#the hippocratic crush II

[thatscarletflycatcher]

“Doctor Strange and Iron Man I are the same story”

I have seen this comparison over and over again and it still surprises me. Both stories share the basic trope of hubris-fall-redemption structure, but so does Thor, and I hardly ever see anyone comparing them with this last one.

From the get go, the backgrounds of T*ny and Stephen are different. T*ny is a billionaire son of a billionaire. He inherited his father’s company and wealth, which are consistently managed by people not himself (Obediah, Pepper, Happy). We don’t know if Strange comes from a very rich family or not, but the fact that he has no resources to fall back on when he spends his money on surgeries suggests that he made his own money through his work. Yes, yes, a privileged work, if you want, but he had to work hard for it, studying, practicing and constantly honing his skill.

T*ny was a war profiteer. Strange was a surgeon. One helped kill people, the other helped save lives and get people better lives, even if he did so more for the sake of fame and money than for saving lives (Though he is conscious of the oath he took as a doctor and strives to honor it: he complains to the Ancient One that he killed a man in the Sanctum and that he hadn’t signed up for that, that he had taken the hippocratic oath). Also, the narrative frames this selfishness of his in a negative light, in contrast with Christine’s hidden and selfless dedication to others.)

T*ny is attacked and kidnapped, Stephen suffers an accident. T*ny escapes and gets an arc reactor on his chest to keep the shrapnel from reaching his heart, which leads to poisoning and his almost death in IM II; Stephen doesn’t lose his hands, but has nerve damaged from the injuries, so his hands shake and hurt and get cramped, permanently, putting an end to his career as a surgeon. T*ny can get an operation to remove the shrapnel so that he doesn’t need the arc reactor anymore, as proven by IM III; no operation can give Stephen the painless functionality of his hands back, as proven by the fact that he keeps trying again and again and again.

After the accident, T*ny’s loses are the war profit (but he still has a company that is worth millions) but he still is, as he likes to define himself, billionaire, playboy, etc. He lost almost nothing. In the accident, Stephen lost his profession, the work of his life, in a way his own identity and his physical integrity and health. He then lost all his money, coming to the point, when he arrives at Kamar Taj, that he carries with himself his only possessions and no money to get back. His rage and arrogance drive Christine away (As much as I like Pepper, she sticks too much to T*ny. Whenever Stephen acts like an idiot, Christine leaves him in no uncertain terms), so he is alone, with no family or friends. The last thing he has is his knowledge and too high self esteem, and that gets crushed too. He humiliated himself pleading for a broken watch with some thieves and then spent hours begging loudly at the door of Kamar Taj for the Ancient One to let him in and teach him. He had to learn from and study with people younger than him and that had less worldly prestige than he had, and see them be better at the mystic arts than him.

While T*ny is still the boss in his life and does whatever the hell he wants whenever the hell he wants and is served by others, Stephen is put in the position of being the last one, of being taught by others and of adjusting to a  very different way of life from the one he was used to (The Ancient One, Mordo, Wong, they are all his masters; Christine isn’t his subordinate, she is his colleague.)

While T*ny is always his own team, refuses to obey others (e.g. when Rhodey intervenes his party, when he reveals his identity as Iron Man to the press) and lashes out when people call him out, Stephen learns to be a team player (he asks Nick, a doctor he disliked, to operate on the Ancient One, accepting that it was better that way), to listen and heed the advice of others, and his replies most of the time consist in rational justifications (’They should put the warnings before the spells’, ‘you told me to open my eye and now you ask me to obey rules that make no sense’).

Stephen becomes more perceptive and understanding of other people’s feelings, problems and points of view. He genuinely tries to learn from The Ancient One and Mordo and applies himself to study with constancy and effort; he tries to reason with Kaecillius and understand why is he doing what he is doing; he apologizes to Christine without excuses and, even if he wants her to stay with him, he doesn’t force a kiss on her, he lets her decide.

Being Iron Man is for T*ny a source of prestige, fame, and glory. He is both. Stephen is faced with the choice of healing his hands and turning back to his old life of living for himself, or moving on into becoming a hidden protector of the world, to live for others rather than himself. He chooses the latter and the narrative even frames it as a recognition of Christine being right all along: there were other things that could give meaning to his life, and other ways to save lives, even if those ways were harder and weirder. Compare the last scene of IM and Doctor Strange: T*ny reveals to the world in a press conference that he is Iron Man. Stephen looks at his still shaking hands, puts on Christine’s memento –we also see the yellow ties in his sleeves to honor the Ancient One– and then gaze at the world from the darkness and silence of the Sanctum.

