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CyroCap said:
I live in MD and we have a statewide app that uses Bluetooth pings to keep anonymity. If you get a positive test, you report it on the app and it notifies anyone you've been in contact with that they were exposed. Only problem is you have to trust that people will actually download the app and actually report their test results. It's called MD COVID Alert.
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MN has one too. It's COVIDaware MN for my Minnesota colleagues.
 
SkiOtter said:
People don’t like to be told they're wrong or have been mistreating their animals their whole lives so they try and make you feel dumb instead.
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This is just like the people who argue up and down about why it's great to spank their children
 
Landlord dug a new well and I’m assuming they way over-chlorinated it. It smells like a pool in our kitchen and bathroom, I don’t find the water irritating but one of my roommates had to rinse off with stored emergency water after a shower, and my stomach does feel a little weird this morning (pretty sure it’s from a different eating schedule, but could be the water). No idea how long it’ll take to get this fixed and I think I’ll keep drinking the water in the meantime (I don’t love drinking chlorine but I will as long as it doesn’t irritate my throat or stomach), so here’s hoping it’s safe :shrug:
 
CyroCap said:
I live in MD and we have a statewide app that uses Bluetooth pings to keep anonymity. If you get a positive test, you report it on the app and it notifies anyone you've been in contact with that they were exposed. Only problem is you have to trust that people will actually download the app and actually report their test results. It's called MD COVID Alert.
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KCgophervet said:
MN has one too. It's COVIDaware MN for my Minnesota colleagues.
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Michigan too: MI Covid Alert!
 
supershorty said:
Been having really unpleasant GI symptoms for the last week.

Bloodwork showed a pretty pronounced eosinophilia (with a stress leukogram but that didn't surprise me).

Hm.
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I call IBD with ulcerative colitis!

CoffeeQuestionMark said:
eletrolytes were normal? no addison's?
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Addison's is like the boogey man of IM. Like every other weird GI patient is "well, we should just send out a baseline cortisol to be sure." Stupid Addison's.

supershorty said:
Everything on chem looked normal other than ALT slightly below reference range, but MD said it wasn't clinically significant.
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OMG you're going into liver failure!

😉

But no, really, I call IBD and UC.

Hope you're feeling better. 🙁 🙁
 
I'm hardcore panicking because I'm missing tons of files and folders from my Google drive that were boards prep material. Things like entire textbooks I've already read and highlighted key points and the entire folder is just... gone. I have no idea what the hell happened to it! The folder that it was in I can see the version history and see when I added things to that particular folder, but when I try to open the folder it just says the folder doesn't exist.

I have had such a rough week at work and now this and I just can't emotionally handle this right now. Pregnancy hormones and lack of sleep are not helping either. Why are just some folders missing (and of course the major references but the minor ones are still there...)??

I trusted technology and now I regret it so much...
 
KCgophervet said:
I'm hardcore panicking because I'm missing tons of files and folders from my Google drive that were boards prep material. Things like entire textbooks I've already read and highlighted key points and the entire folder is just... gone. I have no idea what the hell happened to it! The folder that it was in I can see the version history and see when I added things to that particular folder, but when I try to open the folder it just says the folder doesn't exist.

I have had such a rough week at work and now this and I just can't emotionally handle this right now. Pregnancy hormones and lack of sleep are not helping either. Why are just some folders missing (and of course the major references but the minor ones are still there...)??

I trusted technology and now I regret it so much...
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(hugs)
This happened to me right before my prelims, where all of my vet school notes vanished (I had them housed on Dropbox so not exactly the same) and it was the worst feeling ever. Google support might be able to restore them for you - Dropbox made mine reappear, not sure how. I hope it works out, I'm sorry everything is piling up.
 
