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Updated follow rules:

  • Have something for me to go off on who you are. Posts, bio, something! If you don't, I will deny your request at best and block you at worst. (Probably deny, unless you're a bot.)
  • I post 18+ stuff, so minors don't follow.
  • If you don't support trans folx, enbies, otherkin, or ND folx, just fuck off right now.
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BTW, I should probably say that I may put spoilers under posts I CW "Genshin Impact", so if you dont want spoilers for that game, maybe be careful about those posts.

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Friendly reminder: it's good to be assertive, but it's not good to be aggressive, and there's a not-so-fine line between assertive and aggressive, and you cross that line (nay, yeet yourself deep into aggressive territory) the moment you decide other people's boundaries don't matter. Assertiveness is a good thing, but assertive people also take others into account and try very hard to not cross others' boundaries. Be assertive, not aggressive.

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Bad habits I need to break 

If I do this to you, I'm really sorry. I'm trying not to act flippant about stuff, I really am.

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Bad habits I need to break 

Saying "obviously" when I'm trying to explain something to someone who doesn't know about it. Like, gods fucking damn, brain! You're explaining it to them *precisely because it's not obvious*! Stop saying "obviously"!

*precisely mixes salt into water to produce hydration-neutral water*

Genshin 

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

Caps 

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

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

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

Currently sitting in the hospital lobby munching on snack mix

AMA

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. :blobastonished:

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

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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)

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Key learning points

  • Paruresis is a psychiatric condition that describes a social phobia of urinating in public bathrooms.
  • This patient did not have paruresis.
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If this sorta stuff is what I have to look forward to doing EM, damn is it gonna be a wild ride.

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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."

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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.'"

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Patient request from an emergency medicine casebook I'm reading: "I want a depo shot and a panic attack."

But in all seriousness, I can't say I like doing them. I'm terrified I'm going to, like, break the baby's leg or something. They're so small and I'm, well, not.

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Had to do training today on newborn screens and, like, yeesh. That's how humans start life? So noisy...

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