hello the pitt enjoyers, 4th year med student who just finished interviewing emergency medicine (EM) here to offer up some real-life scenarios for ur viewing and shipping pleasure. i am personally mostly picturing mohantos (loser lesbian trinity santos nation RISE UP) but feel free to insert whoever:
sometimes when you do compressions, your lanyard is bouncing all over the place and someone will come behind you and drag it around your neck so it isn’t in the way #intimate
similarly, if you are doing a sterile procedure and scrubbed in and your phone goes off, sometimes you’ll have someone else reach into your back pocket to check your phone. first of all, a little butt grab never hurt anybody, and second of all, this is ripe with juicy material for seeing texts (for example finding out your attending had a sexy hookup the night before OOP who said that that def not a real scenario that happened)
i cannot emphasize ENOUGH how much of a party specialty EM is lmao. all the residents know exactly which restaurants serve alcohol at 8 am bc they need cocktails post night-shift. some residents have a literal frat house that they all hang out at on the random days of the week they get off and there’s a basement where sometimes you’ll find a random resident sleeping bc they were too drunk to go home and had a 7 am shift the next morning (whitaker-coded)
also: energy drinks all day everyday, especially celsius. trinity santos would absolutely be shotgunning these pre-shift
speaking of partying: emergency medicine regularly has resident retreats which get WILD and messy (as in i have overheard residents talking about doing lsd together, hooking up with each other, going into labor??)
and more partying: attendings will pretty regularly host sleepovers, journal clubs, dinners, parties etc at their homes bc they are rich lmao. not something i see dr. robby doing but perhaps some night shift people
residents really are that close which is sweet. i’ve had residents ask for my feedback on hinge profiles and scroll through their messages with matches with me (looking at u santos and whitaker)
so many tattoos and piercings on everyone
intern tuesdays! most EM residencies have dedicated educational conferences every week on wednesday mornings (i think - perhaps this is revealing about where in the coutnry i am lmao) so everyone gets the night before off and goes to like happy hours or sleeps over at people’s apartment and stays out late
oh and speaking of wednesday conferences - sometimes they do fun little excursions like to the zoo to learn about snake bites lmao or to the beach where everyone’s in swimsuits and they’ll do a water rescue and drag a body out of the water and forget to warn all the beachgoers that this was a simulation lmfao, ripe with material for a comedy of errors type pitt situation
also perhaps revealing a bit about where i am again but a) EM is an incrediblyyyyy gay specialty i was SHOOK once i started talking to residents and faculty there is not a straight bone in that department b) in my experience on the interview trail lots of rural queer people are lowkey trying to come to this more urban location to train and be around gay people (coughWHITAKERcough)
residents frequently let med students (or honestly even newbie interns) practice IVs on them. plenty of time for yearning touches
when a resident offers to wipe down your computer station and keyboard with a sterile wipe and has to reach over your body to do so 🥵
residents will take drugs from the over-the-counter cart and self-medicate such as one resident i knew who (incorrectly) took antibiotics for some illness and gave herself c. diff (@ whitaker)
post night shift brunch! found family!
EMTs are consistently so hot. im sorry i said it. i dont think we know any EMTs yet in the pitt but i am Waiting
oh more yearning physical intimacy: when u have a trauma patient, you have to “log roll” the patient to inspect every inch and make sure you haven’t missed anything. that entails crossing your arms over a fellow nurse/attending/resident whoever while you roll the patient and leaves plenty of room for some arm rubbing hehe
anyway this is just a start, feel free to adapt and go ham <3
You make soup in a big bowl. You serve it in a smaller bowl. And then you convey it, using a spoon, to your mouth. But what is the spoon? Simply a smaller bowl still
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Do non-americans realize that the United States is literally just a bunch of countries in a trench coat that agreed to be semi-nice to each other in order to sneak into the Big Boy Club? Because let’s be honest that’s just what the USA is
The rest of the world: So… you’re a big country?
The states, standing on each other’s shoulders: Y- yes,,,
I love how everyone who’s reblogged this hasn’t added anything on or tagged anything on it. They’re all just like “Yeah. That’s it. That’s the entire United States summed up in one post-”
absolutely bonkers that my own tags have crossed my dash like this more than fifteen reblogs after i wrote them
I moved to another state. 30 minutes away. My family acts like I betrayed them and can’t understand my life choices. It’s completely different way of life, especially during covid. Completely different country.
every single fucking time one of those articles of “things europeans find weird about america” complains that sales tax isn’t included
states set the sales tax!!! it’s literally different across state lines!!! american retailers can’t add it bc they’d have to account for 50 different prices!!!!!!!
It gets even more insane! California’s clean air standards for cars and other such things are so much higher than everyone else’s! So if a car manufacturer in Detroit wants to sell their damn cars in California, they need to build their cars to California clean air standards. But retooling an assembly line and car design to have some cars meet California clean air standards, while building others to other clean air standards is a lot of work, so car manufacturers all over the country have to build all their cars to California clean air standards.
