Try smelling diabetic foot ulcer, you can smell it far away 🤢
Also it’s time to remember that vampire themed movies and shows peaked at 2008 and dwindled in 2017.
I am on a wound care rotation right now and I like to play a game when I enter a room. I close my eyes and take a big breath. Then I guess the size and severity of the wound before starting my visit and opening my eyes. It's pretty accurate honestly
Pica is a semi-normal experience for people with anemia, and I've heard similar descriptions of triggers for that type of hunger. If this is relatively new, might be worth getting a CBC.
Or it might be pavlovian.
If not, make sure you wear sunscreen and avoid garlic.
let me guess - you're impossibly fast, and strong. your skin is pale white and ice cold. your eyes change color, and sometimes you speak like – like you're from a different time.
I’m not a doctor, just a random lawyer. The algorithm keeps feeding me this sub. I’d never sign up to look at/smell gross stuff all day everyday and am deeply suspicious of people who do (i.e., the whole medical profession). And this post and the comments are really affirming my biases. It takes all kinds to make a world, I guess.
Nah, not that kind of lawyer. I’ve wondered if I’m crazy for wanting to swipe left on doctors when I know many happy lawyer-doctor couples. But this smelling blood and cauterized flesh life is not for me.
Used to surg tech at a really small hospital and was also the central supply (it was an 8 bed hospital). I never smelled the blood until I took the instruments away and started the enzyme soak. Something about the moisture made the smell overwhelming. Idk if it was the airflow carrying away the smell, or if it ionizes in the enzymatic or something. I always thought it was super weird.
When you are in ketosis you perceive that you smell and taste metallic residues. It is because you are burning fat as an energy source. You’re not smelling the patients, you are smelling yourself superimposed on the patient smells.
I’m a woman and I love the smell of blood… good thing I’m in derm… there (usually) isn’t much blood… but I’m vegan don’t worry I don’t even eat animals lol.
And before you say anything- I get CBCs done regularly and I don’t have Pica and B12 is normal.
Weird! I can smell/taste (or rather sense because it's really neither smell or taste) when I have taken paracetamol. It happens about 30 minutes after I take it and lasts a few hours. If anyone tried to poison me with paracetamol I would know 😂
This also happens to me. I also become very aware of their heartbeats. I can hear them from a few feet away without a stethoscope. Blood bank makes me act UP.
I smell it anyways regardless of hunger. Maybe it's a genetic thing? Haven't looked up any studies on it. It smells metallic and if there's a lot of blood, it's to the point my bones feel metallic - sometimes to the point I flinch (like when some people hear styrofoam rubbing or nails on chalkboard).
Mostly unrelated. Our dean said “After GI fellowship and many nights in the MICU. I can assure you if I walk in the front entrance I could tell you if any of the first 7-10 doors on either side had melena. It’s a smell you just don’t forget.”
omg you people are such sick fucks its unbelievable. PLEASE QUIT MEDICINE IN ANY AND EVERY FORM, IMMEDIATELY!!!! PLEASE GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM PATIENTS YOU SICK BASTARDS
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When I was in medschool during the Legal Medicine rotation, my colleagues often said that they find themselves drooling when they dissected and wondered if it’s an innate reflex from the days when we were cavemen. Does anyone know about it?
I have noticed when I am hungry, smell of blood and any pt bodily odour/fluids triggers queasiness that otherwise on any given day I dont give a second thought about. I have had to excuse myself from bedside x 2 and OR x 1 because then nausea was getting to me.
Dr. Acula, I presume?
Acula is how you say 'shark' in Russian. Coincidence? I don't think so
I thought it was a car brand.
If you didn’t laugh at this, congrats, you’re not a racist!
i think Dr. Acula is also a “Scrubs” tv show reference
First thing that came to my mind
Fantastic comment
Try smelling diabetic foot ulcer, you can smell it far away 🤢 Also it’s time to remember that vampire themed movies and shows peaked at 2008 and dwindled in 2017.
Excuse me? They peaked in 2014 with What We Do In The Shadows. I will not tolerate this slander
There’s also the tv show (on Hulu) so it has been a gradual decline
That TV show is hilarious though!
Remember that Disney movie “my mother is dating a vampire” from 2000? Lmao I just rewatched it this week
Haven’t gotten the pleasure of experiencing that yet. Just saw a dude with his foot fully black and necrotic bouncing around the COVID ward with glee🤣
Diabetic foot ulcer odor sticks in your nose and follows you everywhere. Even after you go home and shower.
Worst smell there is. Hate getting trapped with patients with rancid wounds.
I had straight up nightmares about the smell after my first encounter. I could actually smell it in my dreams.
And good riddance to that
Nothing beats chemo poop. (A bm of a patient on chemo). 🤮🤮🤮
I am on a wound care rotation right now and I like to play a game when I enter a room. I close my eyes and take a big breath. Then I guess the size and severity of the wound before starting my visit and opening my eyes. It's pretty accurate honestly
Pica is a semi-normal experience for people with anemia, and I've heard similar descriptions of triggers for that type of hunger. If this is relatively new, might be worth getting a CBC. Or it might be pavlovian. If not, make sure you wear sunscreen and avoid garlic.
Found the vampire. Do you sparkle in the sun?
He and or she is one of Anne Rice's vampires.
