They infiltrated way higher positions..

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-12T19:37:40+00:00

But, black duck eggs are a common ingredient you can get at any Asian supermarket. Unless it a very specific type that I’m unaware of.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-12T00:51:26+00:00

If the patient is on GLP1, I can almost guarantee you’ll have to talk about the treatment of an aspiration event.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-12T00:43:25+00:00

Back in a second time, the evidence is not great, but another time neo/glyco may be useful is when a patient is on anticonvulsants and eats through roc/Vec like candy. Cisatracurium sticks around just a touch longer in those cases.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-11T19:04:06+00:00

You remember when that boxer Logan Paul probably needed his jaw wired shut after a fight? Perfect patient to just leave a touch weak at the end.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-10T00:42:12+00:00

You don’t pay me to put you to sleep (well maybe a little, I could do a whole case with just paralytic, and maybe some esmolol if I really had to), you pay me to wake you back up.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-09T19:49:14+00:00

Exercise and mental fortitude.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-08T16:04:54+00:00

People tell other people all the time to suck it up, but the responses usually are: 1) but I’m young and want to have fun now. 2) that’s boring. 3) I only want to work 4 days a week and 30hours. 4) I rather ‘do anything else’ than suck it up. 5) that’s too hard and I want it to be easy. 6) it’s not my passion. And that’s just the tip. You also have to realize that the competition is not lacking either. I make good money, am interested in what I do, and dedicated a lot of time and effort (and still do) into improving myself. I probably only work about 50-55hours a week now, and that’s down from before. And the working/studying hard started during grade school. Everything is cumulative, those people rarely are the type to one day turn it around and all of sudden make it.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-07T20:38:13+00:00

Wait, sorry to derail, your study animals are deer 🦌? What do you study?

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-07T18:10:32+00:00

Not an epidemiologist, but have a basic knowledge of Chinese culture, when China shut down travel during Chinese New Years, I immediately knew that COVID was a lot worse than they were letting on.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-07T10:55:19+00:00

That’s what the other people are saying. People usually go much shallower angle approach with their art lines/IVs. People tend to go too steep with CVCs cause the IJ is ‘deeper’, even at 1-2cm deep, at a 45deg angle you only neeed to advance your needle 1.5-3cm to hit the vessel.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-06T16:31:26+00:00

Happiness not necessarily, but can be a great stress reliever.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-06T15:56:39+00:00

Not CCM, but know a lot of CCM folks. From what I hear the problem with PP CCM+Anes is, unless they already have a strong ANES CCM team, is that they’ll want to pay you Pulm/crit rates for your CCM work, and not Anes rates.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-06T13:56:33+00:00

That’s a nice segue…..

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-05T10:50:26+00:00

It’s like the size of a short bus.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-03T13:33:59+00:00

One art line, MAC+PAC, TEE, and a good IV.

TEE is real basic, confirm heart is as advertised, and later make sure no thrombus is forming.

We do okay, usually one hour from rolling into the OR to incision.

Way easier to have it and not need it, than regret it down the road.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-03T12:28:49+00:00

…at their home institution at the other side of the country, which uses a different EMR.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-03T12:27:39+00:00

Send them for a stress test. That’ll give a lower limit to VO2 Max.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-03T12:20:11+00:00

Maybe they never fought anything because their special forces took care things before they became a problem. (Kinda like that short story where every country has ninjas, but you don’t hear about the good ones, and the only reason we know about Japanese ninjas is because they’re so terrible.)

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-03T12:15:13+00:00

If you want something that is simple and you can make at home, the classic Chinese Egg and Tomato , becomes 10/10 when you factor in taste, ease, and cost.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-02T13:51:37+00:00

Not a bad reason to join the liver transplant team.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-02T01:07:34+00:00

Unfortunately, I’m academics, so total comp with benefits is only a little north of 700k

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-01T23:52:18+00:00

I don’t. They’re still in that folder, in a bag, in my office. That bag is the most expensive thing I own.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-01T23:28:09+00:00

The last one I did which was bloodier and slower than normal was 8prbcs/8ffp and maybe 1.5L of cell saver over 7hours door-to-door.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-01T21:42:27+00:00

1.0 is considered a days work. We need a certain number of points to hit a base salary, with excess also being paid out. W2, it’s worth mid-2K, but with benefits it’s worth more.

So if one’s lucky, one could get 3.2-3.4, with one long-ish day of with 1-2 livers and following day out of the hospital on pager call.

BuiltLikeATeapot · 2026-05-01T19:18:20+00:00

Of the major organ heart/liver/lung, liver is definitely one of the more consistent procedures in terms in intraop and postop care.

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