val-ritz:

dreaming-in-circles:

magickinmundane:

pr0dr0me:

licensetomurse:

meanwhileonwednesday:

As a medical professional and a medically complicated human this is very important to me

That’s not wrong.

These are both true

Both are very very true.

These are both true, but more importantly, not mutually exclusive!

Say a patient comes in with chest pain. First time they’ve ever had chest pain. They say they googled it, and clearly they have cancer now!

…no. That’s the first example.

But say a patient has chest pain, they’ve had chest pain for 10 years, every previous doctor has checked for all the obvious causes, and nothing changes.

That’s a completely different scenario. In the first example, the patient doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The condition is new, their knowledge is limited. That’s why we have doctors. But in the second example, the patient is the expert, and the doctor is the one who’s new to the situation. The patient has done all this before, and is very familiar with the pain (condition, etc.) that they have. The doctor is not the one with 10 years of experience. They need to listen, because the patient actually has something they don’t know to add to the conversation.

These two things are not mutually exclusive, they are not the same scenario, and both doctors and patients (but mostly doctors) need to learn to tell the difference and know when to talk, and when to listen.

This is also *highly* relevant to anti-vaxers.

There is a reason that the entire section on dysthymia in my psychology textbooks is basically “this person has been living with this for years longer than you will ever have researched it. help them facilitate their own coping strategies.”

ajani-on-the-spot:

gehayi:

berlynn-wohl:

hapabap:

nazerine:

plasmalogical:

paxamericana:

Silicon Valley’s ‘Startup Castle’ is looking for roommates, and the requirements are completely bonkers

good thing i listen to exactly one song with explicit lyrics every day

I’ve been saying this for a while but Startup Bro is the new and terrifying lovechild of the brogrammer and the business major and he is somehow even more self-centered and bigoted than either of them

No, no, guys, look closely.

This house is looking for extremely physically fit young men (No drugs, no makeup, no special diet, exercise 15 hrs a week) who are passive and docile (no protests, no music lyrics with swears) who, most of all, will not be missed if they disappear (very little social media presence, not rich enough to own expensive luxury items, no need to constantly be in contact with their parents over bills/gifts, few identifying markings like tattoos)

This is obviously an organ harvesting operation.

Actually it turned out that the guy who was running it wanted to create a quasi-paramilitary organization.

There were so many horror stories about the place in the news that the landlord evicted everyone.

(Gotta say, though, that I like the organ harvesting scheme better.)

“It would have been better to have found out this was an organ harvesting scheme” is not a sentiment I expected to see today, and yet.

figdays:

“Toast” Plate //  CharlotteMei

dickholder:

reblog if you would let them keep their apartment, ignore if you would open your window and destroy the fruits of their labor

baleqeesofsheba:

Colorful buildings in an ancient valley, Yemen

shesnake:

Lucy Liu on what she hopes people take away from her art

broadwaycom:

Brittney Johnson Becomes First Woman of Color to Play Glinda in Wickedon Broadway (Photo: Michael Kushner)