u/rasberrycroissant

Warner is my favourite all the time but in this episode specifically, I genuinely think she’s amazing.

She’s canonically a combat veteran, served in Desert Storm, but takes a very staunch stance against torture, or “advanced interrogation”, as a tactic to gain information even when people are telling her why it’s necessary.

I also love the way she said that the Hippocratic Oath is really that simple, because it is. The whole episode is full of justification but I love how upset she is at a doctor of all people doing this.

I like this episode for how it handles advanced interrogation anyway, especially the scene where it is literally just people describing it directly into the camera. I think it’s one of those topics we should never use euphemisms for. But Warner is the character who gets upset at Huang for suggesting it’s not that simple, pushes for the doctor to be put on trial, and right at the end, still works with that doctor anyway in the interest of the man having a heart attack.

Media in general has a habit of justifyingtorture when the “good guys” are doing it (and yes, that includes Stabler getting physicalwith people), but the way this episode treats it all, to the point of showing actual pictures from Abu Ghraib, has got to be one of the best commentaries on torture as a tactic I’ve watched, especially considering when it was first aired.

I love Warner, and I love how she makes absolutely no justification for “the greater good” in any way. She’s very insistent about it right from the start, which I really like.

(By the way, torture is literally never an effective information gathering tactic, because anyone will say anything to make the pain stop).

Hihi, I was taught to always take blood from the antecubital fossa, either brachial or cephalic or median cubital vein.

Sometimes I have patients who have very deep, thin, or scarred veins in their inner elbow, but veins that otherwise seem fine to take blood from in their forearm.

No one else seems to take blood from there, which is why I don’t know, but it seems unreasonable to take several attempts in someone’s elbow when the exact same veins are right there a few inches lower?? A lot of people tend to go for the hand when bloods can’t be taken from the elbow, but surely that’s got even more risk of bursting a vein or haemolysis?

Idk, if you’re going by palpation rather than sight it seems easy to be able to assess if a vein in the forearm is actually good to take blood from (if it’s wide enough or how superficially its placed) and I can’t figure out why people always seem to go for the hand rather than trying there.

I have an energy limiting condition so I pretty much hit my limit at like an hour? If I push it beyond that I pretty much get too exhausted to do anything else in a day. Although I’m guilty of doing that if there’s a project I can’t do because every single time I’m like ‘I can try one more time :)’

It’s part of tbe reason I’m too unsure to ask anyone to come bouldering with me. I have lots of fun in that hour but I’m never sure how long normal people spend in there, especially for just a regular workout rather than an ‘activity’ if that makes sense

Probably a stupid question, but I always gym/climb in baggier clothes, it’s a comfort thing. So my regular get up is a hoodie and baggy cargos, maybe a T shirt if it’s super warm (I run cold so this usually doesn’t bother me).

Today I noticed nearly everyone else was wearing something a bit more skin-tight, like sports leggings, smaller t shirts, whatever. Even people who weren’t wearing that were at least wearing tighter sweats, or closer fitted T shirts. I’ve never had any trouble moving around in my clothes, but I figure there might be a logic to what literally everyone else is wearing?

For what it’s worth, I’ve never had any trouble with my clothes or got caught in anything, and I slip off walls a reasonable amount because I’m not very good.

Every time I say this people rush to correct me, like I’ve said something incredibly self deprecating but I genuinely do not see that as the case. If people can be extraordinary at anything, it stands to reason that people should be able to be mediocre at things. I love being mediocre!!!!!

I paint. I’m not great, but not terrible, I can paint a pretty landscape and put the colours where I want them. I’m also pretty good at drawing, not the best but definitely good enough for my purposes. I’m not an illustrator but people say nice things when they glance over my shoulder at what I do!

I’m an average student. Not top of the class, not bottom, but always good enough that I pass but with enough to improve on that I never get bored. I’m alright at work, too, I’m not some kind of prodigy but I work in a hospital and patients thank me :)

I’m alright at writing!! I have a little webseries I write, I think it’s a bit cringey at times, people like it, and I like writing it. I probably wouldn’t be so good as an author but hey, I don’t want to be an author.

I have a physical disability, so a lot of sports are off the table, but not all!! My climbing gym has 10 route difficulties, and I’ve been hovering around the 5th one for a while. I can’t throw myself up a wall in 4 seconds flat, but I have lots of fun and I always smile when I leave.

I can cook well enough that I make myself happy. I can’t dance but I do jump up and down with my friends. I can’t sing but I know all the words to my favourite songs. My dexterity isn’t great but I can play some riffs from my favourite songs on the piano.

Passion always beats talent, so I don’t need to worry that I’m not naturally talented at anything. I can work at anything to get better. I’ll never be world-class but I’m pretty camera shy so that’s probably better for everyone. And I never get bored!! :D

Jack of all trades, better than none, but I’m happier than if I was just a jack of one :]

In medical school so literally everyone and their mother adores flashcards. My university puts loads of focus on peers helping each other so I probably have access to the best flashcards for my course and I still can't use them. It makes me feel spoiled, like I physically couldn't ask for better and it still doesn't work. They're mindnumbing, it's like staring at a wall for all the information I get. It's next to impossible to keep myself motivated. There's so damn many of them because the information all gets condensed to one little question and answer, and my whole thing has always been connecting all the information I get til it makes sense.

And, on the other hand, there's not very many better ways to just remember loads of information. I can do some flashcards, but I just can't do a whole unit of them, but how else am I supposed to understand a load of content, especially stuff that's not otherwise interrelated? A topic like population health will combine all sorts of smaller topics, it's so needlessly difficult to get in my brain. I hate it and I don't have good alternatives because there are some things that genuinely don't have a physical/interesting way to learn them