If I had a penny for every time a fictional doctor held my heart and soul in a vice grip and occupied every waking thought for an indeterminate period of time, I would have two pennies, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.

Dr Su fainted for the third time

Live Surgery Room episode 22

Both doctors were really exhausted from all the surgeries they kept fainting

This ABSOLUTELY works.

I have used this for many years. Definitely do it.

*Not counting routine checkups or normal doctor's visits– this is asking about serious illness, injury, etc where you were in a bed.

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I'm so extremely serious when I say doctors should be put through an extremely extensive reliscensing process every 10 years. Doctors should have their knowledge scrutinized against current medical research and be de-barred at even the tiniest discrepancy. Too many old doctors absolutely refuse to stay up to date on research and dismiss patients because of their personal experiences. Too many people die every year because doctors don't take us seriously and refuse to listen to people who KNOW something is wrong. Too many people are told their problems are nothing and come back in a year or more with serious illnesses and doctors are just like "lol everyone makes mistakes" but doctors mistakes routinely cost people their lives! I'm tired of medical malpractice being swept away under the guise of "mistakes were made."

When my mum looked into the possibility of me being autistic when I was a kid, the information she could find said I would have to be nonverbal and unable to read.

While it's true that some autistic people are nonverbal some or all of the time, or may struggle with reading or be dyslexic, neither of those are a requirement to be autistic.

Every autistic person is different.

(I'm pretty sure I was hyperlexic.)

During the "pause" in Gaza, the West Bank continues to be raided and Palestinian continue to be killed. Doctor Shamekh Abu Al Rob was shot de@d in a raid this morning. He is 1 of 230 killed in the West Bank in 7 weeks.

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Devastating

This can be a huge source of medical trauma and it's so cruel that it's being imposed on people by the medical establishment itself. How can they help but feel anything but helpless? There's no fighting that.

I can't help but think of this from my own perspective as a fibromyalgia patient who keeps having to fight being thought of as (or even being labeled as) drug-seeking.

I am literally just trying to live life closer to the standard that 'normal' people have every day.

Why is it in any way fair that most people are mostly pain-free and capable of doing the things they want to do, but I have to suffer with pain on a daily basis that is at minimum, on a very rare, very good day, at level 5?

Why is it when I report that my pain level is at level 7, 8, 9, I only get doctors side-eyeing me and explaining my OTC options?

I have had chronic pain since I was 8. I'm very fucking aware of my OTC options, so no thank you, doc.

And when I spend 20 minutes explaining in detail that my daily pain has noticeably increased and changed in quality since around January 1st, why should I have my PCP giggle at me every time I say that I need help with managing my pain and learning ways to deal with it?

It felt incredibly invalidating and I wish he would have said, look, I don't have the expertise to help you, so here's a referral to a pain specialist.

I only found out there was a such thing by trying to research the topic after this on my own!

So yeah, it's not just the insurance companies, it's the doctors, too.

It's almost like having a profit-motivated medical establishment hurts patients.

Could Dr. Jack Seward survive Castle Dracula?

OH HELL NO

Jack would not accept the crucifix, so he'd be dead at the shaving incident. If by some miracle he survived, he'd be eaten by the Girlies. He'd find some way of making sure of it. It wouldn't be a "wicked burning desire" it would be "girls are paying attention to me." Of course they didn't eat a baby vampires aren't real that's preposterous... but he'd better go back there just in case. You know, for Science.

Jack is already so depressed that I don't think he'd notice the Horrors. It would be somewhere between this might as well happen and My What Strong Hands You Have. He'd become convinced he was mad and get very philosophical about it.

Eventually Dracula would miss a trick in the "rescue my idiot guest from my ravenous roommates AGAIN" and that would be that.

It's okay. He has kisses enough for them all.

Yeah Dr. John "Jack" Seward can not survive Castle Dracula. He's a vampire now. It's for the best.

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