Friendly reminder:>DO NOT SELL DRUGSGeneral advice:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygVMTAp9JBs
You're not a real doctor. You're a resident. I could slap you upside the head and call you a bitch. You'd just take it and flee because you fear losing your position.A real doctor could defend himself and find a new job at a new hospital.
>>17074927I would like to congratulate Frog poster for fucking up this board more than I could have imagined.This board does not deserve respect. Its full of fucking idiots, arrogant fuckwits and pompous asswipes.The Frog poster has cleansed this board of any last pretense of informed good faith discussion. I salute you Sir.
I thought practicing medicine would make me less racist but I still hate niggers in my clinic
Nurses are the backbone of the medical system. We need to celebrate all girl bosses and bedside nursing baddies.Support feminism! We believe in science!
>>17074969>I thought practicing medicine would make me less racistWhy would you ever think that would happen?
>>17074927I'm in my second year of medical school right now. I liked my pulm block, does anyone here have any experience in pulm? How do you like it?
>>17075383Because of tons of liberal hippies throughout med school and residencyBut I did that shit in Boston so it was skewed
>>17075577>But I did that shit in Boston so it was skewedIs this your way of saying you went to Harvard and/or MGH?
>>17075579No I didn't go to Harvard or MGHI fucking hate those pretentious faggotsI did 1 year of prelim medicine at a Harvard teaching hospital and it was shit
>>17075584I see. Since we're talking about patient demographics we hate, I hate the Spanish-only-speaking patients. The lack of effort in trying to learn English despite living in America for years is absolutely insane.
>>17074927How do you ameriniggers avoid medicine from seeping into your real life? How do you stop autodiagnosing people you see on the street or feeling sorry for whoever gets injured and think up the whole pathology and algorithm on the spot?
ERAS season is like med school apps but 10x worse with zero information>>17075597Spanish is an interesting language and gets you easily laid with hot Latinas even as an autistic physician, you have to be retarded not to learn it
>>17075597Was it okay when the Swiss did it, or the Germans? When they set up their own schools, their own newspapers? Faggot.
>>17074969be careful saying that. i've been banned before for stating my hatred of spics in a medical setting. maybe the mod is just a dirty spic lmao
>>17075597Spanish-only are the fucking worstCan't believe I have to use an interpreter for illegals or else I get suedWe used to be a proper country
>>17076316LmaoHonestly though I'm fine with the spics that speak perfect English or decline interpreter useAlthough I can't stand it when they cram all their family in the small ass rooms, like fuck off
Do people who smoke weed not realize they smell? Been walking into a lot of rooms that reek of marijuana. It's particularly grim when they have their little kids in the room too.
>>17076322yeah, some spics are cool. they have a funny accent, speak pretty good english, and are normally good patients.spanish only exams are the fucking worst especially in eyecare since there's a lot of subjectivity. i've had some spanish patients argue with the interpreter before, translators that aren't translating half of what i said but i just ignore it because i don't want to deal with the headache, and the fact that they seem to ask the same questions 5+ times expecting a different answer. i get repeat questions with some older patients or some retards, but it seems much more frequent with translated exams.
>>17076350RealThere's too many moments in the job that makes you want to kill yourself or someone else
lol remember when all "doctors" recommended 6 year olds should submit to a gene therapy treatment for a disease they couldn't get?
>>17075608I guess you don't get burnt out and desire anything but to do work when you finally get off work and aren't on call
Lol remember when "doctors" told children to get a rna gene therapy for a disease they couldn't even get?
>>17075608easily. it's a job like any other lol.
Reminder to fuck over disgusting premeds, midlevels, and nursoids
>>17076859I mentor a lot of premeds.
Did you get the covid vaccination?
>>17076862Kill yourself
>>17076876I can be your mentor too, if you let me.
Is it true that if you eat a human hair, it stays trapped in your intestines undigested forever?
>>17076862What advice do you give them?
>>17076942not him but i would show all the cute girls my penis and tell everyone else to take a $40,000 loan for a degree in biology.
>>17076887This nurse is the best. I want to see more of her so, so bad.
plz be better than that
>>17077069BasedGet rewarded by sacrificing my 20s with some cute college aged girls
>>17077184>Get rewarded by sacrificing my 20s with some cute college aged girlsNo one was stopping you from dating in college and medical school.
