Panda's Blog is Back

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[DrYoda]

It's been back for awhile.

But still a worthy topic.👍

 

[FlowLimited]

It's been back for awhile.

But still a worthy topic.👍

I think the OP may be referring to the fact that there's a new entry today.

 

[DrYoda]

I think the OP may be referring to the fact that there's a new entry today.

Ah, that's what I get for not clicking.


Mucho apologies OP.

 

[dr1989]

thanks! i havent seen this yet as im a newbie but ill def check it out!
-gotta go to class now though! :O

 

[Depakote]

🙂

 

[shahalam]

i almost crapped myself when i saw the new date....

To Panda:

We need a champion in these dark times...please save us at the very least with your words

 

[mbe36]

That is some amazing writing.

 

[Captain Fantastic]

🙂

 

[zpiff]

I can't always agree with everything Panda writes but it's always interesting. Glad he's back!

 

[circulus vitios]

Why did he delete his account here on the message boards?

 

[rabidpanda13]

I've just spent the last 4 hours reading it. I love it.

 

[testingpig]

Why does PandaBear work in a city that has inferior population? There are plenty of cities or towns where people in EM are no different from everybody else (for example I had gone to ER a couple of times and I am a very polite person).

 

[Aladdin]

Why does PandaBear work in a city that has inferior population? There are plenty of cities or towns where people in EM are no different from everybody else (for example I had gone to ER a couple of times and I am a very polite person).

I wouldn't mind treating you if you looked like Sara Underwood. In general, the ER treats more lower class patients than a normal IM or FM physician.

Plus, the institution where he works is an incredible medical center overall.

 

[gonj]

plus cities with inferior populations have more exciting traumas and er antics

 

[Tiare208]

OMG so exciting! And, yes, this is one of the very few things in life that is worth an omg.

 

[87138]

Why does PandaBear work in a city that has inferior population? There are plenty of cities or towns where people in EM are no different from everybody else (for example I had gone to ER a couple of times and I am a very polite person).

ED's cater to the more "underserved" populations no matter where you go. Just because you consider yourself to be "normal" and "just like everyone else" doesn't mean that everywhere you go, people just like you follow.

Unless you work the ED in the Hamptons, expect to see your fair share of freeloaders, drug addicts, and a wide variety of other "undesirable" characters.




*rich yuppies are certainly not excluded from the qualifiers "drug addicts" and "undesirable", but it's a different ballgame.

 

[DrReo]

I wouldn't mind treating you if you looked like Sara Underwood. In general, the ER treats more lower class patients than a normal IM or FM physician.

Plus, the institution where he works is an incredible medical center overall.

Do you know what center?

He is an amazing writer, that's for sure. I enjoy reading his opinions.

 

[Raryn]

wooohooo.

 

[melanoleuca]

By the way, if you all have any questions that you'd like answered about residency, medical school, looking for a job post-residency, Emergency Medicine, or any other thing, just ask and I'll write a few blog entries answering them.

I'm not saying I have writer's block but (because I don't) but every now and then we need to get back to the basics.

By the way, SDN hosts my blog and, as I am not carrying any advertisers, I don't think asking for questions is a TOS violation.

 

[Aladdin]

Do you know what center?

He is an amazing writer, that's for sure. I enjoy reading his opinions.

Duke

 

[Depakote]

By the way, if you all have any questions that you'd like answered about residency, medical school, looking for a job post-residency, Emergency Medicine, or any other thing, just ask and I'll write a few blog entries answering them.

I'm not saying I have writer's block but (because I don't) but every now and then we need to get back to the basics.

By the way, SDN hosts my blog and, as I am not carrying any advertisers, I don't think asking for questions is a TOS violation.

Topics on my mind:

-Prepping for Step I
-Third Year Rotations, shelf exams and their ultimate impact on residency applications

also:
I get the feeling you're not a fan of patients that consume health-care prodigiously without any thought as to the cost to society. But, let's take your average white-collar working dude, he's got an employee health plan, wouldn't dream of going uninsured. Now, he gets one of the many chronic debilitating diseases requires lots of office visits, interventions, prescriptions, etc. He's still going to have to pay for a fair bit of that out of pocket. Even worse, he'll probably have to appeal a few denials for claims that his policy should cover. Thoughts?

 

[melanoleuca]

Duke

No.

 

[Pontifex Maximus]

Oh, we've missed you Panda!

 

[JennaQ]

PandaBear, you've destroyed the cute adorable fluffiness of my medical school delusions with your morbidly realistic tales of working long hard hours and requiring to use the long abandoned facilities of my brain.

 

[niranjan162]

PandaBear, you've destroyed the cute adorable fluffiness of my medical school delusions with your morbidly realistic tales of working long hard hours and requiring to use the long abandoned facilities of my brain.

thats a sweet picture

 

[Druggernaut]

By the way, if you all have any questions that you'd like answered about residency, medical school, looking for a job post-residency, Emergency Medicine, or any other thing, just ask and I'll write a few blog entries answering them.

I'd like to hear more about the personal costs involved in medical training, finding a job post-residency, and once you've settled into your new gig, your impressions of private practice versus residency and academic medicine.

 

[phospho]

I think it would be awesome to read your general opinion about medical training after you start practicing and making some $$$. It would be nice for medical students and residents to compare your thoughts before and after. Hopefully it would give people like me some sort of motivation for all this crap we're going through.

Here's to hoping that you'll regain your faith in humanity!😀

 

[Bacchus]

Give us an insight of the pros/cons (if they exist) between doing an urban residency in EM and a rural one. I know this might sound simple, yeah.

 

[DrJosephKim]

Some people just can't stop blogging. They may need a break, but they often come back.

 

[melanoleuca]

Stand by because I am working on an article the will describe American Goat Rodeodery (medicine I mean) and what a pathetic scam most of it is.

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