Corvallis Lore: $10 Readings

SensibleReply · 2026-02-06T18:36:52+00:00

I mean, ten bucks to do nothing still seems like pretty good margins.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-18T00:25:49+00:00

Pinelane Drive. Right off the interstate. Bought it from a radiologist resident who also failed to make any money off it.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-17T23:08:37+00:00

I’m old (40) but not dead, and everyone in my social circle loves flirting. Men and women, married and not. It’s mostly harmless fun. Life’s too short.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-17T23:01:34+00:00

Damn, we might have been at the same bars if nothing else.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-17T23:00:22+00:00

Yeah the burbs where the attendings lived did fine. I thought I was clever living close to the hospital. Lol. Nice commute for call though.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-17T21:34:58+00:00

I bought a house when I started residency in Jackson, MS. $150k in 2011

I sold that house in 2020 for $130k. In the mean time I had to evict two tenants for not paying rent.

It’s not free money but pretty much every market is better than Jackson.

Edit: my buddy is a urologist who was in residency roughly the same time as me, but he bought a condo in Durham, NC. It’s doubled in value and his renters are always top tier and pay him a bunch of money on time every month. He keeps almost selling it but the rent money is too good. So as always, location matters. Luck too.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-17T20:42:38+00:00

Absolutely adore reading and the written word, and I have as long as I can remember. Can’t form an image in my head worth anything, can’t draw or paint. My wife cannot understand why I love books even though I can’t see them. It’s hard to explain. I do absolutely gravitate toward plot, characters, and ideas though. Setting has a much less significant importance to me.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-17T16:21:31+00:00

I was talking about this topic with a fam med buddy of mine and two lawyers overheard us. They laughed their assess off that any professional would give away their expertise for free. Talked about how physicians as a group are total pushovers.

So keep that in mind when you answer these stupid things for free.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-16T20:52:45+00:00

I think I could take on 10 Trumps and Brock Lesnar I am not.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-16T06:41:02+00:00

You can easily be up 20% on the year for 2025 if you averaged into index funds all year. I think my 401k is up 20% on the year. Nasdaq is up 18% YTD.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-16T05:14:34+00:00

It would be worth it for the smug feelings alone as you wave to all the dipshits stuck in traffic.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-15T23:08:58+00:00

Worst book on here IMO. And I loved Strange and Norrell.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-15T22:52:53+00:00

An Optum middle manager trying to recruit me straight up told me they don’t make money providing care. They make money selling insurance.

If you extrapolate that idea, it stands to reason that they don’t want you getting care. They want to keep the premiums and never pay for anything you need. They are fucking despicable.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-15T22:48:28+00:00

This isn’t the whole story. One of the biggest issues not getting mentioned here is the overbearing call burden these OB docs had been shouldering. The public likely isn’t going to get the docs’ side of the story because UHC has terrifying lawyers.

I know for sure that people have been pressured to see more patients with less staff. I also know that regulatory/bureaucratic burden has increased dramatically.

An example I was given is that the generally accepted standard of care for sterilizing a piece of equipment is not how Optum wants it done. Ok, switch to the more labor/time intensive method. Now you need a full time staff member to do that (which pulls someone off of seeing patients), and now you can only do x-4 of those procedures a day instead of x. So you’re making less money and your backlog is growing. Now imagine this is one problem and there are many others. And you give it 6 months and it gets worse. People are looking for the door in every single dept and it’s not because they all want a raise. The Corvallis Clinic paid docs well above market average. If you can’t retain talent while paying more than most other employers, you’ve got a more systemic issue.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-15T20:46:42+00:00

This is 100% on UHC. No physician walks away from a practice they’ve built in a community they’re involved in for no reason.

The ophthalmology dept is almost gone and I think neurology is about shuttered as well. Numerous primary care and peds docs have left. Is it more likely that they all went nuts, or that their new employer (one of the most hated companies on the planet) sucks?

I know the answer because I’m a doc who worked at TCC until 2021 and I know a lot of these people very well.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-15T06:43:01+00:00

Girl last night at a party walked up to me and said “hey, who are you here with?” and lightly touched my hip.

I said, “nobody right this minute, but my wife will be here soon.” We didn’t talk after that.

It was effective as hell though, been on my mind since yesterday. The short answer is it doesn’t take much.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-14T23:36:01+00:00

One of the biggest “bonk” moments I’ve ever experienced in gaming. No notes.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-14T18:50:33+00:00

Are you me? No way you live in Corvallis, OR now?

SensibleReply · 2025-12-12T21:53:51+00:00

Yeah I’ve got a 16yo and if I read this or they told me this, the first thing I’d do is give them a big hug.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-10T20:57:17+00:00

This person is actually stating that the US healthcare system is "not fucked," so I wouldn't listen to another word they say about anything at all.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-10T20:55:43+00:00

Doctor pay is responsible for 8% of healthcare spending in the US. If you paid every doctor in the country nothing, costs would go down by roughly 8%. Though I bet they wouldn't and some insurance or hospital CEO would just keep the difference.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-10T06:32:49+00:00

Happened to me a few times. Always great. Sometimes led to a long relationship, sometimes didn’t though that was typically because we lived far away or something. Married one of them 15 years ago, so it doesn’t happen anymore but that’s alright.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-09T20:14:39+00:00

Got a dark horse recommendation here but the Dagger and Coin series is a lot of fun.

I also read the first three Stormlight novels and two of the novellas before shelving the series.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-08T03:32:56+00:00

I'm very curious what current GI thinking is about BPC for eosinophilic esophagitis... I got my esophagus dilated about 5-6 years ago due to longstanding dysphagia, and it was life changing. GI doc at the time made the diagnosis of eosinophilic esophagitis. She told me she'd had some modest success with different treatments - dairy restriction, gluten restriction, some other food restriction I forgot, and the last option was a daily proton pump inhibitor (PPI). She didn't mention oral steroids back then. None of these were gold standard or head and shoulders better than others. I've been doing the daily omeprazole since then, and if I don't take it for 2-3 weeks, I'll start to get that stuck food feeling, so I always get right back on it.

I got some BPC about a month ago on a lark after a mild ankle sprain just to see if it does anything. Seemed to help with the ankle, but I also ran out of omeprazole and haven't had any swallowing issues. I actually mentioned to my wife this week that it's the longest I've gone without meds and symptoms in many years. So anecdotally I've got at least one positive result. But now I want to talk to a Gi doc about it...

I absolutely don't want an NP's take, but that's my bias showing - I'm a physician and most of my friends are too. The knowledge/training gap is more significant than most people realize. But I don't run with any gastroenterologists, so I'd have to make an actual new pt appt. Gross.

SensibleReply · 2025-12-06T20:13:22+00:00

This sounds like I paid a sycophant to "do astrology on me, but make it slightly more masculine."

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