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Manager 03/06/15 (Fri) 04:15:39 2771c3 No.1[Reply]

Hello /medfag/s!

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No doxxing or revelation of personal information allowed.

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Manager ## Board Owner 03/08/15 (Sun) 17:54:19 2771c3 No.49

>>47
Anything goes

Double U !YOlO.KoMek 12/02/15 (Wed) 10:36:28 3d54aa No.73 [Reply]

Does donating bone marrow or blood plasma have any negative effects on your own health? I'm not an expert, but it seems pretty logical to me that taking away stem cells that were supposed to be used by yourself can take a toll on you or at least have some negative effect in the long run. If you take away blood plasma, doesn't your body have to work harder to get the usual levels back? Wouldn't it effect your mortality rate by at least a tiny bit? I need some bucks, but I'm obsessed with living longer and being healthy.

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Galen 03/06/15 (Fri) 11:16:28 089059 No.8 [Reply]

Isn't vaccination pretty much like homeopathy?

Galen 03/06/15 (Fri) 23:47:51 fc0150 No.29

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If you let your body get a taste of a virus, your immune system will remember it. This only works because genetic structures carry information (shits mad complex yo). A glass of water have never been observed to remember anything, so diluting a substance with water just gets you a weaker version of that substance. Probably because 3 atoms bound together (H2O) have no capacity to record events. What are you going to change in its structure to record anything, the oxygen atom's energy level? It would instantly return to equilibrium with the surrounding temperature unless isolated, which it won't be if its just sitting in a glass. Homeopaths basically think a glass of water is a quantum computer.

Galen 06/01/15 (Mon) 03:37:24 ec7cb0 No.70

No, it is not.

Galen 06/08/15 (Mon) 03:34:14 9ef121 No.72

>>29

So, I wonder how much actual data the human immune system can store.

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NHS Galen 03/06/15 (Fri) 12:26:54 85044d No.9 [Reply]

Sup guys!

How is the national health system in your country?

Here in Spain it's free for workers that are afiliated to social security, as well as his/her husband/wife and sons. However, if you are over 26 and have never worked you have to pay for it.

If you are fired from work, you are granted free access as well. Currently, foreigner can only access emergency services.

The management of the system is taken care by every region, which can make its own regulations on Public Health.

One downside is that there can be long times until you are attended by an specialist or for some kind of surgerys.

Private insurances are also possible, but not quite popular.

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Galen 03/07/15 (Sat) 00:07:03 595fa2 No.30

I'm from Poland.

I can only sum up the NFZ's actions in three words; don't fucking bother.

It's best to assume it doesn't exist and accept that it's the wild west out there, you pay or you die.

>>19
broken on palemoon

Galen 03/07/15 (Sat) 02:15:19 1e4ede No.31

'Murican.

We have everything before us.
We have nothing before us.

Galen 03/07/15 (Sat) 03:28:45 baa6f6 No.33

>>30
I was for a year in a big city in Poland.

>great pain in my back (kidney stones)
>after some language problems with recepcionist go to waiting room
>hours waiting so pain goes away
>come back home
>of course more pain some days later
>fight again with recepcionist
>they tell me I should go to other emergency department in another hospital with urologist
>I barely knew the city so told them I was staying there
>finally get attended by a doctor and tells me the diagnosis
>no prescription for analgesics
>had to come back another time some days later because of pain
>get fuckin tramadol and spend all night in hospital really weak
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Galen 03/25/15 (Wed) 20:52:11 4fb61b No.64

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In mexico they downgraded the nursery, so it's no longer a profession but an art of attending people

Galen 06/01/15 (Mon) 03:49:22 4b9c96 No.71

>>19

Yeah. Looks great on paper but in practice its fucked up in ways I don't fully understand yet.

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Medstudent here Galen 03/24/15 (Tue) 00:56:00 de9dd6 No.61 [Reply]

I'm 2 years in. I'm having a hard time trying to force myself beyond 3 hours of study. It's painful.