>>17077186I was a fat ugly bastard with no moneyNow I'm a fat ugly bastard with money and some power
>>17077228>Now I'm a fat ugly bastard with money and some powerBased. Your sexual market value has increased. You are a high-value male now~
>>17077230I fuck hookers on the regular after clinic
>>17077231Could you please give me a rundown on your process? I'm curious.Are you just scheduling (appointments?) the day/week prior on a website? Or are you roaming around town? How does that even work? Aren't you afraid of getting busted in a sting if that's illegal where you are?And have you ever sugar dated?
>>17077233You can literally schedule the day of through text or walk in if massage parlorIt gets pretty obvious if there's going to be a bust if you aren't retardedSugar dating is for the wealthy, I don't have that much money yet
>>17077243Thanks for sharing.>Sugar dating is for the wealthy, I don't have that much money yetHope you can get your money up soon, my friend.
>>17075577Based Jumbo
>>17076320Just pay for Dreaming Spanish
>>17078105betrayed by a fellow anon.
Wish me luck boys, I got my MD PhD interviews tomorrow and SOM interviews on Friday
>>17074927Quality of healthcare in free fall and rampant inflation. No free and direct sale of medicaments because muh corporate profits.You can as well go to the witch doctor.
>>17078403>MD PhDWhy?
>>17078452he's both incredibly retarded and smart
not a doc here.is it true that flucloxacillin can give you muscle pain, and that that is due to lack of potasium? I was given flucloxacillin for some abscess, and I'm 90% sure this piece of shit gave me mucle pains, some other weird pains, and maybe even left me hallucinating shit.the worst part is that the abscess didn't even break.I'm still supposed to take 3 more pills, but I'm not taking this shit ever again anymore.
>want to do a surgery fellowship imc>learned that its nigh impossible to immigrate to the West and get recognized as surgeon>had to settle for cardiologyin another life....scalpel..
>>17078639>>had to settle for cardiologyBe for real.
>>17074937Why do medfags willingly put themselves through years of grueling underpaid residency if they make basically the same lifetime earnings as a mid-level? Are they retarded?
>>17074969This is why you don’t get into medicine
Do you seriously plan to still be working this job in a decade /med/? You better have a few good pharma "consulting" jobs lined up. They may be ghouls but at least they respect you unlike midlevels (the vacation time is good too!)
>>17079804i respect MD/DOs (well most of them)
I am not a medical student or staff I am desperately trying to find a way to obtain Sodium Nitrite to commit suicide soon and I figured this thread might know. I don't have access to a gun so I'm trying to find a way. I'm going to do several methods at once and I want to know if this will work: go into a confined space (not in a building with other people in it), swallow heavy sleeping pills or some sort of anesthetizing substance then immediately take the SN and a powerful antiemetic and then when I get drowsy I seal off the confined space and set off a bucket of charcoal in there and this doesn't seem like a good painless plan but I am desperate and I need to find something because I don't have the money to buy a gun. I should check the handgun rental gun range policies in the Seattle area and see if there's one that I can potentially use to die although it would destroy a business and other people. I am 28 and I have had symptoms of severe depression since I was about 14 and around 23 the suicidal ideation started intensifying and I've attempted prior but I've only been voluntarily committed and I have absolutely no criminal record or interactions with police besides when they questioned me when I was 12 asking me where my dad was, I am almost certain I can legally submit a 4473 to obtain a rifle. I have made my mind about this and I want to end my life on my terms. Please give me any sort of advice for committing suicide painlessly. No your advice is not an accessory to suicide and life is not special.
Basically, how do I obtain sodium nitrite? Sorry to give you my life story
>>17079804>You better have a few good pharma "consulting" jobs lined up.What do the people with these jobs even do?
