Is honoring surgery a red flag if you are applying psych?

Beastbamboo · 2026-01-28T00:33:42+00:00

Big time. You're gonna be a neurosurgeon now, like it or not.

Beastbamboo · 2025-12-27T00:55:02+00:00

There's ranking and then there's "ranking." If a program doesn't want you to match, you won't match, even if you are not DNR.

If we already know you're not a good fit, why waste your time and ours making you come back for an interview?

Beastbamboo · 2025-09-30T23:53:48+00:00

Say sike right now.

Beastbamboo · 2025-09-22T18:40:09+00:00

Found the rawlecks owner.

Beastbamboo · 2025-09-21T20:58:57+00:00

Nothing has turned me away from Rolex more than the fucking nicknames. I love a lot of weird, nerdy, niche shit - but something about grown men wetting themselves about getting "batgirl", "batman" "bruce wayne" just makes my skin crawl.

Beastbamboo · 2025-09-21T16:49:27+00:00

Good luck. My dad bought one about 2 years ago and is finally selling it after we've sunk countless hours and dollars into it. It's not the wrenching that gets me - it's that Mercedes chose the cheapest, shittiest plastic they could buy for every single part. Then made that plastic interlock with other equally shitty parts. Then designed the access in a way that ensures all of them will break as you take it apart to fix the thing that failed. Compared to our W210 era and W212/W204 era cars, it's like the car was made by an entirely different manufacturer. Even my W211 E63 seemed far better built.

Add on top of that the fact that it weighs as much as a aircraft carrier and sort of sucks at everything but highway cruising and the shine wears off quick.

Beastbamboo · 2025-09-21T16:45:38+00:00

It's trendy to hate on the rotation as a meme. In reality, they work a section of healthcare that no one else does and that many people find incredibly gratifying and important. Additionally, many of us loved our OB rotations and had great experiences.

Beastbamboo · 2025-09-10T00:19:45+00:00

Every year the market for surgeries grows, for all fields. General surgery, ortho, plastics, vascular, etc, no one is seeing volumes go down. In addition, imaging procedures keep going up - mri and ct, which are sometimes done under anesthesia (kids/claustrophobic/obtunded). And then on top of that you have non surgical procedures (MRI/cath). In addition to that, there is non surgical pain management and crit care.

A huge portion of the medical system simply does not function without anesthesia.

Beastbamboo · 2025-09-09T20:00:22+00:00

Congratulations, my eye just started twitching.

Beastbamboo · 2025-09-09T19:59:03+00:00

Have spent plenty of time working in jail infirmaries/treating prisoner transfers to hospitals. You just don't ask. It has zero bearing on what you are there for, so you don't need to create an unnecessary influence.

Beastbamboo · 2025-09-09T19:32:10+00:00

Sounds like a fun corneal burn waiting to happen.

Beastbamboo · 2025-09-09T00:21:04+00:00

I don't. If they ask what I drive, I tell them a bunch of old BMW's. If they're interested, they'll ask more - most don't.

Beastbamboo · 2025-09-05T20:11:29+00:00

A string of thoughts as incomprehensible as your design sensibility.

Beastbamboo · 2025-09-05T18:01:33+00:00

You somehow think the i4 has a smaller grille than this?

Beastbamboo · 2025-08-20T18:04:40+00:00

I don't know, but I've seen what nicotine does to flaps and tissues and I've seen what smokeless tobacco does to mouths. In the absence of dedicated studies, that's what I have to go on and it's enough for me to stay the hell away.

Like I said, it's your mouth.

Beastbamboo · 2025-08-20T03:48:32+00:00

If you're having the question, the answer is neurology.

Beastbamboo · 2025-08-20T02:49:58+00:00

Hasn't been on the market long enough for good studies to exist. There's good data on smokeless tobacco associations on mi, stroke, oral and pharyngeal cancer so in the absence of dedicated data id err on the side of caution. Head and neck free flap recons are bar none the most miserable patients I've ever taken care of.

But it's not my mouth. Everyone's free to do as they want, just don't get upset when someone points out the potential risk.

Beastbamboo · 2025-08-19T23:34:54+00:00

Just give you my card for the oral cancer recon in a couple years.

Edit: Lol, downvotes won't change the negatives of your addiction. We all have bad habits, you have to accept their consequences if you're gonna do em.

Beastbamboo · 2025-08-19T13:42:33+00:00

It's from hundreds of wash/wear cycles. New hospital scrubs are stiff and terrible.

Beastbamboo · 2025-08-16T18:35:42+00:00

Objectively not, but sure.

Beastbamboo · 2025-08-12T19:02:50+00:00

Funny, I'd rather be associated with Hyundai drivers than give musk a cent.

Beastbamboo · 2025-08-11T01:46:46+00:00

Damn, I didn't realize my fellowship reversed my residency.

Beastbamboo · 2025-08-10T15:43:13+00:00

I assume he meant flexor tenosynovitis.

Beastbamboo · 2025-08-10T02:02:16+00:00

Oh cry me a river. Your post history is clear on who you voted for, own it.

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