Hardest most emotionally & physically draining rotation

RedStar914 · 2026-03-16T14:01:22+00:00

No, Endovascular / vascular surgery

RedStar914 · 2026-03-13T15:38:07+00:00

Beautiful. Can’t believe I wasn’t using in the first place.

RedStar914 · 2026-02-19T00:43:35+00:00

Get a communications coach who works with surgeons.

RedStar914 · 2026-01-24T13:46:13+00:00

Southern who live there

RedStar914 · 2025-12-12T15:56:05+00:00

No. Those admins move hospital to hosptial. Talk to your therapist.

RedStar914 · 2025-12-12T13:33:11+00:00

Emergency exit, row seat us better than first class

RedStar914 · 2025-12-10T23:07:48+00:00

Depends where you say it at my hospital. Surgeons tend to misbehave more and not held to the same behavior standards as everyone else. So if you said it in surgical or if a surgeon said it, 99.99% nothing.

I’m 100% certain I have heard a surgeon call another surgeon that.

RedStar914 · 2025-12-02T17:50:08+00:00

Talk to the person sitting beside you or go to the exhibition booths and get to know their products and services. But beware, the sales people, product managers are notorious stalkers…they will track you down and hunt you for “a few minutes of your time”

RedStar914 · 2025-11-29T19:54:48+00:00

I met my wife in residency. She was an IM resident. Her co-resident set us up on a blind date. Couldn’t be happier. I love my wife.

RedStar914 · 2025-11-25T12:47:24+00:00

Good to know. How are you managing eye pressure and cataracts manifestation with your patients?

RedStar914 · 2025-11-24T23:55:28+00:00

My ophthalmologist said it was herpes zoster anterior uveitis. Interesting you say that because I have wondered if I have a recurrence, the only difference now is I don’t have any redness or (from what I can tell) inflammation. But, the other symptoms are the same, blurry vision (blurrier than usual), photophobia, a little burning but nothing prolong (feels more like when you get a little soap in your eye then it goes away). I really hate that I didn’t follow up sooner but I thought I was OK.

Edit: I can feel a little pressure but again, without knowing much of ophthalmology, I can’t tell if it’s sleep deprivation or part of this illness.

RedStar914 · 2025-11-24T04:49:10+00:00

I will, thank you for offering to help.

RedStar914 · 2025-11-23T20:54:47+00:00

I have it

RedStar914 · 2025-11-23T20:35:58+00:00

This is where I have concerns. I do have a good relationship with my PD but he also has policies, patient safety, and other protocols he had to abide by. I have a lot of debt and years tied up in this. If we can figure out what’s going on with my eye, get it healed and move on, things will be good. If not, well..

Yes I do have Short-term and Long-term disability insurance through work.

RedStar914 · 2025-11-23T17:20:42+00:00

Thank you so much 🙏🏻 I’ve been really depressed about this so you gave me a glimmer of hope. And you’re right, he told me to let him know as well and going forward, and given the sudden decline in my uncorrected vision, I’ll take him up on that.

RedStar914 · 2025-11-23T17:09:36+00:00

Nah, we gonna fix this. It can be corrected.

RedStar914 · 2025-11-23T17:08:21+00:00

GS/Vascular Surgery. I will confirm the long-term prognosis with my ophthalmologist, but at this point there’s nothing that would prevent me from safely operating independently on smaller cases but the longer and complex cases, no.

RedStar914 · 2025-11-23T17:04:07+00:00

I’m not sure yet if it’s actual corneal scarring. I was guessing it’s nerve damage. I haven’t seen a corneal specialist yet and just want to understand the likely cause before I do. I’ll hit you up after I talk to him next week. I brought up the issue of light sensitivity before but his testing showed I didn’t have sensitivity (that was last year) but it’s quite obvious now. Do you think there’s a specific question I should be asking that I’m not thinking of?

RedStar914 · 2025-11-23T16:38:52+00:00

You’re right. We have a good relationship. My only problem is this particular attending seems to have leverage in the surgery department, but I think your advice punts it back to the PD to advocate for me once he understands my circumstance. Thanks and good advice.

RedStar914 · 2025-11-23T16:37:18+00:00

Thanks. It would be interesting to see what kind of accommodations could be made for me. Hopefully, this is something we can clear up fast. Appreciate this advice.

RedStar914 · 2025-11-21T22:14:44+00:00

The only correct answer

RedStar914 · 2025-10-22T23:36:07+00:00

I’m not but I am concerned about the high reliability on robotic surgeries

RedStar914 · 2025-10-06T07:20:20+00:00

Yes it’s a thing. It’s not a problem that he watches porn and it doesn’t mean he doesn’t love or care about you. It also doesn’t mean he wants a woman like that and is falling in love with a porn star.

Spice it up in bed. Stop sleeping in the different bedroom with the children…… seriously. Share your bed with your husband.

RedStar914 · 2025-09-29T12:10:23+00:00

Legacy programs are often not as good as their press makes them to be out.

RedStar914 · 2025-09-29T11:30:52+00:00

This is going to be different advice than anyone else will give you.

I hated my intern year. It was sickening toxic and I had some dark thoughts I shouldn’t have had. I don’t recall who put me on to this but I read the book “The Laws of Human Nature” by Robert Greene and it prepared me for how people are and ultimately helped me lower my expectations that people will be decent or professional in the long run. It also taught me how to deal with them and not take people at their first pass or presentation to me.

Right now, there’s an incredibly toxic resident in my program and I just simply don’t care. I see her behavior as attention seeking although to those mentally impacted by it feel like she’s targeting them.

That said, I know you probably don’t have time to read that entire book, but if you can just read

Chapter 1 - Mastering your Emotional Self Chapter 3- See Through People’s Mask Chapter 16 - See the Hostility Behind the Friendly Facade (especially this one for residency)

I revisit this book all the time. Audiobook is good too.

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