>>17080023
>>17080023My ex hung herselfPretty radical
>>17080057Get paid
>>17080023>words words words Putting a bag on your head with an inert gas flowing in from a cylinder is very accessible and absolutely painless. You don't want to die, you want our sympathy. Ohhhh anon don't kill yourself noooooo.> I don't have the money to buy a gun.Go jump at a cop with a knife in your hand screaming "allahu akbar".
what happened here?
suicidal intent anon here, my antidepressants are effective again i think i experienced a severe anhedonic rebound after using cannabis too much and when compounded with OCD and ADHD it sent things spinning out of control life feels beautiful and capacious and real and i am worried how drastically my chemical balance can go to shit. im glad i don't own a gun and i dont want to hurt people i feel like i could potentially function again. fuck depression and fuck drugs
>>17080646Good on you anon. Stay safe and don't miss a dose! :)
hello anons. my left arm is driving me crazy because it feels really fuckin weird, like, I don't know, stiff or tight, and I keep feeling the need to try and pop the joints and shake it and shit. this is after the urgent care doctor already ruled out my chest pain from last week as a pulled chest muscle "because it's reproducible and not severe enough given your family medical history." am I fucking dying or some shit? been dealing with this arm shit since saturday, it goes away most of the day yesterday and then came back today at work.
>>17080883you are having a stroke.t.not a medical doctor, not medical advice. go see a(nother) doc asap
>>17080888man I freaked the fuck out last week over my chest discomfort, went to urgent care and my insurance provider made me pay 137 FUCKING DOLLARS for it even though the doctor was like "lol, pulled chest muscle, you're fine" idk if I should even get this looked at because now I'm not sure if I should trust myself
>>17078542>I was given flucloxacillin for some abscess, and I'm 90% sure this piece of shit gave me mucle pains, some other weird pains, and maybe even left me hallucinating shit.>the worst part is that the abscess didn't even break.>I'm still supposed to take 3 more pills, but I'm not taking this shit ever again anymore.no, you're just a non-compliant bitchy asshole. enjoy your abscess and sepsis.
>>17074927>General advice:>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygVMTAp9JBsthat's gotta be a meme... right?
>>17080898fuck you faggot. I'm not gonna risk getting crippled or dying for trying to kill a stupid fucking furuncle. this shit was small, and grew and went away by itself multiple times in the past.I stopped taking the pill and the pain decreased almost immediately. the dumb bitch I went to could have given me a lower dose or some gel for topical application or w/e. some of you guys really don't give a shit about your patients.
>>17080883Dull pain in the left arm = go see a doctor bro, like don't even postpone it, do it today. Very often it's linked to heart issues.t. not a doctor but my buddy is and he told me that
>>17080889>my insurance provider made me pay 137 FUCKING DOLLARS for it even though the doctor was like "lol, pulled chest muscle, you're fine"Imagine being american lmao
>>17080909what the fuck man i just calmed down over this after calling a nurse hotline and being told it's not serious the discomfort started to dissipate before reading this NOW IT'S BACK IN FORCE
HOW THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO EVEN AFFORD GOING TO THE ER THAT'S A 250 DOLLAR COPAY JUST TO GET IN THE DOOR!!!
>>17080889137 dollars isnt that much though lol. if it wouldve been 500 i'd say it's ridiculous.
>$10+ for a fucking visit to the doc, just to be told to go awayHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAGHAHAHHAHAHAno wonder amerijews hate and want to kill one each other>>17080914>>17080917honestly, by this point I'd say your problem might psychological. are you the same fag that wanted to kill himself until he took his pill?
>>17080941no i'm a different fag. Can't stop thinking about my left arm. I'm fucking 27 and not fat. Not diabetic. I don't smoke. What the fuck is happening?
>>17080956Like thousands of morons every year you somatize your anxiety into a random body part and waste everyone's time and money
>>17080023instead of all these theatrics just throw yourself off a tall building
>70yo F>calls retinal specialist and told they cant see her today but that Dr.Anon O.D. can see her instead>calls in with webbed vision like a retinal detachment>sure, i can see her ezpz and then refer her back if it's an RD>comes in as last patient of the day>discusses webbed vision in just right eye, no flashes, no floaters, dark central/blurry vision>photos show splinter hemorrhage on disc OD with perhaps mild edema>epiretinal membrane mild OU>no other significant objective anterior/posterior findings OU>amsler grid reveals scotoma for entire central vision OD>CVF roughly normal OU>no headaches, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, jaw claudication, scalp tenderness, or any other neurological symptoms>history of cardiovascular issues and heart defect from birth>discussing with her further reveals left carotid is mostly/completely blocked along with some preceding vessels and current doctor is closely monitoring right carotid>95% sure it's an NAION but having her back tomorrow to run some additional tests>educated if she gets any significant changes (especially neurologically) to go to the emergency roomfun times. surely you guys have some other fun cases that you can share that you've had recently?
