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[ley-med]

Welp. Things get weird with the anesthesia department from time to time. Today a patient, left unsupervised for 5 whole minutes in their surgical ward, chewed their central line out...

#medblr #residency chronicles #and it didn't evoke anything but a quiet feeling of resignation #clarifying #i am a human doctor with human patients! #i guess something like this wouldn't count as news in the vetblr community

[stemcellee]

april 21 2024

I started running (I’ve never been a runner idk I play tennis pretty avidly and can play for like 3 hours straight but running is almost impossible) but I’m doing it as a mental health challenge ;_; the way medical school affects me is so different from everything prior. like I do think there is less to “do” compared to undergrad, but there’s more “pressure” to basically not mess up because you’ve come too far to fail LOL so that really gets to me sometimes. The running seems to help me balance my mental (and I’ve been running for ~20 min every morning for the past week - I’m already feeling a difference and that excites me!!)

hope you are all doing well~

instagram: @ stemcellee

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[medstudiees]

new reading corner 💛🤍🌼🌸

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[alfalfaaarya]

19 , 20 , 21 , 22 April 2024

Day 3, 4, 5 and 6 of Productivity Streak

I got a couple of things done in these 4 days

Pharmac -

Completed Adrenergic drugs and solved past year questions

Read alpha blockers although I need better revision

Pharmac is a long was to go cause there's soo much to study and sooo little time

Microbiology

I completed General virology

Revised viral replication again.

Patho

Studied Amyloidosis !

Wait , now that I see this isn't much I really need to work more hard :')

Adios

🙏

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[heardatmedschool]

*In the CT room*

Medical Technologist: *handing out lead apron* Careful, it’s heavy.

Intern: Last week I was on orthopedic surgery, I think I can hadle it.

#medicine #med school #medblr #radiology #medical technology #radiation #ct scan #surgery #orthopedics

[medstudentblues]

journaling on a rainy day, in an unfamiliar country i keep getting lost in :)

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[equinesandeducation]

Study date time!!!! Bestie support is essential, as well as unlimited snacks 😌

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[nerdgirlnarrates]

Even though it's been months since I switched from neurosurgery to internal medicine, I still have a hard time not being angry about the training culture and particularly the sexism of neurosurgery. It wasn't the whole reason I switched, but truthfully it was a significant part of my decision.

I quickly got worn out by constantly being questioned over my family plans. Within minutes of meeting me, attendings and residents felt comfortable lecturing me on the difficulties of having children as a neurosurgeon. One attending even suggested I should ask my co-residents' permission before getting pregnant so as not to inconvenience them. I do not have children and have never indicated if I plan to have any. Truthfully, I do want children, but I would absolutely have foregone that to be a neurosurgeon. I wanted to be a neurosurgeon more than anything. But I was never asked: it was simply assumed that I would want to be a mother first. Purely because I'm a woman, my ambitions were constantly undermined, assumed to be lesser than those of my male peers. Women must want families, therefore women must be less committed. It was inconceivable that I might put my career first. It was impossible to disprove this assumption: what could I have done to demonstrate my commitment more than what I had already done by leading the interest group, taking a research year, doing a sub-I? My interest in neurosurgery would never be viewed the same way my male peers' was, no matter what I did. I would never be viewed as a neurosurgeon in the same way my male peers would be, because I, first and foremost, would be a mother. It turns out women don't even need to have children to be a mother: it is what you essentially are. You can't be allowed to pursue things that might interfere with your potential motherhood.

Furthermore, you are not trusted to know your own ambitions or what might interfere with your motherhood. I am an adult woman who has gone to medical school: I am well aware of what is required in reproduction, pregnancy, and residency, as much as one can be without experiencing it firsthand. And yet, it was always assumed that I had somehow shown up to a neurosurgery sub-I totally ignorant of the demands of the career and of pregnancy. I needed to be enlightened: always by men, often by childless men. Apparently, it was implausible that I could evaluate the situation on my own and come to a decision. I also couldn't be trusted to know what I wanted: if I said I wanted to be a neurosurgeon more than a mother, I was immediately reassured I could still have a family (an interesting flip from the dire warnings issued not five minutes earlier in the conversation). People could not understand my point, which was that I didn't care. I couldn't mean that, because women are fundamentally mothers. I needed to be guided back to my true role.

Because everyone was so confident in their sexist assumptions that I was less committed, I was not offered the same training, guidance, or opportunities as the men. I didn't have projects thrown my way, I didn't get check-ins or advice on my application process, I didn't get opportunities in the OR that my male peers got, I didn't get taught. I once went two whole days on my sub-I without anyone saying a word to me. I would come to work, avoid the senior resident I was warned hated trainees, figure out which OR to go to on my own, scrub in, watch a surgery in complete silence without even the opportunity to cut a knot, then move to the next surgery. How could I possibly become a surgeon in that environment? And this is all to say nothing of the rape jokes, the advice that the best way for a woman to match is to be as hot as possible, listening to my attending advise the male med students on how to get laid, etc.

