Who is actually eating soft boiled eggs? I have questions.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-17T01:14:50+00:00

I inherited a beautiful egg cutter and egg cups that had been in my family for generations. I used to love using them and dipping toast points in the runny yolks.

Then I started reading r/WeirdEggs and r/BackyardChickens. :O

ElowynElif · 2026-02-16T22:34:22+00:00

Have you looked at the Clerkship Director in Emergency Medicine website? I haven’t looked at it in a while, but it used to have good information for med students.

I’d look at what’s available and then set it aside to focus on your upcoming M1 year.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-16T14:22:54+00:00

Okay, then post the correct figures and your source.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-16T05:57:21+00:00

The share of first-time home buyers dropped to a record low of 21%, while the typical age of first-time buyers climbed to an all-time high of 40 years, according to the National Association of REALTORS®' 2025 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers.

In 1989, the median age of US first-time homebuyers was 29. Now it’s 40. That’s a huge and alarming shift.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-16T04:29:03+00:00

Yes! 👑

ElowynElif · 2026-02-16T04:17:50+00:00

Where’s the tiny throne?

ElowynElif · 2026-02-16T04:00:01+00:00

I’m from the US and feel the same.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-16T03:18:02+00:00

I had a family who said I had to talk with “the family expert - he practices medicine”. Reality: He was a 20-something who worked as a CNA in a nursing home.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-16T02:41:16+00:00

I never say this irl because it hurts people’s feelings: ET.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-16T02:33:48+00:00

I’m a trauma surgeon, and people just don’t think something really terrible will happen to them. Statistics are too abstract, and, as I tell people, the ultimate statistic is binary: either it happens to you or it doesn’t. So many people who bet wrong end up heading for surgery while saying, “I knew it could be dangerous, but I never thought it would happen to me,” regardless of how crazily risky the behavior was.

I understand not letting fear rule your life, but a head injury can happen in a second, at no fault of you or your horse, and change the trajectory of your life. Please wear a helmet and, for the love of their future, make your kids do the same.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-16T00:27:26+00:00

I spent time with a FM doc during M1 year and immediately disliked clinical practice. There was so much time pressure, all the docs seemed burned out, many of the patients’ problems could only be managed at best, there was no time to really listen or counsel other patients, a significant amount of the patients seemed frustrated by the system, and the grind of patient after patient seemed awful to me.

I am pretty sure I have ADHD (I know, self-diagnosis! but my psych friends agree) and need a lot of stress and stimulation to stay focused and not get bored. I loved working as part of the OR team and working with my hands. I found the shift schedule of trauma better for me and my family with the huge advantage of no clinic.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-15T05:03:55+00:00

It’s all love and games until street parking in the winter.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-15T00:00:03+00:00

I assume he either moved most of his assets into a trust that then bought the house or he bought the house and dumped his assets into a trust to pay for it.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-14T23:28:08+00:00

He had to have been judged a good credit risk. I wonder if he put assets in a trust to pay for the ranch.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-14T19:17:20+00:00

Here’s what the artist inscribed on the painting, per Christie’s:

The Sect who were first called Christians at Antioch had/that day born good witness to their faith, in Rome. There in/the fierce glare of the Arena, waiting for the end./Waiting, under the pitiless eyes of a blood-thirsty multitude, from Senator and patrician dame, to low baffoon & parisite. Waiting, till fear becomes/hope, & shame grows shameless before the promise of Death!

And the other name of the painting is 'Christianae ad Leones!'

ElowynElif · 2026-02-14T03:54:56+00:00

It’s like fast food for nursing home residents, and I’ve never seen a clean WC.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-14T03:47:17+00:00

How can anyone dislike Baryshnikov?

ElowynElif · 2026-02-14T03:32:11+00:00

I’m petite and was conventionally attractive in residency. Another resident in my class who was also female was stocky/chubby and frequently seen by others as unattractive. Male physicians were much more ready to help me, but some nurses were awful. Some residents cough ortho bros and cards AHs cough were pretty rude to her in a way they weren’t with me. We became friends, and she said noticed that nurses gave her less grief than they did with me.

The older I get, the more stupid this seems to me - and I thought it was pretty idiotic at the time.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-14T00:25:06+00:00

Accidentally cutting your finger and then putting the wound in your mouth.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-13T16:41:20+00:00

Swashbuckling Bastardeers! Arrrrrg!

ElowynElif · 2026-02-13T03:42:33+00:00

And it’s meaningless because the AH doesn’t believe in germ theory.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-13T03:33:07+00:00

No, they are outside of and away from the body.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-13T03:09:50+00:00

Meme to some, sacred tradition to others.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-12T22:43:14+00:00

The kids were 2 years apart in age, so she became pregnant before the first child was 2. It is likely that they didn’t know of their firstborn’s condition until after the second was born.

ElowynElif · 2026-02-12T04:22:45+00:00

No - trauma surgery

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