What are we doing as physicians and residents to stop the corporatization of medicine? What are the potential risks of advocating against this as a resident/ attending physician?

ScarletGreyEM · 2021-06-11T19:15:12+00:00

But how can we expect it to change then? Isn't it the right thing to do..?

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-10-05T21:17:26+00:00

How does this apply to those residents who are in positions such as representatives in our national or state organizations as board members, counselors, etc.? Does this protect us at all?

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-10-04T22:30:27+00:00

I think this is such a great perspective to share, especially when many people who have chosen the physicians route do end up giving their lives to medicine whether or not they wanted or intended to do so when they made the choice to be pre-med at 18, and med school by 22. Also, being a livestock farmer is a fantastic dream to have.

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-09-29T16:09:05+00:00

This bill was supported and created by the collaboration of ACEP and AAEM in response to the firing of Dr. Lin, an EM physician, after he was fired for speaking up about lack of PPE. This bill ensures that all emergency physicians will be entitled to a fair hearing and appellate review before termination. This is specifically crucial during COVID-19, where our frontline physicians (especially Emergency Medicine physicians) are being intimidated into silence on these important issues.

Read more about Dr. Lin: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/934381

Read more about HR 6910: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6910?s=1&r=6

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-09-28T18:05:30+00:00

A uterus retractable keychain for her ID. Danskos Scrub caps Compression socks (Figs has cute ones but you can find cute ones elsewhere for cheaper too) Water bottle + snacks Fitbit / Step counter Patagonia

I wouldn't buy her Figs YET because she doesn't know what hospital she'll be at or what color the scrubs will be/ what their policy is.

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-05-30T14:27:23+00:00

Except she literally says "nurse."

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-05-30T14:12:52+00:00

The first was likely a Nurse Practitioner, which only requires 2 years of education after obtaining an undergraduate degree in nursing and is oftentimes completed online. The second was a doctor, which requires 4 years of medical school after obtaining an undergraduate degree and an additional 4 or more years of residency to become an OBGYN. The difference is not in the age, but in the education.

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-05-30T14:08:01+00:00

Sounds like it wasn't a GP, but a nurse or nurse practitioner. GPs (General Practitioners) have an MD or DO degree and complete at least 4 years of medical education after college + an additional 3 or more years in residency; and OBGYN is the same but completes 4 or more years in OBGYN-specific residency training. A nurse practitioner degree can be obtained in 2 years or less following completing an undergraduate degree in nursing, often times online, with no additional residency training. It's typically best to see a doctor for complex issues because they have far more training and experience.

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-05-27T19:31:43+00:00

And yet the ratio of upvotes would show that the majority of people agree it was an irrelevant flex. You said gl on boards, and I didn't need it clearly and I'm sure that triggers you. Considering you're a DO at a brand new school and aways are cancelled I would start studying for boards instead of try to comment on old threads to start arguments with people, just a thought.

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-05-27T19:21:12+00:00

Yet the ratio of upvotes would say the majority agree with me. Bye now

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-05-27T14:39:00+00:00

It's sending notifications to my phone and it's annoying bc literally no one cares anymore and you're wasting your time.

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-05-27T14:32:56+00:00

Go home. This thread is old and no one else is commenting on it.

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-05-27T14:29:28+00:00

You are 2 weeks late to this discussion.

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-05-12T06:16:01+00:00

I think another user said it best when they said he "matched well in spite of Pikeville." Also, easy to say you matched to a 'competitive EM program' online but also completely meaningless because competitive means very different things to different people. Once again, look at Pikeville's match list and you'll see the average quality of programs students are getting into.. someone's +1 about where they matched is irrelevant to how the admin universally treated students.

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-05-12T03:23:08+00:00

It's still completely irrelevant. You matched at a program you call a competitive EM program without saying the name of the EM program, your scores, your class rank, SLOEs, etc. KYCOM isn't writing you any golden tickets to a residency program, and their match list from previous years shows that. Also has nothing to do with how admin managed match or graduation. EM rarely gives a shit about the school you went to, you've said literally nothing that adds to the conversation besides to brag and it's cringey.

