medical mayhem
Part of being a FINALMEDFINALMED is having to go to lectures on Sunday mornings. They're good, though. It's mainly about practising being able to describe signs of illness for short cases.
One of them was dermatomyositis, which looks like this:
That's called a heliotrope rash, not because it looks like a heliotrope or is the colour of a heliotrope, but because dermatologists get sick of saying, "Yeah, it's this pink bubbly thing, okay? Yeah, exactly like the ten million other pink bubbly things you referred to me this week."
Then the doctor put up this picture:
... and we all went 'Awwww. :("
The doctor wanted to know why we didn't, "Awwww. :(" for the person. It's probably because the person was a patient and they tend not to be as cute as puppies, and also talk more. (Hint: when a doctor asks you about your family, it's because s/he wants to know if you have weird diseases running in it. Not because they care about your grand-nephew's tour of Africa.) But I wonder if it's some hardwired thing - like Pterry said, "People will give to animals what they won't to humans." Anyone have any theories? Or is this place dead on a Sunday, like I always suspected? (I feel like it's Monday because yo, my week has STARTED. DERMATOMYOSITIS, holla.)
I also need more medical icons, if anyone has recs. Would Watson count?
One of them was dermatomyositis, which looks like this:
That's called a heliotrope rash, not because it looks like a heliotrope or is the colour of a heliotrope, but because dermatologists get sick of saying, "Yeah, it's this pink bubbly thing, okay? Yeah, exactly like the ten million other pink bubbly things you referred to me this week."
Then the doctor put up this picture:
... and we all went 'Awwww. :("
The doctor wanted to know why we didn't, "Awwww. :(" for the person. It's probably because the person was a patient and they tend not to be as cute as puppies, and also talk more. (Hint: when a doctor asks you about your family, it's because s/he wants to know if you have weird diseases running in it. Not because they care about your grand-nephew's tour of Africa.) But I wonder if it's some hardwired thing - like Pterry said, "People will give to animals what they won't to humans." Anyone have any theories? Or is this place dead on a Sunday, like I always suspected? (I feel like it's Monday because yo, my week has STARTED. DERMATOMYOSITIS, holla.)
I also need more medical icons, if anyone has recs. Would Watson count?