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DaisyBuchanan said:
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^This arrogant kid.
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aka THE AKRON HAMMER... oh wait.. he bailed on Ohio...

I usually like people with swagger, especially in sports, and love how insane Kanye and Prince are for example (I think its both hilarious and awesome in some comedic way). But Lebron is a cop out. Couldn't do it on his own, and still acts like he's a king.
 
DaisyBuchanan said:
It's a beautiful day in Los Angeles, and I'd love to go for a hike... but oh wait, I have to go volunteer instead 🙁
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bail. its VOLUNTEER. just don't make a habit out of it. make yourself happy today, its fridayyy.

i need to think of something to do for the day.
 
cliffhuxtableDO said:
bail. its VOLUNTEER. just don't make a habit out of it. make yourself happy today, its fridayyy.

i need to think of something to do for the day.
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Haha the head of the program is training me for one of the jobs I'll be doing, and I want to keep her happy if I don't get in anywhere this cycle 🙁
 
DaisyBuchanan said:
Haha the head of the program is training me for one of the jobs I'll be doing, and I want to keep her happy if I don't get in anywhere this cycle 🙁
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i'm simply encouraging sanity and if a hike will help with that, i say hike. you can worry about next cycle in a couple months. what's the job?
 
Don't listen to him daisy he is the devil😉. Prepare for next cycle not because you're going to need it, but because doing so will give you piece of mind and a sense of control in this icky process. It will be even prettier tomorrow and you can hike then🙂
 
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CougarMD said:
Don't listen to him daisy he is the devil😉 (listen to me muahahaha :meanie:). Prepare for next cycle not because you're going to need it, but because doing so will give you piece of mind and a sense of control in this icky process (hogwash, you have no control until you have options). It will be even prettier tomorrow and you cab hike then🙂
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ksmi117 said:
Question for the married ladies in the thread... did you make your bridesmaids wear dresses that were not flattering?

I just bought a dress that I know I'll look bad in. Royal blue just doesn't do it for me. I guess that's the point of bridesmaids though, right? To make the bride look pretty. :laugh:
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I had my bridesmaid where a dress I didn't even like :meanie:... well, not what I had in mind I should say. I had my MIL make the dresses, so 1) I had to go with a color that I wasn't really excited about because it was the only decent color we could agree on in the material we liked. 2) the dresses were shorter than what I had in mind. They turned out ok, but just not what I had envisioned. I didn't really care though. That wasn't important to me.

rafflecopter said:
Hmm folks... I need a new avatar but I feel like my screenname might have me typecast. Any suggestions?


Oh: And living at home is only temporary cliff. Was out of the house for college, back in the house for post-bac, and now out of the house for my gap year before med skool 😛. Keep fighting the good fight!
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Love the new avatar!

ksmi117 said:
Who here watches Grey's?
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Watching it right now!

FlowRate said:
I am now officially married, because facebook said so.
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:laugh: I got married in Vegas the first time. It was fun - a wedding and honeymoon all in one.
 
Kvetch said:
To all the student docs out there - take heed .....

This "belief " and trust in the specialty "Boards" (ABMS) and similar mercenary organizations (ACGME / RRC) is a symptom of the greater ill of the growing bureaucratic control and cost of medicine in general. The medical specialty boards are just another business - another self proclaimed "accreditation" business - a private enterprise - that's found a way to make HUGE profits from leeching off the medical field and driving up costs and making themselves appear as "official" agencies of some credulity - horsepucky - they're just a dang profiteering business who couldn't care less about you and your patients well being. They are driven by greed and controlled by special interests like any bureaucracy. And in fact they are doing more harm than good to the quality and variety of training of medical residents across the country. Many excellent free-standing residency programs with innovative ideas and methods and fresh approaches with regional relevance have been shut down due to the ACGME and the RRC behemoth - and the growth of the "boards" that "certify" physicians - after they've ALREADY proved themselves through State Licensure and many many years of training - both in general medicine and specialty training - and GRADUATED from the programs ready to practice. I got board cert in my first specialty, but I've done 2 residencies and 2 fellowships and I'm tired and sick of test taking - which proves nothing. I know excellent docs who've never boarded, and I know many crappy incompetent docs who are boarded and think the world of themselves - they just know the tricks of taking tests. You know the type. The type that's given us a bad name. Prima Dona University Sophists - on whom we can blame the whole Board scam. No doc took "boards" in the not so distant past - just the academics - because of their dang over-competitiveness and damaged egos. Now we all pay for their folly. Why the need for an ADDITIONAL "Board cert? NO NEED! It was designed by profiteering leeches to prey on those university professor doctors with fragile egos who wanted another sheepskin on the wall to compete with their peers! This has served only to create a generic, controlled and controllable "product" out of previously free-thinking, innovative, and caring physicians of yesterday. And now the very idea of private-practice medicine - like the affordable neighborhood doc who knows his patients personally for a lifetime - is being threatened by socialized government run medicine. I hope all the hospital employed physicians and institutionalized physicians in universities are not falling into this mentality completely. For if they are we will see the rapid decay of the entire field. Perhaps we are already seeing it. I urge a REVOLT by all the young docs out there - you are becoming a rarity and in demand - as less and less youngsters are going into medicine for these very reasons. Stand up for yourselves - go into private practice - avoid 3rd party payors - do fee for service only - and don't do the dang scam of the specialty boards! You don't need them!
And I would add The Art of Medicine is not yet completely dead. Find an innovative training program that's not yet been shut down by the ACGME / RRC - and join the AAPS (NOT the AMA who own and profit from the CPT coding system!) - and go practice the Art of Medicine for your patients and community - the way it was meant to be practiced. Free market. Good docs will do well, bad profiteering docs will fail. It's as simple as that. And with a lot less overhead, and thus savings for all. The cost of medicine / health care will half overnight if we went back to cash only / fee for service. And I believe the quality would increase exponentially, because you could then afford the time with your patients to figure out whats going on properly. No more rushing to meet your quota and keep under budget - as no more overhead of the overly complex billing and coding system. Pass the word along to the student docs. Private practice is not yet dead. The evil is not the doc - but the bureaucracy trying to control him. You don't need to be an employee. You'll be infinitely happier working for yourself with a new found freedom. Your patients will appreciate it too. People are willing to pay for quality care. I know I am.
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thanks! i aim to be the type of doc you're describing. i'm just hoping its feasible by the time i'm done with training.
 
