🧵 /med/
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Dec 2024 17:01:27 UTC No. 16503695
hydrogen-hydrogen edition
PREV: >>16474196
nursenotes: nobody wanted to make the new thread because they are all lazy fuckers
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Dec 2024 17:02:46 UTC No. 16503699
>>16503695
herpes simplex 1 (and 2) awareness sub-edition!
source: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2004
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Dec 2024 18:07:41 UTC No. 16503787
Fuck O-chem
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Dec 2024 18:11:56 UTC No. 16503802
>>16503699
Yes and this.
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Dec 2024 18:33:37 UTC No. 16503888
>>16503787
Easier than gen-chem
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Dec 2024 18:39:53 UTC No. 16503907
>>16503787
Fuck premeds.
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Dec 2024 18:41:44 UTC No. 16503913
>>16503695
How did you guys study anatomy? Our teacher bases all of his content on 3 books and an atlas.
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Dec 2024 18:42:42 UTC No. 16503918
>>16503913
not how i learned (i havent) but surgery books
maybe the Oxford Clinical Handbook of Surgery
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Dec 2024 18:51:12 UTC No. 16503957
Have you ever heard of fecal transplants? Is it more effective than probiotics? It seems like bullshit.
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Dec 2024 19:24:30 UTC No. 16504039
>>16503918
You haven't learnt anatomy? But thanks for the type, anyhow.
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Dec 2024 20:04:26 UTC No. 16504112
>>16504039
havent got round to it yet except for the heart and brain
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Dec 2024 22:39:39 UTC No. 16504284
>>16503787
i liked ochem.
Anonymous at Thu, 5 Dec 2024 23:50:50 UTC No. 16504350
>>16503907
DMSO soaked hands typed this post. Get back to your laboratory you fucking nerd. Leave the real medicine to us.
Anonymous at Fri, 6 Dec 2024 05:03:00 UTC No. 16504536
i got basically all that i ned from this, but maybe anon (esp the infectious disease anon) may find it helpful: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.112
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.112
Anonymous at Fri, 6 Dec 2024 14:59:42 UTC No. 16504837
>>16503913
I didn’t. Barely passed. Useless unless you wanna be a tripe diddler or a long bone carpenter.
Anonymous at Fri, 6 Dec 2024 15:51:29 UTC No. 16504885
Anonymous at Fri, 6 Dec 2024 16:15:54 UTC No. 16504904
>>16504837
NTA, but I always wanted to be a plumber
So I chose vascular
Anonymous at Fri, 6 Dec 2024 17:45:31 UTC No. 16505005
>>16504904
kek
Anonymous at Fri, 6 Dec 2024 20:18:10 UTC No. 16505123
>>16504420
What happens if you drink ATP
Anonymous at Fri, 6 Dec 2024 20:35:36 UTC No. 16505147
>>16505123
Pretty sure it's solid at room temp, so you could only eat it. ATP cells use has to synthesised, so you would just digest and break it down. And it actually has very little energy per gram, so it wouldn't be a good energy source.
Anonymous at Fri, 6 Dec 2024 22:04:05 UTC No. 16505226
>>16504837
What specialty did you choose and what was actually useful for you?
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Dec 2024 09:10:04 UTC No. 16505633
opinions on podiatry?
>>16505414
congrats. be sure to not get sued.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Dec 2024 15:22:40 UTC No. 16505828
>>16505147
That's retarded. But thanks!
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Dec 2024 15:42:50 UTC No. 16505852
>>16505226
Anesthesia.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Dec 2024 15:49:17 UTC No. 16505858
So, earlier today I had my first blackout. I don't know if that's the correct term since I am an ESL, but I felt like the blood leaving my head and my awareness blacking out. Some interesting observations:
- during the blackout, I was still having thoughts, but "inappropriate" ones. Rather than being alarmed I just fell over (I was sitting beforehand and fell onto a soft spot, so it's no big deal), I was having thoughts revolving around a current political world event. It felt precisely like a dream, or rather the state your mind is 3/4 on the way to full sleep
- subjectively, these inappropriate thoughts began immediately. but I don't know how long I was blacked out completely without any consciousness. It could have been 2 seconds or 20 seconds (not much longer than that).
I now wonder how much brain damage this did. I assume almost none, since I was still breathing normally I assume. But I am reminded of the stupid blackout games other kids played when we were 12, and which do lead to neuron death.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Dec 2024 15:57:42 UTC No. 16505866
>>16505858
Syncope or mystical experience. Go see cardiology or an priest.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Dec 2024 16:08:59 UTC No. 16505878
>>16503787
>premed
made me lol
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Dec 2024 16:30:28 UTC No. 16505890
Why do I get hemorrhoids so easily? All it takes is one rocky shit. No I don't get fucked by BBC or shove stuff up my ass
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Dec 2024 19:28:49 UTC No. 16506049
>>16506010
Easier to make pills than doctors?
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Dec 2024 20:06:57 UTC No. 16506096
>>16506049
So I looked into this more and it could be a factor. I found picrel, which I found interesting. I tried to look at other countries and found that germany had around 12 medical school graduates per 100,000 people in 2021 while the us has 6 medical school graduates per 100,000 people the same year.
I feel another explanation could better explain what happen in the 1990's specifically tho.
Anonymous at Sat, 7 Dec 2024 20:58:01 UTC No. 16506153
>>16506096
Could also be improvements in pill production while the process of educating someone has mostly remained the same
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Dec 2024 00:17:54 UTC No. 16506287
>>16505878
For me, it's not a difficulty thing. It's just boring. Imagine teaching a prof. chemist how to do basic mechanical vehicle maintaince. Sure, it's doable. Who actually wants to do that shit, though?
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Dec 2024 00:19:02 UTC No. 16506288
>>16506096
What is the planned destruction of Western civilization for 900?
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Dec 2024 00:27:40 UTC No. 16506292
>>16506287
Academia insists on making jobs for people who aren't useful to anybody nor interesting to students
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Dec 2024 00:41:15 UTC No. 16506305
>>16506096
didnt the AMA and US govt push to stop increasing (or actually decrease) the amount of residency spots, so they could keep their wages high?
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Dec 2024 01:06:55 UTC No. 16506315
>>16506292
I want to force professors to work in a mine for a month. Most I met are actually good. Some of them are haughty.
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Dec 2024 01:31:55 UTC No. 16506325
>>16503957
only for recurrent c diff
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Dec 2024 01:32:56 UTC No. 16506327
>>16506305
HCA is opening a lot of new residencies
DO schools also keep opening at an unstainable rate, with massive class sizes within 3 years
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Dec 2024 02:04:44 UTC No. 16506338
>>16506327
>DO schools
Fuck AT Still for making OMM. Such a waste of time that could be spent studying for other subjects.
>t. disgruntled DO student.
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Dec 2024 03:34:32 UTC No. 16506381
>>16506327
only 25years late, but hey better late than never.
🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 8 Dec 2024 05:14:39 UTC No. 16506419
Started smoking in medical school, bros.
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Dec 2024 05:18:39 UTC No. 16506420
Started smoking in medical school, bros. I know it's bad for me, but it feels nice.
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Dec 2024 15:27:44 UTC No. 16506716
>>16506420
Switched to vapes, then Zyn and nowadays I barely use the Zyn a couple times per week.
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Dec 2024 17:22:22 UTC No. 16506866
>>16506716
>vapes
Gay.
>then Zyn
Based.
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Dec 2024 17:28:58 UTC No. 16506878
>>16506420
What brand do most doctors recommend these days?
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Dec 2024 18:35:30 UTC No. 16506926
>>16506878
I smoke Marboro. I'm hoping to smoke enough to win the Marboro sleeping bag.
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Dec 2024 18:57:51 UTC No. 16506935
>>16505858
Sounds like a syncope like >>16505866
said
No brain damage because 20 seconds of blood deprivation won't do any significant harm.
Drink more water, don't stand on your feet for too long in crowded/hot places.
Next time you feel you're about to faint you can lay down and rise your legs, or just ask anyone close to you to help you elevate your legs. (So your lower limbs venous blood can flow better to your heart)
Anonymous at Sun, 8 Dec 2024 22:15:42 UTC No. 16507123
>>16506935
He should instead stab himself with a blunt knife because pain is the best vasopressor.
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Dec 2024 04:10:38 UTC No. 16507338
Do you need to be a little bit psychopathic to slice into someone
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Dec 2024 04:52:02 UTC No. 16507368
>>16507338
no
ywnbas (you will never be a surgeon)
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Dec 2024 06:29:33 UTC No. 16507434
Has anybody tried using the PSICHIC protein-ligand software or other similar programs? What are your experiences?
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Dec 2024 07:53:12 UTC No. 16507457
Ive just fixed 4month constipation only expelling watery overflow by realising I’ve been overdosing on magnesium - >9g magnesium citrate/day. I’ve currently dropped the citrate down to around 1g and ceased many other laxatives i was taking chronically for the 4 months (lactulose, senna, docusate) and ive dropped my macrogol consumption to a more reasonable dose wih intention to cease entirely. Ive noticed certain foods containing gluten and dairy make the problem worse so ive ceased them too. Also quit all nicotine and alcohol.
Whilst noticing more fibrous stools recently there appears to be a strong ammonia-like odour from the expulsions. Guessing SIBO from probiotic abuse? I have many herbal remedies on hand (ginseng, berberine, astragalus, boswellia)
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Dec 2024 09:41:27 UTC No. 16507495
>>16505890
Do you sit a lot? Do you squeeze your asshole hard a lot (heavy dealifts for example)?
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Dec 2024 09:44:57 UTC No. 16507498
>>16507338
You can get desensitized to just about anything with enough exposure, mental illness can just make you require less of it.
