Celebrating 100,000 subscribers, we're gonna be talking about that today. Also, we're gonna be talking about how to get the most out of Prime Day and five strategic tips that you can use in order to get the best out of Amazon Prime Day that's coming up in just a couple days. Let's talk about all that right now on this video. Hello friends! I am so glad that you're here because you know how excited I have been to hit the 100,000 subscriber mark. I have just tried and tried to do that. I was hoping to do it at the first of the year but here we are about halfway through the year and we did it! I am so happy and so excited and I want to just tell you how much I appreciate you and thank you so much for getting me to this milestone. All of you that have been with me since all the way back the six and a half years that I've been on YouTube. I just thank you so much and what I want to do is I do want to make this a giveaway. It's a huge giveaway actually. The prizes that I have in here, there are a lot of them and I just laid it out here and kind of am going across it so you can see that it is a big giveaway and I wanted to make sure that you knew how much I loved and appreciated you. This is the grand prize that you're looking at right now and it is a lot of stuff. There's also a second prize that you can win. This is a little bit smaller of a haul but there are some really high-end things in here and the reason that I did this second one is I know that so many of you that watch me are very very fair-skinned people so if you are that this is full of very fair-skinned products that I've gotten for myself and usually doubled up on and I wanted to put them in this. I also want to tell you that there are two international giveaways so the first one and the second one those are for my people that are in the United States. Those boxes can go out to you and it doesn't cost me a lot of money and it wouldn't cost an international person money for taxes or anything like that but I'm going to do two international giveaways as well. This is only for my international gals so when you comment down below make sure that you tell me that you're an international gal and tell me where at what country you're from. I would love to hear that. That is so much fun anyway to be able to hear that from all of you so tell me that you're an international gal and the two other giveaways that I'm giving for you gals is that we're going to be doing two gift cards and we'll talk about that once you win you'll be getting the gift cards. They'll be around $50 each in your currency. It won't be in my currency because I want to be able for you to get the full $50 so we'll make sure that we get that all worked out. Something else that has been going on is out of the giveaway winners from the giveaway on the Amazon video that I did last time. There was only one person out of that that claimed their gift so I wanted to pick out more people or other people in order to win the other two gifts that weren't claimed on the videos. So the first person is Jan Redding. Jan if you are watching this I really want you to please contact me and that is through the email that I'm going to be putting right here. Jan's comment will be put here part of it and my email address. Just go ahead and email me. And then the other one that I picked the new winner is Danny Willis. And my email will go right here with her comment as well. So this ends up being quite the giveaway video of all of that stuff. So you're the new winners of those two. Now again if we go a week and the other winners the Jan Redding and Danny Willis have not contacted me. I had to make sure that was their names. If you haven't contacted me we'll go on, we'll pick some more. I will be announcing the huge 100,000 giveaway winners one week from today in my videos. So just keep watching my videos and I'm going to be announcing winners as we go along. I do want to once again please beg you to not fall for anybody that writes you and says that they're me under your comment.  So the people that I've just announced your winners nobody else yet. So when we get to the point of actually doing the 100,000 giveaway we will make sure that we do that in a video where I verbally announce the winners. I've said this so many times and I really want you to know this. The way that you enter my giveaway is number one you have to be subscribed and I do check that you are subscribed to my videos. The other way is you have to make a comment. So my international gals tell me where you're from and everybody else that's in the United States just make a comment whatever you want to. But if someone comes after me and they put a comment on there from WhatsApp or Telegram or anything I don't care what it is. If they say that they're me those are scammers and I have said this over and over again and I will continue to put it up on the community tab. Those are scammers. Let's not fall for that. Let's celebrate this and let's have everybody safe.  So don't go there.  It's driving me crazy right now. I always talk about my shirt. This shirt is all kinds of beautiful. I found this shirt because I love off-the-shoulder shirts and again this is I can tell that this is probably a poly blend fabric. It has a kind of a batwing sleeve right here which I think is so cute and then it ties at the tummy and it ties right in the middle. But it goes down over the bum in the back and it's great and I just think that this is so much fun. A lot of you have asked me about my strapless bras that I've been wearing. I only have one. It's not the most comfortable but I always link it right underneath my shirt so you can know that. And I always also link my jewelry. These earrings I felt like they just went so well with my shirt today. They're kind of a gold brushed gold. They have a cubic cerconium up here and then they have beautiful beads down here and they're just a long dangle earring. I really like it and then I also wore a silver bangle today that I'm really in love with and yeah I wanted to show you that. And as always my fingernail polish, all the makeup that I'm wearing, the rings that I have on, all of that is going to be listed and linked down below. So Amazon Prime is coming up tomorrow Tuesday July 12th and Wednesday July 13th those two days. Now I have been putting up on the community tab all kinds of pre-prime day goodies or things that are on a great deal already. I've been doing that on that tab and you guys have been loving that and I will continue to do that and throughout the day on those two days I'm going to definitely be doing that so that you can see the great bargains that are going on. I'm also going to be doing that over on Instagram in my Instagram stories. Here's my Instagram name right here. It's real easy. It's just Mrs. Melissa M1 and so you can go over there and follow me over there if you'd like to and in the stories there will be all kinds of those. The biggest thing is that I am going to have just a list on my Amazon page. Now my Amazon page is linked down below but there'll be one list that will say Prime Day deals on it and that is going to be changing all the time because as the deals come on or as things happen I'm going to be putting that