Which is why California went into an uproar earlier this year when the Federal Government tried to argue that states can’t set their own environmental guidelines! “Fuck you!” says California, “we remember Los Angeles in the 80s, how bad the smog gets, go pollute your own damn air over in your own damn state where there isn’t a thermal inversion layer to trap all the smog down near ground level!”
“But you’re making it soooo haaaaaard to sell our cars everywhere else!” they whine.
“Fuck you!” California shouts. “And while we’re at it, we don’t give a shit what you say, Mister President, we’re gonna open our damn states when we’re good and ready, and our friends Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, and Washington State agree! Also, we’ve decided to legalize weed!”
“But the Federal Government says it’s illegal!” shouts the other states.
“Fuck you, we make the drug laws in our state, and we say toke up!”
“Now, hang on!” shouts the Federal government. “You can legalize weed in your state, but all banks are federal agencies, so if your weed dispensaries set up bank accounts, those accounts have money from illegal practices in it and are subject to seizure by the federal government!”
“FINE!” shouts California. “Hey, weed guys, you can keep selling weed, but you can only deal in cash!”
“How the fuck is that supposed to work!?”
“I DON’T FUCKING KNOW, TAKE IT UP WITH DC!”
“By the way, if you’re gay married elsewhere, we won’t recognize it,” mutters Texas.
I live in Pittsburgh. It is 300 miles away from Philadelphia. If Philadelphia is London, I’m in Newcastle.
We may have the same governor, but we are NOT the same. We don’t talk the same, we don’t eat the same. And there’s a whole lot of people in the middle who are even more different than either of us.
In the 1990s, I moved across the country to California for awhile. Casually mentioned how angry I would get when people claimed my home state was a southern state (NORTHERN state people! It’s the whole reason we exist!!! West Virginia seceded from the frigging south during the Civil War (fuck Mason & Dixon))
My BFF (born & raised in Cal) looked at me as if I were nuts – Wasn’t the civil War like hundreds of years ago? Why did I still care? I gasped as I explained that no, we are still arguing it back East.
Flash forward to her Mom saying (while giving us a car tour of her Tennessee home), “And that left Church tower looks different than the right one because it was bombed by those damn yankees during the War of Northern Agression. **looks at me** No offense honey”. “None taken,” I replied as my BFF just sat there looking flabbergasted.
Is anyone going to mention how we have 50 different sets of rules about who can sell liquor, to the point where in some places liquor stores are known as “state stores”? (Not where I live, though–here, they’re ABC stores!)
Most states have different rules for who can sell wine, beer, and hard liquor. Sometimes you can get beer and wine in the grocery store, sometimes you can’t. Some states make it illegal for the same place that can sell you beer by the case or keg to sell you a six-pack. And some states have a religious exemption that lets minors have communion wine, etc., but some states have criminalized this. It is a WHOLE MESS, fam. It’s wild.
and sometimes your state contains a body of water that five other states and the District drain into and it would be NICE if the rest of them TRIED HARDER to keep it CLEAN
sometimes i think about how the rest of the world and actually probably the rest of the united states doesnt know about the time michigan and ohio had a war
It’s crazy no one in this thread said we invented the concept of the EU
i think in some ways samira stopped maturing at 13, the age her father passed.
i’m not calling her character immature overall, she has a wonderful emotional intelligence about her, but i think she has some personality traits that we’ll see in this season that demonstrate this.
her being mad her mom has a boyfriend is obvious. it’s a very juvenile complaint. her calling the house she grew up in “our house” despite being gone for seven years is another example of this arrested development to me. her expecting her mother to just stay there when they don’t seem particularly close is like how teenagers kinda just take their mother’s presence for granted.
her reserving her compassion for work exclusively reminds me of what people in education/child psychology call restraint collapse. a child controls themselves all day at school and performs instructions without complaint, only to come home and meltdown with their parents where they know it’s safer to. she was harsher with her mother on the phone then we’ve ever seen her be with anyone. she can’t self regulate around her mother in an adult way and reverts back to this very teenage angst. she’s mad she called, she’s mad her mom doesn’t communicate the seriousness of her relationship earlier, it’s the double-bind a child puts you in where they’re ultimately just mad things are changing but can’t quite communicate that.
i don’t want this to be construed as hate to her character! i love her and find her to be one of the most compelling storylines, but i think they’re intentionally showing this as a symptom of her unaddressed grief for her father that she has centered her whole life around. she’s a doctor because of his death, the way she practices medicine is because of his manner of death, she latches on to an older man (jack) during the mass tragedy. she’s stuck as that adolescent that doesn’t quite know who she is without her father.
maybe when they air the secret stranger things episode they’ll accidentally upload the wrong file from the industry folder of secret tv episodes and it’ll be the lost sherlock episode instead
I am about going to gripe about something that’s been really annoying me lately.
First let me start with a disclaimer that I am speaking generally here. Of course both the U.S. and Europe are both massive and diverse places containing hundreds of millions of people, and a lot of regional differences. Neither the U.S. or Europe are a monolith (although a lot of people on the internet speak of both places as a monolith, which I wish people would stop doing, since neither are).
