[meme] some things to consider after Step
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Posted Jul 10, 2019, 9:35 PM UTC
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I don't know how you found a picture of me and every agonizing detail of my existence but I don't like it.
Pls delet
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"Only able to comprehend sex in an academic manner"
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"Has seen thousands of breasts.. on histology."
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“This will only hurt a little”
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"Forever a loan" jesus that was good
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Rural medical is my dream. Low key, 8-5, some weekends, acreage, can’t see my neighbors, know everyone.
I don’t need New Orleans ED level crazy.
Give me a 5 bed level 4 trauma ED with only two patients at any given time any day.
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Wife just started a rural residency.
This place is wonderful. Super nice people, caring colleagues, reasonable hours.
Complete contrast with many of the city programs that clearly expected you to fall in line as labor.
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Shit man, the New Orleans ED is the best. You see shit there you’ll never see anywhere else.
I’m an adrenaline junkie though, so I’m hella biased.
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Pretty sure I've seen a bunch of alcohol poisonings in my neck of the woods.
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New Orleans (UMC) ED is the only level 1 trauma center around and is the safety net hospital for the area. It is also in a part of the country with a staggering amount of STDs/HIV and a very high number of untreated/undertreated psych patients. This means it has this weird mixture of very high volume penetrating and blunt trauma, late presentations of AIDS-associated illnesses and syphilis, and all the intoxications on top of the Classic ED stuff. It's not as crazy as it used to be back in the 90s during the old Charity Hospital days when New Orleans was the undisputed murder capital of the US, but it still gets hectic.
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I can see me doing residency in something like that for a bit to learn but I don’t know if I’d enjoy it long term. I know I wouldn’t want to live in that populated of an area.
Or maybe I would do well in that environment, who knows. Come in, let my ADD go nuts and just bounce from puzzle to puzzle, shiny ball to shiny ball.
I’m still trying to figure out what I want to do.
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NOLA ED's are probably going to have busy nights with this upcoming storm :(
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Probably not as bad as you'd think. Some people are leaving town although certainly not most, and the rest hunker down and don't leave their houses. Once the storm passes, it will be nuts.
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I started watching Northern Exposure just as I was starting to burn out. Now all I can think about is getting out of this place for a quiet life somewhere cozy.
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need to watch this fucking show. looks good.
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Dude that’s my dream. I’d love to still have neighbors but I’d like a good amount of land in between.
Also I can’t wait to have a “normal” schedule doing 8-5. Being able to spend time with family and have time for hobbies? Sign me the fuck up.
And of course preventative measures.
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Ah, the lost city of New Orlantis. good to see someone is able to keep the mythology alive
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"p=0.0501"
Wow that one hurts
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That seriously provoked a visceral reaction in me. Too real...
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Bold of you to assume that my apartment is so big
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well since you're derm, not seeing the sun for years is a plus
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The poor specialist looks like Dr Dustyn Williams.
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Except Williams is a Louisiana internist.
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i thought he was EM?
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According to the OnlineMedEd "about us," he's an IM hospitalist. Also way buffer than I realized, either he's been lifting or those button-up shirts don't do his body justice. One more comment, I thought American doctors were supposed to be against guns, how come he's packing two of them in the photo? ;)
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yea big hypocrite - talks about not having guns in the home during his peds lectures while openly brandishing 2 bad boys
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Once you're out of academia, you can stop pretending to be a gun grabber ;}
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The Gucci cowboy hat was perfect 😂
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The "practices OMM daily" got me
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"Rides to house calls on horseback" sounds pretty metal.
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I am interested in genetics, but being a rural family doctor with a farm sounds like my ideal life
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Actually put me in mind of this one imgur album
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Dang, that's just so neat.
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This gives me anxiety.
I mean, I'm really impressed, and I think it's really cool. But I highly doubt I would be able to do 10% of that. I think I would be too slow to react, most likely, I would have forget the meaningful knowledge when seeing a patient.
Damn, already in internship, I already feel like that. To think I would be able to do that, in THOSE YEARS?
BTW, for those of you, who would like to have the same "waw" moment for our ancestors, I recommend reading Mikhaïl Boulgakov. He has some small books, you may find the time to read it sometime.
Tl;dr: our ancestors were badasses, and I'm happy I wasn't a doctor then
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Damn i wish i was in the 40s now
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You could do both. Genetics fellowship is open to FM graduates!
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"Average genes are considered highly valuable by locals"
Oh gawd... I won't ever forget that
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Cries in bottom tier genes
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This. Is..... sad but true.
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Where can I find this affordable 200 square foot apartment?
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"Steals Wellbutrin from patients...still hates life"
As a new M3 on Wellbutrin (without the hope for any competitive specialty).......this is so true it hurts
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Came off the Wellbutrin last week, got step score today, going back on Wellbutrin tomorrow. It was good while it lasted.
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two fiddy six step score, loveee gold ol' buproprion, I wont ever be in a competitive specialty cause of MDD. lol
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dude, same (except for the 250). My mental-health issues have had such a massive impact on choosing a specialty and it sucks.
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Why u hurt me
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The rural FM dream!
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the hottest chick there
That's a double-edged sword, friend-o.
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I mean, you've just gotta be OPEN...
(minded?)
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Genuinely curious as to what you mean
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The hottest chick in a small town may not be that attractive compared to the cities lol
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Haha it'll be just like Doc Hollywood right?
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Lmao the diploma
Good attention to detail. Outstanding work. Low Pass 2/5
This evaluation triggered me
That shit got me rolling
Could one of you US guys/girls explain how important your evaluations are to passing your course etc.? In the UK these really don’t count for anything and there is no standardised system for being graded on them (at least at my school). Just curious, thank you!
Over here it depends on the institution. At least at mine, evals are worth at most 70% of our grade, with 30% being the standardized shelf exam. Some others have breakdowns of 80/20 or 60/40. And then the H/HP/P breakdown is top 30%, top 20%, then remaining 50%. But at a higher ranked school within the same state, almost everyone over there gets an H/HP (like around 80% of their class) since school name alone can carry the student to good connections. So there's no real standardized system here either.
Sounds like hell.