TSR Med Students' Society Part III

I don't believe we have a license for blood to be let in our clinical skills building. Oh, the irony.

I wouldn't want other students practising on me tho - I get nervous enough when it's a fully qualified phleb who's been doing it for 20 years!

If we already have physios, who are well regulated and work within the NHS, then why do we need chiropracters if, as you say, they do the same thing?

Do you know any of the evidence-based manoeuvres? Better yet, how about science-based.

There's little point talking about 'my boyfriend's best friend's mother' (lol, really?), as these are anecdotal cases. Overall, there is little to no good evidence of efficacy for chiro and acupuncture.

Ouch, no need to bite my head off! It came around because we were at her son's wedding and I was telling her about what I did, she asked what I thought and I told her about the weird guy some of us get placements with an she pulled a face. Then she explained what she did and also belittled the other guy. She goes on courses and reads papers and doesn't do it just to swindle money out of people. What she does actually helps. I was a complete skeptic too, because all I'd heard about was this odd guy who jumps all over people. Since then, others have been to a different chiro placement and they do things in a similar way to this lady and they see it works too. This is a forum. It's mostly anecdotal evidence. No need to get so high and mighty. Look, chiro even appears in the NICE guidelines, is that good enough for you?
http://www.chiropractic-uk.co.uk/For-Health-Care-Professionals-Research-12-mi.aspx

It wasn't too long ago people were looked at funny for eating dirt to cure themselves. If they didn't, we wouldn't have antibiotics now. It's not a bad thing to have an open mind sometimes.

I mentioned the other week about some guys that somehow injected themselves and OD'd on insulin.

Well, one is still in a coma in ITU, and the other is in HDU with ?permanent? brain damage and doesn't remember much.

Sad times. Apparently they were drunk at a party, someone said it would get them high or something (know one knows for sure yet), they ended up going through multiple vials of insulin! They didn't even know each other, but they were at the same party.

I think it may be a criminal investigation now.

No way would I let any of my peers bleed me. The horror.

If it were any other drug or therapy, and it was only as good as placebo, then that would be a completely ineffective FAILED drug. The end. Just because it's acupuncture/chiro or any other quack remedy, does not change this.

Maybe I'm biased because we aren't allowed to practice procedures (even venflons) on each other, but I don't think I'd trust another student to do anything to me...

I don't want people practising on me, just cause all the blood donation people have to call in their supervisor people to stick me cause my veins are all small and rubbish, and some of them are too close to my artery to be used

You too, hey? Do you have to sit there squeezing a bandage like I always end up doing?

I let a fresher cannulate me on her first day....got it in as well!

could be misinterpreted in so many ways...

It was a tight squeeze and only a little blood came out....

Oh dude.................... >_> haha.

you sorted elective?

When the student took my tooth out it was at KCH. I then got dry socket which hurt like a mother****er.

We bleed each other in first year clinics - it's only fair you are willing to let each other do it before doing it on a patient.

We're generally all healthy and really easy to bleed... nice median cubital veins for harvesting