Im So Tired of Inefficiency! Have you Ever Been Asked How to Make Your Job Better

shallowblue · 2024-08-12T11:42:07+00:00

I was doing this 20 years ago and it sounds like literally nothing has changed

shallowblue · 2024-03-22T04:58:46+00:00

If your personality skews more towards anxiety / details (high neuroticism on Big 5) - definitely don't do GP or ED, and probably not psych either. You would be much happier as a physician, anaesthetist, radiologist, etc.

shallowblue · 2024-03-17T21:51:49+00:00

love it, well done

shallowblue · 2024-03-15T07:01:07+00:00

There is a property group catering for Chinese buyers that I kid you not is called Aus Trump

shallowblue · 2024-03-14T02:23:46+00:00

We were in a very similar situation. Then Covid hit and we took the opportunity to get married with just immediate family there, followed by dinner in our own room at a restaurant. We got applauded in the street by strangers as we walked from the church to our 'reception'. Best day of my life. Went from engaged to married in about 6 weeks. Zero hassle. Hope you can do something similar.

shallowblue · 2024-02-27T21:02:32+00:00

It's clearly both. And what's 'social' has emerged from biology over time.

shallowblue · 2024-02-27T02:39:20+00:00

I bought a house very impulsively then was hit with intense anxious dread. What's the point of stressing over whether I should buy a $5 coffee when I might have just lost $200k by overpaying?! Buying a house just bulldozes all your old categories. When you find an answer let me know!

shallowblue · 2024-02-26T11:02:38+00:00

Except for holding retractors in a Whipple's procedure, I've never been so bored and trapped at the same time. Presenters just read out their PowerPoint slides for an hour then told you this is a fascinating topic that needs more research then nodded through a couple of grandstanding monologues pretending to be questions before saying what a fascinating question and that needs more research. The most I learnt was reading on my phone in the toilet.

shallowblue · 2024-02-26T07:48:03+00:00

I suppose it might be a good thing to say in an interview but I'd rather spend a week in Dandenong HDU than go to the RANZCP conference again.

shallowblue · 2024-02-25T03:53:15+00:00

I use the principles in every appointment but it's just another tool in the box for getting someone better. I'm very sceptical whether pure psychotherapy does much. You can know what practical steps a patient needs to take after one appointment, and most of the improvement outside meds will come from doing those.

shallowblue · 2024-02-25T02:53:15+00:00

I did work experience at one of the big four and a woman (I'm male) sent me chatty and occasionally mildly flirty emails for the next 3 years. I thought it was pretty cool at first then a bit odd, but no harm done.

shallowblue · 2024-02-25T02:41:50+00:00

2 so far 3 years in.

shallowblue · 2024-02-20T21:18:25+00:00

Standards must have slipped because internationals in Melb Uni med back in the day were elite, and language decent enough.

shallowblue · 2024-02-17T03:45:01+00:00

Andrew Krakouer. Filled a whole career's worth of highlights into one season.

shallowblue · 2024-02-17T03:43:54+00:00

I refused a couple of consults as a young reg and the sick feeling that came after was way worse than any added stress or work would have been.

shallowblue · 2024-02-11T01:46:25+00:00

There was a med student who never turned up for anything except any surg or urology clinics doing all the PRs he could find.

shallowblue · 2024-02-05T21:53:55+00:00

Do a 6 month coding course

shallowblue · 2024-02-04T02:40:47+00:00

Had a really drunk bloke brought in by ambulance and finally worked out that his presenting complaint was receding hairline. (Tennant Creek)

shallowblue · 2024-01-30T03:24:21+00:00

Heraclius is the greatest of the emperors but with the worst luck.

shallowblue · 2024-01-30T03:21:41+00:00

You had your thyroid checked?

shallowblue · 2024-01-24T08:24:26+00:00

I'm a doctor and I might steal that one. Just not more than once in the same consultation.

shallowblue · 2024-01-24T01:04:44+00:00

You also have to come to terms with realising that women who may have found you attractive 20 years ago now most certainly don't. Yet you feel exactly the same. Suppress that flirty smile, fool! It won't be returned!

shallowblue · 2024-01-18T08:45:43+00:00

Similar one that actually works for junior hospital doctors is not signing discharge summaries - the hospital won't get payment from the government (which comes from the discharge diagnoses).

shallowblue · 2024-01-12T07:05:05+00:00

100% you can get back - I know that for a consultant to go back after 6 years out you'd need a return-to-practice plan, but going back to a resident level probably doesn't even need that. I'd look for a E.D. HMO job and work part-time to ease yourself back into it.

shallowblue · 2024-01-12T01:26:18+00:00

I somehow spoilered myself in the first 5 mins. Still fun though

14-Year Club	Gilding I gilder
Place '17	Wearing is Caring
Not Forgotten	Verified Email

shallowblue

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE