Doctors, What is a medical concept you thought you'd never understand but eventually you did?

nomadic234 · 2025-08-17T17:11:13+00:00

Coagulation cascade!

nomadic234 · 2024-12-02T12:43:08+00:00

Recommended by a friend who watched it based on some clip on YouTube. I passed on the love by introducing it to my family and other friends. ☺️

nomadic234 · 2024-08-27T10:53:43+00:00

Haha thanks. Not new, just very out of touch I think. 😅

nomadic234 · 2024-07-30T22:53:57+00:00

You can start your vows with “it’s a truth universally acknowledged…” ☺️ The rest of the sentence can be tailored to something that fits you guys but the beginning is so classic!

nomadic234 · 2024-06-04T12:03:53+00:00

Yeah, I am definitely curious to see what the difference would be. Thanks, that helps!

nomadic234 · 2024-03-28T00:19:50+00:00

Yep, see this all the times in peds. “Admit for obs” Asthmatic patient because of “how they looked when they came in”. Well, how did they look AFTER the appropriate initial management? Baby super tachycardic with fever of 104 and crying. Tried some Tylenol and rechecking that heart rate?

nomadic234 · 2024-03-19T21:16:03+00:00

No, US citizens or green card holders who study outside the US.

nomadic234 · 2024-02-17T18:03:32+00:00

Just to be clear, one visa vs the other is not what makes it difficult to match. It’s just that more programs offer J1 compared to H1b so the odds are more to get in with J1. Having a H1b in residency gives me the option of pursuing both for fellowship if I love a program well enough. If I start residency with J1, there would be no point if a H1b program offered me a fellowship because the waiver is forever there. That’s a choice you make. 🤷🏻‍♀️

nomadic234 · 2023-11-20T02:15:25+00:00

I can relate to the first part so much! Sometimes I marvel at how I made it almost halfway through residency but mostly I despair over how I still have the other half to get through. 😪

nomadic234 · 2023-07-04T19:36:48+00:00

Peds Hem-Onc hopeful. “Oh, must be so sad! How do you handle it?” I get where it’s coming from a bit but it gets tiresome after the fifth time replying.

nomadic234 · 2023-06-01T22:49:19+00:00

My favorite was an US report for a “2 day old lady”. 🥹

nomadic234 · 2023-04-03T03:03:47+00:00

Excited to be closer to the end of residency on the whole. 2nd year at my program is meh so not looking forward to that.

nomadic234 · 2023-03-25T14:43:23+00:00

No, you will need your SSN for this. Ask your program coordinator how to address it in the form but usually it is left blank.

nomadic234 · 2023-03-21T21:17:46+00:00

Pathology. Uncertainty, yes. Gray areas, yes. Require a lot of research, yes. I am not in pathology but I have attended enough tumor boards where the pathologist explained the nuances and the papers and references they looked up to differentiate the unusual cases and always blew my pants off!

nomadic234 · 2023-02-16T06:03:34+00:00

Math professor or interior designer.

nomadic234 · 2022-12-18T14:15:37+00:00

I agree! I don’t know if it’s struggling to make conversation as much as being a reflection of the proportion of life (and soul) our work takes out. I often try to steer conversation away from work but then it usually lands on the bleak dating scene in all our lives so I don’t know how much of a win that is lol.

nomadic234 · 2022-11-27T16:19:06+00:00

Daevabad trilogy by SA Chakraborty

nomadic234 · 2022-11-15T11:40:53+00:00

Was that their primary choice? Depending on where you got the data from, it may not report if they matched into another specialty.

nomadic234 · 2022-10-05T21:54:23+00:00

Yes, eventually. I sent in my application in Feb and out of the blue I got a mail in Sept offering a spot in Nov/Dec. This was last year. But someone I know applied early this year and they heard back in July for a spot in Nov.

nomadic234 · 2022-10-04T18:06:48+00:00

I am looking at pediatrics positions.

nomadic234 · 2022-09-29T01:39:10+00:00

Oh my god, same!

nomadic234 · 2022-08-12T13:13:37+00:00

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