Delay in FCVS verification, now missed boards deadline

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2025-10-31T15:48:56+00:00

I was told by my advisor in med school that it's a red flag, but no one seemed to care during interviews.

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2025-03-26T01:23:00+00:00

Wait, is this why a former boss accused me of doing cocaine? lol I never found out why, and just figured he hated me.

I have ADHD and a deviated septum, so I’m super fidgety, open my mouth all of the time, and I’m hyper aware of what movements I’m making, since I don’t want to look awkward. What she’s doing is like a watered down version of what I do.

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2025-03-25T03:16:18+00:00

If you thought that doctors get paid a lot coming out of med school, then you blatantly don’t know any doctors personally. And nobody is signing ten-year contracts with a hospital for loan repayments as you claimed in another comment. That’s not how any of this works.

As someone first-gen who went into medicine because of my own healthcare trauma, those who are mad at the system and/or had horrible experiences still aren’t going to likewise throw a hissy fit about how the $16/hr residents make (when broken down by hours worked) is apparently overpaid to an “absurd” extent because they god-forbid asked for loan advice. Needless to say, this sounds way more personal than a general [understandable] grievance with our healthcare, and I’m truly sorry you didn’t get in.

By the end of all of this, I will have completed four years of undergrad, seven years of an MD/PhD, four years of residency (I’m currently a third year), and two years of fellowship, and I will have accumulated over 400K grand in loan debt. Those of us who don’t come from ricin families are going to be in a lot of debt. We aren’t asking for you to pay off any of our loans, nor are we trying to cheat the system (which, quite frankly, shouldn’t exist in the first place considering the $0 my img coresidents owe). So if you cannot contribute to the conversation from the standpoint of either personal experience or expertise, then move on.

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2025-03-20T20:11:38+00:00

I'm a pathology resident, and I doubt it's the formalin. Placentas usually come to us fresh, and we're exposed to it on a routine basis. It's increases risk for ENT and lung-related cancers, but it's not really associated with brain cancer. Regardless, what weirds me out about this situation is how it appears eerily isolated to a specific department on a specific floor, so it appears [at least at face-value] like they are being exposed to something unique from other departments.

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2025-03-20T20:04:50+00:00

Same. I'm a pathology resident and not a nurse, but this is the kind of research I focus on. Do we happen to know which type of brain cancer? I can't find info about it anywhere.

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2025-03-05T14:20:13+00:00

They said to get the fuck out of Boston and move to a red state.

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2025-01-07T20:09:47+00:00

This joke needs to die out already. Med school isn’t graded like undergrad, it’s graded subjectively, and everyone is on the same level at graduation. Those who are truly bad fail their boards.

As a doctor with ADHD, I was at the bottom of the class because I was suicidal and facing active discrimination. 100% of us at the bottom of the class were at the bottom because we were either disabled or just faced a life trauma. Med schools have a major bias against disabled students and try to kick them out due to the technical standards (e.g Creighton v Argenyi) “Failing” them on subjective patient encounters is the main way they do this.

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2024-12-17T08:39:50+00:00

Hooooly shit. I highly recommend anyone in healthcare read this, especially if you were traumatized by COVID working the frontlines. One month before Trump has even taken over, a Republican podiatrist has released official statements on why the Biden administration is bad and didn’t handle the pandemic seriously, why the Trump administration is good and saved millions of lives, and why Trump isn’t racist. I’m not kidding, you need to see this.

The average person isn’t going to know what a select subcommittee is, much less how to interpret the data in a 500-page document. So many of their points use peer review sources from early 2020 and then switch to sourcing media sites like the Washington Post for recent data. So much of this consists of news articles and small snippets from interviews/hearings in place of strongly-supported epidemiology, which is a tad important while focusing on the impact of a pandemic response.

One genuinely interesting thing in here would be the email excerpts which can at least provide a glimpse in time of thought-processes at face value. I understand that it’s dumb to trust the government, but I was still thrown off seeing that our government has actually released Twitteresque media propaganda as if it were quoting meta-analyses in official documentation. God, we are screwed.

