crippling you; grit your teeth and march on. You see, they never tell you how hard these things will be. This fight to reclaim yourself is not easy or straightforward but, my god, is it necessary. 

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Recently, an 8-year-old Chinese boy walked approximately 3 miles (4,8 km) to his Zhuanshanbao Primary School in the township of Xinjie in Yunnan Province, China. In 16°F (-9°C) cold. To take an exam. After his trek went viral, people started contacting the school, trying to contribute in any way they could to improve learning conditions for him and other students.

Fu Heng, the headmaster of the primary school, could not believe his eyes. Upon arrival, his student had icicles instead of his hair and eyebrows, contrasting with his burning red cheeks. Heng snapped a picture of the little fellow, marking the beginning of this crazy story. The internet has dubbed him as “Ice Boy,” and soon the school has received more than $15,000 in donations, 20 heating equipment and 144 warm set of clothes.

“It was the first day of their final exams,” Heng said. “The temperatures dropped to minus nine degrees Celsius in about 30 minutes that morning.” The headmaster claimed the boy lives far away from the school. Heng also noted that he is considered as the “class clown”, constantly finding ways to make his 16 classmates die of laughter. It’s crazy to think the boy maintains a positive attitude, despite living in extreme poverty and spending most of the time with his sister and grandma only.

According to Fu, the school tries to watch over him and others as much as it can, providing them with breakfast but admitted that their classrooms weren’t properly heated due to a lack of funding. Moved by the boy’s will, people on the internet hope he can build himself a better life if he continues to put his education first. (Source)

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Hello! I'm an A level student in Karachi who really wants to attend med school and I've spent this winter break looking at fees structures for multiple med schools in Karachi while simultaneously dying inside. I've shoved places like Ziauddin and Aga Khan aside for the moment but I really need somebody to tell me med school is a possibility for me because everyone keeps telling me not to pursue medicine since it's so hard and expensive.

I’m very sorry for answering your question so late. I haven’t been coming on Tumblr a lot since uninstalling the app from my phone so I missed your question. 

Let me assure you, there is no reason for you to be dying inside. You’re lucky enough to live in Karachi which has good government medical colleges like Dow Medical College, Jinnah Sindh Medical University and Karachi Medical and Dental Colleges. If you get admission to any one of these on merit, you’ll have to practically nothing. Even if you don’t get admission on merit, there are self finance seats in these colleges whose fees are substantially less than that of AKU or Ziauddin.

I come from a middle class family and I knew that if I wanted to become a doctor, I‘d have to go to a government medical college. I studied hard in my A Levels and got good grades Alhamdullilah. I then totally relaxed and studied very little for the NTS exam and did not do too well but still got admission in a government school on merit. I wanted to tell you this to show you that getting admission on merit is totally doable. 

I hope you find my answer useful. If you have any other queries, please feel free to send me a message!

#answered asks

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Question to females

So, just out of curiosity, have you ever had a male patient who, the second you walked into the room, stared you down with the EYES. You know what eyes I’m talking about- the ones where a dude is basically trying to undress you with his non-existent xray vision. Because I had a male patient do this to me yesterday and he was PERSISTENT in the staring. It was SUPER uncomfortable. How do you cope with this?

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Zero waste lifestyle

I watched a TEDx talk by Lauren Singer and I was so amazed and inspired. She’s a young New Yorker who lives a zero waste lifestyle. By thoughtfully planning her shopping trips, dropping her food waste at a place in the farmers’ market where they accept such waste and use it for composting, making her own toothpaste, laundry detergent and other such lifestyle changes, she produces so little non recyclable, non compostable waste that her yearly trash production can be stored in a mason jar. Amazing! She has a YouTube channel called Trash is for Tossers and she has a blog of the same name.

 I’ve been inspired to make similar lifestyle changes such as eating less packaged food like ice cream and biscuits whose non recyclable wrappers go directly into the bin after each use.

#zero waste #lauren singer

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If they’re smart enough to be doctors, they’re smart enough to learn to say your name correctly.

My resident.

I don’t have a common typical English name. My name is unique to my culture. It’s always been difficult always being different, an outsider. Especially growing up in the US south. But that’s a different story.

There are two schools of thought on my name: “oh cool so exactly as it’s spelled” and “what in the actual fuck I don’t even know where to start.” The latter are always the loudest and most obnoxious.

First days of school were the worst growing up. I would usually keep track of where in the alphabet the teacher was on roll call and knew she was looking at my name when there was a long pause. I would fake a laugh, raise my hand, and tell them my name. Everyone else would laugh along. I hated it, I was so embarrassed. Why couldn’t I have been named Ashley or Catherine or Megan? Life would have been so much easier.

I grew up to embrace my name and love it. I love my culture, our history is awesome, and my name is badass. I’ve only met one other person with my name and she’s ten years younger than I am and lives in Canada. But my acceptance doesn’t mean everyone else has had the same epiphany about my name. I still get the same looks, well-intentioned but rude comments, and confused stares from all the Caroline’s, Katelyn’s, and Lauren’s.

Some days I own it with a bad ass “no it’s not hard, you’re being dramatic, it’s easy to say and really cool” attitude. Sometimes I have rhyming tricks that I personally HATE but understand it’s a necessary evil because some people have tiny minds and need the extra help. And then I throw in a little history lesson because damn, some people.

But some days I’m exhausted, and I can’t argue and stand up for myself. Some days I’m tired and defeated and I let it go, “I know, it’s hard, a lot of people have trouble. It’s okay.”

My resident caught me on one of those nights. I was on hour 14 of the work day, scrubbing in for yet another surgery. She didn’t keep asking my name because she couldn’t pronounce it, but because she genuinely couldn’t remember what it was because she was having a very similar kind of day.

No one has ever said anything like that to me before. I was too tired at the time to understand and appreciate what she said, but it’s been resonating with me ever since. She’s fucking right. If you’re comfortable speaking in medical jargon with our made-up sounding words, you can say my name. It’s not hard, it’s not my fault you can’t say it, and no, you can’t make up a nickname for me. ✋🏼

(via heyitsthatalmostdoctor)

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What the abstract giveth, the materials and methods often taketh away

Health Managment Professor, on the importance of bring critical of journal articles  (via thismightgetruff)

This quote is amazing.

(via dxvetstudent)

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in the first day of every rotation

Me: *is searching for my ward in the labyrinth of the hospital*

 Person: *pops up from nowhere* excuse me, can you tell me where is [insert any other ward]?

 Me: euuuh sorry, i’m actually new here and i don’t know that much either 😅

 Person:

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