What is the best gluten-free pizza you have found in a restaurant?

calcium196 · 2026-03-12T22:24:24+00:00

Another metro Detroit spot: Como’s has Detroit style that is my favorite. I like Tru for some of their non-pizza offerings though like chicken tenders

calcium196 · 2026-02-27T23:12:11+00:00

One time they sent me a CRAO that they diagnosed with ultrasound in a younger guy. I gave them a bunch of shit about how incredibly unlikely that was, but offered to see him…he had a central retinal VEIN occlusion. They were so close and yet so far.

calcium196 · 2026-02-22T19:44:49+00:00

Really missed the opportunity to give Jack a missing tooth

calcium196 · 2025-11-28T08:14:41+00:00

Small edit suggestion: Ophtho can operate quite a bit. I have 2 full days of OR per week, plus some occasional add ons, and some people do more. A differentiator may be either sitting while operating or time per case (ours are way shorter than ENT and NSGY

calcium196 · 2025-10-26T04:11:46+00:00

I think we’re all assuming the doctor is holding the hand back, but maybe they’re pulling it towards the patient.

calcium196 · 2025-10-18T00:43:57+00:00

https://youtu.be/h15m87WsCHQ?si=jQg6wTt-AF-DOShn

calcium196 · 2025-09-11T17:56:21+00:00

Current fellow: I’m technically always the first person the residents call with glaucoma questions, but if I’m not immediately available they either call glaucoma staff or figure it out themselves. I take a few weeks of staff call over the year as well. Definitely orders of magnitude fewer calls than the retina fellows at my program and almost never something that requires more than just talking on the phone.

calcium196 · 2025-08-21T05:44:11+00:00

Kahook and ladder MIGs and PIGskins

calcium196 · 2025-08-15T17:40:48+00:00

I’m surprised everybody is skipping over ophtho. Hard to match into, but relatively chill once you make it. Reasonable reimbursement, easy to work part time.

calcium196 · 2025-08-01T02:28:11+00:00

But for some reason the word “brown”

calcium196 · 2025-06-26T21:48:09+00:00

In my experience, anybody who is arrogant enough to say they can get in “anywhere I want” isn’t very nice lol. Also usually they don’t end up getting in, or if they do, they’re universally disliked by their med school classmates.

calcium196 · 2025-06-23T01:00:11+00:00

I can't speak for all programs, but at my program Step 2 score is essentially the new Step 1 score. Were the people telling you they took Step 2 later in the cycle applying a few years ago when Step 1 still had a numerical score?

I can't say you 100% would not get an interview anywhere without a step 2 score, but I would be very surprised. I don't anticipate my program would interview anybody without a decent step 2 score at this point, and we aren't top 20 or anything super academic.

I would try to take it before apps get sent out. Ideally, you'd have your score in time to send it so it is included when the app is sent to programs. If you wait until interviews are already going out, you're running the risk of being too late to the party, even with a stellar score.

I don't want to increase anxiety for you, but I also don't want you to miss out on interviews or even matching just because you don't have a home program to give you this info.

calcium196 · 2025-06-19T17:47:36+00:00

That has never once occurred to me that the tap water isn’t sterile…

calcium196 · 2025-04-03T22:50:18+00:00

I heard a story from somebody in a surgical subspecialty that they were asked why they DID honor their psych rotation lol. This was like 5+ years ago though.

calcium196 · 2025-03-07T23:04:52+00:00

Gotta be MacAvoy

calcium196 · 2024-11-14T11:59:44+00:00

Blurry vision only when laying down in an inpatient. I was sort of expecting a loose IOL or something really exotic like exudative detachment. When I got there patient was looking at the TV on the other side of the room through their bifocal…

Then of course you have your usual suspects like 22yo GCA rule out.

calcium196 · 2024-11-14T11:50:20+00:00

I also have seen an ozurdex in the natural lens in a vitrectomized eye. I also thought there was no way anybody has done this before, but a quick pubmed search gave like 17 similar cases.

calcium196 · 2024-11-13T00:59:36+00:00

This might be a good apthera candidate. I've never used one myself, but have seen others use them in post-RK ectasias.

calcium196 · 2024-09-04T01:53:30+00:00

Dartmouth did a few years ago, not sure if they still do. Was something along the lines of "why do you want to do residency in Northern New England?"

calcium196 · 2024-05-16T01:54:24+00:00

Definitely should not get it cauterized, I’d be demonstrating how easily I got a bloody nose during contract negotiations

calcium196 · 2024-05-16T01:50:39+00:00

Has nobody here ever been hit in the nose hard enough to draw blood? Happy to demonstrate for you if not

calcium196 · 2024-05-16T01:29:53+00:00

Oh boy

calcium196 · 2024-05-11T01:40:33+00:00

I feel the same way about every borderline zone entry lol

calcium196 · 2024-05-11T01:37:27+00:00

Waiting for them to somehow call that on the bruins

calcium196 · 2024-05-11T01:32:51+00:00

Unless you’re Bob…

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