Both T*ny and Stephen sacrifice their lives at the end of their origin story movies, but T*ny’s sacrifice comes to solve a problem his own irresponsibility created, while Stephen is cleaning the mess someone else made and in which he had no part. T*ny risked dying once, Stephen went to his repeated death; even if he hoped that Dormammu would accept the bargain, plan B was dying again and again and again forever, because as long as he kept dying, the world would be safe and yet nobody would know it was him.

Stephen’s heroism comes by embracing pain, brokenness, loss, and transforming them into compassion, humbleness and sacrifice. T*ny’s heroism comes by doing something with his intelligence and his money to save the world.

As someone pointed out in another post, T*ny’s arc is a coming of age story: realizing there are stakes in life and taking responsibility for our actions and gifts; Stephen’s arc is a story of maturity, of finding meaning in life, of facing pain, and loss, and the fragility of the human condition.

This is the main reason why Ir*nstrange irks me. As of Infinity War, T*ny still is a man-child, who puts his own grudges and pride over the welfare and safety of others, and that mocks others to feel superior to them. Strange is like a dead man brought back to life: he lives to protect the world, but all the petty concerns that are so important to T*ny, are irrelevant and... well, petty to him. I don’t see flirting in Strange’s annoyance and blunt replies: I see an adult trying to be patient with a spoiled child, remembering that he was like that once upon a time. If you ask me, that doesn’t look like a good foundation for a relationship.

#Doctor Strange #Stephen Strange #Anti Ironstrange #Anti Tony Stark #I finally wrote the post #In this house we love and protect Stephen Strange #I know there's a bunch of people that hates BC #And others that are upset because of Tilda Swinton's casting #But it isn't fair to judge characters and stories because we dislike actors or casting decisions #That's what criticism is for #To analize everything #keep the good and reject the bad

[kikotsukino]

Darn, can't find the official Karaoke Music Video but this video will suffice to bring out this sad/touching pairing in On Call 2

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCeF6IsYgpc)

#Not my MV #Hippocratic Crush II #On Call 2 #TVB #Hong Kong Drama #Love them! #They have great chemistry

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[futuristicallydeepestdefend-blog]

Surgical Instruments from Ancient Rome

6notice: All pics in the exhibit are the assets of historic Collections & services of the fitness Sciences Library, college of Virginia. Please contact a member of historical Collections for permission to breed in any fashion snap shots from the showcase or to make feedback or recommendations.

Advent

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE buried the Roman towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum underneath toes of ash and pumice. objects beneath the volcanic material had been determined to be properly preserved once they had been excavated centuries later. a number of the artifacts recovered had been surgical devices from a couple of web sites, the fine recognized being Pompeii’s residence of the general practitioner, so named because of the character of the gadgets recovered there. In 1947, reproductions of these contraptions have been offered to the Claude Moore fitness Sciences Library by the university of Virginia’s 8th Evacuation clinic  after its provider in Italy at some stage in world conflict II. the gathering is one of the first-class surviving examples of the equipment at a surgeon’s disposal inside the first century CE. considering the fact that there has been exceptionally little innovation in surgical procedure and surgical gear from the time of Hippocrates (fifth century BCE) and Galen (second century CE), this series is usual of surgical practice for nearly a millennium and illuminates the practice of medication in historic Rome. In fact, the technology of a few gear, consisting of the vaginal speculum, did now not alternate notably till the twentieth century.

the subsequent display affords images and summaries of the regarded makes use of of every instrument. The extant comments of clinical writers from antiquity–including Oribasius, Galen, Soranus, Aetius, and the Hippocratic corpus–have provided students with some clues about the use of some devices. a few contraptions, together with blending gadgets and tweezers, likely had different family uses, along with the application of cosmetics and paints.

Latin: speculum magum matrices

one of the most magnificent, if fearsome looking, Roman clinical units is the vaginal dilator or speculum (dioptra). It contains a priapiscus with 2 (or now and again three or 4) dovetailing valves which can be opened and closed by a take care of with a screw mechanism, an association that turned into nonetheless to be discovered inside the specula of 18th-century Europe. Soranus is the primary creator who makes mention of the speculum especially made for the vagina. Graeco-Roman writers on gynecology and obstetrics frequently propose its use inside the prognosis and treatment of vaginal and uterine disorders, yet it is one of the rarest surviving clinical units. Specula are large and without difficulty recognizable and ought to not have suffered the same degree of destruction as skinny devices, consisting of probes, scalpels and needles. As a source of bronze, however, they will were greater problem to recycling than the smaller gadgets.

