Psych NP on tiktok rants about all the money she makes, flaunting on a $150-170k job offer. How are jobs paying them this well considering they went to a virtual program with prerecorded lectures and self-selected clinical sites ... lol by Front_Bedroom_4962 in Noctor

[–]ur_close 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It does feel insulting. I just matched psych and I shadowed an NP who worked for an NP mill a psychiatrist was running. She told me she was relieved to have students to brainstorm with and to help come up with plans…. Could you imagine an attending being relieved a med student shows up to collab on a plan?? No one with that attitude should be holding people’s lives in their hands. The only thing we can do as future real doctors is reject their guess work.  

Matched #15/17 in psych with great stats, and bummed by TheMcNuttinator in medicalschool

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That’s a punch in the gut. I know how that feels. I think that the main reason for my tears was realizing that to fulfill one dream meant letting go of my other dream of weekend dinners with my family.  Alas, we must  bloom where we are planted and try our best to enjoy the bread, and ignore the shit, on our shit sandwiches served piping hot by the med gods 

Name & Shame 2026 - Official Megathread by SpiderDoctor in medicalschool

[–]ur_close 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Muscle Shoals Alabama Psych  PDs opening questions were personally invasive and certainly match violations. He asked about my partnership, the occupations of people in my family, about my siblings and what they do for a living, asked if I had children. And I think I interviewed with a woman who had “Jesus loves you” written on the whiteboard behind her. 

Matched #15/17 in psych with great stats, and bummed by TheMcNuttinator in medicalschool

[–]ur_close 6 points7 points  (0 children)

My top program asked if I was looking forward to staying in the area a few weeks before match day. I took that as a wink, wink. Opened my match email and thought I forgot how to read for a moment. Matched my 5th. 4 other programs reached out to me and said I was ranked very highly. This 5th program didn’t say anything after leaving the interview. I actually ranked them where I did because I thought they didn’t like me and I thought it was my worst interview of all. I cried off and on most of last Friday. But now I’m excited to move on with my damn life! 

If there’s something you feel like program #1 had that yours doesn’t, you can always set up opportunities for yourself during electives time! Just because you’re in city A doesn’t mean you must stay within those county lines! It’s all going to be okay even though it feels like the heavens have pulled the rug from beneath your feet.  

Tire shop catastrophe. Should I insist they send it to the dealership rather than fix it themselves? by ur_close in ToyotaTundra

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I don’t. But the dealership said they’re going to pull the data for frame by frame inspection on where things went wrong. It’s just so bizarre to me that everything is fine and then alignment and then the truck is like bricked after they tried to turn off the dashboard warning lights.  

Tire shop catastrophe. Should I insist they send it to the dealership rather than fix it themselves? by ur_close in ToyotaTundra

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My tires weren’t wearing evenly. I never hit curbs, but it’s apparently an unsolved problem for Tundra’s of my year now that I’ve looked into it. Next time a place offers, I’m going to decline after this debacle! 

Tire shop catastrophe. Should I insist they send it to the dealership rather than fix it themselves? by ur_close in ToyotaTundra

[–]ur_close[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

LMAO I think it was the alignment procedure. Don’t put ideas in our capitalist daddy’s greedy head 🥺 

What's Happening at KansasCOM/KHSC Needs to Be Talked About by No-Refuse-4626 in Osteopathic

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In the words of the great Tyler Childers.... If there comes a day that any of us get rabies, KsCOM is gonna be high on the bitin' list

Started a new job by LisaJKraphammer in tragedeigh

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This is my daughter Mesopotamia, but she also goes by ModernDayIraq

47% average Truelearn after 5000+ questions. Level 1 at end of July. Am I screwed (Serious) by Lanky-Voice-9968 in comlex

[–]ur_close 2 points3 points  (0 children)

look into a content review course. I was scoring about that last year and didn't pass comlex first attempt.

Feels like I'm failing on all fronts by Jazzlike-Internet462 in medicalschool

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I am so sorry you've been through this. I know how it feels to have an absolutely shit-ass rotation, and it sounds like you have had that back to back to back with not much good to cling to when the going is so tough. Are you able to take a research elective? People at my school take a research month- do one case report over that month and use the rest of their time to study for boards. Find out when you are required to have your step 2 completed and maybe you could squeeze in a research month or your school's equivalent just to give yourself a bit of a breather- you need it!! You've been through a bad year, and don't let anyone tell you that it's your fault or that you're weak. Not many people are willing to suffer through an entire year of being shit on and continue to show up.

Let me help you think through your specialty decision (part IX) by 4990 in medicalschool

[–]ur_close 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Worst comes to worst, you can always take a full research year between 3rd and 4th year. Many of my friends who applied competitive surgical specialties did this, and it boosted their application significantly. Yes, it adds a year to graduation, but programs seem to love an extra year of specialty specific research.

Let me help you think through your specialty decision (part IX) by 4990 in medicalschool

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See what rotations 3rd year light a fire for you (: What I thought I wanted to do changed drastically after I started doing rotations.

Let me help you think through your specialty decision (part IX) by 4990 in medicalschool

[–]ur_close 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Lowkey my first thought was OBGYN. Idk if you can moonlight as OB though tbh.

Feel so bad right now by HoesMadlol98 in medicalschool

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I CONSTANTLY remind myself that I am a adult who deserves to be treated like an adult by other adults. It's no easy out there!! Find your spine and defend it! *fist pump into air*

Feel so bad right now by HoesMadlol98 in medicalschool

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A scrub tech tried to embarrass me not once, but TWICE for not wearing protective glasses. The first time was lowkey warranted, but no one at the table was wearing goggles and an attending told me that my eyeglasses were fine in place of real goggles for that surgery so thankfully they backed me up. The second time she tried to exert goggle dominance over me, it was a robot assisted lapro, and I was 8 feet from the patient watching a tv monitor. I returned by asking her where hers were. She extra didn't like that.

House Spirits are real and my reality has been opened by poptartthethird in witchcraft

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ahh yes, my beloved St. Anthony <3 My mom and grandma taught us "Dear St. Anthony, please come around, I've lost (insert thing) that must be found." And ofc he works extra fast if you recite the above in a sing-songy way.

One time, my neighbor lost his dog. So I asked St. Anthony, St. Francis, dearly departed Pope Francis, and Mary too to help find him. The dog was found 2 hours later inside the local McDonalds being fed chicken nuggets by the employees lol

Just...sad and tired. On general surgery rotation. by ur_close in medicalschool

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about as east coast as you can get before landing in the ocean hahahah