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Dec 2024 12:43:52 UTC No. 16507587
>>16507457
just stop taking everything you fucking spastic
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Dec 2024 13:45:14 UTC No. 16507627
>>16507587
Based
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Dec 2024 13:47:08 UTC No. 16507630
What's /med/ hobby outside of doing adderall and devouring anki decks? I like martial arts :^)
Anonymous at Mon, 9 Dec 2024 15:09:03 UTC No. 16507700
>>16507630
>adderall
Is taking Adderall really that common?
Anonymous at Tue, 10 Dec 2024 07:57:32 UTC No. 16508522
>>16507630
scuba diving
I want to do diving med alongside anaesthesia.
Anonymous at Tue, 10 Dec 2024 08:14:12 UTC No. 16508533
>>16507630
Shooting. I used to be a firearm instructor full time on a shooting range, only do private lessons once in a while now. All the first aid stuff related to firearms is what got me into medicine
Anonymous at Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:05:59 UTC No. 16508661
Just wrote my first final exam and I think I failed. I unironically only understood 20% of the content in the paper and guessed the rest. The coursework exams were never this hard wtf
Anonymous at Tue, 10 Dec 2024 13:47:16 UTC No. 16508696
>>16508661
Race sex height?
Anonymous at Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:09:05 UTC No. 16508723
>>16508696
Black male 5'10
Anonymous at Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:45:32 UTC No. 16508797
>>16508723
ngmi
Anonymous at Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:45:11 UTC No. 16508907
>>16507700
Kind of but I don't remember the exact figures.
>>16508522
Don't die
>>16508533
Based. I love shooting too, shame we don't have as liberal laws in my country compared to the US but still.
Anonymous at Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:57:19 UTC No. 16509042
What is the correct position to have on the nurse practitioner question? I personally hate 'em. Roach encroachers
🗑️ Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:31:08 UTC No. 16509328
>>16508907
>Kind of but I don't remember the exact figures.
Are people getting it illegally or are suddenly getting diagnosed by NPs?
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:34:23 UTC No. 16509332
>>16508907
>Kind of but I don't remember the exact figures.
Are people getting it illegally or are they suddenly getting diagnosed by NPs? Is Adderall really that much help?
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:13:22 UTC No. 16509363
>>16509042
>correct position
depends on your job, but generally they should have more regulation regarding their schooling regardless.
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 03:51:04 UTC No. 16509459
are you fucking kidding me? of all the fucking places it was right here in /med/ that mentioned the USMLE recalls 4 months before the scandal erupted this year. to think some of you retards actually managed to pull it off and get godly USMLE scores before the test bank was completely rewritten
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:01:53 UTC No. 16509465
>>16509459
it was fuckin hilarious when hundreds of jeets were getting purged left and right with scores being thrown out regardless of if they cheated or not, some even getting dismissed like 2-3 years into their competitive residency programs. I still find it incredible that this hardly made a dent in national news cycles, you'd think Americans would be concerned that all their doctors are a bunch of cheating jeets
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:09:44 UTC No. 16509469
>>16509465
IMGs can barely match into residencies anyhow what with MDs and DOs competing. This only affected like 1000 people tops
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:12:26 UTC No. 16509473
>>16509459
btw I looked it up to see if there were still any of the old testbank recalls up (long outdated by now) and I found this interesting question
A 21-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department by police, who were called to a clothing store when the patient began shouting at a manager that she wanted his boss’ phone number. The patient had insisted that she needed the number so that she could “buy him out because she knows how to run a business correctly.” On arrival the patient is agitated. When asked about the incident at the store, she states, “Those idiots don’t understand my genius, and they will regret not joining one of my mutimillion dolar companies.” She says she has slept only 3 hours during the past 2 days but feels “better than fantastic.” She is hungry but “too busy to eat.” She is a receptionist at a law firm. She has type 2 diabetes mellitus that is well controlled with glyburide. She is wearing brightly colored, poorly coordinated clothing and heavy makeup. Pulse is 90/min and blood pressure is 136/84 mm Hg, all other vital signs are within normal limits. Physical examination shows dry, slightly cracked lips; there is a ketotic odor to the breath. On mental status examination, her speech is loud and rapid. Urine toxicology screening is negative. Which of the following is the most likely diagnosis?
A) Bipolar disorder
B) Delusional disorder
C) Narcissistic personality disorder
D) Psychotic disorder due to another medical condition
E) Schizophrenia
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:31:08 UTC No. 16509492
>>16509473
I think I might have it but I won't say until someone else does
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:40:00 UTC No. 16509502
>>16509473
chatgpt says it's A but I don't think that's right even though there's no non-psychosomatic physical symptoms
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 04:57:15 UTC No. 16509515
>>16509473
Anon you can't post this here expecting someone capable of answering this to be here we only larp as doctors not actually be them
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 05:35:07 UTC No. 16509537
>>16509473
why the fuck do i care? i work with the eyeballs. send her over to the local NP to dose her up on 100s of drugs.
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 05:58:03 UTC No. 16509559
Is everyone here a sub 80iq retard?
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:07:05 UTC No. 16509564
it's a medicine general, what do you think
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 08:40:16 UTC No. 16509645
https://thedo.osteopathic.org/2024/
>In recent weeks, several DOs have reported receiving robocalls from a company that specializes in connecting DOs with overseas medical schools from which they can earn an MD degree. The robocall—and the company—imply that DOs would benefit professionally from doing so, despite the fact that in the U.S., DOs and MDs enjoy virtually all of the same rights and privileges.
Kek, I like the race war between US MDs and DOs where the moment a DO tries to attain some of that MD prestige they're immediately considered a traitor
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 08:57:49 UTC No. 16509653
>>16508907
>shame we don't have as liberal laws in my country compared to the US but still
Well there really isn't anywhere in the world that compares to US when it comes to private firearm ownership, but I'm not from US myself either, I'm from Poland, gun ownership is pretty uncommon here but the law itself is actually pretty relaxed all things considered, i can own pretty much anything i want, scary black assault rifles, plates, suppressors, even full auto if i jumped through hoops, I carry as well. I blame post-communism mentality for people being generally uninterested in firearms or unaware of being able to own them here.
I researched private firearm ownership across the world quite a bit and it's honestly not that bad in most of europe. You're kinda screwed if you're in UK or Russia, but still not impossible to own guns, just gay mag/semi-auto restrictions. Best place to be would be Czech Republic, sinve they have being armed in their constitution. But still, you can have guns pretty much anywhere if you really want to.
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:32:01 UTC No. 16509664
>>16509473
It is A. Textbook manic episode.
>delusions of grandeur
>little sleep
>agitation
>rapid speech
>would need to elucidate further in history but she's shopping when found so may be on a spending spree
>nil drug history/drug screening
she's undergoing ketosis because she's on a sulfonylurea and hasn't eaten due to mania so her BGL is likely very low. The ketosis is not the primary cause of her current presentation so D is definitely wrong.
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:34:15 UTC No. 16509668
I have a TFCC injury and apparently I would have to go through surgery. I was thinking in alternatives, any anon here who works with PRP? I have been doing some research about it but I can't find anything conclusive regarding TFCC injuries.
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:43:42 UTC No. 16509674
>>16509473
F) Toxicology screening was negative because she used RC's.
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:44:43 UTC No. 16509676
>>16506325
What's "c diff"?
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 09:45:43 UTC No. 16509677
>>16509676
Bacteria
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 13:38:49 UTC No. 16509775
>>16509473
>F) Based
Can't even be on a grind and scream at an incompetent wagie without them calling the cops and some psychiatrist with a chip on their shoulder trying to diagnose you with a mental illness. Joke of a field. Reminder that psychiatry is pseudoscience the does not meet the rigor of the scientific method.
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:17:57 UTC No. 16509800
>>16507630
Powerlifting. Wood carving. Philosophy and anthropology.
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:51:10 UTC No. 16509820
>>16509473
What if she was rite doe?
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:55:37 UTC No. 16509847
Any other third world doctor here? How fed up are you with humanoid veterinary? I can't stand my patients anymore, it's really like treating animals.
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:02:29 UTC No. 16509881
>>16509820
Do you genuinely take anything a woman patient says seriously? They're all poor historians outside of when they're helicopter moms
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:11:35 UTC No. 16509889
>>16509847
Were you born there or did you move there out of altruism?
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:22:06 UTC No. 16509895
>>16509332
>>16509363
We need to stop NPs. I will start the Nationalist European Doctor Worker's Party. Who will join? There's already 500 on board. We have the dentists supporting us (Japan), and also the chiropractors (Italy).
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:26:21 UTC No. 16509898
>>16509889
I hate international altruists. They always abandon the locals for Africans because muh television commercials. They have weak a constitution
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 18:18:51 UTC No. 16509921
>>16509889
Born and raised here, just lived in the first world during my fellowship
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:06:10 UTC No. 16509951
>>16509921
What country/part of the world? Usually you can just practice in the capital city for the rich elite that send their kids abroad for school if you want to deal with a more educated population. Other than that you're dealing with the same problems any primary care physician would when dealing with the public
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:46:13 UTC No. 16509987
>>16509332
In my school most got it legally and very few illegally.
>Is Adderall really that much help?
All psychiatric drugs are a gamble, but generally yes, it does help even if you don't have ADHD.
>>16509653
We have laws against "military" calibers and full auto at any caliber. The problem we actually face is that importing guns is regulated far more than the sale of said guns, so most guns that arrive in my country are those turkish walther copies or 12 gauge, which are kinda boring. Frankly they barely pose a health problem here since most people in the ER are there because of motorcycle accidents (i live in south america)
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:51:00 UTC No. 16509994
>>16509847
Yeah
>How fed up are you with humanoid veterinary?
I don't hate the patients, most of them idolize the ground we walk on or can be easily ignored and thus left to die. Generally very few of them are in control of their health.
I hate the higher ups that don't do shit and I guess I hate how actually retarded some nurses are. Gangrene here is so fucking common...hell, all types of passive negligence. The other day they let some kid die because you had 5 of these mouthbreathers do nothing except play candy crush 12 hours a day and then bitch because they are poor.
