u/Spiritual_Extent_187

I never understood the benefit of this, and it seemed to slow down classes. I remember there were classes like social studies where we go down the rows and one kid read a paragraph. Kids would zone out so after it’s all over, there was not much retaining besides the one paragraph you read. Kids got anxious counting the kids ahead to know what they have to read. Others don’t pay attention when you read. If you struggle to speak and read out loud..good luck!

Im assuming this has gone away but I never understood any of the positives of it.

Title is the summary. Making friends as an adult is hard AF, It was easy in high school since friends were in classes and in college there were dorm mates

Some say to go to a bar and talk, but they only go with friends. And for someone who is alone, since I don’t know them, idk what to talk about. Horrible at conversations, I’m ok if the other person does the work but I never start a conversation, don’t know what to talk about. Have no stories to tell of 35+ years of living.

I live in a smaller town so not a lot of clubs intended to meet new people. I’m not religious so church is not ideal.

I have a few hobbies like video games but idk what a hobby is(never understood that word) and when people suggest meeting others through hobbies, idk where to start with that

Feel like I’m destined to be friendless for life

I don’t like to do homework or extra work, and I’m lowkey lazy, so I am in all standard classes. The only problem is a lot of the kids can be rowdy so the teacher has to keep sending peeps to detention, but I’d rather do that than do more work. What bout y’all?

I went to a week at Zilara and never tipped. Lots of big groups ate dinner and left 0 tip too and nobody tipped when getting drinks. But, online there were all these things about having so many US dollars around to tip. I didn’t have much cash on me anyway, but since it’s all inclusive, I figured no extra money needed, except for the spa so I didn’t tip anyone.

We even got our bags through bag assist and when we left, the guy said “no tip?” And we said “sorry” and just walked away.

I’ll be traveling to Costa Rica for the first time and want to enjoy the nature and either check out hiking and volcano is La fortuna and/or check out manual Antonio. However the one thing that scares me is the driving and renting a car. In the usa, I’m a skiddish driver, I get scared with roads that are tough and drive slow in big turns, and get nervous in highways where I have to merge and go fast.

Basically, I’m like a very beginner driver with little skill(even though I’m mid 30s). Is it easy to drive in Costa Rica for not good drivers like me?

I use Abrdige on epic to write all my patient notes, which is a godsend. I have all my notes closed by end of day with no more in basket issues. I’ve used open evidence for oddball cases at least 1x a week. Seldomly I’ve used AI for a work event: for example to generate a collage of our nurses staff for nurses week. Or resident appreciation day with fun pictures.

Our clinic have been toying with the idea for AI front desk staff, which if they can work the kinks that’ll be nice

People are scaring me about making a huge mistake about going on a resort trip in August. They say that the seaweed is so bad I should cancel. We are staying at Hyatt Zilara on a couples trip. We want to spend time at the pool and beach, and relax. For people who have traveled to punta Cana and especially those who have went in August, how was your experience? TIA

So I have about half a million in loans. I’m FM and make about 200K a year. I put my loans on income based repayment, automatic and don’t touch it, it pays the minimum and the good news is slow and steady for 30 years. However it seems a lot of docs talk about paying off loans in just a few years and that seems unheard of for me. Especially since I have a house with a mortgage, but that’s normal to pay the minimum for 30 years and no one usually complains about that. I feel if I pay more than the minimum for student loans, I would go negative and be in crisis.

In the residency world there is a huge push to get pocus training in FM. None of the faculty have ever touched an ultrasound. We have a tech rep come once a year to give a demonstration but that’s it. Residency programs are now required to check off that a physician has had pocus training for the ABFM but barely anyone uses it. Also, I’ve never seen practicing docs around here touch it. I know for our hospital, they wouldn’t give the clinic a machine because of liability purposes.

I haven’t heard of anyone using point of care ultrasound in primary care, and if so, what do they use it for? If they find something, do they refer to specialist? I dunno, it just seems too much. And residency programs are scrambling since not one person knows how to use POCUS, in our shop they shadow a ultrasound tech and maybe see some u/s in ed and that checks the box

I’m 37 M, and have 0 friends. I can’t easily go to a bar or meeting place and talk to people. The only thing I can think of is “Hi.” And that’s it. I don’t have stories to tell. I’m boring as fuck. I don’t have any “favorite” anything, and if I do, it’ll change tomorrow. I have no idea how to read social cues or know any jokes. I usually wait for the other person to talk and do the conversation leading but idk how to do that. And when they ask questions about me, I always have to stop and think cause I take a while to process a correct or good answer. I feel like I have no idea where to even start.

Been running around the dungeon for over 2 hours, and went everywhere possible. I see a chest in the first floor that’s blocked by a blue box and can’t get there. I can’t progress further without both the blue and red key but figures the blue needs to be found first. Where do you guys go to get the key? TIA! 😀

I’ve been seeing a rise of obese patients wanting ozempic, wegovy, zepbound etc. they don’t have diabetes. I usually tell them if there isn’t a medical contradiction, I can send it and see what insurance says. If it doesn’t cover or co pay covers X amount, you can pay for it. If you can’t afford it, we can switch you to contrave or metformin. After that I feel like I just say, nothing else I can do, diet or exercise. Sometimes our MA can try a PA but a ton of times insurance denies PA so it’s like well, too bad, we tried.

Do you guys see a lot of glp-1 askers? Do you tell them they can try hims or compound clinics? One suggestion was to send to endocrine but ours is a 6 month wait

Think about it, we alll like familiar foods. I know what chicken nuggets taste like from McDonald’s, same with fried chicken from kfc or burgers from Burger King. With local restaraunts, you have no idea what it’s gonna be like. If they have spices that hurt your tummy, you can have explosive diarrhea or stomach cramps. Or if they have veggies you never seen or food has an odor never smelt. Sometimes you travel to lie on a beach in Greece or Kenya for a week and eat familiar food or go party in Thailand and eat food you know. Etc etc.

Here’s the big problem, you have to wait till you get to the speaker to know what they sell in the menu and read it. I always say “give me a few minutes” when I get there. Why? Cause I don’t k ow what the fuck they want. I dunno what they are selling and what the prices are. If they had it earlier, I can read for a few minutes and then order

I used to be an Abercrombie and hollister guy. Now I’m 38 and feel “aged out” lol

I mainly shop at express and H+M for good jeans now. I still rock a pair or two of ripped jeans haha

I have been playing that song nonstop for days lmao, all the aunties love it and it’s now their new ringtone. Definitely a nice anthem song

WALK WITH GRACE

MoVE WITH FINESSE

I would like to try Mexican, Indian and other ethnic cuisines with spices but when I try them, I sprint to the bathroom, have bad cramps and my ass feels like it’s on fire and my stools are runny, explode and feel bad

How do people eat high level spices and feel normal?