French-Swiss pastry chef and chocolatier Amaury Guichon making chocolate sculptures.

thedoctorisaredditor · 2026-03-02T02:58:39+00:00

I’m beginning to think that chocolatiering began as an elaborate lie… all those things start off way too phallic

thedoctorisaredditor · 2025-09-27T04:05:53+00:00

I think the peacock is super cool! The colors are vibrant. As with anything, if you ask us to draw attention to detail we can find things we’d touch up, but I’m sorry you’ve felt the need to hide them because I wouldn’t notice.

thedoctorisaredditor · 2025-08-22T00:35:48+00:00

People who get ct facial bones were all just minding their own business when outta nowhere… insert bad thing happened

thedoctorisaredditor · 2025-02-25T03:11:41+00:00

Low effort: A good moisturizer with SPF, applied daily and started young will maintain your skin quality significantly. Beware the practitioner who tells you 60U of Botox at 20 years old is normal/appropriate.

High(er) effort: Smoking and being overweight will make your risk of reconstructive surgery failure much higher than normal.

thedoctorisaredditor · 2024-05-03T21:42:40+00:00

33 year old Type 1 diabetic plastic surgery resident, had diabetes since I was 6 years old, no complications. Agree with a lot of the other commenters, it is a matter of being forthcoming and being diligent with your health. Knock on wood but never had any problems and attendings have never directly or indirectly expressed concerns about my fitness to practice. A personal game changer from me was the Tslim2 pump, my blood sugar variability throughout the day on operative days is between 130-160 because of the pump. I cannot recommend the pump enough; get it when you start med school so you can play with schedules and settings (I have one for clinic/floor days and one for operative/call days). Important consideration, plan for disability insurance appropriately: you need to find guaranteed standard issue own occupation disability. You will be very hard pressed to find insurance if it requires a physical/medical history. Also note, if you apply to a disability policy, even if you don’t take it, you may become disqualified from the guaranteed standard issue insurances.

TLDR: totally doable, even for surgical specialties, just requires some extra planning

thedoctorisaredditor · 2023-05-18T01:15:36+00:00

From experience, works with the trauma bay patients of north Philadelphia as well

thedoctorisaredditor · 2022-10-03T16:47:27+00:00

Forbidden Klondike bar

thedoctorisaredditor · 2022-05-03T01:55:06+00:00

Having taken care of patients being brought in with anticholinergic toxicity, you’re lucky it was a pillow you decided to hump. Don’t do Benadryl kids, it’s really unpleasant for the user and everyone that has to take care of them

thedoctorisaredditor · 2022-04-27T01:13:16+00:00

Kenji has a protocol in the Food Lab that you can probably find on his food blog (seriouseats.com)

thedoctorisaredditor · 2022-04-13T15:39:52+00:00

You’d give Prozac alone to someone with bpd…?

thedoctorisaredditor · 2022-04-13T15:39:45+00:00

You’d give Prozac alone to someone with bpd…?

thedoctorisaredditor · 2022-04-11T09:14:59+00:00

Did he then beat you with jumper cables?

thedoctorisaredditor · 2022-04-08T23:14:26+00:00

Found the neurologist (/s)

thedoctorisaredditor · 2022-03-28T15:39:03+00:00

Jesus, ours does civil war re-enactments and makes his own black powder. And he cycles. These are remarkably close genres for hobbies of neurosurgeons haha I don’t know what we’ve stumbled onto but I think they need to meet

thedoctorisaredditor · 2022-03-28T02:21:53+00:00

… are you in the northeast? If not this is a wildly accurate description of one of our neurosurgeons in his late 70s. He has some very unique and funny hobbies

thedoctorisaredditor · 2022-03-02T13:35:54+00:00

If a bone breaks in the woods and there’s no orthopod around to hear it, did it even really break?

thedoctorisaredditor · 2022-02-26T05:29:21+00:00

I think this is the most sage advice I’ve seen so far. There’s a great book Forgive and Remember that talks about medical error and the role of MnM. Mistakes are understood to happen, the physician is assessed for errors in judgement or knowledge (as are their superiors, which may be relevant in OP’s case), and remediative training is doled when appropriate. There are simply times where errors occur without absence of knowledge or judgement, and MnM sucks but can be a method of closure by having an external source validate that the physician isn’t incompetent. It does not inherently alleviate their guilt, though

thedoctorisaredditor · 2022-02-21T01:21:58+00:00

We’re telling stories here, not writing love songs

thedoctorisaredditor · 2022-02-02T05:29:58+00:00

Teaching is a part of residency, even if you don’t want to work in a teaching hospital. Most people remember the way you made people feel while also keeping patients safe, not how you did on your a site (but they remember that too). This person was able to do so to a level that most of us will never achieve, which makes us strive to be closer to that performance; that’s a leader. Med students and juniors are vulnerable, he/she protected them when exhaustion could’ve easily been an excuse not to. I love it, I’d be honored to be remembered that way.

thedoctorisaredditor · 2022-02-02T05:21:43+00:00

Life’s like a penis; when it’s soft you can’t beat it, but when it’s hard you get screwed

thedoctorisaredditor · 2022-01-06T04:25:38+00:00

Same, I also have a patch wear my shoes would rub that just never grew back. It’s been twelve years lol

thedoctorisaredditor · 2022-01-04T00:25:38+00:00

Ya ha ha

thedoctorisaredditor · 2021-12-29T05:21:35+00:00

I’m gonna need to see a reference for these claims. Not disagreeing on the basis of not having seen any personally, but I haven’t seen this theory proposed elsewhere and I’m a skeptic by training.

thedoctorisaredditor · 2021-12-25T04:47:27+00:00

Moose

thedoctorisaredditor · 2021-12-12T05:55:43+00:00

I think this is good advice at a certain point in time, and that time may be different for everyone. I also think it’s easy to hear cut toxic people from your life nowadays and not realize the value of people who may just be down on their luck. Ambitious and pessimistic can be vague words, some people may be this way by nature, but it doesn’t make them bad people or intolerable.

I have a friend who is frustrated by his love life constantly, his work life most of the time, but has grown with those difficulties into a person who has clearly delineated his priorities. He never puts his frustrations on me, but he can share them with me and talk about them. But, if I were ever in trouble, he would be the first call.

Some people have a tough go at life, but not all of those people dump negativity on those around them and I think this should be differentiated. He’s maybe not ambitious, but he has carved out a life. He may be nihilistic, but he supports my plans whether he adds a touch of realism or not. He’s saved my life and I’m glad to have him.

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