>>17022122
>/med/ is getting replaced by pajeets
how do you feel about this?

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For my 3rd year, my rotation sites are scattered across the state/Midwest. I'm essentially going to be homeless, living in motels and my car for a bit.

My coping mechanism is that I'm going to pretend that I'm Che Guevara on his motorcycle journey. My best bro in med school is in the same situation, so we'll be travel partners (much like Che Guevara had a traveling partner) for a large part of our 3rd year.

Honestly, despite my shit situation, I can't help but think it's hilarious at the same time. Anyone else have crazy medical school experiences?

>>17022145
shrug. i dont expect anything to ever get better, so if it does then it's a welcome surprise.

>>17022169
I went to an MD school so no. I didn't have retarded rotations

Last thread died without reaching the bump limit.

>>17022648
Psych poster banwave

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF0_QBm7Qo0

>>17022781
>>17022830
lmao

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Recently got told I would make an excellent forensic pathologist.
##whatthatmean

>>17022889
>##whatthatmean
You would make an excellent rapist

>>17022889
Stay away from patients. Basically.

>>17022889
where do i find a wife like in your picture?

>used to cut warts and cysts off with a knife
>last year i got a wart on my eyelid
>well i'm not cutting that, let it be
>last weekend i finally tried scratching at it with a nail
>this morning it fell off by itself
huh

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the greek word for sorcery is pharmakia

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i'll cut to the chase and say i just swallowed 4 months worth of 40mg prescription citalopram (proper way, not silly way) in a throw of the dice that i aspirate and die in my sleep, what fun symptoms can i expect to arise over the next few hours ?
how long until im begging to go to hospital ?
im being genuine, i took the overdose 15 mins ago at 8pm.

>>17026628
update: mouth is very bitter and numb.
feels like i have tissue paper stuck in it, already had to fight the urge to vomit.

update 2: getting sweaty, head zoning in and out, very dilated pupils, feeling very sick.

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this technician will be the death of me. everyday, i tell her the same things to fix and everyday, she makes the same exact mistakes several times a day. if it was just 1 or 2 things it wouldnt be bad, but its 5+ things several times a day.

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For me? It's diet coke

what game has the best/most fun medical system in it? space station 13, barotrauma (with mods), or something else

>>17022169
Why would you subject yourself to a DO school that can't even have its own hospital or clusters of rotations at the same hospital

That way you could at least get the dignity of renting out an airbnb apartment instead of sleeping in a motel (probably cheaper too)

>>17026641
>nigga died of torsades 30 mins later
If this actually happened I wonder if he got to the phone in time to call 911 and tell them what he did before his muscles all locked up and he started having grand mal seizures

The thread for Anons LARPing as doctors.

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>>17023146
>You would make an excellent rapist
Wow, I never knew I had that hidden potential inside of me. It's like that quote by Stephen Jay Gould.

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

>>17024490
I wish I knew, anon. I love assertive and domineering women.

>>17027434
>Why would you subject yourself to a DO school that can't even have its own hospital or clusters of rotations at the same hospital
I wasn't thinking about that when I was applying. I'm at an "established" DO school too, so I thought I could avoid some bullshit, but all DO schools are shit; I understand now. I did apply to MD schools, but I wasn't able to get off the waitlist. C'est la vie.

>>17027437
>LARPing as a doctor

Cannot imagine anything more pathetic than pretending to be a doctor. Literally gayer than schizo posting

>t. chud MD

>>17027486
The thing is that there are DO schools with their own dedicated hospitals
You just didn't choose your med school based on the single most important part

>>17027437
no

t. optometrist :)

>>17027423
space station 13 is probably the most memorable for me.
deep enough that you need to either study it a bit or have the wiki open on another screen while playing.
It's good in that there are symptoms as well as ~4 values that represent pseudo vitals for you to manage.
The problem (and this is the same with most medical systems in games) is that you never have to manage ambiguity. A lot of the time in medicine you may have a good idea of what is going on but not 100% confirmed. Or sometimes it could be one of a few things and you have to manage risk of all of them versus risk of treating them etc.