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:04:00 UTC No. 16510103
>look it up
>cardiovascular perfusionists make $150-250k in my state
>literally only a 2 year master's degree required
>they go to work immediately after finishing school
are you fucking kidding me
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:25:20 UTC No. 16510128
What do we think about this "social contract of medicine?"
>inb4 plebbit
I think it's a good point. We're slaving away harder than our predecessors did because medicine has grown so much more complex and advanced yet everything that was afforded to physicians by society in exchange for the lifesaving work we do is being pissed away meanwhile we're too busy burning out and killing ourselves to do anything
Why did it get like this?
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:26:59 UTC No. 16510129
Anonymous at Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:30:33 UTC No. 16510132
>>16510129
This sounds like a shitpost lmao.
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:07:42 UTC No. 16510226
>>16510132
Don't look up her name
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:37:48 UTC No. 16510250
>>16510103
>money jew in med
Why didn't you just become a "finance bro"? I hate people like you
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:39:05 UTC No. 16510252
>>16510129
The emancipation of women has been disastrous for humanity.
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 01:35:01 UTC No. 16510290
>>16510250
I HAVE 500,000 GODDAMN FUCKING DOLLARS OF STUDENT DEBT SHUT THE FUCK UP
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 01:44:23 UTC No. 16510294
I'm a premed about to start a course to get my CNA. What am I in for?
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 01:47:23 UTC No. 16510297
>>16510294
If you stick it out you'll be in the one profession that survives war, politics, economics and the apocalypse. It's gonna suck though. CNA experience is good, it shows you're humble and willing to be at the bottom rung of the ladder before you get on the elevator to the top. Medical schools like this because as a resident you'll be worked Iike a slave and they want to identify the most servile and suggestible candidates early. Stick with this activity for a minimum of 2 years and at least 300 cumulative hours.
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 01:50:52 UTC No. 16510298
>>16510290
at least youll make a shit ton when you're done as long as youre not retarded and going into peds.
optometry is about 250-300k in debt for 150k salary (in a higher earning state)
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 01:52:06 UTC No. 16510299
>>16510297
>Medical schools like this because as a resident you'll be worked Iike a slave and they want to identify the most servile and suggestible candidates early.
Lmao. Is this true?
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 04:30:12 UTC No. 16510391
>>16510299
I take it you must not be in medicine
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 04:32:20 UTC No. 16510394
>>16510298
Anon most graduates of DO schools have the highest amounts of medical school debt, comparable to Caribbean med school debt
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 07:47:05 UTC No. 16510480
>>16510128
The job market speaks for itself. You can cry and moan about debt, about being underpaid and overworked, about not having enough status, there's people like this in every profession. But at the end of the day, there's still no shortage of people going into medicine. It's still a highly competetive field, and this by definition means supply is considerably larger than demand. How many doctors go back to education because medicine isn't paying the bills?
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:10:57 UTC No. 16510487
>>16510252
Aren't you scared that one day you will slip up and say the wrong thing at the wrong time in the wrong place to the wrong audience and it will be reported to the state board of medicine?
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 09:48:52 UTC No. 16510518
>>16510487
we're not niggers so we can maintain a professional disposition at work.
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 10:57:44 UTC No. 16510542
>>16510290
You should have been a stay at home mom
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 11:00:04 UTC No. 16510544
>>16510487
I'm scared that women are in the workplace. I've seen so many incompetent females. Just go be a mom, a lesbian, or something.
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:45:49 UTC No. 16510590
>be me
>chief resident
>PD and other GME faculty promoting DEI nonsense and lectures
>PD talks to me about importance of mentoring blacks and women and giving them opportunities to “shine” so they can get better positions post residency
>at first want to push back but then decide there’s no point
>start advocating blacks and women to do certain things in our program like run a research committee, be involved in curriculum development, etc.
>now all their faults are getting exposed by how bad a job they’re doing
>one of them is getting held back another year
Who here /devilishchief/?
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:35:46 UTC No. 16510621
>>16510590
>devilish
Anon, this is a virtue. You were asked to be a false witness but you weren't. Bless you.
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:19:03 UTC No. 16510766
>>16510590
I never had the chance to take a chief role. I have a difficult personality. The days I don’t feel like a living shit I become a type A unrelenting work machine.
Anonymous at Thu, 12 Dec 2024 23:00:32 UTC No. 16511129
>>16510590
>>16510766
What exactly is the point of being a high achieving resident if you're not going into academic med anyway? After we're out we're all going to be using indeed to find jobs anyway and unless you're trying to be an attending neurosurgeon at Massachusetts Gen they just want someone that meets their qualifications
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 02:45:30 UTC No. 16511267
>>16510621
Ah well I liked seeing the residents who didn’t belong here struggle and watching all the DEI supporting sycophants trip over words and fight their urge to call them out for not performing up to even average expectations
Honestly if they want more black doctors for black patients because the patients “feel more comfortable around them”, they should just make a residency HBCU equivalent—a Howard med school and residency for all the blacks who failed Step 1 and can’t tell you how to manage hypertension or DKA
>>16511129
I’m in IM so the benefit is for fellowship applications. I probably won’t stay in academia long term because you’re the stooge of some administrative jackoff who hasn’t seen patients in the last 5 years (or if he has, then just signs off on whatever the resident or midlevel does). Also a huge blow to your salary from an IM specialist perspective.
If you want to do research go into industry. If you want to be a clinician go into private practice. If you want to do both then work in a big private practice group that can support clinical trials or at least recruitment for them. Academic medicine is a soulless dying machine filled with arrogant brownnosers who believe they’re experts on conditions they don’t know how to manage in real life and on research they were barely involved in.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:17:15 UTC No. 16511378
Do you guys get pussy for being doctors? I'm wondering if doing medicine will cure by virginity/neetdom
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:35:58 UTC No. 16511391
>>16507700
no
all the white boys at my school are hooked on nicotine though
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:41:04 UTC No. 16511395
>>16511378
Not for me. The first vagina I ever saw was from a cadaver.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 08:27:47 UTC No. 16511447
>>16511395
Cadavers do not belong in medical education that shit should've stayed in the 1800s when they were digging up bodies
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 08:34:40 UTC No. 16511451
>>16511267
>If you want to do research go into industry. If you want to be a clinician go into private practice.
How long do you think something like ped onc is gonna last as a private practice? Academic fills a niche that it needs to fill.
>but i heard about that one ped onc who went private and he's making bank!
Yeah and I heard of a dude that won the lottery.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 08:38:37 UTC No. 16511456
>>16511447
>we shouldn't teach pathology because it's ICKY and I THREW UP during autopsy
Are you a woman?
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:08:42 UTC No. 16511479
>>16511456
I use 4chan what do you think you abominable third world shitskin
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:10:26 UTC No. 16511481
>>16511451
Don't work ped onc will be made obsolete after CRISPR designer babies remove cancer causing genes
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:14:52 UTC No. 16511483
>>16511479
I think you should posting tits right about now or getting the fuck out, pussy.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:16:22 UTC No. 16511484
>>16511481
>after CRISPR designer babies remove cancer causing genes
Or they screw up so hard, ped onc will actually have enough clients for private practices.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:18:06 UTC No. 16511485
>>16511483
ESL detected
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:20:52 UTC No. 16511486
>>16511484
It's kinda fucked to think that designer babies will be a thing in a few decades and it's going to be a super controversial issue
If you purposefully peak under the hood and tweak things it it really your kid anymore or is it just some mix and match abomination? Also it's going to be an arms race where parents makes their kids 200 IQ 7 foot tall hypermetabolitic marathon running super models
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:38:57 UTC No. 16511494
>>16511485
Where's the mistake, femanon? More importantly, where are the tits?
>>16511486
I'm not much into this, but isn't most if not all research about designer babies in China? They're always lying about their research and scientific (or any, for that matter) capabilites, i mean they pretended their military have invisiblity suits at some point lmao.
Even if they are not lying and actually develop the tech, a big factor of proliferation of such tech anywhere outside of China is that I don't think most people will be willing to risk their babies getting all fucked up. We may see some small alterations, but I don't think we're anywhere near making superhumans.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:00:53 UTC No. 16511502
>>16510103
in my country, anaesthetists are the perfusionists
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:02:22 UTC No. 16511504
>>16511451
Once again I’m IM so just talking about IM. Yes there are some very subspecialized fields that can’t be supported outside of academia in IM but unless you have a strong interest in that field I wouldn’t recommend going into it. Most people shouldn’t fall for the academia meme
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:02:22 UTC No. 16511505
>>16510129
early life check please
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:07:48 UTC No. 16511509
>>16511494
>ESL outs himself as ESL
lol
brownoids not sending their brightest
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:10:19 UTC No. 16511511
>>16511509
>is a native speaker
>her english is worse than ESL's
not doing yourself any favors girlfriend
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:38:01 UTC No. 16511523
>>16511505
You can literally see she's a black woman in her profile picture. She went to Harvard Med with her sister and her mom (this isn't a joke) and she got ordered a professor position as soon as she entered residency and then when she completed residency she got uplifted to more external leadership positions for just existing. Life is so cruel
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:41:02 UTC No. 16511527
>>16511504
How competitive are cards and gas?
