#she's like take your medicine

[irlmarthamasters]

hilson coded jason isbell songs…save me..

#“sunrise with the dealers and the dancers / it takes a whole lot of medicine to feel like a little kid” #“everybody dies but you gotta find a reason to carry on / oh and did you ever catch her climbing on the rooftop” #“the fragile heart you protected for so long / or the mercy in your sense of right and wrong” #“i’d carry her to bed and sweep up her hair from the floor” #“surrounded by her family i saw that she was dying alone” #“i buried her a thousand times / giving up my place in line / but i don’t give a damn about that now” #“no one dies with dignity” #i’m clawing at the walls of my enclosure #rattling the bars #GOD #house md #hilson #jason isbell #greg house #james wilson #songs respectively: death wish; if we were vampires; and elephant

[anonymocha]

(wip) Bloody Medical Malpractice Yuri Concept

[under cut for blood]

I dont even know the lore to this I just felt like drawing it lol… The things she’d do for a Kumar 2.0 i guess???

May finish this to test things lets find out!

There’s also this where she tries to clean them up proper:

#Kaalaa Baunaa #Medicine Pocket #KaalaaPocket #MediBaunaa #cw blood #mochadoodles #instead of using my art skills for good i use it to make vile reverse 1999 rarepair fanart #enjoy #the kb one is cleaner bc i like her better tysm #im cooking except the kitchen is on fire #up next: bloody verneider because im evil #i literally speedran the medpoc one 😭 #medpoc girlkissing collection #implied that medpoc is High off their meds #reverse 1999 #i can fix them (yearning for a person no longer there) #i want to give kaalaa baunaa the happiness she RIGHTFULLY deserves but the horrors intrigued me and took me away like an abraxas @ regu #the homoeroticism of staining your loved / adored one with contaminated blood knowing you're probably doing the same to her psyche #oh she def cant fix them but CAN THEY FIX HER??? CAN THEY??? #most would say no but hear me out #*proceeds to not elaborate* #nblw turbulence in girlkiss realm #will happen again #sorry chat its almost 12 midnight the rot is taking over #im sorry to anyone who had to witness this 😻

[papakhan]

I think in game it's kind of presented that Julie Farkas thinks poorly of, if not outright dislikes, the Great Khans which I guess is fair enough but also reeks of the attitude of the writers viewing drug addicts and raiders as subhuman. And I don't think really it lines up with either the Khan/Follower relationship depicted in game nor does it Follow Julie's reestablished personality. I think she's a little exasperated with them but not enough to warrent the "who? Oh you mean those raiders who used to clash with the vegas tribes 🙄" line that she has about them like cmon girl 1) people are like your only allies outside of Freeside and 2) why are you taking the Three Families side in this??? They're causing just as many if not more issues than the Khans even Arcade has lines about how the Families are exploiting Freeside and I can't think who else she means by "vegas tribes" Anyway. It does make sense for her to be annoyed with how they're causing more drug problems in Freeside but i don't think it makes sense for her to be written in a way that makes it sounds like she's angry with the Khans for *using their precious medical knowledge to make the evil morphine rather than the morally good morphine* when really she should be more angry with House/The Families for causing the poverty in Freeside and the NCR for forcing the Khans into the precarious position they're in while disallowing the Followers from truly helping them. The fact that by the time that Fnv comes around the Followers and NCR's relationship has broken down should be enough for the Followers to revisit relations with the Khans since, as I said, the Khans have been the only truly consistent allies of the Followers and more importantly, the NCR JUST MURDERED ALL THEIR CHILDREN. In this essay I will

#I'd love to explore a potential rewrite with her yknow with the Khans as I view them #Idk when but I'd like to I think Papa and Julie could have an interesting relationship #Txt #I used to get yelled at a lot on here for saying that the way the Followers are written kinda makes them look bad in the whole situation #With the Khans #Because shunning a group who just experienced a genocide because they're not following your morality is. Bad actually #But people get really heated about the Followers because they associate their own politics with them and take my critism of them personally #Anyway #It's their writing that I think makes them look bad and if I was rewriting them I would make them different #yes there are plenty of medical professionals esp those in emergency medicine like Julie who think addicts are evil #But I don't think Julie should be written like that and the writers were wrong for doing her dirty like that #She deserves to be a complex character who is politically minded as well as medical #And personally I think her fighting on the Khans side just makes more sense #And getting them involved instead of the garret twins would have been cool #But yeah the way the Followers and their interactions with drug addicts in game is blatantly written by someone who thinks poorly of addict #Sorry

