#I consulted my doctor

[g1ngerbeer]

created by love & unmade by it

#id in alt text #my art #dw #doctor who #tenth doctor #dr who hanahaki #this is barely hanahaki-like anymore but i dont care. it is to me. in spirit. god FUCKING bless. #tenth doctor platonic hanahaki concept has me in a chokehold btw. dont ask me about it i couldnt explain if i tried #u see the vision though. right. #i consulted one (1) flower meanings site and decided that was enough sorry if somebody disagrees lol #cw blood #<- tiiny bit #flower list is in reblogs now!! if anybody is curious :D

[cryptidwritings]

I had a cluster migraine the other day and was literally begging to god that it would go away without medication because painkillers make me feel like shit. So, give your whumpee a migraine! Here is my progression of symptoms:

Tightness behind the eyes that i ignored because I didn't know what fresh hell awaited me later.

my vision getting a little blurry, but not annoyingly so.

Went to sleep with a little pain, thought i could just sleep it off.

AGONY THAT WOKE ME OUT OF A DEEP SLEEP

Every time I moved I thought my head was going to implode

"I don't think my brain is supposed to pulse"

Too afraid to move to drink water

A lot of groaning (and aforementioned begging)

Nausea!

Slipping in and out of sleep

Painkillers took forever to work, but when they did I passed out and woke up the next day feeling like I had fought five rounds and lost.

#i'm fine btw this isn't anything more serious than a headache i consulted my doctor #whump ideas #whump writing #whump prompt #cluster migraines

[preacherboyd]

House M.D. | 3x21 Family

#james wilson #greg house #hilson #houseedit #housemdedit #house md #house 3x21 #tor gifs #im sorry #if my doctors were looking at each other like that while they were consulting me on my treatment options #i would simply seek medical help elsewhere

[pangur-and-grim]

so physically decrepit but photos of fat brown and green toads are giving me the energy to continue my workday

#oct 8 I have my consult with iron doctor #who will then schedule me to get more blood or whatever #expecting to spend October without blood which is sad

[isagrimorie]

Captain Kathryn Janeway as a Brilliant Tactician, part 1, 2, 3 (version 1) (version 2)

Star Trek Voyager, 7x10 -Flesh and Blood II (version 1)

Hirogen ships wildly outclassed Voyager and the first time Voyager seriously went up against the Hirogen, the crew lost control of the ship and they were forced to participate in various Hirogen hunting games.

The crew barely took back Voyager and Janeway had to give Hirogen the Hologram tech to get them off her ship.

And then in season 7, after the EMH Doctor betrayed Voyager and thoroughly sabotaged the ship. The Engine room was a mess and the only reason Voyager didn't explode is because B'Elanna reinforced the Warp core. And then the holograms kidnap B'Elanna.

Voyager, battered and limping was on a mission to retrieve their two lost crew members. So Janeway decided to use the Hirogen's hunting skill for their benefit and had the best tactic to deal with the Hirogen while Voyager was in no condition for a firefight.

And despite limping all the way while tailing the Hirogen ships, in the end Voyager fought against two Hirogen ships and won.

#star trek voyager #kathryn janeway #brilliant tactician series #once again #janeway proves never put her on the backfoot #also given a second or third chance #she'll find a way to fight any superior ship to a standstill #trek edit #my edit #star trek edit #flesh and blood (voyager) #also janeway is an expert #utilizing consultants and local knowledge #i was so mad at the emh doctor for this episode #especially since all he got was a slap on the wrist #even seven wouldn't get away with what he just did #the emh doctor literally put the voyager crew in danger #tuvok #harry kim #chakotay #trekedit #voyager edit #long post #flashing warning #also voyager #has some of the best ship v ship combat #in 90s Trek

[inkfissh]

Tinted skin

#artts #splatoon #agent 8 #agent 3 #hc #my own take on the sanitized scarring #looks more slightly groddy than intended #Noon(8) #Xerxes(3) #*real sensitive* *beyond a vunrable spot* and such as the reason my 8 wears backless sweaters #3 wears an eyepatch when out in public. it stings and itch after a while #i think they havent consulted a doctor with this. not rlly much info abt phone goop #*just my cringe rambling*

[eirianerisdar]

A woman got angry and started shouting in the clinic lobby today because she saw me, a doctor, leaving after finishing work, and she was the final patient of the day for another doctor who had yet to call her in

Shoutout to the healthcare assistant who asked her what room her ticket number was and then laughed in her face and said, "What's that got to do with you? Doctors leave when they finish seeing patients."

