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September is the best.

Beautiful month where I live.

Old docs want to vacation and last minute PRN shifts big $$

New docs are figuring out they hate their current place and want to change (CMGs suck)

My schedule fills to the brim for Oct/Nov/Dec because no one wants to work and new docs are leaving. Bonus money just rains from the sky

The stock market always takes a crap in September in preparation for the Santa Rally (I dollar cost average and Sept always has the highest returns of the year in the long run). I always invest slightly more in September compared to other months.

I just love September.
 
Guardians Of The Galaxy Seriously GIF by Leroy Patterson


You forgot College Football...
 
Ah yeah, College football! How could I forget what I am getting paid to watch right now.
 
Also September the residents are finally starting to be functional enough to do things so the worst of the “please don’t kill someone on my license” is starting to fade.
 
September, volumes are up, pay is going up.. my retirement contributions are nearly maxed, kids are in school, fall sports are starting (Softball,baseball for us this fall), football on 4 days a week and the world series / playoff baseball is around the corner.

re the OP I'm a little surprised the increases Locums money is so predictable. Get it while you can!
 
RustedFox said:
Keep Universities for academic pursuits. Apparently, I'm the only one here that had his western civ. class ruined by Jamal McBasketballer and company.
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Division 3 schools are great for this - no athletic scholarships.
 
RustedFox said:
Keep Universities for academic pursuits. Apparently, I'm the only one here that had his western civ. class ruined by Jamal McBasketballer and company.
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In my classes, the only athletes were swimmers/divers and water polo players.

(I'm saying the football players weren't in any academically rigorous classes.)
 
Apollyon said:
In my classes, the only athletes were swimmers/divers and water polo players.

(I'm saying the football players weren't in any academically rigorous classes.)
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Right on, but I could have done without the circus even in other classes that I was actually trying to enjoy.

I remember having to "swap papers with another member of the class" in some other class and I end up trying to read something that McTavius McFootballer wrote, and it was evident that there's no way he could have graduated from middle school, let alone be here.
 
RustedFox said:
Right on, but I could have done without the circus even in other classes that I was actually trying to enjoy.

I remember having to "swap papers with another member of the class" in some other class and I end up trying to read something that McTavius McFootballer wrote, and it was evident that there's no way he could have graduated from middle school, let alone be here.
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I honestly don't think I had a single class with a football player (unless the player was actually taking school seriously, I've had a few colleagues who were former D1 football players).

I went to a large undergrad but skipped a fair amount of intro classes due to AP credit from high school and some of my English courses were in the honors system I guess - until I realized there wasn't much benefit to the honors courses other than more difficult coursework when all med schools cared about was GPA.
 
September has been great this year; it's like someone flipped a switch and we went from winter to spring in a day. Last week of August, lows in the -2 to -4C range. This week, highs pushing 20C.

Always nice to see winter in the rearview mirror – discomfiting as the climate changes may be.
 
RustedFox said:
Right on, but I could have done without the circus even in other classes that I was actually trying to enjoy.

I remember having to "swap papers with another member of the class" in some other class and I end up trying to read something that McTavius McFootballer wrote, and it was evident that there's no way he could have graduated from middle school, let alone be here.
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My wife was an athletic department tutor in undergrad. Holy ****, the stories she has....
 
VA Hopeful Dr said:
My wife was an athletic department tutor in undergrad. Holy ****, the stories she has....
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I can only imagine. I played ball with a first round NFL draft pick, and we had another guy who was somehow an even better athlete. Unfortunately he had to be bused back to the middle school for remedial classes every day and never made it to college, much less the bright lights.
 
eyeeye_captain said:
I can only imagine. I played ball with a first round NFL draft pick, and we had another guy who was somehow an even better athlete. Unfortunately he had to be bused back to the middle school for remedial classes every day and never made it to college, much less the bright lights.
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I met a guy in SC that was a former college athlete. He had a master's degree. He was illiterate. That's not a misprint. Read at a 3rd grade level, at best.
 
Apollyon said:
I met a guy in SC that was a former college athlete. He had a master's degree. He was illiterate. That's not a misprint. Read at a 3rd grade level, at best.
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I don't know if this is nationwide or not, but in SC us doctors are taught to explain things to patients at a 3rd grade level.

When I was doing disability exams for the state, I'd say 9 in 10 patients I examined quite school at the 8th grade level.
 
VA Hopeful Dr said:
I don't know if this is nationwide or not, but in SC us doctors are taught to explain things to patients at a 3rd grade level.

When I was doing disability exams for the state, I'd say 9 in 10 patients I examined quite school at the 8th grade level.
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But have they been awarded master's degrees?
 