Doing some post bacc then applying for schools. Got a 515 on the emshat, but I might take it again.

>>17027962
>Got a 515 on the emshat, but I might take it again.
A 515 is good.

>>17027962
515 is fine, you shouldn't retake it because of the risk of getting lower BUT I will say that I retook a 518 and got 525
So not impossible to do better

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How did you guys study for your shelf exams? My rotations start in a couple of days, so I thought that I should brush up on some practice questions since I've just been relaxing since sitting for Step 1 a few weeks ago.

... And holy fuck, I didn't think things could get worse after Step 1. This shit is HARD.

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>>17028128
I forgot to mention but I'm using the Amboss shelf study plans. I don't know whether I should keep using the study plan or do randomized blocks of questions for each shelf.

An issue I think with the study plan is that it goes by system and I don't know if doing the plan sequentially is good enough to get broad-spectrum exposure for an internal medicine shelf exam as opposed to just doing random sets of questions under the internal medicine shelf exam tag. Advice would be appreciated.

Medicine keeps on finding a way to humble me.

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>>17027435
i survived.
I vomitted up a thick yellow paste like substance for hours.
my pupils dilated to 8/9mm which freaked out the doctors, i started having mini seisures and cold sweats.
my family found me and took me to hospital where i had iv magnesium, odansotron and fluids infused alongside blood tests and 12 lead ecg's every few hours.
somehow i bounced back with literally no organ damage, just a little bruise where the cannula was (pic related).
overall i dont regret it, it made me realise i really do have the balls to kill myself

>>17028518
Anon this might not sound like much but please dont kill yourself your life matters. Much more then you know and I promise you things will get better

>>17028523
thank you anon but i see no future in which my life doesnt end in suicide.

>>17028541
Are you even /med/ (and that's why you tried to commit suicide), or did you post in here because overdoses are /med/ related?

>>17028546
both.
i worked as a paramedic for a few years and thought it would be interesting to document a overdose in real time from a genuine POV before i started vomitting profusely 45 mins into it.

>>17028552
Okay well next time pick something rare. SSRI overdoses are fucking boring, we get them at least a couple of times a week and it's always some 15 year-old foid after a breakup.

>>17028518
>balls to kill myself
>'tries' to go out like a woman
lol

I really want to do DPC and have my own FM clinic and be like an old school generalist doctor but the farty trump shat on us again and i have to take out private loans to cover medical school. I'm not even in nearly as bad of a financial situation as my colleagues because my undergrad is paid for, im only taking out tuition (living off of my parents), and my dad is making monthly payments on the interest.
I'm also very worried about AI destroying family medicine/general practice.
Is my plan for FM and eventual private practice feasible or are FM physicians not even paid enough to cover the debt new students will be in? Should I just try hard for something else like general surgery? I want to be something general I don't want to be locked in on one specific system or organ my whole life.

>>17029176
solo practices in general are dying. my parents keep telling me that i shouldn't try to take over the family practice because it's not worth it, but i'm still going to try.

>>17028128
>>17028136
AMBOSS is pretty good, just do as many practice questions as humanly possible. People always said the five hammer questions or whatever the hardest ones were too esoteric, but that stuff does occasionally come up in the exams. Try the NBME practice tests just to get a feel for the weird way they sometimes ask stuff, ask an M4 if you can't find them. As you get closer to your exam you should absolutely be doing timed random blocks.

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>>17029825
The moment I looked at Step 2 questions, I immediately noticed how much longer the question stems were and how much more minutiae are packed into them as well lol.

>AMBOSS is pretty good, just do as many practice questions as humanly possible. People always said the five hammer questions or whatever the hardest ones were too esoteric, but that stuff does occasionally come up in the exams. Try the NBME practice tests just to get a feel for the weird way they sometimes ask stuff, ask an M4 if you can't find them. As you get closer to your exam you should absolutely be doing timed random blocks.
Appreciate your advice, bro. There's like ~2000 questions on AMBOSS for just IM, which is my first rotation, so there's absolutely no way I can finish everything but I will be spamming and analyzing as many questions as possible. I heard advice that when I'm 75% done with the rotation, I'll look at my incorrects. I'm going to check out the Mehlman PDFs, listen to Dr. High Yield, and check out the CMS forms as well. Thanks again for the tips, bro.

