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Even cooler is his about me mention of saving his own life https://mvakde.github.io/ https://mvakde.github.io/ > Saved myself in a medical emergency (doctors di

• qlm 26d ago
  Crazy, considering rhabdo isn't that rare.
  • p-e-w 26d ago
    “What do you call a medical student who graduated at the bottom of their class?” “Doctor.”
    • draw_down 26d ago
      Well, I guess it would be nice if the graduation cutoff were above the level of “knows what rhabdo is”
    • echelon 26d ago
      I studied biochem in undergrad and my classes were full of premed students. I loved the subject and nerded out about the course material - I spent my time designing my own experiments around gene cloning that took several semesters to run. They were sharing last year's tests with their frat buddies and laughing at us nerds. I've never looked at doctors the same way again after college. I looked up to them as a child, yet after seeing how the sausages were made, I started to doubt everything. I frequently ask doctors, who spend all of ten minutes with me while the nurses do all the work, about the molecular specifics of what they're talking about. They talk down to me as if they're explaining to a child, yet they're frequently quite wrong. I'm not trying to sound superior to them, but I'm shocked they seem to care so little about the subject. It doesn't give me much hope about what they know and their abilities or competency. I suspect surgeons and specialists are a different breed and aren't like this at all. And to be clear, this isn't everyone. But it does seem to be the majority I've interacted with throughout my life. When they act disgruntled at patient interaction, I detest that their profession tries to cap the number of med students per year. We should be letting in as many med students as we can take. We should let doctors from overseas immigrate and easily become practicing doctors here in the US. We should provide easy paths for nurses to become doctors. The premed students in my university were chiefly concerned about money and prestige. They drove BMWs gifted to them by their parents and laughed at what I drove and how hard I studied. I had to put up with their bullying for years. I know not everyone who studies to become a doctor is like that, but it permanently skewed my view of their profession.
      • qsera 26d ago
        >When we should let doctors from overseas immigrate and easily become practicing doctors here in the US. Lol, what does this has to do with anything regarding aptitude or curiosity!?
        • Omniusaspirer 26d ago
          To the parent posters credit, he's very honest that he developed a personal complex against doctors when he was a poor student. He just sees it as a way to lash out at American doctors, the irony being that foreign medical graduates leaving their families and communities to practice in America largely do so because they are exceptionally money motivated. That doesn't make them bad doctors, but there's certainly less likelihood they're doing it purely for the love of medicine or a desire to care for their communities. I do agree with the sentiment though that the US needs to fund more residency slots as it's an asinine professional barrier, and that we would benefit from more physicians coming from more diverse financial backgrounds.
          • throw234259 26d ago
            > certainly less likelihood they're doing it purely for the love of medicine or a desire to care for their communities. Maybe self preservation? In east europe, public hospitals will force doctors to work 36 hours shifts (overnight ER with theoretical sleep). Doctors have a full criminal liability for mall practise.
        • Dylan16807 26d ago
          If we reduce the artificial shortage of doctors then the number of people entering the field specifically to make big money goes down.
          • qsera 25d ago
            > people entering the field specifically to make big money goes down... This is a self defeating argument, because for it to work it requires that there is a larger number of people who love the field than the number of people who are in only for the $$$ (or else there will be even more scarcity of doctors).. Which is not the case.
    • projektfu 26d ago
      At the bottom of their class from the worst school in the country.
  • imdsm 26d ago
    Everyone and their dog who is on statins knows what rhabdo is. Bonkers!
    • rikkert 26d ago
      Not true, I am on statins and did not know.
    • allannienhuis 26d ago
      I've been on statins for years, and I don't remember anyone talking to me about rhabdo. To be fair the education I received about my medications was a firehose of information after a heart attack and major heart surgery, so perhaps it's possible I missed a few things.
  • cannonpalms 26d ago
    This was in India, where he describes the medical knowledge of providers as subpar at best.
    • somenameforme 26d ago
      Yeah but rhabdo is something literally any e.g. body builder, power lifter, etc could tell you about. Actually if somebody knows what hypertrophy is, they probably know what rhabdo is. It's a pretty normal and big concern in any sort of high intensity weight training. I can't think of many ways that otherwise healthy and fit younger people can physically nearly kill themselves doing normal activity, so it kind of stands out - let alone it being not all that rare either. Rhabdo has even gone viral in the news like when a while back a couple of Chinese girls nearly killed themselves doing a social media 'squat challenge.' They did 1000, got rhabdo, didn't know what was happening, ended up in the ICU with kidney damage. It also manifests in other ways too. For instance I had an elderly family member give himself rhabdo during a manic phase he was going through when he started going wild on construction and other physical tasks that were way beyond what his body was ready for. Basically it's not some super obscure thing you'd expect only a good doctor, let alone a specialist, to know about.
      • Melatonic 26d ago
        People commonly knowing about Rhabdo is a much newer thing. I never heard people talk regularly about it all before CrossFit become popular
        • projektfu 26d ago
          Yeah, before CrossFit it would be almost unheard of in the general population, except perhaps with the horseracing community. Still, emergency doctors, especially in a hot place like India, should be aware of it.
      • evilmathkid 26d ago
        there's a very large variance in doctors' abilities in India. At the very top they are close to the best in the world, esp with an insanely high workload. but on an average, not great Also, a lot of gymgoers and physical trainers I know hadn't heard of rhabdo either (and this is a relatively wealthy part of a tier 1 city) things are changing for the better however
• guluarte 26d ago
  I think is more concerning doctors didnt know about rhabdomyolysis...