Rant about life thread

[NutritionRunner]

Two rants today:

 

1. BMI. Such a flawed way of determining if someone is overweight or obese. My very fit, very muscular husband is classified as obese, despite having a very low body fat percentage, and cut muscles on his arms and legs (especially his legs - he's a runner). Heck, I'm even at the very upper end of "normal" despite having a body fat percentage at the low end of healthy, and also being very muscular (and large framed if you can trust the body frame measurements and charts).

 

2. Diabetes. Ugh. I am so sick of learning about diabetes and diabetes management. I know it's important. I know far too many of our health care dollars go towards diabetes management. I know dietitians will have to deal with diabetes. But I do not want to spend the rest of my life doing diabetes counselling. If I don't get into med school, I hope I get into one of the public health dietetic internships. I'm much more interested in public health and community health nutrition and interventions. (So no, I won't be going for endocrinology if I get into med school, despite being very interested in thyroid disorders, as I know diabetes is the bread-and-butter of endocrinology).

[kylamonkey]

Two rants today:

 

1. BMI. Such a flawed way of determining if someone is overweight or obese. My very fit, very muscular husband is classified as obese, despite having a very low body fat percentage, and cut muscles on his arms and legs (especially his legs - he's a runner). Heck, I'm even at the very upper end of "normal" despite having a body fat percentage at the low end of healthy, and also being very muscular (and large framed if you can trust the body frame measurements and charts).

 

2. Diabetes. Ugh. I am so sick of learning about diabetes and diabetes management. I know it's important. I know far too many of our health care dollars go towards diabetes management. I know dietitians will have to deal with diabetes. But I do not want to spend the rest of my life doing diabetes counselling. If I don't get into med school, I hope I get into one of the public health dietetic internships. I'm much more interested in public health and community health nutrition and interventions. (So no, I won't be going for endocrinology if I get into med school, despite being very interested in thyroid disorders, as I know diabetes is the bread-and-butter of endocrinology).

 

My partner is also concerned about BMI despite being a champion in martial arts. I tell him to stop but he's still trying to lose 15lbs.

 

The problem with avoiding diabetes management is that you can end up in other areas that are just as depressing for similar reasons. I know a thoracic surgeon who has basically 80% of his work doing surgery on people who have smoked for ages. Maybe that's not why you're wanting to avoid diabetes mgmt.

 

Also- no pun intended with "diabetes is the bread-and-butter of endocrinology"?

[FrenchToast]

Two rants today:

 

1. BMI. Such a flawed way of determining if someone is overweight or obese. My very fit, very muscular husband is classified as obese, despite having a very low body fat percentage, and cut muscles on his arms and legs (especially his legs - he's a runner). Heck, I'm even at the very upper end of "normal" despite having a body fat percentage at the low end of healthy, and also being very muscular (and large framed if you can trust the body frame measurements and charts).

 

2. Diabetes. Ugh. I am so sick of learning about diabetes and diabetes management. I know it's important. I know far too many of our health care dollars go towards diabetes management. I know dietitians will have to deal with diabetes. But I do not want to spend the rest of my life doing diabetes counselling. If I don't get into med school, I hope I get into one of the public health dietetic internships. I'm much more interested in public health and community health nutrition and interventions. (So no, I won't be going for endocrinology if I get into med school, despite being very interested in thyroid disorders, as I know diabetes is the bread-and-butter of endocrinology).

 

Grr, BMI. It works the other way, too. According to BMI I'm severely underweight, but I'm actually just on the somewhat small side of normal. It kills me that it doesn't take body shape into account. If I had a rounder bottom and a larger chest, sure I'd be normal. With my shape, if I were to weight as much as BMI says I should, I'd be pretty darn rotund, lol.

[Birdy]

The past month has sucked. A lot.

 

Cancer diagnosis of an immediate family member. My six year old was suspended from school because they couldn't find the resources to deal with him. I didn't even know it was possible to get suspended from kindergarten, but it is. Of course, the school expects ME to do the legwork to figure out how to get my son access to the services to which he is entitled because the school board can't be bothered. As if I have time to do this, but I have to make time. Plus the kids and I all got lice, which meant a crapload of cleaning that I didn't have time for.

 

I was sick for over a week with what I think may have been norovirus, missed three days of class and a lab because I couldnt be more than a few feet from a washroom. The only upside of that is that I lost 11lbs in six days. I'm honestly surprised it wasn't more.