eablackwell said:
That's...interesting. Also posted like 6 times today.
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Yeah, spam posting everywhere. His post count just jumped up from 2, when he posted here, to 15, in the seconds it took for me to post that image.

Also when checking out that AAPS organization he mentioned... it looks like they made their website in 1996 on angelfire and haven't updated it since. Just another right-wingnut group that don't want standards to protect patients and seeking to destroy any resemblance of health care reform or any alternatives to improve the US health care system. They wish it was still 1894 and they were selling snake oil and blood letting on the streets while sipping on absinthe. No thanks.
 
ksmi117 said:
Jealous. Motivate me to lose weight too!! 🙂
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+1!!!

I'm looking forward to being done with classes so I can start working out regularly again and have time to cook during the week.
 
Stomach flu really sucks. I've been super sick from Monday night and haven't been able to do anything else since 🙁. You'd think I'd be on here more, but sleeping has become a better hobby right now lol.
 
Geekchick921 said:
So, I'm down 8.5 pounds in a little less than 5 weeks. 😀
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That is awesome!! I'm about to go on a strict diet & exercise regimen starting next week. One of my friends just got engaged last night and called to ask me to be her matron (sad I can't be a maid anymore) of honor. This is the incentive I needed...embarrassment. :laugh:

rafflecopter said:
Stomach flu really sucks. I've been super sick from Monday night and haven't been able to do anything else since 🙁. You'd think I'd be on here more, but sleeping has become a better hobby right now lol.
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Oh, I hope you feel better soon! 🙁 I had food poisoning on Tues & Wed. It was miserable, but at least it wasn't very long. Make sure you are staying hydrated.
 
Geekchick921 said:
Whatever, I saw your Halloween picture! I'd kill to be built like that, missy. My own laziness, college, a handful of surgeries and a kid were not kind to me.
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I used to be much skinnier though! I never gained the freshman 15 in undergrad. But I sure did in med school. Must change that.

eablackwell said:
That is awesome!! I'm about to go on a strict diet & exercise regimen starting next week. One of my friends just got engaged last night and called to ask me to be her matron (sad I can't be a maid anymore) of honor. This is the incentive I needed...embarrassment. :laugh:
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Why is that sad???
 
But anyway... I'll share my "secret". I use quotes because I'll tell anyone. I LOVE sparkpeople.com. I use it to track my calorie intake, because I don't eat poorly, really, but I was eating way too much. They give you a meal plan but I don't follow it (you don't have to, at all, it's just a suggestion). It also let's me keep track of how much water I'm drinking, and how many grams of carbs, fat and protein I've eaten. I told them I wanted to lose ** pounds by my birthday next year (late September, then my friend's getting married in October and I'm a bridesmaid... bonus motivation), and it spat out a calorie range for my daily intake, as well as a range of grams of carbs, fat and protein I should aim for.

At first I was constantly hungry, and constantly peeing, but after a few weeks that's pretty much passed and I can tell my appetite's shrunk considerably and I'm satisfied with a lot less food. That said... I was treated to a hoagie for lunch today that I was good about and sliced in half (I'll have the other half for lunch tomorrow). I can resist, but God damn is it calling my name right now. Moderation is key, I have to remind myself. 🙂

The database of food is HUGE and you can enter your own food from the label yourself very easily, and reference it again later. Oh, and if I'm using a recipe I make at home a lot, I go to sparkrecipes.com, plug in all the ingredients, tell it how many servings it makes, hit calculate, and it gives me the nutritional info that I can put into sparkpeople that way. They've also got a database on sparkrecipes.com but I haven't used it too much. What I have used has been good, though.

The best part, is totally, absolutely, 100% free.
 
Haven't posted regularly (in this thread) in a while. URM thread is driving me bonkers. I was going to post the longest multi-quote ever, but it'd probably break the internet :meanie:.

bigballer27 said:
interview invite!

slow and steady wins the race...
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Congrats! :woot:


I would like to take this time to personally thank CougarAsstModMD for getting me hooked on Psych. I spent the past 2 days watching Seasons 1 and 2.
 
ksmi117 said:
I used to be much skinnier though! I never gained the freshman 15 in undergrad. But I sure did in med school. Must change that.
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I'll level with you... kinda. When I was pregnant with Chicklet I topped out about 75 pounds more than I weighed when I started college 6 years prior, and I did NOT gain a lot of weight when I was pregnant with her. Yeah... 😳
 
Hah thanks guys.

I gotta be grateful I don't have to do much dieting. I eat like crap, but I don't eat much, which balances it out I guess
 
Did you lose weight?

Actually, I have been trying this new fat free diet I invented. All I've had to eat for the past six days are gummy bears, jelly beans, and candy corns.

God, I wish I had your discipline.
 
I've been trying to cut back on sugar and carbs and eat more protein, but it is soooo hard! stupid sugar and carbs. Why do you have to taste so good!
 
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