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Here to nerd out and advocate for accurate medical portrayals in fiction.
Board Certified ER Doc with a degree in Classics. Writer. Girl Dad. Human.
Disclaimer: Not professional medical/criminal advice. ONLY to be used by fiction writers for make-believe
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Read it!
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Damnit, I thought I was here to be helpful!
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Nor do I like that sensation
If it helps, “mastication” is the fancy way to say chewing, which you probably shouldn’t do during that second word
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In historical fiction - most
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I’d much rather meet a second me that didn’t make the same life decisions and now he goes by his middle name and we can double team the galaxy
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Wow, your first time holding a newborn?
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If you ever need/want to touch on physiology, like how mermaids can possibly breathe underwater, I'm very, very, very unlikely to ever start creating video content and happy to help you out
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Indeed. When I was doing my (pre-JSTOR) research in the dustiest section of the library stacks, my adviser mentioned the growing skepticism that gnostics as a group didn’t actually exist for the reason you just said
This whole 🧵 started just because of the initial mention of Gnosticism
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What I recall is apologists from both systems (including Irenaeus) using the same logic to derive legitimacy
I’m open to hearing your take. This was many moons ago and in a couple posts I’ve exhausted about everything I remember without digging up the old research
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Two points!
Remember, ‘twas an undergrad thesis.
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I’m glad you asked!
Gnostics, like the early Christian church that served as the comparison, appealed to the authority of ancient traditions in an attempt to earn credibility while at the same time arguing that their movement was completely novel
Can’t pretend to be ancient and also brand new
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Wait, this is amazing and I want to be friends
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We in coastal california know that we have the best sunsets in the world, because thank you global warming
Enjoy the one good takeaway from the situation!
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I wrote my undergraduate research paper on the influence of neoplatonism on gnostic “traditions” if they need a friend
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If you die in West Virginia, you die in real life
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I’ve spent maybe 21hrs on my first chapter
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As an Emergency Physician, I would watch ThePitt x ParksAndRec so hard slash offer any neurons I have if it would help make this a thing
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Dislike button
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Hopefully you’ve seen enough to put it in context, otherwise it will be like watching a mirror universe episode for the uninitiated.
Enjoy!
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If memory serves, the only episode of Buffy to receive an Emmy nod was “Hush,” which also had almost no dialogue in a show that stood out largely because of its snappy…dialogue
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It shouldn’t, other than maybe making it a little harder to place an IV depending in where it is.
That, however, is no tattoo, it’s a natural phenomenon that can happen after getting struck by lightning, and it usually goes away in about a day.
Pretty cool
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If you give up your youth to go into medicine, for the +-4yrs you’re a resident and making less than minimum wage at least you can get a liver transplant for free
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Not ok
I know a lot of really, really great human beings that are cops. Whether it’s burnout, they’re jaded, or if they’re just not there to Protect and Serve, we need a way to pivot out of law enforcement
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For what if’s worth, the american healthcare system is FUBAR
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If only we as a nation were capable of electing a woman
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I have indeed earned the merit badge Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
But no real life person is going to say “Dear [Redacted] MD, FACEP]”, they’re going to say “Dr. [Redacted]”, which the computers haven’t figured out yet
Makes it easy at least to not open some emails!
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No, this story is a rom-com. This is just the messy part before they make up/out in the oval office
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Don’t let your friends ally themselves with Elon given the current climate.
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Sorry for getting carried away
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If it's helpful, happy to chat about my divinely-inspired mission in life: helping writers improve depictions of medicine in fiction
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So you're saying we need to listen to and touch our patients?
🤯
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Totally works.
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So cool!
I've only ever seen them as red/pink. They are also transient and disappear relatively quickly.
I would 100% get it tattooed if I ever survived a lightning strike.
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I am tragically allergic to cats, but I would gladly snuggle that with my face
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1) does it tickle your toes to see the person next to you reading Starter Villain?
2) have any of your characters/dialogue been inspired by that one random Uber driver?
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My wife said this to me once
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Truth fact!
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Your factoid is so much better than my factoid!
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... I should mention it's not my photo. I post medical tips for writers and this is a cool bit of trivia
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Do both!
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Historical fiction: 150 words/hr!
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Says my favorite radiologist
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If it goes through the trapezius muscle, that’s your best bet
Unfortunately, most film depictions show this through the shoulder joint (ouch!) or under the collarbone (bad!)