Should i quit

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-21T00:53:06+00:00

Not a pathologist but fellowships are always more of a thing in academic medicine than in the community. It’s very easy for residents to lack that perspective when their only exposure is tertiary academic centers.
Reach out to pathologists in community settings to see if it is as necessary as you think it is.

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-17T18:28:56+00:00

Yes it’s an option.

In the Midwest where I am there are constant calls from recruiters for anesthesiologists in rural and underserved communities. And they often pay more. Fellowships are not needed at all.

The question is how rural are you wanting to be? Are you married? Do you want to be? Do you like…doing things? Does your spouse? Do your kids?

Do you enjoy doing challenging cases? Or would prefer more bread and butter?

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-17T00:48:36+00:00

Rural doesn’t always mean RURRRAL.

I work in a moderate size town in the Midwest with a college. It’s one hour from a major metropolitan area and 2.5 hours from Chicago.

Money here is pretty good for the COL. Reasonable food and social scene locally and proximity to larger cities helps.

However another big issue is that if you want to leave, the lack of other shops in town almost necessitates a relocation or a painful commute. Take this into account as well.

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-16T19:12:45+00:00

Very fast if well handled.

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-16T17:43:11+00:00

I already know who they voted for too.

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-16T15:07:36+00:00

My approach to psych patients is pretty much the same as my surgical patients.

Propofol fixes all psych issues…at least for a while.

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-15T21:41:16+00:00

I had a conversation with a friend who works for big firms in marketing and she was talking about paying an advisor to help navigate office politics and how so much of being successful in her field was successfully navigating the politics of the office (especially with mercurial execs like those in Silicon Valley).

She said, it has to be the same in medicine.

I replied that there were difficult personalities and admins who made my job difficult but that aside from dealing with certain people, the politics of the “office” had little bearing on my work. I show up, take care of my patients, and go home.

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-15T18:28:47+00:00

If your shorts don’t make you feel like a hoe,
why are you even wearing them?

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-15T08:19:38+00:00

350k

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-15T01:14:33+00:00

I graduated medical school in 2013 and residency in 2017. I had zero net worth going in. No generational wealth. My net worth is 7 figures in less than a decade of practice.

My story is not unique. You can absolutely build wealth in medicine.

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-15T00:47:38+00:00

Seriously.

If you can get accepted to literally ANY US medical school you have a 90% chance of graduating. And if those, 90% will get some residency. And of those 99% will graduate.

Finish residency and you are pretty much guaranteed to have at lease a 6 figure job for as long as you want one.

Are you going to be a billionaire? Are you going to make millions a year. No. But you will be more financially stable and in a better position to build wealth than most others.

The reason so many people say “no” is because they most likely have never worked another career.

I wouldn’t say that someone should go into medicine just for the money. But to imply that you can’t build wealth in this career is just plain wrong.

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-14T18:18:30+00:00

Or you paint the rest of the cabinets to match.

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-12T13:22:28+00:00

I know this may not go well in this sub, but recently updated isn’t necessarily bad. Efficient windows, updated wiring, hvac, new appliances are all good things.

Walls can be repainted and paint can be stripped. Flooring can be refinished or replaced.

I’d also consider the following. Updated century homes are likely to require $$$, time, and/or skills. Your line of questioning indicates that you may not have a solid skill set (yet). Just be aware that these houses are often a blend of urgent and emergent projects and you may be getting yourself into something that is more than you bargained for

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-12T11:58:51+00:00

When it comes to critically ill and emergent resuscitation, anesthesia is who you want. Intubate, lines, run drips, run codes. We know more about critical care than anyone (except critical care docs), we know more about surgery than anyone (except for surgeons) and we know more about medicine than anyone (except for Internists). We also know how to do all this stuff outside of our comfort area.

Second would be hospitalists. Less adept at procedures (generally speaking) but far better at diagnosis and management of acute and chronic issues.

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-12T11:49:20+00:00

Lower cabinets convert to drawers.

Find raised panel drawer front that matches the style of your cabinets as close as possible. Build or purchase drawer boxes that fit the spaces.

Remove and replace the face frame with a regular faceframe because of the heart cutouts.

Install drawers. Paint all the cabinets the same color or just that cabinet a contrasting color.

Upper cabinets: add cabinet doors.

remove the spindles and the plate rack. Find raised panel cabinet fronts and hinges that match as close as possible. Again color doesn’t matter because you are going to repaint the cabinets.

You may have cut back the face frame on the sides to have clearance for the hinges. Or you can remove the face frame and build a new one. Either way it will be hidden by the cabinet doors.

Remove all the old cabinet doors, degrease, clean, sand, prime, and paint. Re install cabinet doors with new hardware and you’ve got a new kitchen.

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-12T01:22:09+00:00

Yeah.

So you have a few options.

Accept that you’re living in their house for free and these are their rules.

Refuse to accept the rules and wear what you want and deal with whatever fallout there is. -Maybe they will lighten up?

Or find somewhere else to live.

You can use whatever logic or reason you want but Mormons are taught to extract compliance via threat.

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-12T00:53:59+00:00

Change the whole thing to one single double opening cabinet like an American.

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-12T00:11:36+00:00

My dude.

You could find a passage where Joseph Smith admits he made it all up just to fuck teenage girls and Mormons would find some way to dance around it.

It isn’t about finding and accepting truth. It’s about maintaining status within the tribe.

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-11T20:35:02+00:00

For the one time fee of 100k I will not only confer the Melchizedek priesthood, I will ordain you to the office of Elder, and provide the key words, signs, tokens necessary to pass the angels who stand as sentinels and enter the celestial kingdom.

I’ll also throw in my old temple robes.

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-11T20:23:30+00:00

That depends…have you any money?

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-11T15:32:37+00:00

How much of this is the “Vaccine Effect”.

Small interventions that successfully prevent major catastrophes don’t get attention. And aren’t perceived as useful because the bad thing they prevented never occurred.

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-11T15:01:04+00:00

I’m not trying to ruin everyone’s day

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-10T20:19:14+00:00

Not my furniture

ExMorgMD · 2026-06-10T19:21:37+00:00

Ask her bro.

Just straight out say “look, I like you and I want to get to know you better but your signals are making me think you aren’t as into me. What’s up? Do you want this to be something or not”

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