I don't think Regions or Hennepin have a "brand" besides being the county hospital and safety net, so I hope I don't run into that issue. All good though, don't let on more than you're comfortable with.
I'm hoping we can get folks interacting! I didn't see any communities fitting this niche, so I decided to try filling in the gap. Happy to have you here!
Mind if I ask where you did residency? I'm aiming for Regions and Hennepin, and I guess Mayo if those two won't take me. (It's weird to think of Mayo as a backup option)
Example post:
Question: I'm having a lot of trouble with some weird symptoms that my primary care wasn't been able to figure out at my annual physical, and I can't really afford a bunch of visits with them just to figure out which specialist to go to. I've been having really bad menstrual pain, way out of proportion from what it should be, and my periods are really heavy. I'm not planning on having kids and the pain and bleeding are seriously disrupting my life. I've missed work a bunch of times because the pain was too much to handle. Who would I talk to about this?
Response: This is something that an OB/Gyn (female reproductive specialist) would be best able to handle. There are a variety of options for dealing with this kind of issue, but if you're interested in a surgical removal of your uterus given that you're not planning on having kids, going to an OB/Gyn that's known to be supportive of women's reproductive choices is a good idea. Here's a link to a Google doc that women have made of physicians that have helped them get hysterectomies. Surgery is not the only option here, but having this list as a resource might be helpful if that is a treatment that you are interested in pursuing. If you need a referral, or have more questions, you should probably reach out to your primary care. You can usually send a message or call one of their advice nurses without a massive bill if you have more personalized questions.
Hello! I'm open to messages and questions about my current role/education!
I'm currently a 3rd year DO student based out of the Twin Cities in Minnesota. I have a background as an EMT/ER Tech before starting med school. I'm a very non-traditional student, and it took me 4 application cycles to get into medical school because of some undergrad stuff that my post-bacc didn't quite make up for. (So I'm super happy to advise where I can about med school applications!)
I'm hoping to go into EM or Family Med (but mostly EM), and I would have gone for a PA master's with a Master's of Social Work if I hadn't gotten into medical school, so I know what I'm signing up for with those specialties. :)
I just get stuck on the interview I saw with her where she said she only accepted the payment so that there would be a paper trail that would make it harder to have her killed. She was legitimately afraid that she was going to get murdered on his orders if she didn't have some kind of collateral or receipts.
It takes years for a donor's remaining liver to grow back, and the recipient is unlikely to grow out more of the donated liver depending on comorbidities and severity of illness.
I have done CPR on people before, and it is astonishingly brutal. To do it correctly, you have to cave their sternum in to be able to apply enough pressure to the heart to actually move blood around. For "Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest" patients that receive bystander CPR, the survival to discharge is around 10%, give or take. The most common outcome of CPR (if it is successful and you get a pulse back) is days to weeks of dying slowly and painfully in the ICU. The older someone is, or the more health problems they have, the much lower the chance of recovery is.
CPR is absolutely reasonable for a younger person that stands a good chance of walking out of the hospital at the end of it, but 90 pound 90-year-old is extremely unlikely to survive in a meaningful way. It is very reasonable to request to not be put through that massive amount of suffering for a very low chance of any meaningful benefit.
There's also degrees of DNR. There's separate options for CPR, intubation, supportive care, active treatment, palliative care, etc. It's a lot more nuanced than CPR yes/no in most situations.
I'm so sad that Kamala stole our governor. He's going to be really good for the country as a whole, but he was ours!
The one my husband gave me is Nenya without the stones. It's just the 6 petaled flower in white gold.
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Yeah! Discussions like that are the kind of thing this community was made for!