those great deals into my Amazon page and it's so easy to go there and shop and just click. Now there are also lightning deals that happen. What Amazon does is they put up those deals and it's for a certain amount of hours so those will be going up throughout those two days to also on my Amazon page. So check back every I don't know every couple hours it just depends on what you're wanting to do whether or not you shop this sale a lot. So I do have five tips that I'd like to share with you today to help you kind of navigate the whole Prime Day sale thing. First of all the number one is that you do have to be subscribed to Amazon Prime. In order to get all of these Prime deals it's the whole thing about it. So I'll leave a link below as well where you can go and you can subscribe to Prime you can do that through me or you can just go over to amazon.com and do it that way too. The number two tip to get the best out of Prime is to plan your purchases ahead of time. So let's say that there are some things that you really have needed for a long time or you really wanted for a long time write those down on a piece of paper. Maybe it's you want some new towels for your bathroom or maybe some new sheets or maybe you need some new pants for yourself or your hubby needs a new pair of shoes. Anything like that you're planning out your purchases so that even though all these great deals are coming at you you don't necessarily need to buy all of those. Now it's fun.  I get all kinds of excited to see all of these great deals and I love to shop for things that I don't necessarily need. But if you plan for your purchases you can do those first and then maybe later on in the day you can look through the deals and say do I really need that? Do I really want that? That kind of thing. So really plan your purchases ahead of time. That does help. And along with that goes my number three tip is make a list and that is the list of must-haves. Now I am in the market right now for one of those robot vacuums because of my health and how bad my back is right now and the pain that I'm experiencing. So I really want one of those vacuums where I don't have to go around pushing a vacuum all the time. So that's what I am in the market for and I am looking for. So I'm excited to be able to buy one during this time because I've planned it out and it is definitely on my list. So that's one of my must-haves and I encourage you to think about what your must-haves are. My number four tip is think about any gifts that you might have coming up. Maybe there's an anniversary or a wedding that you're needing to buy for through the summertime. Definitely think about people that you need to buy for gifts for him, gifts for her, moms, whatever, anything that you need to stock up for. And a lot of people are shopping right now ahead of time for their holiday shopping. And if you are somebody that plans that far ahead, more power to you. But it's a great time to get those gifts. Like I've already bought my granddaughter several gifts just because I wanted to spoil her rotten. And it's a great time to make that list of the people that are coming up that you do need to buy for. And you know think about them and what they might like or what they might need. And my number five tip is shop responsibly. We don't want to go into a lot of debt at this time just because the deals are so good. Now personally I love to shop this time of year so I've saved up some money. I have a budget and that might be something that you want to think about too. Is do you have a budget? Are you shopping responsibly? Is this on your list? I've already kind of talked about putting that list together. That kind of thing. You're really wanting to think about your purchases not just necessarily doing impulse buys which I have a tendency to do. Now the nice thing about Amazon is you can return everything almost.  So those are my five tips to shop responsibly during the amazon sale. Do not forget to check out my page. All of that information will be listed and linked down below for you so that you can know all about that. Thank you guys again so much for getting me to this huge milestone onto 200,000 we hope. Love you guys so much. Don't forget to comment. Those other two winners don't forget to email me. Let's have a very safe safe giveaway. Do not answer any of those. I try to get on top of them as quick as I can but there's so many comments on these videos that it's really hard for me to. So just keep that in mind as well. Thank you so much for being with me. Let's have fun Prime Day and I will continue to keep you updated and post it as much as I can. Love you guys. Take care. Come back around in my next video. Bye bye friends.


You're listening to This Week in Chiropractic. Here are the headlines for the week of February 2nd, 2021. The Texas Chiropractic Association announced a victory over the Texas Medical Association. The Supreme Court of Texas has ruled that the chiropractic scope of practice can include the Mescalo-Skeletal System, Sublexation Complex, and VONT. This brings an end to a 10-year battle between the associations, which hinged on the claim that neurological conditions were outside of the scope of practice. The full court opinion can be found in the show notes. Chiropractic economics projects decreased enrollment in chiropractic school during and after the pandemic. Data from the Chronicle of Higher Education show that more than a third of students are reconsidering and rolling in college due to the COVID pandemic. The number of chiropractors recommending chiropractic school to potential students has steadily declined over the past three years that CHIROECO has conducted their schools survey. In research, a paper published in chiropractic and manual therapies last week evaluated the adherence to radiographic guidelines for low back pain in two Canadian provinces. Half of the 53 participants stated they were aware of current radiographic guideline recommendations, and one-quarter of the participants indicated that they did not use guidelines to inform clinical decisions. From the conclusions, a small proportion still hold beliefs about radiographs for low back pain that are discordant with current radiographic guidelines, but the adherence rate to radiographic guidelines measured 75% using clinical vignettes. And the World Federation of Chiropractic has announced new members of their research committee. The appointments come months after the resignation of multiple members of the research committee last year. In their press release, the WFC states that the new research committee reflects the WFC's commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, and is widely representative of geographic regions, culture and ethnicity, research background and specialty interests. The new committee consists of 13 members from seven countries, and all but one holds a Ph.D. Professor Christine Gertz continues as the chair. And those are your headlines for February 2, 2021. You can get links to all of these news articles, research articles and topics by going to the Twitch page at exploreandchiropractic.com. So again, just a quiet couple of weeks here, but the COVID news continues, and this one