>>17029858
>There's like ~2000 questions on AMBOSS for just IM
Was that just for the IM shelf, or IM as a topic? I don't remember there being that many, but maybe I've just repressed those memories. Biggest advice for the IM shelf is to think of every question as being systems based. If there's a multisystem tag for the practice questions, I would make sure to do all of those.

>The moment I looked at Step 2 questions, I immediately noticed how much longer the question stems were and how much more minutiae are packed into them as well lol.
Yeah they're really trying to bust peoples balls these days. They stopped using the classic buzz words because too many people were just memorizing them, and recently they've started using more H&P style questions where they give you two pages of bullshit formatted like a progress note and you have to sort through what's relevant and what isn't. Don't worry too much about that at this stage though, Step 2 had its share of bullshit but it wasn't nearly as heavy in the esoteric minutiae as Step 1 was imo.

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>>17029874
>Was that just for the IM shelf, or IM as a topic?
It seems like the 2000 is for IM as a topic (the picture on the left). There's a study plan that AMBOSS has that has a more reasonable ~1200 questions (the picture on the left) but I opted to just do randomized blocks picked from the 2000 questions from the IM topic itself since the study plan goes by system and and I don't think I necessarily have time to do everything in time system by system. You can see on the right picture that cardiology is first and I'm worried I won't reach the stuff near the end.

My train of thought for now is that I think it's better if I do randomized blocks from the 2000 and then just see from the incorrects which stuff I need to improve upon. AMBOSS has an adaptive QBank mode which I was planning on using for that.

>>17029814
It's probably an insurance practice and not a DPC. DPC is the only way. WTF else in medicine is worth it then. working a gorillion hours of week at a hospital under a guy with an MBA who controls your schedule and tells you what to do? no thanks.

>>17027514
You're really annoying

>>17030057
everyone knows that in 2026 DO > MD
All of the MD schools are rejecting good white applicants and they are being recruited by DO schools instead.

>>17030359
>100% of MD students are good students
>This leaves some percentage of good students who can't make it into MD schools
>DO schools are now 95% shit students, 5% good students
>DOtards believe this means their 5% good students are better than MD's 100% good students

Critical thinking isn't on COMLEX is it?

>>17030403
Medicine isn't difficult if you're right of midwitt. It's just voluminous and mentally taxing.

>>17030403
OMT alone makes DO > MD. A DO can treat a patient with 0 medication and 0 surgery. And actually DO students are also 100% good students.

as long as a 'doctor' isnt an NP, who cares if it's DO or MD.

>>17030440
I sometimes want to quit medical school but I can't let any NPs win and then I change my mind.

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Undergrad here, entering third year. Decided to finally stop fucking around with PhD preparation and going to study for the MCAT and get some clinicals done. Not like an informatics PhD will even be worth much since AI can do everything now apparently.
How do I become an MCAT god in that time? It seems doable, but I need a proper plan beyond aimlessly reviewing Anki cards. How did you anons do it?

>>17030453
i took the mcat and did just fine and i didnt study so. and also my premed grades werent even good.

>>17030468
That’s reassuring, thank you anon

>>17030453
you know yourself best for how much time and what style fits you.

>>17030440
We're having a shitfling here stay out of it

Hey fellow doctors/residents. Need career advice. Been working 6 years as a neurology resident in Germany with 1 year in psychiatry (also resident/assistant doctor). Worked my ass off, got a lot of work experience with patient interactions, ER work, etc. Don't have the brain/attention span to study and memorize all the theoretical knowledge for the neurologist exam tho and I have crippling performance anxiety, so that I can't realy do the test anyway. In short, not going to get a degree, but am a realy hard worker with practical work skills.
My contract ends next month and I don't really know what to do next. I have money reserves so that I have time to think about next steps and job prospects, but any advice would be appreciated.
Tips?

