Adulting advice??? Use your weekend to go out, treat yourself and enjoy being alone. Learn how to make yourself enough for you without needing someone by your side. Make yourself your one and only partner that no matter what will always be there for you.
Health care providers:
Administer HPV vaccine yes but please dont forget to screen for anal and or genital cancer
A simple physical exam will do! Refer patients with suspicious lesions to specialists 🤝
Instead of moralizing, maybe it’s time that we highlight how our systems are inadequate to respond to the risks associated with drugs and overdose cases. Prevention efforts are good, but so are harm reduction, treatment (if desired), and social support for those who use drugs.
As a doctor, you can improve your practice by studying the latest guidelines on common diseases like Hypertension,DM,PUD, Mood disorders etc.
E.g 1st line for DM is no longer Metformin . But Metformin + SGLT-2
Btw Clarithromycin is no longer 1st line triple therapy for h.pylori
The most underrated act of kindness is simply letting people be. Let them mispronounce a word, talk too much about a show they love, or get excited about something you don't quite understand. Everyone has something that lights them up, let them shine, even if it's not your thing.
gym before work no matter how early. reduce all friction to working out. Pay any amount of money to go to the closest nicest gym to you. Do body weight exercises and run sprints when time constrained. Cook all of your food. Treat yourself like a professional athlete
no one talks about the personality shift as you get older. where you no longer want to be impressive, you want to be rested. you want to be regulated and completely unavailable to anything that drains you
i'm so sorry to all of you who feel like you aren't doing enough or are grieving the life you could have been living if that one thing didn't go wrong. i hope the day you do achieve your goals, you can rest. mentally. i hope you can exhale and feel genuinely proud of yourself.