What’s in a name?

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I don't think we needed to Striesand that article, but it's been done. I will say that between the three of them there are a total of 42 letters after their names. 14 per person if we include the h in PhD. Impressive.

I've told this story here before, but my dad (who is in medicine) had a colleague who would put MD, PhD, MOSC after his name. No one ever asked him was MOSC was. My dad asked. The answer: "Member of Sam's Club"
 

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In this vein, I have asked chat GPT to give me terms I should use to describe bad things that happen after surgery instead of the pejorative term "complication"

It came up with:
"bumps in the road"
"deviations from the normal course"
"events that may affect your recovery"

or my favorite from Scrubs
"Teensy Snafu's"
 
DoctwoB said:
In this vein, I have asked chat GPT to give me terms I should use to describe bad things that happen after surgery instead of the pejorative term "complication"

It came up with:
"bumps in the road"
"deviations from the normal course"
"events that may affect your recovery"

or my favorite from Scrubs
"Teensy Snafu's"
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I always liked the term "therapeutic misadventure"
 
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Caring what Drew, Sue, and Neha think about the word 'toxicity' - Not. Even. Once.

Not sure why Simul cares so much. Maybe Drew living rent free in his head?
 
evilbooyaa said:
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Caring what Drew, Sue, and Neha think about the word 'toxicity' - Not. Even. Once.

Not sure why Simul cares so much. Maybe Drew living rent free in his head?
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That's Simul's whole point. Why is ASTRO writing articles about this? I don't think it's an overreaction at all. It's a criticism of ASTRO when there are better things they should be doing.

I will just put out there:
1. Simul is a solid human being for anyone who doesn't know him.
2. I think he should stop lurking and make a new account.

For those of you who don't know, he was public on SDN until the president of ASTRO went after him and tried to get him fired from his job. This is our professional society folks.
 
I think Simul's point is that spending the time/energy/effort to publish an article about verbiage surrounding side effects while we just suffered through the largest cuts in Medicare history is nonsense.

I strongly agree with him and really miss his presence here. Definitely understand why he left, however.
 
OTN said:
I think Simul's point is that spending the time/energy/effort to publish an article about verbiage surrounding side effects while we just suffered through the largest cuts in Medicare history is nonsense.

I strongly agree with him and really miss his presence here. Definitely understand why he left, however.
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People will always find weird places to make a stand. I recently saw supposedly grown adults have a heated argument over whether we should teach our kids to pronounce the alphabet LNNOP or LMN-OPQ because apparently one of the options might be more confusing than the other.

ASTRO is a professional organization made up of people who think very highly of their own opinions and love to perseverate. This tracks.
 
Neuronix said:
That's Simul's whole point. Why is ASTRO writing articles about this? I don't think it's an overreaction at all. It's a criticism of ASTRO when there are better things they should be doing.

I will just put out there:
1. Simul is a solid human being for anyone who doesn't know him.
2. I think he should stop lurking and make a new account.

For those of you who don't know, he was public on SDN until the president of ASTRO went after him and tried to get him fired from his job. This is our professional society folks.
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Simul is great and I wish he was back, even as someone anonymous. Cause, ya know, vindictiveness from national leadership is a significant concern.

To me, giving this oxygen is like giving conspiracy theorists oxygen.

When we should, IMO, be doing this:

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Anywyas, reportedly Drew is reaching out to investigators to tell them that they shouldn't use the word toxicity in their upcoming trials, which is like the most silly thing I've seen out of him (which is saying something given his twitter account and the embarassment he is to the field regularly on that platform).
 
OTN said:
I think Simul's point is that spending the time/energy/effort to publish an article about verbiage surrounding side effects while we just suffered through the largest cuts in Medicare history is nonsense.

I strongly agree with him and really miss his presence here. Definitely understand why he left, however.
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I miss 3 people 1) simul 2) ESE 3) sir spam alot
 
Hey,

It’s Simul. I’m not back 🙂 But, I just wanted to post a quick note.

I am under such scrutiny for everything I write. I’ve had people interfere with my job search and I’ve had people try to get me in trouble at my job. Just recently, I was asked about a few sentences in a Substack post - turns out the owner of my several hundred physician multi-specialty practice (not a rad onc, but a great person, nonetheless) had seen it and had some questions. Although I have many supporters, I have a significant amount of detractors. I often wonder why - I’m pretty sure if we met in person, we’d likely be cool. But, it’s these folks that can cause significant distress in my professional life, which tends to cause significant distress in my personal life. I’m a bit of a high anxiety guy, so I try to avoid that.

With the Substack, I can be extremely careful and curated. I can go back and change things - it’s under my editorial control. Yes, people can screenshot things, but it’s a little bit different than on a public forum where I may slip and say something - boom - it ends up emailed to someone I work with/for and without context or explanation, I may have consequences.

Why not just be anonymous? Idk, I did that for a bit. I’m going to confess - DamnDaniel was me 😂 - but someone figured it out and I hightailed it outta there. Had another anonymous account, but it’s not the same for me. I like who I am and I like saying what I’d like to say. I just need to be more protective. Family and all - need a paycheck to survive.

Anyway, I hope more of you can read what I write and contribute and comment. I still read what you all say here. The ones I know, I often will message about a post. I like to stay connected - I still think this is an amazing place. But it seems less busy these days.

I’m at Radiation Medicine: Dollars and Sense | Simul Parikh | Substack

Subscribe for free 🙂

Sim
 
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WildRivers said:
Hey,

It’s Simul. I’m not back 🙂 But, I just wanted to post a quick note.

I am under such scrutiny for everything I write. I’ve had ASTRO leadership interfere with my job search and I’ve had people try to get me in trouble at my job. Just recently, I was asked about a few sentences in a Substack post - turns out the owner of my several hundred physician multi-specialty practice (not a rad onc, but a great person, nonetheless) had seen it and had some questions. Although I have many supporters, I have a significant amount of detractors. I often wonder why - I’m pretty sure if we met in person, we’d likely be cool. But, it’s these folks that can cause significant distress in my professional life, which tends to cause significant distress in my personal life. I’m a bit of a high anxiety guy, so I try to avoid that.

With the Substack, I can be extremely careful and curated. I can go back and change things - it’s under my editorial control. Yes, people can screenshot things, but it’s a little bit different than on a public forum where I may slip and say something - boom - it ends up emailed to someone I work with/for and without context or explanation, I may have consequences.

Why not just be anonymous? Idk, I did that for a bit. I’m going to confess - DamnDaniel was me 😂 - but someone figured it out and I hightailed it outta there. Had another anonymous account, but it’s not the same for me. I like who I am and I like saying what I’d like to say. I just need to be more protective. Family and all - need a paycheck to survive.

Anyway, I hope more of you can read what I write and contribute and comment. I still read what you all say here. The ones I know, I often will message about a post. I like to stay connected - I still think this is an amazing place. But it seems less busy these days.

I’m at Radiation Medicine: Dollars and Sense | Simul Parikh | Substack

Subscribe for free 🙂

Sim
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I'd be curious to understand how ASTRO leadership interfered with your job search. If there is something specific - that in itself should be a blog post and be called out. Otherwise it screams of paranoia.
 
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Grubbe-a-dub-dub said:
I'd be curious to understand how ASTRO leadership interfered with your job search. If there is something specific - that in itself should be a blog post and be called out. Otherwise it screams of paranoia.
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Paranoia indeed

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People in question still have their full-time jobs 🙂 Good for them and their families
 
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