[Closed] Which Needle????

I can't believe Bev actually agreed to this. All that IT nonsense has made her brain soft!

A Dr speaking. Don't bother. It is a really silly idea. We can train almost anyone to do it. If you can stomach any medical program on channel 5 you will be fine. No need to practice now. If you told anyone at interview, or during your training what you had done they would thing you were really weird...

And if you are trolling you have to ask yourself what your feelings for you mother [i]really[/i] are. 😉

'm just trying to remember how stupid I was when I was 15, thinking I could learn to gas weld by practice alone with no supervision. What could possibly go wrong ? Luckily, nothing did

Probably less than here 🙂 It's be concerning if I thought it were real.

I reckon your mum is like mine - former nurse, loves and misses the medical stuff, a bit mad... Still at least she would stop at squeezing a few spots at home. Just offer her your teenaged back and enjoy.

I think big chief 96 will almost get his wish to come true in the future. I believe he will spend a lot of his time in the hospital but maybe not the way he intends to. I've never heard anything more ridiculous. This must be a joke. Someone should prevent him posting.

I think big chief 96 will almost get his wish to come true in the future. I believe he will spend a lot of his time in the hospital but maybe not the way he intends to. I've never heard anything more ridiculous. This must be a joke. Someone should prevent him posting.

If someone actually thought this was a good idea I don't think they would have the mental capacity to operate a door let alone a computer...and on that basis - this is a troll.

I think we're missing the real issue here, which is,

Doesn't anyone else think that the pic CountZero posted is pretty hot?

Yep, if she'd just bend over I'd be happy to give her an inje....

Doesn't anyone else think that the pic CountZero posted is pretty hot?

Looks like a junior ward sister I used to know. She was terrifying.

I wish these models would dispense with the bonnets, though. Makes me think of ITV's [i]The Royal[/i].

syringe full of iodine? She can clean the gravel out of my leg anytime!

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DING DONG!

(beaten to it)

I recognise that girl Olly...

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I fail to see how not being a sad arse sitting inside playing on the computer learning how the stupid machine works has any indication on my capabilities.

((I think its a large group of middle aged men who should actually be out riding bikes or doing something more productive who should be reviewing their capabilities, not a young lad who's interested in certain areas and when he tries to pursue gets a lot of negative feedback and some comments that really aren't supporting at all. From a simple question, (that no-one has actually answered) some people have been helpful but a large majority seem to be out to make things difficult. I just don't get the problem))

And druidh, how do you know my mum?

Well, Luke......

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From a medically based family: please don't do it.

The risks far outweigh the perceived but realistically irrelevant advantages. My uncle who has been a surgeon for some time laughed and said "most med students nowadays can't place a needle properly". It's not a skill that's going to help you in the short or medium term.

I'm a computer engineer and common sense kicked in and I thought: "sounds pretty dense to me"....

I was told when I got diagnosed diabetic to practice on an orange. So based on that I'd recommend a needle that's not longer than the thickness of an orange, otherwise you're going to stab yourself. Either that, or a really big orange.

Erm, have people really still not worked this out yet?? 😕

Doesn't surprise me that folk off a really crap forum with about 12 registered users, and only 2 or 3 online at any one time, come on here to troll for their amusement...

Still, they're not that bright, most of 'em. And cursed with acute constipation, too. Poor sods. 🙁

to be fair, I answered the question...

Elfinsafety - Member
Erm, have people really still not worked this out yet??

Doesn't surprise me that folk off a really shit forum with about 12 registered users, and only 2 or 3 online at any one time, come on here to troll for their amusement...

Still, they're not that bright, most of 'em. And riddled with constipation, too. Poor sods.

You know exactly what I'm on about Onion. Don't play Dumb. You, at least, are a bit brighter than some of the others...

Fancy a scone?

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How d'you pronounce it up there, as in 'stone', or 'gone'?

In fairness Elfin (and I know you're just enjoying the wind up) isn't it a bunch of mates that don't want to be chatting about their lives with thousands of lurkers watching?

Fair play to them I say.

I recommend plenty of fruit, Yeti. Helps keep one regular, all that roughage.

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He misses - by some way actually.

The OP has absolutely nothing to do with mleh - and if you paid more attention to what other folk on this forum posted instead of being absorbed in your own little self-important bubble, you'd have realised that already.

Who mentioned Mleh? Whatever that is...

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Northwind - Member
I was told when I got diagnosed diabetic to practice on an orange. So based on that I'd recommend a needle that's not longer than the thickness of an orange, otherwise you're going to stab yourself. Either that, or a really big orange.

Kiwi fruit nowadays. Or just on another human without injecting the insulin (under appropriate supervision).

I think you should look seriously at veterinary medicine; particularly male cows?

(not sacred cows; there's quite enough of those on here already!!) 😆

If the OP is serious then I really hope he changes his career plans before he starts this pointless exercise.

Would be far better to read medical books and see if you can get hospital experience. Inserting needles will be 0.000000001% of the things you learn at uni and the risks of doing it will far outweigh any experience. And as already mentioned, if you go to your Uni interview saying you did this to get experience they will no be offering you a place. Psychos on medicine courses don't go down well.

Psychos on medicine courses don't go down well.

Unless it's dentistry ?

There's got to be a little bit of the "psycho" in every dentist.....otherwise how could they do their job ?

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Surely there're loads of Dr's that are nutters...

Dr Spock
Dr Shipman
Dr Mengele
Dr Doolittle

Those are just the first names that came off the top of my head... bet there're loads more.

big cheif, i am 18 so fairly close range of age.

I currently gibe blood and cab see how it goes wrong, if you place the needle wrongly you can damage nerves within the arm or puncture the vein on both sides causing a bleed out when the needle is retracted, you would need to make sure the needle is beyond sterile and this can only be achieved by straight out of packet needle use combined with the alcoholhol 1 minute wipe on the arm area to avoid infection.

I am currently a first aider (st johns trained) and a trained lifeguard. and from this point of view it is a silly idea. I would hate to be a repsonder to some poor lad who's tried to take blood from his mother and find her unconscious with a large amount of blood loss and you going mental trying to sort the situation especially with a used needle in the immediate area.

The largest risk is you making a small error and your mum dying from blood loss.

I Would advise you go to st johns ambulance and get training, and also attend a give bloos session ( whilst you can only give blood from 17 you could get your mum to give blood and you to watch, i'm sure the nurses would be more than happy to show you and talk you through it, and if you attend for a while they may even get you on the course. Also volunteer at a care home, and when you get to 16 do your pool lifeguard course! two of my friends have done the course, one is at university studying to be a doctor and the other a paramedic!

Also if you openly use needles and you want to give blood no one will take you if they find out you and your mum used to practice on each other, the risk for getting hep b and c and tetanus would be amazingly high!

also if you did get this experience and the doctors found out you wouldn't get near the course based upon inconsiderate and dangering actions and they would see you as a risk to others on courses or patients.

If you didn't mention it and do become a doctor and some body were to find out you would get taken of the medical list and fined a hefty sum!

The largest risk is you making a small error and your mum dying from blood loss.

I'm sure big chief will manage fine, as soon as he's worked out "what size needle" to use ....

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HOw about this one...

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southern yeti - i live near there 😀

I know. Isle of Wight, right?

yeah , how did you know 😉

I'm stalking you, duh!

Nice pants by the way 😉

i'm not wearing any 😮

I know... and they're a little baggy on me...

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