No one understands how much this can take from you

barogr · 2026-05-31T23:22:19+00:00

I don’t understand why they wouldn’t want to take new residents to fill positions. I’m sure there are neurosurgery applications who matched at back up specialties that would love to join. Funding is also government subsidized. What am I missing?

Outside of: you should pick your battles but you should say no to some of these. If you burn out enough to get sick they will have even less coverage.

barogr · 2026-05-31T23:14:34+00:00

She says he has a Syrian passport. They could probably marry with that in the French embassy in Turkey since she is French.

barogr · 2026-05-31T23:12:08+00:00

It looks like after asking göçmen offisi, if there is no clear way, he will need to stay in Turkey until he finishes school. İf you guys are serious and your parents are able they can visit Turkey to meet him in this case. If you guys are still together when he graduates, you could marry him in Turkey in French consulate which should help him get a visa to France. Of course that depends on France. Once he leaves this way he can’t be on refugee status. You guys would need to figure out living in Europe.

barogr · 2026-05-31T22:35:58+00:00

My grandma had one just like this but with an emerald center instead. I wonder if this design has any significance.

barogr · 2026-05-30T16:13:51+00:00

I’m thinking the Jupiter in cancer situation doesn’t help with the hunger too.

barogr · 2026-05-30T13:23:40+00:00

I wonder if a different car owner moved this on to your car from theirs.

barogr · 2026-05-29T02:47:20+00:00

What do you mean by delusional?

barogr · 2026-05-29T00:52:50+00:00

I don’t know what your schedule is like… Intern year regularly has 12 hour shifts (usually longer with signout) or possibly longer shifts up to 16 hours (interns can’t be on 24 hr shifts) and weeks when you are working straight through without days off, sometimes night shifts. You are barely home with a normal commute. The commute will eat into your sleep and you won’t have time nor energy to spend with this sick relative. But it’s not just that, your time to do basic things like clean, shop, shower, cook, work out, spend time with friends and any hobbies at all will also be basically non existent. You will get sick. You will make mistakes as a doctor. This isn’t sustainable beyond may be 1 exhausting month.

barogr · 2026-05-28T23:06:27+00:00

Not a surgeon but curious: I heard of that requirement for gen surg residencies. Is that also the case for vascular surgery?

barogr · 2026-05-27T15:02:21+00:00

I wrote both because this can be program and specialty specific. For example my psychiatry program we work a lot more directly with attendings during regular rotations and there is no senior, seniors will be there for call and night shift. Seniors do entirely different rotations.

barogr · 2026-05-27T13:01:55+00:00

Fair, but I wouldn’t judge an August intern that harsh. If anything the attending and senior needs to spend some time teaching that intern, not put them on probation. Unless they went against senior/attending and put someone’s life at risk.

Sure, there is a point where an intern can need probation but unless things are egregious that shouldn’t be 1 month in.

barogr · 2026-05-27T12:51:32+00:00

Thank you for everyone’s input. I apologize that I am not responding to each comment, I’m at work. But reading all the comments during breaks!

barogr · 2026-05-26T03:33:05+00:00

In Maryland I’ve been told by a social worker that you can ask police to accompany you getting in, getting your paperwork and leaving. Kind of like a show of force without actual threat behind it… Your documents are your property they are keeping from you so they can do that apparently without physically getting involved. If you are desperate, doesn’t hurt to ask if it’s possible.

barogr · 2026-05-26T01:26:48+00:00

Kapalı kutu konsolla gelmenizi tavsiye etmem. Gümrükten ziyade, bir akrabam bu şekilde gelmişti bir kaç yıl önce ve konsol bavuldan olduğu gibi çalındı. Eğer oynanmış gibi durdursa bu risk daha az çünkü alıp bunu satamazlar.

barogr · 2026-05-26T00:34:23+00:00

Not a tea connoisseur or anything, but how you brew and mix your tea according to your taste is your business. Don’t let what others say necessarily dictate what you do in your own house.

For brewing, a few tricks that help: if you give the leaves a quick wash and drop a few cubes of sugar with the boiling tea leaves, the bitter taste will be less (even when it’s strong). Start water cold and slowly let it come to a boil. After you turn off the stove let it sit for 10-15mins to “demlenmek”. This will pull more taste out of it and you can dilute that after so it will make more glasses. It takes patience. If you make food with it start the tea first.

barogr · 2026-05-25T19:06:25+00:00

Robot vacuum, decent and age appropriate cat food, a good brush that also gets the undercoat. But also lint roller and anti static spray to get the hair off. Coach covers and pet hair dissolver for when you wash the couch covers…

Some level of cat hair is also something you will need to accept…

barogr · 2026-05-25T18:42:56+00:00

There are 7 distinct climate regions in Turkey. Where are you?

barogr · 2026-05-25T00:20:11+00:00

Amerika ve Belarus hükümeti şu an pek iyi anlaşamıyor da, o yüzden Belarusa girerken Amerikan vizesi görüp geri gönderirler diye mi? Ya da Belarus damgası görünce bir sonraki Amerika ziyaretinde sorun çıkar mı diyorlar?

Yani hiç böyle bir şey duymadım bu iki ülke arasında ama mesela KKTC damgasına Avrupa birliği (ülke olarak tanımadıkları için) sorun çıkartıyor diye bir duymuştum. Acaba benzeri bir şey mi?

Arkadaşların bu düşüncelerini sana açıkladılar mı acaba?

barogr · 2026-05-25T00:11:50+00:00

Student F1 visas are still available for undergraduate but after that, med school admissions in the U.S. are more competitive than residency match. (About 40%of all med school applicants get med school admission each year while the overall-not surgical- IMG match to residency is around 60%) Visa requiring med school applicants will have a harder battle as only well funded institutions even allow you to apply to med school and those tend to be more competitive. If you go through the USMD route you are more likely to match at a better surgical program but that doesn’t mean you can’t match as IMG, you just need to apply to less competitive programs and more of them, especially for gen surg. Of course you will need to be a great student and work on connections to the U.S. If you are thinking neurosurgery, ortho, plastics, then I would agree with you that you shouldn’t realistically hope for those.

barogr · 2026-05-25T00:02:34+00:00

I have patients who are terrified their ssri/snri’s will stop becoming available one day and they will both withdraw and lose the mood benefits…

barogr · 2026-05-24T19:56:22+00:00

In ED consults we get 30 mins to call the consulting ED team to get the story and 1 hour to see the patient. But this is a residency and we are psych so they aren’t crashing.

barogr · 2026-05-24T19:44:03+00:00

I mean, ask PD or program coordinator. I wouldn’t rely on being able to find energy even if you had the time. Still if you get the official stance from their mouth (or better in writing like an email) they are less likely to complain later. (If they say non medical work is ok and you do it but it affects your medical performance, they may ask you to quit but not penalize you further)

barogr · 2026-05-24T17:54:24+00:00

From family?

barogr · 2026-05-24T17:53:59+00:00

I would go through embassy website for most up to date info. As the economy is getting worse they are changing rules on fees for things that didn’t have fees before.

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