KCgophervet said:
I'm hardcore panicking because I'm missing tons of files and folders from my Google drive that were boards prep material. Things like entire textbooks I've already read and highlighted key points and the entire folder is just... gone. I have no idea what the hell happened to it! The folder that it was in I can see the version history and see when I added things to that particular folder, but when I try to open the folder it just says the folder doesn't exist.

I have had such a rough week at work and now this and I just can't emotionally handle this right now. Pregnancy hormones and lack of sleep are not helping either. Why are just some folders missing (and of course the major references but the minor ones are still there...)??

I trusted technology and now I regret it so much...
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My boyfriend (who is majoring in info tech) said to try this

gsuitetips.com

Find an orphaned file with an Advanced Search in Drive | Workspace Tips

Files stored in Google Drive can “go missing” when they become “orphaned”. This is when the file exists but the parent folders it was located in are deleted.
gsuitetips.com gsuitetips.com
 
Life is less than great right now. I almost walked out of work today literally maybe a half hour after lunch but somehow didn’t. Not sure how I’ll last 2 more months but we will see.
 
WARNING: grumping at human med & human clinicians (both midlevel and MD) contained within. Do not click if that will bother you.

Does it usually take >1 week for fecal float/sedimentation results in vet med and I'm just remembering everything with rose-colored glasses, or is this kind of a long time to wait? Kinda feeling let down by human med right now.

Day 17 and counting of this. There's going to be no supershorty left by Christmas at the rate I'm dropping weight, but don't worry, I'm getting quality medical advice like "hang in there." I'm really frustrated because when I went in and was clearly dehydrated, they gave me an ondansetron prescription and sent me home. Guys, I had SKIN TENTING. I hate doctor shopping, but I went to a different clinic later that day and they bolused 2 L of fluids. I understand the process of ruling things out, but the main clinician I've been seeing doesn't seem to believe in symptomatic management AT ALL. I sent a polite email just trying to emphasize that I NEED some way to manage this 1) so I can stop sleeping on my bathroom floor and 2) so I can go to work because it's been over a week of not being able to and I really can't just put everything on hold, and was politely told to go screw myself. Oh, and when I asked what specific tests were being done that are taking so long, I was told "I don't know what they do to test for that." Please tell me that's not standard.

I just can't help but feel like this would have gone differently if I were non-human and seeing a vet.
 
supershorty said:
WARNING: grumping at human med & human clinicians (both midlevel and MD) contained within. Do not click if that will bother you.

Does it usually take >1 week for fecal float/sedimentation results in vet med and I'm just remembering everything with rose-colored glasses, or is this kind of a long time to wait? Kinda feeling let down by human med right now.

Day 17 and counting of this. There's going to be no supershorty left by Christmas at the rate I'm dropping weight, but don't worry, I'm getting quality medical advice like "hang in there." I'm really frustrated because when I went in and was clearly dehydrated, they gave me an ondansetron prescription and sent me home. Guys, I had SKIN TENTING. I hate doctor shopping, but I went to a different clinic later that day and they bolused 2 L of fluids. I understand the process of ruling things out, but the main clinician I've been seeing doesn't seem to believe in symptomatic management AT ALL. I sent a polite email just trying to emphasize that I NEED some way to manage this 1) so I can stop sleeping on my bathroom floor and 2) so I can go to work because it's been over a week of not being able to and I really can't just put everything on hold, and was politely told to go screw myself. Oh, and when I asked what specific tests were being done that are taking so long, I was told "I don't know what they do to test for that." Please tell me that's not standard.

I just can't help but feel like this would have gone differently if I were non-human and seeing a vet.
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That seems like a long time for them to get a fecal float back, usually it was a maximum of two days (typically closer to less than 24 hours) for us to get our results back when I was working in GP. I think there are some absolutely fantastic human med practitioners out there, but there also are tons of bad ones too. Not sure why there seem to be so many that don't seem to care or put much effort in toward each patient, but I think it may have to do with the way healthcare is run and that it has a general wear and tear on the practitioner, increasing compassion fatigue. When my grandparents were alive my mom had to fight tooth and nail with most of the doctors they saw to make sure they were actually addressing her concerns and not just throwing more and more medications at them, but there were some that genuinely wanted to work toward improving the quality of their lives.
 
supershorty said:
WARNING: grumping at human med & human clinicians (both midlevel and MD) contained within. Do not click if that will bother you.

