Anonymous #3 6w

i’m happy for you! my doctor’s appointments go like this me: hi! blah blah i need this other new med blah blah you should order these labs in case of blah blah blah and also i’m lowering my dosage because blah blah. numbers business etc doctah: hmm yes you know more about this than i do lol. this all sounds good to me! i ordered those labs and noted the dosage change and here’s that new prescription. me: thanks mr doctor man! so long 👋

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Anonymous #4 6w

feels like walking my baby siblings through their times tables

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Anonymous #4 6w

Yeah basically thats how it goes with my doc too

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Anonymous #5 6w

… whereas I’ve known several incredibly trustworthy nerdy autistic trans women with self-taught expertise in various niche areas 🤔

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Anonymous #6 6w

"i don't encourage diy"

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Anonymous #6 6w

leave it to the medical student to be like “most people should NOT do this thing, because they’re stupid and reckless and won’t do their research first. I do the thing though, obviously. because I’m much smarter than everyone else, and my knowledge of how all human bodies work is 100% comprehensive”

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Anonymous #5 6w

med students do their research on secret medical websites that us mortals dont have access to

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Anonymous #4 6w

my gyn was straight up like i don't really know how to treat your atrophy so we're just gonna try ____ and monitor it really closely and then on the way out i asked if i could use the tablets instead of the cream and she was like surprised pikachu face. we really do tend to know a lot more.

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Anonymous #2 6w

No but having access to research and understanding it is much different

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there are absolutely things that medical students can access that non-medical students can’t lmao. medical education gives people access to resources and training in medical interpretation that the regular layperson hasn’t had. yes, the “textbook” is available to you, but that doesn’t mean you had the training to be able to interpret it. knowing one isolated fact isn’t enough to recognize why it’s important and how it connects to everything else.

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