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 10:51:36 UTC No. 16511534
>>16511494
Hahahae vilis plebeius Anglice loquitur quasi res Britannicae aliquid valeant
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:00:26 UTC No. 16511536
>>16511523
Maybe the DEI shit has made me colour blind after all. I swear I thought she was white.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:19:23 UTC No. 16511539
>>16511534
sorry i don't speak french, in english doc
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:20:35 UTC No. 16511541
>>16511504
>Once again I’m IM so just talking about IM
Fair enough, yeah i don't see much reason going academia for IM
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:50:53 UTC No. 16511551
>>16511527
IM Fellowship 2025 Match Rate
GI 65.0
Cards 66.3
Allergy 69.0
Heme/Onc 72.8
Rheum 76.4
Pulm/Crit 78.0
Endo 81.7
Addiction 91.6
Nephro 93.5
Geri 94.0
Pall 94.5
ID 95.1
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 14:24:24 UTC No. 16511611
>>16511267
I'd be your IRL doctor friend (only if you're white). You sound cool
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 17:15:13 UTC No. 16511736
>>16511479
>lashing out after being called out
Woman moment. If you are not a legit double XX you should consider transition.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:04:51 UTC No. 16512093
>>16511378
I only listen to these whores discussing their boyfriends and sex all day. No sex for you unless you're a chad.
>>16511485
You jeets are EFL, indeed. Half of English textbooks (especially in the most jeet fields like parasitology or histology) available are written for jeets or by jeets.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:16:03 UTC No. 16512112
>>16512093
>I only listen to these whores discussing their boyfriends and sex all day. No sex for you unless you're a chad.
Are you in psych? How's the work life balance? I keep hearing it's "the new derm"
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:27:45 UTC No. 16512123
>>16510128
>>16510290
Why do you retards even do it in the first place though? You could just learn Norse and get a free non-competitive degree. I honestly feel more compassion for fraudulent jeets than for you, you people who take debts must be really idiotic.
>>16510391
He must rather not be in the Greater Israel of America. Just compare your wages and hours with the German ones during residency.
>>16512112
Nay, I'm the equivalent of a last-year pre-med. No sex in med at all, and I'm not even a trycel.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:42:55 UTC No. 16512138
>>16510250
Not him, but I didn't choose anything else because nothing gives you such an easy access to a first world passport and an upper middle class lifestyle as a medical diploma. If it wasn't for globalization, migration crisis, and the Internet, I'd rather go to police to torture and murder people than to medicine.
Anonymous at Fri, 13 Dec 2024 23:51:44 UTC No. 16512147
Is CBT a fraud for housewives?
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 01:14:55 UTC No. 16512208
>>16512112
oh of course psych gets competitive right when I want to do it
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 02:16:30 UTC No. 16512253
>>16512208
psych is for queers so no wonder it is more popular these days
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 02:54:00 UTC No. 16512262
>>16512147
The general basis of CBT is stoic philosophy. It’s water downed and rearranged in a manner fit for therapy that’s meant to be one size fits all including for women who don’t typically understand stoicism.
The major Jewry in psychiatry is in pathologizing minor deviations from a standard of “normalcy” set by the disgusting pedophiles and dysgenic fags who run this society in order to keep us in line. SSRIs and meth for everyone so you don’t realize how shit life in this world really is and you remain a good compliant cog in the machine following orders from retards and bitches who attained their positions by showing deference to higher ups.
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 03:28:36 UTC No. 16512283
>>16512208
I wouldn't say it's competitive. There is just more interest on psych, but mostly by retards who can't hack it even at the lowest settings.
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 03:49:04 UTC No. 16512306
>>16512253
What's wrong with wanting to do psychoanalysis so I can tell people they want to fuck their mothers and bill them for it
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 05:55:56 UTC No. 16512379
>>16512306
Because only women babble about nothing. May as well troon out.
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 08:51:09 UTC No. 16512481
>>16512379
You are singlehandedly fueling the conspiracy theory that all doctors are part of a cabal to turn men transgender to profit off the surgery
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:20:32 UTC No. 16512589
>>16512138
Filthy lucre
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:22:21 UTC No. 16512590
>>16512253
Cognitive neuroscience was invented by the SS. Don't lump neuro-based psych in with artsy fartsy judenpsych
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:31:13 UTC No. 16512593
>>16512590
Psychiatry today is bullshit. Not listening to your parents is schizophrenia, but let them cut your balls of is not considered mental disease...
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:38:20 UTC No. 16512596
>>16512481
ESL moment
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:51:56 UTC No. 16512600
>>16512593
It still is a mental "disease". The get their balls cut off because they believe it will help that illness.
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 12:53:36 UTC No. 16512603
>>16512600
Well, they treat schizophrenia with growing manboobs, lack of ability to build muscle and cognitive decline in men. Does "medicine" have always cures like that or it's only psychiatry?
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 14:31:29 UTC No. 16512652
>>16512593
>Psychiatry today is bullshit
It was always bullshit and never scientific, even today. I don't even blame psychiatrists because we simply lack the understanding and technology for it to be a real science, but people have their lives ruined over pseudoscientific diagnoses. We should acknowledge it's protoscience at best.
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 14:44:01 UTC No. 16512661
>>16512652
They mostly don't even attempt to find a biological cause for the problem. And those pills they give to people have very unpleasant side effects. Only thing that makes me not spit on them is that they've already started researching psychadelics as solution to peoples problems. Look up GTS-21, it treats schizophrenia without cognitive decline, so it's not used. Whole that industry is sick to the bone.
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 15:18:37 UTC No. 16512677
>>16512661
>They mostly don't even attempt to find a biological cause for the problem
Well yeah because again we don't fucking know them lmao. There's no conclusive biomarkers for mental issues.
The concept of mental illness/disorder is ill defined to begin with. Like, autism is a mental disorder. Yet, high-functioning autists are argueably better than regular people. Top people in various sports are often on the spectrum because it makes them likely to have the focus and drive to practice the same thing over and over again for hours everyday that a regular person would quickly get tired/bored of.
>but they are hard to communitate with!
Is that an objective issue with them, or with everyone lese though? I think i remember one study that concluded autists actually have no issues communicating with each other. So it's not objectively an inherent issue with autism, it's more like a language barrier. In a very similiar way we used to consider being left-handed a disability because everything is designed for right-handers and they don't fit. If I design shit for left-handers, then suddenly right-handers don't fit. If everyone was a high-functioning autist, we'd probably come up with a normie disorder.
This subjectivity is one of the reasons why psychiatry is a pseudoscientifc shitshow. Mental diseases are not defined as "objectively detrimental to the individual" but more as "subjectively detrimental to the group of my own choice".
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 15:29:47 UTC No. 16512693
>>16512677
What would you determine as case, where all this happiness blockers are justified? I know what neurotransmitters do, and blocking dopamine and serotonin seems inhuman terror for me. Haloperidol one of things that is fading away but still used today was designed as punishment for WWII Nazis. Now used on anybody.
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:19:53 UTC No. 16512754
>pull an old ear thermometer with no power left out to take a temperature
>97.3
no
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:29:24 UTC No. 16512769
>>16512754
My mom still has a few mercury thermometers saved and it's not funny how much more reliable they are, plus no batteries
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:38:29 UTC No. 16512780
change the batteries out and it goes up to 99.4
>>16512769
truly a horribly great substance, who knew metal could be a liquid
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:47:59 UTC No. 16512800
>>16512780
>truly a horribly great substance, who knew metal could be a liquid
Well I'm not retarded so i weighed all of her thermometers and written it down on them so in case it breaks she can know if she got all of the mercury. It's not dangerous in its liquid state, vapor is, so the danger comes from letting some drop sit somewhere and slowly evaporate. That does require having a precision scale tho
🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 17:49:08 UTC No. 16512856
>>16512800
>so in case it breaks she can know if she got all of the mercury.
is this some new form of cryptocurrency? to the extent of my knowledge it's a commodity that blue collar folks use
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 17:50:11 UTC No. 16512859
>>16512800
why would you let your mother keep fucking mercury around the house?
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 17:56:02 UTC No. 16512866
>>16512859
Because neither of us is retarded and can use thermometers without breaking them, and if we do break them, we know how to clean it up, as I already described. Mercury thermometer ban was made for the lowest common denominator.
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 21:19:18 UTC No. 16513101
>>16512859
Mercury thermometer poisoning killed my uncle's family when the cooking thermometer they used shattered and spilled into their food
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 21:49:18 UTC No. 16513121
>>16513101
Well yeah you shouldn't have mercury anywhere near heat, not sure if it can oxidize and form soluble compounds in cooking temperatures (these can possibly kill you, fast), but it sure can produce vapor faster at any temperatures higher than room.
That said, elemental mercury is very poorly absorbed, be it through skin or mucous membranes, so it's actually not really dangerous at all. You can touch it all you want, you could bathe in it, you could drink it and it would just pass through. It does evaporate at room temperature like pretty much all liquids do, but at a very, very slow rate. The only danger with spilling elemental mercury is that you miss a piece of it under furniture or something and it keeps releasing vapor for years.
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 22:31:35 UTC No. 16513182
>>16512769
hospital I had placement at still used mercury sphygmomanometers in clinic
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 22:52:32 UTC No. 16513196
i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation i hate medicine rotation
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 22:54:10 UTC No. 16513199
i hate vision therapy rotation i hate vision therapy rotation i hate vision therapy rotation i hate vision therapy rotation i hate vision therapy rotation i hate vision therapy rotation
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:05:51 UTC No. 16513216
>>16511551
ID, Pedi rheum, and pulm crit care are objectively the coolest
Cards gets a pass if they go interventional
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:11:07 UTC No. 16513220
>>16503913
anki
netter's atlas
dissection
Honestly don't understand how any school anywhere can consider their students to be doctors without dissecting a cadaver.
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:20:58 UTC No. 16513227
>>16506716
Army medicine here, went to training over the summer and came back with a Zyn habit.
Honestly, right now, it's about the only thing I have going for me. Caffeine, zyns, and pushing rope on the weekends with my wife. Used to love school, but internal med immediately after surgery is killing me.
>6 days a week working 10-13 hours a day
>Also have to study for SHELF
At least i'm not in debt, and unlike my colleagues, i'm not paying to go to work.
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:44:56 UTC No. 16513244
>>16513196
we have you surrounded! come out and participate in rounds!