from ChiroEco is kind of interesting and not terribly surprising. I think they're projecting, they're kind of extrapolating here. This data comes from the Chronicle of Higher Education, which is a website that does publishes a lot of survey research. They look at universities, mainly undergraduate universities across the country and around the world, but they look at trends and publish some materials for professors and adjunct faculty to use. I've used some of it, it's quite expensive actually, which is surprising. But a lot of this is data about undergraduate schools. So 33% of students overall at universities are now reconsidering and rolling in college due to the COVID pandemic. I'm not sure how that works, if they're already at university, why are they reconsidering and rolling, unless they're just going to drop out? Maybe 43% of students are putting off starting one and two-year programs, while 66% of students are now considering different careers according to the study, the pandemic's impact on higher education marketing in 2020. A lot of this has to do with tuition battles, and so you've probably heard the stories of universities still charging tuition, even though students were not going to school, were not on campus, or maybe weren't even taking their classes. And so the Chronicle has noted that COVID-19 touched off a financial wildfire for colleges fanned by short-term losses and expenses, but fueled by the fundamental fiscal precarities that many institutions have been facing or failing to face for some time. Obviously, school has become very difficult, especially higher ed, and especially for chiropractic. I'll talk next week about a paper that I just saw today that didn't overview of how chiropractic schools have been adjusting and adapting to teach manual therapies. But the Chiropractic Economics article continues to talk about a survey they've been doing for three years in which more than 500 chiropractors respond to a series of questions about chiropractic school. They ask things like, would you recommend chiropractic to a potential student? Would you recommend the school that you went to? And I've found this information pretty interesting for a while now. It's gone down steadily from 80% in 2018, 2019 down to 77% now of chiropractors would recommend the profession to others. What is really surprising to me is the number of chiropractors who would recommend another school. They recommend the profession, but they recommend going to a different school than they went to. 81% in 2021 would recommend a different school. That just makes me think that people are not happy with the universities that they go to with chiropractic colleges that they go to. I feel the same way. I spent 10 years deciding which school to go to, and I was very confident that this was the school I wanted to, and I was disappointed. I don't think it's the schools. I think it's the chiropractic education in general. I think it needs an overhaul, it needs some improvement. We certainly need residencies. We certainly need better training on manual therapy, on manipulation, the adjustment, whatever. I'm reading Leonard Fay's book on the chiropractic odyssey, and of course the founder of Motion Paltation. He talks about this. He talks about the lack of evidence-based training on psychomotor skills and the manipulation, especially reviewing things. Orthopedic tests, special tests are the same in my opinion. 80% of chiropractors would say, yeah, of those who say do chiropractic would say, but go to a school that I didn't go to. I'd probably recommend CMCC, or I'd strongly consider schools like New York, and possibly even Palmer. Interesting to read through this of some of the statements, things that you've certainly heard before. The profession eats itself, never unified, never growing, and expanding its scope of practice. This person recommended to embrace functional medicine. Others say the ability to opt out of Medicare has not been addressed. Terrible student debt to income, no business classes, future of regulation are concerns. I recently got a survey from my alma mater from Western states, which include a bunch of these questions, kind of what range are you earning, how's the practice going, reflecting back on your education, what would you change. What was so interesting to me is that they had a question saying, what classes other than business should be offered, a complete admission that they do not teach sufficient business classes. Something from chiropractic economics, they say it's not just education, but all of chiropractic is having some issues, and that it's not just from COVID as well. The Texas Chiropractic Association has declared victory against the Texas Medical Association, so this is a lawsuit that's been ongoing. My understanding is the crux of it is that the medical board or the medical association in Texas has said chiropractors claim to treat neurological conditions, and they shouldn't. The medical association is saying that is not chiropractic practice, they should only be doing musculoskeletal. It even hinges around the sublexation complex, which is in, I believe it's in the Texas Chiropractic Board rules. And then VONT, and I don't remember what VONT is, I believe it's one of the common to the functional neurology treatments, but I might be mistaken, so please drop a comment below this video if that's something you're familiar with. I think this has a lot in common with the war on chiropractic, with the contain and eliminate the Wilkes trial back in the 60s, 70s. I think this, it's a victory, you know, I don't know, I worry about defining things like sublexation complex, but you know, in the end, the Supreme Court ruled that the challenge rules, the rules that the medical association were challenging in Texas, read in context, do not exceed the statutory scope of chiropractic practice. The fear here was that this would take away the ability of chiropractors to do basic, things that are basic to chiropractic, treating sciatica, radicular pain, that is neurological even though it stems from a physical biomechanical issue, but it would then limit their scope even beyond the so-called neurological conditions. So I think this is a good win. I worry that it's going to be, you know, taken out of context, but, and I would assume that this is where it ends, I doubt that they go to a higher court. I mean, the Supreme Court of Texas is the highest in the state, and I don't think that this is a federal issue. So good to see that this has resolved the entire opinion, which I have not yet read. It's 28 pages of legalese. Hopefully, I can read through that soon, but it is available, of course, public document, and so head to the show notes at exploringchiropractic.com to read that. The paper and the chiropractic manual therapies on adherence to radiographic guidelines. I chuckle because this has been such an issue lately, especially with the choosing wisely recommendations that ACA partnered with the American Board of Internal Medicine. And I just think, again, I've talked about this on different videos, there's so much misunderstanding about the role of radiographs of X-rays. And so it's interesting to see, okay, of chiropractors in