How i can make those hours feel less anal?
What's your study method?

Galen 03/24/15 (Tue) 07:54:16 1ae337 No.62

>>61
When I'm starting to feel tired in mid-semester, I try to go to the library, I guess that being around people studying makes me focus. Also avoid distractions, etc, etc, but that shit is never enough for me.

As for study method… I read something, then cover it and try to see what I understood until it is clear for me.

Galen 03/24/15 (Tue) 21:47:51 de9dd6 No.63

>>62
What are your sleep patterns? I wake up everyday at 5:30 am because i take a lot of time showering or eating. i dont like to be rushed so i wake up early.

Galen 04/04/15 (Sat) 06:31:59 ff354f No.66

Give yourself frequent breaks. It's unpleasant because your brain is fatigued and need some time to process and get ready to learn more. Use the pomodoro technique; study for 30 minutes, and then give yourself a five minute break. Every third cycle of this give yourself a ten to fifteen minute break. You can play with that and find something that works better for you, for example if you like longer breaks you can study for 50 minutes and then take a ten minute break. This way you can work as efficiently as possible. If your brain is too tired to work, you're just wasting your time by trying to force it to do something it can't.

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pharmafriend 03/30/15 (Mon) 17:05:16 d2a727 No.65 [Reply]

Intro to Pharmacology

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Galen 03/06/15 (Fri) 22:43:50 2b30d7 No.26 [Reply]

Pharmacy employee here.

Anyone else?

Also, yes, we probably fucked up your prescription.

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Galen 03/08/15 (Sun) 21:41:00 d661c0 No.53

>>26
>Also, yes, we probably fucked up your prescription.
I got into a really good sec. school and I will start the uni next year only for this.

Galen 03/09/15 (Mon) 05:01:38 2b30d7 No.56

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>>50
>>51

some pharmacists I have worked with will do this if the medication isn't dangerous/controlled. Otherwise they call up the doctor to confirm what it was.

generally, though, prescriptions are pretty straightforward and most people are getting easy shit like antibiotics or blood pressure meds.

Galen 03/22/15 (Sun) 00:02:23 056223 No.58

Does it ever bother you to know that your job is mostly to conspire with doctors to get rich together while pushing unnecessary and cumulatively harmful drugs out the door to people dumb enough to just believe whatever their general practitioner sells them?

Galen 03/22/15 (Sun) 22:35:24 2b30d7 No.59

>>58
pretty much only when selling ADD medication.

also there was a doc where i used to work whose patients my pharmacist referred to as the doctor's "victims" because he was sorta notorious for getting people hooked on pain meds

Galen 03/23/15 (Mon) 01:24:17 fc6bd6 No.60

Anyone else work at Walgreens here?

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Galen 03/07/15 (Sat) 17:24:47 d7eefd No.39 [Reply]

Why did you choose to study medicine? What are your motivations?

As a teen I really loved biology, and I didn't picture me working in a office helping other people to get rich. I really feel that my job is important because you can help people in a way that may impact their lifes. Now I'm just struggling to sit through all this info teachers "throw" at us and choose and specialty.

Galen 03/08/15 (Sun) 01:06:44 b51c93 No.42

lol'd at op pic

I didn't know what I wanted to do after high school so I took 2 things I was interested in, linguistics and helping people, and came up with studying Speech Pathology.

I dropped out of college after one semester at university, though. After working at a school, then a pharmacy for a while, then living on an anarchist commune, I now work at a pharmacy again but have decided to go into ESL education when I return to school. However I still feel an interest in doing medical-related things, for example, I'd like to be a sign language interpreter for deaf patients.

