So you were a combat medic, fine. However, that pretty much guarantees that you haven't had to treat obese people and all the consequences that go with it. You've never had to deal with managing the airway on someone with a BMI of >50, a jaw so covered overwhelming covered in "soft tissue" that you can barely hold the facemask and get a seal and who has obstructive sleep apnoea. You've never had to deal with the whining and complaining that happens EVERY SINGLE TIME you have to get IV access in someone who's veins are not visible because they're covered in layers of fat (these are the types of people that the intraosseous devices just end up sitting in fat because they aren't long enough to reach the bone). Or even worse, the whining about how they're so hard done by with all of these illnesses at such a young age...and oddly enough they are all lifestyle diseases secondary to their obesity (or their smoking).
As for not using anaesthesia at the forefront, I think you'll find that many many many things that you were taught to do on the battlefield were designed, studied and used by anaesthetists and anesthesiologists and continue to be. And I'm sure you'd also agree that there is no point in keeping someone alive long enough to get them to more definitive care, if there isn't anyone there at the definitive care location to look after them. The reason medics are on the front line not doctors is that it costs a lot less to train a medic in terms of both money and time, therefore they are more expendable and one can produce more of them. You also don't need to train them in all the fancy definitive care stuff, so that makes it easier. You also don't have to train them to deal with post operative complications (cause they aren't around for that bit), complex medical conditions (including things like obesioty - because people with those type sof conditions aren't out on the battlefield getting shot at).
As for the grammar - it's been rather amusing, although I do hope, for your sake, that your spoken grammar is better. Because if I had a doctor that spoke to me with the grammatical structures you have been using, I'd ask for another doctor, cause I wouldn't be certain that they'd understand the history I gave.
I'm definitely not a misogynist.
And what makes you think that the US is portraying Christian values - it's an incredibly secular country and one of the reasons that some other nations around the world hate the US is because the values that are portrayed on their television screens (in news, documentaries, entertainment) are about as far from Christian values as you can get.
I almost never reply to posts off topic, this makes the 2nd time in about 275 posts, but I feel the need. And it's early. And I'm bored and Licorice annoyed me.
I'll sit by quietly when Plank and Copro are chewing each other up, there's history there, they are leaders on the forum, it's funny, it goes beyond personal to the insane, whatevs.
But a few things in Licorice's post seem out of whack. Granted, Bialystock went off the
deep end and seemed to swing her pendulum rather quickly! But I don't know where she is coming from and why she felt the need to get so defensive, but, ya know what, I'll throw her a bone. Anyone who hops onto the front line to triage the decapitated deserves that from me, I get it.
She is probably narcissistic and ******ed, but you know what? I'm narcissistic and ******ed. Most of us here are. You know what I dislike more than that narcissistic and ******ed?
Closed-minded and My-s$hit-don't stink. So, I pick you this time, and not Bialystock.
The half-assed "shoot down" of the war vet comparing battle field conditions with getting through a fat persons l.flavum seems foolish to me.
And no, before all my Anesthesia pals jump down my throat, that's NOT where I'm going. I (intelligence-wise, and so much more)
worship the ground Anesthesiologists walk on. I think they are the most intelligent, capable, aware, stress-worthy doctors out there!!! The best. Period. Did I say smartest? Did I say finest? Good luck having a community pediatrician tell you about deep physiology stuff. NOT a shot against them, an example. Or anyone else who has decided to plunk down 250K in student loans to HELP people. BUT, to even ATTEMPT to try and "one up" the difficulties you have on a daily basis, even if they are WAR LIKE conditions in the OR, and I say that seriously, 20 years of war-like stress day in and out, to me, is uncalled for, when someone went out there and actually stepped FOOT onto the actual (guns and s$hit) battlefield. And I'll tell you what, Licorice, I have a feeling you are a vet yourself, which makes your post to me seem even more ridiculous. Why? Because to do what you did is an absolute insult. Let the Vet get it out of her system, don't attempt to one up those conditions. You have your own, she has her own. Do you REALLY wanna win that fight?
I'm more inclined to say that I find tidbits that I can swallow easier in your second paragraph. Except this pearl:
"complex medical conditions (including things like obesioty - because people with those type sof conditions aren't out on the battlefield getting shot at)." You're kidding right? Do you realize how asinine that sounds? So, yes, I think I've said enough about how adept Anesthesiologists are at treating complex medical conditions, but to throw sh(t in the face of someone because they are not helping a certain group of people on the battlefield because that population of BMI+50ers doesn't sign up? You know who that leaves on the battlefield to get shot at Licorice? COMBAT MEDICS (et al.) Even ones who quote the Oath. Period.
