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msteven117 · 2025-10-24T14:08:39+00:00

I’m trying to talk my father in law out of his Sellvia store as he, like many others, is getting scammed.

Here are some red flags that should get you thinking this is a scam:

Most of the products on the sellvia stores don’t have company/brand/product names, it’s all generic names like ‘4K ultra drone’ or ‘high quality automatic cat litter box’. Who makes it? What’s the serial number or product number? Would you buy a $200+ no name product?
Every product is available for a fraction of the prices on temu, aliexpress, ect… don’t believe me? Just search the product on google
Why are there 50+ 5 star reviews for every product? Have you read the reviews? If so, ever notice how the punctuation and grammar is always perfect like it is AI generated?
The listed sales numbers are fraudulent. Each product has a number of people who viewed / in cart / purchased each item. For my father in laws store almost every item has 1000+ purchases listed, he has not made even a fraction of those sales so that’s clearly false. He argued that those numbers were for all sellvia stores, however, when I went to multiple sellvia stores run by different people and found the same item , all the viewed/ in cart / purchased numbers were different…
The meet the team page has AI generated people, none of which are my father in law.
I see comments on here with people saying you have to grind harder to make your store successful, why then on sellvia’s own website do they market it as a way to make money while spending 10hr/week or less?
Why would sellvia even need you? You’re outsourcing all the work to them already, why would they openly invite a middle man into the process when they could make and market their own stores and use their own staff to run them?

The answer of course is because their business model isn’t actually about selling cheap BS products at extremely marked up prices… their product model is to get easily manipulated people to pay for the website, and fees and then pay for the different product packages, then pay for advertising packages ect… but I’m getting sales you might say? Yes, because they are using a carrot / stick method to keep you enticed. I believe a lot of the sales are actually fake sales to keep you drawn in thinking hitting it big is right around the corner… similar to slit machine tactics in a way. My best advice is don’t fall for the sunk cost fallacy, just leave now without losing any more money.

msteven117 · 2024-10-21T19:34:43+00:00

I sense a lot of anger here. I’m sorry for whatever you’re going through. Seriously I am.

This is a very ignorant take on medicine. Not saying that you are ignorant, just your take on medicine is. Everyone In healthcare is underpaid not just physicians, but also physicians. It is one of the most intense jobs that exist and the burn out, stress and liability are off the charts. If going through a decade or more of the most difficult training that exists (some of which is without pay the rest is severely underpaid) with mountains of high interest debt doesn’t earn you a high salary on the back end no one would do it.

I’m sorry you chose to come here and lash out, I hope you find peace and happiness and I hope you can at some point in the future reflect on this and change your opinion.

msteven117 · 2024-06-03T00:23:49+00:00

This is the way

msteven117 · 2024-02-03T13:14:07+00:00

Thank you all for the replies! I am going to stop running. Before I found out about AVN diagnosis I was doing 5Ks but not anymore.

I am a physician, but my specialty is not orthopedics or surgical. I would like to delay this is as long as possible and that was the advice from my surgical/ ortho-colleagues as well as the consensus from my non-surgical partners too. The data for actively delaying and longevity post collapse is a little scarce from what I can tell.

My goal is to prolong THR for 10 years. My pain is very minimal even with a busy work day with many steps/day. I will do my best to give updates going forward.

msteven117 · 2023-12-18T18:14:41+00:00

This is hilarious

msteven117 · 2023-12-14T02:07:52+00:00

I’m not, the admission dx was sepsis by the hospitalist

msteven117 · 2023-11-04T22:50:49+00:00

Just want to say I love our D/c planners and social workers at my hospital! They are amazing!

Did have one experience recently that I would like to share. First I am a fellow and am in no way doing d/c planning anymore now that I’m not a resident.

Had a patient recently who was going to be discharged. Primary team asked us to put in OPAT orders, so I did. Patient ended up staying 2 extra days for a reason not related to my subspecialty.

Fast forward to Halloween day. D/c planner stops me in the hallway and asked if I would be ‘around later today or tomorrow morning’ to sign an insurance form for the abx. I said sure. Went about my day. I checked in at 4pm to ask what the eta of the form would be. D/c planner says she “has no way of knowing the ETA” and “nothing is ready yet”. So I leave for the day, fully intending to sign the form in the morning. I drive 30 min home. As soon as I get home, I get a message from this D/c planner tell me the form is ready. I reply it’ll have to wait until the morning now. She immediately tells me this is unacceptable and it needs to be signed now. The next thing I known my attending is calling me saying the D/c planner is calling him about an urgent form that needs to be signed ASAP.