 

My husband just got injured at work - ligament tear in his ankle. He's stuck in Alberta, unable to work his usual job for six weeks, according to the doctor. The 'modified duties' they have him on mean a cut by more than half of his pay. After they effectively cut his pay by 15% to begin with by eliminating the subsistence allowance.

 

It has been a really, really crappy month for pretty much everyone in my family.

[xkittens]

The past month has sucked. A lot.

 

Cancer diagnosis of an immediate family member. My six year old was suspended from school because they couldn't find the resources to deal with him. I didn't even know it was possible to get suspended from kindergarten, but it is. Of course, the school expects ME to do the legwork to figure out how to get my son access to the services to which he is entitled because the school board can't be bothered. As if I have time to do this, but I have to make time. Plus the kids and I all got lice, which meant a crapload of cleaning that I didn't have time for.

 

I was sick for over a week with what I think may have been norovirus, missed three days of class and a lab because I couldnt be more than a few feet from a washroom. The only upside of that is that I lost 11lbs in six days. I'm honestly surprised it wasn't more.

 

My husband just got injured at work - ligament tear in his ankle. He's stuck in Alberta, unable to work his usual job for six weeks, according to the doctor. The 'modified duties' they have him on mean a cut by more than half of his pay. After they effectively cut his pay by 15% to begin with by eliminating the subsistence allowance.

 

It has been a really, really crappy month for pretty much everyone in my family.

 

[apache]

omg, you're like my endocrinological psychiatry twin! LOL

 

DSM->top down constructivist defintions aren't indicative of treatment response to certain interventions, and are prone to our bias in clustering syndromes, when in reality clustered traits can be seemingly disparate and aren't really predictive of clinicians intervention success rates... the most qualitatively successful (outcomes data variation by clinician seem to lack in psych, where diagnoses literally at times determined by the dsm chair's wife (spitzer on the dsm 3) opinion that criteria should be removed because they were stupid... oh my... so clinically useful (on an aside, can you tell my history of psych book will sell well, it's so ridiculous yet at the same time true that you're addicted to the absurdity, juxtaposed with the supposed authoritarian portrayal and fervent belief of some shrinks at the bs they're fed.... it's sort of like attacking fundamentalist christians... at first laughing, at first wondering, this can't seriously have happened, to, how did this happen, how do people fall for this, to realizing this effected people horribly, to disgust, and or anger (often if you've had a bad experience due to some of the things described... something like that usually... humor is the best medicine i guess, LOL.)

 

i feel the same way about bmi... although you seem more passionate

 

yeah, i like clinical stuff... a lot, but could never do it full time, because helping 8 people a day while i see the masses get screwed seems a little, well, uphill, so to speak. but well, i would love to do public health, i've invested so much, that i could double as a comedian, career assassination specialist, means of change on a much wider scale... the rosenbaum experiment is always a fantastic way to start... or at academic conferences i'd love research methodology, haha... harm reduction, let's talk epidemiology, history... oh my, and let's just say, i'd have fun with it, because well, i tend to make people look funny so don't have problems finding an audience... aggressive intensity when emphasizing consequences usually leads to wow... that guy is 1) wow, he has a doctorate, he's trying so hard and is just so, well, poor guy 2) wow, is this personal a charlattan or just stupid enough to be this overwhelmed and still trying 3) my god, if this is an expert, this person is either malevolant, and sociopathic... to wow, how can i trust experts... i've just had a paradigm shift contra embarrassed person trying to debate me, and that person's a leader... why should i believe any expert in this field... anger may follow, depending on attribution of stupidity or greed by the audience to the unfortunate thought leader i get to have fun with.

 

Two rants today:

 

1. BMI. Such a flawed way of determining if someone is overweight or obese. My very fit, very muscular husband is classified as obese, despite having a very low body fat percentage, and cut muscles on his arms and legs (especially his legs - he's a runner). Heck, I'm even at the very upper end of "normal" despite having a body fat percentage at the low end of healthy, and also being very muscular (and large framed if you can trust the body frame measurements and charts).

