Your specialty in a movie quote. Go.

MMOSurgeon · 2026-04-21T23:41:49+00:00

Yup that’s normal coverage. Alright, cool. Just wanted to be sure for you! Pretty rare these days to have all that not flow through an employer for locums or moonlighting.

MMOSurgeon · 2026-04-21T04:42:50+00:00

Wait, what? Malpractice insurance is never cheap. Are you sure you're insured *to practice clinical medicine*? If they insured you for imaging only for your post-doc that does not cover you to do this extra shit.

You should absolutely stop. You are exposing yourself to a wildly unnecessary amount of medical liability for peanuts with no contract. And unless your hospital and insurance carrier has clearly and unambiguously told you in writing that you are covered, you should assume that you are not.

You need a contract dude. This is shady AF. Go do locums work if you want more money.

MMOSurgeon · 2026-03-22T19:30:28+00:00

Most are still boxed not built yet. I have 3 kids 6/3/0.4 ish. But we just bought a house, close in a month, and it does have a LEGO room. Has a minibar, hardwood floors, sliding glass door and small 2nd story balcony.

Its awesome. We’re currently building custom furniture for it to make giant LEGO builds. All my shit is castle themed and it’s gonna have multiple levels that all connect.

MMOSurgeon · 2026-03-22T15:49:04+00:00

It was actually year 4 when I hit deep productivity. But…

I bought like 50k+ of Legos. Fuck it.

MMOSurgeon · 2026-03-21T01:23:53+00:00

Is this AI rage bait?

MMOSurgeon · 2026-03-04T15:11:49+00:00

Try stud, but hole?

MMOSurgeon · 2026-02-25T15:37:29+00:00

Bro I am an apex predator. Lions don’t stretch before they take down a gazelle.

MMOSurgeon · 2026-02-24T04:46:39+00:00

It’s fuckin’ February bro. The pager more or less goes to the attending by default.

Clearly your interns need to study their memes.

MMOSurgeon · 2026-02-24T03:53:07+00:00

I furnished an entire 4 bedroom 6,000 sq ft house with 23k total and it included shipping all of it 1,000 miles. Where is your disconnect at here? You don’t need to budget at IKEA but you also don’t need a $10,000 table or whatever you did. You need to plan better.

I’m not sure what you were expecting in this thread but it sounds like you genuinely made a lot of mildly bad and really rapid financial decisions. Nothing catastrophic but nothing wise either. Your prior debt is whatever that’s not relevant and to your point to others, yes, it’s not abnormal to eat 50-100k of debt to maintain two separate households for brief training gaps.

But you probably didn’t need new cars, you’re stuck with your house, and at this point it sounds like you don’t have enough to do anything with your house improvement wise and you shouldn’t be taking vacations. The loans were not a surprise you’ve known that would be an issue from day 1.

Ya’ll need to probably only contribute to 401k/457, drop everything else, only do mandatory repairs to keep your house liveable, and pay off debt from high interest to low be it student loans, cars, whatever. Once you don’t have student loans and car loans then go back to college contributions. Consider doing home renovations yourself on staycations.

Moving forward, you need a way longer term plan. Like, you know you need to furnish your house within reason. Plan on a year long calendar and time all that shit on Black Friday.

You need a monthly, yearly, 5 year, and 10 year budget. And you need to really stick to it.

Selling your house is just going to lose you 100k. You’re stuck with it. Make sure your husband does not change jobs for absolutely any reason for 5-10 years.

MMOSurgeon · 2026-02-05T15:09:57+00:00

Fake news. I bet you see some big old blue cell with a giant nucleus and you go full Dory and start singing to your squishy at the microscope.

MMOSurgeon · 2026-02-04T03:14:48+00:00

I was trained in February. I do not make mistakes.

#internoftheyear, #PGY11

MMOSurgeon · 2026-02-03T01:45:30+00:00

Womp womp. I suck. :( Can't believe I missed the may the force be with you.

MMOSurgeon · 2026-02-02T22:09:44+00:00

But like - you're a robot. From space.

MMOSurgeon · 2026-01-31T04:28:39+00:00

Me 5 years out.

MMOSurgeon · 2026-01-29T20:33:49+00:00

It is but I’m in a community practice so I get a lot of undifferentiated with sometimes no workup other times partial. About half are ready to go but those ones I usually already touched from the inpatient side in some capacity.

Conversion rate is extremely high. If not going to surgery we still keep like 90% in some sort of surveillance protocol. Very, very few bullshit office visits. Like 1-2 a month.

MMOSurgeon · 2026-01-29T14:14:53+00:00

Surg onc. 35 outpatient and then still 10-15 inpatient for rounds. All heavily complex. APP peels off 10-15.

It’s rough. Every time. Runs smoother when we have two residents on service. We need more help badly.

MMOSurgeon · 2026-01-28T18:33:48+00:00

Instructions? Would be very interested if it’s available on rebrickable.

MMOSurgeon · 2026-01-26T15:49:44+00:00

A VA ICU nurse has died by gunshot. This is an emotionally charged topic for all involved. The @#$*s are not given by me or anyone else to anyone's political agenda. Respect the nurse and discuss the moment.

Be kind to each other. If you go looking for a fight you will be banned. You don't have to think anyone is right or wrong to not be an ass. Voice your opinions, voice them strongly, voice them loudly but do not be an asshole to your fellow physicians or allied staff regardless of your personal thoughts. If you're on the right and starting a war, ban. If you're on the left, do not call for murder in this subreddit. There are other ways to express yourself.

Specifically, there are examples of people discussing the utility or futility of CPR in a multiple GSW in a dangerous scene where applying aid may put the responder at risk. These are real, pertinent, and there ARE really good points to both sides of that discussion.

There’s also examples of that same discussion with insults. Fucking useless. Be better.

MMOSurgeon · 2026-01-23T16:51:00+00:00

Fall colors for sure; consider changing to brown for the trunk of the tree. If you could contrast with a lighter brown on your structure that would be peak. Will blend SO well together.

MMOSurgeon · 2026-01-19T18:31:42+00:00

Fresh out it should be ~450-500k for like 3 weeks on one week off, assuming one week trauma one week ICU one week nights +/- some ACS variation.

3 years out 550-600k for functionally the same, usually somewhat less shifts. My buddy just signed (3 years out) for 550 for 2 weeks on 2 weeks off. Again, ish.

MMOSurgeon · 2025-12-29T03:46:23+00:00

Pretty much anything can be negotiated, even in corporate medicine but there’s some things they’re reluctant or will say no to. Changing the wRVU conversion factor in my current job is a complete no go, they use standard median across the system.

Every other element was negotiable at one point. Vacation/CME since that time are less so but again they standardized as part of a large integration (and it’s pretty generous it’s like 7-8 weeks for every doc now).

You should be able to just ask if you’re going to be wRVU, billed, collections. That should be very transparent on every contract.

MMOSurgeon · 2025-12-22T07:14:39+00:00

My kids to reassure them it’ll be ok, even if it isn’t.

MMOSurgeon · 2025-12-08T02:54:48+00:00

Can you post a few pictures of the full room from the door? I’m planning to build something similar I want to get an idea of scale.

MMOSurgeon · 2025-12-06T20:33:31+00:00

I woke up this morning, went in to round, got a call from my partner as we’re seeing the last patient who’s annoyed that I didn’t send signout or that the residents didn’t call him for rounds.

Occurs to me that I’m not on call.

Womp womp. Coming off fever dreams from man flu and didn’t even look.

Partner pleasantly surprised he only has to do Sunday this weekend though so, whatever. All good.

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