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Immunology | 21-10-2019
My second immunology exam is this Thursday. We are going to win this battle! ✨
Medicine meets Dark Academia
"Vita brevis, ars longa, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile"
Maybe when we chose this profession we were not very aware that not only were we going to study Medicine, but we had, as well, to become doctors. ✨⚕️
In the UK and US, the main causes are gallstones and alcohol.
Use the mnemonic 'I GET SMASHED':
Idiopathic
Gallstones
Ethanol
Trauma
Steroids
Mumps / Malignancy
Autoimmune
Scorpion stings
Hypercalcaemia / Hypertriglyceridaemia / Hypothermia
ERCP
Drugs (including azathioprine, mesalazine, bendroflumethiazide, furosemide, steroids, sodium valproate)