General Medical issues thread

[Pushka]

He told me not to do any exercises that impacted on that toe because it will make it significantly worse.

Medicine gets a lot of stuff right .. and sometimes it can be dreadfully wrong

They were right for me. Given the exercises I was doing but was extremely fit. Grinding bone on bone for exercise will not end well. I used to be able to plank for ages at a time. But that exerted so much pressure on that joint. The pain when doing that was what sent me to get treatment. After X-rays and podiatrist appointment was told it was a lost cause. Walking is fine but it isn't the type of exercise I wanted to do for fitness.

 

[drcam]

This is where becoming a pathologist is somewhat difficult for the general feeling of 'doing good' for humanity. The vast majority of time I am diagnosing patients with the worst news of their lives. Every day when I call other physicians I introduce myself and they think (or often out loud) say "oh noooo". It is so incredibly rare I call to give good news, but I treasure those calls every time.

Still. I know what I do is important. I give answers. I guide therapy. I give reasons for babies' deaths. But I so rarely give good news.

Having once dabbled in pathology registrarship, I did receive good news from a pathologist once. The tumour in my left submandibular gland was just a pleiomorphic adenoma (benign) rather than something nastier like ACC or some other carcinoma. I spent the intervening time in a state of near nervous breakdown.

The other good thing is I can cut VERY thin slices of cake, minimising the calories and maximising the (relative) enjoyment.

 

[andye]

Having once dabbled in pathology registrarship, I did receive good news from a pathologist once. The tumour in my left submandibular gland was just a pleiomorphic adenoma (benign) rather than something nastier like ACC or some other carcinoma. I spent the intervening time in a state of near nervous breakdown.

The other good thing is I can cut VERY thin slices of cake, minimising the calories and maximising the (relative) enjoyment.

But does it ruin your appetite if the raisins are clustered or deformed?

 

[drcam]

"But does it ruin your appetite if the raisins are clustered or deformed?"

TBH I've never thought about it that way. Don't ruin it for me now!!!

 

[Katie]

I had a scan in early July that ended with the sonographer telling me that if I met certain conditions in the future, go immediately to emergency. Luckily, those conditions never occurred, and didn't occur while I was on holidays.

Reviewed that scan with the GP, she sent me to the specialist.
I saw the specialist after getting home from hols, she orders another scan, which I had last week. That scan showed everything to be normal. Yay! The thing I was worried about has shrunk, and the radiologist, etc, are not worried by it at its current size.