specialty with least amount of death

[WillburCobb]

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Big Sioux.

We always went after recruitment and ate the shiz outta it. Nom nom.

Er mer gerd!!!!

 

[Mad Jack]

I pity those of you that lack poutine. Duckfat is this awesome place in Portland that fries hand-cut fries in, you guessed it, duck fat. Their poutine is legendary.

 

[ridethecliche]

Portland, OR is the whitest city I've ever been to in my life.

 

[pithy84]

In pathology and radiology, you generally do not meet patients and then later they die. This is purely because you don't actually meet patients face-to-face. Depending on your pathology practice, you may encounter a lot of cadavers, or none. I used to work with a lot of pathologists on microscopy technology.

I met an RN at a hospice facility who loses about 2 patients every week, and she really knows them. The majority (well over 50%) have advanced cancer, and they first arrive at the facility when it becomes clear they cannot be cared for at home anymore. She said the hardest patients are when they are your age and gender, or your kid's age and gender. I don't think I could handle that much death.

That hospice nurse cared for my grandfather, and he had just about the best death you could hope for. 84 years old, fairly little pain, rapid decline. He had enough time to say goodbye, but not enough time for drawn out suffering. He had cancer, but he was killed by a rapidly progressing infection. The cancer was not painful and the chemotherapy was not unpleasant, but apparently it ruined his immune system (as is often the case).

My primary care physician says he very rarely loses patients.

 

[Mad Jack]

Portland, OR is the whitest city I've ever been to in my life.

Oregon? No, Portland Maine. It's the second whitest city you'll ever go to in your life.

 

[pithy84]

Portland, OR is the whitest city I've ever been to in my life.

Portland, Maine, is definitely whiter.

This was my knee-jerk reaction, but I confirmed it by checking the Census data. Portland, OR, is 24% non-white. Portland, ME, is only 15% non-white. The towns around Portland, Maine, are even whiter, it is unbelievable. I believe Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont are basically the whitest states in the Union.

Did you know Portland, Oregon, is named after Portland, Maine? It's true. The name was also chosen by a coin toss.

 

[Winged Scapula]

What was wrong with her attic? And isn't that usually just called remodeling?

LOL -- you can thank Siri for that.

"Attic" = "Plastic"

 

[RJGOP]

I'd wager Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation aka Physiatry

Treadmill falls can be deadly.

 

[Mad Jack]

Portland, Maine, is definitely whiter.

This was my knee-jerk reaction, but I confirmed it by checking the Census data. Portland, OR, is 24% non-white. Portland, ME, is only 15% non-white. The towns around Portland, Maine, are even whiter, it is unbelievable. I believe Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont are basically the whitest states in the Union.

Did you know Portland, Oregon, is named after Portland, Maine? It's true. The name was also chosen by a coin toss.

When someone was asking me how diverse Northern New England was, I told them "It's so white it's like taking a flashbang to the face."

 

[Mad Jack]

LOL -- you can thank Siri for that.

"Attic" = "Plastic"

Which is really tragic to those of us whose mothers died during attic surgery 🙁 everyone will just assume plastic surgery did them in