Rectal Speculum

The earliest point out of the rectal speculum is to be found within the treatise on fistula through Hippocrates (iii.331): “…laying the affected person on his lower back and examining the ulcerated a part of the bowel via the rectal speculum …”

Bone Levers

7From what Galen says, those units had been used for levering fractured bones into position and can were used for levering out tooth.

Bone Forceps

Soranus (lxiv) says that in case of impaction of the foetal cranium, the top may be opened with a pointy tool and the pieces of the cranium removed with bone forceps. Paul Aigenita (VI.xc) says that in a depressed fracture of the skull “fractured bone is to be removed in fragments, with the hands if viable, if now not, with a bone forceps.”

Cupping Vessels for Bloodletting

the larger cupping vesssel would were used for large regions on the frame, which includes the back or thighs. The smaller vessel would have been applied to the fingers.

Tubes to save you Contractions & Adhesions

After operations on the nose, rectum, vagina, and so on., it turned into regular to insert a tube of lead or bronze to prevent contraction or adhesion and additionally to bring medicaments.

Tile Cautery

The cautery turned into hired to an nearly brilliant quantity in historic times, and surgeons expended a good deal ingenuity in devising different kinds of this device. The cautery turned into employed for almost each feasible reason: as a ‘counter-irritant’, as a haemostatic, as a cold knife, as a way of destroying tumours, and many others.

transportable Probe Case

This undeniable cylindrical case was used to shop and defend the skinny probes and curettes utilized by physicians. Hippocrates mentions a transportable equipment case to be used on housecalls.

Obstetrical Hooks/Sharp Hooks

Hooks, blunt and sharp, are frequently noted in each Greek and Latin literature, and served the same feasible functions we use them for: the blunt for dissecting and raising blood-vessels just like the contemporary aneurism needle; the sharp for seizing and elevating small pieces of tissue for excision and for solving and retracting the edges of wounds. In dissection, among the manipulations which we carry out with the dissecting forceps were performed via the ancients with sharp hooks.

Epilation Forceps

through some distance the most important quantity of forceps of this type aren't surgical contraptions, however family implements. Many have been used for epilation (hair elimination) or by artists.

Uvula Forceps

In Aetius (II.iv.2), there's an exciting description of the amputation of the uvula by way of first crushing it in a forceps on the way to save you haemorrhage and then slicing it off. Hippocrates (I.63) mentions the uvula crusher as one of the gadgets essential for the outfit of the doctor.

Surgical Scissors

The surgical writer Oribasius treats the slicing of hair as a everyday medical manner in a special chapter of his work. Celsus additionally often refers to cutting the hair as a healing measure. probably the ancients observed issue in placing an facet sufficiently clean for surgical functions on their shears. we've few references to the usage of the shears for cutting tissues.

Spatula Probes

almost every scientific author mentions the spathomele. It consists of an extended shaft with an olivary point at one give up and a spatula at the opposite. It become a pharmaceutical as opposed to a strictly surgical device. The olive stop turned into used for stirring medicaments, the spatula for spreading them on the affected element. The spathomele became utilized by painters for preparing and mixing their shades. The very big numbers in which they're observed would suggest that their use turned into now not confined to scientific guys.

The scope of the cyathiscomele in clinical artwork is certainly, just like the flat spathomele, to behave from time to time as a sound, however in particular to combine, measure and observe medicaments. a few are adapted to be used as curettes. The large numbers in which this device happens might itself indicate that it changed into used for lay in addition to clinical purposes.

[littlecloverstar]

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#get to know me meme #hong kong #dramagifs #tvb #the hippocratic crush ii #mandy wong #Benjamin Yuen #kenneth ma #tavia yeung #lyricalstars

[u-turns-blog]

Sometimes there are things you really want and you try hard to go after them. But you may not get them so you should try to enjoy the process, maybe you'll gain something from it.

Che-che.

#The Hippocratic Crush II #medical drama

[captain-pdb]

Benjamin & Mei Suet--Where it all started and where it will continue.

#on call 36 hours 2 #on call 36小時ii #the hippocratic crush 2 #the hippocratic crush II #on call 36 hours II #tvb drama #mandy wong #benjamin yuen #gifs #the hippocratic crush #on call 36 hours #On Call 36小時

[anemptyletter]

Such a sweet and sad story.. 好感伤): "當你知道，你有一個expiry date，你會為自己倒數? 還是會趁自己有能力和時間活得更精彩?" Just can't bear to watch the final episode..