[see-arcane]

A Gothic Tale of Two Weird Old Men: Dracula, Van Helsing, Ignorance and Obedience

So, we’ve gotten to the garlic flowers. And the first point in the novel where, on my first read, I felt a tiny prickle of recognition and unease. This section in particular made a little exclamation point pop up over my head:

"Oh, Professor, I believe you are only putting up a joke on me. Why, these flowers are only common garlic."

To my surprise, Van Helsing rose up and said with all his sternness, his iron jaw set and his bushy eyebrows meeting:—

"No trifling with me! I never jest! There is grim purpose in all I do; and I warn you that you do not thwart me. Take care, for the sake of others if not for your own." Then seeing poor Lucy scared, as she might well be, he went on more gently: "Oh, little miss, my dear, do not fear me. I only do for your good; but there is much virtue to you in those so common flowers. See, I place them myself in your room. I make myself the wreath that you are to wear. But hush! no telling to others that make so inquisitive questions. We must obey, and silence is a part of obedience; and obedience is to bring you strong and well into loving arms that wait for you.”

Now, full stop, Abraham Van Helsing means well. He’s a heroic old dude driven by goodwill—and, we can assume later, perhaps a bit of personal history with this particular malady. We’re going to see in later chapters that he is absolutely down to fight for far more than just Lucy and his protégé’s sake. Better still, he provides a great foil against the common themes that so far endanger characters who get in Dracula’s path. Skeptics are endangered because they only acknowledge the truth of the bogeyman in their midst when it’s too late while the frightened believers are too paralyzed by the threat to make a move. Van Helsing combines the Scientific with the Mystic, acknowledges both as equally important, and uses them to his advantage.

Knowledge is power and all that. Dracula really does get away with most of the shit he does half the time because his victims don’t know what they’re dealing with. (The other half of the time, it’s because he’s just bulldozing through victims on a spree, RIP Demeter crew.)

The Count is usually the one holding all the cards and using his advantages to cause harm. Van Helsing brings his own intel and uses it to help to the best of his ability.

That being said?

(Mild spoilers below)

The first time I read through Dracula—and, honestly, every time since—I can’t help picking up on how precariously close Van Helsing treads to the Count’s M.O. of manipulation and Dramatic Withholding of Information with his young charges. Granted, I can let some of it slide via the, ‘But no one would believe me if I said it was a vampire! I had to keep quiet about my reasons!’ excuse.*

*(But, sir, could you not conjure up some convincing medical-sounding bullshit?? It’s the 1890s, they would have bought anything. In fact, why was it only down to you and Jack keeping watch, Dr. Drama? There’s a whole house staff here. Yes, fine, there’s Mom with her weakheartitis, but as long as you spin it as some minor irritation that needs checking in on for updates, it should be fine. And why does Lucy have to keep quiet about the flowers? Why can’t she say it’s for her sleep? Or her health? Or a good luck charm from the doctor, it would be Terribly Rude to Be Rid of Them (read: Against every Victorian bone in hers and Mama Westenra’s body to chuck them). Anyway.)

Without giving too much away, I feel Stoker kind of tips Van Helsing’s charisma points a little too far over the edge in future scenes. Mixed up in a shitton of future The Power of Christ Compels You! overtones, there is a lot of frankly bonkers acting from the rest of the cast when it comes to interactions with/gratitude to Van Helsing for [REDACTED] reasons.

As in, characters are going to start kissing the ground this old man walks on. (metaphoric)

And kissing his hands. (Literal. Yes, Godfather style.)

Dracula was lucky to get flipped off by his Brides. Van Helsing will have these youths rally around him and Every Syllable He Breathes as if it were actual factual gospel (which some is, naturally). With a notable exception in a very livid Jonathan Harker when we get to [REDACTED]. Shout out once more to Bram Flakes for accidentally making this solicitor man Spicy+ after certain events.

