Dr. Cranquis' Mumbled Gripes
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And since people seem to be a bit confused about this: any "real-sounding" patients names are just horrible puns, and not HIPAA violations.
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I’ve moved my site, Cool Health Infographics, back onto the tumblr community. New template and no more advertisements.
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Cheers!
It’s back! Yippee!
A few people have requested that I start putting together recommended-blog lists for various healthcare professions. I have created a link on my main page which will collect all the various existing posts where I recommend any blogs, so you can peruse My Recommendations at your leisure.
Next on the docket: Nurse Practitioner (NP) blogs. Anybody got one to recommend? Feel free to recommend yourself if this applies to you!
Hi all,
I’ve put together a little list of PA student/professional blogs, from your submissions last week (thank you, Cranquistadors!) plus a couple I stumbled on by my own danged self. Here they are, in order of “time spent living in the PA world” (as stated on their blogs, or as best estimated by me):
- ARSTUDENTPA: Starts PA school within a week or two
- PAFORFER: Starts PA school TODAY (5/6/13 — good luck, Jenn!)
- PHYSICIANASSISTANTSCHOOL: PA student (? year) — a collection of funny school-related gifs
- HEALMYBROKENNESS: PA student (? year) — quotes from lectures, reflections, Christian
- DIGITI-MINIMI: PA student (finishing 1st year) — funny stories
- INEEDCOFFEESTAT: PA student (finishing 1st year) — likes to answer questions about becoming a PA
- THERUNNINGPA: PA student (finishing 2nd year) — hilarious stories (tending towards the long-ish length), very well-organized index (posts from each rotation, resources for PA/pre-PA students), also getting married soon (congrats!)
- JUSTANOTHERWHITECOAT: PA grad, working Ortho Trauma — infrequent posts, but be sure to check out the “Monday’s M&M” posts! Also answers questions.
- PA-C: PA grad, working in an outpatient setting (?) — All gifs about working as a PA, all the time; funny stuff, and only a small archive (I read through the whole thing while writing this post — worth it!)
Did I miss any?
Any good PA Tumblrs that you would recommend? Submit them, I’ll check them out and put together a “Cranquis-Approved” list for future reference.
(Yes, of COURSE you can submit yourself!)
Future certified nurse midwife (CNM) amanda-pearl had asked for some nursing and OB blog recommendations, and I turned to my Cranquistadors for suggestions. I checked out all of their recommendations, and here are the blogs that seemed to fit those categories.
- Nurse-On-Duty — Tumblr; nurse; one of the most “nursing-related stuff ONLY” blogs I found.
- Rubylipstick1 — Tumblr; registered nurse; sources tell me she has “lots of other nursing blog suggestions”.
- Nocturnal Nurse — Tumblr; registered nurse; gross anatomy, pharmacology, medication safety, mnemonics. (-2 Cranquis Points for having auto-play music in the theme — pet peeve!) :)
- Charmainegrace — Tumblr; graduate RN resident, with interests in psychiatry and gross anatomy.
- Natural Night Nurse — Tumblr; registered nurse working in peds with dreams being a CNM, also has auto-immune conditions.
- itsjustcharli — Tumblr; registered nurse working ICU.
- theitunurse — Tumblr; registered nurse working ICU.
- Stand and Deliver — Blogspot; Doula/midwife’s assistant; pregnancy, birth, women’s issues.
- At Your Cervix — Blogspot; Labor/Delivery nurse working towards becoming nurse midwife. (+10 Cranquis Points for the yummy pun title)
Thanks to all my Cranquistadors for their recommendations!
EDIT: Here’s another good one…
- Bloopz — Tumblr; nursing student about to graduate, lots of NCLEX review questions and pictures and tips.
I know this was a while back, but thank you so much to Dr. Cranquis for recommending my blog!! I did not know it was recommended until recently! I’m so honored! :)
For the reader who recently asked me for some nursing blog recommendations: this list is about a year old, and I haven’t checked to be sure that all these blogs are still active — but I stand by my original recommendations!
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Yay! The oh-so-studious mynotes4usmle made her first meme! :)
And if you’re interested in seeing scads (or even kilo-scads) of diagrammed/tabled/figured notes targeted to preparing for the med-school USMLE Step exams, you should really check out her blog.
This story was too long to post all at once, so I’ve decided to post it as a miniseries, a la Sherlock and Downton Abbey. It is based on one of the most emotionally taxing patient encounters I have had so far in my medical career. I hope y’all enjoy it.
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8:15 AM
Ah, I love when my clinic days don’t start until 9. I can actually get caught up on my work and maybe have 15 or 20 minutes to read a bit, too. This is great. Let me check my schedule for the morning…hmm… pelvic pain—don’t know that patient—oh great, she’s new.…then a new OB continuity patient… crap, she needs an interpreter. That visit will take forever…ok then a stuffy nosed kid. Not like I haven’t seen a thousand of those this week… and then a neck pain. This schedule just keeps getting better and better. This guy will probably turn out to be a pain in my neck and ask for Lortab. Great…
Oh man, a cliff-hanger mini-series about The C Word… written by one of the freshest/ funniest (but in this case, thought-provoking/tear-jerking) med-blrs out there. You gotta start reading this before the final chapter comes out!