>>17079673a mid-level what? software faggot?
>>17081700So you're saying most med students have never even heard of midlevels? I doubt that, but I have met some seriously retarded premeds so maybe it's possible
>>17079673I just like shoving my hand in some old man's pooper
Hey medfags. I'm an insomniac with inconsistent sleep and I'm currently taking 0.5mg melatonin, L-theanine, and magnesium glycinate every day for the past year or so. I also take zzzquil about 2-4 times a week on days I cannot get any sleep. Would it be better or worse to ask my doctor to prescribe me quivivp or some other DORA and cut out all the shit I'm taking now?
>>17074927To my fellow ortho residents, when did you get to operate you first hemiarthroplasty? I feel like this is the workhorse that gives us actual operative experience and training for other surgical procedures in the field. My hospital barley let me operate two years in and I am considering quitting the entire field.
>>17081861ask your doctor
interacting with neurology sucks
SSRIs cause permanent brain damage. The "work" by inhibiting the replacement of serotonin so hard that your brain kills off its serotonin structures. That's called permanent brain damage.Why does anybody prescribe this?Morphine is the most studied drug of all time and has no known long term side effects.Why will you prescribe something that has been proven to not even work over something safer that does work?If a drug made you happier, you'd see it sold on the streets. Nobody is selling Prozac or antispsychotics on the street for a reason - they don't work.
>>17082808The safer drugs actually make people happier and less anxious. Quick, let's tell them that these drugs that work less than placebo that also cause permanent brain damage are the best! >Fuck helping people, if giving them brain damage pays the bills without me having to do anything then I'm all for it!
Forgot these threads existed. Xrayfag here, I just wanted to share a video I took at my main experimentation hospital (props to the techs for putting up with my nerdy bullshit <3). I found the idea of scintillation to be fascinating. I think most people can relate, it's cool how things can glow when exposed to certain photon energy wavelengths. Always been a fan of blacklights.So in intro, we learn about the origins of the practice, starting with the x-ray tube, which is that during experiments with a vacuum tube. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen found that some panels he had covered with a phosphorous compound were glowing on the other side of the room when he supplied the tube with electricity. I wanted to get ahold of this original compound, but found that it's not really used anymore due to safety concerns and when you do find a supplier, you need laboratory licenses and stuff to order it. Thankfully, there are natural minerals that scintillate. Unfortunately, most of them are relatively expensive. I got 2 different mineral samples for $15 each and that's good enough. First one was scheelite, which glows blue. The piece of ore that I got didn't have a whole lot, just a few bits. Second one was Willemite, which had a far more uniform distribution and glowed green. I wish the x-ray tubes at hospitals could output a higher quanitity of x-rays because that's the main technical factor for glowy rocks, not the kilovoltage, which is the force behind them.This video was shot at like 60 kVp and 250 mAs for 2.5 seconds. I have another video of 60 kVp and 500 mAs, but the control board only allowed like 0.4 seconds. It's way brighter, but it's like a flash.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillation_(physics)
Hi. Bum here. How do I maximize my dopamine release from taking fentanyl? I've tried masturbating while high and having sex with passed out ladies on the street.
>>17074927Remember when doctors recommended children should get covid "vaccinations" for a disease they couldn't even get? Yeah, fuck doctors.
Anyone here into weightlifting? I just started 3 months ago and I've been having a lot of fun. It's a great de-stressor. I'm hoping to get as strong as possible before residency. In residency, I imagine I won't have as much time as I do now, so I'm hoping I can just coast/maintain off of what I developed in medical school. >>17083511Thanks for sharing. I'm glad you're back; I remember your X-ray food pics lol.
>>17083810Glad you like my stuff, it's been a very busy few months lately and haven't done much extra stuff in a while. Here's a DualSense I imaged during a very uneventful summer P.M. shift.
>>17083511I might as well post the scheelite video, I think one of these days, I'd like to shoot a video of both of the ore specimens at the same time. At another clinical site, one of the clinical instructors brought a bag of yooperlite pebbles to try out since they glow a brilliant orange under UV, but they didn't do anything when exposed to x-rays.