Most of me wants to believe Van Helsing’s effect on the others is just Bramarama Stoker pouring all his personal fantasies of being the Lauded and Heroic Professor Doctorman (who happens to share his name, no big deal, ha ha) into this character while the others sing his praises.

But the lit critic in me sees an uncomfortable amount of parallels between Dracula’s casual arcane actions, gaslighting and coercing with Jonathan and Van Helsing’s likewise casual mysterious measures, corralling, directing, and borderline mesmerizing the rest of the cast to follow his lead exclusively, with or without offering the full details of the situation, as we see with Lucy. He’s a good man and an interesting character, but there are Some Scenes that make me wonder if he isn’t using some kind of lowkey hypnotism to make things run a little smoother in the vampire hunter brigade.

#I know I know he was genuine about trying to help #but like... #...the wording and the way he backpedals kind of Does Not sit well with me; even knowing he's a good guy #if we transplanted the dialogue to the start of the novel and it was Dracula trying to get Jonathan to do something For His Own Good #like say: writing a bunch of false letters ~for convenience/safety's sake~ #it'd be a little more gut-churning #plus there's the framework of Lucy trying to be a Good Friend/Patient/Obedient Victorian Girl being overseen by two male doctors #(who are good guys! who are taking her seriously! but stilll...) #and she's being told to Do This Thing for Reasons; Reasons Van Helsing does not explain (or even give a plausible lie for) #followed by telling her not to talk about it?? #how would you react if your doctor gave you some mystery medicine/folk remedy #didn't tell you what it was really for (after you called bullshit about the first reason he made up for it (because you're not an idiot)) #and then ordered you to use it and Not Tell Anyone About Why You Have It #fun and kooky doctor or not I'd be a little fucking worried #anyway #ramble #abraham van helsing #lucy westenra #dracula #dracula daily

[natjennie]

vulture update: so many that apparently multiple people called the police, who showed up and proceeded to say "yup it's a dead dear, that's a lot of vultures, maybe try animal control? good luck" and then left. so that was cool.

#also i got denied for giving blood bc they couldnt find a big enough blood pressure cuff #to take a good reading. which is bullshit because ive given blood there and at other red crosses a dozen times before #so that was really embarrassing. and then when i got home the police were here. #and then they left and my family got home and my sister had a huge breakdown #because my dad was an asshole- like always #so it's been a fucking day. #yknow when every straw feels like your last straw but there are always more fucking straws #because i came home at the end of my rope and had to put it aside in order to be the only one advocating for her #and helping her recover. like. #it's exhausting. im not allowed to have a breakdown because then who would fucking empty the dishes and put the groceries away #and sit with her while she sobs so hard she throws up and get her medicine for her after. #i dont know guys i dont know...

[radio-sepia]

god why is my doctor like this

#i cannot talk to her she refuses to calmly ans specifically answer my questions #when i tell her oh so this and that is happening i'm worried is this normal or should i do sth #her answer is only vaguely related to what i said and instead she goes off in an exalted tangent and throwing concepts and names of medicine #like darts on a map #lady i will not understand anything can you please stop getting frustrated from taking to your patient aka doing your job???? #txt

[marsuni]

does your doctors ever just drop something on you much later about your meds or your conditions and it explains a lot

