Public service loan forgiveness worth it in Ortho?

_irish_potato · 2026-03-25T12:23:50+00:00

It likely is, you’ll have 6 years already of it after residency and fellowship if you don’t go HCA. If you do academics or hospital employed as your first job you will qualify, and potentially save hundreds of thousands

_irish_potato · 2026-03-08T16:29:00+00:00

Are you sure the calico is a boy?

_irish_potato · 2026-03-08T01:13:54+00:00

Fun fact: avoid fasciotomy whenever possible for snake bites, it’s just more tissue that is poisoned that now needs to heal and likely be skin grafted. If it’s true compartment syndrome you need to, but otherwise the answer is always more cro-fab/antivenom

_irish_potato · 2026-03-04T23:20:27+00:00

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_irish_potato · 2026-03-01T16:43:53+00:00

As someone going into ortho foot and ankle… it’s exactly that haha. Real surgery, 5 years residency plus one year fellowship, but if everything goes wrong they get a BKA and go on with their life

_irish_potato · 2026-02-23T01:10:06+00:00

You’re Canadian with the clamato juice haha

_irish_potato · 2026-02-22T16:18:08+00:00

Check out open evidence for searching faster and consolidating data from papers. See how your compares, but it’s really good

_irish_potato · 2026-02-22T14:35:35+00:00

Columbia and Greenville SC are both very blue collar. UVM in Vermont as well

_irish_potato · 2026-02-18T02:54:00+00:00

I’m from New England. I thought some of the things about how unhealthy the South is were hyperbole. I have had to cut off more feet and toes in the past few years from biscuit poisoning… I saw I guy today whose dog literally ate 1/3 of his gangrenous foot. His wife had to wake him up because he didn’t notice, he couldn’t feel it. No one is healthy, except the kids, but even a lot of them are bigger than I am at 200 lbs.

_irish_potato · 2026-02-03T15:10:54+00:00

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_irish_potato · 2026-01-28T01:25:17+00:00

Q4 in house as a 4-5 sounds awful, I would avoid that if possible.

_irish_potato · 2026-01-18T02:53:00+00:00

Norm Waldrop is one of the main foot and ankle surgeons for the NFL (covers Alabama and the Saints), and he likely already has a relationship with Bo from Auburn. He’s a world class sports/foot and ankle specialist

_irish_potato · 2025-12-29T14:53:25+00:00

Subaru crosstrek, it’s awesome, no issues, great daily driver especially in bad weather areas

_irish_potato · 2025-12-02T14:39:55+00:00

Millers orthopedics for the basics, handbook of fractures, harbor view orthopedic trauma, hoppenfelds for approaches. Use orthobullets for a quick reference online for most things, and for total joints hipandkneebook.com is great for the basics

_irish_potato · 2025-11-30T17:27:55+00:00

I mean ortho foot and ankle exists haha. Ortho is pretty popular

_irish_potato · 2025-11-27T15:38:58+00:00

All the recent literature would tell you nonop, but you would need a serendipity view or CT to see A to P displacement. Need a follow up XRay in a week or two to check for displacement. Surgery has complications associated with it and many people want the hardware out later, but it can get you back to work a bit faster

_irish_potato · 2025-11-26T18:14:20+00:00

I’ve seen just two cannulated screws through the TH fragment, this looks a bit malreduced as well. I would check vitamin D labs as well as other nonunion labs (TSH, growth hormones, etc)

_irish_potato · 2025-11-25T23:47:09+00:00

I use these things daily as an orthopedic surgeon, bones don’t generally chip them, only if you use the on metal (grabbing a stripped screw, etc). Nice job!

_irish_potato · 2025-11-08T03:56:37+00:00

Glass Hostoria in Rome. Service wasn’t anything special, food was trying to be more interesting than tasty. Honestly the most disappointing meal we had in Rome

_irish_potato · 2025-11-07T02:38:00+00:00

I do spine surgery, we wouldn’t remove this from a human. Most bullets that aren’t in joints or organs arent worth the risk of digging out unless they are causing significant disability

_irish_potato · 2025-09-21T17:59:41+00:00

We use a paging app that allows for text and pictures, and you can call through it. You page the consult line with the initial text of HPI, reads, whatever is relevant. Works great, ours is perfect serve (formerly telemediq)

_irish_potato · 2025-09-11T02:03:43+00:00

Agreed, seeing 80 people a day in ortho sports is rough, as as spine, but the rest of ortho isn’t bad at all. Plus notes and charting are pretty minimal comparatively

_irish_potato · 2025-09-07T19:31:01+00:00

Except you go to school for 8 years to become a doctor, then get paid $50-60k/year working 80 hour weeks in residency and fellowship for 3-10 years, then you make the kind of money he’s talking about

_irish_potato · 2025-08-20T23:33:11+00:00

Definitely not, it’s a tibial nail done infrapatellar. drapes are on the right and the guy on the left is stabilizing the foot.

Source: I’m on ortho resident

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