@DrEilidhMaria Do you feel the attitude of med students is regressing with each passing year? Much much more casual, couldn’t give two 💩s, and more importantly not as strong a clinical acumen?
Or is it that we’re just getting old? lol
It was the middle of the night, at about 1.30am, when Norway lost to England.
Yet thousands of Norwegians went to the Palace in Oslo and celebrated with one final Viking row.
They did not riot. They did not burn cars. They did not smash bus stops or glass windows of shops.
They smiled. The laughed. They saw the positive in their performance. They celebrated their heritage. They were proud of who they have been in the past and who they are today.
Norway might be out of the World Cup 2026 but they are in our hearts.
In the last three weeks, I think we have all fallen a little bit in love with Norwegians.
All attendings/residents should actually read the ct scan instead of trusting what the radiologist says at face value. The radiologist doesn't always know what you're looking for and don't have the context of the physical exam.
I'm coming to terms with the fact that I may be part of a dying breed of physicians whose mentors back in the day used to berate them for ordering any scan without being able to clearly articulate what exactly you're looking for and what the pretest probability is
Instead now CT scans have essentially been continually abused as an extension of the physical exam.
All anyone needs to articulate is: I think something bad's happening.... Let's get a CT scan or even…. I'm not sure if there's anything bad going on, let's make sure there isn't anything bad on the CT scan.
It doesn't even appear to be necessary anymore to explain what you mean by 'something bad'
I sound like a grumpy old man, I know, but I think it's a sad state of affairs. The perverse thing about it is there's no real incentive on the part of any emergency room or hospital system to curtail this kind of behavior because they get paid for every single scan.
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@daviesbj Spot on. I recently read somewhere and it really stuck with me: the patient is paying the hospital and trusting us for good outcomes not fast surgery.
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This is Mariano Barbacid, a Spanish cancer researcher who recently made the news after finding a cure for an aggressive form of pancreatic cancer in mice. His lab developed a new triple therapy regimen targeting the KRAS cancer pathway, implicated in 90% of pancreatic cancers. The combination of daraxonsib, a RAS(ON) inhibitor, afatinib (EGFR/HER2 inhibitor) and SD36 (a selective STAT3 PROTAC) led to complete elimination of tumour cells over a 200 day study period, bringing much needed hope to this often devastating condition.