Does it usually take >1 week for fecal float/sedimentation results in vet med and I'm just remembering everything with rose-colored glasses, or is this kind of a long time to wait? Kinda feeling let down by human med right now.

Day 17 and counting of this. There's going to be no supershorty left by Christmas at the rate I'm dropping weight, but don't worry, I'm getting quality medical advice like "hang in there." I'm really frustrated because when I went in and was clearly dehydrated, they gave me an ondansetron prescription and sent me home. Guys, I had SKIN TENTING. I hate doctor shopping, but I went to a different clinic later that day and they bolused 2 L of fluids. I understand the process of ruling things out, but the main clinician I've been seeing doesn't seem to believe in symptomatic management AT ALL. I sent a polite email just trying to emphasize that I NEED some way to manage this 1) so I can stop sleeping on my bathroom floor and 2) so I can go to work because it's been over a week of not being able to and I really can't just put everything on hold, and was politely told to go screw myself. Oh, and when I asked what specific tests were being done that are taking so long, I was told "I don't know what they do to test for that." Please tell me that's not standard.

I just can't help but feel like this would have gone differently if I were non-human and seeing a vet.
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I don't know why so many things in human med are so frustrating. I remember back in undergrad I got hit with a heinous stomach bug that had me vomiting up all food and liquids for a week and a half on top of very bad bloody diarrhea. I went in to the health center after I couldn't keep any liquid down for like three days and had to literally be driven there by a friend even though it was ~0.3 miles away at best because I felt so bad I couldn't walk. Once I was there I told them that I hadn't peed at all in 9-10 hours and they told me to come back to get fluids when it was 12 (and when they would have been closed). Honestly I'm surprised I didn't die back then from how sick I was. I don't even think they gave me any nausea medication.

I'm sorry you're dealing with this. I've had much better experiences with other physicians who seemed like they cared a lot more and were willing to at least address my concerns. The wild variability is what drives me nuts as you can often be so limited in providers you can see based on insurance restrictions, whether other offices are taking new patients, and how many people in various specialities are in your area.
 
To answer the question, I checked turnaround times for my lab. The vast majority of routine fecal tests are resulted the same night they’re received in the lab. A few things like a McMasters or a direct smear take 1-2 days and some exotics tests take up to a week but those are typically more advanced techniques.

I’m sorry you don’t have answers supershorty. Hopefully you get some soon.
 
supershorty said:
WARNING: grumping at human med & human clinicians (both midlevel and MD) contained within. Do not click if that will bother you.

Does it usually take >1 week for fecal float/sedimentation results in vet med and I'm just remembering everything with rose-colored glasses, or is this kind of a long time to wait? Kinda feeling let down by human med right now.

Day 17 and counting of this. There's going to be no supershorty left by Christmas at the rate I'm dropping weight, but don't worry, I'm getting quality medical advice like "hang in there." I'm really frustrated because when I went in and was clearly dehydrated, they gave me an ondansetron prescription and sent me home. Guys, I had SKIN TENTING. I hate doctor shopping, but I went to a different clinic later that day and they bolused 2 L of fluids. I understand the process of ruling things out, but the main clinician I've been seeing doesn't seem to believe in symptomatic management AT ALL. I sent a polite email just trying to emphasize that I NEED some way to manage this 1) so I can stop sleeping on my bathroom floor and 2) so I can go to work because it's been over a week of not being able to and I really can't just put everything on hold, and was politely told to go screw myself. Oh, and when I asked what specific tests were being done that are taking so long, I was told "I don't know what they do to test for that." Please tell me that's not standard.