We support nurses in this thread.
To the guy who posted this picture a long time ago, are you still here? How's medical school been for you? I believe we matriculated into medical school in the same year.
dead thread
my mom just did surgery on me
>>17086108Your mom did "surgery" on me too, IYKWIM
>>17086113LOL i know what you mean ;) >:P
>>17074937You're only flesh and blood. You should know how fragile life is
>>17080023You still alive?>>17080076Why?>>17080250You'd fit in well among gynecologists
One day we will all be able to DIY.
>>17081686Interesting that the signs of retinal artery ischemia showed up on the right side first even though it's likely providing retrograde collateral flow to the left internal carotid
>>17080023if you are a cute girl, you can touch my peepee. i have had several women in my life tell me they'd rather kill themselves than be with me so it's basically the same thing.
besides the obvious nurses, midlevels, premeds, etc, does anyone else also sorta hate IMGs and DOs. im trying not to let my superiority complex take over, but i seriously have less respect for them. And ofc there are exceptions, but i just cant help it. Im sure their schooling is still difficult in certain regards, but i feel they couldnt get into an MD school, so they take an easier way in to become a physician, and then expect to be treated as equal to me? idk it doesnt sit right with me. all this being said, i still will always support them over nurses and midlevels of course. MD>>>DO>>>>>>>>IMG
books to read for my interventional cardiology fellow?
minoxidil should be illegal.gave me permanent ED and scarred my joints and fucked with my motor nerve
>>17087407yeah, though the exact etiology of NAION is unknown, so who knows. i wish the retinal specialist would've sent notes after I referred her out (i could request them but im too lazy to ask staff). i guess we'll see if she comes back next year how on the money i was with the diagnosis.
>>17083890Cool - are the flickering specks of light a regular occurence when recording while using the xray or is it from small pockets of ore in the rock?Did a repositioning last night shift
anyone here proficient in reading blood iron panel results? I got 3 years worth and my most recent were alarming...
>>17088192>u broke her back.
Anons, what's the highest T (sub)specialty? Assuming they get 8hrs of sleep, work-out regularly, are mentally healthy and social etcTest production is a feedback loop, meaning high-test activities beget high test, ad infinitum. I wanna say EM, but whatever few high-test activities the average em doc might partake in, in between the dozens of stubbed toes and sore throats, the benefits are all washed down the drain by their shift work. Then again I'm still in school what do I know
>>17088539retinal specialist
>>17088539>Anons, what's the highest T (sub)specialty?The specialty that has the most free time and the least amount of stress. More free time = more time in the gym and more sleep. As an aside, I always hated the meme that orthopedic surgeons are jacked. They're always just regular skinny or fat dudes. >I wanna say EMThe stress in EM would bring the T levels down.
>>17080023If you're still alive, take some antidepressants and see what happens after a month.
Is it true that when a baby is born, parents are made to sign a confidential agreement authorizing doctors to administer psychiatric medication—which the parents can then secretly give to the child? Is this something known the part of the society in the world who have had a child, and are this part of society in the world bound to keep it a secret?
>>17087638DOs have such an obnoxious inferiority complex. I always laugh inside when I see them as Sub-I's scurrying around my hospital. Go back to Arkansas lil nigga. I also wish they would force DOs to take all the unfilled IM/FM spots before they start applying to spots that should be reserved for MDchads.
>>17088852>DOs have an inferiority complex>MDs act like gods and refuse to improve or admit their mistakeswhen will we get someone in the middle
>>17088927they're called optometrists
Is PA / PharmD school worth pursuing at 28? Dont even have my bachelors >t. Pharmacy tech stuck making $30/hr forever
Yes, the United States faces a real and growing doctor shortage, particularly in primary care and rural or underserved communities.Key Facts About the Shortage• Projected Deficit: The Association of American Medical Colleges projects a shortage of up to 86,000 physicians by 2036, spanning both primary care and surgical/medical specialties.• Primary Care Gaps: According to the Health Resources and Services Administration, tens of thousands of additional primary care providers are needed immediately to eliminate current shortage designations, with severe shortfalls expected to continue.• Access Issues: Reports indicate that roughly one-third of Americans currently lack a regular primary care provider.• Key Causes: • An Aging Population: Older adults require significantly more medical care, and a large wave of veteran physicians is reaching retirement age. • Residency Caps: Federal caps on Medicare-funded residency and graduate medical education (GME) slots have historically limited how fast training programs can scale up. • Specialty Pay Disparities: Lower reimbursement rates for primary care compared to higher-paying medical specialties steer many new graduates away from general practice
>>17089111Yeah but I wont make money for shit until my mid 30s which is whats holding me off
>>17089106>at 28? Dont even have my bachelorsBruh.