Galen 03/20/15 (Fri) 23:31:24 524f41 No.57

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The human body, especially the brain, is incredibly amazing to me. Growing up my brother was in med school, so he had a lot of textbooks lying around. When I was like 15 I was really depressed and thought I could find the answer in those books, so I'd read about psychology and pharmacology all day. They couldn't fix my problems, but as it turned out I apparently loved pharmacology and neurology with a passion. Instead I just escaped my problems in those books, reading them obsessively.
The only problem is that I'm ADD as fuck so when it comes to all the intermediary steps it takes to become a doctor, like taking anatomy classes and other boring shit, I have an incredibly difficult time. But give me a book about pharmacology and I'll happily read it until I can recite back to you everything line word for word. So for now I just work until I can do it. Because there's nothing else I can really see myself enjoy doing.

tldr; passion

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Going Back To The Guild System Galen 03/08/15 (Sun) 15:50:40 f6424b No.48 [Reply]

Son of an OB/GYN practicing in the Pittsburgh market here.

Pic related pretty much explains things. UPMC keeps buying up hospitals and clinics and everything, and the contracts to have practicing privileges at any of their facilities effectively makes you a salaried employee for the company rather than an independent professional.

Hospital administrators (at ones still independent) also mess around with physician certifications and a lot of other stuff which are simply cumbersome for the physicians. Insurance reimbursement rates are low. HMO's are penny pinching know-it-alls that inhibit the doctor-patient relationship.

At the same time, the red tape and reimbursement rates for the government aid programs are a drag. Let's not get into the matter of tort law and ridiculous lawsuits.

So I came across this article which championed the return of medicine to a medieval setting:

>having state-chartered physicians' guilds which would own all the productive capital
>provide insurance plans to people
>train apprentices rather than people blowing loads on medical school for an uncertain future
>would handle matters of medical malpractice in-house, instead of the slickest lawyer pursuading a jury guaranteed during selection to have no medical expertise in it
>would have a legally enforced monopoly, but the charter could be revoked by the state and new one given to another emergent association should the old one grow corrupt, incompetent, etc.
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Galen 03/08/15 (Sun) 20:07:02 727caa No.52

This is very interesting, thanks.

It's too bad that traditional family doctors can't exist any more in the current medical climate. I would like to see a system that incentivizes that style of practice over specialization.

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Galen 03/07/15 (Sat) 04:19:13 b4304e No.36 [Reply]

Why was my topic deleted?

Manager ## Board Owner 03/07/15 (Sat) 04:30:47 45c343 No.37

>>36
Sorry, I feel that a thread about tans is not really related to this place. You may post them however while discussing another topics.

>>>/a/

Galen 03/07/15 (Sat) 04:33:44 b4304e No.38

>>37
ok, thank you for your kind words
>>>/cure/ is more appropriate for medical tans tho imo

Galen 03/08/15 (Sun) 01:52:33 94e11a No.43

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>>36
Because Cure-tan is tumblr tier shitty forced maymay.

Also because you are gay.

GOOD LUCK EBOLA-CHAN!

Galen 03/06/15 (Fri) 22:23:09 000000 No.25 [Reply]

Nowadays more women (due their careers or profession) choose to have children at older age, using fertility treatments in order to achieve maternity.

It seems to me that this is pushing too hard on nature, as having children at older ages (35 and more) increases risks of genetic mutations and fetus development would be subpar; as well as increased risk for the mother. It would be preferably to make more compatible laboral opportunities and motherhood.

What's your instance on this topic?

Has science gone too far? :^)

Galen 03/07/15 (Sat) 03:46:38 9a5bc0 No.35

Statistical fact, I remember reading a study on it written in the 60s, not sure of any modern data. It plotted rates of congenital issues such as asthma and heart murmurs, and there was a significant increase of them in births between mothers 20 years of age and 30 years of age.

>What's your instance on this topic?
What?

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Interesting websites Manager ## Board Owner 03/06/15 (Fri) 18:08:25 ee9d41 No.20 [Reply]

http://www.nejm.org/
http://www.medscape.com/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

Please, suggest more sites and they will be added.

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