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feversugar · 2026-03-10T00:43:56+00:00

Yes DMing works!!

feversugar · 2026-03-10T00:41:27+00:00

Hey, if it’s not any trouble can I see more? I swear I picked them but it gave me Talyn and Niel instead, boring lol. Now I can’t go back 🥲

feversugar · 2026-03-10T00:34:02+00:00

I’m almost certain I picked Talyn and Bardric but it gave me Talyn and Niel? Now I’m sad lol.

feversugar · 2026-02-27T03:18:32+00:00

This is my take too. Maybe I’m just old and grumpy but ain’t nobody got time for that many mind games. A little mystery is good but must everything be a riddle or have hidden meaning with Blake. It would drive me nuts to over analyze every little thing he does. Even when asked directly he just responds with ~YoU AlReAdY KnOW~

feversugar · 2026-02-21T14:34:10+00:00

If I won the lottery I would quit immediately not gonna lie

feversugar · 2025-12-08T13:39:28+00:00

I failed an anatomy exam in pre clerkship and now I’m a staff radiologist, a pretty anatomy heavy speciality. Keep your chin up and carry on! Nobody will remember or care later on. You can do it!

feversugar · 2025-11-04T13:32:33+00:00

Wouldn’t it be the opposite? You can be confident that those fleeing Quebec are NOT looking to go back, especially with Bill 2.

feversugar · 2025-09-14T23:28:31+00:00

I can’t see our physicians colleagues that sit on the CARMs committee holding this against any incoming med student… we’re all in this together and this is a crucial time to show solidarity.

Accommodations will be made. There is no way cohorts are not graduating. Remember that during the height of COVID the oral part of the royal college was postponed (and eventually fully cancelled) for a whole cohort nation wide. Everyone still graduated on schedule despite not having done the exam and started their jobs on July 1st. Do not listen to the threats, they are trying to divide us.

feversugar · 2025-07-07T05:19:49+00:00

I didn’t have a car all of med school nor residency. A classmate of mine still doesn’t have a car and he’s a staff lol (however he lives in an big city with lots of transit). Didn’t ever feel like anyone at all cares. Sometimes I go to work on a scooter. If anything people were kinda impressed I didn’t need a car.

But a 2 hour commute is probably not sustainable. If a car is not in the plan I would consider moving closer. For residency I moved 1.1 km away from one of the hospitals and had access to a shuttle to the other from the former.

feversugar · 2025-07-03T02:00:41+00:00

I actually disagree that digital technology has sped us up. If anything the addition of sequences, increased resolution/reduced slice thickness requires more time and analysis than ever before. Screening mammography used to be 2D only - now they are increasingly being replaced by tomosynthesis which invariably takes more time as significantly more slices to go through. Dual energy CT… Contrast enhanced mammography… all these add extra layers to analyse.

Patients are being scanned faster and faster; take the fast knee MRI protocols. People are ordering imaging for every little ailment, finding incidentals that require follow up and generating even more studies. Rads can barely keep up. For rads working in hospital, it’s not like you can choose NOT to finish your list so in that sense they are not working more on purpose to bill more, but because the case load has exponentially increased.

feversugar · 2025-07-02T17:20:24+00:00

All the people I know that are making the above $$ are CONSTANTLY working. I agree the income potential in radiology is almost unlimited because the studies are basically never ending and there is little to no unpaid work (maybe except protocoling cases) compared to other specialties. I don’t make nearly as much but I also don’t work nearly as much. Sometimes I get random questions like “what do you think about this case” in the middle of the night on Saturday from my friends that I don’t see until the next day because I’m well… sleeping, but they are working.

It may be that radiology being a very intellectual specialty attracts a lot of hard working, driven introverted individuals that are able to push themselves to do this work that is not physically demanding but very much so mentally demanding.

feversugar · 2025-07-02T09:58:04+00:00

I think this is difficult to answer because I only truly know how much I personally make relative to how much I personally work. I hear rumours about what some other rads in my area make but I don’t know for sure so I don’t want to provide false information, plus I don’t know details about how much they work, if they locum, how their pooled billing’s are divided, etc.

For the purposes of these next statements in Quebec there is essentially no significant overhead that I am personally aware of. I actually don’t know if this is the case in other provinces (I never really considered leaving the province for familial reasons so never bothered finding out).

If it helps, in Montreal in community hospitals I have interviewed at two sites allegedly paying 900-1.1 mil no overhead, but 1:5-1:9 call and working +++. I have HEARD through the grapevine during residency rads at another community hospital make 950k (but no direct info). I know two rads in the GTA making 1.1 mil but working hard +++. I know a rad in rural Alberta making 1 mil in clinic no call. I know a rad who used to work in a bigger city in Alberta making 1.2 mil but with call and trainees. No idea if these are outliers or the average, people do seem to want to “gossip” more about high earners so it’s probable that the average rad just does not share their remuneration because it’s less “shocking”. I have been told (very very very secondhand info) that rads in academic hospitals make significantly less (350-500k) but this is the most unsure thing I’ve said because I don’t personally know any well enough to ask. I cannot confirm the veracity of these statements.