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:46:07 UTC No. 16513246
>>16513227
Doing army is the same thing as doing civ med with the PSLF except the latter pays more
Anonymous at Sat, 14 Dec 2024 23:48:20 UTC No. 16513248
>>16513246
you ain't wrong, but i have kids and the stipend during medical school makes life a lot easier.
>>16513244
Fine, but just know I will never care about a sodium of 134 and I will never, EVER assess JVP.
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:07:09 UTC No. 16513278
My first intern rotation is gen surg and my subcuticular sutures are still subpar. It's so over bros
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:07:53 UTC No. 16513279
Astra Zeneca vaccine and blood clots:
>The estimated risk is about 3-4 cases per 100,000 doses administered.
>Most cases occur after the first dose, especially in younger individuals (<60 years)
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:09:24 UTC No. 16513280
>>16513279
covid-19 vaccines are a politically dead issue. move on. digital ID is the new vogue
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:11:12 UTC No. 16513281
>>16513280
>politically dead issue.
Brilliant, now I can discuss and research more about them without the plethora of retards from the political spectrum.
That aside... digital ID?
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:16:20 UTC No. 16513288
>>16503913
Anki, Netters, Grays Anatomy Review
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:18:11 UTC No. 16513290
>>16513248
I don't get how people have the time during med school or residency to parent, hats off to you man
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:19:15 UTC No. 16513291
>>16513248
The VA offer a HPSP now that will let you match civ and they'll bend over backwards to accommodate you
https://va-ams-info.intelliworxit.c
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:20:15 UTC No. 16513292
>>16513278
Do you want to do gen surg? Otherwise just pass through it since it's not applicable anyway
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:22:50 UTC No. 16513293
>>16513292
no
but I want good references
just gonna buy myself a suture pad to practice, which I should've done during med school but they only expected us to do simple interrupted which even I can do easily. speaks for how my course was run by physicians.
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:40:32 UTC No. 16513311
>>16513293
I used suture pads for fun when I was premed, just use a YouTube tutorial and if you do that while watching TV you'll get the hang of it. It's 90% muscle memory
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:46:34 UTC No. 16513315
Subcuticulars can be tough, I find the best way to do it is to pull the tissue up and apply some light traction so that it's a much straighter line from entry to exit point. There really is no substitute for real tissue, chicken thighs are shit for simulation even though they're touted a lot.
I second just getting a suture pad and practicing the motions while you watch TV or whatver. Could also just sit and practice manipulating the needle with your tools instead of fumbling and using fingers. Turn your needle for a forehand throw, then reset it for a backhand throw etc. Most people don't care if you use fingers, but it's objectively bad form. Also just sit and practice your one and two hand ties. Gl bro.
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 01:55:57 UTC No. 16513326
>>16513291
Oh neat! What's the payback?
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 02:57:55 UTC No. 16513365
>>16513326
They pay all of medical school costs as a scholarship. In return you must become a full time VA doctor (you can't be sued but if you do fuck up you'll be shot by the veteran you disfigured) for the years spent in medical school + half the years spent in residency.
Therefore: 4 years med + 8 years neuro = 8 years working as a VA doctor.
But: civilian match, no deployment. If you pick a high need area (primary care, psych, anesthesia, surgery), they'll work with you to create a job in your preferred geographic area. It's a new program as of 2020.
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 03:54:12 UTC No. 16513402
Is the valsava maneuver still a medically recommended way to drop a heart rate?
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 05:51:59 UTC No. 16513501
>>16513402
In my state a pt had retinopathy but the NP kept her on aspirin and the wayfarin they were on for DVT and just told them to ice the eyes. A few weeks later they had to be seen by optho and apparently went blind or at least had some sort of permanent damage like they were diabetic
🗑️ Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 06:09:53 UTC No. 16513509
>>16513501
I pray for the day midlevels are replaced by AI and we can have the freedom to follow in Halsted's path (the cochise part)
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 06:13:09 UTC No. 16513514
>>16513501
I pray for the day midlevels are replaced by AI and we can have the freedom to follow in Halsted's path (the cocaine part)
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 12:46:21 UTC No. 16513714
>>16513402
If you're talking about aborting PSVT, as far as i know, yes.
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 20:57:21 UTC No. 16514019
>>16513514
I'm a midlevel. I'm coming for you. We are the future.
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 21:12:33 UTC No. 16514036
>>16514019
You go girl!!
Mid-level queens unite!
>*misdiagnoses tamponade as GERD and kills your father*
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 21:18:22 UTC No. 16514041
>>16514036
>acting like doctors don't EVER misdiagnose people.
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 21:56:12 UTC No. 16514074
>>16514041
That's right queen, you tell that nasty doc
Heart of a nurse, brain of a doctor <3
>*Orders a full body CT with contrast on a child with kidney failure and flu symptoms*
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 22:04:20 UTC No. 16514084
>>16514074
>Heart of a nurse, brain of a doctor <3
This is true.
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 22:05:21 UTC No. 16514085
Also, there are WAY too many doctors that went into medicine for money.
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 22:14:20 UTC No. 16514098
>>16514041
How many patients have you killed today, "Doctor?"
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 22:29:59 UTC No. 16514113
>>16514098
Zero, because I know my shit.
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 22:58:39 UTC No. 16514142
>>16514113
That would make you the one midlevel that does. I don't believe you.
Anonymous at Sun, 15 Dec 2024 23:00:34 UTC No. 16514143
>>16514142
>I don't believe you.
Your personal beliefs don't change reality.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 02:29:33 UTC No. 16514300
>>16514019
Midlevels are the niggers of medicine.
He is worse than a nurse, he is—may God forgive me for uttering this word—an NP.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 02:31:56 UTC No. 16514305
>>16514300
More midlevels than just NP
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 02:35:56 UTC No. 16514308
>>16512677
https://youtu.be/JV-TVuSviGs
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 03:43:35 UTC No. 16514338
Is ADHD real or is it just a lack of self-control?
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 03:44:52 UTC No. 16514340
>>16514305
You can get into medical school with a 3.34 GPA as well lol. This isn't the dunk you thought it was, dumbass. Getting into PA school is actually more competitive than medical school btw.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 03:50:38 UTC No. 16514345
Radbros, any advice on ranking programs? I've got 3 that made a good impression and then my home program, but I'm not truly sure where I want to end up the most. It's hard to find solid information online since it's mostly r*dditors circlejerking about T10 coastal places.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 04:16:21 UTC No. 16514351
>>16514340
Sure, and Walmart is more selective than Harvard.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Noctor/com
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 04:18:10 UTC No. 16514353
>>16514345
It always comes back to ranking the most desirable program first. Always. Your preference comes first in the algorithm
As for which to do, it's about location (can you afford to live in that area? do you want to move?), work/life balance (some programs are better than others) and fellowship opportunities/connections
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 04:30:49 UTC No. 16514357
low GPA and mid MCAT (I didn't study at all) due to chronic depression in undergrad. Is it worth doing a MMS program or should I just give up
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 05:12:06 UTC No. 16514376
>>16514357
Post specific numbers and what prereq classes you've already taken and what grades you got for them. Some schools don't take a letter grade lower than C+ as passing for some prereqs
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 05:13:18 UTC No. 16514377
>>16514357
DO schools exist for weak students like you.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 06:27:28 UTC No. 16514407
>>16514377
The problem with DO schools is that they're less flexible with remediation than MD schools (no limping along to the finish line for you) and that you're obligated to do dual boards so by the time you enter you have to absolutely know what you're doing.
I think if you're a weak student at the time of admission you're just kinda fucked. There's a reason they don't take chances on you unless you do a postbacc or SMP with strong grades to prove you can handle it
DO schools is more like if you had a shit GPA but then got your act together later on and did well without any concern after that, it's just that you have the initial shitty grades pulling down your GPA
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 06:57:14 UTC No. 16514430
>>16514407
>less flexible with remediation than MD schools (no limping along to the finish line for you)
How so? I know a guy who has repeated 2 years at an MD school. That's honestly incredibly gracious.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:12:48 UTC No. 16514441
>>16514430
MD schools are very supportive and will help you out to ensure you eventually do graduate, whether it be by tutoring or repeating a year, LoAs, etc. because having students drop out reflects badly on the program and as an MD school they are already operating at a loss with significant investment per student/seat
DO schools have much more to lose prestiege-wise by having an underperforming student that 1. Will fail boards or 2. Not match because of red flags (such as taking leaves of absences) for residency applications on top of DO stigma, and so and would rather you drop out than have you do poorly as a DO and work against the decades of work that went into having DOs be "separate but equal" from MDs
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:19:21 UTC No. 16514446
>>16514441
Honestly, DO schools shouldn't exist at all. Fuck Andrew Still and fuck DO schools for having lower standards with all the new DO schools popping up like weeds.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:19:24 UTC No. 16514447
>>16514441
Also DO schools use traditional letter grades A/B/C/etc. instead of P/F so being at the back of the pack is more obvious when you have a reportable GPA
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:21:20 UTC No. 16514449
>>16514446
The only reason DO schools are increasing is because there aren't enough new MD schools and more MDs want to specialize instead of doing primary care, meanwhile DOs are basically railroaded straight into primary care so they'll probably end up being half or most of PCPs in a few decades
It doesn't really matter honestly given that there's no difference between the two, DO schools need to drop the pretentiousness of being unique and just merge but the AOA serves as a check on the AMA so it's unlikely
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:24:07 UTC No. 16514450
>>16514446
>lower standards with all the new DO schools popping up like weeds
The current DO gpa and mcat is equivalent to what MD was 10 years ago, this shit has gotten competitive and it's way harder to get into MD and it's only going to get more competitive
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:24:42 UTC No. 16514451
>>16514447
>Also DO schools use traditional letter grades A/B/C/etc. instead of P/F
Why is this? I noticed that lower-ranking schools also have mandatory attendance. I assume it's because the students there can't be trusted to self-study and it would look bad for accreditation.
