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TheProwler said:
Well, Stanford's average was like a 237...



any M3/M4s care to explain what you could do with a residency in anesthesia followed by a fellowship in critical care? what kind of patient population do you deal with?
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My good friend Dave in the OldPreMeds is just finishing off this fellowship. I've invited him to drop by and comment.
 
indo said:
So, what do you all like about anesthesiology?
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Lets see...

Short but intense interactions with your patients...being able to calm their fears/make them feel better during a very stressful time in their lives.

Enhancing the surgical experience of your patients by providing a smooth anesthestic/postop pain relief via a regional technique.

Care for the sickest of the sick patients - take a sicko from the ICU and add on the stress of surgery.

Procedures - taking pride honing techniques to perfect them - from a painless IV stick to a smooth epidural for labor.

Get to practice real-time physiology - instant gratification for your interventions in the OR.

Exposure to pathologic states crossing a wide variety of fields of medicine - all surgical specialties, interventional rads, OB, peds, critical care.
 
Gimlet said:
OldManDave? That would be awesome! I would love to hear whether my post is complete BS or not.
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And you know he'll tell you. He's a big old teddy bear in person, but he pulls no punches.
 
Gimlet said:
OldManDave? That would be awesome! I would love to hear whether my post is complete BS or not.
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I should mention it'll probably be a few days at best. He's finishing off his fellowship (with lots and lots of call), getting ready for the OPM conference, getting ready to sell his house, and, oh, has two kids. Not like he's busy now.
 
Wow, this weekend has been a complete waste. I've accomplished absolutely nothing except sitting on the couch watching TV and browsing the internets simultaneously for the past 2 days. It was fun at first, but now it's starting to get old. I think I'd better do something productive today before I really start to hate myself.
 
Gimlet, that sounds like every weekend for me... unless cuddling with my cats constitutes something productive.
 
Gimlet said:
Wow, this weekend has been a complete waste. I've accomplished absolutely nothing except sitting on the couch watching TV and browsing the internets simultaneously for the past 2 days. It was fun at first, but now it's starting to get old. I think I'd better do something productive today before I really start to hate myself.
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Better than me. I spent a lot of yesterday studying, but none of it was spent learning. The words just sat on the page and looked at me. Now I've got a health policy exam tomorrow...
 
Gimlet said:
Wow, this weekend has been a complete waste. I've accomplished absolutely nothing except sitting on the couch watching TV and browsing the internets simultaneously for the past 2 days. It was fun at first, but now it's starting to get old. I think I'd better do something productive today before I really start to hate myself.
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yup, that was my Saturday. I keep telling myself I'm gonna be productive today.
 
Ashers said:
My VA badge doesn't say anything cool like "Chief of staff," but for some reason the police put "ACOS." Don't exactly know what that means.
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probably COS means "chief of staff" but the A must stand for associate or assistant or a-hole or maybe just "abbreviation."

Still, it's best if it SAYS Chief of Staff 😀

I'm really excited to see if that gets me a government discount at the hotel for CS.
 
A thought for a new Integrated Selective for M4s....

"Dermoid Cyst Rotation (DCR)"
It (obviously) combines OB/Gyn, dermatology, dentistry, hair styling, neurology, ortho, and GI and tons of other fun stuff!!!
 
I would just like the record to reflect that Ashers' team tried to send a patient with a documented hip fracture to the GEM unit today.

Sorry Ashers, your ortho card is hereby revoked. Looks like it's psychiatry for you!
 
Gimlet said:
I would just like the record to reflect that Ashers' team tried to send a patient with a documented hip fracture to the GEM unit today.

Sorry Ashers, your ortho card is hereby revoked. Looks like it's psychiatry for you!
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what's the GEM unit?
 
Gimlet said:
I would just like the record to reflect that Ashers' team tried to send a patient with a documented hip fracture to the GEM unit today.

Sorry Ashers, your ortho card is hereby revoked. Looks like it's psychiatry for you!
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What does GEM mean? I have the stinky feet patients with legs about to fall off due to gangrene. I also have the GI bleed through a colostomy. blech.

I may need psych soon... SI started within 2 days of beginning the rotation. Or at least... if I get injured doing [insert activity here] I probably won't have to go to work.

BTW... my intern, who's an anesthesia prelim or whatever doesn't teach me anything. My notes are crap and short, which is fine with me, but I've got no idea what I'm doing. Just glad I left today at 1:30.
 
TheProwler said:
what's the GEM unit?
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GEM is sort of like heaven in the VA. Except more exclusive. And it's always full, even when your team has 5 patients that aren't acutely ill anymore but can't go home.
 
Geriatrics Evaluation and Management. It's technically a nursing home in the VA, but they take long-term care patients without active, acute medical issues. Technically they have to have dysfunction in two domains: medical/surgical, cognitive, social or physical. Basically, they have to have something the GEM is better at than the floor, and just being med/surg doesn't cut it.
 