Karen thought nobody could leave until she was seen despite there being five other doctors in the clinic this afternoon apart from hers

#She stood there glowering at the staff doors as I continued walking to drop off my scrubs lol #well she wasn't the worst today #there was a daughter of an elderly patient who started getting hostile in the consultation room at me #because I was explaining an issue...that we were following up her mother for...and other specialties weren't... #then she got angry that different specialties followed up different things and asked me what ONE issue her mother had #and implied that we must be lying because her mother can't have multiple problems #Patients can have multiple concurrent illnesses I tell her #especially at 75. #she shut up after that #medicine #personal #medical happenings #doctor #my post

[batz]

rlly didnt know ur mouth could get kidney stones but then i got to finally experience it yayyyy yayyy. yayyyy

#got rocks in my salivary glands #travelled like 3ish hours today juat for the dentist to be like 'man idk go to a hospital or urgent care but its not super serious' like #thanks i Gues #they recommended a doctor (oral pathologist or smthn idfk) but its like $400 for a consult so fuck That. #so im just gonna sleep for the rest of th day and go to hospital tmrw Maybe or just make appointment w doctor #frank.txt #garglin w salt water n drinking Normal Water so whatevr time to snooze snnnnnnzzzz snnzzz #hoping the doctor can chop it out bc its hurtin. its not too big at all but the sharp end is sticking upward and it. is Not nice

[rowenabean]

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#just saw a post that was like 'if you have religious or moral objections that stop you from providing certain types of medical care maybe #you shouldn't work in healthcare' (paraphrased) and... #what a way to look at the world tbh #like. they're talking about me i think - i am a conscientious objector when it comes to euthanasia #(which granted has come up exactly twice and both cases in a theoretical capacity only this is not a frequent request to me) #and... i am also a good doctor #last week i told someone that her weight doesn't matter to her health with receipts to prove it and she cried #no one had ever told her that before #and that was something that came from me specifically. that was something i would not trust all of the GPs in my practice - a practice of #excellent and compassionate GPs! - to say #i am verifiably doing good in my job that is coming from specifically who i am as a person #i cannot put that down when it comes to issues i care deeply about #fundamentally the fact that i cannot put it down is what makes me a good doctor #i think that's what i'm trying to get at #the reason that i do well by my patients is that i practice out of my values and my ethics #if i did not stand on that core i would not stand at all #so you can't have it both ways. you can't have engaged and active and compassionate healthcare providers without sometimes those engaged an #active providers having things they do not feel comfortable doing #and it is to everyone's service if they are up front about it and do not try to hide (i am suspicious of people who try to hide this) #i am literally figuring this all out as i type hence the v long tag ramble and also being nowhere near the post that started this train #(honestly in med school we talked so much about ethics as like. abortion! euthanasia! trans rights! and the ethics in practice is the littl #things. do you apologise when you mess up. how do you manage a consult with your patient with paranoid dementia and her child in the same #room at one time - or one by one bc that's fraught too. (that one's on top i had one of those today.) how do you act with grace when #you're a bit stressed and your patient is a bit stressed and the nurse wants to add five more things to your book. the day to day ethics is #SUCH a bigger thing when you come to actual practice.) #this is obviously entirely about me and leans on the fact that i largely do think i am doing a good job i am really feeling my own way #to a Thought. but i think to a certain extent it is generalisable

[ddejavvu]

I finally started talking to my counselor about stuff some time ago just really opening up and she went “Wow you could really write a book you just keep going.” And I ended up nervous laughing for like a minute straight

(Hope this was ok to send your post just reminded me of this)

i'm so sorry love that would crush me - why is it that doctors are always the ones to wreck your mental states???

#tw for mentions of disordered eating behavior below #one time when i was in the thick of my ed #i went to my ADHD consultant doctor dude (idk his title) #and he looked at my weight and looked at me (age 15) and said 'wow you look so pretty now that you've lost all that weight' #HUH???????????????????????? #keep in mind he was about as wide as he was tall #if anyone had the right to talk about my weight it was NOT him #anyways

[gayvampyr]

deeply depressing that i am never going to get prescribed the meds i desperately need to function

#so many people i know just get handed adderall after a 30 minute consultation #but when i show debilitating symptoms that could be alleviated by it i have to undergo 4 years of trial medications because none of my #doctors want to prescribe it to me #i understand the side effects. i understand there are trade-offs #but i would benefit so much from amphetamines because i’ve tried everything else and nothing helps my executive dysfunction #plus it’s not just the adhd. im narcoleptic and have dysautonomia and fibromyalgia and likely have EDS #all of which have symptoms that can be treated with adderall #im so over it #im so close to just giving up

[whompthatsucker1981]

first top ourgery consultation this wednesday. i feel like i could chew metal pipes

#come a long way from researching every possible medical procedure in high school on my phone before going to sleep huh #like it is the first consultation. i havent met the doctor yet. its step 2 just after scheduling #but augh

[thecurvyprince]

It's so ridiculous being transgender as an adult. You'll have spent your entire life being conditioned (even by your own self) to believe that so many things just aren't options for you. You deeply internalize the "knowledge" that it would be impossible to be who you want to be and have the body you want to have.

