medgremlin

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[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago

I put month and year for start and end dates and keep my CV updated regularly.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 0 points 1 week ago

I work in the medical field, and everything you are saying is complete nonsense. If you're applying for medical school or nursing school or something, talking about that experience can be part of a personal statement or entrance essay, but it has no place on a CV or resume. To a certain extent, taking care of loved ones should be a basic requirement for being human, not a special experience or qualification for any kind of job.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is highly industry-dependent. When I was working in IT and systems admin, I had a lot of contract/temp jobs that were still valuable experiences. My resume after finishing university would have been blank if I left those 3-6 month contracts off because that's how you get your foot in the door in a lot of fields.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Hippocratic oath doesn't cover this at all and actually explicitly forbids abortion and euthanasia. It's really quite antiquated which is why I wrote an oath for myself that I hold to.

There's a lot of debate about the specific meanings of the text, but there are many Christian physicians that will latch onto those passages as an excuse to apply their own beliefs to patient care. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocratic_Oath

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago

As someone who attends a medical school attached to a religious university, I can tell you this is a mindset that exists quite commonly in the medical field. Many of these people get careers in the multitudes of Catholic hospitals that abuse religious freedom laws to deny certain kinds of healthcare and face absolutely no repercussions for their persistent bigotry.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I wish this is how it was at my medical school. My med school is attached to a deeply religious university and some of our professors said some pretty wild shit in lectures. I was almost always the one to key up on the mic in recorded lectures to fight them on it.

I'm sad to say there were a couple lectures that I was just too demoralized to fight back directly, but I did talk to my classmates to correct the record after those lectures.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

I just use nonsense answers or answers that make absolutely no sense to anyone else. (Inside jokes and the like)

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think if the Dems ran on a platform of caring about people and trying to make their lives better instead of a platform of warmongering and performative "toughness", things would have turned out differently. I would have been much happier about my vote if they had been kinder and gentler by doing things like opposing Israel's genocide and working to actually improve people's lives in meaningful ways.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

As a Minnesotan, I'm proud to have him as our governor because he actually works in the best interest of all of his constituents, regardless of whether or not they voted for him. I believe that he is a genuinely good person which is a severely endangered species in politics.

I am very disappointed in how the Harris/Walz campaign built its platform and conducted itself, but I don't think any of it was Tim's fault. If he had been the top of the ticket (with an actual primary), I think things would have turned out very differently. His genuine care for other humans was squashed and sidelined by the campaign in an astonishingly stupid strategy to try to look tough to appeal to centrists and republicans.

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Speaking as a woman who has had some terrible gynecologists over the years, the stirrups are worse when you have to scoot yourself down the bed until you're practically falling off of it and are getting painful procedures done to you without anesthesia. I had to get a biopsy of my cervix one time and the most they did for me was to tell me to take some ibuprofen before the procedure. Women's healthcare is still barbaric a disturbingly large amount of the time.

I was so happy to get to work with a very modern and compassionate OB/Gyn for my 3rd year medical school rotation. She offered her patients valium and local anesthesia for things like IUD insertions (and didn't scold her patients for expressing pain when they did feel it.)

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

When explaining why I need to go into Emergency Medicine as a specialty I tell people that I'm a naturally nocturnal basement-dwelling gremlin with weapons-grade ADHD.

It usually gets a laugh.

(For context, most ERs are in the hospital basement)

[–] medgremlin@midwest.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I didn't take it as a negative! Just expressing that you're right on the mark about my username being quite relevant.

 

I have some previous experience fighting with the ~~mass-murderers~~...I mean...insurance companies from the role of a clinic assistant, but I want to hear perspectives from physicians or other providers about your approaches to dealing with them.

I plan on being very familiar with the ICD-10's and CPT's and how to match those up as advantageously as possible, but I know that won't be enough on it's own. Do you think having someone in the office with medical training whose job it is to deal with insurance companies as their primary/only job is necessary?

"The Adjuster" has definitely captured the collective consciousness and kicked off some serious discussions, but I'm afraid that the mainstream media, corporations, and corporate-owned politicians are going to stamp this out or defy the will of the people so vehemently that it won't matter what we do short of full-on revolution.

 

This is a great article written by Robert Evans of 'Behind the Bastards' fame that goes into Luigi's background, social media presence, and apparent ideologies.

We all have had patients with chronic pain, we all know someone with chronic pain, and some of us unfortunately have chronic pain. We know how horrible it can make someone's life, and how much worse life can be if your insurance just keeps denying anything that could help.

Edit: Here’s a link to what is most likely the real manifesto: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigis-manifesto

Ken Klippenstein is a very reliable journalist and this version of the manifesto contains the snippets that have been released by law enforcement. Also, considering the thing was hand-written, that very long version involving his mom is dubious. (And there’s not any good evidence that his mom is in anything besides decent/good health)

 
 

I'm still a medical student, but I'm about to start planning out my 4th year, and I'm hoping to structure my electives to get the best education I can to help as many people as possible. I'm also planning on moonlighting somewhere like Planned Parenthood while I'm in residency to do a bit more in the way of direct assistance. (I'm pretty sure my state is just blue enough that PP will continue to exist in some capacity.)

 

Having just completed my surgery clerkship, this is surprisingly accurate.

 

They have really good sales almost all the time, their spices are extremely high quality, and they are politically active as anti-fascist leftists....what's not to love?

 

Let's hope Cigna catches some real consequences this time. (Not likely, but we can hope.)

 

I like to go through and take a couple of these tests every now and then to kind of check up on myself to make sure I'm not developing biases that will negatively impact my ability to care for my patients. I think it's probably a good idea to at least get a baseline for yourself so you know when you're most likely going to need to self-monitor what you say and do more closely.

 

I'm currently a medical student and a licensed EMT with a chunk of professional experience in medicine as well as having multiple chronic illnesses, a couple of which are very stigmatized. I've kind of settled into conducting my appointments like I'm presenting a patient to an attending physician. I still use I/me/my/mine and describe things from my perspective, but it's still a rather....professional(?) discussion. I feel like it helps me approach the conversation in a productive way, and my physicians seem pretty receptive to my suggestions for treatment and testing...but it also feels like I'm dehumanizing myself a bit.

The biggest issue I've had tends to be with nurses/NPs/admin/etc when I call and say "hey, I'm having these weird symptoms and I think this is the diagnosis, can you get me in to see the physician?" and they sort of short-circuit almost because they seem to be in the habit of exerting their own judgement about a situation.

I recently had a nurse try to punt me back to my primary care physician because the specialist was out of the office and she wouldn't escalate to the physician on-call because she didn't understand that I had already talked to my primary care physician and she said she wasn't equipped to deal with it. (This was an issue that has the potential to be life-threatening in a matter of days that, fortunately, I knew how to kinda sorta manage on my own for a little bit.)

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