Ok, now this: what makes you think that the US is portraying Christian values - it's an incredibly secular country and one of the reasons that some other nations around the world hate the US is because the values that are portrayed on their television screens (in news, documentaries, entertainment) are about as far from Christian values as you can get. Have you BEEN in the US lately? Fact: 8 out of every 10 people in the US are Christian. I'm not. Opinion: If you remove NY, LA and Boca Raton, Fl, you can probably make that 9.3 out of every 10 people in the US as Christian. What the hell does secularism have to do with the population of Christians in the US? Do you think our media, the folks who get the messages from the US out to Al Qaeda, are secular? You must be KIDDING me. Yes, the US is secular by definition, but do you really think the people you speak of, the people who hate us, care that we are fighting over whether or not to take "Under God" out of the pledge? Or remove, "In God we Trust," from a $2 bill. If there is view coming from the US, whether moral-based or on the baseball field: It's Christian. Both inward (drive from NY to LA, tell me what you find in between, I can list 1000 examples aside from this one), and outward (name the last Jewish or Buddhist President that was videotaped walking to Synagogue from the White House, I can list 3000 examples of America's Christianity aside from this) the tip of the iceberg.
More idiocracy: do you really have to be a misogynist to dislike rmbsstock?
I'm not a fan of her tact, tactics, or posts, per se, but drop the faux logic. That's like saying you're not Hitler because you vacationed in France, didn't enjoy the culture and left. What do you want, a medal?
Finally, grammar. Listen, I'm a writer by trade. I'll probably do it through and after med school as well. People like to pay me a lot of money to write for them. It'll be our little Writerly whorish secret. But I've had it with targeting Americans or foreigners with regard to their grammar on this site. It's pathetic. I don't spell check here, I write, I click, I send. Same goes for emails on the MAC. Or private messages. I don't have the time or patience to go through for style or grammar. I'm not writing a script for Universal, Jesus. (Sorry.) We could all knock on Plankton (hugs and kisses, Plankey) for using "its" instead of "it's". Why don't
you do that? You think he's smarter than you? More qualified? A better anesthesiologist? Oh, I see,
so, when you're sure you can defeat the enemy you insult away. But when you're worried about getting your diaper tucked into a wad, grammar wise of course, by a leader on this forum, you don't pick on grammar. How Sun Tzu of you.
You'd ask for another doctor? Really? Would you ask for another doctor if you read Planks (hugs and kisses, Plankey) chart and saw that he wrote his "its" and "theirs" all nice and backwards? Would he get a thorough H&P on you? Lemme spin you a tale. A friend of mine is Indian. He's full of funny expressions and colloquialisms that just don't translate. The Intvl Cards PD, who ended up writing him an LOR months later, was introduced to him on day one and asked, "So, what are you doing here?" My friend replied, "Talking to you." Ya get it? He didn't know it wasn't to be taken literally, because, perhaps, in India, you don't say, "So, what are you doing here." I straightened that out on the elevator in private a moment later. He also says, "Tell me..." on the phone, instead of, "What's new?" This guy is the hardest working SOB I know. He's interviewing right now for residency. Just so happens we research for one of the most Internationally renowned Intvl Cardiologists (think Miller, Stoelting, I don't know the dude at CHOP who wrote a book on Peds) who wrote my friend an LOR. The last sentence of the LOR went something like, "Dr. My Friend is the most worthy candidate for residency that I have seen in my 26 years of practicing medicine, his knowledge and skills are beyond anyone else's that I've worked with at his level..." You think everyone gets that LOR?
No. So, open up you little closed-minded lentil bean.
I once married a foreigner, I wrote off (jealous and controlling) family members for calling her an "immigrant." We're all immigrants here, Sport. Save the natives and I suppose those who came over on the Mayflower and grandfathered in. You know one thing that hurts and brings down non-native speakers more than anything? People picking on their grammar. Imagine wanting to open your mouth and speak, but you can't do it as easily as at home, it sucks. TRUST me. So, maybe that was your intent? It's uncalled for. You want a novel, pick up Hemingway. Go speak another language, it's not that easy to PERFECT. Kudos to those for trying.
If I take out my monocle, and look closely: your grammar, syntax, structure, typography, structure, and, most importantly, style, suck c9ock. Unless of course you are attempting to write like a
4th grader, at which point you are a
marvel. And, oh, I've been in the writing battlefield, with the bullets whizzing by me, and I've got the awards on my shelf, and I swing a large ligamentum flavum from behind the fattened veil of the interweb, so, yeah, I'm qualified to say so. Pick on rmbsstock's angle, like others did, not her identity. DreamMachine had it right, "STFU." Did he stoop to picking on her identity? (Edit: Actually, he did, beat me to the post). So, Licorice, if you want to pick on her identity, fine, knock yourself out, just know that I'll call you out every time you do. For the fun of it. Because I can.
D712
n.b. Hey Mil, Copro, Plank, Noy (remember me Noy, Jetta man
) might this ***** shredding pre-qualify me for a pp interview in 8 years? I'm feeling all balls-outey. Next time, I won't show restraint, promise!
and ended up with bad grammar
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