I just can't help but feel like this would have gone differently if I were non-human and seeing a vet.
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I'm sure they do some more advanced testing in human med but we can do a fecal in less than a day lol Even if they're doing advanced stuff though, I don't get not giving you some kind of symptomatic treatment in the meantime.
 
@supershorty I’m so sorry. My
sister had ongoing awful GI stuff for at least a YEAR before she referred herself to Mayo and was finally diagnosed with Crohn’s. One (older, male) doctor told her her GI issues were because she was a young, childless, unmarried female and that usually his patients would get better once they settled down. I sht you not.
 
vetmedhead said:
Yikes. I feel bad saying this but I try to almost exclusively have female doctors. From my personal experience they've been much better about listening to me and not saying **** like that lol.
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Same. No disrespect to male doctors - there are many wonderful and compassionate men in medicine - but at walk-in clinics (I haven’t had a family doc since I was like 13. Thanks Stephen McNeil healthcare funding) all the male doctors I’ve seen were terrible at communicating and didn’t really fully address my concerns, while the female doctor I saw once actually heard me and told me everything I needed to know.
 
I think the only male doctor I've had a bad experience with was a DVM, though I've also had bad experiences with female DVMs, and had good experiences with other male DVMs.

Now this female DDS that my mom took me to see when I was younger... she was something else:caution:
 
PippyPony said:
Hey folks, don't burn your dinner because then your spouse might tell you about how you did it all wrong and their way is better!

And now you're both still hungry, so that ensuing argument goes real well
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The only argument that this should lead to is which pizza place to order from 😉
 
I’m just feeling so exhausted right now re: everything having to do with COVID. Not because I’m fatigued of having to social distance or put things on hold or wear a mask. I’ll gladly do all of that and have done so since March. But it’s continuing to get worse and worse and very close to home. A high school friend’s dad just died from it. My girlfriend’s best friend’s/my mutual friend’s dad is in the hospital with it and the rest of her family has it. My mom’s best friend was so sick with it recently that he started telling his siblings about cremation plans in case he didn’t make it (luckily he recovered).

On the other hand, many people I know have gotten the first dose of the vaccine. Which is fantastic. My sister got it, some of my friends have gotten it, and I’m thrilled for them. I’m really hoping that the general public gets it ahead of schedule because I know we can’t take another 5 or 6 months of this.
 
supershorty said:
WARNING: grumping at human med & human clinicians (both midlevel and MD) contained within. Do not click if that will bother you.
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I changed providers and so far am feeling like we're much more on the right track - or at least we're heading in that direction. I've also learned that my experience with our campus clinic is not an outlier. I would have expected better from a large university like this.
 
I had horrible experiences at our health center in undergrad, but during grad school and vet school they've been awesome. I think part of it is they significantly upgraded the facilities (like from one story shack status to a 4 story building with actual capabilities plus physicians from outside clinics that come in to provide consultations/see outpatients for specific problems). They've also been working on a program to have medical students rotate through so they've been trying to upgrade things for that.

However my biggest guess is that I've been coming in to be seen for more complex medical problems, so all of my providers are currently DOs and MDs. I've historically had a more difficult time getting good care from NPs and PAs so I think that's a factor as well.
 
vetmedhead said:
I had horrible experiences at our health center in undergrad, but during grad school and vet school they've been awesome. I think part of it is they significantly upgraded the facilities (like from one story shack status to a 4 story building with actual capabilities plus physicians from outside clinics that come in to provide consultations/see outpatients for specific problems). They've also been working on a program to have medical students rotate through so they've been trying to upgrade things for that.

However my biggest guess is that I've been coming in to be seen for more complex medical problems, so all of my providers are currently DOs and MDs. I've historically had a more difficult time getting good care from NPs and PAs so I think that's a factor as well.
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I was seeing an MD!

