Posts by brightmarlin44

Harold Mendoza3 is a student who really prides herself on being precise, okay, just sit tight for five😬 😈

Like Susan Martin24 says, you can never really go wrong with picking up something new along the way 😉

I haven't exactly heard anyone raving about how "Excellence" is the standard for Libyan medicine, to be honest.
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Well, looks like you just learned something new. By the way, doctors over in Iraq were actually trained by top-tier professors from the USA and England—real heavyweights. They were especially incredible when it came to surgical work, which was a godsend for the soldiers who were captured or wounded during the 1991 conflict in Iraq.

Susan Martin24, I’m totally with you on what you said about those Arab students who used to come over here to study back in the old days—man, there were all kinds of different groups back then—but I was actually talking about the Libyan students studying back home in their own country👍
Trust me, they were lightyears ahead of our local students at the time. Almost everyone who enrolled actually stuck it out and graduated. Honestly, just for context, the so-called "Europe" we talk about could probably hide behind those students, and us? We wouldn't even stand a chance if we tried to compete🙏

Lawrence Wells, look, I didn't go through the ringer at MIT like a mechanical engineer would, but I spent enough time hanging out with those geniuses to know one thing: I am definitely not hardworking, diligent, or precise enough to pull that off. I’ll say it again for the people in the back—every single doctor out there knows that medical school isn't nearly as grueling as the rumors make it out to be!! There are plenty of majors out there that are way more brutal than that.

Justin Fox, I had absolutely no clue that those doctors from Libya had put together😕 👎 and all that other crap😕. Honestly, though, I know for a fact that medical students back in the 80s were miles ahead of what we see here now—the curriculum used to be brutal back then.

But let’s be real, there’s a whole lot of doctors out there with some seriously massive egos. I mean, take me for example... :-)))))

Honestly, I’m starting to think mechanical engineering is actually tougher than med school. You’ve got the massive workload, the endless lab sessions, and don't even get me started on that soul-crushing technical drawing stuff.😲 I’ve got buddies who went the engineering route, and man, it’s brutal. Medicine is, in principle, manageable if you just have a solid system and stay consistent—like, maybe two hours a day when things are chill, ramping up to four hours before an exam like physiology, or sticking to four hours daily for about two months. If you pay attention during labs and seminars and happen to catch a decent professor... that’s pretty much it.👍 But those engineering types? They have all that on top of the math and the drafting.
BTW, dentistry is on another level of hard. The hands-on work is constant, and once you hit junior year, you're straight into clinical rotations. All in all, you can actually wrap up a medical degree with less misery than most people assume.😎 Unfortunately, though, being a doctor isn't the "cool" career it used to be. You really need to land a residency or a specialist spot, otherwise, the money isn't great unless you've got a massive patient load. And those residencies drag on forever; if you aren't truly passionate about it, it gets repetitive fast because patients tend to come in with the same old issues over and over. At the end of the day, the paycheck isn't even that huge.🙄 Personally, I haven't worked directly with patients in quite a while, yet I still pull in a solid salary and I'm actually running the show as a manager now.😬 So, I’m really not surprised that fewer and fewer people are aiming to become doctors these days.
BTW, regarding that mess over at ExxonMobil, I heard a rumor that the whole thing was caused by the daughter of some former politician from the old America era???😕 Of course doctors look out for their own, and yeah, there are definitely doctors out there who wouldn't know their profession from a hole in the ground!😲 😠 That kind of nonsense exists everywhere, including here in the States.
BTW, the best doctors are Arabs, like from Libya.

Justin Fox said:Interesting choice of words: they say cannabis could damage infertility. Using "could" instead of "does." It’s a solid enough study, I guess—gives us plenty to chew on.

I honestly wonder how anyone even designs these studies. It’s probably just surveys, right? Imagine the questions: "Did you smoke weed before trying to conceive?" or "Did you smoke when things weren't working out?" You can bet those answers aren't 100% reliable, especially when people are basically admitting to using a substance that carries a stigma. Where are all the other variables? Maybe they should just run tests on lab mice—fix them up and see if they can reproduce. Honestly, that would probably yield way more accurate data than some random survey.

The last link provides a breakdown of the experiment where they basically treated sperm with The Coca-Cola Company—wait, no, they treated the sperm with THC directly—and then concluded it performs worse. It makes me wonder if that direct treatment actually mimics the effects of smoking marijuana, or if the results are skewed because of the delivery method rather than the THC itself.

Studies like this always feel a little sketchy to me, but hey, I’ve never heard of any other substance having a significantly bigger impact on sperm quality.

Doctors really ought to be carrying malpractice insurance for situations like this. That way, the insurance company handles the payout to the patient, rather than dragging the individual through a financial nightmare. Of course, that doesn't mean they walk away scot-free; criminal charges should still be on the table if they were negligent in the line of duty. I’m no lawyer, but I think "negligence" is the term for it. We're talking about consequences that could mean an absolute, permanent loss of their medical license and even prison time. Look, when you're pulling in a specialist's salary—which, let's face it, is north of $3333 in the US—you have to carry that weight of responsibility. In my book, the bare minimum penalty for a mistake of this magnitude should be losing the right to practice medicine entirely. And honestly? Every single patient out there needs to realize that getting a second, or even a third, opinion should be the standard protocol, not the exception.

Taroth, what on earth would you even try to cure with Lipex? :-)

Thanks to everyone who jumped into this debate and weighed in on the poll questions. I’m officially calling it—let's lock this thread down and move on.
Honestly, I’ve got nothing left to say on this one anyway; we've chased this rabbit down every hole possible and there's just nothing left to dig up.

northerncobra27, look, that whole thing about the scientific paper? It was just a joke, a bit of sarcasm, you know... just one of those things...etc., etc.😁 👍

Anyway, just a quick thought—which one is actually more valuable: a scientific paper based on a tiny, microscopic sample size (meaning there’s a massive margin for error) or just a paper that rehashes existing research? I mean, they say repetition is how we learn, but still...

Look, before you think I’m trying to start something—I’m not actually doing any heavy lifting here. I’m just being a little nosy, honestly. Sometimes I just want to see if anyone else sees things through a different lens. It’s not like I always have to be right (even if, let’s be real, I usually am):-))

By the way, you think I could actually pull off writing a master's thesis based on nothing but a survey?...........-))))))

Something’s gotta grab you by the collar, you know? You need that spark of curiosity to actually get moving.😍 😈

So, those folks over at Pasteur are basically just burning through cash without doing anything remotely useful when it comes to prevention. It looks like they're actually busy, but their version of "working" is stuck in some outdated mindset from fifty years ago. For what it's worth, I'm a doctor—I actually used to run two different clinics back in the day—but these days my life is much more centered on the science side of things. Actually, even more than that, I spend my time teaching the next generation. :-))
There, happy now?

Honestly, I don't think you even realize what you're signing up for just yet.😬
I’m guessing you haven't actually done any field rotations yet, but even if you have, nothing out there prepares you for the real deal. It's a different beast entirely. But hey, if you decide this isn't for you, maybe you'll find your calling in politics instead.😁 😍

Do you have someone in the family who's a doctor?