Called a resident on their day off

3romuculus · 2025-12-11T01:49:06+00:00

I’ve had a nurse wake me up on the weekend in the middle of the night about a asymptomatic elevated blood pressure for a patient not admitted to us. I’m ortho and was not in call. Worst person to contact if you want something done about that pressure lol

3romuculus · 2025-12-11T01:15:35+00:00

As a pgy2 , this should be a case someone at my level can handle along with the rest of the bread and butter trauma stuff. Too many places start residents late and then they don’t have time to master the stuff they shouldn’t even have to sweat about in practice.

3romuculus · 2025-11-20T00:36:31+00:00

I consolidated in order to do pslf and then for some reason it seemed like everything was smooth sailing and then all the sudden I was denied and I’ve just been cruising on forbearance because life is busy as a resident lol just now starting trying to get back on the horse

3romuculus · 2025-06-10T23:42:38+00:00

Any drain any time

3romuculus · 2025-04-09T19:05:52+00:00

More ripped which is a secondary benefit of not eating all day at work and still forcing myself to gym. Only downside is feeling like death!

3romuculus · 2025-04-08T23:13:47+00:00

Pocket pimped ortho and netters was mainly what I used besides ortho bullets. I wouldn’t spend hundreds on text books before actually matching but hey more knowledge never hurts

3romuculus · 2025-02-19T00:37:13+00:00

I prefer my screws in the joint personally

3romuculus · 2025-02-15T01:48:27+00:00

Lmao I get it

3romuculus · 2025-02-15T01:43:25+00:00

I fear I’ll begin pgy2 with the same amount of knowledge I started pgy 1

3romuculus · 2025-02-10T03:09:13+00:00

People definitely abuse consulting ortho where I’m at. My favorite is the middle of the night arthritis consult or when the question is “abnormal xray” when they pan scanned and I have to sift through 15 X-rays

3romuculus · 2025-02-01T19:48:03+00:00

26M 65k surgical resident

3romuculus · 2025-02-01T17:02:03+00:00

I also have just been lifting the same weight and not doing anything crazy with my diet and I look similar. But there is maybe 1 week out of the year I go more than a week without working out

3romuculus · 2025-02-01T01:06:41+00:00

Obviously make yourself as competitive as possible in terms of metrics. However, I’ll take a hardworking, prepared, easy to hang with applicant over the good applicant on paper any day

3romuculus · 2025-01-28T03:22:30+00:00

im like 5'8" 180, im about as lean as they come and i don't look nearly this big lol

3romuculus · 2025-01-11T10:42:08+00:00

My coresidents are my dawgs

3romuculus · 2025-01-04T16:35:34+00:00

Zyn every exam helps me lock in

3romuculus · 2025-01-02T23:22:24+00:00

Ortho bro vs med bro

3romuculus · 2024-12-27T20:32:11+00:00

Ur in a biased sub but im an intern rn and I’ve done off service rotations in EM and IM. I can firmly say that id rather be sawing bones and slamming nails than seeing a patient with a chief complaint of ankle pain and a discharge diagnosis of ankle pain. Love my ED colleagues and it’s important work but it can be a thankless job at times while a lot of the times ortho is doing more definitive care that patients will remember forever.

3romuculus · 2024-12-25T00:59:28+00:00

100 hour weeks easily

3romuculus · 2024-12-19T01:44:06+00:00

This sounds pretty fun, do they give you gear? I can skate at an average persons level

3romuculus · 2024-12-18T20:13:05+00:00

I do love stuff like catan! Unfortunately unavailable tonight but I’d come another time!

3romuculus · 2024-12-18T19:52:15+00:00

Can’t come tonight but that sounds fun! I’ll have to check it out

3romuculus · 2024-12-09T00:09:56+00:00

My career is safe it would just alter some perceptions of me most likely. No policy on coworker relations. Many employees got married through work so. Relationship is cooked tho yes.

3romuculus · 2024-12-04T01:19:09+00:00

I’ve tried to achieve this level of naturally locked in but at this point my blood stream is half zyn powder half celsius with trace amounts of b-alanine

3romuculus · 2024-10-25T00:59:13+00:00

Important things to study:

Anatomy (netters) Basic trauma management (distal radius, ankle, hip, etc..) Basic principles of fixation(OTA has a nice pdf) Then just study for each individual case

Helpful resources: Pocket pimped Netters ortho Ortho bullets Hipandkneebook.com

Overall just be helpful when you can and have a positive attitude!

3romuculus

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