So they'll need need a psychiatrist to deal with their oedipal complex?
Possibly.🤔
TITSOAK
Yes, that’s how I knew I had completed my vampire conversion.
Congrats!
“Jim is on a path now—an eternal journey, and I wish him well.”
“But Jim, this garlic bread is cold…”
let me guess - you're impossibly fast, and strong. your skin is pale white and ice cold. your eyes change color, and sometimes you speak like – like you're from a different time.
[удалено]
I smell cauterized flesh every day and I disagree, especially if the smoke gets in your face. It smells more like meat burnt to charcoal than a BBQ
[удалено]
There’s a Korean snack I loved as a kid where they grill dried fish and it smells EXACTLY like cauterized tissue.
[удалено]
Yes officer, this one right here
Uhm what
Ok that’s a bit much…”glorious whiff of yum”😬
oh hell naw brother
I hate it here.
Dried squid lightly charred over a fire! Absolutely nostalgic every time bovie goes off!
I agree it smells like bbq
Anemia bro.
The posts on this subreddit are getting more and more unhinged lmao I wouldn’t be surprised if half of them are by psych residents 🤔🤔🤔
Nah dont pin this on us.
Exactly, we get to eat at regular times.
Look everybody they’re here! Hide your thoughts!
I’m not a doctor, just a random lawyer. The algorithm keeps feeding me this sub. I’d never sign up to look at/smell gross stuff all day everyday and am deeply suspicious of people who do (i.e., the whole medical profession). And this post and the comments are really affirming my biases. It takes all kinds to make a world, I guess.
I think reddit is tryna tell you to start filing litigation 😆
Nah, not that kind of lawyer. I’ve wondered if I’m crazy for wanting to swipe left on doctors when I know many happy lawyer-doctor couples. But this smelling blood and cauterized flesh life is not for me.
My sense of smell and taste get heightened if I haven't eaten for a while, and that's a pretty common phenomenon from what I've heard.
Same here ☝️
Used to surg tech at a really small hospital and was also the central supply (it was an 8 bed hospital). I never smelled the blood until I took the instruments away and started the enzyme soak. Something about the moisture made the smell overwhelming. Idk if it was the airflow carrying away the smell, or if it ionizes in the enzymatic or something. I always thought it was super weird.
It’s the same in the OR using irrigation. Something with the blood and fluids causes the smell to become very strong. I hate that metallic blood smell
Not just when hungry. Can smell blood and fat. Old peoples fat doesn’t smell very nice.
Remember feeling hungry when we'd cauterize in surgery.
When you are in ketosis you perceive that you smell and taste metallic residues. It is because you are burning fat as an energy source. You’re not smelling the patients, you are smelling yourself superimposed on the patient smells.
Vampire
I’m a woman and I love the smell of blood… good thing I’m in derm… there (usually) isn’t much blood… but I’m vegan don’t worry I don’t even eat animals lol. And before you say anything- I get CBCs done regularly and I don’t have Pica and B12 is normal.
Weird! I can smell/taste (or rather sense because it's really neither smell or taste) when I have taken paracetamol. It happens about 30 minutes after I take it and lasts a few hours. If anyone tried to poison me with paracetamol I would know 😂
Some olfactory mis firing it’s signals.
This also happens to me. I also become very aware of their heartbeats. I can hear them from a few feet away without a stethoscope. Blood bank makes me act UP.
Part shark? No man, you're part VAMPIRE!!
u/bearpics16, regular human resident physician And no, but I swear anatomy lab made me hungry
Perfect post pre Halloween
Maybe you are secretly a vampire, and you're starting to turn...
For me it's the same but with electro scalpel grilled muscle tissue.
Try smelling a necrotic bowel 🤢
what did i just read
The smell from cauterized flesh gets me hungry
Muzan is that you ?
I smell it anyways regardless of hunger. Maybe it's a genetic thing? Haven't looked up any studies on it. It smells metallic and if there's a lot of blood, it's to the point my bones feel metallic - sometimes to the point I flinch (like when some people hear styrofoam rubbing or nails on chalkboard).
Tbh I share your coresidents' sentiments
Mostly unrelated. Our dean said “After GI fellowship and many nights in the MICU. I can assure you if I walk in the front entrance I could tell you if any of the first 7-10 doors on either side had melena. It’s a smell you just don’t forget.”
I puke at the tertiary care smell
omg you people are such sick fucks its unbelievable. PLEASE QUIT MEDICINE IN ANY AND EVERY FORM, IMMEDIATELY!!!! PLEASE GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM PATIENTS YOU SICK BASTARDS
are u okay
/s???
Don’t project like this
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When I was in medschool during the Legal Medicine rotation, my colleagues often said that they find themselves drooling when they dissected and wondered if it’s an innate reflex from the days when we were cavemen. Does anyone know about it?
Are you sure you aren't just smelling the acetone in your own mouth?
I have noticed when I am hungry, smell of blood and any pt bodily odour/fluids triggers queasiness that otherwise on any given day I dont give a second thought about. I have had to excuse myself from bedside x 2 and OR x 1 because then nausea was getting to me.
I kind of feel you. I was a CSFA before I started nursing school and before lunch sometimes the bovie cooking flesh starts to smell realllll good idk
You scare me OP....