Meeting your significant other while in residency?

[CityIvy]

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How many of you guys and gals out there met your significant others while in residency? (and i don't mean necessarily at your own program). I've started residency not too long ago and I have to say, it is slim pickings out there. Either I don't have time to go out and meet someone (not that i would want to meet someone at a club/bar anyway), there aren't any cute guys in the hopsital, or there are cute guys--but they're taken. So really the question is, if we don't meet someone in med school, then meeting someone as a resident is even less likely?

 

[Ceez]

slim pickings??? naw... if you a dood, the nurses jump all over the young doctors.

 

[Hurricane]

Do what I did and snag one off the internets.

 

[f_w]

Call more consults ! Worked for me 😉

And for the 'the cute ones are taken' problem, persistence pays off.

 

[Leukocyte]

Call more consults ! Worked for me 😉

This was also the plan of a FMG dude FP resident at place where I did my FP core. This dude wanted to be an american citizen, and he was desperate...

EVERY TIME in morning rounds when the attending asks the residents, "so guys, what is you management plan for this case"...that dude was always the first one to answer, and he would always say proundly and with all confidence in his heavy foreign accent, "I think, and I realy realy think, that we should get a social work consult."

At first the attendings never noticed, but then they realized that there were a hell lot of social work consults, and almost every one of their patients had one (he would ask his fellow resident budies to order the SW consult, and he would "misteriously" show up at the patient's room at the time of the consult).

In the end the attendings figured out that he was chasing the tale of one of the social workers, and were pissed at what he was doing. Saddly, he was fired from that residency program. It was too bad, becease the dude was realy nice to us, med students (especially the girls🙄 but he was cool with the dudes too), and would teach us and let us do alot of things.

 

[f_w]

In the end the attendings figured out that he was chasing the tale of one of the social workers,

In the meantime I am happily married, but during my fellowship it was certainly tempting to call interpretation services or cardiology consults more often than medically necessary 😉

 

[Leukocyte]

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[whatsthat?]

when you figure out how to find someone in residency let me know.. I have yet to fit that one into my schedule😕

 

[Winged Scapula]

when you figure out how to find someone in residency let me know.. I have yet to fit that one into my schedule😕

If you aren't opposed to meeting someone in the hospital, its not all that hard. Dozens, even hundreds of singles are around the hospital. Many of my colleagues have dated, and even married while in residency - nurses, resp techs, other residents (in my case), etc.

I met mine while doing a SICU rotation - our eyes met across a ventilated patient and it was love at first sight!

 

[Blade28]

Still waiting to find that special someone...though not for a lack of trying! Have dated two residents, one PT, two nurses so far.

 

[RuralMedicine]

If you aren't opposed to meeting someone in the hospital, its not all that hard. Dozens, even hundreds of singles are around the hospital. Many of my colleagues have dated, and even married while in residency - nurses, resp techs, other residents (in my case), etc.

I met mine while doing a SICU rotation - our eyes met across a ventilated patient and it was love at first sight!

 

[AmoryBlaine]

If you aren't opposed to meeting someone in the hospital, its not all that hard. Dozens, even hundreds of singles are around the hospital. Many of my colleagues have dated, and even married while in residency - nurses, resp techs, other residents (in my case), etc.

I met mine while doing a SICU rotation - our eyes met across a ventilated patient and it was love at first sight!

"Love in the Time of Pseudomonas aeruginosa"

 

[deleted87716]

I met [my significant other] while doing a SICU rotation - our eyes met across a ventilated patient and it was love at first sight!

Oh, that'll be a good story for the kiddies. 😉

Hopefully, the sound of violins that you thought you heard wasn't actually the apnea monitor.

 

[Winged Scapula]

Oh, that'll be a good story for the kiddies. 😉

Hopefully, the sound of violins that you thought you heard wasn't actually the apnea monitor.

Actually, I think it better fodder for the kiddies than the REAL story (which had something to do with him seeing me from behind bent over the view box in the SICU....or so he says!)

Good thing I guess that he wasn't disappointed when I turned around!

 

[cdql]

I guess it's probably easier to find someone in the hospital if you're always bogged down with such busy residency schedules?

 

[lateness]

I guess it's probably easier to find someone in the hospital if you're always bogged down with such busy residency schedules?

it's true and makes sense that where you spend most of your time, the hospital, is where you will most likely meet other singles. But I am the opposite. I try very hard to meet people outside the work setting. Anywhere, is good, and I have met a lot that way. baby. you just have to give it a chance..

 

[Leukocyte]

Actually, I think it better fodder for the kiddies than the REAL story (which had something to do with him seeing me from behind bent over the view box in the SICU....or so he says!)

...And that's why, boys and GIRLS, you must wear your LONG white coat AT ALL TIMES!

It is OK for med. students to wear the short white coat because, unlike residents and doctors, their night-call work is much more limited, and does not involve too much body maneuvering and posturing.

 

[cdql]

...And that's why, boys and GIRLS, you must wear your LONG white coat AT ALL TIMES!

It is OK for med. students to wear the short white coat because, unlike residents and doctors, their night-call work is much more limited, and does not involve too much body maneuvering and posturing.

hahaha

i'll be sure to remember that when the time comes!

 

[Finally M3]

I met mine while doing a SICU rotation - our eyes met across a ventilated patient and it was love at first sight!

I met my fiance during our surgery rotation as M3s. Hey, you have a lot of time on your hands during a Whipple as a med student!

 

[Leukocyte]

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[Faebinder]

I have posted this in the Single's Forum and now pass it on to you as it fits better here it seem....

The five stages of residents dating:

1) The Intern: You have been through medical school.. damn books, you feel like life has slipped by you and you didn't get to enjoy it. You are finally making some money and now are ready to put yourself out there. You are the new kid in the block (the new doctor in the house) and now you are willing to date anyone... the senior residents... the nurses... the social workers.... the guard dog....whatever looks good and yummy. Plus you dont have time to be picky and if the relationship fails so what...move on, career is more important now.

2) The Second Year: Alright, you have been around the block. Everyone now knows you are a potential animal/deva and they keep their distance. You are a little more picky now that you tried the rest (and the best) and nothing worked out + you have developed a reputation. Now you hunt for people less familiar with your reputation. The hot new intern...The new pediatric nurse on the second floor, the new ER physician assistant.. maybe even that new attending that just got appointed in psychiatry.

3) The Third Year: You are a senior now... You are tired of the game. You have been the wolf for a year and it aint working out. It's not you... it must be the hospital.. it's a bad hunting ground.... you try more bars/clubs/even churches. Life is a mystry and you keep wondering where did you go wrong.

4) The Fourth Year: By this point you have realized that you are gay or you just got married.

5) The Fifth Year: You now have kids now... or want some. You begin giving advise to new interns where to hunt as you are now the wise one of the pack.

Enjoy the thinking.