Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

Leave it to the fucking french to gender their dogs this aggressively

WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO WATCH OUT FOR? WHY AM I TO BE CAUTIOUS?! WHAT SECRETS DO YOU HOLD?!?!

On my way to work just now, one of the highway signs read "CAUTION". That's it. Caution. Talk about disconcerting

Ya like jazz?

Idea: Rhythm heaven minigames without the visual or audio cues. You just get the music and have to remember where the cues are. I would love to try that

@steeph The snack mix? Eh, it was alright. Nothing special, but good enough I suppose

Currently sitting in the hospital lobby munching on snack mix

AMA

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0yM97gsjLM

Oh geez, help. I've been here for 2 weeks and they already trust me to show another new hire how things go around here.

Anyways, if you want to read those, they're from Extraordinary Cases in Emergency Medicine by Douglas Brunette, specifically Chapter 10, "Intriguing"

That chapter also features someone spreading weed on a finger for pain relief (it didn't work, but they did let him keep the weed), an impromptu nose piercing with a bullet (don't run towards the gunshots!), a teen putting lemonade in a urine test cup ("the lemonade was sterile, and the pregnancy test was negative"), and quote "I'm not sexually active, I'm married" (which I'm not entirely sure how to interpret)

Key learning points

• Paruresis is a psychiatric condition that describes a social phobia of urinating in public bathrooms.
• This patient did not have paruresis.

If this sorta stuff is what I have to look forward to doing EM, damn is it gonna be a wild ride.

Oh geez, the next case has a figure with caption "Verbatim response of a patient who was asked why he urinated on three walls of his examination room"

The reason? He was "marking his territory."

The outcome is also intriguing: "We referred the patient to the OB/GYN clinic for her 'depo shot,' but we did not provide her with a 'panic attack.'"