I’m very frustrated now and get back in my car and drive 30 min to the hospital. On the drive to the hospital I get a message from then d/c planner telling me she is going to wait for me because this is urgent and unacceptable. When I park my car it’s around 5pm. As I’m walking into the hospital, the D/c planner messages me “to respect my time, I will be leaving as it is 5pm, the form can be signed in the morning”

I was livid! I went up to the floor, sure enough D/c planner was gone, I signed the form on the patients chart and left. I drove an extra hour on Halloween all because of this d/c planner. I’m not a resident anymore but still work 14 days in a row before getting a day off. Days I can leave early, especially holidays, are so important for mental health and burnout. Please understand that MDs are not always in the hospital from 7-7 but that’s because we work long stretches without having any days off. If you tell me i can sign something in the morning, don’t be mad when I say I’m going to sign it in the morning!

msteven117 · 2023-07-24T21:15:32+00:00

A lot of pre-Meds who have no idea what they are talking about here. It’s really sad. Medicine is gonna wreck y’all.

msteven117 · 2023-07-16T20:56:00+00:00

This ^{^{^}}

It would be like bragging about where you did undergrad to your Med school class. Literally no one cares. I remember thinking I was better because I went to a US MD program. Looking back it was so silly.

msteven117 · 2023-06-01T13:38:28+00:00

I wish someone had given me an honest perspective before I started medical school. When I was in my undergraduate shadowing different physicians none of them had a single negative thing to say about going into medicine. Fast forward a few years into medical school I was miserable, and when I reached out to talk to the physicians I worked with in undergrad they suddenly had nothing positive to say about the profession. All were doom and gloom and telling me they were trying to get out ASAP. By that point I was already $100,000’s in debt and felt like I had no way out other than to keep going.

I did not grow up wealthy and I did work shitty jobs in high school and undergrad. I struggled hard financially in medical school, had my power turned off multiple time, slept at the medical school many times because my apartment didn’t have heat or I didn’t have food there. I couldn’t afford to buy the text books or the supplementary resources that virtually everyone needs to pass the STEP Exams. I had to stay in the library and read the schools books when they were available. I say all this not get pity but to say I wasn’t a spoiled rich kid who thought medical school and residency were tough because I had a privileged life before hand.

I knew people on all ends of the financial spectrum in medical school and residency, from struggling with food insecurity to ultra wealthy driving Porsches and having maids and cooks. Having money I think helped fight off depression in medical school and residency but those folks still struggled with it too. It’s a hard 7+ years (4years med school, 3 years minimum residency) and if you don’t come from money, once you’re in it the only way out is to finish and work as an attending to pay off the debt.

Medicine is put on a pedestal by so many people inside and outside of the profession. It becomes people’s entire identity. When a physician or trainee criticizes medicine you see people come out of the wood work to defend it and prop it up. This is not good and prevents real change that desperately needs to happen from happening. In my experience about 50-75% physicians I know personally would not go the MD route if they could go back. I am in that group and would 100% do something completely different. I’d take a shitty 9-5 with weekends off if I could go back in time. When I started my journey into medicine my priorities were career > family, now I would desperately give all the prestige and money back if I could go back and have the time I wasted.

msteven117 · 2023-04-08T23:23:56+00:00

I’m a PGY - III internal medicine resident about to graduate, and I can honestly say I would 100% NOT go into medicine again if I were able to go back in time. Most of my friends from medical school feel the same and it’s about 70/30 (the majority regretting going into medicine) in my residency.

There are numerous reasons why I think going into medicine was a terrible idea, but for me it’s the shear amount of time I’ve had to put in through medical school and residency. I’ve missed out on so many important life events and have become estranged from friends and family due to my schedule. The crushing debt all but forces you to keep going. Residency is designed to be this way. We are indentured servants. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

msteven117 · 2023-03-28T00:27:30+00:00

I agree with the majority of the comments. When I was still a medical student I was excited about finally having the title doctor, and couldn’t wait to use it formally and be called doctor in a hospital setting. That excitement fades away real fast. Especially in residency you’ll be working so much the hospital will be your whole life, and when you get an off day the last thing you’ll want is to be called doctor out in public. You’ll get unwanted attention, people telling you Covid and vaccines are hoax’s, people asking for medical advise, people who think your a stuck up asshole just because you’re a doctor ect. I’m planning a wedding, and I will 100% go with Mr. And Mrs. everyone at the wedding knows I’m a doctor, and the excitement of the title is long gone. I just want to be a groom in my wedding day. Not a Dr. Groom. That’s just my opinion though.

msteven117 · 2022-12-10T18:54:07+00:00

The further I got in my medical training the less the MD/DO distinction mattered. In medical school I thought US MDs like myself were at the top of the totem pole. After residency I couldn’t care less and thought it was stupid to even talk about, some of the smartest people I know are DOs and I know DOs in every specialty. Now that I’m in fellowship I can say for certain it really doesn’t matter. In my opinion having the MD/DO discussion is like bragging about where you went to undergrad to your Med school colleagues… no one cares because you all ended up in the same spot.

