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Agent Splat said:
i already read that stuff. I'm probably going to read it again right before bed and again in the morning to get myself in the mood.
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Good, then you can teach me all about it, cuz I sure ain't readin' them there articles. I hope we get to pick our groups for stupid discussions that I heard we have.
 
Ashers said:
Good, then you can teach me all about it, cuz I sure ain't readin' them there articles. I hope we get to pick our groups for stupid discussions that I heard we have.
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picking your group wouldn't help you develop cultural competency skills. you need to learn to work outside of your comfort zone. that's why i'm not wearing silk underwear like usual tomorrow.
 
Agent Splat said:
picking your group wouldn't help you develop cultural competency skills. you need to learn to work outside of your comfort zone. that's why i'm not wearing silk underwear like usual tomorrow.
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The hat I'll have with me is beyond my normal comfort zone.

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and that reminds me...i'm assuming tomorrow is a casual clothing day? no professional attire? I can wear my squirrel/nuts shirt or whatever I want? within reason?
 
Agent Splat said:
and that reminds me...i'm assuming tomorrow is a casual clothing day? no professional attire? I can wear my squirrel/nuts shirt or whatever I want? within reason?
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I'm going to wear slacks and a button-up shirt sans tie. That way I can be comfy and not suffer the wrath of the professionalism police that are surely to be patrolling the halls.

I'd love to wear my Cleveland Indians personalized "Balzdeep" shirt though.
 
I actually emailed and asked. Dress casually. Marc - not too casually.
 
So despite the 2 e-mails that got sent out to all the surgery residents that stated there are no clinical duties from 10:00 tonight until after intersession is over, we still get to go in and round tomorrow morning. And I get to give a presentation about pancreatitis, too!
 
c'mon guys, don't knock the intersession...I loved it so much I'm coming back again this year! :banana:
 
Okay, I'm all for work, really, but Gimlet, that's ridiculous. You are off. Period. I had to round and do a presentation the morning before my B-OSCE, and I had to do my presentation because it was the last Thursday of the month or whatever, and it was silly.

If they're going to give us time off, it should be off. Just sayin'.
 
Gimlet said:
So despite the 2 e-mails that got sent out to all the surgery residents that stated there are no clinical duties from 10:00 tonight until after intersession is over, we still get to go in and round tomorrow morning. And I get to give a presentation about pancreatitis, too!
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Why the hell did you still have to go in? The words in emails from amy are like gold.
 
All I know is that I saw his name on the list for the end of the alphabet. I believe it was in Pratik's group, so give us the info!
 
akpete said:
Why the hell did you still have to go in? The words in emails from amy are like gold.
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Unfortunately I don't think the residents read their e-mails too closely. When one of my team members mentioned that we had off on Friday (this was Thursday), the chief was like "well, what time does the meeting start?" You can imagine where the conversation went after that.

It was one of those situations where, yes, we could have made a stand and insisted that we were supposed to be off all day, but what would that really have accomplished besides causing hard feelings and potentially affecting our evaluations negatively? It's one of those power differential things that you just have to suck up so often in medicine - can't have the person evaluating you be upset with you. We talked about it a lot in our professionalism small groups today.

The sad thing is, Redlich is one of our attendings, and I didn't even feel comfortable bringing it up with him for fear of seeming like I was trying to get out of work that clearly wasn't too much of a hassle. It just wasn't important enough to make a big deal about it.
 
today was an entire day of my life I can never get back.
 
Gimlet said:
The sad thing is, Redlich is one of our attendings, and I didn't even feel comfortable bringing it up with him for fear of seeming like I was trying to get out of work that clearly wasn't too much of a hassle. It just wasn't important enough to make a big deal about it.
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But now that you've had you're all important professionalism training, you can go up to Redlich and tell him how you were affected because you were so tired during the meeting and ask if it was unprofessional, etc.
 
Ashers said:
But now that you've had you're all important professionalism training, you can go up to Redlich and tell him how you were affected because you were so tired during the meeting and ask if it was unprofessional, etc.
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to show up for prerounding and rounds showed high duty and high accountibility. however, it showed low altruism and low integrity and honesty on the part of his residents, as well as low respect if we were to create a z-axis.

we should probably ask some sort of open ended question of Gimlet now to assess how he perceives this.
 
