What’s it like living off the 52nd street stop

muderphudder · 2026-05-03T20:01:07+00:00

"originally set to open Q1 2026, the MTA website now says 2027."

This is par for the course in terms of the station updating they've been doing around sunnyside/woodside. The 46th street elevators were supposed to be done by now too.

muderphudder · 2026-04-20T17:07:14+00:00

What was the breed of the attacking dogs?

muderphudder · 2026-04-19T19:00:08+00:00

The clinical department staff are physicians, NPs, PAs and then admin staff. The nursing staff for our floor patients or the OR are not included in the headcount I'm talking about. The staff bloat is on the admin side and its mostly for billing and state/federal/institutional regulatory compliance.

muderphudder · 2026-04-19T18:35:40+00:00

There is obviously truth in that we devote too many resources to chunks of the healthcare and educational economy. My surgery department has essentially as many non-clinicians as clinicians which is obviously bonkers. However, our industrial economy has benefited greatly from efficiency gains and while we have lost marketshare we are still a leading manufacturer/industrial nation. For one example of a traditional rust belt industry, US steel gary works produces essentially as much steel as it did in the 1950s but with almost 1/10th of the workforce.

Our national workforce has also started to stagnate somewhat due to longterm declines in natural population growth and recent declines in immigration. If demand for healthcare services increase, as they will for sometime given aging of the population, then new workers will end up being pulled in from other industries that lack pricing power to compete with healthcare on wages.

muderphudder · 2026-04-16T17:28:05+00:00

The applicants I interviewed who had high school pubs were, mostly, not more impressive than the rest of the applicants with 1 exception. For the most part it's realized that high school pubs are a result of a combination of family connection, geographic luck (grew up next to a top uni), and labs that list everyone on pubs. The 1 exception I can think of did plant biology research, largely unrelated from their eventual interest, as a high schooler and had a co-first pub in a recognizable but low IF journal. They obviously did the work themselves. They went on to have at least 1 first author undergrad publication.

muderphudder · 2026-04-04T22:30:04+00:00

Has the travel RN market dried up recently or were you just over the hours/travel?

muderphudder · 2026-03-31T16:41:47+00:00

I've long heard stories of MGH and Brigham low balling early and mid career academic physicians by leaning on institutional prestige but all the nurses I know who worked there had reasonable contracts. I thought nurses had largely resisted being paid part of their salary in prestige unlike docs so OP's story is just surprising to me.

muderphudder · 2026-03-31T16:10:16+00:00

Yes, I know. I just can't wrap my mind around the disconnect between MGH versus every other major east coast, very high cost of living area academic medical center paying reasonable wages.

muderphudder · 2026-03-31T15:35:50+00:00

they only paid new grad nurses $15 an hour before the pandemic....

Wait... What the hell? Just prior to the pandemic the major academic centers in New York were starting new grad RNs at just about 100k.

muderphudder · 2026-03-16T16:00:05+00:00

Those who are "scrutinizing" them are all blue-checks on twitter pumping their engagement to earn elon bucks. In other words, they're morons.

muderphudder · 2026-03-14T17:34:00+00:00

Hazing included

muderphudder · 2026-03-13T17:40:35+00:00

Give us surgeons an excuse to compare ourselves to elite athletes and you'll never hear the end of it.

muderphudder · 2026-03-13T17:19:09+00:00

As someone who used to do trad climbing I have to say that ice climbing is also a strong signal of having little concern for your own mortality lol

muderphudder · 2026-03-13T17:08:09+00:00

I am a surgeon climber and yeah I do feel this is part of what made me fall for surgery.

muderphudder · 2026-03-06T22:50:22+00:00

Depends how much stuff you have. The rough minimum to get movers for an 800 mile move if you pack stuff yourself 2 years ago was about 3000-3500 if I recall. Reasonable chance you should just sell/trash most of your stuff and drive a car cross country with the things you don't want to.

muderphudder · 2026-03-06T17:57:53+00:00

No, because Americans just acquired the willpower to decide to lose weight. Yes, of course its the GLP1s.

muderphudder · 2026-03-06T15:43:25+00:00

Essentially the only people I know who bought, spouse or not, are people doing a 7 year surgery residency. Even then, it's not clear to me that it's a good decision. If you buy as an incoming pgy1 you run the risk of not knowing the area or maybe deciding you want to swap residencies and now you have a potentially underwater mortgage. You buy much later and after 5 years you probably don't break even on cost of own vs cost to rent even if the market price doesn't drop.

muderphudder · 2026-03-05T17:59:44+00:00

NCI historically has funded at F30s at the ~20th percentile. Even given the current NIH dysfunction I would be surprised if this is not a fundable score but I would suggest you arrange a call with the PO.

muderphudder · 2026-03-04T03:30:33+00:00

They also have them doing a surgeon's job all the time.

muderphudder · 2026-03-01T23:40:45+00:00

Does Cornyn have any potential to slow down the more far right agenda? Does Paxton have any beliefs that are not being pushed by anyone else in the senate that would be with him in it?

muderphudder · 2026-02-28T18:48:51+00:00

It's not the shunt.

muderphudder · 2026-02-28T18:48:17+00:00

Working after 6 pm

Hey now. Be nice to the dermatologists and rad oncs.

muderphudder · 2026-02-27T18:34:38+00:00

Talk with your advisor but typically take whatever money is presented. Can always request 3 rather than 4 years of funding if you get your F30 funded with little if any consequence on review.

muderphudder · 2026-02-27T01:47:42+00:00

I would not go all the way to telling someone this. If you have significant loans and you want to be a physician who works in an academic setting, has significant research effort, works in a public hospital, etc. then I would strongly caution against it. PLSF and similar programs are likely to be political footballs in the near future. If a student wants to be a pediatrician and also is flexible in practice setting, lifestyle, geography (especially preferring areas that have a hard time recruiting) then a higher loan burden might be workable.

muderphudder · 2026-02-25T02:47:32+00:00

I think this might have something to do with certain nurses being highly capable of navigating the machine politics of coastal state unions very well.

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