#Like my seizure meds can make me dehydrated #I've been on them three years and just kinda chalked up being thirsty to ya know...needing water but nope Keppra can make you dehydrated #Or when I was taking sucrafate for 6 months before a Dr told me I had to take it several hours before eating BC IT PREVENTS UPTAKE #OF ANYTHING INCLUDING MEDS SO I BASICALLY WASNT TAKING MY MEDS FOR MONTHS AND WAS GETTING SICK AND DIDNT KNOW WHY #BC NO ONE BOTHERED TO TELL ME I SHOULDNT TAKE IT WITH OTHER MEDS JUST NOT FOOD?? #AND THE DOC DIDNT EVEN TELL ME INTENTIONALLY SHE JUST MENTIONED IT OFF HAND AND I WAS LIKE WAIT WHAT #SHE WAS SO SHOCKED NO ONE TOLD ME AND IT WASNT LISTED ON THE BOTTLE #I'm still mad about it I was getting extra seizures for months for no reason bc of an oversight #Since I got that info I've been taking my meds properly and I haven't had a seizure for almost a year #:) #Remember to ask every question you can think of and ask aggressively #Every interaction with other meds every side effect #You NEED to know you're not being pushy it's your body and health #ASK THINGS OF YOUR DR ITS WHY THEYRE THERE ITS FOR THE BEST #chronic illness #medicine #Medication #Even if you are being pushy it's your right to know everything about why and what they're giving you #I also thought Ativan was a neasua drug for a while bv they always give it to me in the er when I have a cvs episode #But it's for anxiety and they use it to put me out while the actual drugs work and that's okay!!! #But I didn't know so I stared asking for Ativan (and zofran) when I went in and got denied because they thought I was a junkie/on detox #For a med a doctor would otherwise order for my distress bc I didn't know better #Know your meds and know them well it can only help you in the long run #Keeping a list written or digital that you can show doctors also helps so they know how drugs can interact if your an er frequent flyer #Like me

[the-trans-dragon]

I need a doctor who has the patience, experience, humor, and directness to listen to whatever new treatment ideas I've concocted, and then either say "Alex, that's a stupid fucking idea, let me explain why," or "The risks are acceptable in my professional opinion. Let's go over pros and cons and then you can think about it and decide what to do."

I just think it would be fun. For me. And I wish I could find a doctor who would also find that fun. I already came up with one fun Treatment for an Illness and have been successfully using it to treat The Illness for almost a YEAR, and all the side effects are awesome so like...I am certainly full of hubris at this point.

#i dont wanna say what i take or what im treating bc its like...well...zero doctors recommended it lol. and two doctors said “that might work #but uhhhhh i dont think im the right doctor for that.“ wait. three doctors said that. but i asked the third doctor ”pwease. youre the third #doctor to tell me to go to a different doctor. i need help.“ (i was fucking desperate. i was missing so many days of work that i basically #lost an entire paycheck's worth of money in two months and like. i had also SPENT that much on the doctors who inevitably ran out of their #own ideas and then recommended i go elsewwhwre to try my idea WHICH IS FAIR but also all 3 doctors did agree it was worth a shot so like.... #i kinda needed ONE of them to actually. try it. it just took 6 months for the first one to run out of ideas and then another two or three #months to get in to see my genderal physician and then see a doctor he recommended who then recommended i go elsewhere and thats the doctor #who i was like “youre the third doctor to say that...i dont know who else to try.” goodness im glad she helped. my medicine is like $15 a #month (it was $10 when i had insurance) and i am in love with every single “side effect” and!!!! yea it has given me a large sum of hubris. #anyways.) i wanna do that again but with my other Significantly Disabling Illness. like why not lol. im already on 3 medicines that are #recommended to *not* take together (none of which are the medicine i chose to take aldjskds) so like.............seems like we #are at a “just try shit out and see what happens” stage. doctors should send me resumes and ill pick the one that looks most fun and then #we will do fun science together on my nerves system :) itll be fine lol. am i serious or kidding? i have no idea. #sorenhoots

[leaving-fragments]

gyno exams are so goofy, my doctor told me i have good posture while i was flashing her my boobs

#yk how it is #i love my gyno though she's sOO sweet #she always says to take my time undressing in the curtain cabin like noo stress just to slowly and comfortably get naked at my own pace :) #and she talks about male bias in medicine and it's like her job but #it's sooo good to have a medical professional be like... the studies aren't done on women so do trust your own experience... <3 #emma talks

[vonlipvig]

advocating for the holiness of modern medicine at the dinner table

#my cousin had a baby and apparently she decided not to get idk what anaesthetic to mitigate pain #which like i definitely believe everyone should be free to choose what to do (as long as you dont put yourself or the baby in danger) #but all this thing of natural births and being one with nature and refusing medicine is soooo weird to me #as if god isn't in the molecules that make up the drugs that take your pain away!!!! #god is in the advancement of science ALL science and i'm so serious #anyway y'all do whatever especially if it's part of your culture ofc power to you #but cmon. #anyway i am Never having kids miss me with that lol #according to jules

[tibtew]

