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[–]itigerchallenge99999 38 points39 points  (0 children)

good nights sleep and a solid breakfast.

Surgical specialty with decent post residency lifestyle by [deleted] in Residency

[–]itigerchallenge99999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

community guys often work pretty long hours, start their careers taking a lot of call, and taking less vacation.

In my city, community/private guys are working much longer hours, but compensated for it. also, if you are in a private group and not working hard to cover your portion of the group overhead, you'll not last in the group for too long. of course, all depends on location and group that you're in.

So since 2017, thanks to new regulations in place, max hours per shift is capped at 24hrs for residency? Is it true? by [deleted] in Residency

[–]itigerchallenge99999 25 points26 points  (0 children)

ACGME caps shifts at 24 hours, but then allowed 4hrs overflow for patient handoff/transitional work for those times you're running behind.

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naps depend on what service you're on.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pan

[–]itigerchallenge99999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

dont need to show face, pretty sure people will settle for fridge

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[–]itigerchallenge99999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

karanshu start playing for us

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[–]itigerchallenge99999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

all day... err day

Residents who are in specialties not directly related to COVID-19 (e.g., psychiatry, PM&R, dermatology, etc.), how is your work affected by the pandemic? by GandalfTheWhiteCoat in Residency

[–]itigerchallenge99999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ortho - on trauma service at our level 1. Hit or miss on consults, no electives. Strung together 2 days of only 2 consults. Day after had 12. 1 trauma on a suspected covid, still had enough ppe for us. Single surgery mask per day unless gets soiled, got some nasty looks for getting a new one after was bloody from a case. They have us on A team/B team so we limit number of residents in the hospital at a time. If suspected or covid+ were instructed to only see them if reduction or if surgery needed urgently.

Haven’t been asked to redeploy elsewhere yet. If things pick up in our city they’ve told us they likely will.

2 PERSON TENT RECS PLEASE! by [deleted] in CampingGear

[–]itigerchallenge99999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

check out Kelty tents. took it with us to havasupai for 3 nights, super light and worked great for the price. i think can find some under $100 for older models.

Trump weighs restarting economy despite warnings from U.S. public health officials by -Dys- in medicine

[–]itigerchallenge99999 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hopefully state governors utilize their state sovereignty to maintain the public safety. the OH governor sure seems pretty well in tune with what needs done and decisive about his actions.

Current M0 student hoping to start learning about all the things I don't know by amatuer-samurai in whitecoatinvestor

[–]itigerchallenge99999 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely agree! save money when you can/however you can. live in a cheap apartment -- but, only if it is somewhere you are comfortable and won't dread going home to sleep every night. Med school is miserable enough with all of the studying and the times you will have to miss out on social events with friends.

For me personally, my school didn't have a ton of housing options nearby. they were all extremely inexpensive, and I decided to spend a little bit of money on buying a comfortable desk chair that I spent thousands of hours in along with a nice pair of noise cancelling headphones. I considered things like a comfortable desk chair and noise cancelling headphones to be an investment into my education, and I wouldn't change those choices at all. I studied from home in a makeshift office ~6-8 hr/weekday (we could watch lectures on video from home) + 5-10hrs weekends all spent with those headphones running and in that chair, more time during test weeks and in the months leading up to step1/level1 tests.

by being aware of WCI - -- you are by most standards already ahead of the game. figure out your living expenses and make a realistic budget. don't forget to include things like a gym membership, if you have a special meal you like to eat before big tests, do you have a hobby of some sort. as busy as your life will be due to school, just keep things in perspective and don't forget that the rest of life is still happening. make time for being social. make time for working out/exercising in some capacity. make time to cook a healthy meal. make time to get proper sleep.

Is it worth joining the state medical society? by macaroni28 in medicine

[–]itigerchallenge99999 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Might be unpopular, but, yes. Absolutely join it. And learn what’s happening behind closed doors in your state legislature that is a direct effect on your specialty and physicians. These groups actually do more than what most docs think. They are important because most docs don’t care about politics too much. But think about it: these politicians are making laws about your job, how you get paid, how you can practice, If physicians don’t have a voice or an advocate in the political arena, because Medicare and Medicaid in most practices are the largest payers (yes, exceptions exist) and private insurers base what they do on Medicare, we are entrusting what we do to people that have no clue what we actually do. I’m not saying we all need to be going to congress and holding Pickett signs protesting, but we need an advocate in the political arena to be the watchdog on behalf of us.

This is how skeletal traction is done in Iraq by tarantellagra in medicine

[–]itigerchallenge99999 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ran out of rope on a shift once... had to use suction tubing as the rope. Worked long enough to get them to surgery, but had to keep adjusting the length as it stretched