At the end of the day, do pre-clinical grades matter that much? I would think that board scores are more important. My school has a graded preclinical but I've been treating it like pass/fail.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:32:43 UTC No. 16514455
>>16514450
Oh my god
https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/medi
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:34:33 UTC No. 16514457
>>16514451
I haven't seen many DO schools with mandatory attendance (outside of LECOM maybe), it's usually recorded online but the letter grade helps with residency competitiveness. The idea is that GPA won't work against you but if you have a 4.0 it absolutely will help push it in your favor to get a better residency match. Typically these are the schools that have mid-tier MD schools equivalent match lists anyway
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:41:39 UTC No. 16514459
>>16514455
On the old scoring system 28 is equivalent to a 506 MCAT btw
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:43:27 UTC No. 16514460
>>16514455
>>16514459
Damn, it used to be so easy to get into medical school lol. Feels bad for future generations.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:44:50 UTC No. 16514461
>>16514459
Thought something looked wrong here based on what I remembered when I took it and I was right. Closer to a 504 than anything
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:49:15 UTC No. 16514465
>>16514460
https://forums.studentdoctor.net/th
Funny you say that, this was from 2010. I'll do my best to help through nepotism but I don't think my kids will be able to go into medicine even if I went full Asian parent on them. Hopefully my bloodline don't end with them
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:52:48 UTC No. 16514469
>>16514465
What year are you if you don't mind sharing? I'm just an MS1 and I feel like I just got on the last lifeboat before medical school becomes too competitive.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:57:04 UTC No. 16514475
>>16514469
Premed here please explain why you say that was the last year before it got too competitive
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 07:59:29 UTC No. 16514478
>>16514475
>explain why you say that was the last year before it got too competitive
Well, I may have been exaggerating but at this rate, if I ever have kids and they want to be doctors, they're gonna have to WORK for it. Good luck on your applications, bro.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:04:03 UTC No. 16514482
>>16514478
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDmy
The biggest thing to worry about is how AI will make admissions exponential harder within the next 2-3 years. There's no predicting.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:05:48 UTC No. 16514484
>>16514478
No more legacy admits btw
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:11:05 UTC No. 16514487
>>16514469
PGY-11 if you could call it that. I coasted into FM and have had a nice life since. Yes, admissions are getting harder. It is the hardest it has ever been on to get into medical school in the history of the US and it is only getting worse because Covid made more people interested in becoming doctors. I don't see the trend reversing unless doctors are replaced by AI like here >>16514482 and to be honest I'm not confident my salary will stay stable for the rest of my life like it has for the physicians that came before us. The biggest concern your generation should have is AI and the draft. During the Vietnam War they deferred the draft of students, including medical students. However they changed it after the war ended so that you can be drafted if you're in school. I fear that a lot of med students will be drafted soon if we go to war with China or who knows what else and you will have to reapply to get back in if you come back alive.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:20:26 UTC No. 16514489
>>16514487
Fuck.
https://forums.studentdoctor.net/th
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:21:11 UTC No. 16514490
>>16514487
>PGY-11 if you could call it that.
You got any advice about medical school/residency or life in general for an MS1?
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:26:24 UTC No. 16514492
i have purchased traveler insurance for the US and also am insured within Germany but I am still afraid of becoming bankrupt if something goes south
can anyone recommend additional health insurances?
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:28:01 UTC No. 16514493
>>16514490
You've heard it a million times but yeah it's like drinking from a fire hose. What they don't tell you is that even if you study every waking hour you will never feel like you've studied everything enough. YOU need to decide when to stop studying and give yourself some time to relax and do something fun that will keep you sane. Study enough to pass, that's it. Like the other guy said, preclinical grades don't mean shit and certainly not Step 1 anymore. Just focus on learning what's in front of you, and make friends with the people in your class (you will need these friendships and connections for the rest of your life and this is the last opportunity you will have to be given easy to acquire friendships on a silver platter). Also I cannot stress this enough you need to date one of your peers. It is so fucking easy and if you find someone agreeable you will be able to marry her. In the US, the divorce rate for all marriages is 50%. For a marriage of a physician and a non-physician, it's 22-24%. For a marriage between two physicians, it's <10%. During M1/M2 you are all made into the same person with the same struggles/concerns/etc. there will never be a better time in your life to find someone and start a permanent relationship. There's a book called Med School Confidential which I always recommend to premeds and it talks about how med school is like a repeat of high school where you're in this close-knit social situations with a few other hundred people you're stuck with for four years, it's true, don't waste this second chance.
Oh also if your school has recorded lectures watch them at 1.25x speed.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:29:36 UTC No. 16514494
Dogs can't operate an MRI, but CATscan
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:30:38 UTC No. 16514495
>>16514492
>worried about going bankrupt
Emergency healthcare in the US is free if you don't have an ID on you. They label you as a John Doe. Hospitals are required to provide healthcare even for the homeless who obviously can't pay. The trick is once you are better to not let them give you the bill or ask for identifying information. That's what I've heard, anyway
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:39:11 UTC No. 16514501
>>16514489
From the same thread
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:49:44 UTC No. 16514509
>>16514460
>>16514465
Well that's all science. As the field progresses, there's just more shit to memorize, that's just the way it is. T put things into perspective, a high school kid with good grades technically has a better grasp on physics than Newton had. We will probably keep solving this problem by specializing more and more.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:57:59 UTC No. 16514515
>>16514509
This is why AI will beat us.
From two weeks ago:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 08:59:30 UTC No. 16514516
>>16514515
https://www.ama-assn.org/practice-m
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:05:38 UTC No. 16514520
just saw a vid where some retard punched a glass window and cut his radial artery
he then runs around screaming, which I presume isn't the best way to stop the bleeding
my instinct would be to either get him to lie down or hold his arm above his head (not sure which is better) and try to use a shirt as a tourniquet
what do you guys think?
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:13:35 UTC No. 16514527
>>16514515
>This is why AI will beat us.
Sure, I don't see why it couldn't beat humans at diagnosis. Can't really argue with the fact that computers are far more predisposed to storing large quantities of data and recalling indiivdual bits of info. There's still the issue of personal responsibility though. Still, netter get into research and procedures while you can.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:32:29 UTC No. 16514547
>>16514515
what does "medical knowledge doubling" mean practically
like if da vinci cuts some corpse open and is surprised to find humans have two kidneys instead of one, his knowledge has doubled meaningfully
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:36:32 UTC No. 16514557
>>16514520
>he then runs around screaming, which I presume isn't the best way to stop the bleeding
Suboptimal for sure yeah.
>my instinct would be to either get him to lie down
Good.
>hold his arm above his head (not sure which is better)
You want to elevate bleeding limbs above the heart to make circulation to the wound fight gravity. That would mean putting an arm above the head if standing up, but good luck treating it that way, plus good luck keeping someone with major bleeding standing up. Better to make them lie down and put the arm at a 90 degree angle to the torso.
>try to use a shirt as a tourniquet
Well I'm glad you didn't say belt at least. While a t-shirt, or any wide piece of cotton is indeed a good choice for a makeshift TQ, you should absolutely not attempt constructing and applying one if you don't have a LOT of practice doing it. This is because there's a high risk that it won't be tight enough and only block venous return, which means the blood can now only flow out of the wound, which means you actually spend up the bleeding and only made the situation worse.
If you don't have an actual TQ or a hemostatic, plus you don't have a wealth of first aid experience, it's best to stick with direct pressure, Obviously don't remove the foreign object from the wound if it's still there, that will only make the bleeding worse, keep it steady in there and apply pressure around it. You can attempt wound packing if you have the guts to keep sticking cotton deep into someone's wound as they keep begging you to stop in pain. You can also literally just stick your thumb or however many fingers into the wound if there's no/not enough appropriately sized cotton lying around (no gauze, you probably don't have the time to cut a t-shirt into small enough strips).
t. med student, want to go emergency, also a shooting instructor with a bunch of first aid courses and a general interest in treating trauma, i dealt with a gunshot wound once
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:36:45 UTC No. 16514559
>>16514547
>What was learned in the first 3 years of medical school will be just 6% of what is known at the end of the decade from 2010 to 2020. Knowledge is expanding faster than our ability to assimilate and apply it effectively; and this is as true in education and patient care as it is in research. Clearly, simply adding more material and or time to the curriculum will not be an effective coping strategy—fundamental change has become an imperative.
>Paradoxically, the expansion of knowledge will force medical schools to define those concepts that form the essential core of what students must learn. Because the practice of medicine inherently requires an intimate understanding of homeostasis, whether molecular or organismal, and because students' ability to apply knowledge to the solving of complicated clinical issues is promoted to a relatively greater extent by the integrated mastery of homeostatic mechanisms than by knowledge of these mechanisms' individual components (8, 9), identification of concepts underlying homeostasis should receive concentrated attention. Definition of these concepts should acknowledge that structure and function are the foundation of homeostasis—that all else relates either to homeostatic disruption or to interventions aimed at restoring homeostatic mechanisms.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articl
Also see: >>16514516
https://files.catbox.moe/zqc4ym.mp4
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:01:33 UTC No. 16514614
>>16514557
>there's a high risk . . . block venous return
good to know, will avoid makeshift tourniquets without proper training
>shooting instructor . . . dealt with a gunshot wound once
one of your students do something silly?
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:02:40 UTC No. 16514615
https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalsch
Thoughts?
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:09:15 UTC No. 16514618
>>16514559
I'm a tech guy and we're barely at the point where AI results in minor productivity increases from basically functioning as an assistant
it doesn't do complex work
the scan seems neat, but I wonder how much it will actually help people vs serving as a soothing mechanism for wealthy hypochondriacs
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:13:23 UTC No. 16514622
I know this is a blue board but https://files.catbox.moe/37foj4.mp4
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:30:23 UTC No. 16514629
>>16514614
>one of your students do something silly?