I feel like angels are singing. I just had the perfect patient. He didn’t give any trouble. He was very sweet. He gave a perfect history. He was understanding. He ACTUALLY wanted to go home!
I WANT TO GIVE YOU A MEDAL.
So… I’ve been following this Tumblr for a while now, and it’s hilarious! The author, who works in an Emergency Room (doctor? resident? tech? nurse? unsure), captures moments of hilarity and stupidiocy in sweet and short posts that make me laugh.
“So then, Cranquis,” you ask, “why haven’t you shared this blog with us, your faithful readers, sooner?”
Because. Because I’m SELFISH. Because I have derived immature pleasure from knowing that I am one of the only people currently reading this blog! Because it’s been my personal treasure trove of amusement! Because it’s mine, my own, MY PRECIOUS AND I WANTS IT!
bloopz submitted:
Just wanted to tell you because you’re amazing and awesome. Took my NCLEX-RN yesterday, found out I passed today. YAHHHH I’M AN RN NOW!!! :)
Well well well, what do we have here? The Tumblr of a freshly-minted 100%-official hard-earned and well-deserved RN? AWESOME!
If you are looking for a blog with plenty of useful tips for student nurses and for preparing for the NCLEX, you should check out bloopz!
I don’t like hypocrites. I mean who does? Which is why I think it is sad that so many med students and physicians sacrifice their own health for their careers. I know many people who complain about their over weight doctors telling them to lose weight. That is something I hope not to do.
I am naturally a thick person…
A new med student sets an important personal goal for med school: “to first get down to a healthy BMI and second to maintain that indefinitely” because “as health care providers I think we should lead by example…”
I hope Not Quite Doctor will keep us updated on this aspect of his schooling — follow him to find out what happens! (And to enjoy more of his excellent medical-related quotes and anecdotes, too…) Bravo to you, NQD!
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of working with the Planned Parenthood of America team helping them design their strategy to seamlessly interact with their clients both online and in their clinics. One of the things I did was introduce their team to my friends at tumblr. And a few months later, the Planned Parenthood tumblr was born where you can ask them questions about all things sex, STDs, birth control, dating, etc..
It’s tough to find honest, high quality information from professionals out there on the internet, especially around sexuality. Planned Parenthood has been nailing it using the wonderful “Ask Anything” feature on tumblr. Kudos to both tumblr and Planned Parenthood for making health more accessible.
And don’t forget to follow Planned Parenthood on tumblr. You’ll learn something. I promise.
FINALLY — someone else to handle all the “Might I be pregnant?” questions! :)
you should be, if only for THIS POST on not being a gunner.
I second this emotion. The “Don’t be a Gunner” post is excellence A+. Thanks for writing that, md-admissions! :)
itsglitz replied to your post: Hey you crazy kids
Oooh, yes! Another good one! Not just a mountain of radiology images (xray, CT, etc) with a new image posted 3x/week, but also explanations of the associated medical conditions with links to related articles on the “parent” website, Radiopaedia.org.
Thanks for the tip, itsglitz!
Spending too much time on Tumblr? Well now you can make your procrastination time a little more productive by perusing USMLEpathslides. It’s well organized and pretty useful for studying, from what I’ve seen, so check it out!
Ok, I’ll admit, my first reaction to this recommendation was: “Ugh, pathology slides. So glad I don’t have to pretend to understand those anymore.”
Then I checked out the website. HOT DIGGITY DOG, it’s not JUST pathology slides! There’s gross anatomy pictures, physical exam findings, radiology images — it’s a veritable cornucopia of visual study aids! And so well-organized that it just about makes me nauseous with envy.
“YOU NEED STUDY FOR STEP 1, YOU HATE READ BOOK? YOU GO THIS WEBSITE FOR WHILE!”
The Medicine section of Tumblr Spotlight is not what it could be, folks. I check it from time to time to see if there’s something on there I’m not following and should be. I find lots of dense science articles and gross anatomy pictures, and frankly, I see them and think
I read textbooks all I get on Tumblr for an escape from that stuff. Where’s the humor? Where’s the application of all that science and anatomy? Where’s the human side of medicine? It’s poorly under-represented on the spotlight, that’s for sure (except for Cranquis—he’s the Spotlight’s saving grace).
SOOO…. let’s improve the Spotlight.
If you have a favorite medical blog and think it should be featured, please consider recommending it for Tumblr Spotlight. (**Ahem, Shameless plug…**) Just e-mail the Tumblr editors and let them know where the quality is!
Cranquis: Uh, yes, I’d like to get a tattoo. On the underside of my chin.
Tattoo Artist: Um, why?
Cranquis: So when I stand over my patients while examining them, they can look up and see it.
Tattoo Artist: Oh-kay. What will it say?
Cranquis: “Spotlight’s Saving Grace” — OH, and a little picture of dragon, or something.
Tattoo Artist: Get out.
Ahem. Yes, anyways — I agree with WayfaringMD’s analysis! Why don’t y’all do something about it? :)
