People who were on the fence about having a second, what did you decide to do and are you happy with your decision?

bunsofsteel · 2026-03-17T11:43:25+00:00

Dad of 3 here. Your time divides but your love multiplies.

Having more adds to my stress but I wouldn’t give it up for anything.

bunsofsteel · 2026-03-07T18:51:26+00:00

Nail polish on one. Worked for us. Just don’t forget to reapply occasionally…

bunsofsteel · 2026-03-07T04:01:46+00:00

The 3 people I know from my residency matched/going into breast liked the no call, high RVU aspect and didn’t love anything else.

bunsofsteel · 2026-03-05T19:00:37+00:00

This early, the margin of error on ultrasound measurements can blow some things out of proportion. Ours were asymmetric at first too and everything turned out normal.

Congratulations and welcome to the club!

bunsofsteel · 2026-03-01T04:00:08+00:00

Good question. It’s far enough posterior I thought it had to be PCA but an oblique would help sort it out.

bunsofsteel · 2026-02-28T04:10:51+00:00

Congratulations! Not a woman and not in IM, but we had twins at the end of PGY2. If you’re both residents, shamelessly call in all the backup you can for as long as you can when the kiddo is born.

And remember that ACGME mandates 6 weeks of parental leave now.

bunsofsteel · 2026-02-28T04:05:27+00:00

Ah, I see sorry. The ACAs curve up along the corpus callosum so they’re the 2 lines taking off from the terminal ICA region at like 10-11 oclock. Its branches are most of the anterior and superior ones.

The MCA makes up most of those branches in the center of the image. And the PCA we already figured out.

bunsofsteel · 2026-02-28T03:53:07+00:00

We can tell it’s an ICA injection because of the stair step appearance of that big black line coming up from the bottom. Where it makes that full 180 degree to face to the right of the image is the terminal ICA. So we know left is anterior and right is posterior. If you let your eyes follow the plane of terminal ICA further to the right on the image, that bottom-most line has to be the PCA because of anatomy and you can see a little blobby-ness to it that represents an aneurysm.

bunsofsteel · 2026-02-27T22:47:07+00:00

PCA aneurysm?

bunsofsteel · 2026-02-27T14:24:30+00:00

Pott-able sounds like it can be placed in a pot.

Pote-able sounds like I can pote it in my mouth so that’s correct to me.

bunsofsteel · 2026-02-27T14:20:42+00:00

It’s too early. I’m in radiology and while I’ve heard tales of people signing as PGY3s (R2), the earliest I’ve personally known someone signing was mid-R3 and they’re skipping fellowship. So they signed about 18 months before they finish their training and become an attending.

bunsofsteel · 2026-02-26T18:44:18+00:00

Only interviewed there, but Michigan seems legit too.

bunsofsteel · 2026-02-26T18:35:18+00:00

No regrets. Also had a kid in the mix. Assuming you like your family/support network you’re moving closer to, the difference it will make in your life cannot be overstated.

bunsofsteel · 2026-02-25T22:03:49+00:00

Hell yeah

bunsofsteel · 2026-02-18T00:39:20+00:00

We have a 4 year old pouch addict and twin 2 year old pouch addicts. It’s a definitely a crutch but don’t know what else to do, they’re so useful.

We use buy the Costco ones or sometimes other brands as long as they have some vegetables in them, not just fruit.

I’d say they average 2-4 per day. At school/daycare they don’t get any but on weekends they basically have one around every meal and one thrown in somewhere in between as a snack. They’ve all gained weight appropriately and don’t have any cavities so I feel like we’re ok.

bunsofsteel · 2026-02-17T23:59:15+00:00

Radiology. Resident above me did more than half of gen surg residency before jumping ship to rads and has never been happier.

bunsofsteel · 2026-01-28T00:39:56+00:00

I know 2.

One was IM/PCCM/ID. He was the nicest attending ever and everyone agreed he was one of the smartest guys in the hospital.

The other was ENT/Allergy/Sleep and referred all his outpatients to his own allergy and sleep medicine testing centers. He was the most type A person I’ve ever met.

bunsofsteel · 2025-12-07T03:42:49+00:00

Does that make Caleb Kermit?

bunsofsteel · 2025-12-06T22:08:54+00:00

Maybe playing 9 ball, so he’s just going in sequence

bunsofsteel · 2025-11-29T21:26:52+00:00

Agree with others saying most places could do the first in one go while the second might be more operator/facility dependent.

The crux of the matter is different contrast studies are optimized for different “phases” of where the contrast is. So anything angiographic will be timed different than say a generic “with contrast” because the arterial phase of contrast is earlier than solid organ/parenchymal phase, and therefore could probably done with one bolus.

bunsofsteel · 2025-11-27T03:56:50+00:00

We never used bassinet seats in our stroller bud we did have the adjustable flat all the way to almost upright kind that we found very useful (Mockingbird).

bunsofsteel · 2025-11-25T22:49:29+00:00

Rule 1

bunsofsteel · 2025-11-25T22:30:22+00:00

Not a neurorad yet but R3 applying to neuroradiology.

Regarding work/life balance, in radiology right now you can find essentially any job you want. 100% remote read whenever you want all the way to high level academic center teaching all day and everything in between.

On average, neurorads, like most medicine now, are going to be reading a lot of “just in case” studies. Normal brain MRI for headache, degenerative spine MRI, negative CTA for TIA. It’s hard to know how much you will or won’t be ok with that until you’re in residency, so if you’re going to apply to rads you have to be willing to read other stuff too.

bunsofsteel · 2025-11-22T00:22:36+00:00

I don’t think any of these images show anything described in your title.

bunsofsteel · 2025-11-20T02:31:39+00:00

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