Canada and these two provinces in Canada, with only 69 responding, how many of them actually follow these guidelines? And I was surprised, I was pleased, but then I was also a bit disappointed that a good amount of them are aware of the guidelines. Half of them are aware, but one quarter indicated they did not use the guidelines to inform clinical decisions. Now using the guidelines to inform clinical decisions doesn't mean you have to be strict and rigid about them. It doesn't mean that for every low back pain patient, you will not image them for six weeks. That's not what using the guidelines means. It means that you take into account the history, the presentation, the patient preferences, all of that and your clinical judgment, there are conditions, there are acute low back pain, which walk into the office and you think, ooh, this is not just normal acute low back pain. And that's fine then, the guidelines support getting imaging in that case. These guidelines aren't blanket statements. So I think it's misunderstood, which I wonder whether that's reflected in this. But I'm not surprised if chiropractors just throw out these guidelines and recommendations and say, I'm not paying attention to that at all. I'm just using my own clinical judgment. That doesn't surprise me either. But the adherence based on the clinical vignettes was 75%. So I think that's, if that's truly how many are adhering to the guidelines, then I think that's good. It's certainly better than the medical professionals, right? So many x-rays and MRIs that are just totally unneeded. So good paper from CMT and the World Federation. So again, I wish I knew more about what happened a few months ago. This certainly was after COVID because there are a couple of recommendations from the WFC research committee for chiropractors dealing with COVID that were written by Greg Kochuk and others who then resigned from the committee. And again, my understanding is that there was some concern about influence of corporate sponsors of the WFC, including perhaps a pharmaceutical. I might be completely wrong about that, but that's what I understand. And so it's really some great researchers that resigned from the committee. Now in February, the board has appointed other members, new members to the committee. And many of these are familiar. So Christine Gertz remains as current chair. Scott Haldeman is chair emeritus. Marc-André Blanchet in Canada, I'm not familiar with. He's at University of Quebec at Travair, which is the French-speaking chiropractic school in Canada. So I don't know anything about it. Dr. Michos, who used to be at Western States as the research chair there, and Jensen from Australia. Melissa Keough from Malaysia. It's awesome to see that we have a true representation of females and an international community of researchers. Although she is a PhD candidate, all but Michos have a PhD, if you consider the doctorate in philosophy as a PhD for Ann Jensen. Imran Khan from New Zealand. Kesari Padayachi from South Africa. Apologize if I'm butchering these. Steve Passmer from Canada. Katie Pullman in the US. Professor Sidney Rubenstein in the Netherlands. And Stacy Salisbury, who is a nurse, masters of nursing, has a PhD. And then Professor Michael Schneider, well-known researchers in the chiropractic world, many of whom are younger, a PhD candidate right now. I don't know if she's involved in Carl. That would be interesting. But this is promising. It was nice to have perhaps bigger names. I mean, you think of Craig Koch currently as one of the top chiropractic researchers, I guess. So a lot of these I'm not familiar with by name, but they are a bit younger, up-and-coming researchers. And so this is promising nearly half or female, probably not quite half, but at least a third, it looks like. I think that's great. I think this speaks to the addressing diversity. It speaks to representing different countries and different regions. So looking forward to see what comes out of this. The role of the committee is under the leadership of its chair, is to advise the board on matters of science and research and provide expertise in peer review and abstract selection at the biennial congresses. So they're not necessarily doing research for the WFC. They're not necessarily making statements or guidelines, but they play an important role. So that is it for this week in chiropractic. Again, these notes, these links to these articles and a couple of comments are available at exploringchiropractic.com. Look for the Twitch page. That's T-W-I-C-H. And you can follow me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter. I'm on TikTok. I'm on LinkedIn. All of those at Exploring Chiropractic, except for LinkedIn, which is just my name, Nathan Cashin. I'm the host of the Exploring Chiropractic podcast, which hoping to get back up and running pretty soon. And I will see you again next week for more of Next Week in Chiropractic.


Welcome folks, we have the down investors down 10, Nasdaq up 65, S&Ps up 9.5, Gold contract up $35.30 traded $23.17, we have Silver up $21.27, $14.00 announced, Light Sweet crude up $0.31, $85.46 a barrel and I'll check this out, Copper up $0.14, $4.21 a pound, monster move, notes and bonds, 10-year note up two ticks trading $1.09, $25, the 30-year up two at $1.17, $25 and King Dolls. Now King Dolls giving it up and that's why you saw that S&P go from a negative to a positive this morning, King Dolls down $555 ticks, $104.261, Euro down $8, yen $151, British pound $126 to one U.S. dollar. We'll get over and take a look at the spy first and what you're going to see out here folks is that what we had yesterday was this, is that the spy had around the same volume, the NDX100 though and the Nasdaq had lighter volume rejected lower price. So the bottom line is that you know the spy still at the highs okay, you know we're up 95 cents to 519, you know bottom line I suspect it's going to go for the highs once again. Now if we go to the Qs and take a look at the Qs, the Qs were the tell last night. The Qs are up about $43, they had $442.54 and you can see what's also happening here is that you are getting some volume, more than the S&P, that's the bottom line. And we're going to shoot right to the gold market because gold's on a run, gold's on a, you know you've got an ABC structure up to $25.50, A to B, straight line move, B to C all over the place, C to D straight line move and that's exactly what we get. You're up 36 bucks, the volume is expanding again, $233,000 contracts and right now $25.50 is not for our way, you're only talking about $230 bucks away. So bottom line that's where it wants to go and then we're going to get help now from the U.S. dollar because the dollar just basically broke its countertrend bounce. We're down 562 and if you take a look at this dollar, would you going to see it bottom line, it broke its bounce and broke it with conviction man. So we're going to go right back downtown inside the dollar and what does that do? Well guess what? That's going to put some real juice and we'll get into that copper contract man because that copper contract has been telling us to some time it wants higher price.  Stay right there folks, come right back.


