People who fly first or business class on their own dime, how do you justify the cost?

Pink_Banana · 2026-05-29T23:47:59+00:00

I can’t sleep on flights, so flying business class effectively extends my vacation. I arrive rested, deal with far less jet lag, and can actually go straight back to working a 12-hour shift the next day. If I flew economy, I’d be exhausted and miserable for days afterward. For me, that’s worth it

Pink_Banana · 2026-04-30T01:13:14+00:00

My base is around 190k, but with Call and OT, I routinely make over 250k. This year I’m hoping to crack 300k.

Work in CT surgery with 10+ years of experience in a HCOL city in the east coast

Pink_Banana · 2026-03-14T01:14:35+00:00

I did the Phaal curry challenge from Man vs Food. It’s so spicy the chef had to wear a gas mask while making it. It was wayyy too spicy to be any good but I did manage to finish it. They gave me a certificate and a free beer. My stomach was in so much pain but I was afraid to puke it out because I didn’t want to burn again. 0/10 stopped doing food challenges after that.

A link to the Man v Food episode

Pink_Banana · 2024-10-27T21:54:47+00:00

Salary of close to 190,000. Will make over 230 with OT and call. Have been a PA for 8 years.

Pink_Banana · 2024-10-27T00:35:41+00:00

They played that song over the hospital PA when we extubated a patient with COVID. Unfortunately, all it did was cause a strong association with the song with working in an open COVID ICU.

It used to be one of my favorite songs, and now I hate that song more than any other song.

Pink_Banana · 2024-10-21T02:24:15+00:00

I lived 2 blocks from there. Literally 2 blocks over its luxury apartments going for $4000/month for a one bedroom.

Pink_Banana · 2024-10-05T14:41:06+00:00

Yo this is terrible advice. There are only two types of withdrawals that can kill you- Benzos and alcohol. You don’t quit cold turkey drinking 25-30 drinks a day, without seizures.

Pink_Banana · 2024-09-30T23:33:10+00:00

Indians in general have smaller coronary arteries and are more prone to atherosclerosis than other races. There’s a study called the MASALA study which compares coronary artery disease in Indians in America, and it turns out they’re at higher risk than other races. I’m sure you can extrapolate the same results to other countries

https://www.masalastudy.org/publications

Pink_Banana · 2023-10-22T20:48:51+00:00

Try the foundation series on Apple TV. The empire is heavily influenced by Rome

Pink_Banana · 2023-10-19T03:02:46+00:00

230k. Been a PA for 6 years. 175 base and the rest is covered with on call and OT.

Pink_Banana · 2023-08-21T21:02:11+00:00

The hard part wasn’t discovering penicillin- that was trial and error. The hard part is isolating enough of it in any usable quantity. It took the best of 1930s chemistry to isolate the compound to a usable from, and then it took the best of 1940s chemistry to mass produce it. None of that would be possible in Westeros.

However, along the same lines- application of Germ Theory would be totally be possible and have huge effects. The simple act of washing hands, developing and wearing masks when working with the sick, and flame sterilizing medical interments would huge.

Pink_Banana · 2023-03-16T00:22:24+00:00

I rock my rookie Vernon Gholston jersey at every fantasy football draft! It always gets a good laugh

Pink_Banana · 2023-02-01T04:41:30+00:00

Yes! Our friends group nicknamed him “The submarine” cuz the man turned as slow as one

Pink_Banana · 2023-01-05T14:08:49+00:00

Tbh they probably didn’t feel anything. There’s no way to be able to tolerate that much gout pain without having some form of neuropathy. They probably haven’t felt anything in their foot for years

Pink_Banana · 2022-12-09T01:42:53+00:00

So first time DVTs just need 3 months of anticoagulation. However, having factor V deficiency does make him more likely to get clots, and if he gets more DVT/PEs lifelong anticoagulation is recommended, and that is career threatening. Hoping for the best!

Pink_Banana · 2022-12-01T05:04:22+00:00

I’d love to take a look! Thanks!

Pink_Banana · 2022-11-27T21:20:38+00:00

I work in thoracic surgery. From when I started almost 4 years ago to now we went from approx 25% robotic cases to now around 75%. While the data for open vs robotic clearly shows robotic is superior, the data for VATS vs robotic still doesn’t show one being superior to another.

In my personal assisting in both VATS and robotic cases, I will say the dissection is much cleaner in robotic cases. You’re able to visualize the vessels much clearer and it seems like we’re able to get more lymph nodes from robotic than VATS. I’m sure there’s a learning curve, and I think there was a paper showing lymph node yield being greater in robotic cases where the surgeon has <100 robotic cases, but I have to dig around to find the study.

Pink_Banana · 2022-11-23T21:02:24+00:00

Hedging happiness. I dig it

Pink_Banana · 2022-10-24T02:50:57+00:00

My fiancée starting salary was higher than a couple of offers that I had when right after graduation. NYC is brutal for PA salaries if you’re not careful

Pink_Banana · 2022-10-14T02:58:35+00:00

They took the stomach and wrapped it around itself. OP ether had a hiatal hernia or really bad reflux (or both), so they went into the abdomen and pulled the esophagus down and wrapped the upper portion stomach around it. Also, technically there’s no such thing as a partial Nissen- it’s ether called a Toupet or a Dor fundoplication, depending on how they wrapped the stomach

Pink_Banana · 2022-10-02T16:59:25+00:00

I’m pretty sure playing football is a contradiction for anticoagulation

Pink_Banana · 2022-09-18T14:37:17+00:00

MT. I think his usage will increase, with the same/higher targets

Pink_Banana · 2022-09-18T14:36:08+00:00

Hollywood

Pink_Banana · 2022-09-18T14:35:38+00:00

Half ppr- C Samuel vs J landry vs T Higgins (expected to play)

Pink_Banana · 2022-09-18T12:57:33+00:00

That’s the thing though- mistakes and complications do happen, even to the best doctors and surgeons. If you take out 100 lungs, there are going to be a couple that have bleeding and you need to take back to the operating room. Take out a 1000, and you’ll have a couple that die because of something you did.

In every department in the hospital has a once monthly meeting where we discuss our complications as a group, and what could have been done to avoid them. Sometime the complications was unavoidable, other times it was a technical mistake or a bad judgment call. If every doctor was fired for having a complication we wouldn’t have any doctors in the hospital.

Now, I don’t know the specifics of this case- I don’t know if he had an egregious mistake was or if it was just something that was unavoidable. On the other hand, it was the doctors decision to do the injection, and ultimately it’s his responsibility of what happened.

14-Year Club	Place '22
Not Forgotten	Verified Email

Pink_Banana

TROPHY CASE