As a Navy psychiatrist on a Marine base, I can tell you: my depressed Marines are already in peak physical shape with crystal-clear missions.
Fitness and purpose help. They do not cure clinical depression.
Oversimplified memes like this dismiss real suffering and delay proper treatment.
Medical school is filled with simulations of patient care: sim labs, OSCEs, case conferences. These things have a role in learning but can't compete with actual patient-care experience. The first time I ran a code, I was petrified even though I'd had dozens of simulated experiences before. The first time I saw ST elevations, I panicked even though I'd prepared for that exact situation. Even the first time I took a history, I blanked on what to ask. With AI, I suspect it will become even easier to simulate patient care. But to get good at medicine, you have to do it in real time with real patients.
Bu tartışma ilgimi çekti; kariyerinin zirvesinde bir tenisçi, kondisyonu 4-5 saat maça yetiyor, ömrü boyunca aktif spor yapmış, profesyonel besleniyor ve görüntüsü bu. Spor salonlarındaki hocalara gitsen hayır yeterince protein almadığın için, şu kadar gram tavuk yemeliydin der.
Me, working in a GP surgery, having a consultation and the patient casually asks:
“Did you come to this country by boat?”
At this point, nothing can shock me anymore
Women creating the term "situationship" as a euphemism to describe getting strung along by guys out of their league clearly using them for sex is all the proof needed they shouldn't be taken seriously and that the situation is endemic.
“People know exactly what they’re doing”
Until it’s you. Then suddenly, your intentions matter. Everyone wants grace for themselves, but rarely wants to extend it to others.
Someone answered this question so well a while back
Can't remember it word for word but I think he said "If you had the capacity of bringing back someone who's seconds away from death, you too would have a god complex"
If you followed me last year I was lamenting about this during my oncology posting.
Managed 2 young university students with very aggressive invasive breast Ca.
The one who didn't make it was mismanaged for months at a pharmacy for breast abscess and thus presented late.
When I applied to medical school in 1996, lots of people (attendings, residents, some family members) told me the profession was doomed because of HMOs, longer hours, and lower pay. It's been 30 years, and medicine is still in demand, with excellent job security. Don't let the current fatalists get you down. The world will always need doctors.
When you're proud of your job and actually get satisfaction from impacting your patient's life it'd show in your conduct..
You will never see them suggesting moving from physiotherapy to practising quack medicine