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I’m curious if anyone has seen this video going viral on tik tok, I think it’s deleted now. Basically, there was a medical emergency on a train, and an overhead announcement asked if there was a doctor or nurse onboard. An internal medicine attending responded and found a nurse already kneeling next to the patient. According to the physician, when she tried to assess the patient, the nurse put a hand up in her face and said something along the lines of, “I’m a nurse, I got this,” without allowing the physician to evaluate the patient as well. The physician also mentioned that the nurse was trying to give the patient juice despite there being no known history of diabetes or hypoglycemia. She felt like the situation perpetuates the ongoing stigma of tension between nurses vs doctors.

A lot of the stitches I saw from nurses and NPs defended the nurse’s actions, criticized the physician for speaking about it publicly, and some even referred to her as “just a resident,” even though she’s an attending. I haven’t come across many physicians discussing it from their perspective.
I’m genuinely curious how others would have handled this.

If you were the physician walking up to that scene, would you have stepped back after the nurse said that she can handle it or insisted on evaluating the patient?

Especially would like to hear from experiences of female physicians and how to be assertive while also taking on a collaborative approach

Just started at a new program and I'm struggling fr

Friends with curly hair: are we just claw clipping that shit every day of intern year?

I like to wear my hair curly and down at least part of the day (it helps avoid tension headaches) but rounds feel too early to shower before work so I’m going to bed with damp hair and waking up with a rat’s nest. Please don’t tell me about silk pillowcases or bonnets trust me, I have tried, and that does not work.

Accepting tips and tricks 🙏🏻

I wish the federal government would make student loan repayment non taxable up to like 50k or 100k a year. So if you paid 100k your AGI would go from 400k to 300k. I would put the max down every year till my loan was paid off.

If people really cared about loans getting paid back, it seems like such a simple solution. I also think it would stimulate the economy more than people living with their debt for decades at a time.

in psychiatry residency and want to start a food tik tok or instagram, completely unrelated to medicine but worried if patients see it then it’s weird since it’d show too much of my personality (like what my house looks like, non professional outfits, jokes, etc). what are people’s thoughts? am i being too paranoid?

Surgery PGY4. The trauma pager was going off all night, and we had a guy literally blow his face off after letting a firework go off in his mouth. Worst injury I’ve ever seen; his face was barely recognizable as human. Just got home and poured myself a bourbon lol. Cheers to everyone who had a fucked up shift! 🤪

Our training is long, arduous, and expensive for a reason. We give up years of earning potential, miss milestones, work nights, weekends, and holidays, and take on enormous responsibility to develop the judgment that patients depend on.
You deserve to be compensated in a way that reflects that sacrifice and allows you to have a good life.

If it were up to admin, they’d reduce us to productivity metrics and pretend we’re interchangeable, as if the decade or more spent becoming a physician doesn’t matter.

Don’t buy into that mindset. Your expertise is what you’re being paid for. Volume is simply the easiest thing for admin to measure.

Sincerely,
PGY8 Hospitalist

I started wards 3 days ago and feel completely dumb and lost

Any advice?

Did anyone here start residency not fully sure about the specialty, but ended up liking it later?

I’m considering starting in a specialty I’m not 100% sure about. Part of me thinks real hospital experience might make me like it more once I understand the work, the patients, the routine, and the career options better. But another part of me worries that if I’m unsure from the start, it may be a bad sign.

I’m interested in hearing from people who were uncertain at the beginning. Did the specialty grow on you? Was it because of the team, the lifestyle, the type of patients, the procedures, or simply getting more confident with time?

And for those who started unsure and later left, what made you realise it was not for you?

So i did uworld x3 made flashcards on each question and do them. What else can i do for this test? I feel like i dont have enough to pass ? Please please any advice??!!!