I did it. I finally finished medical school. I graduated with the distinction and I was even selected for the gold medal Viva competition, which puts me in about the top six out of our 450 student cohort. This is a fantastic achievement. I'm really proud to have been selected in the first place. And even though I didn't win the competition, I'm really happy that I took part and I thought it was a great experience. Now medical school was hard. There's no getting around that. You've got tons of information to learn, plenty of deadlines to keep up with and never ending pressure coming at you from all sides. But I've learned a lot about studying and being at university in my nine years of higher education. And hopefully some of the things that I share in this video will resonate with you and help you find your own success and happiness in medical school. One of the things that I think is quite underestimated in medical school is putting yourself in uncomfortable situations. Unlike a lot of other courses where most of your learning is done through lectures and textbooks, medicine is largely a hands-on and practical degree where you spend the majority of your time actually in the hospital engaging with and talking to staff and patients.  Now you can apply this principle no matter what year of medical school you're in. If you're in first and second year where a lot of your learning is mostly lecture or tutorial based, then take that extra step of talking to your tutor or your professor after the lecture or tutorial and ask them all those questions that you have. Ask them to elaborate on things you didn't quite understand or to explain it in a different way. Trust me, they're always more than happy to do this kind of stuff. They literally live for when students come up to them and ask them questions and you end up learning more, building better relationships with your seniors and getting more out of the teaching than if you were passively observing the lecture. If you're in third year and just getting started with clinical placement, then usually walking up to patients and taking a history can be the most daunting thing ever. And I feel you, I've been there, I remember what that's like very well, but unless you push yourself to go out there and do it, nothing in the curriculum is really gonna help you get that experience.  A lot of it is something that you need to do yourself. Early on in clinical placement, what I would do for comfort is I would ask a fellow medical student, my clinical partner, to come with me so that we could each take half of the history or help each other if one of us blanked midway through or I would ask one of the more junior doctors, the F1s like myself now or the F2s to come along and sort of see what I'm doing and button or help if I get stuck. If you don't make this effort and put yourself out of your comfort zone, then it's all too common in medical school for us to just wake up, go to clinical placement, follow everyone around on the ward round, basically just shadowing and observing as if we were doing clinical experience back in high school. And finally, if you're a fourth or fifth year medical student, this is where you really need to start pushing yourself, you know, doing things like seeing patients on your own, clarking in A and E, asking the doctors if you can help with any bloods or cannulas or jobs, get scrubbed into theater and get involved there if that's what you're into. At this point, you're kind of nearing the end of medical school and in a couple of short months and trust me, they're very short, you're going to be the doctor. So the more experience that you're able to build while you're in medical school, the more things you actually get to do with your hands, the more interactions and words that you exchange with patients, the more comfortable that you become interacting with other people and doing the job of an actual doctor. You don't want to start your first day of F1 and only haven't taken blood a handful of times or not know how to use the computer systems at all or feel really anxious walking up to a patient. That was a bit of a long section but I think it's a really important one. I genuinely think that going through medical school alone is one of the worst things you can do. Medical school is long, it's hard, it's mentally and physically draining and to not be able to share that with other people going through the same experience can be really, really tough. I've said it before and I'll say it again, there's absolutely no way I could have gone through medical school without my friends. Everything from venting about clinical placement to studying together, to sharing resources, to having someone to talk to when things are tough, to going out and socializing, you know, the more that you make medical school a group activity, the better. And I know this firsthand, in my previous degree at the University of Toronto, in my first and second years, I kind of treated university as a single player game and when I tell you that it was one of the most difficult periods of my life, genuinely it was one of the most difficult periods of my life, I felt like I was playing the game on hard mode and literally for no reason when I look back on it. There was an easy mode sitting right there waiting for me to just unlock it but I was so stressed and focused on my studying that I just couldn't see past that. If you're watching this video and you think that this sounds like your experience then really, I encourage you to go out there, join some societies, introduce yourself to others in your lectures and tutorials and just try and branch out. Medical school is an infinitely more fun experience when you have other people to go through it with you. Suddenly, this huge weight that you've been carrying on your shoulders becomes evenly distributed across you and your friends and you all help carry that burden and that weight together. If you're looking for an online community where you can meet others, have discussions about your life, studying or experiences, then you can join the Karma Club. The Karma Club is my patron, which gives you access to all kinds of behind the scenes content for this channel like bloopers and other stuff including access to the Karma Medic Discord server. We've got channels on there to discuss everything from personal achievements, university, high school, food, music, technology and even a study room where you can sit down and study with other people in a little community to help keep you accountable. It's such a fun time and I think it's one of the best things to come out of this Karma Medic community. If you're interested at all in joining then click the link in the description down below and I'll see you over there. One of the things that I disliked most about medical school is how the system splits up friend groups by sending us to different hospitals all over the country for our clinical years. This forces you to build new groups to socialize with and have as partners throughout your degree which actually isn't a bad thing. I met lots of wonderful people while out on peripheral placement and it expanded my social circle quite a bit. The downside, of course, is that you're no longer with the friend groups that you built in first and second years so it's kind of bittersweet. But anyways, the point is, meet other people, be friendly, share your resources, your time and your help. You won't regret it. Trust me, when you're done with medical school you're not gonna remember the endless hours of studying that you did alone in your room. You're gonna remember the friends and the fun times that you shared together. Without a doubt, one of the major keys to finding success in medical school is to keep yourself organized. I swear, medical school isn't necessarily hard because of the actual material that you're learning but rather because of how much material there is, all of the exams and assignments that you need to keep up with, there's just a lot. Organization is