>>17030610
You did a great job. I’m not German but an approbation and 7 years of hands on experience in two fields is a huge accomplishment.
For work that you could do in the transition period while you’re still thinking about your future, how about working in a Blood/Plasma Donation Center? Just examining donors and taking medical histories. I know companies like Haema, Octopharma, DRK are almost always hiring.
Something more long-term, are you interested in working in Pharmaceuticals? MSLs/Pharmacovigilance are always highly valued, even more with your skillset.
After a google search, some other options could be, clinical trials, medical controlling for insurance, even basic telemedicine.
Good luck anon! You’ve worked hard, and your skills are much in demand.

>>17030610
Academiacuck

>>17030708
Dang. Thanks. Actually helpful reply. Not realy good with pharma. Know what to use and when, but not the pharmacokinetics behind it. Could probably learn it tho if I pushed myself. That my skills are in demand is good to know. Losing self confidence is always a problem with me. Thanks again. Some actual ideas to ponder.

>>17030773
Yea, what of it. I aint denieing shit. Come at me praxiscuck. I'll tap and steal all your spinal fluid before you can even tell me the theory on how to do it. Good luck getting rid of the headaches after.

Is there anyway I can move to Germany as an American medical student? I fell in love with a woman there

help me anons, i'm an M4, neurology or pathology

I chose DO over MD because it was cheaper.
[spoiler]NYMC doesn't participate in the yellow ribbon program as it is quite literally run by jews[/spoiler]

>>17031143
which do you like

>>17030852
> I'll tap and steal all your spinal fluid before you can even tell me the theory on how to do it
Good luck getting over the performance anxiety, bub.

>>17031335

(1/2) I like both; I've been trying to think long-term, beyond the temporary negatives of their respective residencies

Neuro pros for me:
- Majority of it is naturally interesting to me and I enjoy learning it
- Good job market (from what I understand, don't have to be picky about where to live) for purely outpatient jobs (i despise inpatient), also possibility for remote work like EEG/spinal monitoring/remote appointments
- Wide opportunity for specialization
- Even though I can't cure their chronic condition, I like reducing suffering in some form, even in providing them a listening ear/conversation
- yes i enjoy the neuro exam

Neuro cons:
- Writing notes are ass
- I'm an introvert and go through periods where I get very socially burnt out
- Dealing with insurance/other BS
- Stroke/emergent things / internal med hell in residency (temporary)
- Some anxiety about being responsible for patients long-term and managing them appropriately

>>17031335

(2/2)
Path pros:
- Visually enticing, interesting to see disease manifesting at tissue level
- Instead of being held to clinic hours, more flexibility in the workflow, which i enjoyed (putting together a puzzle; looking through their history then correlating it with the tissue, then moving on to the next puzzle -- at least with surgical path, which is what i've seen)
- Increasing opportunity for remote work (digital path)
- Also wide opportunity for specialization
- Less chance of introvert-related burnout

Path cons:
- Large learning curve which involves a lot of studying, in particular, cancer, which i have no interest in, and i don't find myself talking about it with others or thinking about it
- Anxiety about missing a critical finding
- Not the same opportunity for connecting with the patients if i find myself wanting that
- The temptation to procrastinate, put off singing out on cases due to second guessing my diagnosis
(? - needing to be more flexible with location if a well-paying job is desired? i don't know enough about this )

thank you for reading this reddit post

>>17031143
>pathology
I saw that the match rate for pathology for DOs is now 78%. Does that mean I need to take Step 1? Or is COMLEX and Step 2 okay? I don't care about anything academic; I just want to be a pathologist at the end of the day.

>>17031669
>>17031670
from your own notes, it seems like the negatives from neuro are less significant than the ones from path while the pros are relatively similar (or slightly better for neuro), so i'd recommend neuro but it's your life and you know you best.

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>>17030951
Do not torture the german babies, /med/der

>>17022122
>not a nurse
>not premed
>not seeking advice
need help finding PICU or just pediatric care books in PDF or other non-physical format [spoiler](free)[/spoiler]

my schools mega link drive was shut down does anyone have links to their schools "drive". i feel so fucking stupid for not downloading everything in it it had all of draw it to know it and a bunch of books.

