LAST TIME I REBLOGGED THIS THE LAST COMPARISON WASNT ON THERE

I also have a #ukmedschoolfaq tag on my blog, however Med Schools.ac.uk is particularly useful as a kind of step-by-step guide.

Seals Are Actually Ocean Puppies.

Myth: Confirmed!

me: haha oh god this is so bad im making so many unsupported claims and pulling all this analysis out of my ass

my prof in the margins: excellent analysis!

me: 

GOOD

tonight’s aesthetic: Cookie Monster philosophizing in an art museum

This just changed my life.

The lasagne one has opened my eyes

Different kinds of sharks. Part I >>

Why would Twitter take gold like this away from us

Being a nature photographer seems great, maybe I should try…

Residency is difficult.

Physically. Yes

Emotionally… well, it’s a disaster, I’d say.

Because your experience is really limited and the patients are looking at you with high hopes and uncertainty.

I feel really drained…

I worry that one of the patients I’ve got won’t survive the weekend. But one shouldn’t stop hoping, was it?

I felt the same and feel the same.  It gets better. When your experience accumulates. I’m still waiting for my experience to accumulate enough. The key is just..trying and knowing who and where to ask for help. But sometimes..I don’t know even know where to begin. Those moments are less and less now. but they still come up to bite me occasionally. I used to think as a first year med student, that final year med students know so much. I got to final year, on the verge of graduating, knowing that there was still so much more to learn and to know. I get to residency and I realize that while student still see us as giants..you get there and realize why residency is residency. Why it’s further training. You learn fundamentals enough as a student to start being a resident. As a resident you actually learn how to be a doctor. The defining feature isn’t so much knowledge as it is experience between a student and a doctor or resident. It felt like such a chasm at first. 

It gets easier.  I promise. When I started, I felt like a bit of a fraud. Well, you know that you graduated, but somehow that feels far from enough. There’s so much you don’t know, and when you actually come down to it, suddenly you have a huge responsibility placed on you. What you do actually matters to people’s lives, and that’s an immensely scary thing. So it’s actually entirely normal and healthy to be a bit petrified of it all. When I started, it felt really weird being addressed as ‘doctor’. Hey, it felt really weird to even wear a stethoscope; I almost felt not-worthy of wearing it, what if I was hearing everything wrong? It took a little while for me to have any confidence in my own clinical judgement, which is actually normal when you talk to other people in the same position. Imposter syndrome seems almost universal amongst doctors; I haven’t met a junior who I’ve known well who hasn’t secretly confided to me that they aren’t sure they are good at being a doctor. It’s really very weird being in our position at all. So allow yourself to accept that it is weird to be thrust into making life and death decisions whilst most people your age are spending their time partying and doing whatever they want. But slowly, you get used to it. You realise that although there’s still a lot you don’t know (which makes sense; how could you fit everything into med school?), you know enough. And you know when you need help. And you’ll learn so much so fast, it’ll slowly get to the point where it doesn’t feel odd making decisions that change people’s lives. There’s no sudden point where you feel like a doctor along this long, gruelling process, and it’ll probably be strewn with times of frustration, doubt and upset. Even when you are more senior, there will be times you will doubt yourself or make mistakes or think about leaving medicine. But one day you’ll look back and realise that you do feel like a doctor. Perhaps a junior one, but a doctor all the same. 

These memes

since someone asked for a compilation here

THE LAST ONE

My friend Chris bought a 12 pound bag of peach rings and won’t put it down.

following back!!

Good Things that Happened in 2016

·         We’re closer to having successful vaccines for lung and brain cancer.

·         New chemotherapy breakthroughs have increased the 5-year survival for pancreatic cancer from 16% to 27% (and is getting better)

·         Scientists figured out how to link robotic limbs with the part of the brain that deals with intent to move so people don’t have to think about how they will move the limb, it can just happen.

·         Child mortality is down everywhere and it keeps going down.

·         Thanks to the ice bucket challenge the gene responsible for ALS has been found, meaning we are closer to an effective treatment. Let me rephrase that: we are close to getting a treatment for a very bad disease because a lot of people (including really hot celebrities) got wet.

·         A solar powered plan circumnavigated the world.

·         Michael Jordan donates 2mil to try and help bridge connection between police and the community.

·         Tiger numbers are growing.

·         And manatees.

·         And pandas.

·         Pakistan has made strides toward outlawing honor killings.

·         70,000 Muslim clerics declared a fatwa against ISIS.

·         Pokemon Go players went insane with placing lure modules near hospitals for sick kids.

·         California is now powering over 6 million homes with solar power, a record in the US (and that is the tightest shit)

·         Volunteers in India planted 50 million trees in 24 hours.

·         Apparently world crime as a whole has drastically declined as a whole in the last couple of decades.

