September 2011
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Zoinks! Like, vote for Pgirts in the first round... →
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27 year old female patient gripping her right flank, reporting severe sharp pain that occurred suddenly today while sitting at home. Patients states that she has had kidney stones before but the pain was much higher when she had the stone and she passed it with no complications. During the exam, she was rocking back and forth on the bed, wincing and having a hard time dealing with the pain. After...
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Reblog: How to identify your xiphoid process (so... →
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cranquis:
Ok, internet: Dr. Cranquis has decided that it’s time for everyone to learn How to Find and Identify Your Xiphoid Process for What It Truly Is — in the hopes that this will prevent any more patients from coming in to see me because they have a “lump in their stomach”…
So, everyone follow along….
I still can’t believe that this post is one of the highest-ranking...
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The Bathtub Test
During a visit to the mental asylum, a visitor asked the Director how do you determine whether or not a patient should be institutionalized. “Well,” said the Director, “we fill up a bathtub, then we offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient and ask him or her to empty the bathtub.” “Oh, I understand,” said the visitor. “A normal person would...
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Running a psych study and these freshmen are not living up to their potential. Only one person showed up. I know it’s early in the year and most of them won’t do it until last minute, but come on people. Do it now and you won’t have to worry about it. At least you get to pick the good ones now and then you’ll be stuck with the boring ones at the end. Is that what you want?...
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30 year old female patient comes in with an episode of SVT (supraventricular tachycardia), heart rate in the 180’s. It’s a chronic condition in which their heart rate just sky-rockets for a short amount of time and patients will have these episodes intermittently through their lives. Most episodes are not life-threatening, but can be scary to the patient when it doesn’t resolve...
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“Health is the complete state of physical, mental, and social well-being and not...”
– World Health Organization
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67 year old female patient with history of dementia brought in by her family for a wound evaluation. She had a large, deep wound to her right heel that had been cared for, but the condition had been improving. The wound had become infected and the x-ray revealed that the infection had spread into her calcaneus (layman’s medical term: heel bone). An infection that has progressed into a bone...
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52 year old overweight diabetic male patient arrives via ambulance because he is unable to walk on his feet due to the associated pain. Patients states a few weeks ago, he accidentally burned the soles of both his feet walking on hot asphalt. Upon exam, the burns were partially healed but there were clear signs of infection occurring. There was some lesions and drainage from small wounds in the...
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I always have a lot of empathy for the sickle cell patients that I see. They have episodes known as crisis where they experience severe pain in certain areas of the body where the sickle cells have accumulated. As most of you know, sickle cell anemia causes a percentage of the normally round red blood cells to become sickle-shaped and pointed. Now, in the normal population because of the round...
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15 year old male patient comes with right shin and left wrist pain after playing football with his older brother. Apparently, he was attempting to catch a pass and tripped. When he tripped, he held out his hand to catch himself. He ended up with fractures to both his left wrist and right shin. This kid either tripped really hard like Charlie Brown style or he has really brittle bones. Drink your...
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When you're telling the truth and someone says...
lolsofunny:
“Bitch, Since when did you become a psychic?!”
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“Look at a man in the midst of trouble and danger, and you will learn in his hour...”
– Lucretius
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Runner’s Mentality:
Always making sure the pantry is stocked with carbohydrates.
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