>>17089106our pharmacists are vital members of the team and remind us of pharmacology shit that everyone forgets. i hear that the field is saturated though.PAs are similarly vital for taking the load off of surgeons so they can focus on cases. or you could be one of those faggy primary care PAs.
>>17089111>go to medical school just to make the same amount as a california nursebecoming a physician after being denied residency for high paying specialties is a sign of failure.
>>17089106pharmacists are way oversaturated and not worth it. even though it's not as good as being a doctor, NP (slightly less so PA) would likely be the most efficient medical field to go into imo.
>>17087638>>17088852You two retards should be the ones with the inferiority complex, talk to literally anyone in 2026 and they will all tell you they prefer DOs. A major part is that is precisely because of the ivory tower look at me I'm a big MD egotistical attitude you have in your post. DOs take the harder path to becoming a physician. You really think the MCAT and organic chemistry has anything to do with being good at medicine at all? DOs take COMLEX and USMLE and have to do hundreds of hours of osteopathic lab. Send an MD back to the middle ages and they literally could not do anything to treat patients. If an MD had no drugs or labs they're useless. That is not true for a DO. Also most of the MD schools nowadays are DEI hell holes and DO schools end up taking the competent young white men the MD schools reject in favor of black transgender lesbians. Just go ahead and look at the names or pictures from MD schools VS DO schools, all the young white conservative men are going to DO schools and tranny activists, jews, blacks, and women go to MD schools.
>>17089106What are you even looking for? There's a ton of opportunities in health IT, biotech and pharmaceuticals that only retards shuttle themselves into the same healthcare pipelines.Nursing is already getting saturated, and most people are priced out of MD/DO. Pharmacy has been oversaturated for years, and most of the allied health fields are bullshit degrees with 100k+ tuition.Skip the lines and look at fields that are selling the shovels in the current healthcare boom.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/emergencymedicine/emergencymedicine/123858
>>17090157he bought a condo unit. that's like renting with extra steps.
>>17089913that's really vague self-masturbatory boomer advice.
>>17080057Retarded meme.Highly specialized jobs are high paying jobs. Most guys who "catch fish" will barely earn enough to stay alive. Someone who can operate and maintain fishing equipment while navigating in the Arctic is going to make far more money. Generalize enough and the other three guys jobs can also be described in two words: analyze data, automate businesses, develop software.
>>17089266Seen as a failure a respectable profession that is needed by the population is a sign of civilization collapse.
>>17090231why would I spoon feed you career paths when you can't even explain what your interests and financial situation are. I'm not the guy looking for a job.
>>17090336your posts read like advice on buying stocks.telling people to go into technology and sales? i mean those are good fields but how is that relevant to people in this thread who have stacked college credits in life sciences?
I'm going to go insane. ChatGPT 6 is the worst fucking LLM I have ever used in my life. I'm trying to make practice questions for students and this is what it fucking gives me after I specifically tell it not to have answers in the fucking vignette. Gee, I sure wonder what joint is involved in an acromioclavicular synovial cyst!
>>17090408why not just use your vast medical knowledge to make questions lmao.
>>17089906im not reading all of that retard. if you can't crack a 505 on the MCAT you should not be a doctor. FACT.
>>17090583he's probably a DO
>>17090408Regardless of your needs, I try to never fall in love with one LLM.GPT,Copilot,Gemini,Claude.I'll use whatever works and some days one work better than the other.
>>17090605LMAO.HE'S NOT AN MD.EVERYONE POINT AT HIM AND LAUGH!!!
Not a doctor but curious, any of you ever had or heard of a patient with a atrial natriuretic factor of 11K [sic] ?
>>17090620>he doesn't use the sexy nurse ai chatbot to generate anatomy quiz questions for his studentswtf are you doing with your life?