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ok, now I'll go cry 🙁
 
Hope it goes better for you :luck:
 
Hard24Get said:
got exposed as a fool again by the same EM faculty member 🙁
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You can avoid this to some degree if you get a good rec from the student director or from a DIFFERENT faculty member. I had one prick like this at one of my rotations as a student. Fortunately the rest of my reviews were excellent so it didnt hurt me. Sometimes people fund something out about you and they dont like you. Other times they might think you are a cocky prick and want to put you in your place (not a good thing).

Personally, I think the guy just didnt like me, but maybe thats a childish way of looking at it. I didnt have this problem at my other ms4 rotation, on the interview trail or (thankfully and most importantly) in my current program!
 
Also thanks for the link for dog training. He did so much better last night. Only work up once. Didnt whine much. I think he is starting to get used to things here.
 
one more. We are behind schedule people.. Someone pad it up.
 
and the thread isnt even close to being closed.
 
im gonna have to dictate today. and i have a ton of other crap to do which is no fun.
 
ok ok, padding it up cuz fetus told me to do so+pad+

CJ
 
I have been tryin to get the application done in time, u know, the important stuff
 
ahh, what the hell, i could use a few more posts to make me look legit
 
EctopicFetus said:
You can avoid this to some degree if you get a good rec from the student director or from a DIFFERENT faculty member. I had one prick like this at one of my rotations as a student. Fortunately the rest of my reviews were excellent so it didnt hurt me. Sometimes people fund something out about you and they dont like you. Other times they might think you are a cocky prick and want to put you in your place (not a good thing).

Personally, I think the guy just didnt like me, but maybe thats a childish way of looking at it. I didnt have this problem at my other ms4 rotation, on the interview trail or (thankfully and most importantly) in my current program!
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I would love to say the guy is a jerk, but he's pretty nice. It's just that he caught me not knowing something (how to read a c-spine) the first time around and he seemed so disappointed that now I freeze up and can't think whenever he asks me a question. Doesn't help he just naturally likes to asks a lot of questions. If he doesn't like me it is no one's fault but my own, unfortunately. I am just hoping it doesn't weight too heavily in my departmental SLOR - we hand out evals at the end of the night to the person we presented to the most. Though I have only presented like 2 patients to him, he has always requested a form. 🙁
 
EctopicFetus said:
Other times they might think you are a cocky prick and want to put you in your place (not a good thing).
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At least I know he doesn't think that. He was even like, "that's alright, you'll learn" because he saw I was despondent.
 
oh, cool...hi hard24get...whats up
 
He is really giving me second thoughts about EM, to be honest
 
come on...dont think like that...did u ever think that he may be dissapointed because he sees something special in you? maybe he knows you have what it takes to make an excellent EP, and you just dont know it yet...some people just dont know how to give criticism
 
im not technically a MS4 since I graduated. But I didnt match so I think i am an MS5?
 
its cool...i talk to myself all the time...at least you are only doing it online😉
 
chumbojumbo said:
come on...dont think like that...did u ever think that he may be dissapointed because he sees something special in you? maybe he knows you have what it takes to make an excellent EP, and you just dont know it yet...some people just dont know how to give criticism
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Doubt it - we have interacted very little and I have managed to fall flat on my face each time. 😳 Now it is a vicious cycle.... sigh. Maybe I am just not smart enough to be an EP.
 
chumbojumbo said:
its cool...i talk to myself all the time...at least you are only doing it online😉
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Ha Ha - this thread is gonna become my diary if more of you don't start posting!
 
hello??? chumbojumbo? Anybody?
 
not doin much of anything really...picking out places to apply to...again. I actaully went to the gym today, havent been in like 3 weeks
 
Im here, lol...u can talk to me...or to yourself and Ill still listen, lol...whatever floats you boat😀
 
this post pad thing is actaully fun
 
by the way, i just figured out your name hard to forget...kinda cool...wow, I idnt know i was that slow...talk about not being smart enough to be an EP, dammit
 
chumbojumbo said:
not doin much of anything really...picking out places to apply to...again. I actaully went to the gym today, havent been in like 3 weeks
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I am just editing a paper between posts. Are you working or rotating somewhere right now?
 
chumbojumbo said:
by the way, i just figured out your name hard to forget...kinda cool...wow, I idnt know i was that slow...talk about not being smart enough to be an EP, dammit
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I guess it sounds I little conceited, but I made it up because I used it for another website where my friend was "Hard2Know". So I thought it kind of went together - she's hard to know, and I'm hard to forget 🙂
 
Heard a great talk today by this dude at the Center for Resuscitation Science.
 
He started off by showing this Yen and Yang symbol that said, "we don't understand death"
 
Then he challenged us to give a finite, hard definition of death
 
He then reasoned that, if don't really understand death, we cannot understand life
 
At that point he basically asserted that, as resuscitation specialists, understanding the interface between life and death falls on the shoulders of the Emergency Medicine physician 😱
 
He pointed out that we have clear evidence that a patient's cells are still alive and viable when we pronounce them dead - after all, transplants can work beautifully
 
He argued that being "brain dead" wasn't much of an argument in declaring death either, as decapitated mouse heads displayed EEG activity after being left in the fridge overnight.
 
And, afterall, aren't we bringing people back from the dead that would have been buried only a few years ago? What is really our limit?
 
And we know now that most of the damage happens after reperfusion, so if we can control reperfusion injury, if we can stop the neuronal apoptotic cascade - how many more could we save?
 
Really got me thinking about this reperfusion injury stuff, very interesting and exciting. I used to think of it as trying to save people who are basically outta here, anyway, but what about when we restore circulation to the hypoxic drowning victim, or 40 year old with an MI, etc?
 
Really, hot, sexy stuff! 😀

Whoops!........
 
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