Misc. Med Thread Vol. 3: caribbean diabetus strikes back

[MakeABanana]

inb4 all misc doctors are dead from Covid-19!

Still alive even though I was at the NYC epicenter *knock on wood*

Has anyone heard anything regarding the upcoming season's fellowship interviews? I've been told that all resident interviews will be virtual and my program is preparing for that. Wondering if there has been anything concrete yet as to whether all fellowship interviews will be mandated virtual or not.

Would kinda suck as I was looking forward to traveling, but it would also save a bunch of money.

I know our program is planning to do virtual.

Lol, I don't think I would have matched if I was forced into an online interview. System is really benefiting humans with no social skills at the moment.

Anyone actually get infected with COVID? I was treating plenty of patients who were positive and coding positive patients and never had any issues. Not sure how my sanity will hold out wearing a mask for the rest of my life.

I have non-radiology colleagues who were infected, and the symptoms were like a bad flu, and fortunately nothing worse. I did, however, take care of an elderly physician in our system who sadly did die from the complications.

[LordMU]

Bump

Any UK/Aus/NZ Drs here? Surgeonbrah still around?
I'm gunning hard for anaesthetics atm; It'll be a couple of years before I jump onto the training program. Came across the first post I made on here when I started med-school and had a good laugh. Y'all ever go back and check out your posts from when you were stressing over step-1/Matching etc.

[MakeABanana]

Bump

Any UK/Aus/NZ Drs here? Surgeonbrah still around?
I'm gunning hard for anaesthetics atm; It'll be a couple of years before I jump onto the training program. Came across the first post I made on here when I started med-school and had a good laugh. Y'all ever go back and check out your posts from when you were stressing over step-1/Matching etc.

Idk who's around. The Misc continues to die. I check this place maybe once a week at best now.

Good times back in the day.

COVID-19 is bumping back up in NYC. Peppering my angus for a second redeployment down the line if necessary.

[IMathew]

Looks like Figs went ballistic and said fuk all DOs and women in medicine.


Feelsbadman for all our DO brahs out there, can't even get respect from a scrub company.

[DrThrockmorton]

Looks like Figs went ballistic and said fuk all DOs and women in medicine.


Feelsbadman for all our DO brahs out there, can't even get respect from a scrub company.

Wat

[IMathew]

Wat

The book is Medical Terminology for Dummies, and she's holding it upside down lol

Would have been lulzy if they spun it to show support for DOs instead.

Anyway they scrubbed it from the site and issued a twitter apology

[dxw]

Looks like this place got lean

Stay safe, brahs

[kovalchuk71]

Looks like this place got lean

Stay safe, brahs

Who else is excited to be a guinea pig for the COVID vaccine???? I’m going to try to find the viral vector one.

Looks like Figs went ballistic and said fuk all DOs and women in medicine.


Feelsbadman for all our DO brahs out there, can't even get respect from a scrub company.

Just LOL at paying that much $$$ for scrubs just to look “trendy”. They’re scrubs, not designer clothing.

I’m sure the “hero” nurses are who keep them in business anyways. I’m at wits end with their virtue signaling bullchit right now.

[Bcl2]

Looks like this place got lean

Stay safe, brahs

this is my first night off in months and i'm ****posting on the misc lol at me.

[WeekndOrNah]

hi.

enjoying surgery residency so far. i made the right choice

[IMathew]

hi.

enjoying surgery residency so far. i made the right choice

Nice brah, rare to see someone actually enjoying gen surg intern year lol.

Did you hear that they permanently cancelled step 2 cs?

[incomingbrOMS]

hi.

enjoying surgery residency so far. i made the right choice

Nice brah, glad things are going well you don't hear that from every surgical intern.

Misc Med Crew did died this year it seems, I haven't been here in ages. Missed all the "thanks for the virus now posting from my ventilator" threads.

As much as I love this place its been increasingly an echo chamber of forever alones and basically just one big R/P section which I'm just not in the mood for.

[memcop]

Whatever happened to medhead? We were supposed to elope and I was going to be a stay at home dad for our shih tzu's.

[Glutamine2]

everybody dead?

[Shortofdaybreak]

everybody dead?

Nah Fam. Program closed back in 2019, had to transfer and it sucked relearning new attendings and coming in as a midlevel resident who had literally no trust from attendings because brb program closing was my fault.


On a research year during COVID. Playing all the video games.

[muscle beast]

Nah Fam. Program closed back in 2019, had to transfer and it sucked relearning new attendings and coming in as a midlevel resident who had literally no trust from attendings because brb program closing was my fault.


On a research year during COVID. Playing all the video games.

Cotdamn bro, those feels....Were you at Drexel / Hahnemann Hospital?

I'm still alive and thriving bros. Brb COVID MICU was a fukin SAVAGE of a rotation. Our program paid us to take on extra shifts. Looking for a hospitalist job now (burnt out with academia) and ready to start making $$$ and repaying these fukin loans.

