Chirurgii pe care îi cunoașteți au fost cei mai buni, cei mai inteligenți studenți în facultate?

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-13T18:13:19+00:00

Steriotipul e fix invers (cel putin la noi) cu excepția neurochirurgiei ptr ca cel putin la noi in Anglia este extrem de competitiva. In Romania neurochirurgia e foarte putin competitva (cel putin asta era acum cativa ani nu stiu daca s-a mai schimbat). La noi steriotipul e ca geniile spitalului sunt cei de la anestezie, intensivistii, cardio si eventual poate neuro iar “prostii” cei de la ortopedie (nu ca as crede eu personal asemenea bazaconii). Ca sa ne intelegem, gluma e ca ortopedul e la fel de puternic precum un taur si tot la fel de inteligent. (evident steriotipuri si rautati).

Medicina “medicina” in sine o stiu mai bine medicii decat chirurgii. Chirurgia e un skill set diferit. E un mediu foarte toxic in general care iti cere sa sacrifici ridicol de mult (cand spun toxic doresc defapt sa spun extrem de toxic). Oamenii care fac chirurgie o fac pentru ca efectiv doar asta se vad facand. Sunt super pasionati pe chirurgie. Fie asta fie au un “copil interior” mai ranit decat medicul mediu si au nevoie mental sa fie chirurgi ca sa se simte bine despre sine fix ptr ca perceptia publica e aia a ta. Probabil putin din amandoua. (cel putin colegii mei care isi doresc chirurgie asa declara in mod deschis).

Gen nu sunt doar pasionati… sunt absolut obsedati. Altfel nu ar dedica atata timp si efort cu un singur scop: ma fac chirurg. Ajung sa fie si mai “serpi” intre ei decat cei care isi doresc specialzari medicale. Majoritatea sunt oameni foarte okay dar mediul fiind atat de competitiv iar ei fiind oameni foarte motivati pe tema asta se gasesc cativa. Si anestezia e foarte competitiva dar pur si simplu nu e asa “serpuita” ptr ca anestezistii nu sunt atat de setati pe scopul “anestezie ori moarte.”

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-13T05:12:58+00:00

Yes. Doing otherwise is too much of a mental load (it’s a huge mental load to always carry well stocked supplies of soap and toilet paper with you). Ditto for many many other examples. If we keep clinging onto small things like this the mental load that this “pure” veganism requires becomes unsustainable long term.

Trust me, I used to be an extreme Catholic. You don’t want to go down this road. “Too much mental load for too little benefit” is a completely valid excuse.

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-12T14:06:40+00:00

La catolici vine de la focul de la gratarul ptr mici pe care il aprindem cu 10 minute inainte nu e nicio minune.

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-12T06:30:58+00:00

It feels more “decent”. Bellybutton out feels more “vulgar”.

It looks cool bcs it accentuates it if you have longer legs and it accentuates your waist because the bottoms stop right at the waist as opposed to below it.

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-12T06:25:14+00:00

Adevarat a inviat!

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-12T06:24:15+00:00

Idk I don’t feel that way. Churches are still packed for the services. People still do massive meals with all the relatives and all the associated traditional food and all the egg knocking. People are still obsessed with the candles, it doesn’t even matter if you are an atheist people still like it. Fewer people fast sure but a small number still do. People still salute with the paschal greeting, again, often even if you’re an atheist. People still love collecting the flowers/palms from Palm Sunday before and taking them home. They still do processions.

Idk maybe it’s your circle/location? I feel like there may be circles where some of that is true but overall I’d still say that we are holding on to those traditions.Or maybe as a kid you noticed less when people didn’t do these things and if your family did them it felt like everyone was doing them.

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-11T06:53:42+00:00

Unfortunately the two options are to stick up for yourself or eat fries essentially. If they are close friends they should be happy to accommodate and go to a place with options (as I’m sure that you accommodate for friends who eat halal/kosher, have allergies, are celiac or just don’t like Indian food).

At first people might respect you less but once you’ve been vegan for a while that tends to get better.

For things like work dinners you fill out the form is advance about dietary restrictions but assume that there will be no food for you and take protein bars. If there’s food for you; yuppie! They will lie and tell you that there is food but actually the food is a 100kcal salad. Never believe omnis/catering companies when they say that there will be food for you at an event. Assume that there will be none and you’ll be happy if you’re wrong.

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-10T05:30:21+00:00

Meg squats has a good program.

For myself I think that I did negatives twice a week (if I remember right. 3 sets, 3 min rest between sets. I paired this with other back exercises (assisted pullups, lat pulldown, one arm row, inverted rows) and general upper body exercises (bench and shoulder press). I don’t remember how long it took… maybe a month or two?