And now everyone is being extra nice and attentive so it seems like word got around

🙃🙃🙃

Dating during residency has been rough, and dating apps have been pretty trash. I’m a 36-year-old resident in NSGY in the Midwest, hoping to connect with a genuine, ambitious, kind woman who loves traveling, enjoys sports, and is looking for something real.
About me: long hours, dark humor, caffeine-dependent, and somehow still optimistic. Hardworking, loyal, can hold a conversation outside of medicine, and I know the difference between confidence and arrogance.
Being in medicine is a plus, but definitely not required.
If you’re also trying to find something meaningful in the middle of all this chaos, feel free to message anonymously.

I am hard of hearing resident. I wear hearing aids. My program knows i wear hearing aids and need people to talk clearly and straight at me. But, i am shy to remind my seniors and attendings this everytime. They talk while walking or facing to the computer making my job thousand times harder. Intern year is already incredibly harder without this. I try to be the hardest worker in a team, but when I make them repeat things I feel like they think I am stupid. I’d love to know if you are or have seen hard of hearing residents in your program and some advice on how to be able to perform better!

hey everyone, i never expected myself to be posting on reddit to share my thoughts/ seek advice. i’ve seen many posts this last week about feeling dumb as a brand new intern but here’s my take nonetheless because maybe the more people who post about their experience, the less others in my boat will feel alone? (let’s hope)

I was a below average med student with below average step 2 and shelf grades blah blah. I started intern year about a week ago and have found myself in a state of high stress because I feel like I don’t know how to help my patients in the most basic of ways. Getting messaged about blood sugars and insulin orders and blood pressures have me freaking out , and even though i’m a week in, i still haven’t been able to get a grip on these things. not sure if that’s normal. i’ve just been finding it hard to learn and re learn basic medicine when i’m working 12 hours and coming home to more orientation modules and trying to get settled into a new city. other interns in my class seem to have a better understanding about how to tackle patient problems without asking their senior and it boggles my mind how they know so many things already.

Long story short i’m struggling with understanding the hospital workflow, comparing myself to other interns, being alone in a new city, and forgetting so many basic concepts about medicine.

I know these are common feelings but I always convince myself that my situation is worse off than others’ situation because med school convinced me i’d always be starting out way below average.

Any thoughts, reality checks, and advice appreciated.

where i work we basically do a 35+ hour shift every 4 days, in these shifts you maybe sleep 2h at most if you're lucky, without any day off after it so when you leave the hospital after working these insane hours, tomorrow you're supposed to come in the morning as if nothing happened and it's killing me slowly...

I'm either working or sleeping because I have no time for anything else, either I'm in a 35h shift or recovering from one or sleeping because I have another shift tomorrow.

it's only for the next 6 months then I'm going to get into a program that had a way better work/life balance but in the meantime I need tips and tricks to survive

my social life is collapsing, my skin is breaking out, I feel like I'm wasting my life away...

In an effort to stay hydrated I take my water bottle with me on prerounds and rounds. I leave my water bottle at the nurses station and pick it up after we see the patient. However, twice now, I forget to pick it up and I forget which nurses station I left my water bottle at. Has this happened to anyone? Does anyone have any advice on how I can stop losing my water bottles?

To every physician, particularly EM Bros, spending today beneath fluorescent lights instead of fireworks: thank you for keeping our country alive while the rest of us celebrate it. May you find your own moment of celebration when the day is done. May God bless America.

Hey everyone (stay strong, interns!),

I recently saw a post here about how challenging dating can be in medicine, and it got me thinking. As busy single physicians, it can be really hard to meet people who truly understand our lifestyle and schedules.

I was wondering if there might be interest in a low-pressure, safe community where single physicians could connect, chat, and get to know each other? Nothing high-stakes — just a friendly space to meet others in the same boat.

I’m not sure what the best platform would be (Discord, a private subreddit, Facebook group, etc.), but I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas!

If this sounds like something you might be interested in, drop a comment or upvote so I can get a sense of the interest level. No pressure at all — just exploring the idea together! If not, I’ll shut up and get back to work 😂

Thanks for reading

How are people doing them, would rather not drill into the wall if I can avoid it but also can. I have the classic vinyl vertical blinds right now if my new apartment that faces the sun and wakes me up 7am on my day off please help

If you had to choose one specialty that you consider a “doctor’s doctor,” which would it be, and why?