r/Residency

using a throwaway for obvious reasons

I’m currently a PGY-1 in emergency medicine and pregnant. Things at home have completely fallen apart. Last time I posted, 99% of the comments said I should leave. My husband is an attending in a different specialty, and he treats me horribly.

One of my co-residents (a guy in my EM program) found out what I’m going through and offered to let me stay in his apartment until I can figure out a permanent situation. He’s genuinely just being supportive and trying to help me but I’m thinking about how this looks or if it’s a terrible idea. My family lives in a different state and I can't just abandon this residency. I worked too hard for this.

Would it be weird or unprofessional to stay with a male co-resident? We would share a room but just friends

So I'm an emergency med intern three weeks into my OB block. It hasn't been a bad month so far, I'm having a good time (as good as you can on L&D as a non obgyn intern) and everyone is chill except this one nurse that keeps referring to me as a medical student.

Obviously, the first time I didn't care because I'm new and not a obgyn resident so whatever but I've worked with her four times and she keeps doing it. I message her every morning I have one of her patients saying like "hey i'm the off-service resident taking care of the patient in room x", I write my name down on the white board in the patients room as Dr. mccartneys, and I've straight up like chatted to her and told her I'm a resident? And its not like she's a new nurse or anything, she's been on L&D for like 5 years.

Today is the fourth time it's happened. I walk into the patients room this morning, after messaging her, and after working with her three times before, and straight up telling her multiple times i'm the intern/resident, and she looks at me then turns to the patient and says "oh perfect, here's the medical student!"

I’m (32F) a new a gen surg attending at big academic center. One of our new residents is honestly so distracting to work with. He’s older than most of our other residents (30-35) and is just so mature and knowledgeable compared to them. It’s like he’s the one teaching me. Have any of you seen a relationship between an attending and resident workout? Last week I got a dirty stick in the OR which was due to nothing other than a surg techs negligence and this resident was so comforting and made everything feel okay. He drew my blood alone in the call room and I told him “it’s okay that accidents happen” and he didn’t take the hint. I’ve built all this tension and he hasn’t made any advances yet. Should I just be straightforward and tell him I love him more than my husband?

So does any of you (especially the ones started residency around 30-35) have experience flirting with your attending? I feel like there’s a some sexual tension between us and no I’m not delusionaal. She’s very tough on other residents (especially the females) but I could basically do no wrong. I actually accidental poked her with need during surgery and she went off on the surgical tech for distracting me. She even talked to me after telling me accidents happen and the OR staff are trash lol

Had a conversation with a pulmonologist the other day about how traumatic COVID was for them. Had a similar conversation with a hospitalist about how every hospital-based IM subspecialist, regardless of subspecialty, became de facto Pulm/ID docs during COVID.

Got me thinking about who would be the most worked/needed in the case of WW3. How does your opinion change based on if WW3 is based on bioweapons, weapons of mass destruction, etc?

how do you deal with period pain while having to work and walk the entire hospital? the first two days i barely can walk its uncomfortable to even breathe and i can't function being in that state im miserable. ive had work up done and im fine but i dont feel fine. i cant sleep the night before and im nauseous all the time. im having advil for breakfast lunch and dinner. i literally want to pull my hair one by one.

Ow ow ow why do they keep bouncing on me oof ouch owie my bones

Here I am, waiting my turn to make buttery smooth passes through the tissue with my surgical grade stainless steel circle taper point needle gently positioned at a perfect 45 degree angle in gold handled tungsten carbide tipped needle drivers. The scrub tech has positioned me at the edge of the mayo stand ready to be used at any moment. Suddenly a hand comes from across the table and snatches me off the mayo violently. It’s the intern. My beloved scrub tech glares. I am immediately repositioned by the intern to a 90 degree angle and he chokes up almost crushing my needle point. More glares from my guardian mayo angel. Just as I’m about to dive into the wound with the grace of a Swan I am slammed into the knuckle of the attending surgeon. I feel my point bend on the bone as it jars me. A small tear trickles out of the corner of the attending’s eye as she smiles and brushes it off, “the scrub tech must have distracted you”. She is trying a new anger management strategy that avoids harming the residents. It seems to work and I notice the intern blush. However, no one slanders my mayo queen and she quickly plots to key the attendings car on her next break. On the interns attempts a first pass I make sure to drag through the tissue with my newly bent point and then instantly break my suture at the phalange as the intern uses too much tension. My instrument whisperer then whips around to the intern “you dumbass that needle was contaminated” as she gracefully passes me off the field into the red Valhalla where all sharps past and present go to their great reward.

I’m trying to figure out whether I want to do Internal Medicine or Anesthesia. I love critical thinking and using my brain. I am an introvert and can really struggle after a whole day of talking to patients, wherein I just switch off afterwards, so I’m afraid my future family may have to bear the brunt of it. But I also freaking love internal medicine as a subject.

Anyone in this sub who was in a similar place and ended up choosing the interaction-heavy specialty? How are you coping?

So I’m evaluating a surgical attending who got stuck with a dirty needle in the OR, and I swear when I asked her if the patient had any history of HIV or hepatitis she insisted I put both her and her surgical resident on PEP… and I’m confused, because the report said the resident was holding the needle but didn’t mention whether he was also exposed and whether it happened before or after the attending was stuck… she just gave a long, lusty sigh and said “oh he’s getting exposed later.” What in the House of God is going on in this program?

I’m kind of asking for advice here, or if anyone has ever had a similar issue.

I graduated from an EM residency program this year in June. I was a transfer student because my last program closed down the year prior.

I’m trying to get hired at the same hospital I graduated from, as well as some affiliated freestandings in the area, and I’ve run into an issue.

There’s a possibility they ‘forgot’ to insure me for medical malpractice the whole year I was there. The compliance coordinator is asking for a certificate of insurance, and both the sponsoring university and the hospital are saying they don’t have records of it anywhere. I’m waiting for the director of GME to get back to me but I don’t have high hopes.

How boned am I? Is there anything I can do here? Is this gonna impact my ability to work elsewhere too??? I’m running out of funds cause it’s been so long since I’ve graduated. I don’t really have the cash to afford a lawyer and I would hesitate to sue anyway since it’s a VERY large company.