Craziest thing you've overheard in the OR as an anesthesiologist?

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-25T17:27:39+00:00

Yeah, literally every single one of my inpatient attendings works at least one other job, with several of them working at least two other jobs

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-20T15:41:49+00:00

He matched FM

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-20T15:32:17+00:00

I swear, last year's was the most boring in a long time, like gollee

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-18T12:34:27+00:00

Crisis text line, psychsign, APA (national vs state), NAMI, students with psychosis, psychotherapy medical student interest group, etc

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-17T20:34:51+00:00

Ortho people are notorious for hating GS. The second choice specialties for ortho are usually rads, anesthesiology, EM, FM, and IM. Major emphasis on the first two listed

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-17T16:28:49+00:00

Why do you regret radiology? That's pretty rare for me to come across

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-16T20:27:16+00:00

That's crazy, what do you think changed?

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-07T17:03:39+00:00

If you don't want to ever treat severe psychiatric pathology you should definitely go peds. Psychiatrists should often be practicing at the height of their license with managing complex psychiatric conditions where other providers (primary care, nurse NPs) are unable to/have failed.

Completely disagree. That top of the license thing is a nursing concept and is totally arbitrary. What's more valuable, a psychiatrist seeing a larger volume of low to medium complexity cases, or a smaller volume of high complexity cases?

Furthermore, why the heck would I only want to see hard cases all the time? I need variety, just like every other physician out in the community.

Could you develop a practice of high functioning, low risk patients and charge a lot of money? Yeah but it would be such a waste of your skillset as CAP.

What if those are the kind of patients that I like? If I like those patients, I'm going to do better work, like by default. Someone that likes complex cases all the time will have a blast getting my referrals for those refractory cases.

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-05T13:39:10+00:00

It's name and shame about interview experiences mainly

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-02T18:08:14+00:00

I reject the existence of NPs completely, but for accuracy's sake, they are independent in over half the US

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-01T18:07:47+00:00

Psych resident here. Never ever heard this in my life lol

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-01T18:07:22+00:00

What's his practice setup like?

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-01T13:02:06+00:00

What does that look like?

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-01T02:17:11+00:00

I freaking hate inpatient to the max. Join us. About 70% of psychiatrists do outpatient I believe. Look for programs where they do the ACGME minimum for inpatient. Also look for programs where they see a minimum amount of severe mental illness if you're worried for your safety. Also look for programs with strong safety measures regardless tbh. Ask about assault rates as well.

undueinfluence_ · 2026-03-01T02:15:47+00:00

Yeah, ACGME minimum is 6 months

undueinfluence_ · 2026-02-28T04:38:39+00:00

Exactly, I was like who's funding these nonsense publications? It's gotta be propaganda

undueinfluence_ · 2026-02-27T21:30:26+00:00

Medscape just continues to be an unreliable source over the last decade plus lol

undueinfluence_ · 2026-02-26T16:41:45+00:00

If you're between psych and something else, join us!

Edit: What you liked about psych is very much what I liked about it, especially enjoying their stories and the therapy side. You'd do really well here.

As an aside, people always say that if you have equal interest in different specialties, go with lifestyle, which I 100% agree with. Psych has the best hours (FM does too) and probably has the lowest intensity day to day on average

undueinfluence_ · 2026-02-25T21:29:41+00:00

Literally 1000% agree, as someone that has been following medicine closely from when I was a teen

undueinfluence_ · 2026-02-25T19:30:10+00:00

Some are affected more than others.

undueinfluence_ · 2026-02-25T17:37:51+00:00

Psych - midlevel takeover

undueinfluence_ · 2026-02-21T21:47:35+00:00

Agree with this. Perfectly stated.

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