We all live with illusions and tacitly tolerate them

NCAA calls them student athletes but we all know they're employees there for a sham degree, at least at larger institutions.

Similarly, we call ourselves healthcare heros but we're all just replaceable cogs in a profit machine.

Gotta go with whatever lie makes you sleep best at night.
 
AlmostAnMD said:
We all live with illusions and tacitly tolerate them

NCAA calls them student athletes but we all know they're employees there for a sham degree, at least at larger institutions.

Similarly, we call ourselves healthcare heros but we're all just replaceable cogs in a profit machine.

Gotta go with whatever lie makes you sleep best at night.
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A LOT goes the way of the coach. Mike Krzyzewski and Dean Smith competed to see who could graduate the most players. Michael Jordan broke Smith's heat by leaving early, but Jordan promised he would return, and he did, getting his degree in geography in 1990.

Lou Holtz is a POS, leaving ungraduated players left and right - I know about Notre Dame and the University of South Carolina. Holtz would tell 90% of players that they would make it to the NFL, when it was less than 10%, in reality. I don't know about other locations. At USC, Steve Spurrier tried to turn that around.
 
Love it Porfirio. Feel like I wrote that post.
 
AlmostAnMD said:
We all live with illusions and tacitly tolerate them

NCAA calls them student athletes but we all know they're employees there for a sham degree, at least at larger institutions.

Similarly, we call ourselves healthcare heros but we're all just replaceable cogs in a profit machine.

Gotta go with whatever lie makes you sleep best at night.
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I'd only call myself a healthcare hero if it came with a free sub sandwich.
 
TooMuchResearch said:
An old girlfriend was on a full athletic scholarship to our D3 private university. Why was such a thing offered? No idea.
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Huh, that's odd. We had some endowed scholarships where one of the criteria was either play a sport or play sport X to get it, maybe that's what happened.
 
VA Hopeful Dr said:
Huh, that's odd. We had some endowed scholarships where one of the criteria was either play a sport or play sport X to get it, maybe that's what happened.
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This^. D3 schools can't give "athletic scholarships" but they can give scholarships to athletes.
 
RustedFox said:
Ah, college athletics.
Let's just call them what they are: minor league sports franchises with Universities "attached for convenience".
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Tell me about it. I went to LSU for undergrad.

While the rest of us mere mortals were fighting for tutors in the barely cooled library with the leaking roof, they had private tutors in the “Cox Communications Center for Student Athletics”-with its marble floors, functional A/C, and chauffeured golf carts to get them to “class”, ie, standing in the quad with their junk in their hands. They’d close all of the main commuter parking lot for the every Monday Morning Les Miles press conference, attended by all of 3 sports casters. So I, after coming off a 12 hr night shift or a straight 48 on the ambulance, would have to do the “Lockett Hall Death March” to try and make my 8AM class on time. The few baseball players I were in class with were absolute stereotypical douchebags. Wanna get a state budget passed? Threaten the funding for LSU: no class, no football. Got that passed lickety-split. They could cure cancer in the chemistry building, no one gives a damn what happens East of Tiger Stadium…

Whelp, there goes my BP meds..

To quote Clark Grizwold: “Hallelujah, holy ****, where’s the Tylenol?”
 
HemorrhagicShock said:
I genuinely believe that I am the only ER doc who has never cared about nor will ever care about sports
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Nah I find that the tides are turning when talking to old sportsball fanatics, especially in sports like baseball with 165 games. Get off the TV and be with your family. Sports can be a destructive distraction.
Maybe I've just getting older.
 
PB2464 said:
Nah I find that the tides are turning when talking to old sportsball fanatics, especially in sports like baseball with 165 games. Get off the TV and be with your family. Sports can be a destructive distraction.
Maybe I've just getting older.
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Ahem. 162 games.
 
PB2464 said:
Nah I find that the tides are turning when talking to old sportsball fanatics, especially in sports like baseball with 165 games. Get off the TV and be with your family. Sports can be a destructive distraction.
Maybe I've just getting older.
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I used to care so much about sports. I still watch, but much more casually. Now I kinda feel embarrassed seeing adults scream on TV at sports events.
 
Angry Birds said:
Nah. We exist.
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Yep, we exist. I even tried to get into various sports for social reasons, but I just couldn't do it. Instead of watching other people, I like to go out and do fun things myself.
 
RustedFox said:
Ah, college athletics.
Let's just call them what they are: minor league sports franchises with Universities "attached for convenience".
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Stopped watching college football. Same S, different year. 'rich get richer, poor get poorer' in terms of talent. Or another way to put it: The school who designates the most money to team/drafting get the best talent and the best records. At least with pro teams, the draft actually tries to help balance things from year to year.
 
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