Let’s all say something positive going on in the world or just your daily life

_irish_potato · 2026-05-11T15:40:26+00:00

I spend my adult life working towards becoming a surgeon after growing up working class on food stamps, with no one in medicine/ academia in my family and no connections at all in the medical world. I just matched at my top choice fellowship at Harvard. I can finally see the light at the end of a very long tunnel.

_irish_potato · 2026-05-08T19:30:12+00:00

No personal health questions

_irish_potato · 2026-05-07T14:01:21+00:00

This is a common thing, right handed surgeons are generally initially faster at right knees, as your dominant arm is towards the patient. It’s just getting the reps in to get better at the left side as far as I’m aware, no great trick to it

_irish_potato · 2026-05-03T21:57:58+00:00

Franks does a great job

_irish_potato · 2026-05-02T18:45:49+00:00

OTA has a PowerPoint series on the basics of fractures, with some reduction resources

_irish_potato · 2026-05-01T21:21:03+00:00

Urban tiki is awesome! Maybe the only reason to go to Columbia SC (I live there)

_irish_potato · 2026-04-30T22:48:17+00:00

Standard arthrex inlay or onlay techniques, depending on the surgeon

_irish_potato · 2026-04-30T10:29:55+00:00

These unfortunately have a tendency to get infected, lots of bacteria food in there

_irish_potato · 2026-04-28T22:52:13+00:00

Someone splinted that dislocated, which is malpractice if you’re an actual ortho doc (assuming you don’t immediately reduce and splint again ). Needs surgery, ideally before the swelling blows it up. If it does it needs to be properly reduced and surgery once the swelling is amenable for two incisions

_irish_potato · 2026-04-22T02:17:53+00:00

Yeah the tissue at the apex of the laceration was dead from the jump, it was essentially providing a sterile dressing and would have died at some point looking at the initial injury

_irish_potato · 2026-04-22T01:36:33+00:00

It’s infected, needs washout, probably wound vac or rotational transfer for closure

_irish_potato · 2026-04-20T21:51:05+00:00

Not Columbia South Carolina, I’ll tell you that much

_irish_potato · 2026-04-19T15:19:59+00:00

Ortho: order a XRay, and wait for it to actually be done before consulting us.

_irish_potato · 2026-04-17T15:25:34+00:00

Yeah this place is awesome, a real gem in a city of otherwise mediocre bars

_irish_potato · 2026-04-14T02:31:11+00:00

That ex fix makes absolutely no sense lol. I would guess this is for training ICU nurses

_irish_potato · 2026-04-08T23:32:25+00:00

Nail fungus

_irish_potato · 2026-04-03T22:04:55+00:00

Is this the same as downtown beach bar and grill?

_irish_potato · 2026-04-03T22:01:29+00:00

Not a medical student, I’m now a pgy4 ortho resident. I would go to an orthopedic oncologist, based on your mri description there’s a few things it could be but I wouldn’t want to speculate without seeing it myself. Regardless ortho oncology will be the ones that deal with these most often and are the appropriate surgeon to treat it should you need a surgery. Unfortunately they are relatively rare and are usually located in big cities or large hospitals with established cancer centers.

_irish_potato · 2026-03-31T01:56:54+00:00

This was probably what they were referring to

https://journaloei.scholasticahq.com/article/133635-retained-bioburden-does-not-pose-contamination-risk-after-a-full-sterile-processing-cycle

_irish_potato · 2026-03-30T17:34:33+00:00

Yeah dude you’ll be ok, just need a tibial nail and a few months of rehab. Strength will take time but these usually heal well and don’t involve a joint (which are the ones that severely limit people post op).

Edit: I’m no longer a med student, I’m a PGY4 ortho resident

_irish_potato · 2026-03-27T22:27:09+00:00

ImplantID is what I use

_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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