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Haha this is great.
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I also have a rule against helping the MSKCC and MDACC elitists with surveys.........unless they offer $50 bucks 😉 then I'll bite
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Why is this idiot bragging about it? Oh wait I forgot this is the RO forum my bad. Shooting ourselves in the foot as usual.
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Lol he’s just trying to show off
he just doesn’t realize normal ppl don’t think it’s cool
now if you show me that he was watching the last dance, now you got me
he just doesn’t realize normal ppl don’t think it’s cool
now if you show me that he was watching the last dance, now you got me
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You’d think having all those AOA MD PhDs getting lured into RO for the past 15 years would have amounted to more than some dude sitting on his butt remotely checking films all day and bragging about it.
you think one would have the sense to not talk about someone ‘not amounting to much’ when it’s cliff Robinson.
then you see who the post is from and it’s RADAWFA. You shake your head and move on.
I've seen better trolling from you than that, c'mon now. Radswfa has a point btw...
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lol i’m glad that he found a new potential indication for RT
But it’s OK to joke around 😉
I think you forgot the part about him starting Cardiac SABR (expanding RO indications into a non-cancer arena) and being PI of the PACIFIC-4 trial Lung SABR +/- Durva instead of a med onc.
CR is OP as the kids would say these days...
Didn’t he also play for the trailblazers?
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he’s an intelligent guy no doubt about it
Cardiac SABR - wake me up when community EPs start sending me their afib Patients. I have been approached about this for 1 patient in the last 2.5 years and somehow my answer: sorry but you have to go to Wash U to get it done didn’t really inspire much confidence on both sides.
Every where I look it seems somebody has a lung trial. But in my 3 years at my institution I have yet to see a CT surgeon give a good KPS early stage to me or even have an honest conversation about it.
Durva is nice...would be nicer if I could give it so my department could answer our own questions about immuno RT without medical oncology constantly using it as a way to never send their patients to me when indicated.
You’re right. Nobody thinks its cool ya, but the inflated turds think they pretty cool.
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair …, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way …”
it is near.
Ralph engaging in constructive discourse today:
Old white guys showing their bias on the basis of sexism (I mean kudlow, not Ralph). Color me shocked. It's not OK, but nothing is going to happen to him.
this is literally what i said in other thread. Surgeons get it done and our specialty is filled with do nothing individuals. Maybe we need more comittees, more precedent, sprinkle in more people who say dont be so harsh on our own? Great recipe for inaction.
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AARRRGH I just want to SHOUT. Can't stand the leadership in this field
ADROP full of idiots. Look at this BS document. The minimal standards that were remaining after this years EMBARASSMENT of a match have been thrown out the window:
WE DO NOT NEED ANY MORE RESIDENTS THIS YEAR.
I have also applied for an ASTRO - ARRO comitteee this year so don't @ me about doing nothing
ADROP full of idiots. Look at this BS document. The minimal standards that were remaining after this years EMBARASSMENT of a match have been thrown out the window:
WE DO NOT NEED ANY MORE RESIDENTS THIS YEAR.
I have also applied for an ASTRO - ARRO comitteee this year so don't @ me about doing nothing
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I mean what did you expect - for the entire field to not participate in the match this year? I’m not seeing why you’re so angry. I could be missing something
I think that would probably be a good idea to skip the match this year but I also live in reality
I think that would probably be a good idea to skip the match this year but I also live in reality
For those of you who have seen the movie Dredd, I submit the following (slightly paraphrased) quote:
You know what [Radiation Oncology Residency] is, Dredd? It's a f***ing meat grinder. [Residents] go in one end, and meat comes out the other. All [Program Directors] do is turn the handle.
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I expected our “leaders” to be more modest and use the results from last year as honest sounding board for what to do this year
Last year there were 2 letters in red j sayin we won’t take someone in SOAP without RO rotation or letter.
Now it’s we will take ANYBODY even if you do GYN Onc rotation
So yes I think this is BS
KO continues to gaslight. Great example in that letter about how research is still important to match into the field
🤣🤣🤣
The COVID-induced loss of away rotations was such a great thing to happen to our Ostrich Leaders™. Whereas without COVID they would have had to make some hand-waving, magical explanations for why our field was continuing to struggle in the Match, they were just literally gifted at least 1-2 years of "RadOnc is fine, COVID is the problem" justifications.
So, now we're set for COVID-excuses to roll into USMLE going pass/fail making it difficult to compare the competitiveness of applicants from previous years with the publically available NRMP data.
Awesome.
So, now we're set for COVID-excuses to roll into USMLE going pass/fail making it difficult to compare the competitiveness of applicants from previous years with the publically available NRMP data.
Awesome.
