I am almost at the finish line of my residency and I just need to vent for a second.
Nobody talks about how mentally exhausting it is to walk around with this much medical knowledge. You spend years studying every single disease, all the do's and don'ts and every tiny thing that can fail inside a human body. It permanently changes how you see the world.
Even something as simple as eating food becomes stressful because your brain automatically lists out everything that can go wrong.
You are constantly aware of the silent genetic diseases people might be carrying without ever knowing. The sheer amount of random misfortune a person can get hit with is terrifying. It breaks something in you to see a young, active, athletic guy just drop dead out of nowhere. Or watching a completely healthy, happy family get their entire lives devastated by a random diagnosis on a normal afternoon.
Knowing exactly how fragile we all are, and how fast a healthy person can just be gone, takes so much out of you. It makes it incredibly hard to just relax and live your own life when you know exactly what is waiting in the blind spots. It is honestly just exhausting.
if a pregnant woman is unresponsive after CPR for 5 minutes... the doctors will open her up on the spot, even if they aren't in the theatre... and bring out the baby... without anaesthesia.
it is to actually save the mother... not even the baby👀👀💀... because the baby is pressing on the large blood vessels taking blood to the brain and heart...
this is called perimortem c/section
1. The vagina is about ten times cleaner than the mouth. No matter how you brush your teeth always, the mouth is still the dirtiest part of the body.
2. Your intestines know what shape they're supposed to be in, and can move themselves, which means surgeons can just stuff them back into you when they're done and they'll sort themselves out.
3. When you do tattoo removal, the ink doesn't disappear, you pee it out. Your body's immune system breaks down the pigments of ink and it flows in your blood stream, gets processed through your kidneys, then you pee out the ink.
4. If you hit your chest at a very specific time in the electrical cycle your heart will stop.
5. The pain you feel from a sunburn is your skin cells effectively killing themselves before they mutate into cancer.
6. The way your eyes are shaped causes your vision to be upside down but your brain flips the image automatically.
7. When you die, your hearing is the last to go. So imagine you die in a fire or in a war or something and the last thing you hear is like screaming and chaos
8. The length of a man's penis is equal to the length of his thumb times 3
9. Everyone's tongue print is different, just like fingerprint.
10. Babies have 94 More Bones Than Adults.
11. The human brain typically weighs around three pounds, and men’s brains are on average a bit larger than women’s. But Brain weight is not a measure of intelligence.
12. Your heart pumps about 2,500 gallons of blood every day.