#On Call 36小時 II #The Hippocratic Crush 2 #On Call 36小時 2 #The Hippocratic Crush II #Onion and Cheche #外面的世界 #Eliza Sam #Him Law #车车和洋葱

[ccyanblue]

So On Call 36 II got a bit boring for me and I gave up with it last week, partly also because of finals week so all the studying and deadlines meant I only had time to watch TVB over dinner (So I chose sing lady). Then my family told me episode 27 and 28 (today's and yesterday's) was really emotional so I thought seeing as I'm finished for the semester and it's the weekend tomorrow I might as well catch up and finish off the series seeing as I liked the first one so much. 

Today I caught up 7 episodes (I admit I fast forwarded through most of Tracy Chu's part because the Tsin Yi story I find really boring, and don't think she can act, sorry). It is currently 02:33 here and I just cried non stop for the past 90 or so minutes. I actually feel a lot 'lighter' right now, like I cried out all my bottled up stresses from the past few weeks with all those deadlines and assessments. But dang are my eyes going to be puffy when I wake up. 

Good night tumblr.

#tvb #The hippocratic crush II #On Call 36小時II

[tvb-fantasy]

生死無常, 愛就要愛得及時, 時間唔係永遠都有, 幾會唔係永遠都擺係你面前.

#on call 36 hours 2 #on call 36小時ii #episode 21 #the hippocratic crush ii #raymond cho #him law #quotes

[hopeperspectives]

Xing Zai! Just look at those Harry Potter-ish spectacles!!

And he has excellent chemistry with Tracy! (however ironic, he seems to be leading the emotional scenes most of the time... not that Tracy is any bad but Zi Fai probably has more experience under his belt #whatwasidoingathisage #anotheroneofthoseaccomplishedkids)

#Tong zi fai #On Call 36 Hours II #on call 36 hours 2 #The Hippocratic Crush 2 #the hippocratic crush ii

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[littlecloverstar]

"The couple's having a fight, could you not agitate him?" - Yeung Chung

#11 #The hippocratic crush II #tvb #dramagifs #hong kong #Him law #Brian Tse #bromance #On Call 36 小時II #羅仲謙 #謝東閔 #lyricalstars

[taiwanesefanatic]

On Call 36 Hours 2 Episode 1 Feels

OMG SO CUTEE!!! LONG AWAITED DRAMA IS BACK!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

First episode didn't disappoint, I should've watched my other things before starting this though. Now I feel lost and just want the next episode!!! 

Yu Jai and Yut Kin are so cuteee!!! OTP OTP OTP!!! Kenneth is this super sweet ball of cheesiness and I love it!!!!! How can they be so cutee through glass! What do we do when they have physical contact :O

AND MANDY AND BENJAMIN! OMG CUTEEEEE!!!!!! Wiping the drink stain off her face then kissing it from his hand!!! OMGGG SOOO CUTEEEEE!!! AND AND HOW HE LEANS IN AND WHISPERS BYE BYE!! AHHH CUTEEEE!!! I see a new ship has formed already.  And here I was being sad that Mandy and Him ship isn't here.. again. BUT WHO IS HIM NOW LOL. I kid, Him is still hottie :P 

All the familiar faces!! I'm going to rewatch the first one as I impatiently wait for episode two! 

Oh, I'm not a fan of Lawrence Ng's character. Feels the same as always. Smart, cold, cool, doing his own thing. Maybe we see more of him later, but meh, who cares when I have Kenneth :P

PS: Long Jai still super cute!!! I want to hug him!!!

#On Call 36 Hours 2 #On Call 36 Hours II #The Hippocratic Crush 2 #The Hippocratic Crush II #Drama

[tvb-fantasy]

有心唔怕遲, nothing is too late

#quotes #on call 36 hours 2 #the hippocratic crush ii #on call 36 小時 ii #tavia yeng #ep 18

[tvbstarsedits]

Him : "They said they want to drink our cup of tea soon! (Wedding)" 

Eliza : "I want to drink too!"

Him : "Sure! We can serve it to you right now!"

Tavia : "Yes! *runs to get cup* Eliza, since you said you want to drink it, I shall let you drink it!

Eliza : "Must i really drink it?"

Him :"You know this is smth people get envy for! (to be able to drink/get in contact with tavia's saliva)"

#scoop #the hippocratic crush II #celebration banquet #tavia yeung #Eliza sam #heung heung #him law #gifs #tvb #lyricalstars #funny #subtitles #everytime they get tease this is what happens #they try to do smth funny #lol