At a certain point, it became clear it would be incredibly difficult for me to become a neurosurgeon. I wouldn't get research or leadership opportunities, I wouldn't get teaching or feedback, I wouldn't get mentorship, and I wouldn't get respect. I would have to fight tooth and nail for every single piece of my training, and the prospect was just exhausting. Especially when I also really enjoyed internal medicine, where absolutely none of this was happening and I even had attendings telling me I would be good at it (something that didn't happen in neurosurgery until I quit).

I've been told I should get over this, but I don't know how to. I don't know how to stop being mad about how thoroughly sidelined I was for being female. I don't know how to stop being bitter that my intelligence, commitment, and work ethic meant so much less because I'm a woman. I know I made the right decision to switch to internal medicine, and it probably would have been the right decision even if there weren't all these issues with the culture of neurosurgery, but I'm still so angry about how it happened.

#I would love to do something about this but I have no idea how to #even the faculty that I do really admire and respect seem entrenched in some of these attitudes #it's really hard to convince people that women aren't traitors in the making #simply because we might get pregnant one day and need time off #oh I also heard people shittalking a resident that was on maternity leave #and saying she wasn't serious about neurosurgery #so it's just inevitable #I'm not the only female student that feels this way btw #there's a reason no women have applied to nsgy from my school in years #sexism #neurosurgery #surgery #medicine #medical school #med school #med student #medblr #my content #my text posts

[snowandstarlight]

caught an episode of one of those old medical reality shows they used to do (like where they actually filmed in real hospitals) and one of the surgery residents was quitting because she didn't want to work 100+ hour weeks anymore

cut to the chair of the department talking about how men are more suited for surgery because they can handle the long hours better 🙄

#this is an extremely famous surgeon #one who my current attendings still look up to as the be all and end all of the field #so it's especially encouraging #medblr

[mochaya]

03.06.23

Officially entering my 3rd year of medicine 🤓

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[themedicalstate]

Two neurons sensing each other and trying to connect

Credit: @rockatscientist

#science #medicine #neuroscience #medblr #academia #scientific illustration #anatomy #health

[medstudiees]

favorite spot to study except for my room - it looks like a library but is actually a coffee shop

the holidays always kind of overwhelm me 🫠

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[studymoons]

life lately is gloomy days and early mornings. studying for boards is a bit more stressful than i’d imagined, not because of all the material i need to review, but more because im struggling to build up the stamina for an 8 hour exam (it’s been years since i last took one and im significantly more exhausted at this point in my life than i was then). but nothing i can do but continue working! still making time for art and friends to keep myself in a good mental space and continuing to try my best :-)

my etsy

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[kylejsugarman]

making a new post for it but if u have considered donating to a palestinian cause, specifically the palestine children's relief fund, please consider doing it through my link: https://pcrf1.app.neoncrm.com/pediatricians-for-palestine

the money u donate will go directly to the PCRF just as if u had donated through a general link, but with this link, u will help me with my goal of establishing a concrete foundation for a palestine-focused organization at my medical school and its associated teaching hospital. the physicians in palestine who have been martyred and continue placing themselves in unfathomable danger to help their patients should serve not just as an inspiration but be assisted by their fellow physicians across the world in caring for palestine.

if u would like something in return for ur donation, just say the word!! provide me with ur receipt and i will find a way to thank u for ur generosity. please help the PCRF and please prove to an institution that has the best specialized pediatric programs in the state that the children of palestine should and must be included in their charitable efforts.

"If I go, who will treat my patients? ... You think I went to medical school and for my post-graduate degrees for a total of 14 years so [I'd] think only about my life and not my patients?" — Dr. Hammam Alloh, martyred in November 2023

#syd squeaks #the qr codes kept expiring and a link just seems to work better on here #anyway: even if u dont donate thru my link just please keep giving ur money. dont sit around feeling helpless please donate #palestine #palestine children's relief fund #medblr #studyblr

[iheartvmt]

Gotta love vet techs lol

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[lujain-37]

" ألتمسُ من اللهِ الأجرَ في كلِّ ليلةٍ غالبتُ فيها النومَ، في كلِّ ألمٍ تجاهلتُه،وعن كلِّ وقتٍ كنتُ فيه أغيبُ عن عائلتي وأصدقائي. أقولُ لنفسي: اللهُ اختارَ لي هذا الدربَ وحبّبني به، فإن كان مُعتِمًا، فمنه النورُ، وإن كان شاقًّا، فمنه اليُسرُ، وإن الذي جاءَ بك إلى أولِه، ويسَّرَ لك مُنتصفَه، لن يترُكَك إلا عند التمامِ..

ياربِّ، جهدي قليلٌ، وكرمُك واسعٌ! ياربِّ، صدقتُك بالسعي، فلا تُخيِّبْ رجائي في الوصولِ! ياربّ..ياربّ. "

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