 

2. Diabetes. Ugh. I am so sick of learning about diabetes and diabetes management. I know it's important. I know far too many of our health care dollars go towards diabetes management. I know dietitians will have to deal with diabetes. But I do not want to spend the rest of my life doing diabetes counselling. If I don't get into med school, I hope I get into one of the public health dietetic internships. I'm much more interested in public health and community health nutrition and interventions. (So no, I won't be going for endocrinology if I get into med school, despite being very interested in thyroid disorders, as I know diabetes is the bread-and-butter of endocrinology).

[silvantes]

The past month has sucked. A lot.

 

Cancer diagnosis of an immediate family member. My six year old was suspended from school because they couldn't find the resources to deal with him. I didn't even know it was possible to get suspended from kindergarten, but it is. Of course, the school expects ME to do the legwork to figure out how to get my son access to the services to which he is entitled because the school board can't be bothered. As if I have time to do this, but I have to make time. Plus the kids and I all got lice, which meant a crapload of cleaning that I didn't have time for.

 

I was sick for over a week with what I think may have been norovirus, missed three days of class and a lab because I couldnt be more than a few feet from a washroom. The only upside of that is that I lost 11lbs in six days. I'm honestly surprised it wasn't more.

 

My husband just got injured at work - ligament tear in his ankle. He's stuck in Alberta, unable to work his usual job for six weeks, according to the doctor. The 'modified duties' they have him on mean a cut by more than half of his pay. After they effectively cut his pay by 15% to begin with by eliminating the subsistence allowance.

 

It has been a really, really crappy month for pretty much everyone in my family.

 

. Very sorry to hear all that, Hope things get better soon.

[thehockeykid]

Sorry birdy what ur going through.

 

fml why is my homework so dam boring, i feel like I am dying studying to this crap. I just want it to be summer already so i can study what I am interested in, minus the stupid mcat. Why can't I go god dam golfing instead the most learning about the most dry topic ever. I dont want to be here but i know I have to be doing this crap to get to where i want to be. (not impressed, not happy)

[thehockeykid]

I know what time it is it is **** this **** o'clock

[NutritionRunner]

Sorry to hear that Birdy. I hope you get everything sorted out with your six year old. It's sad that the school isn't helping more.

 

I hope the next month is much better for you and your family.

 

The past month has sucked. A lot.

 

Cancer diagnosis of an immediate family member. My six year old was suspended from school because they couldn't find the resources to deal with him. I didn't even know it was possible to get suspended from kindergarten, but it is. Of course, the school expects ME to do the legwork to figure out how to get my son access to the services to which he is entitled because the school board can't be bothered. As if I have time to do this, but I have to make time. Plus the kids and I all got lice, which meant a crapload of cleaning that I didn't have time for.

 

I was sick for over a week with what I think may have been norovirus, missed three days of class and a lab because I couldnt be more than a few feet from a washroom. The only upside of that is that I lost 11lbs in six days. I'm honestly surprised it wasn't more.

 

My husband just got injured at work - ligament tear in his ankle. He's stuck in Alberta, unable to work his usual job for six weeks, according to the doctor. The 'modified duties' they have him on mean a cut by more than half of his pay. After they effectively cut his pay by 15% to begin with by eliminating the subsistence allowance.

 

It has been a really, really crappy month for pretty much everyone in my family.

[NutritionRunner]

Psychiatry interests me, but I'm not sure I could do it full-time either. For example, I was working in an eating disorders clinic as a dietitian's assistant, and saw one person get misdiagnosed (when it was clear she was anorexic), because she was smart and knew all the "right" answers to give on the various tests (having seen them, yeah, they seem easy to "fool"). Plus, this girl knew she was far too thin (she didn't have the typical anorexic body image distortion in that way) but at the same time she was absolutely terrified of becoming "fat." It boggled my mind that they said she didn't have an eating disorder. But then again, maybe the experts were right. I'm certainly not a doctor, a psychiatrist, or even a registered dietitian yet.

 

omg, you're like my endocrinological psychiatry twin! LOL

 

DSM->top down constructivist defintions aren't indicative of treatment response to certain interventions, and are prone to our bias in clustering syndromes, when in reality clustered traits can be seemingly disparate and aren't really predictive of clinicians intervention success rates... the most qualitatively successful (outcomes data variation by clinician seem to lack in psych, where diagnoses literally at times determined by the dsm chair's wife (spitzer on the dsm 3) opinion that criteria should be removed because they were stupid... oh my... so clinically useful (on an aside, can you tell my history of psych book will sell well, it's so ridiculous yet at the same time true that you're addicted to the absurdity, juxtaposed with the supposed authoritarian portrayal and fervent belief of some shrinks at the bs they're fed.... it's sort of like attacking fundamentalist christians... at first laughing, at first wondering, this can't seriously have happened, to, how did this happen, how do people fall for this, to realizing this effected people horribly, to disgust, and or anger (often if you've had a bad experience due to some of the things described... something like that usually... humor is the best medicine i guess, LOL.)