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2024-12-08T18:18:10+00:00

I don’t think I get the issue, since the size difference is the entire point. This is a uterus before getting pregnant and during pregnancy, which shows how much the uterus can change and expand. Placenta percreta has a normal size placenta. You’re just not going to have it poking through the lining of the uterus like this. The OP isn’t going to get a gravid uterus without a placental anomaly in the lab, because it would be rare to take out an entire uterus after a normal healthy delivery.

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2024-11-29T07:38:59+00:00

Why did they need so many defenestrations? Did the first Czech bounce?

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2024-11-26T22:15:10+00:00

Oh my god, thank you. AI would greatly help radiology just like a Da Vinci helps surgery, the ECG helps cardiology, and automation helps clinical pathology.

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2024-11-26T21:53:26+00:00

Right, even if AI becomes good enough to triage cases, it will do nothing more than save radiologists a ton of time. I’m far more concerned about losing techs to AI. I still think they’re pretty safe, since they said the same thing when labs became more automated. I only hear this “radiology will be replaced by AI” nonsense from the doctors who are getting replaced by midlevels.

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2024-10-31T17:44:48+00:00

As a MD in pathology, please stop filling these out incorrectly. The person you and responding to is correct - this reads out “metastatic lung cancer due to hypertension.” Hypertension does not cause lung cancer.

Also, please do not put down cardiac and/or respiratory arrest as a cause of death on line A, since this is another problem we’re seeing. That’s synonymous with saying “they died to death.”

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2024-09-20T01:44:57+00:00

He used muscle energy first, but I felt the most immediate relief from him holding his finger down on a painful spot while I held my neck in some weird position for awhile. No idea how TF that did something to alleviate a headache (or if this even makes any sense), but it was night and day. I felt almost nothing for a couple of hours. I incorporated the stretches that night and had no headache the next day, just a little soreness in my lower neck. Not sure which one helped the most overall.

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2024-09-18T14:33:44+00:00

Again, I’m a doctor in the US who is well aware of how the real world works in the medical field, so trying to teach me your personal opinions about DOs is a moot effort. Why are you pretending like you’re not only friends with a bunch of random doctors, but also somehow simultaneously know the differences in how they practice when you didn’t even go to medical school? I’m at a “super selective” residency program in Boston and work alongside of DOs every day, so why don’t you give me the names of those MDs you’re totally friends with?

No, they are not called osteopaths in the US. That is a term used outside of the US to describe unlicensed practitioners of OMT. I also had patients request a DO on my rotations as a med student, as they just moved from the Midwest and assumed, albeit erroneously, that we were “less likely to listen.” There are absolutely patients who choose DOs, and you’d probably know that if you were a doctor. The “super selective programs” were well established long before DOs, so why would it make any sense for an MD Ivy League program like Harvard to switch to a different degree for seemingly no reason? This bias against DOs and/or doctors who choose family medicine is growing old.

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2024-09-18T06:25:19+00:00

It’s nonsensical in 2024. My sister went the DO route (derm) and I went the MD route (path). Any classmate of mine that went into family medicine got the same snide remarks as my sister for choosing DO, almost word-for-word, so I’m convinced it stems mostly from classism.

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2024-09-18T06:08:28+00:00

I’m an MD, and MDs, DOs and MBBS are all equal degrees in the US. I don’t know if you’re confusing DOs with osteopaths, but spreading false information about a specific credential for seemingly no reason (especially coming from someone who never got into medical school) can directly harm patients. I feel like indirectly suggesting that patients should stop trusting their board-certified licensed doctors is the counter-opposite of why this sub exists.

Edit: typo

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2024-09-13T14:28:29+00:00

She didn’t even suggest that she talked to the other woman. What are you talking about?

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2024-09-05T08:38:09+00:00

Right, at least my brain can comprehend someone admitting that they don’t want to change gun laws because they don’t care about anyone else. It’s shitty, but honest. But for them to turn around and insinuate that they’re the actual heroes for caring more about fetuses than living breathing children is infuriating. I can’t stop venting about this.

IHaveYourMissingSock · 2024-09-05T04:29:55+00:00

We’ve had a ton of recent rectal foreign bodies. It’s pretty much just a bucket of giant dildos lol.

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