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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I’m a neurology resident. The localization on this diagram is meaningless. Yes, hypertension can cause headache especially if severe, but the distribution shown on the corresponding diagram would be most consistent with muscle strain if anything. Migraine can start and radiate anywhere but is usually hemispheric - if they wanted to pick something specific to the area around/behind the eye they could have considered cluster or sinus headache. What they indicate as “stress” would be closest to a tension headache, which is the classic band-like squeezing/throbbing headache most of us have experienced at one time or another. If you have headache associated with hypertension and any symptoms like focal weakness, difficulty creating or understanding speech, sensory changes, dizziness, confusion, go to the hospital. The scariest type which can be a sequela of htn would be that associated with subarachnoid hemorrhage which is classically described as the “worst headache of one’s life.” Not to suggest that’s an objective characterization; cluster headaches in particular are notorious for having driven some to suicide due to pain severity.

    Btw I know this is just a meme, but commenting since some were apparently taking the unedited parts of the diagram at face value



  • Great, you went to college, not medical school. If someone graduated with a bachelor’s degree in anatomy and physiology, they took more medical related classes than you, but still no one would say they went to “medical school.” It’s deliberately misleading and insulting to the people who actually spend over a decade becoming fully-licensed physicians. Not that dissimilar to stolen valor, frankly. Phlebotomists, nurses, etc all take medical classes and actually go on to treat patients medically, but still no one would say they went to medical school. You do a difficult and important job and you have every right to be proud of it, but you have nowhere near the level of medical knowledge or training of someone who went to medical school.




  • I vaguely remember some TIL post awhile back that essentially blamed some aristocrat with a sensitive stomach for the meme version of traditional British cuisine, under the auspices of WWII rationing. He apparently recommended cutting spice and overcooking veg both for “health” and import cost/availability reasons during wartime rationing, and this got swept up in the unified national “keep calm and carry on” wartime rhetoric as quintessentially British. Supposedly prior to the war, traditional cuisines in the isles generally were more flavorful and varied