Now I'm seeing a different MD who ordered more tests and, now that I've provided samples, put me on metronidazole and cipro for empiric therapy. Hoping this is the beginning of the end. This is day 21.
 
supershorty said:
I was seeing an MD!

Now I'm seeing a different MD who ordered more tests and, now that I've provided samples, put me on metronidazole and cipro for empiric therapy. Hoping this is the beginning of the end. This is day 21.
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That's frustrating. I'm glad you have a different doctor now!
 
batsenecal said:
Our student health center is "McKinley". I have heard it called "McKillMe" due to the quality of medicine we receive
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My undergrad health center was called Hurtado. Phones always autocorrected it to Hurts do. I always felt that was appropriate.
 
Just saw news about TSA screens 1 million over 2 consecutive days this weekend. I'm so frustrated that despite health experts told people over and over again not to travel during the holiday season, and yet so many people ignore the warnings and even seeing the exploding number of new cases and deaths after Thanksgiving, to still travel. Hospitals and ICU beds are full, vaccines for general public is still months away. Are they really not scared or they just don't care???
 
DVMdreamcometrue said:
Are they really not scared or they just don't care???
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I honestly think it's that people are over it. From the beginning it was going to be impossible for 330 million people to stay locked down without consistent intervention from the government. While the virus is absolutely horrible for the people that get it, lay people see the high survival rate and move on with their lives. They dont understand issues of spread, the unknown long term effects, etc.

There was always going to be a breaking point of it clicking that this is bad or that people would cease to care. I think if we wanted people to take it more seriously, either the government needed to do better or the virus needed to be visibly worse to the general public.
 
DVMdreamcometrue said:
Just saw news about TSA screens 1 million over 2 consecutive days this weekend. I'm so frustrated that despite health experts told people over and over again not to travel during the holiday season, and yet so many people ignore the warnings and even seeing the exploding number of new cases and deaths after Thanksgiving, to still travel. Hospitals and ICU beds are full, vaccines for general public is still months away. Are they really not scared or they just don't care???
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Honestly, people just don't care, and its a huge pet peeve of mine. My husband works for an airline and got COVID from work, gave it to me, and also gave it to his mother just from going to pick up a dinner (while staying outside) that she made for us.

My husband (who is only 30, not exactly old with pre-existing conditions) got pneumonia and needed to go to the hospital for a night to get fluids, steroids, and antibiotics...and a month later still can't walk from the couch to the kitchen without getting winded.

His mother was in the hospital for a week and a half, and actually qualified for experimental monoclonal antibody treatment because she was so bad. Thankfully she's home now, but still on supplemental oxygen, and her diabetes has become borderline unregulated due to the steroids she got as part of her treatment.

A month later, I myself (also, not exactly elderly with preexisting conditions) still have a cough, fatigue and brain fog...which has made finishing the semester a struggle. But the public just doesn't care, nor do the airlines who denied his workman's comp claim because they said since he goes grocery shopping every other week, clearly he caught it at the supermarket and the airports are perfectly safe.

Meanwhile right before he got sick, he had to pull a bag off of a plane because a passenger flying to the UK lied about having symptoms, tested positive while at the airport, and had to deplane. There was also just a yahoo article about a passenger literally dying from blood clots mid flight, also after lying about him and his wife showing COVID symptoms. People are just selfish and want to travel because they want to travel and won't be told otherwise. They don't care who they put at risk in the process as long as they aren't inconvenienced. And somehow people still don't seem to understand that just because the survival rate is high doesn't mean you will be 100% healthy afterwards or the recovery won't take a while.
 
My PI said Friday I was clear to leave for the holidays. My round trip is about 32 hours of total driving time (alone with my dog) and I am trying to avoid driving in Christmas Eve. So we will just have a lab meeting at 8am over the phone to discuss the work I did on Friday and Saturday. Results I sent Saturday at 9am.
Fast forward. Packed up, ready to go ON THE ROAD. Phone call at 8 pull over. “Please come back to the lab and redo that experiment. I will see you at 9am to discuss the research plans moving forward. I know you have travels but you may leave after this experiment. It just be done before the PhD leaves.”