[apache]

that's the problem with generalist criteria, low i-r reliability, treatment derived construct valid being crazy, cause well, doesn't exist, top-down diagnoses followed by finding the best treatment for social contructed cluster defining a disorder... seems like best practice... but it's only best using capricious diagnostics, total framing effect of legitimizing licensure and the dsm as certifications of mental health skill... outcomes matter, i couldn't give a **** if it's nos, schizotypal, manic dep with psychotic manic episodes, drug induced bipolar like symptoms... with ses factors and borderline personality characterstics... yeah, sorry, only way to measure proficient mental health is treatment efficacy compared to baseline, diagnostics, who cares... just a billing code (in most cases... but i'm not talking useful stuff like rapid cycling bipolar, or delineating ssri induced manic psychosis (lol, i have genetic studies, plus so many studies backing it up on every level of analysis it's silly)... in fact, in my little psych book, i'd like to explain vyvanse patent for lay people, and point out tricks, you'd have to, well, be very multi-disciplinary to notice, and notice easily... that might be fun case example for the conclusion, i'm sure people want to hear how about the new safe drug (if ur avg psych listening to a presentation or reading 1 page ad)... with little abuse potential, is more cardiotoxic than short acting dex tablets, easily abuseable, if you know some chemistry... and realize that some people don't cleave dex, but can get a 12 hour high via total plasma conc instead of the short rush from cleaving a single tab... honestly, it's so full of well, deceptively legal lies... that, i'm sure the public would be more than greatly entertained... i love auc comps of patent expiring adderall and lysdex... hmm defined as amphetamine... fine print, states that includes levo... and the prior has lower s.d. of cmax (creates accidental addicts, less smooth pharmacokinetics (essential amino acid conjugates in appetite suppressing meds may have higher s.d.'s of cmax, compared to something with multiple salts... also, while more difficult for short term high, cummulative effects... plus short term if ur clever with chem... amp-conjugate to use non essential a.a.'s to compare abuseability concerta... i can spot 3 of these a page, times 150... wonder why adderall is 5 times the price here than the us, with no ir option (min half life diff, plus huge price diff... hmmm) and how vyvanse is the new try it for free med, sometimes i just wanna scare shire ****less instead of doing special auth with insurance for aadr xr... cause even their generic patent extension on adderall xr is because of multiple people interpreting diff things... imagine reading and getting it all, sorry guys... lol, and i've read the court transcripts... like i said before... titles are useless... i can go into minutia, to behavioural expression correlates with pathophys at subcellular level (hey, pharmacology, wow, and im better at the arts, seriously) so more simple disorders, like say adhd, guesswork, no, i call laziness, lol, but my standards, sort of ridiculously high... don't think people remember in the end their job involves, someone's health, and well, more than that if you ask me

 

Psychiatry interests me, but I'm not sure I could do it full-time either. For example, I was working in an eating disorders clinic as a dietitian's assistant, and saw one person get misdiagnosed (when it was clear she was anorexic), because she was smart and knew all the "right" answers to give on the various tests (having seen them, yeah, they seem easy to "fool"). Plus, this girl knew she was far too thin (she didn't have the typical anorexic body image distortion in that way) but at the same time she was absolutely terrified of becoming "fat." It boggled my mind that they said she didn't have an eating disorder. But then again, maybe the experts were right. I'm certainly not a doctor, a psychiatrist, or even a registered dietitian yet.

[thehockeykid]

I finally was able to understand this work, which was giving me such a hard time......facepalm. Seems like I had to take a step back from the whole concept and i realized that it wasn't that hard.

[Exocytosis]

My thesis is going poorly and I cannot breath out of my nose.

 

It's just an honours thesis, so it doesn't really matter, but it's still a little bit frustrating.

 

I will now defer the thread back to people with actual problems.

[Clever]

My thesis is going poorly and I cannot breath out of my nose.