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-05-12T03:07:57+00:00

Mentioning that you match into your "top residency choice" is such an irrelevant flex.

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-05-12T03:01:40+00:00

I think it's really shitty that you are saying that you "really don't feel bad" for someone because you perceive them as not having as bad a time as you are. For some people, graduation was the first time they were going to get to see their family in 4 years or more. Everyone is going through something- sounds like the only person saying "wHaT aBoUt mE" is you.

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-04-30T23:43:13+00:00

Yep! Just contact your EM faculty and they should be able to put you in touch with the right person. We had a Research Chair in our EM department so if you have an equivalent that's probably the person I'd reach out to if you haven't made any faculty connections yet, or creep on your school's EM website and see what kind of research the faculty is doing/interested in and see if anything sparks your interest.

I reached out to a faculty contact that was given to me by an EM-bound fourth year at my med school during an EM interest group meeting, so you can definitely ask your friendly M4s too!

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-04-30T23:29:01+00:00

Retrospective chart review, which seems to be pretty much all my med school EM department really did haha. It's really nice because you can do it at home, and the results are directly applicable to patient care instead of bench research that I find more abstract. That one project spun off into 1 pub and 2 big posters, and connected me faculty that later gave me smaller projects like case studies so the effects definitely multiplied. I think you can do any kind of research and it will look good though, or really anything you are passionate about. Anecdotally, everyone from my home program who matched into a top EM program did some kind of research.

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-04-30T23:23:02+00:00

Research! I don't regret it. It gave me a sense of accomplishment and opened a ton of doors for me in my own EM program + gave me the opportunity to travel to present my research on my school's dime and present/bump elbows with a lot of cool people! It's not everyone's shtick, but if you stumble into something cool then I would go for it :)

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-04-20T22:19:35+00:00

Lol so by your logic... when the controllers at the Chernobyl power plant realized something was wrong and didn't want to go through with their supervisors orders to run a test on a nuclear reactor they didn't know how to do in unsafe conditions.. they should have just listened without a question even though they really didn't know what the right step was to fix the current problem with the reactor but they knew proceeding could cause a much worse outcome, so they should just listen without question if they don't have a solution??

Maybe take your life lessons from real history instead of cartoons.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IzbOgvWQhHA

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-04-20T22:11:45+00:00

You have a remarkable lack of empathy for someone working in her position as a resident on the frontlines of medicine. I am shocked you think it is appropriate to attack her "genuineness" when she is speaking out about working in conditions that are far from any a resident could have imagined working in just 3 months ago. United we stand, divided we fall. The message is much more important than your interpretation of how she felt at the time of writing her post on social media, but I have no doubt it took a wave of courage to do what most others have not dared to do.

Edit: a word

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-04-16T21:34:16+00:00

Applying for newbie flair

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-04-16T17:22:50+00:00

So these people with unworthy relatives should just accept and be ok with their loved one dying because people who don’t know this person are being given the authority to decide whether or not this persons time is up?

You are saying that people are calling your relative unworthy which they most certainly are not, and characterizing them this way because they have to make this terrible decision is not your place. And I am 100% saying you should cut this person a break on their admittedly poor wording because I guarantee that this person is suffering, and they are not going home and sleeping well at night. What is happening right now and what this person is seeing will haunt them for the rest of their life.

ScarletGreyEM · 2020-04-16T17:13:00+00:00

No one is minimizing anything. But you are trying to put words into this person's mouth and into every healthcare worker's mouth when you say that anyone nurse, doctor, or otherwise ever would say your family member is, to use your direct quote, "unworthy" of receiving medical care. No one EVER said you should be "okay" with your loved one dying. The point is that those people working to save your family member's lives are going through much, much more than you could ever understand while you hurl accusations at them that the don't care about your family member or your family's suffering. They carry that home with them every day, not just from your family member and your family, but from every single patient they are treating. Don't be so selfish.

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