I cannot believe I didn't post this one here! Drawn last year, the biggest page of my fish anatomy and histology atlas.

Technically, transverse sections are more useful for looking at symmetry, so you can see if something is bilateral, but sagittal sections are just so cute! I love seeing a whole fish on a slide.

The emotional roller coaster was not exactly improved by the fact that last nights on-call was a massive sh*t show because my senior resident acted like a - excuse my language - massive a**hole. But then I was doing a case with one of our senior vascular surgeons, and we somehow ended up talking about how I got into medicine and that I almost would have studied music instead, and he told me „It’s good you didn’t do that. You belong here, in surgery.“ And that almost made me cry right there at the operating table.

Today was my last official day in my department before I start my ICU rotation next week, and it was kind of sucky, and I’m having lots of feelings.

How the fuck did Nephrology escape from being one of the areas known for attracting crazy people. These guys are insane. What the fuck.

Today was my last official day in my department before I start my ICU rotation next week, and it was kind of sucky, and I’m having lots of feelings.

“If you ever prescribe an aminoglycoside, and the patient doesn’t come back complaining because it fucked up their digestion, it’s because they didn’t take it.”

Oooook let the gossiping and teasing begin…

Today I had the best time volunteering for a teaching project (which is led by our chief vascular surgeon).

That is, apart from the fact that we ran into some of our abdominal surgery attendings, who gave me a massive (verbal) side-eye for technically hanging out with the vascular surgeons in my free time. (Some of them don’t really see eye to eye, both medically and personally).

And I’m soooo sick of it, can’t I just try to figure out what I eventually want to do with my career without having to navigate a social and political minefield?

Pros of being an anesthesiologist: You can study in the OR with the comfortable background noise of the monitor beeping

Cons of being an anesthesiologist: You have ADHD and will get distracted when there's a single extra beep on the monitor and you will leave your study material somewhere only relatively safe from the blood

“An infectious disease specialist without beta-lactams, is like a cardiologist without beta blockers.”

“If you have to prescribe imipenem, do it. But with good reason, otherwise you’ll summon an infectious disease doctor that’ll slap you in your sleep.”

It says a lot about our society that vaccines are controversial but an injectable diabetes drug being used off label for weight loss was immediately accepted by everyone without a second thought

They should invent an all nighter which doesn’t leave you tired and sleepy in the end

girls when they're addicted to loneliness and desperation it's the strongest emotion they have ever known so their subconscious tells them it's their destiny

You know you are doing something well when the nurses at your unit greet you with a kiss on the cheek.

I fear have already reached my peak in my internship.

Nurse giving me report on a patient: and by the way so you’re not caught off guard, he has a tattoo that says “confident fag” on his chest

Me, a confident dyke: haha nice

The nurse: what?

Me: sorry I’m also gay and think that tattoo rules

The nurse: ????????

Me:

Me remembering I don’t hear so good: what did you say the tattoo was?

The nurse: a confederate flag

Me: OH NO WAIT OOPS

Intern: Are you okay?

Nurse: I haven’t had a second to rest all day with all of the new orders you guys have been giving me…

Intern: … you are not going to like what I have to say.