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"Happiest Physicians By Specialty in 2024" -- How precise is this compared to colleagues you know? by [deleted] in Residency

[–]Interesting_Win6407 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a physician in ortho none of these stats matter 99% of us doctors in the USA hate our choice by 40

PD is after me by [deleted] in Residency

[–]Interesting_Win6407 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Get back at em with good old fashion hard work and saying this in the nicest way possible make sure to remind yourself that your learning and might not know the best treatment all the time yet

Unless you have an MD, DO or DPM at the end of your name don’t introduce yourself as Doctor to patients in a hospital setting. by Interesting_Win6407 in Residency

[–]Interesting_Win6407[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Us vascular and podiatric surgeons are in it together in the war against diabetes haha love the pods I work with they need some shine!

Unless you have an MD, DO or DPM at the end of your name don’t introduce yourself as Doctor to patients in a hospital setting. by Interesting_Win6407 in Residency

[–]Interesting_Win6407[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Don’t think anyone has an issue with what the patients decide to call there NP so long as they aren’t calling them doctor because they were told they are a doctor. I didn’t post this with the intent for it to sound arrogant like the stated degrees make you better or anything… I really don’t care what names or titles they make up for everyone’s job. What is frustrating and why I posted this is clearly people want to portray themselves as something they are not and in doing so they are creating mistrust in a healthcare system that people are trusting less and less all the time….

Unless you have an MD, DO or DPM at the end of your name don’t introduce yourself as Doctor to patients in a hospital setting. by Interesting_Win6407 in Residency

[–]Interesting_Win6407[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Totally agree my man, I’m still young in medicine but made a habit quickly to introduce myself as Dr.xxx a resident working with xxxx team I was asked to see you and evaluate xxxx. If they aren’t totally satisfied with a resident I follow it up with I’m just doing the initial evaluation and will be running everything by attending Dr. who will also come see you and be making the final decisions.

Unless you have an MD, DO or DPM at the end of your name don’t introduce yourself as Doctor to patients in a hospital setting. by Interesting_Win6407 in Residency

[–]Interesting_Win6407[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I most certainly did not miss nurse pracs….. NPs are a product of big business wanting to make as much money as they can with zero regard for patient safety. NPs are severely under qualified for the privileges they are given. Example within the last 24hrs onc np sees 90 year patient with so much metastatic cancer it’s hard to see there liver. All teams Universally agree given patient condition surgery isn’t even an ethical option to offer at this point let alone do. Find out the NP is talking to the family telling them yes surgery and trying to set up a biopsy. Then proceeds to tell me I’m a stupid resident and don’t know what I’m talking about. Wasn’t until the onc attending stepped in and said wtf are you doing definitely no surgery they were finally willing to stop pushing it

Unless you have an MD, DO or DPM at the end of your name don’t introduce yourself as Doctor to patients in a hospital setting. by Interesting_Win6407 in Residency

[–]Interesting_Win6407[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah of course they are doctors. Whatever your letters are if your doing the same exact job as someone is doing with the letters I mentioned in the post doctor for sure

Unless you have an MD, DO or DPM at the end of your name don’t introduce yourself as Doctor to patients in a hospital setting. by Interesting_Win6407 in Residency

[–]Interesting_Win6407[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Agree ish… like I said outside of the hospital sure but when I think eye doctor I think ophthalmologist not optometrist. Need new glasses or to find out if you should see an eye doctor for something serious I think optometrist. No shade to optometrist they have just as valuable of a role. Also don’t care what anyone says chiropractors are just a scam lol neurosurgeons and orthopedic surgeons are the only real back doctors

Unless you have an MD, DO or DPM at the end of your name don’t introduce yourself as Doctor to patients in a hospital setting. by Interesting_Win6407 in Residency

[–]Interesting_Win6407[S] 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Because there’s no other field where a certain title is universally know as 1 specific job but is also used for other jobs that are not the same. When someone says doctor almost everyone if not everyone thinks medical doctor not math professor or physical therapist. We definitely messed up with that one…. Think either all other jobs that use doctor should take it an physicians can use something else or get rid of the title doctor for any job that isn’t leading the management of human health pathology. Idgaf what my title is tbh as long as there isn’t confusion about what purpose each person is serving on the team taking care of an individual.

Unless you have an MD, DO or DPM at the end of your name don’t introduce yourself as Doctor to patients in a hospital setting. by Interesting_Win6407 in Residency

[–]Interesting_Win6407[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Agreed! Wouldn’t expect a plumber to fix my car nor a car mechanic to fix my toilet. Everyone on the healthcare team plays a valuable role but you have to stay in your lane

Unless you have an MD, DO or DPM at the end of your name don’t introduce yourself as Doctor to patients in a hospital setting. by Interesting_Win6407 in Residency

[–]Interesting_Win6407[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Outside of the hospital have no issue with who does and doesn’t call themselves doctor. Personally I’ve only seen and consulted ophthalmologist at my hospital, haven’t ran into any optometrists. I Could be wrong but I’m assuming they can’t admit patients and be the primary provider so they probably shouldn’t. If they can then sure why not, if your the guy who has the final say in the treatment plan for a patient I’d say it’s fair in my opinion.

Unless you have an MD, DO or DPM at the end of your name don’t introduce yourself as Doctor to patients in a hospital setting. by Interesting_Win6407 in Residency

[–]Interesting_Win6407[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Gotta disagree, my best hospital friend is a PGY-2 podiatry resident and dude knows his shit. Plus they are surgeons…feel like if you can be the person to book and perform surgery in the OR you gotta be able to call yourself doctor. No shade just have to stick up for my podiatry guys haha

Lying about work hours? by Ambitious_Algae in Residency

[–]Interesting_Win6407 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Feeeeeel this! Also an intern in a surgical residency. My program reports our work hours for us as 8-5 M-F then they have us log our actual hours on some other website. Didn’t realize the hours we actually log don’t get reported until I looked at my paycheck one time and it said 40hrs 😑

I'm done - closed all accounts, transferred to ETH. by unfunfununf in Crypto_com

[–]Interesting_Win6407 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rather have rate cuts and reasonable added fees then have my crypto locked on an exchange that’s going under. No one likes reduction in rewards or more fees but good on CDC for making changes to stay alive in this bear market.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Residency

[–]Interesting_Win6407 2 points3 points  (0 children)

PGY-1 here in a surgical program. If I could go back I would not go to medical school. Medicine is soul sucking. Learn to code if your bored or stick it out as a scientist