A. This could’ve been done Sunday.
B. The PhD has no interest in assisting in this experiment whatsoever.
C. GUESS I WILL TURN AROUND!

beyond frustrated.
 
Viscernable said:
Same. No disrespect to male doctors - there are many wonderful and compassionate men in medicine - but at walk-in clinics (I haven’t had a family doc since I was like 13. Thanks Stephen McNeil healthcare funding) all the male doctors I’ve seen were terrible at communicating and didn’t really fully address my concerns, while the female doctor I saw once actually heard me and told me everything I needed to know.
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The peds EM fellow who completely missed my daughter’s buckle fracture, the PA who completely mismanaged my wife’s FOOSH injury, the NP who started me on too high of an SSRI dose, the midwife who ****ed up my wife’s membranes and told her to just take an ambien and go home when she was in active labor, the pediatrician who told us we should just let our kid cry all night every night, and the NP who totally ignored everything I said and billed us incorrectly which caused months of having to fight collections were all female.

Anecdotes are not really helpful because of the law of large numbers. When you are at the smaller n of the scale, extreme results are more likely to occur. When you only interact with 10 doctors or fewer, you’re much more likely to have all or most of them be good or bad than if you look at data over a 100 or 1,000.

This is also why arguments for or against midlevels should only be done with actual data. I know people who have gotten great care from midlevels. I have had almost nothing but bad experiences with them. Those are all anecdotes, but there actually is clear data that they provide inferior and more expensive care.

There is also data with physicians. A study was done showing female physicians have better outcomes. When you look at the data, the pool of female physicians was much, much younger. Younger physicians are much more likely to follow evidence based medicine, keep up with literature, and apply correct guidelines. Older physicians are more likely to not use EBM and go by their “experience” (like midlevels).

If you look at the data, a younger physician, and either male or female, is more likely to give you good care than an older physician, and female physicians do tend to be on the better side at using communication skills.
 
pawprintsandponytails said:
My PI said Friday I was clear to leave for the holidays. My round trip is about 32 hours of total driving time (alone with my dog) and I am trying to avoid driving in Christmas Eve. So we will just have a lab meeting at 8am over the phone to discuss the work I did on Friday and Saturday. Results I sent Saturday at 9am.
Fast forward. Packed up, ready to go ON THE ROAD. Phone call at 8 pull over. “Please come back to the lab and redo that experiment. I will see you at 9am to discuss the research plans moving forward. I know you have travels but you may leave after this experiment. It just be done before the PhD leaves.”

A. This could’ve been done Sunday.
B. The PhD has no interest in assisting in this experiment whatsoever.
C. GUESS I WILL TURN AROUND!

beyond frustrated.
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Ughhhh. Sorry, tails. That's so frustrating. Hope it's a fast experiment.
 
pawprintsandponytails said:
My PI said Friday I was clear to leave for the holidays. My round trip is about 32 hours of total driving time (alone with my dog) and I am trying to avoid driving in Christmas Eve. So we will just have a lab meeting at 8am over the phone to discuss the work I did on Friday and Saturday. Results I sent Saturday at 9am.
Fast forward. Packed up, ready to go ON THE ROAD. Phone call at 8 pull over. “Please come back to the lab and redo that experiment. I will see you at 9am to discuss the research plans moving forward. I know you have travels but you may leave after this experiment. It just be done before the PhD leaves.”

A. This could’ve been done Sunday.
B. The PhD has no interest in assisting in this experiment whatsoever.
C. GUESS I WILL TURN AROUND!

beyond frustrated.
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Is this a paid position? Something through school?
 
Matthew9Thirtyfive said:
Is this a paid position? Something through school?
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Oh now that is a story all in it's own...