>>17032956
What's stopping you from shutting ours down?

>>17033335
he told me he wouldnt

Is UWorld worth it for MCAT prep? Any pirated stuff I should know about?

>>17030453
Do a quick overview with whatever book series you want, I used Kaplan. Don't get bogged down in it, the first pass is just to get the broad concepts in your brain. Then jump straight into UWorld questions. Mix in the AAMC practice questions towards the latter half, and AAMC practice exams towards the end. There's probably some really good anki decks these days, just grind em out, particularly useful for psych/soc and physics equations.

UWorld is 100% the key here, do two passes if you have the time and are gunning for a high score. If you have the luxury of studying full time, aim for three full blocks per day + anki. Review them thoroughly, understand why the right answer was correct and why every other answer was wrong. After getting used to the format try doing each block (40 questions) under testing conditions (no phone, no distractions, realistic time limit), there should be an option for it in the sidebar. Get used to it because you'll be using that shit a lot in med school too for STEP.

TLDR grind Uworld

We should field medicine as an outlaw

>>17033866
i agree with this statement.

Mary @ Seattle Grace.
>in the case someone inhales an object give valium & probably suck on a vacuum pump

>https://youtu.be/YIbRhsUh3yA?is=al1jGTQYv8w_XJ4S
>if i can get sum we test cell walls

anyways i told them to make hypobaric chambers a room not a bed

>>17033984
>a person who has abdominal distention
>XD

>>17033988
>so tell Seattle Grace, Mary, that Howard Roark gets gayed when i play around:
>"heard it from Link Deas, & who i am: Mrs. McDonalds"

>get ready she's gonna blow

>>17033995
>see you all in Destin, Mary.
>i'm staying!

>>17034002
>hithis right now, Mary!

>>17034006
>righthere was the payload

>keep that 1 for me please.

>that's the food truck in frénte de Metcalf's
>XD

>>17033768
This is amazing advice, thank you!

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Any advice for a semi-retarded R1 on how to be a little less retarded by the end of the year? Just grind casestacks and radprimer?

alright medfags
whats the quick and dirty on the lettuce diarrhea parasite? do we have a vaccine yet?

>>17034166
Just shit ur brains out and die

>make a post
>report spamming namefag
>i get banned instead
is this namefag a mod lol

>>17022169

You deserve all your suffering and more if this is how you choose to imagine yourself. Rotate to Bolivia next.

/med/fags, medicinal cannabis has been legal in my country for a few years now.
I have yet to see an appropriate prescription of it.
They're either degenerates who were already on illegal cannabis or functional disorder retards.
I wish its medicinal status was rescinded.

I know we have great job security and a somewhat decent pension. But does anyone else here thinks of skipping being a geezer and die by cop?

im really having a hard time in medical school so far because i stay up until about 3-4 am because i cant sleep and then i sleep most of the day and listen to lecture while playing counter strike and then i study for like 2 hours by just talking to chat gpt but this isnt sustainable i feel lonely, anxious, depressed, out of shape, and this just fucking sucks.

>>17027423
Despite being degenerate furry trash, casualties unknown was fun - patching up the little guy after a spike through the lungs and the subsequent haemothorax requiring chest tube was satisfying

Applying to fellowships right now. Really torn on how to rank. The places I want to live are lower tier and would probably get worse training. Have some interviews at a couple of top 20 places that would give great training, but I don't really want to live there. I'm already in my 30s and have lived random places for so long because of the med journey

>>17022889
>>17027469
is that a character from something worthwhile, or gacha slop?

