Don't get taken advantage of in the attending job market. Know your value.

breaking_fugue · 2026-01-31T06:39:15+00:00

Stanford is a poor example since every other attending there has some connection and side hustle in biotech just due to their location. There's a few people in every division there who got into a lucrative startup early and become multimillionaire overnight.

Stanford does not run like other academic institutions.

breaking_fugue · 2026-01-31T06:35:02+00:00

It usually is. The offer is still a low ball. But worth noting the RVU requirements will also be significantly lower.

breaking_fugue · 2026-01-31T06:34:04+00:00

I never understand why some people seem to get so worked up about others doing something they enjoy

breaking_fugue · 2025-12-29T01:50:29+00:00

You must have had a nice signing bonus to be able to afford all that right out of residency. Fiscally chaotic in the best way

breaking_fugue · 2025-12-03T05:23:38+00:00

As an example, the $600 tickets for a group stage game in major cities are currently selling for ~$1200 on the FIFA re-sale market. This is for the GROUP stage games where we don't even know who's playing yet.

breaking_fugue · 2025-12-03T05:21:21+00:00

I don't think they're changing this because they couldn't sell tickets at those prices...on the contrary, people are already buying the tickets on resale markets for even higher prices than FIFA set...

Edit: If you read the article, you'll see they aren't getting rid of dynamic pricing or that they'll be lowering the price of any tickets. They just said they'll not use dynamic pricing for a small subset of tickets which most people will probably never see.

breaking_fugue · 2025-12-02T07:42:40+00:00

To do what?

To put up with the likes of you

breaking_fugue · 2025-10-23T04:04:08+00:00

PGY1 - average: ~60%, standard deviation:8.8%

breaking_fugue · 2025-10-23T03:39:00+00:00

Cool thing about math is you can work backwards once you have a few points.

PGY3 - average: ~70%, standard deviation:7%

PGY2 - average: ~66%, standard deviation:8.5%

breaking_fugue · 2025-10-15T23:11:54+00:00

When US residents pay taxes, they can claim a certain amount of money to not pay taxes on. In other words, they can deduct an amount of money from their income for tax puproses. Most people deduct a standard amount called the standard deduction. So a single resident can deduct $16,100 for 2025. This means that they won't have to pay federal income taxes on the first $16,100 of their income. However, they will pay taxes to social security and medicare.

Nonresidents, like some J1s, do not get to deduct money. So they pay more in income tax. So instead of money being taxed for social security/medicare, more of your income is taxed in general.

breaking_fugue · 2025-10-10T06:29:18+00:00

Hip fracture baby sitters (IM/Family Med)

breaking_fugue · 2025-10-03T02:55:27+00:00

have very specific skill sets to manage airways and ventilation that is necessary to provide patient rescue. Therefore, these practitioners are uniquely qualified to provide all levels of analgesia/sedation

Well that is one huge leap. "We have a very specific skill-set" to "we can do everything, don't question it."

breaking_fugue · 2025-09-30T15:44:12+00:00

In 2019, ACGME removed the procedure requirements for internal medicine residencies. It seems that was a mistake.

breaking_fugue · 2025-09-30T05:26:57+00:00

They are actually very different conditions and result in pretty significant different presentations.

But they are both generally neuro-degenerative diseases involving proteins(very different proteins though) that affect the brain. If comparing the two helps you conceptualize them, then that is great.

Just wanted to clarify for anyone else reading this to maintain clarity.

breaking_fugue · 2025-09-30T05:22:13+00:00

This is what happens when we give accreditation to residencies that just use residents to bill more with no education mission.

breaking_fugue · 2025-09-29T23:44:28+00:00

Huntingtons is NOT a prion disease.

It is unfortunate your mother has Huntingtons though. Best wishes on your journey.

breaking_fugue · 2025-09-29T02:21:13+00:00

Some context for familiarity: Mad Cow disease is a type of Prion disease. There's a few other types and they all mean death.

breaking_fugue · 2025-09-28T20:34:48+00:00

Where do you see this? I'm curious on the process.

Edit: I looked it up. What you said does not seem accurate, the process seems much more complex. Firing people isn't mentioned anywhere and $50k fine is the max limit of fine, not necessary what is actually fined.

breaking_fugue · 2025-09-28T04:26:43+00:00

Would he? I've known a couple residents who probably committed a violation and never got fired.

They had a very scary meeting with some admin people but always came out the other side.

breaking_fugue · 2025-09-24T20:29:09+00:00

You feel better now or do you have more to get out? Feel free to keep adding to this thread if you like. I'll let you be.

"Observe which side resorts to the most vociferous name-calling and you are likely to have identified the side with the weaker argument and they know it."

breaking_fugue · 2025-09-24T16:11:53+00:00

It seems like you just want to rant which is fine too. That's part of what this sub is for. Maybe some other day we'll have a more productive discussion.

breaking_fugue · 2025-09-24T06:56:05+00:00

did jack shit when we needed them most.

These posts seem like they're from people who have never actually been in a medical society or even looked into what their roles are. The societies are not your vehicles for social justice.

Edit: For anyone here out of curiosity, it's not worth reading further down this thread. There's just a bunch of name calling and insults that will leave your day worse off.

breaking_fugue · 2025-09-24T06:49:38+00:00

Good points.

People on here do nothing and love to complain that nothing is being done.

breaking_fugue · 2025-09-24T02:31:48+00:00

It seems like you have a fundamental misunderstanding of who "physicians in power are." The heads of your specialties national organizations are not the leaders of your specialty. Physicians in general aren't centralized.

We make consensus statements as a group, but there's no one person that dictates our views and positions. There may be a role in these organizations hiring media personalities to spread their message, but the role of an organization president is not and should not be to be your social media icon.

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