I was led to believe it was a paid master's research assistant position. After moving here (and expecting more paperwork with the details) I found out that it is not. So I found ANOTHER graduate assistantship position on campus that covers most of my tuition, and then I spend my other time between teaching/research as part of my master's requirements through my department. It has been a year of feeling doubly used and abused. BUT on the bright side I am finishing my master's in one month and only have one course standing between me and my defense. So I can see flickers of the light occasionally, but this has given me a poor taste in my mouth for sure.
 
pawprintsandponytails said:
Oh now that is a story all in it's own...

I was led to believe it was a paid master's research assistant position. After moving here (and expecting more paperwork with the details) I found out that it is not. So I found ANOTHER graduate assistantship position on campus that covers most of my tuition, and then I spend my other time between teaching/research as part of my master's requirements through my department. It has been a year of feeling doubly used and abused. BUT on the bright side I am finishing my master's in one month and only have one course standing between me and my defense. So I can see flickers of the light occasionally, but this has given me a poor taste in my mouth for sure.
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So you're not even getting paid in this lab? Yo, I would have told him to pound sand.
 
Matthew9Thirtyfive said:
So you're not even getting paid in this lab? Yo, I would have told him to pound sand.
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Nope, no payment. Just publications and a professor who wants me to stay for my PhD.... like I am OUT. You had not funding for my master's, why would I stay for my PhD??

I explained the experiment he would like me to repeat will take me 8+ hours. Needless to say I will be back on the road in 6 hours after doing half of it.
 
pawprintsandponytails said:
Oh now that is a story all in it's own...

I was led to believe it was a paid master's research assistant position. After moving here (and expecting more paperwork with the details) I found out that it is not. So I found ANOTHER graduate assistantship position on campus that covers most of my tuition, and then I spend my other time between teaching/research as part of my master's requirements through my department. It has been a year of feeling doubly used and abused. BUT on the bright side I am finishing my master's in one month and only have one course standing between me and my defense. So I can see flickers of the light occasionally, but this has given me a poor taste in my mouth for sure.
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You're not getting paid at ALL? I'm with M935 ... you're worth more than that. That's ridiculous.
 
pawprintsandponytails said:
Nope, no payment. Just publications and a professor who wants me to stay for my PhD.... like I am OUT. You had not funding for my master's, why would I stay for my PhD??

I explained the experiment he would like me to repeat will take me 8+ hours. Needless to say I will be back on the road in 6 hours after doing half of it.
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Do you have anything legally committing you to the lab? Doesn’t seem worth it.
 
pawprintsandponytails said:
Nope, no payment. Just publications and a professor who wants me to stay for my PhD.... like I am OUT. You had not funding for my master's, why would I stay for my PhD??

I explained the experiment he would like me to repeat will take me 8+ hours. Needless to say I will be back on the road in 6 hours after doing half of it.
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Wow your PI is a sociopath. I'm really sorry.
 
Matthew9Thirtyfive said:
Do you have anything legally committing you to the lab? Doesn’t seem worth it.
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supershorty said:
You're not getting paid at ALL? I'm with M935 ... you're worth more than that. That's ridiculous.
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Because I am doing a thesis based masters, if he dropped me out of the lab I don’t know that another professor would pick me up. It’s one of those just buckle down, publish my papers and get out. If I wind up doing my phd I will definitely vet out my mentor better! Thank you all for the responses! I appreciate the vent!
 
Research can be frustrating and ****ty enough without having ****ty people to deal with on top of it. I'm sure the experiment could have waited. Sorry you had to deal with that @pawprintsandponytails
 
SkiOtter said:
Smother it in peanut butter? Wrap it in a piece of lunch meat? Idk that’s all I’ve got.
Hope you get some relief!
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Not gonna lie, I'm seriously considering melting some chocolate and dunking it in it before my next dose.
 
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