>>17035041
I have decided to think for myself. I'm choosing location. The match gods may put me anywhere regardless desu

>>17031143
>Both armchair specialties

>>17022122
Alright, medbros ... how to get more referrals for my private practice. I've invested my covidbucks into instrumentarium and everything. But I feel a lil bit underperforming compared to others. I know, I know.. still an underdog, it takes time... but still how to speed up the f process. Also f hospitals for getting all the patient

>>17035127
Highway billboard if you aren't hideous

What's the most underpaid specialty? My vote would be pediatric hem / onc or pediatric ICU. European coming in at close third

>>17035127
meet with other private practice healthcare doctors/NPs/etc. if you buy them lunch, it'll be even better.
other than that, have instruments/services no one else offers in a wide area and/or at a good price.

>>17035136
anything peds

>Mary, prozac does give energy (if u released it) otherwise it's oxytocin

UK medbros Im interested in surgery, so far from the little ive seen Ortho and Neuro have really interested me (more so the latter). I'm going into my penultimate year now and have to start prepping to be competitive, I also want the opportunity to make min-£300k. I've seen people talk about doing this in Ophthalmology or acute medicine but have mixed stories about the first two. It's hard to get real information on what private practice is like. But besides money im also interested in something that would be interesting to me and so far that has been:

Surgical:
>Neuro
>Orthopaedics
(possibly spinal as a good halfway between the two)

Medical:
>Dermatology
>EM or AIM

>>17036137
idk how it is in the UK, but from my experience with private practice ophthalmologists in the US is they make pretty good money (even more if they have a production bonus and shill a lot of expensive IOLs) and have a great work-life balance and thus is pretty competitive to get into. depending on the exact clinic, theyll have different days (or just morning/afternoon) dedicated to different procedures (LASIK, cataracts, etc) and spend the rest of their days doing 10min appts with patients.
idk if you have any specific questions about ophthalmology, but i can answer some as an optometrist.

>>17036137
ophtho is the ultimate surgical lifestyle specialty. Derm too if you consider that surgical (Mohs procedure etc)

EM is a blast for the medical side. No clinic, no call, no rounding. Downside is that, at least in the US, you are increasingly the backbone of medicine as GPs decrease in availability, and private equity is taking over emergency rooms across the nation making it suck ass more. Still, the money is pretty good ($350k+ for 45ish hours/week) and you can make a LOT more by doing locum work or rural medicine. Some of the hospitals that service remote oil towns pay like $700k for ER docs because they are required for the hospital to run and the oil fields require a hospital. I know a doc who only does PRN work and he makes $300k working 5-8 days/month.

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>>17036233
>Downside is that, at least in the US, you are increasingly the backbone of medicine as GPs decrease in availability
Thanks, EM, for basically being the primary care for poor people.

can someone tell me how fm is in the USA?
I want to be like an old time country doctor and have an extremely broad scope and private practice, but I also like surgery and procedures. I've heard of FM doctors doing C-sections but I know it is rare. How doable is this? Should I just go for general surgery instead? This decision is impossible.

>attempt to read chapter on boring ass shit
>get tired immediately
WTF
I need some meth.

>>17026633
He's fine

Planning on taking the MCAT next year. Any tips and tricks for studying beyond what's accessible online?
>kaplan, princeton, anki, tutors, etc etc

biggest regrets in life?

>>17037769
Finding out medicine was what I wanted to do in my 20s. Should have just kept going with working on music and games.

>>17037955
>Finding out medicine was what I wanted to do in my 20s. Should have just kept going with working on music and games.
Just do music and games in your free time.

>>17037769
both a regret and not a regret is choosing optometry over medical school. pros and cons to each where i like the pros of optometry over MD/DO, but sometimes still wonder about it.

>>17037988
>oth a regret and not a regret is choosing optometry over medical school.
You are a bitch boy.

>>17038006
:)

>>17038016
But on a serious note, what made you choose optometry? My parents tried to get me into optometry but I saw that optometry school is 4 years long just like medical school and I thought that I'd rather spend 4 years of my life in medical school instead.