essential. There's no two ways about it. Without a plan, without a to-do list, without somewhere to keep track of everything that you're doing, medical school can quickly become very overwhelming. I've said this before but I'm the type of person to get quite anxious and stressed if I don't know what I've already done, if I don't know what I still have left to do and if I don't keep everything organized. For me, throughout medical school, I've been organizing my entire life using Notion who are kindly sponsoring this video. If you don't already use Notion, now is the time to get started. Notion, if you didn't know, is like the best all-in-one app for just managing everything in your life. The great thing about Notion is that it uses these building blocks which you can display, organize, and move in any way that you want so that you can truly set up a personalized experience that works for you. Personally, I think my Notion is quite aesthetic with all of these emojis that I have on the covers up over here. But honestly, this is so basic. You can get really creative with it and I'll share some of my favorite templates in the description down below. I've gone into great detail about how I built my Notion setup in a previous video that you can watch somewhere up over here. But today, what I wanna share with you is some of my favorite things and best things that I use Notion for. So this over here is my Notion setup. This is my medical school page that I've used for the last many, many years. And now that I'm a doctor, I have a doctor life one. But probably my favorite page in my Notion is this conditions list. I have here organized every single, well, most, conditions that you could possibly imagine might come up in medical school or in your life as a doctor, organized by different body systems or specialties, as you can see here. And then every single one of them, if we open them up, has a lot of further information. And for any specific condition or disease, I have sort of the most important information at the top. So presenting complaint, how does this presentation show up when a patient comes into the hospital? What are some of the key investigations that you need to do in order to confirm it or diagnose it? And then acute management plans if it's an emergency or just general management and treatment of that condition. Now, the fact that I have this for practically every single condition you could possibly think of or need is very, very helpful. Even when I'm in the hospital, if I come across a condition that I just don't remember everything about, I can very quickly open up Notion on my phone, search up the thing that I'm looking for and have the information right over there. And the fact that you can have all of these pages here which are easily movable and customizable, makes it really easy to set this up how you want. The work harder to do list, this is something that a lot of you might have seen in my previous video. This is basically a sort of live updating dynamic to-do list that changes with you. Let me explain. So basically over here if I'm ever walking around during the day or if I'm in the hospital and I remember that there's something that I need to do, I come here and I write it down in my inbox. It's for example, let's say home mom in the evening. Now we can add a lot of context or tags to the specific tasks. So this is to do with my mom. I need my phone to do this. So let's add a phone and the due date is today. And then I can link it to a certain part of my life.  And then it will go down into that specific section over here. As you can see, call mom in the evening. When I'm done with that task, I can click done and it automatically disappears from here and goes into the graveyard that I have somewhere down over here. And I have these different sections for being an F1 doctor, life admin and YouTube. And as I finish them, I click done, they disappear. If something needs to be done urgently, I can select this ASAP button and it'll go into the due now. So if I ever need to see what needs to get done today, I just look at this due now section and I know what I need to do right now. And then also really importantly, this entire YouTube channel is run out of notion. So over here is where I keep track of all the ideas that I have for videos and how they sort of move through the production process from going to being a random idea that I had into a final video that gets uploaded. We start over here with planned videos, which are ideas that I have for upcoming videos, upcoming sponsors, and then I can assign them to videos that make sense that are relevant and that I think would make a good natural fit. Then these are videos on hold that I've kind of worked on but have abandoned research, so doing some wider reading on the video, collecting sources and things like that. This is the scripting stage, then need to review, writer to review, ready to record. Right now this video is over here in the ready to record section. And then it goes through an editing process and then finally goes to completed. And when I put it in completed here, it disappears and goes somewhere else. So this is kind of the main hub out of which my whole YouTube production process happens and trying to keep track of this many videos, okay, on a piece of paper is just never gonna happen. So long story short, Notion has changed my life in a number of ways and I honestly could not more highly recommend it. The best thing about Notion is that it's completely free to use for both students and educators. You can sign up with your school email address and get access to all the personal pro plan features. If you're not already using Notion, like I said, now is the best time to start before the academic year kicks in so that you can be as prepared as possible. If you're interested and wanna check out Notion for yourself, you can sign up using the link in the description down below. All right, so asking questions. I remember that this was a big thing for me. You know, back in high school, I always felt worried or scared about asking questions in front of the class. Some of the things running through my head would be, you know, what if the teacher thinks that I'm stupid? What if my classmates laugh at me? What if I get a random voice crack while asking because I'm all nervous, which happens to me all the time every day in my life. And sort of by the time I reached university and then medical school, I realized that, you know what, I'm fully entitled to ask all of these questions. I'm paying good money to be here and it is quite literally these people's jobs to help me learn and to help me understand. And asking questions is a normal and critical part of that learning process. And kind of once I got over that hump, I started asking questions more and more and more. And the best thing about that is that I'd be able to clear up my misconceptions that I had at the time when I had them. Instead of writing them down to look up later or even worse, just forget about it entirely, I would actually understand that piece of information. I found that this was particularly important for me Doctors and other healthcare staff often talk at the speed of lightning and use all kinds of abbreviations and acronyms that will fly over most people's heads unless you've heard them before or you know what it is that they're talking about. And without that essential context, it would be so difficult for me to figure out what was going on, especially in my earlier years before I'd heard some of these things over and over again. For example, if you're reading a patient's notes, it might say something like, patient is 81FBIBA with enough, their BP is 110 over 70 with a GCS of 12, FBC shows low HP and WBC with user needs showing a CR of 123. You get the point. When you're first going on the wards, this stuff can be really, really confusing. It takes a while to get used to the language used by medical professionals. I always made it a point to ask about any abbreviations that I didn't understand. And you know, sometimes I'd get a response along the lines of, go Google it yourself and come back to me and tell me what it means. But those types of responses were honestly few and far between. Most people were really helpful and happy to explain things to me. And then in later years, I'd have more difficult questions about why we're requesting a certain investigation for someone when I thought that we should do something else or why we're referring someone to a particular specialty. And without asking these types of questions, I wouldn't really be able to understand the physiology and pathology underlying the patient's condition and why these management decisions were being made. And the only reason that I was asking them was that I would be able to recognize them in the future and make the same correct decisions in the future. All this to say, I learned a lot by asking questions.  