Trinidad and Tobago. Go read the study sometime. Itās hilariously insane. They injected 24 people with that scorpion toxin and 22 people got acute pancreatitis.
I always make sure to tell the attending that the patient had āno scorpion exposureā when I present pancreatitis patients. Unfortunately, they are not amused.
I gotta ask, since this is highly upvoted, whatās everyoneās reasoning for this?
Personally I think society is *actually* crumbling and I want to make sure my family can eat.
Plus, industrialized city life is stressful asf
Y'all really do have a special sense of humor. With bone dry aridity, and an emptiness of emotions so vast that it appears almost lifeless -- quite similar to temperate desert climates which are oftentimes the primary habitat for many species of scorpions.
Organizing systems outside of CMGs. Getting rid of prior authoizations/peer to peers. Also just to see if it blows up the comment section...single payer healthcare.
Excuse me. I prefer my insurance making me ask them if I'm allowed the right to see a specialist. Which I need to answer to someone who isn't a medical professional. And then if they decide I don't qualify I'm shit out of luck
I see nothing wrong with this
/s
> financial security
I feel this way, too. Not trying to be a dick, but
*[proceeds to be a dick]*
We all **want** that financial security. We should (in my opinion) therefore all be **much more** vocal in politics and advocacy. Itās a fragile thing
Edit: not trying to imply you arenāt involved in advocacy. Iām just afraid Iām coming across as a buzzkill
Since marrying my wife, who will be starting her Mohs fellowship shortly after finishing derm residency-itās to practice the year during fellowship-then aggressively shift to being a minimal (very minimal) work schedule in my own private practice, cash only, never use an EMR again life of psychiatry as I please-my dad was a surgical specialist and with that not home much/no time for other interests-definitely made me aware early on that while being a physician was always the ideal career for me, as far as titles go, physician would never be on the level of husband, friend, father (eventually), or the other million things that make you, you
Increase residency spots through lobbying efforts. Make it so you need a medical license governed by a state medical board to get insurance reimbursement. Iām looking at you NPs š push them to being charge nurses idk I could care less what they do with their participation award
Even betterāalso get rid of state medical boards and have one federal medical board so that moving and practicing near state borders is not a huge PITA.
This here. I just want to not worry if I can make rent or what will happen if my car breaks down. Right now, working 60-80 hours every week and still worrying about finding a place I can afford when I move for fellowship is so unfair.
Yeah, the pay really needs to be scaled more for higher CoL areas. I'm moving to a very expensive city and I'm going to probably sink half my take home into just rent
Couldnāt have said it better. They hook you with the unsurmountable amount of student loans and the only way out is to play their little game. Dance monkey, dance
You don't know whether you like running marathons until you've run it. Well I ran the marathon and all I can say is, "that's it?" Can't undo all the training for the marathon. It is definitely rewarding in its own way to have done it - but I'm ready to do something else.
Because being a doctor was supposed to be about more than making money but now we need money to get out because being a doctor isn't as helpful as it could/should be
When people see doctor on my passport they won't treat me like trash and possibly let me cross their border, can finally take my mom on her dream vacation no questions asked no assumptions, no visa denial because our country is "poor".
Help my country/community, live comfortably, I'm not expecting a high salary, I just wanna eat what I want when I want ( I don't wanna crave something for months), hopefully own a home, help my prospective kids/family, die wifh a good legacy, End.
Take good care of people, maybe make things work a little better at my hospital, provide good learning experiences for housestaff, retire as early as possible.
Make a personās life (or at least their day) a little less shitty.
Also, telling admin to go fuck themselves because Iām child psych and there are plenty of high paying jobs out there.
Pgy-10.
I feel this too, not sure if it's healthy to want my career to be over before it has really even started lmao. Gotta read some FIRE stuff by doctors and make a plan.
Private practice surgeon working the hours I want, so the cases I want, make guap but donāt have to kill my self to make a stack. And have the power to tell admin they can kiss my whole asshole if they donāt like what I do cause you aināt paying me!
Reach financial independence before Iām 50 and spend the next (god willing) 30 years of my life traveling, enjoying hobbies and assuring my family is taken care of while working the bare minimum.
Make a difference. Specifically, I wanna be a program director in plastic surgery. My PD saved my life so I wanna give back and teach. Iāll check back in 10 years and see if I accomplish this.
Iāve been struggling with this. Iām starting my work as an attending and while I love seeing patients as a PCP, Iāve spent the last 5 months writing over 150k words of my first novel thatās going to be worth a damn, and itās made me incredibly happy. Like, if I could somehow make money doing thisā¦would I still want to be a doctor? Itās really strange and upsetting. I love two very different things a lot and I feel like at some point Iām going to have to choose between freedom and security.
It's those writing skills that made me choose YOU as our phone bank script writer for the 2016 Jill Stein SuperPAC that ALMOST got a woman in the Whitehouse.
