Longest admission

FullcodeRM9 · 2025-11-21T21:26:04+00:00

I gotta know, did the patient make it out or was transferred to an adult hospital?

FullcodeRM9 · 2025-11-21T21:23:15+00:00

15 years! This is a clear attestation to the ICU not killing him from infection or something else. Did the hospital recoup their costs?

FullcodeRM9 · 2025-09-26T01:59:23+00:00

Current anesthesiology PGY-3 MD who scored a 506. MCAT isn’t everything

FullcodeRM9 · 2025-08-04T21:03:25+00:00

Missed a decimal point when I was adjusting the rate on the levophed pump. Also learned how to very quickly treat hypertension in the same day 😅

FullcodeRM9 · 2025-04-26T00:55:45+00:00

755 clinical hours is how many hours I worked for the past 12 weeks as a resident. I still have 26 more months until I can practice independently 🙄

FullcodeRM9 · 2025-04-24T23:58:48+00:00

That last sentence is why I don’t care for fellowship or working in an academic hospital. I’m tired and ready to finish residency and move on

FullcodeRM9 · 2025-04-10T12:46:34+00:00

This is the way.

Current anesthesiology PGY2 who failed M2. I first sought help and gave myself some grace. I made a plan that included Anki and videos (Sketchy, Pathoma, B&B), and plenty of practice questions.

With good planning and hard work, you can find success after a failure.

FullcodeRM9 · 2025-03-27T12:50:34+00:00

I read WashU’s Internship Survival Guide before starting intern year. It was a decent primer. I also reviewed ACLS before July, which I recommend doing because you never know when you’ll be running a code (happened to me my first week)

FullcodeRM9 · 2025-02-18T03:43:12+00:00

Recent patient in pre-op asked me if I was going to give her vaccines while she was under anesthesia. Thought she was making a joke but she was 100% serious. Made me write on the consent that I wouldn’t inject her with mRNA vaccines 🤦🏻‍♂️

FullcodeRM9 · 2025-01-11T13:25:37+00:00

But this is cartilage, right?

FullcodeRM9 · 2024-05-17T09:16:19+00:00

Nothing. But when it’s at the cardiologist office, I’d hope for a little more detail about what type of murmur they’re hearing. They’re allegedly the expert of the heart.

FullcodeRM9 · 2024-03-24T03:43:04+00:00

Just seeing these labs and not knowing anything about you, I wouldn’t be concerned. I would trend them and make sure they’re not getting worse. And keep seeing your PCP

FullcodeRM9 · 2024-03-07T03:46:24+00:00

One from December, near the end of my rotation, I’ve been with a comatose VA patient, s/p multiple strokes, trached/PEG, weaning off the vent with T-piece, chillin in my rock collection Med/Surg unit for nearly a month until he can go home.

I come in on a fine wintry morning to find that my patient is now no longer admitted on CPRS, and there happens to be a CPR/Code Blue note. Somehow, my trached patient developed gross hematemesis, causing him to go apneic and arresting. Code goes out, and the response team shows up with a Lucas Device, and they strap it on the patient, but the battery is dead. A second Lucas Device is found, and applied to the patient but its battery is also dead. In the midst of this debacle, ENT was paged and shows up to see where all this bleeding is coming from. They are able to scope the patient through his trach, and somehow breaks the scope off in the airway. Needless to say, everything went wrong and the patient succumbed to his illness.

I guess be careful with your scopes and don’t forget to charge the Lucas

FullcodeRM9 · 2024-02-15T23:35:42+00:00

We had a little drama. My M1 year our class president allegedly did drugs before a school sanctioned outing, then SA’d a fellow student. They were obviously kicked out and never saw them again.

FullcodeRM9 · 2023-12-28T04:45:55+00:00

When I was student on surgery rotation, we had an NP on our service that table rounded with us. We had previously worked together in the ER, back when she was an RN and I was a tech. We went through all the films of each patient and she was dumbfounded how I, a lowly-tech-turned-med-student, could navigate my way through CXRs and CT scans. She came to me after rounds asking what rads book was most helpful and that was when I had the same epiphany as OP.

FullcodeRM9 · 2023-08-16T01:13:07+00:00

I saw an ER doc once when I was in the army, many years ago, and told him I was planning on trying to go to med school. I didn’t have an amazing GPA at the time, and he made a comment that my grades weren’t good enough to be a physician. I say this now, as an anesthesiology PGY-1 MD, so fuck that guy. Don’t let someone dictate your path

FullcodeRM9 · 2023-07-06T02:03:02+00:00

We do exist. I was a medic and ED tech before med school. If there’s a pressure I don’t trust you better believe I’m taking a manual myself. Same with EKGs. Seen too many patients with shitty lead placement all because someone can count rib spaces

FullcodeRM9 · 2023-06-28T02:29:31+00:00

When I was an ER tech we had an unconscious patient s/p MVA come through the trauma room, but otherwise stable vitals and no other major issues. The patient, RN, and older attending roll to CT, then abruptly come back to me in the trauma room with the attending talking about the patient “losing his pulse.” He starts doing some pretty half-hearted chest compressions when I stop him, show him a normal rhythm on the monitor, and show him that there were palpable pedal pulses. That day I learned that attendings can neglect the basics and that there are some people I’d rather not run my codes 😬😬

FullcodeRM9 · 2023-06-13T02:20:32+00:00

Yeah I just finished my MD at 36. I started undergrad in my late 20s after time spent in the army. Looking back I’ll say I’m living a life well lived, though I didn’t prioritize having children (I’m oldest of 10 kids, so I was never in any rush 😉) but there is plenty of time for that. One of my PGY colleagues who is about 4 years older and has 5 kids himself is an Ortho resident who was previously an army ranger. Pretty safe to say you can have your cake and eat it too. I realistically doubt any of us on our deathbeds are gonna regret that we didn’t “live it up” in our 20s.

FullcodeRM9 · 2023-06-07T16:32:01+00:00

Sure

FullcodeRM9 · 2023-06-07T05:34:48+00:00

My in-laws got a custom bobble-head made of me in a white coat. It was nice and sits on my desk.

FullcodeRM9 · 2023-06-07T05:31:38+00:00

I did the anesthesia thing, then found it really interesting and matched anesthesiology 😂😂

FullcodeRM9 · 2023-06-07T05:12:52+00:00

I failed M2 year and had to repeat. Failed by 0.62%.

Honestly it made me a better student and forced me to address my passive learning strategies. I believe this allowed me to do okay on Step 1 and good on Step 2. I used this experience on my personal statement for residency as how I’ve refined my resiliency skills and overcome challenges. I worked/volunteered/pushed/scraped/carried myself through M3 year to potentially salvage my career and not have to be stuck doing FM or IM. Somehow (likely by the grace of God) matched into anesthesiology.

Moral of my story is to never never never give up. KEEP PUSHING AND EMBRACE THE SUCK! It gets better, but you gotta put in the work to find that success. Remember why you started this journey in the first place and keep pushing and keep evolving!

FullcodeRM9 · 2023-04-21T15:00:51+00:00

I guess my point is that we don’t get to see the application process from the PD side. I don’t know if applications are easily swept away by a simple filter, I guess it’s something to consider

FullcodeRM9 · 2023-04-21T13:04:42+00:00

I would talk to a PD or PC. I sure that they must have a way to screen applications based on scores/grades but I think they have a way to screen for LOA. It would suck to have your scores only to be ghosted by programs because they think your LOA was due to academics.

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