In fact, I honestly think it shows the opposite. It shows that you're actively listening, you're trying to learn, you're being involved and you're trying to become better. Most clinical staff will recognize this and want to help. It's infinitely better than just sitting in the corner watching everyone in silence and not understanding what's going on, which is a complete waste of your time. And last but not least, probably what helped me succeed the most in medical school is simply putting in the work. I know that's probably not what you wanted to hear, but there's honestly no way around it. There will be times when you need to force yourself to just sit down, buckle up and grind out many hours of studying in the library. That's part of what being a medical student is. Without that, you just simply can't learn all the knowledge that you need to know for your exams. I think one of the best things that you can do about this is just to simply acknowledge it. Knowing that your upcoming exams are going to be intense and you're going to have to work really hard is honestly half the battle. If you know that, then you can plan accordingly, you can prepare and you can dedicate the time that's needed. If you underestimate what's ahead of you or you keep procrastinating it until some undefined time in the future, then you're gonna find yourself in a really tough position when exam season comes. As you probably know, if you've watched this channel at all, I'm a really big fan of not cramming and doing things in the last minute. I've honestly never pulled an all night for studying. I've never crammed for an exam. And the reason for that is because that just sounds really, really stressful. And I don't wanna put myself under that kind of pressure, so I just start studying early. The key to doing this, of course, is to put in work throughout the whole year. Small bits and pieces every day add up to huge amounts over the course of weeks or months. And then when it comes exam time, you won't have much new material to cover. You'll just need to review everything that you've already done before.  And I wouldn't blame you for being stressed out at that time either. It's a really difficult task. So decrease your stress, decrease your anxiety, start slowly, start early, bit by bit. You'll thank me later. The best motivator that I've had for this throughout my time in university is having encouraging friends where we can all keep each other accountable. If you check in on your friends and your friends check in on you, then you'll always be reminded of important deadlines that you might have otherwise missed and you'll be motivated to keep on going with your studying. I can't even begin to tell you how many times Kenji or Georgina would message me saying, hey, have you filled out this form or signed up to this thing before the deadline? And I literally would have never heard of it before. If it wasn't for that, I might have been completely screwed. So having good friends and accountability buddies like this is very helpful. Overall, I just wanna say that medical school is an amazing experience. It's an incredible time. Looking back, I think something that helped make it such a good experience was I had already done a university degree before. I had already learned how to navigate university life. I had learned how to study. And I knew all of these things that I just wish I had known back at the start. And so hopefully this video serves that purpose and lets you know things earlier on that might help you find your own happiness and success in medical school. Take care and I'll see you in the next video.


What is going on guys welcome back to the channel critical overload. Here's this is like the third or fourth time I've had to record this because I'm having severe technical difficulties today, but we got a very massive announcement Major massive announcement I would say in regards to a returning star to the child's play franchise who was not going to be reprising their role in Chucky season 3 part 2 because the first time they appeared they died on screen They're going to be playing a new character if you will so they're going to be pulling a Devin But this is far more satisfying than Devin So and again, I do love Devin so as a performer I just think it's time for us to stop this gag of him coming back over and over and over again Having all these interactions with the same people and no one bats an eye about it's not an anthology show It needs to stop but John Waters will be back for Chucky season 3 part 2 entertainment weekly can exclusively reveal that the legendary director of pink Flamingo hairspray and cereal mom is returning to the child's play horror universe waters will play window Wilkins So we know the name of a new character. Who is the reclusive creator of the good guy dolls? Who gets drawn into the psychopathic Chucky's tangled web on an episode of Chucky season 3 part 2? The filmmaker previously portrayed a tabloid photographer named Pete Peters who gets dissolved by sulfuric acid in 2004's seed of Chucky Now the thought of who created the good guy doll has never once popped into my head So this news really got me excited and caught me off guard But this should be an interesting character introduction with hopefully a very intriguing story The closest thing we've had to this would be Sullivan from child's play 2 and 3 Even he wasn't really the most fascinating character outside outside of just the role He held because he was like I think he was the CEO of play pals the company back in the doll brand So it's nice to have another prestigious like character introduced who has deep ties to the doll Arguably far more than Sullivan since this person actually created the damn doll. So I wonder how Wilkins feels about Chucky Charles Lee Ray does he think it's tainted the legacy of his creation notice it says he is reclusive My best guess is that this person has just shut themselves off Due to backlash from the public who likely have used the internet to track him down to some capacity Torment him in public when they see him and that's kind of just led to him saying, you know what? I don't want to mess with the public the public doesn't understand What actually is going on and they're blaming him for all the bloodshed that's been happening for the past decades And now what's occurring in the White House? Something we know that is truly not his fault, but we also know how stupid and misinformed humans can be So it says he gets drawn in I'm thinking perhaps we could see a relaunch of the dolls despite the chaos at the White House and Jennifer Tilly's trial And perhaps the chaos is actually what sparked public interest in the doll again The most likely option I could see unfolding though is that while Jake and Devin are getting closer to the witch doctor We just met for answers Shucky desperately could be seeking out help and that's how he tracks down the creator of the dolls What kind of help Wilkins could have to offer besides a new body is beyond me But if I'm recalling correctly as we saw in the first half of this season This body likely wouldn't even