>>17038018
optometry school you do four years and then you're out practicing rather than needing to intern/match with a specialty/do residency. i was/am almost solely interested in the eyes, and while doing surgery would be cool, it wasn't cool enough that i wanted to do medical school and then get fucked in matching to not be able to be an ophthalmologist and having to settle for something else. i've also always been pretty bad at practical exams because no matter how much i practice, my nerves always get me when there's a proctor by my side grading me. (sidenote: more states are giving optometrists more privileges as time goes on due to less ophthalmologists so maybe my state will eventually get fun lasers like other states have, so i was thinking about that if i ever start caring about more procedure-based appointments like YAG/SLT/etc). i was also just getting tired of all the schooling in general and didn't want to be fighting for research/attendings liking me/etc and just wanted to finally be on the pathway to end schooling since once youre in optometry school, all that matters is you graduate (though i did get great grades), pass boards, and get state licensure.

i also found glasses/contacts/vision therapy pretty interesting though i learned vision therapy isn't well covered and when it is covered pays like shit, so you either have to not accept any insurance for it and charge a boatload which limits patientbase or just not do it since it would be awkward to fit into a schedule in general. i am also interested in solo practice which is more reasonable for a solo optometrist (though most solo practices are dying) than a general ophthalmologist.

>>17038033
it also helps that i have a lot of family that are optometrists which makes the decision somewhat easier and that i eventually plan to purchase a family member's practice (provided they don't jew me). my parents were the opposite: they wanted me to go to medical school but i decided to be an optometrist lol. while optometrist pay isn't as good as ophthalmology (around half in my state going by median statistics), i dont exactly live or plan on living an expensive lifestyle, though more money is always good.

if i were to go back in time, i'm 90% sure i'd choose optometry again, but that view might change as i age.

>>17038033
>>17038034
Appreciate your thoughts and insights, bitch boy.

>>17038038
:)

Anyone else getting ghosted by attendings for letter of recs?

God I am sick of the extra-curricular grind.
I just wanted to practice medicine. But after long shifts as a resident, I have to do all this BS for research and committees. Just let me on the fucking training program, you stingy faggots.

>>17038586
>God I am sick of the extra-curricular grind.
Just don't do it. Faggots like you are responsible for the proliferation of useless research and extracurriculars.

>>17038628
It's a condition for getting into the specialty training. It's the colleges, not me.

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what sort of eugenics tech is available today?
i'm 29 and my wife is 26 and we're planning on having kids in the next few years.
can we do a thing where you get like 6 embryos and they sequence the genome and can go "this one has morphisms linked to schizophrenia, this one is in the 95% percentile for height, this one has a 10x risk for autism, this one will have a huge dong" and then you just pick the one you like the best?
i'm thinking about the long term cost of raising a kid and spending some money up front to potentially improve their health / quality of life (and that of their offspring) seems like a no-brainer. but i don't know if this is nazi tech that is off limits to the goyim.

>>17039188
you can only test for genetic diseases/problems. you can't select for desired traits (muh ethics)

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>>17031670
I am a path resident. It is good, I like it. The learning curve is a pro I think because I think it's fun always having new things to read about. You can also collect slides like trading cards. You see all the cool stuff in the hospital and see more blood and guts (interesting surgical specimens) than the surgeons and have a deeper appreciation for things because we are so thorough in our gross and microscopic examinations. You can also be a turbo autist in path more so than other fields in the sense that it is based on esoteric knowledge and at times crazy differentials (ex. Soft tissue tumors). Neuro has a better market though and is geographically flexible but path has better work life balance.

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are bioinformaticians welcom.... haha, unless?

nurse here. how do i absorb all the reading without wasting my time

any doctor in here wanna check my anti flu home made remedy?
>>17037188

nurses are the backbone of the medical system and they are so important for making my penis hard

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Is this true?

My wife is a Norwegian doctor. (nephrology) just finished her specialization.

She wants to move a few years to usa to work. How whould this work? Does she have to start on "bottom" again? like be a intern and do all of residency ?

>>17040461
>Is this true?
Not exactly. Doctors make one of the best wives. She lies about the reason of low demand.

>>17022169
Europoor here. What’s wrong with DO? Dr Mike is a DO..

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any doctor in here wanna check my anti flu home made remedy?
>>17037188

>re-posting with a pic for 4chan meta visibility

if only i hate a cute doctor wife

>>17040654
she will make you sign pre-nup and get angry when you spend her money.
women are no different from men when they make it.

