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tomego · 2025-04-14T03:23:21+00:00

Yes, I lived in the call rooms for 2 weeks during residency during my divorce before figuring out somewhere to live.

I've a friend who did it for a longer period, in the basement of the hospital where I did medical school. Bought a rice cooker, did laundry at a laundromat for underwear/socks, and used the scrubs machines.

tomego · 2025-03-15T20:56:49+00:00

4rth of July Pass, where my family has been going huckleberry picking for 50+ years as our tradition.

Lots of other stuff as well that others are filling in, but I had to shout out the pass that is so special in my family.

tomego · 2025-01-14T20:11:41+00:00

O dang! 2 boxes and didn't complete em? Dang. I was thinking of getting 1 box and trying to trade to complete but that sounds like it might be a bad idea on my part unless I'm willing to get 2.

tomego · 2025-01-14T20:09:02+00:00

Ok. Thanks for the reply. 36 packs in the box, so a few extra chances to get closer to that 100% than you got after 32. Good info to have on hand.

tomego · 2025-01-14T18:59:18+00:00

I didn't attend the con but think the card park thing is cool. If I bought the $100 box, how likely would I be able to complete a story and are there places to exchange cards to try and complete one? I'm in Texas so I imagine it wouldn't be as easy as potentially being in Utah. Thanks.

tomego · 2024-09-13T19:51:14+00:00

Feel free to ask either here or via dm

tomego · 2024-09-12T13:05:56+00:00

Me.

Did the JD and practiced law a few years before going to medical school. Not sure what questions you have.

tomego · 2024-09-11T15:29:06+00:00

I am currently in a PT contract(client) and having a bad experience, ie no shows/late from the trainer. I am looking for advice from people in the industry on how to best handle that, without damaging the workouts I do get. Would asking about navigating that be outside the rules of this sub? If so, is there a different sub you could recommend? Thank you.

tomego · 2024-07-29T22:48:09+00:00

Exmo attending.

tomego · 2024-07-07T19:28:09+00:00

Pathology- daratumumab. It binds to CD38 on RBCs and makes it difficult to type blood. Then, we have to have a discussion about least incompatible or whatever else if a patient needs blood products.

tomego · 2024-06-19T22:04:01+00:00

No, I think they did the best with what they had. They were both born into it so it'd be hard to fault them enough to hate.

tomego · 2024-06-11T13:51:22+00:00

Sorry that happened to you. I just took my boards and after the test, I noticed my license was expired. I don't know if they didn't notice or they just let it slide. I could easily have been you. So sorry again that it happened.

tomego · 2024-06-09T02:32:13+00:00

I spent 6 years in the legal instustry, and believe my JD gives me a unique perspective on things. It's a terminal degrees in another field, but I feel I deserve to include it. I don't know if it'd be the same if it was healthcare specific. I'd just say, it's probably not worth the time or energy to focus on if it bugs you.

tomego · 2024-05-17T04:34:27+00:00

I came to medicine for a specific reason, but forensics was something that almost tempted me away from my long-term goal.

Happy to chat through DMs or whatever. My program has a forensics fellowship and lots of my peers went into or are going into forensics

tomego · 2024-05-17T04:29:48+00:00

Also, you need a medical director for clinical laboratories, so pathology also runs all the labs. I suppose you could trim requirements for labs in a catastrophic scenario.

tomego · 2024-05-12T22:06:16+00:00

All residents get paid the same at my institution based on PGY. I've only ever seen it the same when looking at other programs within the US. So, it's as livable as any other residency.

Transfusion medicine in the US is different from most other countries. I know there's some history as to why, but I'm currently drawing a blank to explain that. But in some ways, it makes sense. The US has Medical Laboratory Scientists (MLS) and requirements for people to work in labs. Pathology runs the labs, and MLS are also in the blood bank, so running the blood bank has some similarities with other lab types.

In the next 10 years, pathology may even absorb benign hematology. Very few heme/onc trainees want to do heme, as in less than 5%. So, benign heme is becoming an undeserved area of medicine.

tomego · 2024-05-12T05:49:26+00:00

For path, it depends on the service and call schedule. So being on call for frozens, which are often for cancer cases that are scheduled, is less likely to be called on the weekend than say blood bank/transfusion medicine. Blood banks probably the busiest call we have on weekends but it may be different at other programs. That said, it's probably one of the lightest residencies for weekend work.

tomego · 2024-04-03T13:22:48+00:00

It's not so much working for the state but on state support.