Agent Splat said:
to show up for prerounding and rounds showed high duty and high accountibility. however, it showed low altruism and low integrity and honesty on the part of his residents, as well as low respect if we were to create a z-axis.

we should probably ask some sort of open ended question of Gimlet now to assess how he perceives this.
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And we can just look at it from many different perspectives. I'll be the residents, you can be the "verging on useless" medical student (words of Tomer Begaz), Gimlet can be Dr. Redlich, then we still have the patients, and the hospital director.

High-high: Students are supposed to be free on Friday, med students don't need to come in.
Low-low: I hate med students anyway, and I like to see them suffer, so they must come in.
high altruism-low integrity: they don't have to come in, BUT they will pay for this
low altruism-high integrity: students come in, and I won't make their lives too miserable.

Did I really just waste my time typing that out? Oh geez.
 
Ashers said:
And we can just look at it from many different perspectives. I'll be the residents, you can be the "verging on useless" medical student (words of Tomer Begaz), Gimlet can be Dr. Redlich, then we still have the patients, and the hospital director.

High-high: Students are supposed to be free on Friday, med students don't need to come in.
Low-low: I hate med students anyway, and I like to see them suffer, so they must come in.
high altruism-low integrity: they don't have to come in, BUT they will pay for this
low altruism-high integrity: students come in, and I won't make their lives too miserable.

Did I really just waste my time typing that out? Oh geez.
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LOL, that was great.
 
for those of you who didn't normally go to class anyways, was pharmacology any different? I've heard from some people that attending pharm can sometimes be necessary to get the full picture. true?
 
The only class I attended second year was pharm... so, take that FWIW.
 
1 Ob call done, 4 to go...
 
You only have five calls? Hogswallop!! You kids and your cush schedules... what is this world coming to?
 
Agent Splat said:
Any recs on where I should consider for CPR?
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Today Clint and Tim were talking about how awesome Joe's was. However, I really liked Froedtert. That also meant that I didn't have to drive anywhere for lecture. I was in Froedtert east, so I didn't have any complicated patients, except for hard sticks sometimes with limited access points because they'd be having surgery on their arm. At the dert people can also go to the eye center to put in lots of IVs. If your attending moves between East and West, you get a good variety of types of cases.

I did the regional pain stuff for a day, and that was neat. I didn't do anything other than IVs though, and watch them put in the blocks.
 
Same here, Froedtert East was a good mix of interesting cases. Ashers makes a good point about not having to drive back for lecture - you have lecture a LOT during the couple weeks you're in Anesthesia.

I also shadowed in the Regional Anesthesia/Acute Pain Service for a day. I wouldn't recommend devoting a whole day to it - do pain clinic or something else instead. (Actually, as a potential EM dude, spending some time in pain clinic would probably be really beneficial.) You can get some exposure to the RAAPs stuff when one of your attendings' patients is getting a block. Although, I was about thisclose to getting to do a femoral nerve block until the attending reconsidered and decided that it probably wasn't appropriate for a med student to do the procedure.
 
You'll probably be able to do them as a fourth year. I think my friend (who's applying gas) did them on his elective (he didn't get a sub-I).

I like the VA. You get to do ridiculous things there. Plus, I just looooove me some vets. Seriously.
 
I just want it noted that I wrote 181 emails today. They were all the same, but whatever. Speaking of that... Matt and Don, you should donate.
 
Xandie said:
I just want it noted that I wrote 181 emails today. They were all the same, but whatever. Speaking of that... Matt and Don, you should donate.
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And I thought I got a personalized email!
 
So how am I a two year member if my join date clearly says Sept 2003?
 
donnyfire said:
So how am I a two year member if my join date clearly says Sept 2003?
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The categories are 2, 5, and 10 year members...so you have a little bit to go before you get bumped up to the next icon. I think they're totally dumb - the join date is on the page for a reason.
 
that reminds me....in terms of lame useless awards to make people feel better, what are those "POET" pins Froedtert staff are wearing with variable numbers of quill feather pens dangling from them?
 
Xandie said:
I just want it noted that I wrote 181 emails today. They were all the same, but whatever. Speaking of that... Matt and Don, you should donate.
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I'll have to check exactly when, but I donated double red cells about a month ago, so I don't think I'm eligible to donate again yet. Those blood center guys are always hounding me because I'm O- and CMV-. I've never had mono or cold sores either. For all I know, I'm completely herpes virus-free.
 
Hey, I'm O- and CMV- too... can't donate packed cells or plasma though, I'm too small.

And I'm not talking about the blood drive, silly, I'm talking about the Senior Gift Drive. Read your emails more carefully.

And minus one thousand points to the person that called me "Alexandria" in the return email. I like the girl, but seriously.
 
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