I’ll go first. One guy posed with guns and posted the photos to fb. Same day, he sent intimidating emails to several classmates. He actually made it to 4th year before getting kicked out. Now he’s working some entry level lab tech job and keeps getting busted for minor crimes like shoplifting chips from gas stations.

2024 is coming to an end, here’s the doximity salary report for 2024. Which specialty’s salary comes as a shock to you? Whether it’s much higher or much lower than what you expected. For me, it’s occupational medicine. It doesn’t even sound like a medical specialty! What do they even do? And they make $317k!

Neurosurgery $763,908

Thoracic Surgery $720,634

Orthopaedic Surgery $654,815

Plastic Surgery $619,812

OMFS $603,623

Radiation Oncology $569,170

Cardiology $565,485

Vascular Surgery $556,070

Radiology $531,983

Urology $529,140

Gastroenterology $514,208

Otolaryngology (ENT) $502,543

Anesthesiology $494,522

Dermatology $493,659

Oncology $479,754

Ophthalmology $468,581

General Surgery $464,071

Colon & Rectal Surgery $455,282

Pulmonology $410,905

Emergency Medicine $398,990

Hematology $392,260

OBGYN $382,791

PMR $376,925

Nephrology $365,323

Pathology $360,315

Neurology $348,365

Pediatric Cardiology $339,453

Neonatology/Perinatology $338,024

Psychiatry $332,976

Allergy & Immunology $322,955

Occupational Medicine $317,610

Infectious Disease $314,626

Internal Medicine $312,526

Pediatric Emergency Medicine $309,124

Rheumatology $305,502

Family Medicine $300,813

Endocrinology $291,481

Geriatrics $289,201

Pediatric Gastroenterology $286,307

Preventive Medicine $282,011

Child Neurology $279,790

Pediatric Pulmonology $276,480

Medicine/Pediatrics $273,472

Pediatrics $259,579

Pediatric Hem/onc $251,483

Medical Genetics $244,517

Pediatric Infectious Disease $236,235

Pediatric Rheumatology $233,491

Pediatric Nephrology $227,450

Pediatric Endocrinology $217,875

Growing up, I always heard that I should watch out for hot gold diggers. As a newly minted attending about to make the big bucks, where would I find these attractive gold diggers? All evidence right now seems to indicate that this was a lie.

Mine is: attending is told their case is cancelled because the prior one overran and now they cannot complete it before the OR staff goes home. Attending says ”it’s ok, they can stay late”. Attending is told no thats not happening.

Attending rips up his patient list, blows the little scraps across the room, slams the door shut and starts screaming in the corridor about staff laziness.

My fellow resident was late because they ”wanted to eat their breakfast with their kids (this happens daily with the lateness but okay, the next part though -) who after eating said they wanted to see the end of the tv program they were watching” so the resident stayed to watch the tv show. They were over an hour late.

I’ll go first .

DERM. Period. Obviously, this varies by geographical location and the hospital you’re in, but regardless they’re mostly attention-seeking folks who need a regular dose of “pampering”.

Correct me if I’m wrong!

Like where? And what would it take to leave and practice somewhere else?

Asking for a friend, for no apparent reason 🤷🏻‍♂️

Spill. Which one worked best for you. What have been the pros and cons. I know I'm not the only one in the happy pill club.

A 2016 Honda Civic. It's a hand me down from my dad. Even after all these years I have no plans of buying a new one yet.

(No attendings flexing their attending money por favor)

My favourite this week was a post op hip with a single listed allergy: "yoghurt - uncontrollable coughing". Last week I had "Brussels sprouts - flatulence". It's almost like a succinct creative writing exercise to make me laugh in three words or less. What are your favourites?

I have been single for a couple years and slowly getting back into the dating scene. I happen to know a few doctor/nurse relationships, but also know a handful of residents that are absolutely against dating nurses. I'm pretty indifferent. For those against it, why? And for those of you dating a nurse, what's it like? Does their profession have any interference with your relationship?

What is the dumbest reason you've heard for a case getting canceled ? Had a tumor resection get canceled yesterday because the patient took Ondansetron the day before ....

From the previous thread it sounds like a lot of peoples hospitals have "that infamous surgeon". What is/was yours like?

Some stories about ours: threw an instrument at a wall and it left a big mark, is no longer allowed to work with interns and most residents - only some fellows and some residents, has their personal scrub team from agency staff because everyone else refuses to work with them.

Share your new whip and

Expand upon your egregious disregard for financial security.

One time after night ICU I was presenting a patient on AM rounds and got asked about a radiology finding. In my sleep deprivation I kept calling the left ventricle the 3rd ventricle for some reason. People let me go on for like 5 min before saying something. To this day I have no idea why I said that.

My partner is an OBGYN intern. She's working 5 12-hour shifts (though with signout it's more like 13 hours) a week on her L&D rotation, and about half the time works a 24 on top of that.

Most days (not the 24s) she comes home ravenous because she hasn't eaten all day. When I ask her why she hasn't eaten the lunch I packed her, she tells me there wasn't time. She only gets to eat on "slow days" (which from my estimate happens about once a week).

We live in a major city, so it seems like her L&D floor is always at max capacity, so I get her being busy, but it seems like if this were the norm the program should find a way to protect the residents lunch time. My brother is an IM intern at the same hospital and never has a problem getting time to eat.

I asked my partner why she doesn't ask the head of the program when she's supposed to eat lunch and she tells me that I "don't understand what it's like."

Is this normal?

Opthomology fersure up there.

TLDR: I hate being a doctor. I hate healthcare. I am ashamed to have entered this field. I want out. I need help (not depressed). No I won’t dox myself with details. Yes it was my choice to start and keep going, but I also feel that I was mislead by people I trusted. Admittedly this has involved a great extent of self-deception, justified under trying to be tough, perseverance, ‘resistance is the way’-think, etc. If you like being a doctor, GOOD FOR YOU. Every day I feel an increasing sense that the only way for ME to get over my despair is to quit healthcare entirely, but it feels impossible. I chose the wrong job for myself and now I’m fucked. I’m stuck. How did anyone gather the escape velocity required to break free? Looking only for commiseration or concrete guidance.

Title.

I'm in the ED and pretty much every service I rotate on shits on the ED openly in front of me despite knowing that I'm an EM resident. Curious if other peeps feel like their specialty gets shit on a bunch

In the USA of course.

EDIT: I believe for psych patients, this can have their physicians' license revoked

Picture it: Your group shuffles into the next patient room on morning rounds, and the attending does their intro of choice, e.g. "MR. / MRS. SMITH, HOW ARE YOU FEELING TODAY"

What patient response makes you go "ohhhhh boy" and resign yourself to an imminent onslaught of unpleasantness?

For me, it's a little three-step: shock + repeat + dramatic pause

Team: Mr./Mrs. Smith how are you feeling today

Mr./Mrs. Smith: *Stares at you like you just started speaking in tongues*

Mr./Mrs. Smith: "How am I *FEELING* today ...?!"

Mr./Mrs. Smith: *Dramatic pause, deep inhale"

Mr./Mrs. Smith: Unhinged, pressured litany of complaints from the past day, ranging from improbable ("The nurse woke me up this morning by licking my face!") to completely standard medical practice ("I told them I was starting to get a headache and they offered TYLENOL") to unfathomably out of our control ("and now my cousin in Alaska is going to PAINT his kitchen GREEN")

I was hooking up with a chief resident during admin time. It just kind of happened a few times. The way we would look at one another when in a group setting was pure fire.

I know, shameless. Down bad

Update: I went with “ur doctor”