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fancymylotus said:
Chicago and its casserole excuse for a pizza can DIAF.
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The best pizza in the Midwest isn't in Chicago. I get to eat this when I visit my cousins.

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SouthernSurgeon said:
I disagree with the groupthink notion that thinks people are too mean and negative here. Vast majority of posts and posters are genuinely trying to be helpful. People get too upset when they get told something they don't want to hear, even if it is objectively accurate or good advice.
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I wish I could like this 1,000 times 1,000 times. Too many assumptions of negative, hurtful tones in typed language when someone is simply trying to be helpful. Too many soft posters imagining they are being attacked and getting offended by blunt honest truth. I feel there is a culture here where getting told you are mommy's superstar is the norm, and anything different is a hate crime.

Edit: posted this when I was on page 1... read the rest of the thread and turns out the original topic was long gone around page 4 LOL. Oh and another on-topic is all MD schools will throw your app in the trash if you have CC credits. I'm a CC survivor.
 
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Mad Jack said:
Hell, if you end up in a lower paying specialty, you could actually be damn near out-earned by a frugal physician assistant that invests wisely over the course of their lifetime. Keep in mind that the extremely lucrative residencies are the exception, not the rule, so most people will end up in the 200-250k range before taxes, not making 400k+.

Regardless, many people think it's just a job, but it's not. Many people lose almost everything they care about, lose touch with damn near everyone they love, and let much of what comprises them as a person slip away as training goes on. Then one day they wake up and realize they're 31 years old and have damn near nothing in their life but medicine, and a couple of kids they never see if they're lucky. That they'll be taking call late into the night and on weekends on and off until they die, and that their ass is on the hook for millions if they make a mistake, so everything they've earned could be taken in a second. While I don't think that being a physician that views it as just a job is impossible, I do think it will make you absolutely miserable.

As a profession, we've got a suicide rate that is equivalent to that of many maximum security prisons. I think that stress, mismatched expectations, soul-crushing debt, and people going into the field for the wrong reasons strongly contribute to that. You have to take some joy in the field, or it will literally destroy you. Hell, you don't even have to care about patients, so long as you've got other things about the field that make you happy (autonomy, getting to work with complex problems, being able to do cutting-edge research, etc). But if it's just a job that you're only in for the money, you're gonna have a bad time.
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You've encompassed, in a nutshell, why specialty lifestyle is so important. You can like the field, but it is different doing it 80+ hours per week for the rest of your life. And more often than not, your patients won't care.
 
ERK123 said:
I don't think Obamacare is ruining medicine.
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Wait till it is fully implemented on the provider side. All of it: no more fee-for-service (see Medicare CMS pronouncement), "outcomes" based reimbursement, pay-for-performance, IPAB.

So far only the patient side has been implemented: higher premiums, tighter networks, higher deductibles.
 
Goro said:
Poor reading skills get more SDNers into trouble, both here and on test taking day.
1. You use it in virtually every argument as your trump card.

I'm from NY, and we use to term "F you" as a greeting, so I'm not sympathetic to the thin-skinned.
2. It's unnecessarily condescending, and injects unpleasantness into otherwise civil debates.

I, at least, admit it.
3. You yourself misread/misinterpret/misunderstand comments All. The. Time.
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lol @ number one.... you're not wrong :laugh:
 
FutureOncologist said:
Numbers are so overstated on this site.
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Metrics are the most reliable things upon which to base recommendations since we can't meet you or see the rest of the application (except for the list and state of residence).
The variablity in presentation of identical EC's or personal qualities can result in very different outcomes.
 
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breakintheroof said:
Jack, I am surprised your Google-fu could not keep you from falling for this "Domino's" ruse.

Reverse image search reveals it to be Buddy's "Detroiter" pizza.

And now I wish I lived in Detroit.
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Oh thank god. I felt so awful for possibly liking something Dominoes made that I nearly died on the inside and didn't even think to reverse image search, thanks for saving me :laugh:
 
Mad Jack said:
Oh thank god. I felt so awful for possibly liking something Dominoes made that I nearly died on the inside and didn't even think to reverse image search, thanks for saving me :laugh:
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I will die before Domino's.
I think they actually have tried to kill me!
 
gyngyn said:
I will die before Domino's.
I think they actually have tried to kill me!
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I like Domino's. They make the crusts super garlicky, and that's really all I care about 😀

When it comes to pizza, I either make my own 😍 or I slum it with whatever is the cheapest and easiest, because to me, THAT'S the point of delivery pizza!
 
mehc012 said:
I like Domino's. They make the crusts super garlicky, and that's really all I care about 😀

When it comes to pizza, I either make my own 😍 or I slum it with whatever is the cheapest and easiest, because to me, THAT'S the point of delivery pizza!
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What part of the country do you live in? This question is critically important, because it determines how much I judge you for your answer.
 
mehc012 said:
I like Domino's. They make the crusts super garlicky, and that's really all I care about 😀

When it comes to pizza, I either make my own 😍 or I slum it with whatever is the cheapest and easiest, because to me, THAT'S the point of delivery pizza!
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I'm referring to the owner's PAC, not the actual pizza killing me!
 