TLDR; we're all gonna make it bros

[DesperateEnuf]

what happened to that fat guy who used to troll here?

[Shortofdaybreak]

Cotdamn bro, those feels....Were you at Drexel / Hahnemann Hospital?

I'm still alive and thriving bros. Brb COVID MICU was a fukin SAVAGE of a rotation. Our program paid us to take on extra shifts. Looking for a hospitalist job now (burnt out with academia) and ready to start making $$$ and repaying these fukin loans.

TLDR; we're all gonna make it bros

I was.


Place was an urban hospital that definitely needed some TLC, but it was a great place to train. Super pissed because I actually loved it there. Enough cutting edge academia while still training with some old school Wild West attendings.

Then the whole tail insurance thing happened and I was wondering if I was gonna have to quit my job because in PA the board can require you to surrender your license if you don't have tail coverage. It was in our contract to have it and they fuk'd us there too. Luckily, court "allowed" AAHS to buy our tail insurance like they were contractually obligated to.

But yeah. Now I'm in a much more academic place and I'll probably avoid a true academic job in the future. This isn't ultimately the best fit for me.

[cullenmichael34]

I know this is the med-thread, but any pharm brahs lurking around? Current P2 here

[rkesh88]

I know this is the med-thread, but any pharm brahs lurking around? Current P2 here

Ya I’m a pharmacist. What’s Gucci mane

[r0bo]

I know this is the med-thread, but any pharm brahs lurking around? Current P2 here

i'm a pharmacist. fuk off our profession is full

[wickedman]

Who else is excited to be a guinea pig for the COVID vaccine???? I’m going to try to find the viral vector one.



Just LOL at paying that much $$$ for scrubs just to look “trendy”. They’re scrubs, not designer clothing.

I’m sure the “hero” nurses are who keep them in business anyways. I’m at wits end with their virtue signaling bullchit right now.

Yeah that hero crap was a joke, nurses fell for it pretty good though.

[Glutamine2]

what happened to that fat guy who used to troll here?

pancakes or whatever his name was. probably done with residency and starting fellowship. used to post here but forgot my username lulz

[r0bo]

pancakes or whatever his name was. probably done with residency and starting fellowship. used to post here but forgot my username lulz

flapjacks lol. we went to the same undergrad and met him a couple times. he was doing an IM residency somewhere in fl last I talked to him a couple years ago. I have his number in my phone I think. prob still fat

[Glutamine2]

flapjacks lol. we went to the same undergrad and met him a couple times. he was doing an IM residency somewhere in fl last I talked to him a couple years ago. I have his number in my phone I think. prob still fat

lol, that's right. we were the only 2 IMGs on the board. i'm sure he's done by now

[IMathew]

Happy match week brahs, time fukkin flies!

Threads dead but congrats to any of you brahs that matched! I wonder what all the old ****s are up to nowadays

[SazabiBrah]

About to enter dedicated brahs, followed by 3rd year. How much am I going to like/ hate 3rd year?

[IMathew]

About to enter dedicated brahs, followed by 3rd year. How much am I going to like/ hate 3rd year?

fuark good luck brah. Going with the tried and true ufap method? Shoot for 3 blocks/day if you can. I didn't find NBMEs too helpful, underpredicted for me like many others and just added to the stress.

OB/GYN and surg rotations suck cawk srs, you'll really need to step up your confidence if you don't want to get stepped on by residents. OB/GYN especially, everyone is rude and immature, and you'll feel like chit everyday.
Do whatever you can to get your attending to let you assist a bit, otherwise you'll be stuck placing foleys and put on retractor duty for hours, though this may depend on your hospitals volume and how many residents there are to feed.
This is where being proactive helps, on busy days and in the OR, residents/attendings will sometimes forget you even exist if you don't make yourself known and ask to participate.
Try not to be too aggressive though, the shy but likable and hardworking students get better evals than the kunts who talk and answer everything nonstop imo.
We used to try to let students leave early on slow days but man there are a ton of lame gunners nowadays who actually complain about them or others being let off early thus having less time to prep for shelves, which then ruins it for everyone.
Yeah you're going to feel useless and miserable most of the time, and it'll absolutely kill your motivation to keep studying but just take care of yourself and keep grinding.

[SurgeonBrah]

Bump

Any UK/Aus/NZ Drs here? Surgeonbrah still around?
I'm gunning hard for anaesthetics atm; It'll be a couple of years before I jump onto the training program. Came across the first post I made on here when I started med-school and had a good laugh. Y'all ever go back and check out your posts from when you were stressing over step-1/Matching etc.

Only a year late - standard clinic waiting time!
you gassing yet brah?
Remember - i always start timeout just before the patient loses consciousness, just so they hear me saying - 'have we got the penectomy blade ready for the gender transition surgery' even if they are having a tendon fixed...
should see the best rate rise! ha ha ha ha

[blumnblam]

Where my OGs at? Who's still in training lol