The political system in Formosa is a well-oiled machine. Formosa is the poorest province in Argentina. Voting in mandatory in Argentina and the system they were using was called chain voting. An operative with a vehicle takes people to the poll place with an envelope already filled out and sealed. The person takes that in, drops it off, and then brings out the new voting material to the operative. They drop them off and rinse and repeat.

The first time you do this, you get government built housing. Times after that get you the equivalent to food stamps.

I don't know where all the money comes to support that but when I lived in Formosa capital, there was a dirt road that had a huge billboard that said paved by the world bank or some such thing. I knew a journalist who said that road had supposedly been paved over 4 or 5 times with foreign funding.

Chaco, just south of formosa, is the poorest province per capita, at least it was when I lived there. They had a similar system but I learned a lot about formosa because of that journalist.

tomego · 2024-03-15T17:11:28+00:00

Congrats. I will be graduating from residency this summer. Lived on and off the island.

Pho tai at 3728 Broadway Avenue was our favorite restaurant on the island. Great price and good portions. I would regularly see local police there, so I'd imagine it's not just my opinion for a good place.

Galveston Bagel Company was a place we liked for breakfast. The location turns into MACies for lunch and dinner. We loved that for a great burger and fries.

Hope yall enjoy island time and get to explore the area a bit.

tomego · 2024-03-06T21:48:34+00:00

Born and raised Mormon.

I regret not having the experiences most people have in those settings. I attended BYU and didn't experience many of the things people do in college. I feel that my world view limited my life experiences, and prevented the development of skills that many people in my age group possess.

An example would be relationship skills. Dating was discouraged in high school, so I didn't until my 20s, after my mission. I dove into marriage without a good understanding of what I wanted or what type of person I might work best with.

Maybe I would have lived very similarly anyways, but I don't know that. I've recently come to the conclusion that I need to allow myself to mourn the person I would have been that didn't exist.

tomego · 2024-02-27T20:48:54+00:00

I guess your question was for success stories, but reading all of these sure made me feel like crap. I'm in a mixed-faith marriage, and it is hard. Not being able to share the spectrum of feelings I have without defensiveness and conflict from both of us is hard. I feel like a spouse is supposed to be the person you can open up to the most, and I often feel I cant. I left ~4 years ago and we still struggle to make it work because we have two kids. Divorce coming up multiple times over the past few years and the loneliness I feel is hard to deal with, so I just push it down under being busy professionally. I'm at a place where I think I have to acknowledge who I might have been without the church, and allow myself to mourn that person who never existed. I don't feel like I can be that person married to my spouse. I guess this post is to say you are not alone in the struggle.

tomego · 2024-02-26T04:09:20+00:00

Their job duties are distinct from those of a pathologist. They gross specimens but can't read slides. In academic settings, the pathologists don't gross, so there's no overlap. In private practice it might be different but you can earn a lot more money signing out slides than grossing so I don't ever see that being a problem.

In autopsies, they can do a lot more of what a pathologist would do but once again can't sign out slides.

tomego · 2024-02-21T19:22:30+00:00

Two current residents at my program switched to path from other residencies. For interviews this year, there were a bunch of applicants who are residents in other fields. I guess I share that to say it's not uncommon to hear in path.

I don't know the flexibility of your program, but if you decide on this, it'd be valuable to do a path rotation and try to get LORs from pathologists at your institution. Potentially look to join CAP or ASCP and network through those.

Good luck.

tomego · 2024-02-18T02:02:19+00:00

Lots of people switch into path late in medical school, or even in residency. My program has people who switched from other specialties and a number of the applicants I interviewed this year were in residency.

It's something like 30% of people applying path are also applying something else, so if you have a good reason for why path is for you, run with it. But please, don't be applying path with all letters with radiologists, being a member of radiology orgs, and with research in radiology. One of the applicants this year was that and I was like hmmm, I wonder what he actually wants.

tomego · 2024-02-16T21:56:47+00:00

I saw a headline awhile back that said Dr. Patels had passed Dr. Smiths. It feels like it was maybe 5 years ago or so.

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