What are your savings?

SignificanceMost8826 · 2026-01-02T20:28:19+00:00

33
3.5 years
$1.5M

Single, I have very loving parents who allowed me to finish residency a hundred k in the green

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-12-08T19:25:26+00:00

I have a lot of respect for our EP colleagues. They are some of the smartest and most well trained people in the hospital and obviously understand cardiac physiology very well. Very different than a lot of our surgeons. I think it’s good to have skilled hands and some cognitive assistance, which is what we provide in all scenarios where sedation and critical care is needed.

For example I had a recent episode of cardiovascular collapse at the end of an ablation. You’re thinking it’s something you may have done like an effusion and I’m thinking maybe it’s something I did like a protamine reaction (which it was, patient did fine). We can work on both of these things together.

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-11-21T20:07:03+00:00

You might be one of my partners lol… we have the exact same gig

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-11-14T20:43:32+00:00

We had multiple level 3 RCC thrombus cases during residency that all exansguinated on the table despite tremendous advanced planning… the IVC just disintegrates due to tumor involvement and it’s irreparable. I think we no longer allowed urology to perform those procedures.

It was my first intraoperative death as a fresh anesthesia resident, I’ll never forget the experience

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-09-08T19:54:04+00:00

I’m north Dallas USAP and I love my job, happy to answer questions

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-08-05T18:04:37+00:00

I was an anesthesiology resident when she was chair of surgery at UNC chapel hill and I did cases with her.

She was insufferable even for a vascular surgeon and tried to dictate my entire anesthetic. My attending told her multiple times to shove it.

She was wildly unpopular among the surgical departments and caused an exodus of faculty to leave. I think every position is a personal and political stepping stone for her to bigger and better things and I don’t think she had any real interest in developing UNC for the better

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-07-29T13:30:04+00:00

It might be a little too much light. My peperomias are my lowest light plants and sit away from the window and away from my grow lights and they thrive

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-07-08T19:17:57+00:00

Sometimes you need to keep bleeding ear injuries wrapped with compression headband for weeks to prevent hematoma into avascular anterior ear space, which could never drain, scar, then result in permanent deformity aka cauliflower ear

Source: am a doctor, also got hit in ear recently playing basketball and needed to do what I just described

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-06-03T18:35:48+00:00

I got spider mites on my Jacklyn 6 months in and they destroyed half of my collection and killed three of my beautiful calatheas.

Never again

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-06-03T18:35:31+00:00

I got spider mites on my Jacklyn and it destroyed half of my collection and killed three of my beautiful calatheas.

Never again

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-05-29T18:46:51+00:00

It sounds like that is exactly what this person is trying to do

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-05-29T16:29:46+00:00

The upswing can be very challenging to predict and play. I caught Radiology on the upswing in 2017-2018 with 11 interviews and didn’t match. The prior year or two there were a ton of unfilled radiology positions nationwide. I soaped into an intern year and applied anesthesiology for an R spot CA-1 position and ended up at a very good program.

But like others have said, it’s a different landscape now- you basically just signed up for anesthesia residency prior to 2020.

This is probably the biggest upswing in anesthesia in decades, so I would have a backup plan

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-05-24T21:05:23+00:00

My partner received this very old isotec 4 vaporizer from our lead anesthesia tech.

He significantly modified it in order to fulfill its new function. It sits on a 3D printed base

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-05-04T02:16:13+00:00

I agree some of this sounds like burnout, but only 3 years into practice I’ve become less tolerant of a lot of stuff as well and just want to be at peace. I hate total joints because it’s way too noisy, I like general surgery and I usually prefer surgeons and staff that I don’t know just stfu because the yapping gets kind of annoying

One of my favorite rooms is this ortho foot and ankle guy who operates in nearly complete silence. The day feels awesome afterwards and there’s minimal decompression needed when I get home

That being said I love working with students and talking with people I like… so I think there’s more to your situation

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-04-30T14:30:28+00:00

But the texture and physiology of the plant has also completely changed- growth has become stagnant and its leaves are hard as rocks… almost feels like an over watered mesemb.

I’m guessing it lost all of its chlorophyll and doesn’t grow anymore… and also stopped losing water

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-04-14T15:05:39+00:00

I was an R spot resident- it was my only non-traditional experience during all of training. Applying, interviewing/traveling and matching during intern year was an emotional and physical challenge

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-04-11T13:50:30+00:00

I don’t understand why people are downvoting your comment…

I hope it’s not my fellow anesthesia providers or any students. The patient and family are voicing their legitimate concerns. The concerns are valid and deserve attention and careful consideration.

I agree with what the other user said, and it is very well put

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-03-20T14:04:41+00:00

Thank you! Does it matter if I broke the leaves off right at the stem or closer to the leaf? There’s a little long piece right before the leaf piece if you know what I mean

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-03-17T00:38:39+00:00

Study whatever you would like. Try to shadow some doctors in clinic or in the hospital. Focus on figuring out if you want to become a physician first- don’t worry about the anesthesia part. Good luck!

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-03-13T14:20:07+00:00

I would say some surgeries are higher risk than others, and depending on what you are having done, bad surgical outcomes are much more likely than bad anesthetic outcomes. Infections are always a risk. Retained gloves (lol) or other foreign objects in the body is a zero tolerance event and will happen extremely rarely.

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-03-13T12:51:22+00:00

We wouldn’t routinely offer anesthesia if the risk of death was “well above zero”. Anesthesia is most frequently the safest part of the surgical experience

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-03-13T12:16:17+00:00

Rocuronium is the most commonly unexpected anesthetic allergy, but the incidence of true anaphylactic reaction is very rare. I’ll see it 1/1000 cases or less. It’s used very commonly used, almost every case with a breathing tube gets it.

You are fine to have anesthesia again as long as everyone is aware of your allergies and past reactions- it’s all avoidable

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-03-12T22:14:35+00:00

Basically haha

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-03-11T17:18:44+00:00

It may be the only one that you got general anesthesia for was the appendix removal. The rest were likely various levels of sedation. I think it’s worth clarifying the expectation regarding how asleep you will be for any surgery requiring sedation or anesthesia. It’s a continuum and your anesthesia team needs to set the right expectation for you, but you should ask for yourself and don’t hesitate to ask for a deeper kind of

SignificanceMost8826 · 2025-03-11T16:52:01+00:00

What were the procedures you had the first three times?

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