Planning to go into Surgery? Dedication like this is a must

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Ok... I should definitely NOT go into surgery. If my water broke, I can't imagine continuing without even telling my attending...

I'm a very dedicated person but this is outrages.
 
moisne said:
Ok... I should definitely NOT go into surgery. If my water broke, I can't imagine continuing without even telling my attending...

I'm a very dedicated person but this is outrages.
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Sounds like you're a bit soft. Less competition for my pediatric plasticneurodermatothoracic surgery residency
 
This case makes those who utilize foleys so they don't have to scrub out look like whimps.
 
AlbinoHawk DO said:
Sounds like you're a bit soft. Less competition for my pediatric plasticneurodermatothoracic surgery residency
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I completed my jobs while the doctor thought I was having a pulmonary embolism. I have gone to work with pneumonia. I have pleaded with the firefighter to bring me to school to let me do my ap chem test while bleeding from my head (they took me to the ER and put me in the psych ward- haha). I dislocated my shoulder in an ice skating competition, got up, run myself into a wall, popped it back in, and completed the program.

But I'd imagine if I had contraction, I would take leave. Perhaps I am too soft for surgery. Not enough dedication. 🙁
 
I love this blog! Their snarky humor is right up my alley and they write really well too. A+ for satire.
 
Reckoner said:
Are you sure about that?

http://www.malepregnancy.com/
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wait a second how is that even possible? no way thats possible. you LIE! there are so many factors to consider and alot of things involved in pregnancy i heard arn't figured out yet. what about the uterus and placenta and overies and wtf! mind blown. i feel like this is a total lie not possible. how could that be possible.
 
ariyon said:
wait a second how is that even possible? no way thats possible. you LIE! there are so many factors to consider and alot of things involved in pregnancy i heard arn't figured out yet. what about the uterus and placenta and overies and wtf! mind blown. i feel like this is a total lie not possible. how could that be possible.
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wikipedia:
Since 2000, several hoax web sites have appeared on the Internet[13] purporting to describe the world's first pregnant man. While sometimes relying on legitimate scientific claims, in reality, no such experiment has ever been reported. Fertility clinician Cecil Jacobson claimed to have transplanted a fertilized egg from a female baboon to the omentum in theabdominal cavity of a male baboon in the mid-1960s, which then carried the fetus for four months; however, Jacobson did not publish his claims in a scientific journal, and was subsequently convicted on several unrelated counts of fraud for ethical misconduct.[9]

I REALLY don't beleive that. you couldn't even give birth to it!
 
Why do surgeons tend to be such badasses? And will I reach this level of badassery if I pursue surgery?
 
ariyon said:
wait a second how is that even possible? no way thats possible. you LIE! there are so many factors to consider and alot of things involved in pregnancy i heard arn't figured out yet. what about the uterus and placenta and overies and wtf! mind blown. i feel like this is a total lie not possible. how could that be possible.
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ariyon said:
wikipedia:
Since 2000, several hoax web sites have appeared on the Internet[13] purporting to describe the world's first pregnant man. While sometimes relying on legitimate scientific claims, in reality, no such experiment has ever been reported. Fertility clinician Cecil Jacobson claimed to have transplanted a fertilized egg from a female baboon to the omentum in theabdominal cavity of a male baboon in the mid-1960s, which then carried the fetus for four months; however, Jacobson did not publish his claims in a scientific journal, and was subsequently convicted on several unrelated counts of fraud for ethical misconduct.[9]

I REALLY don't beleive that. you couldn't even give birth to it!
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I think there's another possibility you should consider:





It was a joke
 
Lambda Phage said:
Why do surgeons tend to be such badasses? And will I reach this level of badassery if I pursue surgery?
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Main memory from the first surgeon I shadowed:

I was on one side of the body, he was on the other. There were observation windows behind me (so he was facing them). He is elbows deep with a bone saw working on a hip replacement on a pretty large dude. He looks up at me, then looks over my shoulder and takes both hands out of the body and gives 2 huge middle fingers that are dripping with blood to another surgeon (friend of his) who is observing behind me.

Pretty much summed up ortho for me.
 
moisne said:
I completed my jobs while the doctor thought I was having a pulmonary embolism. I have gone to work with pneumonia. I have pleaded with the firefighter to bring me to school to let me do my ap chem test while bleeding from my head (they took me to the ER and put me in the psych ward- haha). I dislocated my shoulder in an ice skating competition, got up, run myself into a wall, popped it back in, and completed the program.

But I'd imagine if I had contraction, I would take leave. Perhaps I am too soft for surgery. Not enough dedication. 🙁
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oh nooo! Did you miss it?
I was in the hospital the night before my AP lit exam, but I told them I had to go take it because I wasn't about to take it after I graduated, they tried to persuade me otherwise.... have no memory of the exam thanks to my 104 degree fever haha

you sound BA enough for surgery in my book.
 
I think being badass for pre-surgery isnt stressing about an exam or being sick during one etc. I think its being late to your exam because you were in a motorcycle accident and ended up walking to your exam with rips down your clothes. Actually happened to a dude in my biochem class haha
 
sounds like badassery and psychosis may be confused here...
 
Reckoner said:
I think there's another possibility you should consider:
It was a joke
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Exactly, I'm guessing that they didn't read the title bar of their browser to see that it was a blog about medical satire. ...And the exaggerations and sarcasm should have been obvious.
 
Awesome Sauceome said:
I think being badass for pre-surgery isnt stressing about an exam or being sick during one etc. I think its being late to your exam because you were in a motorcycle accident and ended up walking to your exam with rips down your clothes. Actually happened to a dude in my biochem class haha
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I hope the professor gave him extra time and potentially a letter of recommendation.
 
terp720 said:
oh nooo! Did you miss it?
I was in the hospital the night before my AP lit exam, but I told them I had to go take it because I wasn't about to take it after I graduated, they tried to persuade me otherwise.... have no memory of the exam thanks to my 104 degree fever haha

you sound BA enough for surgery in my book.
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It was a class exam in December. I took it the next day with internal bruising and a concussion. I currently teach and I hear students skipping class for dumbest reason (it's my bday - I'm not coming to school)
 
If that's how that child is going to be treated, it's going to have some psychological issues.
 
I don't understand how people do surgery. I'm not spending a quarter million dollars and 8 years in school so I can work 70-80 hours a week for 5 years, then 60+ for the rest of my life.
 
circulus vitios said:
I don't understand how people do surgery. I'm not spending a quarter million dollars and 8 years in school so I can work 70-80 hours a week for 5 years, then 60+ for the rest of my life.
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And due to so much prolonged standing, you'd have to eventually pay to have your inevitable varicose vein problem corrected, on top of all that. :laugh:
 
this is why in general physician compensation is going down, sigh.
 
vasca said:
Which is probably why surgery is no longer as uber competitive in the US as it used to in the past. Milennial generation doctors will rather earn less money in exchange for friendlier working hours and more vacation time.
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Actually that is incorrect. The popularity of surgery has risen in the last few years; skeptics believe it to be the result of work hour restrictions making the field seem more attractive.
 
Mad Jack said:
Which makes those that use Texas caths look positively babby level in comparison.
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I heard a guy in neurosurgery residency was once caught with one of those.

Next day, he transferred to family practice.
 
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