At least the GEM folk got their nice plasma tv replaced.
 
Xandie said:
Technically they have to have dysfunction in two domains: medical/surgical, cognitive, social or physical. Basically, they have to have something the GEM is better at than the floor, and just being med/surg doesn't cut it.
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Well, I just learned something. You'd think they would mention that at orientation.

I don't think I've met a vet yet that doesn't have dysfunction in at least 2 of those domains, though.
 
For the guys: Lime-scented shaving soaps. Delightful!
 
Gimlet: Who's your attending? You should find some of my GEM notes... suckers were like 4 pages long. I really loved that rotation, honestly. But anyway, my plans were structured by the four domains, which helped keep everything straight.
 
Xandie said:
Gimlet: Who's your attending? You should find some of my GEM notes... suckers were like 4 pages long. I really loved that rotation, honestly. But anyway, my plans were structured by the four domains, which helped keep everything straight.
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Katie Denson is our attending. She's super nice. It sounds like last month they had Dr. Duthie, and never got out of here before 6:30.

I've been doing my plans by the 4 domains, too. Haven't quite hit 4 pagers yet, though.
 
LOL. I had her husband as my attending. Love them, they're the cutest couple ever. Dr. Duthie did our geriatrics lecture today. Good times.
 
Based on what my financial aid letter for next year says, i think i'll be about 160,000 in debt when this is all said and done. I'm thinking I'll pay it off in 3 or 4 months after residency starts.
 
Gimlet said:
Well, I just learned something. You'd think they would mention that at orientation.

I don't think I've met a vet yet that doesn't have dysfunction in at least 2 of those domains, though.
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still, the VA is sort of a biased sample.
 
Agent Splat said:
Based on what my financial aid letter for next year says, i think i'll be about 160,000 in debt when this is all said and done.
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Amateur. My total is somewhere around 213. Good times.
 
When did they mail the letters for aid? I can't tell by the email if I should contact them because I haven't gotten it or give it til next week.
 
During closure after a c-section today:

Surgeon: "Don't wipe the blood away. Dab it. You shouldn't wipe."
Intern: "Okay."

later during the closure,

Intern: Hey, did you just WIPE the blood away?"
Surgeon: "....um...it was a...sliding dab."
 
Agent Splat said:
During closure after a c-section today:

Surgeon: "Don't wipe the blood away. Dab it. You shouldn't wipe."
Intern: "Okay."

later during the closure,

Intern: Hey, did you just WIPE the blood away?"
Surgeon: "....um...it was a...sliding dab."
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LOL, that was kind of a ballsy move by the intern! Who was the attending?
 
Gimlet said:
LOL, that was kind of a ballsy move by the intern! Who was the attending?
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Zog.

This was the same c/s where the kiwi actually popped off the kid's head 3 times. Lots of hair.
 
Agent Splat said:
Zog.

This was the same c/s where the kiwi actually popped off the kid's head 3 times. Lots of hair.
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Hope you enjoyed your late OSCE time today, bastard. Now I get to hang around school from 9:30 until noon for Cruikshank rounds and then I have the joy of being the student on call while all you other slackers frolic around outside without a care in the world.

Me? I'll be delivering messed up Froedtert babies all night.
 
DoctorFunk said:
Hope you enjoyed your late OSCE time today, bastard. Now I get to hang around school from 9:30 until noon for Cruikshank rounds and then I have the joy of being the student on call while all you other slackers frolic around outside without a care in the world.

Me? I'll be delivering messed up Froedtert babies all night.
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Guess I got really nothing to say to that one except...sorry man. That sucks.
 
Agent Splat said:
Guess I got really nothing to say to that one except...sorry man. That sucks.
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You're not a bastard at all. Thanks for affirming my position on the self-pity train. I'm sure come 8 AM tomorrow I'll feel fine and dandy about life, what with only 2 more work days of OB-Gyn left. W00t!
 
Ashers said:
Dudes... Memorial Day... Chocolate Fest!
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Three cheers for being at the VA and getting Memorial Day off!

My dad grew up in Burlington and my grandma still lives there. When I was a kid the parade would go right past my grandparents' house, and they would throw mounds of chocolate candy from the floats. It's been a long time since I've been in Burlington during Chocolate Fest, but I still have clear memories of eating enough fun-sized Nestle Crunch bars to get sick to my stomach from them.
 
Gimlet said:
Three cheers for being at the VA and getting Memorial Day off!
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How unprofessional. People don't stop getting sick on federal holidays, just like they don't stop getting sick when there's a snowstorm.
 
Agent Splat said:
How unprofessional. People don't stop getting sick on federal holidays, just like they don't stop getting sick when there's a snowstorm.
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Dude, I'm pretty sure the VA ceases to exist on federal holidays. It's like it just slips into an alternate dimension for the day or something.
 
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