 

It's just an honours thesis, so it doesn't really matter, but it's still a little bit frustrating.

 

I will now defer the thread back to people with actual problems.

 

Hey, it is a real problem. Good luck with it!

....

I didn't want to wait 20 minutes for the bus so I walked home (35mins) and it's pretty cold. I think I have frostbite on my frostbite.

[medhopeful64]

My thesis is going poorly and I cannot breath out of my nose.

 

It's just an honours thesis, so it doesn't really matter, but it's still a little bit frustrating.

 

I will now defer the thread back to people with actual problems.

 

Agreed- its def a real problem! I'm having a similar problem and its completely frustrating!

 

Hey, it is a real problem. Good luck with it!

....

I didn't want to wait 20 minutes for the bus so I walked home (35mins) and it's pretty cold. I think I have frostbite on my frostbite.

 

Ouch!!

 

My rant/problem: I am SO sick of undergrad (doing a second one). I just want to quit and move on with my life and I am sick of my family asking "when I am going to get into med school." umm, probably never?

[thehockeykid]

i am hating undergrad, i am getting how to do the work but it is so dam time consuming

[medhopeful64]

i am hating undergrad, i am getting how to do the work but it is so dam time consuming

 

It's funny, back in my third year of UG I loved undergrad. I even once said I wanted to be a student forever! lol what a crazy thought that was! My shift in attitude is partly due to the change in schools, and the fact that I can't always study what I want (need to pick courses you can do well in)

[Larrivee]

i am hating undergrad, i am getting how to do the work but it is so dam time consuming

 

I hear ya buddy. If your hoping for meds though, it is definitely something that you have to get used to... it's only going to get more time consuming! That said, it is much more interesting and varied than undergrad (at least I have found this to be true). I probably do at least twice as much work as undergrad now. Lesson: learn to study/do well in a manner that is sustainable. You don't want to exhaust yourself, especially when you are going to need to prepare for an increased load when you're in med.

[NutritionRunner]

Grrr! Writing up a lab, and we had to create a calibration curve for a certain compound, and then determine the amount of that compound in our sample.

 

Well, the absorbance reading for our sample does not in any way, shape or form fall on the calibration curve. So something went majorly wrong. *sigh*

 

I'm hoping that explaining the possible sources of error (and there were a bunch) will suffice, and I won't lose too many marks for not being able to determine the concentration of the compound in our sample.

 

The calibration curve was stupid anyway - only 3 points. I mean, who creates a calibration curve with only three known concentrations? I mean, really? When I've done real research in the lab, we use quite a few more points than just three to get our standard curves.

[thehockeykid]

I am in dental pain, cant see a dentist for a week! and i have midterms to study for in so much pain!!!!!

 

 

I FEEL LIKE I AM DYING A SLOW DEATH

 

 

-perhaps I can get some vicodin so i can be just like dr house (joking)

-mom is an idiot tells me to go see a chiropractor for problems for my jaw

-mom also does not realize how hard it is to get 90s in my courses.... underplaying all my achievements, comparing me to stupid uncle who barley passed uni to someone in the top. no **** he can balance having a job and school for getting bad grades.

 

Stress factors!!!!

-Grades

-ignorant mother

-dental pain

 

maybe i will see a local doctor in town pain is too much

[Juggtastic]

tired of pleasantries.

[frenziedmalady]

Pulled an all nighter last night and doing another one tonight. I have an exam tomorrow which is all short answer/essay type. I regret I took this class.

[Exocytosis]

That feeling when you literally have no idea what to write for a midterm essay question so you just vomit out words. The essay had almost nothing to do with the material covered too. Thankfully the midterm was only worth 20%, and I think that comparatively I probably did pretty okay.

 

Tomorrow I will finis up a programming assignment, put together three writing portfolios, fax in a resume, and then spend 9 hours on a bus.

 

Also, dental pain + all nighters suck.

[thehockeykid]

I actually really hate bad service, makes me want to pull on of my sister's moves (talk slowly to them, or tell them to do their job properly)

 

e.g. at a boutique custom pastry shop i ordered a custom cake for my mom's b day and the person make it to the wrong name. she kept arguing me saying that it was me who got the name wrong, and i am pretty clear sure i know my mom's name. spoke to manager to get it fixed. it is so silly my family purchases quite a number of cakes from that place and now i am never going to go back there.