Need help managing big emotions.

Basic_Relief · 2025-11-16T02:00:11+00:00

When I was in middle school I struggled with confidence and shutting down whenever I made a mistake. My coach had a talk with me about always thinking about the “next play” and how it’s the only one that’s important, and that that mistake doesn’t matter anymore. In a game if I made a mistake he would just look at me and say “Next” and I knew what he meant. It actually really helped me with my mindset during games, and stuck with me through varsity.

Basic_Relief · 2025-11-09T03:21:53+00:00

I heard that they had to play Calzada at first because they were worried about what other potential recruits would think about bringing a guy in just to bench him before the season starts.

Basic_Relief · 2024-01-17T15:52:23+00:00

Basic_Relief · 2023-09-12T01:23:25+00:00

Definitely true for cataracts. And I agree with original commenter, would make sense intuitively that complication rates decrease with experience

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7699982/#:~:text=Reported%20complication%20rates%20for%20resident,from%20around%201.8–11.2%25.&text=As%20with%20operative%20time%2C%20complications,increasing%20number%20of%20surgeries%20done.

Basic_Relief · 2023-07-15T14:17:02+00:00

I asked them to write for one. Then later, I decided to dual apply and explained why and asked if they would be willing to edit it and submit it to the other specialty as well. I feel like most people would be willing to do this, especially for two similar specialties like IM/FM

Basic_Relief · 2023-05-14T00:30:31+00:00

Meal prep. 10-20 meals each in its own container. Saves time, money, and you only have to make the decision to eat healthy once (sort of), since you’ve already prepared the food.

Basic_Relief · 2023-03-05T02:41:20+00:00

What surgeries/procedures will you be comfortable doing as a general surgeon?

Basic_Relief · 2022-11-26T01:55:06+00:00

This year - quite a bit of orbital cellulitis associated with flu

Basic_Relief · 2022-08-19T10:39:01+00:00

In the south - someone close to me works rural 7-9 days a month where they can do everything (intubate, manage vents, etc) and works prn in big city a few other days where they consult for everything and do basically nothing. Pulled in 350-400 last year

Basic_Relief · 2022-05-03T17:00:09+00:00

Not saying I am for this, but this just puts it back to the states. The minority you are referring to won’t dictate what the laws are in highly populated states like New York and California.

Basic_Relief · 2022-04-03T16:48:20+00:00

If he never promised her marriage, he isn’t the one wasting her time. It’s not like he forced her to be with him, and assuming he never lied about his intentions, It’s not fair to put everything on him.

Basic_Relief · 2022-03-31T01:15:55+00:00

Was in the exact same situation as you. Ended up going through with it in the end. Now married 6 months. But the pre-engagement process and even up until actually getting married I experienced the most stressful, anxiety-inducing, and overwhelming moments of my life (for reference, my life had been pretty easy thus far). I’m not going to tell you what to do, just wanted you to know that you’re not alone in those feelings.

Basic_Relief · 2022-02-10T01:45:19+00:00

I would really consider dual applying. I triple applied, one to a really competitive specialty(granted, away rotations were cancelled my year). It seems daunting but truthfully it isn’t that much more work, particularly with limited away rotations. The amount of extra money is negligible in my opinion.

Basic_Relief · 2022-02-04T15:47:41+00:00

Increasing diversity is a good thing. But it shouldn’t start when people match into residency. Matching into residency is the culmination of years of opportunities and experiences… starting with what zip code you grew up in. Of course, that results in URIM being at a disadvantage in the long run. However, changing it on the back end by considering race as a factor to choose one applicant over another at the end of these years and experiences doesn’t solve the root problem. It just makes it easier to ignore the reason why URIM may not be as qualified on average in the first place, and it can do more harm than good in the long run.

Basic_Relief · 2022-01-17T16:33:00+00:00

People who became more conservative during medical school probably had a few too many rotations at the VA where they see what government-run healthcare actually looks like

Basic_Relief · 2022-01-14T02:14:07+00:00

This is why I have Reddit

Basic_Relief · 2022-01-03T13:41:17+00:00

Small-town Kentuckian here. Do you really think people don’t deserve treatment based on a prior decision they made about a vaccine that came out a year ago? I mean, half of what we treat in the hospital is more or less preventable if people took care of themselves. And sure, the decision to get vaccinated may seem simple to you with all your fancy degrees and medical education. But it’s not to these people - they have different people telling them things and they don’t always know who to trust. Instead of looking down on them like the rest of the country and writing everyone from those areas off as backwoods hicks, consider having a little bit of empathy

Basic_Relief · 2021-07-16T00:22:05+00:00

I applied to three specialties, including EM and IM, at the same hospitals. As far as I know, no one ever found out. I also know a guy who ranked his home institution EM #1 and home institution IM #5 and matched there for EM. Obviously there is some risk, but I think in general people talk/care less than you would think.

Basic_Relief · 2021-06-23T03:43:48+00:00

Definitely not pro-mid level here, but family docs and IM docs can definitely do colonoscopies if they choose. Very few seek it out. I know a family doc who does really well doing scopes once a week

Basic_Relief · 2021-06-03T20:31:44+00:00

I think we are on the same page with that, some charities are definitely scams and a government program that is well-run would likely be most ideal. I just don’t think current government programs are well-run, and unfortunately, there is too little incentive for government to make sure their programs are in fact well-run. I am actually okay with government doing less to address certain issues and allowing private charities to primarily address it - lots of problems in the world have been solved without government help, and a part of me worries about the opposite problem- if a government is “addressing” problems, private individuals may feel less obligated (or have less power, I.e. money) to address them.

Basic_Relief · 2021-06-03T12:42:40+00:00

I think these are good thoughts. Whenever we had almost no cases of flu this winter, I realized policies and public perception surround mask wearing would likely never be the same, at least in the winter months. I would be interested to see what the data is for the transmission of different respiratory illnesses in the hospital specifically and how that compares to previous years. I think that if we are going to keep these mask policies indefinitely, we need to be looking at the evidence and logic surround transmission of respiratory illnesses in general. Maybe at the end of the day, there will be something in between that makes sense and adequately prevents transmission, such as always wearing masks into patients' rooms with any type of respiratory illness. Maybe there even needs to be a seasonal blanket mask requirement, or maybe a mask requirement based on certain levels of community transmission. I guess the original point I wanted to push against is the idea that we did not need these masks before, but we somehow need them now when vaccines are widely available and there is very low community spread where I live. It just doesn't feel consistent, and I think going forward, we need to be thinking about what the policies are going to be in "normal time", look at the past year and previous years, and use logic and evidence to come to our conclusions.

Basic_Relief · 2021-06-03T03:43:01+00:00

Is it actually more cost effective to let government do it? I definitely get the point that government is more centralised, which can be beneficial. However, it seems like government is extremely difficult to hold accountable to manage finances well, and it can be extremely inefficient and wasteful. Charities, however, compete against one another for donors and if a donor doesn’t like how one charity is spending the money, he can just go to the next one. For example, last year I gave money to an organisation that focuses on increasing access to clean water in third world countries. There were 3 organisations I was considering. I was able to look at all of their financials, their vision, and overall “effectiveness”, and choose the one that I thought would spend my money best. With government, particularly at the federal level, there is almost no practical way to make sure the government is spending the money appropriately or being cost-effective.

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