>>17039188
I don't think you can sequence genomes for gametes as sequencing involves denaturing the DNA and replicating it, which would destroy the cell. Best you can do is CRISPER desired things in a gamete.

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>>17040470
>Doctors make one of the best wives.
What makes you say this? Because of the familiarity with each other's schedules? As an aside, I can only imagine how comfortable life would be with a dual doctor household income.

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>>17040668
they take cells from the blastocyst, several days after fertilization, then freeze the embryo to run tests.

still limited by the number of embryos though. you might get like 6 viable embryos to choose from. it'd be a different story if we could get 100 or 1000 embryos to screen. you could get supersoldiers in just a couple generations.

>>17040666
i dont even spend much of my own money, so i wouldnt mind. i just want a cute wife to hold hands with, play vidya togrther, and discuss fun cases

>>17040509
2nd tier doctors in the US basically
not good enough to get into an MD school

>>17040509
in practice, typically nothing. in school, very unlikely to get a lucrative specialty.

go look up osteopathy. it's essentially what chiropractors do.
think of DOs as chiropractors with a medical license.

Hypothetically speaking,
if a patient frequently experienced numb toes or numb fingers,
how would they rule out diabetes? Taste the piss?

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MD schools >>> DO schools >>>>>>> Caribbean schools

I don't even know who would go to a Caribbean school nowadays now that loan limits are only up to $200k. Premeds don't know any better, I suppose.

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>>17041101
Adding on, I remember when I was in undergrad, our premed advisor had flyers advertising Caribbean medical schools... wtf do premed advisors even do? Seems strange to get advice from someone who never applied to medical school. Similarly, there are "learning specialists" at my current medical school and they have lectures on how to prepare for boards... but those "learning specialists" never actually took any board exams nor have they ever gone through medical school.

Anyways, regarding Caribbean schools seemingly preying on premeds who don't know any better, one of my classmates applied to a Caribbean school without the intention of actually going because they were offering accepted students a full-expenses-paid week to explore the island and school. So basically, he got a free vacation. Uhhh, based?

>>17040930
>>17041101
>>17041114
I am a PMHNP and got both my degrees from a top 20 nursing school. My first collaborating psychiatrist that was assigned to me after hiring had her degree from St. Kitts. I ended up quitting before I even started and switched to a psychiatrist who is the head of the state medical board and got her degree from a tier 1 research MD med school. I would never trust that carribean schooling in a million years. I am okay with DOs though as long as they are competent. I have worked with some amazing DOs and some concerning MDs before. Overall MDs are better than DOs, but like I said you can have an individual DO who is better than some MDs. My wife's OBGYN is a DO and we love her. She even sends me some of her psych patients.

>>17041095
fasting glucose and HbA1c blood tests

>>17041235
when the hypothetical patient fasts glucose they find out by blacking out?

>>17041237
Damn you were quick to respond lol. Well yes that can happen, but what I was referring to is a fasting glucose blood test and a A1c blood test. Hypoglycemic fainting from fasting could mean diabetes but it could also mean other things. Go get a physical dude and fast beforehand they typically check both those labs

>>17041233
The irony of an fucking NP trying to shit on a Caribbean graduate. Holy fuck lol.

>>17041241
>Go get a physical dude
meh the hypothetical patient has neither insurance nor cash

>>17041248
The irony of a premed trying to shit on an NP.
>>17041250
Then the best thing you can do is get on medicaid or just eat healthy and exercise and hope that you don't die of a hypoglycemic episode in the process.

>>17041253
You're trying to brag about going to a "top 20 nursing school".

>>17041256
Yeah because some NPs get their degree online from Chamberlain University or some other bullshit online school and they are the most incompetent fucks I have ever had the displeasure of working with. It is important for me to make that distinction.

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>>17041259

its over for doctoids

>>17041275
did they really put this shit out themselves on social media?

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Got called a "retarded savant" recently. It's not 100% positive, but I'm grasping for anything positive at this point.