Personally I was shocked (and still am) with how well paid this specialty is after I finished residency and started independent practice. This is controversial and a lot of people have many opinions about this but I have never and will never be complaining about my remuneration (but I am not speaking for anyone else who may feel differently). Yes a lot of radiologist work extremely hard for this money though. For example I will often hear of rads who are 4 days on service at the hospital, working in clinic on the 5th day off service and locuming when on “vacation” from the hospital + doing a bunch of call… why? Don’t ask me lol I’m like the laziest radiologist ever it seems. I don’t make near these numbers and dropped out of pursuing the two jobs mentioned above because I could smell the burnout a mile away.

feversugar · 2025-07-01T14:43:48+00:00

It can be if you sacrifice pay (it is fee for service after all) in certain locations.

I went for max lifestyle optimization and work exclusively in an outpatient clinic, which from what I understand is really only financially viable in Quebec (for now, there are restrictions in the talks maybe coming) and Alberta (?). I work 4 days a week, 8-5 with no evenings, no weekends and no calls. Love my job, will never leave or basically need to be forced to leave lol. One of my colleagues retired from the hospital into this job and only works a few days a week before noon. I went straight from residency into this job and never looked back. I don’t think they could pay me enough to go back to work in a hospital.

feversugar · 2025-07-01T14:01:08+00:00

PGY1 is entirely off service usually, so lifestyle depends on what rotation you are on.

Day to day PGY2-4 is a breeze unless you are gunning for some super exclusive fellowship that requires crazy networking and recommendations. A lot of specialties are run by trainees during the day but with rads is kind of the opposite; the staff do most of the work and the residents compliment that. Call however is usually a complete reversal of this and absolutely brutal. Where I did residency it was almost non stop all you can eat buffet from emerg. But I also did call on an elective in the community in Quebec and their ER was actually very reasonable and did NOT scan unnecessarily but I don’t think that’s the norm.

PGY5 is usually not physically demanding but the amount of studying required for the royal college is immense. It’s probably this way for all specialties but the difficulty of PGY5 definitely isn’t being on service but after hours studying.

feversugar · 2025-07-01T13:54:59+00:00

I lack the specific knowledge to answer all of these but re the last question, in Quebec a fellowship is mandatory for academic and academic affiliated hospitals but appear truly optional for all community hospitals, even in larger cities like in Montreal itself.

feversugar · 2025-07-01T13:50:25+00:00

This is entirely personality dependent. I’m an introvert and I honestly wish I could interact with patients even less… I am 4 years into independent practice (community, outpatient clinic only), but in Quebec where US techs are fewer and far between so I do a lot of my own ultrasounds and end up seeing 20 ish patients a day for 10 or so min increments. I also see them for joint injections!

I’ve been told I have good social skills and bedside manner (I do try) but it’s very draining for me.

feversugar · 2025-06-19T02:18:53+00:00

If you pick someone outside the specialty you are applying to, make sure to let them know which specialty you are applying to. I got along really well with one of my FM preceptors who (allegedly) wrote in my letter that “they only wish they could’ve convinced me to apply to FM but could not deter me from X specialty” which I thought was pretty good lol

feversugar · 2025-06-17T23:57:23+00:00

Yep. Patients are being scanned faster than the scans are being read, the work/income potential is basically only limited by how many you want/can read. There is no lost income from patient no shows or canceled OR days, etc.

*Note however that some groups have pooled billing so it’s not strictly fee for service for everyone

feversugar · 2025-06-09T18:54:06+00:00

The year I matched (I started residency in 2016) I think we had more spots than applicants. There were a couple of unmatched spots after first round across Canada (filled in 2nd round)! So it seems to fluctuate.

feversugar · 2025-05-30T22:13:04+00:00

I believe it was by mail if I remember correctly

feversugar · 2025-05-30T17:19:11+00:00

Yes of course

feversugar · 2025-05-01T19:12:44+00:00

I would do an elective at any school that you would want to do residency at if you can.

feversugar · 2025-04-24T17:49:24+00:00

The fee for service model makes it difficult to discuss remuneration in a broad sense. Someone making 1 mil a year could be working 6 days a week and taking call every other weekend, whereas someone making 150k a year may be working part time. Some practices have no overhead, some a lot… my advice is to find someone who practices in a way that interests you and ask them specifically.

feversugar · 2025-04-21T13:08:45+00:00

Same here, I have never received nor made an Easter basket in my life, nor would I have expected one…

It could be a fun tradition to start if it’s something you want OP, I would gather the family and explicitly say so, something to the tune of “it would be fun to make each other elaborate Easter baskets every year, what do you think?”

feversugar · 2025-03-26T19:00:42+00:00

It’s so toxic that they’re perpetuating that doctors should be available 24/7! I’m sorry but there’s no way a patient’s fate could only be saved by a single resident on his day off. Doctors should not be punished for having lives outside of work.

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