Nah, boomer next to us shot himself while drawing from a holster. Race gun with a featherweight trigger, no idea if no trigger discipline at all or just a sloppy draw and his finger slipped. Self-inflicted gunshot wounds while drawing are especially dangerous because they could sever the femoral artery, one of the biggest in the body, could bleed out in as little as 2 minutes. I was the only other guy there at the time, he was lucky I always have a TQ on my belt or at least in my bag in the general area when shooting, applied within a minute, then cut his pants and applied an israeli bandage (basically a convenient pressure dressing) as well as I could just to be on the safe side. Hospital pretty near so it didn't take long for an ambulance to come. He lived from what I know, i stopped the bleeding pretty good I think (actually kinda hard to tell if a wound is still bleeding or not when there's so much blood already) but I didn't see him again.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:47:28 UTC No. 16514636
>>16514629
They ought to make Kevlar chaps for that situation or at least put a bullet stop in the holster
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:04:47 UTC No. 16514642
>>16514636
that adds more drag to a highspeed lowdrag operator.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 12:05:04 UTC No. 16514643
>>16514636
>Kevlar chaps
That would really suck to move in.
>bullet stop in the holster
This doesn't really make sense because negligent discharges while drawing don't happen in the holster. Any decent holster covers the trigger so it's not physically possible to have a discharge inside (safe for some major malfunction, but that's exceedingly rare). They typically happen after the gun is slightly out of holster, but still pointing at the legs. Not to mention they'd make holster bulky and heavy.
At the end of the day it boils down to not being stupid.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:18:08 UTC No. 16514860
>>16514376
Gen chem 1: C
Gen chem 2: A-
Orgo: B
Orgo 2: A-
Physics 1: B
Biology: A-
cGPA: ~3.0
sciGPA: ~3.3
My low GPA is from non pre-req classes, I failed English 101 (was really depressed and teacher said she'll give me an extension and then she ghosted me, as of now it's an IF on my transcript which is an F)
MCAT 505 (I didn't study at all, I was really depressed and I tried to cancel it but it was too late and I didn't void my scores because I'm retarded)
Clinical exp:
~800 hours EMT volunteering
~200 hours clinical research
~300 hours administering COVID vaccines
~60 hours COVID vaccine site lead
~75 hours shadowing
~200 hours as a medical assistant
~200 hours as a first-aid & adjunct EMT instructor
>>16514377
Can I even get into a do school with these stats? One of the DO schools I talked to told me to apply but that could just be because they want the money for the application fee so why not tell everyone to apply? I figure if I apply this Spring, I won't start until fall of 2026, so why not do a MMS program during that time since if I'm rejected the issue is because of my GPA?
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:50:38 UTC No. 16514906
>>16514860
>was really depressed
If you're depressed you need to get a handle on that first. Medical school will make your depression so much worse.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:54:29 UTC No. 16514908
>>16514906
I've gotten a handle on it
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 17:55:30 UTC No. 16514909
>>16514906
>>16514908
I haven't had an instance of major depression in over a year
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 20:33:36 UTC No. 16515062
>>16514860
Getting a 505 without studying is actually pretty impressive. What you should do is a SMP with a linkage/matriculation agreement with a DO school since your MCAT is like one point below the DO average of 506 which is fine. Your hours look fine too
https://www.reddit.com/r/Osteopathi
The LECOM program may be best for you since you already meet the cut-offs and they have like 13 different medical schools in several states
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:49:43 UTC No. 16515138
>>16515062
>Getting a 505 without studying is actually pretty impressive.
Yeah that's why I was so upset. I could've gotten even higher if I actually studied. I'm going to retake it this Spring and I'm actually studying for real now. But on paper I must look like a retard, low GPA, failing English 101, mid MCAT. Very sad.
I'm also paranoid about my hours because I have to submit references for each one apparently and I'm paranoid I overestimated and then they'll reach out and say I'm lying and then I get blacklisted from every medschool. How often do adcoms actually reach out to the people you put for references in the activities section?
And thanks for the advice, I'm leaning towards doing an SMP with linkage at a DO school. This whole process is just insane, I don't want to spend 50k+ on a SMP only to find out I'm blacklisted from every med school because I overestimated my hours or something.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:18:04 UTC No. 16515167
>>16515138
just curious, do you come from a low income background/first gen student?
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:18:54 UTC No. 16515169
>>16515138
You would only be blacklisted if you have an IA/criminal record and lie about it. Adcoms rarely check references, some schools only check the references of the students they admit, all in all you shouldn't worry about it. Some people blatantly lie and exaggerate their hours and get away with it. The adcoms don't care about quantity though (beyond surpassing a minimum), just the quality of the experience in how it impacted your journey into medicine. Also the AAMC released a statement last year saying that anyone who got at least a 500 on the MCAT is capable of passing board exams (USMLE/COMLEX) so don't worry.
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:23:14 UTC No. 16515172
>>16514493
>For a marriage of a physician and a non-physician, it's 22-24%
Sounds like I should find some naive soon-to-be doctor and convince her to marry me
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:24:33 UTC No. 16515173
>>16515172
Are you doctor material? The most common pairing is male doctor and female lawyer or female doctor and male engineer
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:53:53 UTC No. 16515215
>>16515173
>Are you doctor material?
Probably not, but that'll be her problem lul
Anonymous at Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:13:21 UTC No. 16515234
>>16514495
I don't believe I will need to go to a hospital, just ideally a GP/urgent care.
Thanks for the info
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:02:35 UTC No. 16515274
>>16514493
Just graduated med school and I probably only have one good friend that I could trust. Dated a girl in med school for a bit, but didn't work out because of external factors. It's over, bros.
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 00:11:37 UTC No. 16515286
>>16514493
LOL I guess I got into clinicals without this memo, half my class is either married or in LTRs and I came off as a weirdo always scurrying home in the first few weeks so now basically all my friends are still college friends
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 02:56:53 UTC No. 16515420
went to med school married with children
still made some of the best friends i've ever had here.
It's a good time, just gotta find your people.
And by a "good time" i mean I'm exhausted 24/7, haven't had a break in 3 years, don't get enough sleep, have given up all my hobbies for SHELF studying/working for free, and the only things in my life that I feel are "mine" are my nicotine and caffeine habits. All of my free time is spent studying or cleaning or childcare. I don't even get to see my medschool friends unless we're on the same clerkship.
>>16514860
Your hours look good, just go DO if you really want to be a doctor. Id don't mean that to put you down, it's just that DO schools have more relaxed admission standards and you'll have more success. Shoot for some MD schools too if you can afford it. Understand that it is an awful experience to go to medical school. You learn to adapt, but it's largely terrible. Everyone I met as an MS1 has gray hairs as an MS3. I'm talking 23-25 year-olds. I do not recommend it for anyone already struggling with depression unless you have good support.
Oh, and that's not to mention how soul-crushing the med school application process is.
>Speaking of MCAT/GPA inflation
I got into a top 50 MD school here in the US during my second application cycle with
3.81 overall GPA
3.79 Science
516 MCAT
An undisclosed # of hours working and volunteering in hospice, probably close to 600 hours.
My class had a median MCAT of like 518.
I don't know what else they saw on my application, but I interview well and my real strength is integrating into a team, being generally likable, and working hard. If you can do that, you're setting yourself up well.
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 05:05:10 UTC No. 16515554
>>16515420
I've had acceptance offers from multiple schools and I still think the MCAT is such a broken test. There has to be a better way to test suitability and aptitude. Medicine also attracts so many money sharks. Just look at the MD YouTubers who left medicine. They have weak constitutions, but they're still academically inclined. They'd be better off as a "finance bro."
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 05:08:10 UTC No. 16515557
>>16515554
Also, plenty of schools don't use the MCAT and those schools still make fantastic physicians.
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:00:37 UTC No. 16515595
>>16515554
you talking about that spine surgeon who quit med and started vlogging himself hiking?
can't tell if he's having a mid life crisis or just trying to grift the 'doctors are evil' crowd
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 06:59:13 UTC No. 16515626
>>16515274
Residency is your last, last chance. It's worse than med school but better than real life because your dating pool has shrunk significantly to like 5 other people. Don't you dare fuck this up through inaction.
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:02:51 UTC No. 16515629
>>16515626
I'm like 1 of 3 white people in the intern cohort of ~20. lol
I already went on a date with the only white girl in 2nd year med school. We didn't hit it off.
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:04:06 UTC No. 16515630
>>16515554
>>16515595
Most top medical schools like Stanford operate on the principle that they're taking people in who will use medicine as a stepping stone to something greater, not that it will be what they do for the rest of their life. Similar concept to those people.
Read these
https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/s
https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalsch
>inb4 plebbit
Just read them.
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:05:24 UTC No. 16515631
>>16515629
Not a fan of asians?
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:08:22 UTC No. 16515633
>>16515631
I want white children.
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:25:36 UTC No. 16515637
>>16515633
What state are you in and did your medical school have an anti abortion club
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:35:23 UTC No. 16515644
>>16515637
I'm anglo, but not American.
We had a group of protestants, but that was also infested with Asians. I'm also pro abortion.
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:51:00 UTC No. 16515651
Help, my right testicle is swollen and aches like fuck. Also, when I attempt to stand up, I feel horrendous tearing pain from aforementioned testicle to somewhere between abodmen and right hip join. (Also also, I have gallbladder stones.) What am I supposed to do? (INB4 "go to the doctor", right now I can barely sit, cannot stand straight yet alone walk.)
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 07:54:30 UTC No. 16515652
>>16515644
>pro abortion
Fuck off Satanist
>>16515651
You have testicular torsion and if the pain truly is that bad you have no choice but to call an ambulance because you want to avoid doing anything that will aggravate it (such as walking)
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:11:05 UTC No. 16515706
>>16515652
abortion is eugenic and therefore a nett good for society
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:12:05 UTC No. 16515707
>>16515706
You are an agent of the demiurge
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:14:05 UTC No. 16515708
>>16515707
The demiurge is your ego. You keep him in power because you're a retard.