So then you might find yourself in situations where you sheepishly ask a doctor who specializes in trans healthcare if you can have the minimal of help, just enough to keep surviving, because you know that if you asked for what you want, that the answer would be "no" (it has always been "no"). And then are surprised by your own excitement when the very thing you secretly wanted is offered to you with full sincerity as a very real option and with absolute intent to follow it through with you.

As though the whole time you were keeping it as this buried secret, this personal ache of want. But you never actually allowed yourself to consider it anything more than a dream. So when it becomes real and you can finally conceptualize it as a real choice, only then are you able to feel just how badly you wanted it the whole time.

Does that make sense?? It couldn't be real and even though you're desperate for it because you're not sure you can survive without it for much longer, you still don't allow yourself to consider how deeply you WANT it. You never know just how excited you'd be about it. You expected for so long to have to settle for less and never considered that you'd have the choice.

#I know I'm very lucky to have a good doctor #but I can't be the only one with these kinds of feelings #I keep reining myself in because I keep being so sure that I'll never get to do the things that I really need #and once I force myself to try for the sake of survival #only then do I get hit with the excitement of actually getting to do it #I don't know. #but I have a surgery consult to talk about permanent contraception #and did not realize how badly I'd want a hysterectomy until I realized it was actually on the table as an option #I also have a my name change hearing TOMORROW #and I've been on T for 2 years now #I've done a whole in these last two years that I was always so sure would be impossible for me #transgender #trans #transmasc #ftm #trans man #my posts

[rose-lalondde]

pro tip: if you think you have adhd then don't start a master's program before you even get a diagnosis (also you need a stronger prescription, you have astigmatism, and reading glasses aren't gonna cut it)

#i can handle one class just fine but 2 classes??? im killing myself #im working too so its like i never have time for myself and its just a neverending well of assignments and work plus i hate the schedule #why is everything due at 10:59 and why is it due in the middle of the week but i have to come back the next 2 days and write responses #one of my classes will trade out a disucssion for the week with an assignment thats due at the end of the week and i like that sm better #the other class makes use do a discussion and an assignment in the same week #and usually they're all due at the same time so i go to work and then go home do my homework and then do more homework on the weekend #then go back to work do you understand my problem #anyway my mom casually confirmed that i have astigmatism recently which ??? #but my eyesight is fine but driving in the dark is hell and its not b/c of the dark! #any kind of bright light blinds me like it could be a sunny day and i won't be seeing shit for that entire drive omg #just realized that this might be the cause of an increase in headaches wait... #ok back on track: adhd consultation (maybe) in a month and a half! #i don't have a therapist so im hoping my doctor can help? or at least refer me to somebody that can help b/c looking is hard omg #where the therapists at omg #moon posts #long one today because i am procrastinating so i can give up <3

[eirianerisdar]

A different sort of post today

Sitting in my consultation room and trying not to cry

Being a doctor isn’t money or dreams or white coats.

It’s graduating at 23 and working your twenties away. I’m 27, almost 28, and I work 5.5 days a week and see 58-71 patients a day. I used to work 100 hour weeks before. This isn’t better.

It’s having only 4 hours to see 38 patients, sometimes all of them new cases with multiple complaints which means you get around five minutes to see a patient for an average of four problems, because you also have admin work to finish in those four hours or the nurses get mad.

It’s being so exhausted you don’t see friends on the 1 weekend day you have;you just work. If you want to sleep in on weekends you don’t; you just work.

I feel a little like a ghost. I’m wasting away bit by bit and our whole cohort in our department is so burnt out we want to leave and yet our head of department says he won’t do anything about the patient quota.

At this point I think he wants us dead

#medicine #doctor #residency #I don’t pee for four hours in the morning and three in the afternoon #if I have night clinic I don’t pee from 6pm til 10pm #because you don’t have time to pee #if you want to eat you have to rush cases #I have exams next year again and when precisely am I supposed to revise if I work like this #sorry guys this is depressing but I am about to wither away in the middle of my consultation room #my post #personal #medical happenings #might delete later

[teoriaespacial]

I'm a bit sad bc my doctor told me to get laser hair removal on my armpits :(((((((

#hairy armpits my pride and joy #at least i will be able to disturb some elders with my hairy legs #personal #not to get into a lot of detail but having hair makes a skin condition much more likely to repeat itself over and over and im sick of it #so yeah i gotta remove all of it #along side some other treatments #luckily i dont have that issue on any other body part so i can stay hairy in all the rest of my body :) #text post #vent.txt #also this isn't a complaint about medical treatment #this recommendation was given by a very kind doctor who really took her time with me during my consult