Add on to that the virtual away rotations where it will probably be easier to keep skeletons in the closet. Med students will be getting a lot less valuable face-time with residents who would have been able to shed light on job market, trends in rad onc, etc.
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The leaders in the field know the utilization and financial decline, the labor market concerns and fellowship expansion and have continuously made the calculation that it is more important to them to maximize their profit and lifestyle at the expense of medical students and younger physicians.
Of course their natural reaction to Covid is to leverage their position at the expense of younger docs even more.
Of course their natural reaction to Covid is to leverage their position at the expense of younger docs even more.
"The importance of radiation oncology to cancer patients has never been more salient than during this pandemic. The work we do for cancer patients is urgent and non-elective, and most radiation oncologists have remained busy at work despite the changes to many other outpatient specialties...KO continues to gaslight. Great example in that letter about how research is still important to match into the field
Sincerely, Kenneth Olivier, MD [email protected] @KenOlivierMD"
ATTENTION MED STUDENTS
GASLIGHT ALERT
Not a "shootable" offense probably but a disservice to those contemplating WHAT TO DO WITH THEIR LIVES. Need statements like these to be 100% correct/transparent/not pull punches. It's gaslighting. Allow me to make my case:
- The vast majority of RT treatments/indications are non-urgent, and some are by definition elective...
- Medical urgency defined: "... medical conditions which are serious or acute but pose no immediate threat to life and health but which requires medical attention within 24 hours."
- However, an ASTRO statement excerpt on XRT treatments during COVID allows for many week delays in common diagnoses such as breast and prostate.
- So we can say some XRT treatments are urgent. Most, however, are not.
- Adjuvant breast radiotherapy may be considered non-elective in the radiation oncology arena. However e.g. up to 40% of all new Stage I diagnosis breast cancer patients are 65 or older and radiation therapy is considered by definition elective for many of these patients--at least by by other specialists. There are other examples, palliative RT especially (a large part of a rad onc's workload).
- "...most radiation oncologists have remained busy at work despite the changes to many other outpatient specialties..."
- This is a terrible reflection of the soon-to-come reality that cancer diagnoses are way down. If you understand two times two is four, you will understand that all this COVID-ness will cause a drop in "busy-ness." Whether there is a rebound remains to be seen. It's entirely possible, but so is the opposite. To claim otherwise is not fully honest.
- This is a terrible reflection of the soon-to-come reality that cancer diagnoses are way down. If you understand two times two is four, you will understand that all this COVID-ness will cause a drop in "busy-ness." Whether there is a rebound remains to be seen. It's entirely possible, but so is the opposite. To claim otherwise is not fully honest.
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Been talked about for a long, long time
The Great College Hoax
Higher education can be a financial disaster. Especially with the return on degrees down and student loan sharks on the prowl.
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No reason can't also apply to medical education, residency training programs in the "cognitive specialties" etc.
This is my favorite non-oversupply issue in our field right now:
Ralph "Wisenheimer" Weischselbaum peevishly partially penned that recent retort.
He's gone full Quixote on the windmill of COVID and XRT. A real idée fixe on Khan too. Which is technically a mental problem.
Khaaaaan!
Reminds me of the old routine Albert Brooks used to do, "You know the problem with the terrorists? It's that they use too much oil in their hummus." You know how low dose XRT will end for COVID? Badly!!!! Hear me now and listen to me later.
a good Quixote always has a good Sancho. Plenty of windmills to fight in rad onc.
This could end well for Mo Khan or “veeeery baaad”. We’ll see what happens
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Reading the article looks like he is not the only one. Loyola may be starting trial too?
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Hang in there buddy
They see you grandstandin they hatin
How shining treatment beam for ~5 seconds into lungs of 5 COVID patients "ends badly"...
patients spend next remaining decades of lives in existential angst wondering "did it work???"
and researchers spend next remaining decades of lives listening to the interminable naysaying of Ralph W
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Hang in there buddy
They see you grandstandin they hatin
mo money mo problems
honestly if i were mo khan the stronger i would want to push forward but i suspect the bullying will lead to him getting discouraged which is unfortunate
How you going to let Crazy 'Ol Ralph Weichselbaum Twitter bully you into submission? Fight back my dude.
guy is not even a clinician. Is he senile?
Ralph's got 99 problems and a COVID+XRT study is one.
Should keep a running collection of his deleted tweetsMo K tweet deleted again
Hang in there buddy
They see you grandstandin they hatin
How shining treatment beam for ~5 seconds into lungs of 5 COVID patients "ends badly"...
patients spend next remaining decades of lives in existential angst wondering "did it work???"
and researchers spend next remaining decades of lives listening to the interminable naysaying of Ralph W