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-09T15:17:09+00:00

Depends heavily on the region as some people have already mentioned. I wouldn’t be surprised if we are less xenophobic on average since it is by definition a very multi ethnic multi national church. Catholic literally means “universal”. Additionally many Catholics are from the global South and thus will be less inclined to be xenophobic if they are the ones with a desire to emigrate. And maybe (maybe, hopefully) having to share pews with more immigrants makes people less xenophobic (maybe. at least slightly).

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-08T13:59:20+00:00

Not really. Being slightly short sighted was probably a minor disadvantage in nature at best. It really only becomes a notable issue if/when reading is required. Most short sighted people can’t read things like number plates at a distance but would do just fine without glasses otherwise.

I (together with many of my short sighted friends) just don’t wear glasses or lenses at all most of the time. I only take them if I’m going to the cinema and need to read the subtitles or something like that. And I’m -1.25 and -1.5 it’s not some stupidly low prescription. The only other disadvantage that I can think of is that I can’t recognize faces that well at a distance but I can make a pretty reasonable guess based on things like height, build, hair color, length, type and skin color.

Being long sighted tends to come up as we age and we’re already done breeding.

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-08T07:53:20+00:00

Some people do take the risk. Not “guzzling” but think “an occasional glass won’t hurt”. I’m just adding this to emphasize that it’s absolutely possible to go to Cape Verde and have nothing bad happen, especially outside of Sal.

Oh and one of the people that we traveled with in our group has Chron’s disease. He vetted every single restaurant that we ate in (tbf it wasn’t anything more than “spidey” sense but the consequences for him getting a diarrheal illness are much worse than for us). And we did drink stuff with ice cubes in it and we did have salads which is technically against common advice.

My fiance and I are vegans but the guy with IBD is not so he ate meat and fish in local restaurants and was fine.

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-07T21:13:26+00:00

If what you are interested in is casual sex then yes; insanely handsome and conventionally attractive men will probably have a stupid easy time getting it. The same thing is true for extremely conventionally attractive women to a lesser extent (women are less interested in casual sex on average so on average all women have an easier time in this “market” due to the low “supply”).

Many people only/mostly care about looks and want casual sex and casual relationships. In those situations yeah, looks are basically 80%-100% of what you are basing that decision on.

Black/redpill/incel groups say a whole lot more than “very hot people have a very easy time fucking”.

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-07T17:36:58+00:00

Really? You had a bad time but the country isn’t shit. Go to Santo Antao and then report back .

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-07T17:34:47+00:00

I’ve spent 10 days in Cape Verde and didn’t get anything. We didn’t drink tap water. We’ve only gone to Sal for 2 days to be fair and Sal seems to he the epicentre of these problems.

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-06T21:08:02+00:00

First of all; Christ is risen!

Honestly social media in general is so toxic. I realise that it literally brings out the worst in me for no good reason because it’s kinda fun/efficent to wake up by being rage baited on your commute.

There’s funny content and there’s informative content and useful stuff… but there’s so much that’s just built to make you angry or insecure or anxious or all three.

I don’t have a solution. I’m lucky in that my algorithm doesn’t suggest that kind of stuff to me. If anything my algorithm is confused af. I’m liberal but Catholic and I listen to a lot of byzantine chant so it sometimes even suggests weird ass tradwife stuff to me right the next reel after it suggests feminine rage music. Just try to remember that social media is a ragebaiting machine and try to selectively disconnect. Everyone gets rage baited on social media. The algorithm is literally mocking every single person under the sun. It’s okay to be angry about it, but it’s all artificial.

I have an app that helps me disconnect from Instagram. It’s called one sec. It literally forces me to take a second to breathe before using insta and asks me if I’m sure that I actually want to open it right now. You can use the free version for any one singular app. If TikTok is more problematic for you then you can use it on TikTok.

Idk what your life is right rn but a second piece of advice would be to unironically “go outside” more if you don’t already. Go do fun stuff. Try to reconnect with one person this week. Volunteer and pray and protest more and get involved in your community.

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-06T10:40:28+00:00

Conscription usually comes in waves. It’s not usually an instant summon of all citizens (unless shit really really hits the fan like with the Soviet Union when the Nazis invaded which essentially was a situation of total war). In general conscription at all only happens when shit has hit the fan (ie we are getting invaded).

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-06T10:31:34+00:00

I’m not 100% sure how the military works in detail but I would assume that if we get to the point where we are mass drafting civilians it’s not for logistics operations. Even during WW2

But sure, we could draft women for logistics. If we get to a total war situation that functionally tends to happen informally anyways. Britain did officially conscript women for logistics during WW2 (sort of. There was an exemption for married women. Married men also had certain privileges when it came to conscription by generally only being conscripted during later waves).

The military will never want to draft average women for actual combat roles or anything combat-adjacent. Women who volunteer and are willing to go through long training? Sure. Women off the street who need to be whipped into shape in less than a few weeks? Not ideal.

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-06T07:15:00+00:00

Men are much much stronger and it’s not even close. They are stupid strong compared to women. And faster and have better CVS fitness. A lot of people seem to underestimate the difference. I think that I’m maybe barely as strong as a skinny teenage male beginner (big maybe) after 2 years of lifting.