·         Coffee consumption has been proved to help curtail cancer and suicide rates.

·         Speaking of coffee Starbucks figured out how to donate perishable food in a food safe way.

·         500 elephants were relocated to a better, safer and bigger home.

·         We made massive strides in Alzheimers’ prevention (my grandmother literally told me that scares her more than getting cancer this is very good news)

·         The ozone layer is repairing itself and all the work we did to get rid of those aerosol chemicals was actually worth it.

·         A new therapy developed in Israel could cure radiation sickness.

·         The Anglican church resolved to solemnize same-sex unions the same as opposite-sex unions which required a super majority of all three orders of the church (lay, clergy, bishop).

·         The Rabbinical Assembly issued a resolution affirming the rights of transgender and non-conforming individuals.

·         Precision treatments for cancer are hitting clinical trials and WORKING (as someone who’s had relatives with cancer this is the best news)

·         Dentists are once again providing free care to veterans who need it.

·         The Orlando Shakespeare Festival showed up with angel wings to block funeral-goers for the Orlando Pulse victims, view from anti-gay protesters

·         We may have cured MS

·         Rise Women’s Legal Centre opened

·         Death by heart disease has decreased by 70% in the United States

·         Two brothers saw color for the first time thanks to specially-designed glasses

·         Pope Francis spoke against society’s obsession with physical beauty while dedicating Mass to the disabled community (love that dude)

·         Portugal ran its entire nation solely on renewable energy for four days straight

·         A retiree is launching a project to transport 80 endangered rhinos to an Australian reservation to save the animals from poaching

·         An Afghan teacher has been delivering books via bicycle to villages that lack schools

·         Harriet Tubman is going to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill.

·         200 strangers attended the funeral of a homeless WW2 veteran with no family

·         A teen battling cancer married his sweetheart

·         Bank firm pays for college tuition for the children of employees who died in the 9/11 attacks

·         New medicine has been shown to increase melanoma survival rate to 40%

·         Over 800 Boko Harem Hostages were rescued by Nigerian Army

·         Toys R Us is Offering Quiet Shopping Hour for kids with autism this holiday season

·         Volunteers made special tiny Halloween costumes for NICU babies

·         A 4-year old befriends a lonely man and helped him heal after losing his wife

·         Families grew

·         People survived c ancer

·         People overcame depression

·         Any kind of victory, even if it affects only one person,  is a victory

·         Now for the pop culture good news

·         LEONARDO DICAPRIO WON AN OSCAR! EVERYONE READING THIS LIVED LONG ENOUGH TO SEE LEO FINALLY GET WHAT HE DESERVED

·         There’s a new Harry Potter book

·         And a movie

·         Harry Potter has no plans on vanishing with time

·         This sweet father gave candy to passengers on a flight so his little girl could trick or treat on Halloween

·         LET ME TALK ABOUT ALL THE KICK ASS MOVIES WE GOT THIS YEAR OH MY GOD

·         Kung Fu Panda 3, this franchise is still going strong despite that its about a panda played by Jack Black

·         Jungle Book. The amazing remake none of us saw coming

·         Finding Dory. I haven’t seen it yet but I’ve heard good things

·         Kubo and the Two Strings. Haven’t seen that yet as well but its Laika so I know it’s a masterpiece

·         Deadpool. The beautiful and super accurate R-rated marvel film

·         Captain America: Civil War. Seriously is the best marvel movie yet in my opinion I need more.

·         Zootopia. Oh don’t mind me I’m just a movie that tackled the issue of racism and not only game changed animated films but also made a billion dollars

·         The Hamilton Mixtape is coming out. Which is a bunch of artists singing songs from the musical (Sia, Usher, Regina Spketor, etc.) I’m excited.

·         A personal victory for myself, I joined Tumblr and met angels in blog form so…that’s uplifting.

·         And I met my favorite voice actor at a con which was a bucket list accomplishment.

Good Things that have yet to happen this year

·         Birthdays

·         Doctor Strange

·         Thanksgiving

·         Black Friday

·         Moana

·         Christmas

Good things that have nothing to do with the year but will hopefully make you feel better

·         Puppies

·         Chocolate

·         Rainbows

·         Rain (I like listening to rain it’s one of the most calming sounds)

·         Cartoons

·         Kissing

·         Music

·         Friends

·         FF: If you are a religious person you are an imperfect masterpiece

·         FF: If you are not then you are a splendid coincidence

·         Any year spent with loved ones be they family or friends is a good year. Trust me.

·         ”A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Why, sometimes in life, it’s the only weapon we have” –Roger Rabbit

#NeverForgetTheGood

*Plz feel free to add other good news (even if it’s something small like you ate cheesecake THAT is good news)

This is a gorgeous post, everyone should reblog it to see the balancing side to the whole bad things happening in the world!