Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude (via malikaehindustan)

Watch: When Mitt Romney makes the same points as John Oliver, you know shit’s gone south.

this is ‘the villain helps the heroes take down a more evil villain’ trope come to life

*looks outside to see if pigs are flying*

if you told me a few years ago that I’d be reblogging a gifset of Mitt Romney, agreeing with every word he said, I would NOT have believed you.

fuck 

He said that so vividly

This is life now. [intimidating]

Hi all! Grace here.

I am not yet studying Anatomy and probably won’t until next year, but I decided to look up sources relating to Anatomy and gather them here for future reference! I will be adding more to it as I find more. If you are currently studying Anatomy or already have, please let me know if there were sources you are using/did use that were/are helpful so I can add them! :)

Nurse Journal

I hope this is helpful! x

Chris Pine on Star Trek Beyond portraying an ideal future for humanity

i think princess diaries 3 would also be a wonder portrayal xoxo

List of Medical Documentaries

History of Medicine Ancient Egypt: Medicine and History (History Channel, “Where Did it Come From?) Forbidden Knowledge: Ancient Medical Secrets (Discovery) Getting Better: 200 Years of Medicine (New England Journal of Medicine) Human Anatomy and Medicine (Discovery) Lost Tomb of Imhotep (Ancient Egypt Documentary)

Antibiotics/Antivirals Frontline: The Trouble with Antibiotics (PBS) Rise of the Superbugs (Dailymotion) Origin of AIDS: The Polio Vaccine (CBC: Witness)

Business of Medicine The Business of Being Born (Barranca Productions)

Disease/Infection Siddhartha Mukherjee - The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Lecture (Harvard Book Store) Pain, Pus and Poison - Pus, The Search for Modern Medicine (BBC; @medicine-nerd)

Global Medical Missions Médicins sans Frontières: From Action to Words (MSF) Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors without Borders (MSF Australia)

Health Care Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare (Lionsgate; @stayingmedicallyinspired)

Human Behavior Pleasure and Pain Documentary with Michael Mosley (BBC)

Pioneering Physicians Present and Unaccounted for: Black Women in Medicine (URU, The Right to Be, Inc.)

Pharmacology Pain, Pus and Poison - Pain, The Search for Modern Medicine (BBC; @medicine-nerd)

Medical Dramas Boston Med, Season 1 (ABC) Emergency Room: Life + Death at Vancouver General Hospital (Knowledge Network) Hopkins (ABC) NY Med, Season 1 (ABC) NY Med, Season 2 Episode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 (ABC)

Medical Education Doctors’ Diaries: Part 1 and Part 2 (PBS NOVA) “I am a Medical Student” - The Motivations and Interests of 5 Future Physicians (Mauch Scott)

Research Science Documentary: Stem Cells (UCL)

Surgery & Surgical Procedures Surgery’s Dirty Secrets (BBC) The Lobotomist, Walter J. Freeman: Part 1 and Part 2 (PBS) Extracting a Deadly Brain Tumor (University of Miami School of Medicine; @medicine-nerd) The Human Face (BBC)

Toxicology Pain, Pus and Poison - Poison, The Search for Modern Medicine (BBC) The Venom Cure (PBS; @medicine-nerd)

War & Medicine Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial (Parts 1-3) (BBC) Battlefield Medicine (History Channel) Modern Marvels: Battlefield Medicine (History Channel) Surgeons at War: Combat Surgery in World War II (Unknown) Frontline Medicine (BBC)

Please note: This list is updated regularly. If you have any documentary suggestions, please share!

at the end of the day it’s you. it’s you who has to make sure that you’re okay. it’s you who has to hold yourself. it’s you who has to decided to keep going. sure making some tea will make you feel okay but you really do have to make sure you’re okay. you have to keep holding on and keep trying, it’s hard out here, I know that. it’s you and you can do it. you can do whatever you want to do because you are strong and you’ve made it so far

Different Sides, Same Story

Her hair bobbed as she walked into the room, her eyes locking on mine.  Her hands were already clasped tightly together and a nervous tension emanated from her.  I smiled.

“Hi, I’m Kari, I’m working with him today… Are you family?”  I said as she hovered in the dead space between the sliding door and the bed.

She nodded quickly and began speaking in rapid tones.  She tried not to but she cringed as she looked at the bed.

I couldn’t blame her.  The large man laying there was wasting away. A week of laying in the ICU in multi-system organ failure had created a pin cushion in the shape of a man.

In report that morning I had heard all about how he had cancer consuming his body.  Terrible, awful cancer. The kind that mocks chemo and turns its nose up at radiation. He had been doing well and then suddenly he wasn’t.  The family was shell shocked.  By all accounts, he was the sweetest and kindest man you could ever know. He was encouraging to strangers and family alike.  

I’m always curious about patient’s I meet on death’s door.  Were they funny? Were they happy?  Where did they work?  What was their laugh like? 

The wife continued talking about their life together and how neglected things had been since he had gotten sick. 

“I have so much to do.  I just don’t want to do it.  Not without him…not without him.” Her voice wavered.

I looked away from the wife’s soulful brown eyes rimmed with tears and looked at my patient.  I couldn’t see it.  The man that was described so lovingly, was gone.  His likeness remained.  A likeness that was becoming more jaundiced as the day went on.  His body, so swollen with fluid, that even the continuous dialysis I was running didn’t help. A likeness whose kidneys, lungs, stomach had quit.  A likeness whose skin bruised with touching and weeped with fluid.

It was all I could see. The dying body. Even as I struggled to see it through the wife’s eyes.  To imagine someone I loved in that bed.  I couldn’t see the smile they described or the sparkling eyes.  I saw the cracked bleeding lips and swollen sclera. I saw the lab values and endless string of medicines pushing chemical life into his body.  I saw the machines filtering, breathing, reviving what little life they could. 

I saw the body. 

She saw the man.

One of the most amazing things I’ve ever read.

Legitimately Free MCAT Resources

Source: /r/mcat’s wiki page

Free Resources:

AAMC Resources:

Premeddit:

Other Subreddits to take note of:

Get your butt into gear:

Other Sites to Consider:

‘Hamilton’s’ Lin-Manuel Miranda On Writing the Broadway Hit’s Songs 

I care too much (via difficult)

Alexandra Citrin (via coffeemuggermd)

MD, Radiologist