I've seen a lot of fanart of non-possessed kenjirou with medical equipment but. that man would scream at the sight of blood ngl

#and that's why I love him <3 #he is an archeology nerd I don't know why people make him edgy outside of possession #I firmly believe that his experience with the internal workings of creatures has been purely theoretical #kagepro #txt #tateyama kenjirou #very easy to imagine him like. putting a plaster on one of baby ayano's wounds after she scrapes herself and then just #quietly shuddering to himself #LIKE HE CAN HANDLE IT IF HE HAS TO #but please no. he really really would Rather Not #also like. he was pretty unambitious pre-ayaka I Doubt he could go anywhere near med school #idk this is just me nitpicking I just think it's a bit funny #he probably looks up weird diseases and gets freaked out #and he Knows he doesn't actually have any of them but there's a part of him. nagging #so ayaka has to be like “No Honey You Don't Have Lymphangioleiomyomatosis you have the Common Cold" #“please take your medicine I Am Begging” #couple goals tbh

[steal-this-album]

WHY ARE U SO SHORT………

hispanic 💔💔💔

#last week i had a nurse taking my measurements and she was like oh you're almost 5 feet we might have to raise your med dose soon!! #bc of whatever medicine concentration requirements yk #and i rly had to be like I Haven't Grown 1 Millimeter In Four Years #wat ever it makes me SO pursedoggycore <3 #apollo ask tag #renchanters

[big-eater-queen]

can we STOP with the anti medicine mentality for gods sake

#tag rant #anguished screaming #I am feeling fucking congesting because of FOREST FIRES #and I have a headache too because we were stupid enough to leave the window open #and my dad suggested I take meds (thanks) #and my MOMS solution is bloody LONG DISTANCE HEALING #WHILE TELLING ME TO NOT TAKE MEDS #MA ITS FUCKING TYLENOL #YOUR 'HEALING' DOESNT DO JACK! THE GUY YOU LEARNT IT FROM FORCED ME TO REMOVE MY MASK WHEN YOU DRAGGED ME TO HIM #did I mention that she pulled that fun little stunt when we were at a covid case RISE?? #IN A DINGY LITTLE CLINIC??? #YOUR ANTI MEDICINE PROPAGANDA COST ME NEARLY A MONTH OF NOT BEING ABLE TO SPEAK #its at times like these I am grateful to be on the other end of the continent because I'd have gotten into a fistfight with her

[the-lady-general]

The Venn diagrams of the Resident Alien, Julian Bashir, Zim, Peridot and Aziraphale is. It's not exactly a circle but it's weird that it happened five times.

#resident alien #Real Frontier Medicine in this backwater where you have to wiki alien anatomy faster than your patients can catch on #people think you're weird but actually you're just superior #outsider whose only job is to destroy all humans has seconds thoughts because he quite likes sushi. you dip it in soy sauce. #intimidating green boi actually just angry little slice of pie with a pre teen nemesis #can't resist a good mystery and will absolutely cross any and all plans to solve it for personal entertainment #panicking about a super vague mission and implied dickish superiors #takes things like 'check everywhere' far too literally #too protective for his own good #absolutely incapable of complimenting anyone #need i go on #now: is asta going to be his gir or pumpkin or jake or shadwell #i want her to be his shadwell #although humanity might stand a better chance if she's his pumpkin

[chirsu]

No C-PAP. Don't even get to try it to see if it would improve my quality of life. He just diagnosed me with insomnia and told me to go seek alternative sleep aid elsewhere.

One thing he asked was if I took melatonin. I do, I even pair it up with benadryl and told him it doesn't help. My sleep is not restful, I can't stay asleep either, AND I feel horribly fatigued all day. After that, he just suggested doubling up on it (10mg would become 20mg), and I think... That sounds... Ummmm?

#she speaks #And I really dont want to try ambien #If it dissolves my already thinning impulse control something horrible might happen #I just want to not feel like I need to lay down for 18 hours after doing dishes. Is that like? To much of an ask? #Oh right #Dear Diary #I also thought. That I read. That you shouldnt be taking melatonin everyday. #Because if you do that then your brain builts a resistance and the medicine stops working. So you're supposed to space it out.