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:40:43 UTC No. 16515851
>>16515595
Yeah and the Ali Hoo Ackbar guy who does productivity shit. I'm expecting Karmamedic to quit, and same with ViolinMD (she used to be cute). There's plenty who seem so superficial.
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:42:25 UTC No. 16515853
>>16515633
Based
>>16515644
Cringe
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:44:06 UTC No. 16515855
>>16515651
amberlamps + 50mg of lights and sirens
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:45:36 UTC No. 16515856
I've started drinking 2 cups of turmeric and ginger tea a day to try and relieve chronic inflammation and just overall improve my health. Is there any validity to this in actuality?
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:03:23 UTC No. 16515870
>>16510129
Better question is: who is the jews of healthcare professions? My vote goes to psychiatrists.
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:07:49 UTC No. 16515876
>>16515870
Every general surgeon I've ever met has been a turbo kike
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:08:11 UTC No. 16515878
>>16515651
This MF took the time to go to 4chan.org, find the /sci/ board, and search for /med/ and type out this long message while in excruciating pain instead of calling an ambulance
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 17:11:52 UTC No. 16515972
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 17:13:00 UTC No. 16515974
Jew here... Why do you hate me? I'm the reason for all of your modern comforts but you hate me. Tell me. Now.
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 18:43:51 UTC No. 16516041
>>16515974
>I'm the reason for all of your modern comforts
[Citation needed]
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:47:22 UTC No. 16516166
>>16515974
I love Jews though, your people created most of modern medical advances per capita
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 21:13:29 UTC No. 16516201
>>16515870
For the love of God stop shitting on psychiatrists. We are the thin white line protecting against society's collapse. If you don't believe me Google "December 16 2024 + Wisconsin"
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 21:14:39 UTC No. 16516202
>>16515853
Would a corset hurt the development of a baby? They used to wear corsets all the time in the 1800s
Anonymous at Tue, 17 Dec 2024 23:46:19 UTC No. 16516381
>>16515851
>violin MD
so her identity is just two things her parents made her do?
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:32:47 UTC No. 16516415
>>16516041
Pride, circumcision, early clamping, negroid cadavers, no more pesky church, lesbians, porn, social media, industrial psychology, legalized drugs, severe mental illnesses, modern architecture.
>>16516166
Thanks, Goy!
>>16516202
All gentile babies need a little squeeze!
>>16516381
She's a jewette. Leave her alone... Or else...
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:35:13 UTC No. 16516418
>>16516381
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYG
She's so superficial
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:42:51 UTC No. 16516426
>>16516201
When did our guns stop working?
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 00:51:22 UTC No. 16516431
used to post here as a premed. just took level 3 boards.
STILL A VIRGIN lol kill me.......
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 01:07:46 UTC No. 16516439
>>16516431
I'm 32 and about to finish my pre-med since I went to school at such a late fucking age. All I have to take is a cadaver anatomy class and biochem.
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 01:12:34 UTC No. 16516445
>>16516439
You could do med school and a three year residency and still be done at 40. Good 25 years of earning potential left, not too bad. Hopefully your loans aren't awful
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 02:37:34 UTC No. 16516563
>>16516431
>level 3
Did you just do COMLEX or COMLEX+USMLE?
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 03:08:50 UTC No. 16516583
>>16516431
lmaoo. This is my future too, bro.
>t. virgin MS1
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 05:02:59 UTC No. 16516686
Is ODD real or is it just someone being a bitch?
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 06:32:11 UTC No. 16516758
>>16516583
Holy fuck most medical schools are 60% women. If you go to Emory it's literally 70% women and 30% men. Furthermore female med students always talks about how hard it is for them to date men because they're insecure that they make less than them/can't deal with their unavailability. You have it SO FUCKING EASY to just walk up to one of them, ask them on a date and just be average. If you can manage to be an average guy they will fucking date you because they have no other options you dense fuck
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 06:33:50 UTC No. 16516759
You know I usually don't frequent these threads but I've actually found this one enjoyable, I should tell my nsgy friend who used to be a /b/tard back in 2011
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 07:14:09 UTC No. 16516789
>>16516758
>just be average
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzY
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 07:30:17 UTC No. 16516804
>>16516789
https://youtube.com/shorts/xqdAm0-r
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 08:30:36 UTC No. 16516846
>>16515870
Psychiatrists are pseudoscientific but I wouldn't say the most jewish. That probably goes to aesthetic because everyone goes into it for the money and it's not even medicine in the strict sense lmao. That or anesthesia.
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 08:57:03 UTC No. 16516851
>>16516758
A lot of them are batshit though
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:04:19 UTC No. 16516855
>>16516758
>ask them on a date
How do I do this? I've haven't even been on a single date in my life either lol.
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:05:55 UTC No. 16516856
>doctor regulatory body easing English requirements
>new fast track for IMGs for psych, GP and anaesthesia. More likely to follow
>no desire from health minister to expand training spots for domestic grads
Australia is becoming the UK. Fuck this labour government.
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:18:06 UTC No. 16516866
>>16516855
It's as easy as asking to go for a coffee together. Really the hardest part of dating imo is getting into a situation where you can talk to a woman without being a creep bothering strangers in public, but maybe that's because i'm a total shut-in who doesn't really do any social activities. Med school is perfect for this, you're surrounded by women that are all doing the same thing as you're doing and there's plenty of reasons to talk about it.
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 09:21:08 UTC No. 16516871
>>16516851
That's a risk with any woman, but at least with med students you know they're not completly braindead. They can still be fat and stupid sure I learned that the hard way actually but getting into med school and not dropping out is a better filter than no filter at all.
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:13:13 UTC No. 16516924
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:37:59 UTC No. 16516957
>>16516431
I’ve been on and off 4chan since before this board existed.
Gonna start fellowship next year. Still a KHHV.
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:41:11 UTC No. 16516960
>>16516957
Honestly the funniest part of all of this is I have men my age and older than me ask for intimacy and sexual health advice during clinic. For some reason these patients think I must be some sex expert or something. Little do they know I haven’t even gone on a date before.
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:13:06 UTC No. 16517382
>>16516960
It's part of your professional education to know how the body works firsthand. In the future just recommend them to buy the book She Comes First
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:14:21 UTC No. 16517385
>>16516957
Are you IM? I'm M3 and not sure how I want to match. I'm deciding between going into a direct match vs going into one of the subspecialties but the idea of enduring a second match process for fellowship freaks me out
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:26:28 UTC No. 16517395
>>16516924
Lmao
Anonymous at Wed, 18 Dec 2024 22:32:41 UTC No. 16517457
>>16516957
what's the hangup?
are you giga ugly, have no passion for life, or just scared of vaginas?
Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 01:31:51 UTC No. 16517586
>>16516856
This is on purpose. Welcome to 2030.
Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 02:21:57 UTC No. 16517620
>>16517385
Yeah I’m IM going into heme/onc next year.
I wasn’t aware there was an option to direct match into IM subspecialties.
I knew from the get go I liked more cerebral specialties instead of procedural ones and hated working with pregnant women, schizos, and parents so that pretty much left me but I liked patient care with IM, derm, neuro, and PMR. I went with IM because of the breadth of the field and my love of clinical medicine. And then it was between rheum and heme/onc for me but ultimately decided heme/onc due to my love of benign and malignant heme. Not a fan of solid organ tumors.
The fellowship match honestly wasn’t too bad. It’s pretty predictable to determine how to match in a fellowship (not necessarily a particular fellowship, but matching generally into one). Publish as much as you can, go to national conferences in your specialty, get good LORs, try to make connections with someone with sway in the field, and don’t act like a sperg during interviews.
>>16517457
Honestly it’s probably more of me just being a huge autist and finding most of the women around me to be vapid whores. I probably have too high standards for modern women as well since I’m interested in finding a wife and potential mother to my children instead of a cum receptacle.
I’ve had women apparently interested in me before but I never picked up on their signals. One went as far as dating my roommate to get me jealous and when that didn’t work because I’m retarded with social cues she once got naked in our room “in preparation for him” while he went to go get something for her and I was still in the room. I just excused myself because I didn’t want to cuck my roommate. She broke up with him after a week.
Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 05:12:22 UTC No. 16517729
>>16517620
sounds like you're way too in your head brother
>huge autist
>vapid whores
>modern women
>cum receptacle
using terms like these suggests you've internalized some pretty cynical ideas from the internet, maybe as a way to justify negative tendencies or avoid vulnerability
from the story you shared, it doesn’t seem like you can’t pick up on signals
instead, you intentionally ignore them, perhaps out of fear or uncertainty
are you being honest with yourself?
Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 06:07:44 UTC No. 16517764
>>16517729
NTA. Shut up retard. Women have become so corrupt and it's by design. Men are no better, but the better men don't want a standard woman. Better men also don't want a wall-hitter that will give him retarded babies.
>>16517620
Don't settle for a woman who will make you settle in court. Marry an 18 year old woman who has been untouched by the world. It'll save you decades of headaches. Men are under no obligation to rewire potential female mates, or prepare them for motherhood. "I can fix her" should be a formal psychopathology.
Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 06:17:54 UTC No. 16517769
>>16517764
stop giving young men the yips you bitter schizo cunt
Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 06:59:37 UTC No. 16517783
>>16517620
>that story about a girl dating your roommate to get to you
wtf
did she actually confess this?
Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:30:35 UTC No. 16517790
>>16517769
Classic female brain response.
Anonymous at Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:39:38 UTC No. 16517798
Ffs bois. Be fourth year neurology resident in germany. No medical preconditions. Come to work, prepare for the patient visitation and get up to go do my fkn job. Wake up in the stroke unit. Turns out i had a severe epileptic grand mal seasure, probably ripped my left sholder rotator cuff, have blue spots all over my bodey AND i pissed my pants. Shit sucks. I am soposed to be the doctor, not the patient.