make a difference since his attempts to jump into caroline were a failure So this is a massive character again that they're introducing and I'm sure a lot of you just like me Haven't even considered who created this doll and how have these years of bloodshed and How how have the years of bloodshed damaged their reputation? What is their mental state about all of this? because they can't be Ignorant to it. They have to know who charlie ray is they have to know who shucky is Perhaps this person was even present for Karen Barclay's Demise in court and when she was separated from Her son Andy perhaps this person has been around and experienced a lot of things that happened off-screen That we never got to see but they were therefore and can provide context on on the whole thing Maybe they advocated for Karen to actually stay with Andy stuff like that You know, there's so many different things we could learn from this person I mostly want to know what inspired them to create the doll and of course most importantly What are their thoughts on the whole shucky situation? How has it impacted how people treat them and why are they reclusive? My best guess is that again It has something to do with the treatment they receive by people who are ignorant and put the blame On the creator of the doll. There's no way this person could have known This is what was going to happen with their creation. There's absolutely no way imagine having the purest intentions When you create something and then it ends up being one of the biggest mistakes in the history of creations just because of the Unforeseen turmoil that the creation has now caused so many different families all Surrounding the name of charlie ray the lake shore strangler But the announcement of john waters Definitely was something i love because it tapped into a pocket of nostalgia for me Sure seat of chucky isn't the greatest movie ever But it was the first time i was able to experience a marketing campaign for chucky and john waters was a part of that film So i smiled ear to ear over this announcement These are the kinds of returns some of us are more open to not back to back devon saw reincarnations And the characters again just go along with it despite this not being an anthology show Sure, it's the same thing with john waters, but the context isn't exactly the same Lexi devon and jake have never interacted with john waters So they're not going to interact with john waters if he even interacts with these people And they're not gonna there's not going to be me thinking. Hey, why aren't you guys? noticing how he looks like your uncle or how he looks like the Priest at your at your religious school or whatever they just went through in season two I don't have to worry about all that because they've never had any on-screen interactions Let me know what y'all think about this down in the comment section below What do you think mr. Wilkins will contribute to the story in part two? Let me know down below if you haven't already of course make sure you subscribe Turn on post notification at your next video in the description I'll have links to all of my social media accounts. I am on facebook, twitter and instagram You can message me there, of course No, there's any movies and news or reviews you let me to cover in the future and with all that in mind guys I will see you in the next video


Yeah, I just wondered, you know, what did you say over the last few weeks as you had a handful of kind of uncharacteristic drops. Those kind of started to accumulate and did today today feel like sort of I don't mean to start with a negative thing it's it's it's leading to a positive. Did today feel like your answer to that. I mean, I think you caught every every pass on your way.  Today was a day where I put it all together. I caught every target. I went, I went really to focus on the jobs then I looked at them as a part of the game. I'm not trying to drop the ball.  I'm not going out there trying to drop the ball. Yeah, for you to get one K and Derek to get two K is it's pretty clear that there's balance on offense how unstoppable does that does that make you guys. Um, I don't like I want to say the word unstoppable, but it definitely we definitely feed off each other, not benefit of him. You know, so doing this thing back there they got to at least acknowledge him. And then it give me more opportunities when they do that. So we feed off each other. Try to be unstoppable. Yeah. And then on that on that catch the 52 yard or were you surprised at how open the middle of the field was. No, I knew exactly what he was coming to me. We saw quarters. I knew as soon as I lined up. I hope they don't roll the cover three. If they did, I was going to still keep it real skinny. But I knew as soon as I lined up, I was getting to get 2000 for Derek and 1000 for you. I mean, just how much credit though do you give the guy, you know, under center and in your quarterback Ryan Tannehill for getting you both to that to that credit. He get all the credit. I can't I can't throw it to myself. So he gonna get all the credit like the last play that was a dime drop in the bucket. They gave me opportunity. You know, so he gets all the credit every every catch everything. And how important was it for you to go back out there after you know you fell down early with an injury but to finish the game and to finish it in the way that you did how important was it for you to go back out there. Not to talk about myself with just the toughness. I come I come with find a way when there's no way. Didn't know how I was going to finish the game if you ask me on that play early in the game. But just finding a way, you know, we got the week I'm not going to talk about injuries, but you know, you just got to find a way. Hey, Jay, you guys had a big lead and obviously there was a there was a chance to blow it open in the moment. Is it fun to be in a tense back and forth game like that. This ain't no video game. No, you know, we're not trying to go back and forth like that. You know, it's the NFL. You never know you got to keep going. You know, anything can change at any moment. Then you got that's why you got to keep it put on the pedal. So it was definitely tough. Thank you. Players often say you get a fresh. Hey, AJ, I know, hope you haven't answered this yet, but I know the ankle's been bothering you nagging at you for a few weeks. Can you talk about kind of the mind over matter when it comes to the game and especially on that long past there near the end. Did you think about the ankle at all like you're moving pretty well on that. Nah, my mind said, find a way when there's no way. Find a way to win. That's what I tell myself. It is what it is, but I get banged up.  You know, it doesn't it doesn't nothing. I hurt when it's over. We'll figure out what I'm gonna do when it's all done, but why am I here? My way getting work from. Hey, Jay, I'm bouncing over late. Just when the balls and flight and it's coming your way kind of what's going through your mind at that moment and to come down with it knowing you're in field of range, how good you're feeling was that. Um, to be honest, I saw the I really didn't see the ball and it kind of surprised me. I'm glad I ran after after cut. When I saw the ball, I was like, make sure you get to the ball, get to the ball. If I had to lay out, I was going to. But he threw a great ball. He dropped it in the bucket. He threw it early gave me a chance to run on it. Yeah. And as far as the feeling of winning, you want you guys won two games and overtime this year, you've won some tight ones that you've been in the league. But the exuberance when you win and the ball goes off the crossbar and you're winning AFC South and guys are running all over the field. When's the last time you've had an experience like that from an emotional standpoint? Never had experience like that. Never won championship. No, I didn't college. I won a championship in high school, but this time it means more. It was a crazy, crazy ending.