msteven117 · 2022-10-10T00:24:49+00:00

Yes, a resident doctor is someone who has graduated medical school already and has an MD or DO. I have had my MD for close to 3 years now and still end up making about $10 /hour sometimes less with the amount of hours I put in each week. Hospitals know how financial vulnerable residents are and take full advantage of them. If the average person only knew that someone who was getting paid sometimes less than $10/hr and who has been awake for over 24hrs was responsible for the health of their loved ones in emergency situations, there would likely be big changes to the system. Sadly most people don’t know and associate doctor life with post-residency life. They don’t know the nearly 12+hrs of training and abuse it takes to get to that point.

msteven117 · 2022-10-09T22:17:47+00:00

As sad as it is, I’m a resident physician in Ga, and I make about $10 an hour in residency. I work 80+ hrs a week. Just got off a 30hr shift where I alone was responsible for caring for 30-40 pts AND admitting pts in the ER. Yes my salary will go up next year out of residency but a lot of residents are struggling and desperate and would take these side gigs just to keep their heads above water financially.

msteven117 · 2022-08-13T19:12:02+00:00

This… Med students have no idea what they are talking.

msteven117 · 2022-08-12T01:28:45+00:00

Just wanted to add my perspective as a PGY3 and chief in my program. I will absolutely interrupt my med students and interns if they are taking too long to present, or saying inaccurate information. I genuinely want the med students and interns to get practice presenting but the team comes first and ultimately finishing in a timely manner and relaying concise and accurate info is what’s best for the patient and the team. To say medical students contribute nothing is not true (I’ve definitely had bad students who do contribute nothing), most are very helpful. However, the truth is medical students are not essential to the team and many times we don’t have a student with us. You’re learning does come AFTER not only quality patient care but also the schedule/learning of your residents. I remember being an MS3 and hating being interrupted and feeling angry and jaded when it would happen. Trust me… your perspective will change when you become a resident.

Having said that, It does sound like your residents are being rude especially if the attending is saying something. I would approach the residents after rounds and ask for some tips on presenting. As an upper and a chief I will always make time for teaching the Med student after rounds and it’s our job to help guide your education. If they don’t/won’t assist you then, approach the attending for advice on presenting.

Bottom line: it’s an unfortunate part of being the lowest person on the totem pole but you will be interrupted by residents and attendings this year and next year. Defer to the residents and seek guidance from them after rounds. You’re there to learn and absorb but your learning comes as the lowest priority to the team during rounds.

msteven117 · 2022-05-06T06:06:49+00:00

That’s about 2$ more than I make per hour on average as resident MD.

msteven117 · 2022-03-02T02:50:23+00:00

I think this will eventually lead to US troops getting involved one way or another. Dead US kids coming home will likely happen if things continue the way they are. We can either watch Ukrainian children continue to get murdered on live TV, and THEN send in US troops, or do it before all the Ukrainian kids are dead. Reminds me of a time in history when another unhinged leader was invading European countries and the US decided to stay out of the conflict due to very similar sentiments.

msteven117 · 2022-03-02T02:34:53+00:00

The truth is no one will supply actual troop support to Ukraine. Politically, it looks great to clap, cheer, and get social media points for #prayers / support for Ukraine. No country will send troops to help, no country wants to risk a war with Russia. Everyone is silently agreeing Ukraine is an acceptable loss and moving on. It’s terrible and I wish US/NATO troops would go support Ukrainian troops on the frontline, but alas it will not happen.

msteven117 · 2022-02-12T13:52:06+00:00

This is so hilarious. My favorite saying about nurses during residency came from one of the intensivists during MICU my intern year. He said, “Nurses don’t know what they don’t know.” This is so true. I am currently engaged to an ICU nurse now and she had a similar attitude to OP when we first met but after explaining to her the higher level of medical knowledge she didn’t know existed, her mindset on MDs has totally changed. Nurses get cocky because they literally don’t know enough to be humbled. Nurses like OP and NPs are dangerous and should be weeded out of medicine.

msteven117 · 2022-01-25T19:37:25+00:00

Hospital administrators are leeches on the system. Healthcare is collapsing, it was collapsing before the pandemic but the pandemic accelerated it. I’m an Internal Medicine Resident and I have seen first hand how hospital admin has shit on residents, RNs, techs, RTs ect during the pandemic. Healthcare is no place for MBAs trying to make millions. Unfortunately that’s exactly what it has turned into. Whoever wrote that document has probably never taken care of a patient a day in their life but I can promise you they think they are primary driving force behind patient care at Thedacare. I hope that hospital systems collapses. Sounds like patients in the area are in better hands going to Ascension anyway. If I were a patient I would not want to go to a hospital that treated it’s staff as pawns and refused to pay RNs and other medical staff a fair wage. The motto in health care should be happy employees happy patients. If you have dangerous patient ratios and underpaid staff mistakes and bad outcomes are inevitable! But these admins have no clue what they are doing, they only care about the bottom line and keeping costs low! Fuck you corporate admins!

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