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Mad Jack said:
What part of the country do you live in? This question is critically important, because it determines how much I judge you for your answer.
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I've lived in ID, DC, VA, MA, CA, spent a while in Portland and bounced around living in my car driving cross-country for several months.
I've had NY pizza...it's fine. Quick, cheap, gets the job done. No different than the pizza at any walk-in joint anywhere in the country. I've had Chi-town pizza. Too heavy, gimme NY style over that anyday. Delivery pizza is pretty much all the same - the toppings on something like Dominos are worse, but the crust is far better than, say Mountain Mike's or Round Table. Since I get mostly veggies anyway, the difference in topping quality matters little.

Now...at home...that's pizza. Homemade crust, homemade pesto sauce, fontina+mozz, sauteed chicken, mushrooms and/or red peppers, caramelized onions, garlic, maybe some spinach. Depends on what I've got on hand, basically. Compared to that, none of the others are worth much, so why would I pay more or physically drive somewhere when I can just get Dominos (best crust of the main brands, veggies are fine) cheap and easy? As I said, the point of delivery pizza is convenience, not cuisine!
 
Homemade pizza dough + homemade sauce + fresh shredded mozzarella + spinach + black olives = happy fancy


But I don't really have time for that most days :/
 
Also, for context, lemme tell you how I first came to appreciate Dominos:
Our college had only one delivery pizza option. It was horrible. When I say 'horrible', I mean this: I was staying on campus for the summer, but bridging the two semesters was a brief period with no meal plan (read: food covered by finaid). I was so effing hungry I was actually eating raw, uncooked spaghetti noodles I found in the dorm cupboard. I had like $15-20 to my name. With that, I decided to splurge and just buy the largest pizza I could, for delivery, to last me the next 3 or so days until the dining halls opened. It came, I was starving, I started eating. And I stopped.
It was so bad that I just wrote the last shred of my money off, picked the pepperonis off the top, and chucked the whole thing. It was revolting. I've eaten literal green eggs (accidentally due to bad chef-ing) that were more palatable.

So for 3 years, that was the only delivery option in town. Only doable if you were drunk enough to tolerate it. Then senior year, Dominos came into town. They delivered until 2am, the pizza was edible and hot, and the local one was actually really good (better than any other I've tried since). Before that, I turned up my nose and would never eat there. Now, I'm loyal to it as my delivery option!
 
(Homemade pizza is the way to go.)

I disagree that women should have to wear make up or heels in order to be "professional" or even that this is a "best practice." Also disagree that warm non-wool coats are verboten for the interview trail in winter (because coat racks).

Don't think that the older you are, the more mature you are. I think going into medicine "to help people" (as sole/primary motivator) is a terrible idea.
 
WinslowPringle said:
(Homemade pizza is the way to go.)

I disagree that women should have to wear make up or heels in order to be "professional" or even that this is a "best practice." Also disagree that warm non-wool coats are verboten for the interview trail in winter (because coat racks).

Don't think that the older you are, the more mature you are. I think going into medicine "to help people" (as sole/primary motivator) is a terrible idea.
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Word. I will not be wearing makeup for any of my interviews (I would have no idea how to apply it, and I'd have to buy some as even my mother never wore any so no one in my household owns any), and there's an 80% chance I will also not be wearing heels. I think both of those things look worse than the alternative, anyway.
 
I've never once seen nor cared about any interviewee's footwear, and would find it refreshing if less people would dress for interviews as if they're going to a funeral.

mehc012 said:
Word. I will not be wearing makeup for any of my interviews (I would have no idea how to apply it, and I'd have to buy some as even my mother never wore any so no one in my household owns any), and there's an 80% chance I will also not be wearing heels. I think both of those things look worse than the alternative, anyway.
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Goro said:
I've never once seen nor cared about any interviewee's footwear, and would find it refreshing if less people would dress for interviews as if they're going to a funeral.
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I'll take funeral attire over flip flops any day!
 
fancymylotus said:
Did you say something? Say nothing? I can't even imagine this. Unless the persons luggage got lost and they somehow only had flip flops in their carry on...I don't even know
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What could I possibly say?
Once, I asked if the applicant had an orthopedic problem and all I got was a confused "no, does it seem like I do?"
 
gyngyn said:
What could I possibly say?
Once, I asked if the applicant had an orthopedic problem and all I got was a confused "no, does it seem like I do?"
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I am eating hot banana peppers from the jar currently and this post made me laugh so hard that I choked on one and now my throat is burning. But so worth it. Ahahahahahahaha
 
Mad Jack said:

We have a name for alternative medicine that works- medicine.

Alternative medicine is here to stay because people, in general, are more keen to listen to their emotions than logic when push comes to shove, and alternative medical practitioners hit them right in the feels in a way that conventional medicine just doesn't.
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I actually have the entire poem memorized. And I saw Tim Minchin do it in person! He is great 😀
 
This is one of those rare posts that have made me literally bellow out loud with laughter!

gyngyn said:
What could I possibly say?
Once, I asked if the applicant had an orthopedic problem and all I got was a confused "no, does it seem like I do?"
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gyngyn said:
What could I possibly say?
Once, I asked if the applicant had an orthopedic problem and all I got was a confused "no, does it seem like I do?"
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Anybody please explain this joke to me? 😵
 
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