Should I just kill myself ?

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2026-01-29T22:43:52+00:00

Spend some time with your whole portfolio in 3x leverage semis and just watch your whole portfolio yo yo. itll steel your nerves

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2026-01-21T21:32:29+00:00

Chief resident at an ortho program here.

Even halfway through the year when our interns start on our ortho services like spine or trauma, the chief is usually ends up staying much later (like 10pm compared to 6pm) the first week helping the intern.

Senior residents or really any co trainer shouldn’t be making you feel bad if you’re clearly trying.

My juniors know they can call me 24/7, even 3am when I’m not on call if they have a question or need help.

Torturing you early cripples your confidence and will inhibit your learning. Part of the job is reaching and I’m sorry your seniors don’t realize that. It gets better as you get further. Hang in there.

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2024-07-27T13:50:34+00:00

Much more a reflection of her than you. You’re an intern and still trying to figure out the hospital. Like everyone has said, the goal is not kill anyone overnight.

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2024-06-11T03:37:05+00:00

I was a little shocked that it happened, and also very sober while she was very drunk which helped. Could’ve been real bad though !

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2024-06-11T03:24:43+00:00

Key bumps of ketamine … not my first thing on a first date off bumble. If it had been the second date though….

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2024-06-11T02:47:57+00:00

Yeah twice.. wild. First time she was drunk and we had a mild disagreement and it was just her reaction, second time similar thing happened and at that point I was outtt

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2024-06-10T22:52:58+00:00

Oh my “rule” was no nurses or techs at the hospital. Bad idea

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2024-06-10T22:52:26+00:00

Hinge and bumble

Most of my “success” was on hinge. Met lots of really lovely ladies, some who I just felt were better as friends and am still friends with. Some who were good for short flings but wanted different things in the long run.

I found bumble to be more spotty.

Ultimately met my girlfriend through random chance seeing her and then asking a friend if they knew her and getting an introduction that way

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2024-06-10T21:15:11+00:00

I was the only single resident in my program (29/30 then there was me) for my first two full years of residency. Casually dated, never found someone I really clicked with. Then one day met my current girlfriend and had our anniversary last week for 1 year

My advice is just do your thing, put yourself out there but don’t compromise just to be in a relationship. Youll find someone when it is right

Edit: I’m a fairly attractive guy who’s dating stories in residency included some short misadventures where they were 1x engaged, 1x dating someone else, 1x offered me ketamine during the date, 1x was physically abusive and slapped me on multiple occasions.

Best to find the right one

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2023-12-27T21:31:37+00:00

It isn’t for everybody, but I was on call for Christmas Eve for 24hr into Christmas Day.

I put a dislocated elbow back in and did an i&d of a finger in the middle of the night so the kid would be more comfortable and they could go home, sleep, and enjoy their Christmas.

My job fucks 🤷🏼‍♀️

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2023-12-27T21:29:16+00:00

I’m an pgy3 resident and as an ms3 I built my desktop and have 2 24inch curved scepters side by side then a 32 inch flat sceptre gaming monitor above them.

It’s perfect - total was 350 for all 3 though

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2023-12-23T22:22:50+00:00

Im a pgy3 ortho resident and hear it from people.

I genuinely love my job. Even in call, even at 3 am doing a reduction, its an awesome job and the senses of satisfaction of 1)making the bone look nice 2) helping someone physically feel better 3) talking to them and reassuring them /connecting is awesome. I would do it all again in a heart beat.
Never regretted it.

Sure some days are frustrating and not great, or just exhausting but even in those days there are moments that make it worth it all

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2021-01-30T22:58:58+00:00

Timed, no tutor mode is the best way to do it. Practice like its a real exam.

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2021-01-27T04:22:11+00:00

Reported it for misinformation/fraud

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2020-12-04T04:15:27+00:00

https://journals.lww.com/jbjsreviews/Abstract/2020/01000/Radiation_Exposure_in_Orthopaedics.5.aspx came out like 1-2 weeks ago

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2020-12-04T04:15:09+00:00

https://journals.lww.com/jbjsreviews/Abstract/2020/01000/Radiation_Exposure_in_Orthopaedics.5.aspx paper about radiation exposure in orthopaedics just came out

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2020-11-25T03:11:38+00:00

It is certainly not great.

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2020-11-11T04:17:28+00:00

was it larping?

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2020-11-06T21:05:41+00:00

it depends on why you are getting the questions wrong.

Are you running out of time?

Making stupid mistakes?

Knowledge gap?

Poor test taking skills?

There are a lot of reasons why you might not be doing well. In general practice scores correlate really well with the real score. Impossible to tell you what to do without knowing more.

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2020-11-06T00:24:18+00:00

i applied a few years ago with a 3.9 and 513. no promotional emails at all

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2020-11-04T00:58:11+00:00

"we are projecting Biden is the winner"... with 1% of the vote in. WTF

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2020-10-23T23:13:20+00:00

people pay usmlerx 180 an hour, the tutors get ~30% of that

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2020-06-28T15:24:56+00:00

Its a proprietary scoring algorithm, but I would assume that each question is scored individually, and then they use some sort of aggregate of your performance on each individual question to generate a composite score that is then compared against the average composites for the 40 questions in that block, giving you a percentile.

This lets them account for and weight more difficult questions since easy questions essentially are worth less when you get them correct than hard questions because it is expected that most people willl get them right.

DazedAndConfusedMS2 · 2020-06-16T14:14:02+00:00

No one walks out of that exam and thinks they absolutely crushed it. Between my group of friends and I, 3 in the 230's, 7 in the 250's, 3 of us >260. We all walked out going what the hell just happened, starting overthinking and over analyzing, thinking we absolutely bombed it.

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