I could be wrong about this, since I don’t live in the U.S., and haven’t visited everywhere in Europe. But between where I have visited in the U.S., and where I have visited / lived in Europe, and from what I know from my friends in the U.S. and friends in other European countries, I get the feeling that overall the U.S. has stricter disability access laws than a lot of places in Europe do, especially in regard to building codes.
Of course there are exceptions, I know New York city is abhorrently hostile in its design towards anyone elderly and/or disabled. Although when I visited New York city it really just felt on par with a lot of major European cities with how abhorrently inaccessible it was.
One example of this is that recently I saw a Reddit discussion where a USAmerican vacationing in France was surprised at how many staircases didn’t have handrails, because according to this man handrails are required by law in the U.S.
The comments were all Europeans having an absolute field day with this. Pretty much all of the comments were some variation of “I can’t believe Americans are too stupid and lazy to use the stairs without a handrail 🤣🤣🤣 what’s wrong with you fat lazy stupid Americans that you can’t even use stairs without a handrail 🤣🤣🤣 thank GOD I was born in Europe where I was just taught how to walk up and down the stairs on my own and don’t need a handrail like a lazy fat stupid American 🤣🤣🤣”
A few people tried to gently point out that this was about accessibility for elderly and disabled people, and it’s not cool to laugh at building codes that are about accessibility, but those commenters were usually shut down with some variation of “yeah well in MY European country if someone is disabled or becomes elderly we either move to a more accessible building or we modify our home to be more accessible, we don’t sit around whining like a bunch of Americans that our building isn’t already accessible 🙄”
Which is, such a cruel way to talk about accessibility. Why wouldn’t disabled and elderly people deserve the same access to a building as anyone else? Are elderly and disabled people not allowed to visit friends and family? Anyone could get hit by a car today, and after that struggle with going up and down stairs without the use of a handrail for the next several months, years, possibly the rest of your life. It’s so easy to feel smug when you can easily trot up and down the stairs without a handrail, but so cruel to be unwilling to consider anyone who struggles with stairs should maybe be allowed access to the same places as you.
Honestly when I go on vacation abroad with my elderly + disabled mother, it’s often easier to go to the U.S. with her than other places in Europe, because the U.S. does tend to be more accessible (in my experience, and except for New York city ofc) making going around to different public places with my mom generally a lot easier than somewhere like France or the Netherlands.
Out of all the things you could clown on the U.S. about, why you gotta go for accessibility of all things? It’s disgustingly ableist and ageist, and I have to wonder if these people actually just hate disabled people / accessible design, and are using the U.S. as an excuse to hate on disabled people and accessible design.
I’m a Canadian. Our disability access is probably better than much of Europe (although I haven’t visited a lot of different European countries). But it’s definitely worse than the USA.
The USA has something called the Americans With Disabilites Act (ADA), and apparently it works fairly well. An American in my WhatsApp group went to a figure skating championship in Toronto a while back and was stunned that the arena didn’t have wheelchair access for spectators. Because an American arena would have.
Not everything about the USA is awful. Not everything about Canada and Europe is great.
Also, I live in Vancouver. We didn’t have a subway system until 1986, that’s when the Skytrain was finally built. Several of the Skytrain stations were originally built with noelevators. People with wheelchairs were expected to enter or exit the system at a different station that did have wheelchair access. In 1986.
The system wasn’t built in 1896 or 1926, when wheelchairs were a newfangled idea. It was built in 1986. British Columbian Rick Hansen’s Man In Motion world wheelchair tour started in 1985 (in Vancouver).
Or well, the Skytrain was opened in 1986. Let’s say the plans for it were finalized by 1983, since it would’ve taken a few years to build. In 1983, there was already a substantial disability rights movement in Canada, but several Skytrain stations didn’t have elevators anyway, presumably because it was cheaper.
Naturally, it eventually became politically unacceptable to make wheelchair users (and people with strollers, and people with canes or walkers, and people with suitcases) skip a station because they hadn’t bothered to put an elevator in that station.
So those stations had to be retrofitted at vast expense to make them wheelchair-accessible. It probably would’ve been cheaper to just build them accessible from the start, in retrospect. But we didn’t have a Made In Canada version of the ADA, so it didn’t happen.
Also, wheelchair accessibility does not only help wheelchair users. It also helps people with babies or toddlers in strollers, people using walkers, crutches, or canes, travellers with heavy suitcases, elderly people, etc, etc. I take the Skytrain several days a week, and I see all those people taking the elevator instead of the stairs or escalators.
Anyone who wants to know why America/The USA has the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), PLEASE look up “The Capitol Crawl.” I saw a video of it at a disability centric school I went to. Hundreds of disabled people that couldn’t walk dragged themselves up the Capitol steps- a famously giant staircase that leads to the places our legislation gets made. People were crawling up, risking their health, and lives to become visible. And while accessibility still isn’t perfect (people on Disability have their income capped at $16,200 monthly, or about $19,440 yearly, any cent over, and you get no benefits and might as well die) we have some stuff. It was hard fought for, and people just fied out of sight beforehand. But we refused to let it keep happening. If anything, that is the opposite of lazy.
