Courage Les premières gardes aux urgences, c'est affreux. Je me rappelle encore de la tête de mon premier patient, et d'avoir été pleurer aux toilettes parce que je savais pas quoi faire. Ça s'est arrangé au fil du temps, si ça peut te rassurer. J'y ai presque pris plaisir à la fin. Et courage, l'internat c'est long mais ça se finit, et si j'ai bien compris et que tu es MG, c'est bien mieux après :)
Not as impressive as the other examples in this thread but...
4 years ago, I was shadowing a family medicine practitioner way out in the countryside. So one day we're called for a visit by the local summer camp.
We arrive and examine the 10 year old child, who complains of stomach pain. He's been in camp for four days, nobody else seems to be sick, so after a few questions and a clinical exam we're pretty sure it's plain old constipation (Poor guy didn't manage to relieve himself in the communal bathroom)
Anyway it's the weekend, and the pharmacy is 15 miles away.
The doctor asks the camp cook to come inside the room, turns to him and asks : "Can you bring us a small piece of cold butter?" The cook comes back, gives him the butter, gets out, and then the doctor inserts it as a suppository. Told me it's be as efficient as a glycerin suppository and spared them a trip to the pharmacy.
Followed up by phone the next day, it did solve his problem. Edit: sp
gall bladders develop stones that cause pain and swelling in the organ, they usually dont get "infected" per se.
Appendix gets infected and is removed via emergency surgery to keep it from bursting an going septic inside your body.
sounds like you had your appendix out when you were a kid based on the symptoms (fever and pain), and now you have the pain that is caused by the gallbladder.
Source, had gallbladder out a few years ago, stomach felt like I had done 10000 sit ups on the right side. no fever, just acid reflux and pain.
Gall bladders absolutely do get infected. Check out cholangitis. That said, I agree it sounds like OP had their appendix removed.
I googled 'art exhibitions in Montréal' so I mean, it could be worse.
My favorite name for the semi Colón by a student is "the comma dot"
That's actually what it's called in french ! Well, "dot-comma" (point-virgule), but same difference.
Moved from France to Romania. Here, like in France, you have two bins outside your building : One for trash, one for recyclables. But I witnessed on multiple occasions that they both go in the same garbage truck. Drives me crazy! I talked about it with my landlord, he was completely indifferent to the issue. Seemed normal to him.
I have synesthesia so, having peoples words typed out for me visually as I listen to them speak. Sometimes I miss spoken words if I dont know how to spell them.
Hey ! Me too! There's someone like me out there! I thought I was the only one... but yeah when I describe that to people they're super weirded out, I'm glad I'm not alone.
Osteoporosis is common in old people, particularly in women who underwent menopause.
There are two reasons this happens :
Bone formation and resorption are mainly regulated by two hormones : PTH and calcitonin, so osteoporosis can be caused by an imbalance of these hormones, but that's not what usually happens in old people.
There are two types of cells that regulate bone growth/plasticity : Osteoblasts create bone, osteoclasts who break down bone cells. Both are influenced by the two aforementioned hormones, but also by oestrogens.
When a woman undergoes menopause, the concentration of oestrogens in her blood drops. One of the actions of oestrogens is to stimulate bone growth and to inhibit bone resorption. So there is in imbalance, in favor of bone resorption. When this process is advanced, it causes osteoporosis.
The other reason old people can have osteoporosis is malnutrition. If they have difficulties eating, or a decline in mental capacities that make them forget to eat, they can lack (among other things) calcium. Then, the body produces the hormone called calcitonin I talked about earlier. Schematically, the body tells itself "wait, i need calcium. Where can I get that?" the answer is, of course, in the bone. So this hormone stimulates the osteoclasts, the cells that cause bone breakdown, to free calcium from the bone so it can be used elsewhere in the body.
I'm sorry for any errors, english is not my native language, and it's particularly tricky for me to translate medical vocabulary since I tend to not use it in english so much.
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