All of the above. I want this community to be sort of a catch-all for any and all stuff relevant to medical professionals that folks want to post.

Yeah! Discussions like that are the kind of thing this community was made for!

I don’t think Regions or Hennepin have a “brand” besides being the county hospital and safety net, so I hope I don’t run into that issue. All good though, don’t let on more than you’re comfortable with.

I’m hoping we can get folks interacting! I didn’t see any communities fitting this niche, so I decided to try filling in the gap. Happy to have you here!

Mind if I ask where you did residency? I’m aiming for Regions and Hennepin, and I guess Mayo if those two won’t take me. (It’s weird to think of Mayo as a backup option)

Example post:

Question: I’m having a lot of trouble with some weird symptoms that my primary care wasn’t been able to figure out at my annual physical, and I can’t really afford a bunch of visits with them just to figure out which specialist to go to. I’ve been having really bad menstrual pain, way out of proportion from what it should be, and my periods are really heavy. I’m not planning on having kids and the pain and bleeding are seriously disrupting my life. I’ve missed work a bunch of times because the pain was too much to handle. Who would I talk to about this?

Response: This is something that an OB/Gyn (female reproductive specialist) would be best able to handle. There are a variety of options for dealing with this kind of issue, but if you’re interested in a surgical removal of your uterus given that you’re not planning on having kids, going to an OB/Gyn that’s known to be supportive of women’s reproductive choices is a good idea. Here’s a link to a Google doc that women have made of physicians that have helped them get hysterectomies. Surgery is not the only option here, but having this list as a resource might be helpful if that is a treatment that you are interested in pursuing. If you need a referral, or have more questions, you should probably reach out to your primary care. You can usually send a message or call one of their advice nurses without a massive bill if you have more personalized questions.

Hello! I’m open to messages and questions about my current role/education!

I’m currently a 3rd year DO student based out of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. I have a background as an EMT/ER Tech before starting med school. I’m a very non-traditional student, and it took me 4 application cycles to get into medical school because of some undergrad stuff that my post-bacc didn’t quite make up for. (So I’m super happy to advise where I can about med school applications!)

I’m hoping to go into EM or Family Med (but mostly EM), and I would have gone for a PA master’s with a Master’s of Social Work if I hadn’t gotten into medical school, so I know what I’m signing up for with those specialties. :)

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I just get stuck on the interview I saw with her where she said she only accepted the payment so that there would be a paper trail that would make it harder to have her killed. She was legitimately afraid that she was going to get murdered on his orders if she didn’t have some kind of collateral or receipts.

It takes years for a donor’s remaining liver to grow back, and the recipient is unlikely to grow out more of the donated liver depending on comorbidities and severity of illness.

I have done CPR on people before, and it is astonishingly brutal. To do it correctly, you have to cave their sternum in to be able to apply enough pressure to the heart to actually move blood around. For “Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest” patients that receive bystander CPR, the survival to discharge is around 10%, give or take. The most common outcome of CPR (if it is successful and you get a pulse back) is days to weeks of dying slowly and painfully in the ICU. The older someone is, or the more health problems they have, the much lower the chance of recovery is.

CPR is absolutely reasonable for a younger person that stands a good chance of walking out of the hospital at the end of it, but 90 pound 90-year-old is extremely unlikely to survive in a meaningful way. It is very reasonable to request to not be put through that massive amount of suffering for a very low chance of any meaningful benefit.

There’s also degrees of DNR. There’s separate options for CPR, intubation, supportive care, active treatment, palliative care, etc. It’s a lot more nuanced than CPR yes/no in most situations.

The one my husband gave me is Nenya without the stones. It’s just the 6 petaled flower in white gold.

I got my husband an engagement watch. It’s an analog watch with a 24 hour dial, and it was very hard to find. He was delighted (especially since the ring he was getting made for me was delayed by about 4 months because of Covid)

Not if they did the bowel prep well enough.

We have 3 cats, and unintentionally, they are all long haired cats. They were the ones that picked us, and we weren’t about to tell them they were wrong and adopt a different cat because of their hair length.

Biden absolutely has some control over this, but Netanyahu is the bigger problem at the moment. Biden has influence over Netanyahu (with a lot of caveats and red tape due to decades of foreign policy), and Harris has influence over Biden…but that’s not the same thing as absolute control. There are also parts of this that have to get approved by congress and there’s only so much the office of the president can do unilaterally.

They can be doing more, and they should be doing more, but Harris’ role and capability is limited to that of an advisor (under strict scrutiny from everyone) right now, and that doesn’t actually give her that much power.

I’m not terribly old, but I’ve been around long enough to know that the lower offices are where you actually affect change in this country. The higher the office, the less they listen to their constituents.

There are lower ranking Democrats that are espousing the right ideas about things like the filibuster, gerrymandering, and even some that are agitating about the electoral college BS. The best strategy I see right now is to clear as many Republicans out of office as we can, and support the newer, lower-level representatives that are aiming to affect real change.

My voting strategy has always been to “vote blue, no matter who” on the top of the ticket, then do my research and be more selective about the offices lower down, especially in the primaries. Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter if more progressive candidates take hold of the House and the Senate if everything they pass just gets vetoed by the fascist in the Oval Office anyways.

You do realize that she’s the Vice President and doesn’t actually have any authority or power unless Biden kicks the bucket, right?

Because it really seems like you think that she has any ability to make unilateral decisions or enact her policy platform right this second, and that simply isn’t the case.

America is, unfortunately, a two party system. If not enough people vote for Harris, Trump wins. Period. There are no options besides Harris and Trump, and only one of them has talked about how Israel should literally nuke Gaza (I’ll let you take a guess on which one it was.)

I see your idealism, and I agree that any amount of genocide is unacceptable, but letting Trump win will just accelerate the genocide in Gaza, expand it to the West Bank (more noticeably, anyways), and likely start new genocides here in America. I’ve been writing to my representatives and sending them articles about the atrocities being committed by the IDF and imploring them to do something about it…but I’m not dumb enough to withhold my vote from the Centrists and allow the Fascists to take over.

I repeat: withholding your vote from Harris is effectively a vote for Trump because America is a two party system, and there’s only two options to pick from.