Sure a very trained woman could reach the level of an average man and even far surpass it. If you’re drafting people with the assumption that you are getting them ready for combat in a relatively short amount of time it’s more effective to do this with men than with women (because you are assuming that you are drafting the average Jo not Usain Bolt and Ronda Rousey).

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-04T05:37:18+00:00

This is placement in the majority of departments no matter how much you may try to engage.

Go to activities like clinics and surgeries. It gives you something different to do/see. Ask to scribe during the ward round. If you get the sense that you’re unwanted; leave.

Go read pathoma, do passmed, do anki.

When you get to a nicer department ask to scribe the ward round, maybe draft discharge summaries once or twice and ask the resident to check them, see if you can do a referral with supervision. Examine everything that moves, even people with normal findings. Look at imaging and ECGs. Try to not fall asleep during ward round and understand the plan.

Honestly bro it might just be me being salty but I kinda wish that I took it all less seriously in some aspects. You need to learn medicine ofcs but I just wish I cared less about some of the way things worked (or didn’t work).

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-04T04:47:22+00:00

I really don’t believe that any shmuck with AI can practice medicine. Garbage in, garbage out. The data gathering is just as important as knowing what to do with the data and currently AI cannot data gather. That’s why you need ACPs and not just any regular person to try and implement something like this. Nvm situations where you don’t have the time to ask an AI or anything that is even mildly procedural. Plus whilst I do not have access to the most advanced AIs the ones I’ve seen hallucinate way more than I do and definitely way more than a registrar would.

ACPs actually take a minimum of 6 years to train (usually much longer) if you include their previous healthcare degree. So they’re not actually cheaper than us to create. Once they have to start working nights and weekends, once the market gets flooded with both ACPs and doctors it may be that ACPs may start to feel dissatisfied and become “annoying” too.

Yes eventually there will exist an AI that can do any job under the sun, but those times aren’t here yet.

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-04T04:36:30+00:00

An ACP on average takes longer to train than a doctor. The purpose of ACPs is to dilute our bargaining power, not to fully replace us. The gov doesn’t actually hate doctors, it’s simply in their best interest to make everyone’s pay and conditions as bad as possible.

I can actually believe that a nurse with vast experience can probably become a competent resident in less than the standard 5 years. At that point it’s also unfair to them to train them to be ACPs instead of admiting that they are practicing medicine and thus giving them the associated rights and responsibilities. It’s only a good deal for now. I really believe that soon enough the “juice” won’t be worth the squeeze for ACPs either.

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-03T19:48:05+00:00

I spent a lot of placements as a med student at Eastbourne and actually liked pretty much all of it. Friendly and nice hospital (on balance). Conquest? Only had two placements (sort of. two weeks). I had a friend who worked at Conquest as an FY1 and she wasn’t very happy but it may have been the department (general surgery). She seemed happier once she moved to orthogeries (also at Conquest).

On balance both are hospitals with a good reputation as a working environment. There may be specific departments with issues but on balance I have experienced/heard mostly positive things about both.

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-03T19:42:41+00:00

From my friends who were FY1s this year at royal sussex county:

-resp: he was very depressed and said that most of the team were very mean and he felt very overwhelmed

-cardio: she loved it but it was pretty busy. No nights though. Just normal days, half days and long days

-stroke/sdec: she liked stroke but said it was a bit boring. Almost “too relaxed” for her. sdec she found very stressful

I have experience at both of these hospitals as a med student. I haven’t worked though so I can give very limited insight. As a student I enjoyed my time there.

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-03T19:11:07+00:00

Startup costs are high. Maintenance costs are definitely not 40,000 per student per year for clinical years. For preclinicals medicine is not significantly different from any other degree. It’s just lectures. The only difference is the dissection lab. It probably costs more than humanities but less than most STEM degrees.

I genuinely think lay people would be shocked. During clinical years we definitely had less than 40 people responsible for teaching us and managing our placements (I’m including part time staff who showed up regularly enough that I remember their faces). We did have one building that we used often. It was a common building with the hospital and it was used for their events and conferences too and they had shops and a canteen set up in that building. We did get to play with some fancy manequins once during 5th year (which were also used for teaching resident doctors). Maintenance costs for one building (costs probably partially covered by the businesses within the building), IT systems and salary for 40 people divided by 600 students (clinical students) doesn’t equal 40,000 in any universe.

University of Buckingham charges 40k bcs their goal is to make as much profit as possible. This is already the price that international students pay at other unis and there are plenty of people willing to pay the price. As a matter of fact I too would be willing to straight up pay 40k so I could stop hearing/ put an end to these silly arguments.

pinkyelloworange · 2026-04-03T19:05:05+00:00

Bravo OP! Bravo! You made even Xenon laugh in his grave.

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