I am starting to look for jobs and somehow the most stressful part is just writing the freaking email and finding a way to professionally say “please give me a job”
I also hate asking for reference letters, just something feels so dirty about that part.
“We are like Batman, not what society wants, but what society needs.”
ER doctor.
They are all a bunch of nerds, so I’m actually surprised he misquoted Commissioner Gordon.
I love my ER buddies. But also I feel like this is how all the other medical teams see emergency physicians. Things we don’t want, but we have to admit we need. We never enjoy seeing the bat signal.
Hate this deterioration of professionalism. I don’t want my future kids story or assignment re-enacted on his teachers socials. I don’t want my pet to have photos of its hectic surgery spread over my vets instagram. I don’t want me doctor or nurse re-enacting our interaction on tiktok.
Just stop 😫
I’m so glad I don’t do any social media. Besides some really selective tumblr. I get why people enjoy it. But overall, it all just sounds like a complete nightmare for these reasons.
Once upon a time, in an OR prepped for a craniotomy, there was an attending neurosurgeon who was watching the senior resident start the case. As the attending leaned over the patient, his airpod fell out and skittered across the floor through betadine and water. And he just picked it up. It was so nasty.
A PET (positron emission tomography) scan can compare brain activity during periods of depression (left) with normal brain activity (right). An increase of blue and green colors, along with decreased white and yellow areas, shows decreased brain activity due to depression.
“The main subcortical limbic brain regions implicated in depression are the amygdala, hippocampus, and the dorsomedial thalamus. Both structural and functional abnormalities in these areas have been found in depression.” - national library of medicine
When your senior/fellow/attending talks about how they worked 100 hours a week and got screamed at constantly by toxic attendings, so residency nowadays with weekly limits of 80 hours (?!?) is easy and your generation doesn’t care about their patients because they sometimes have days off
“I was miserable so you should be too” is basically what you’re saying. You might have bought into the toxic surgery culture enough to work yourself into the ground, but I would like to respectfully decline that path. After residency you’ll find me in a community surgery practice getting 8 hours of sleep and actually having time to see my family and friends - academic medicine can fuck off 😂