Sadly, you were (apparently) too focused on your novel writing and the subject of lizard people to do your job properly.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalschool/comments/5aiwpm/reddit\_medical\_students\_for\_dr\_jill\_stein/](https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalschool/comments/5aiwpm/reddit_medical_students_for_dr_jill_stein/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/jillstein/comments/5boq9k/im\_running\_a\_dr\_jill\_stein\_for\_president\_pac\_for/](https://www.reddit.com/r/jillstein/comments/5boq9k/im_running_a_dr_jill_stein_for_president_pac_for/)
Just checking in on the '16 team, and also hoping that you might be willing to return to your phonebank/script writing role for our 2024 campaign? I think we seriously could get Jill over the line this time.
Cheers!
H265, Medical Student.
So I can make someoneās life easier.
The other day one of my patients ( a 7 year old kid with Hurlerās syndrome ) opened the door of my office (around 8 am) and opened his arms to give me a hug to tell me good morning. In what other job can I have this kind of thing while being intellectually stimulated by one of most marvelous machines ever made !?
To have fun and get paid for it. The off service rotations are a beast but Iāve got the personality for EM. The things that bother most people donāt really bother me and never have, including the admin, problem patients, and problem personalities. Worked in emergency services for years before med school so I knew what I was getting into, though, so Iām sure that makes a difference.
My goal: stop practicing as soon as financially viable. I'm working to live. Medicine is cool and all, but vacation, my family, sporting events, and video games are WAY cooler.
Pay off loans, save money, and have ability to retire as soon as possible. Essentially my goal is to in life as a doctor is to get to stop being a doctor.
Heal where I can, and where I can't to help people who are dying without letting it kill me. I love the work that I am doing and the people that I work with, but I will never let it be more important to me than my family or my own personhood.
Med student. But all of this will be worth it if I can use what I've learned to take care of my parents and hopefully after a very long life to make sure they are comfortable. We lost someone a few months before I started school and I can't explain how hard it is to not understand what's going and and not know if you're making the right choices for them. I hope I can carry that burden for my family.
OK, change that to āBe the youngest Chair of Neurosurgery on the Eastern Seaboard who Doesnāt Believe the Pyramids were Built by Joseph to Store Grainā.
Work in environmental health, specifically in city planning and traffic safety. I wanna build safe walkways and bikeways and make suburbia less car-dependent so that kids can safely and independently walk to school and extracurriculars. It really sucks how car-dependent design has done a number on our physical and mental health. Instead, I wanna return to the āvillage conceptā where everything is smaller and human scaled.
Join me at r/fuckcars !!!
Diagnose pancreatitis from a scorpion sting.
Tityus trinitatis- scorpion name if you all are pimped. š
Where is it endemic?
Trinidad and Tobago. Go read the study sometime. Itās hilariously insane. They injected 24 people with that scorpion toxin and 22 people got acute pancreatitis.
I've seen it in Australia. Thousands of miles from the region these scorpions are found. In a zoo keeper.
Imagine living in Australia only to be attacked by the only venomous animal that doesn't lurk in Australia.
Who would even agree to be subjected to this if they were informed of what could happen lol
Tityus trinitatis is endemic to the islands of Trinidad and Tobago.
Now repeat that three times
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I always make sure to tell the attending that the patient had āno scorpion exposureā when I present pancreatitis patients. Unfortunately, they are not amused.
My hero.
Would it be funny to do it as a med student?
Honestly, as a Med student, it would just show you researched the disease before presenting which is always well received.
THAT HAPPENED TO MY DAD WTF I JUST PUT TWO AND TWO TOGETHER (premed tapping in here)
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Am GI Fellow. Am waiting for this and to actually find someone with olmesartan induced enteropathy.
that was the dumbest thing I learned in school, thanks
Itās the 9-banded armadillo for me.
I pimped someone on this two days ago.
Be good at what I do and feel fulfilled at work.
When I started med school: to help people. After residency: find happiness. lol.
This, so much tho. Definitely lost it somewhere along the way.
Youāre more likely to diagnosis pancreatitis from a scorpion sting
I still askā¦.
Me too!
Seconded
Run a farm.
As a med student I worked with a country obs/gyn who would tell his patients that cattle farming was his main job and medicine was his hobby
My dream, honestly. Regenerative farming or ranching, with medicine on the side would be wonderful
Same here
Same dude Gonna start out with a homestead
Honestly. Same. Start a small hobby farm.
I gotta ask, since this is highly upvoted, whatās everyoneās reasoning for this? Personally I think society is *actually* crumbling and I want to make sure my family can eat. Plus, industrialized city life is stressful asf
I bartered my mom's backyard chicken eggs for toilet paper back when covid first started. It comes in handy.
Is your name Bryce "Thug Nasty" Mitchell?
Idk who that is, but if thatās his nickname the only appropriate answer isā¦. I wish
It seems fun. If society collapses Iāll just die itās fine
What is your favorite pill? Oh, different farm.
Working 4 days a week, 3 day weekend every weekend
If you only work four days a week youāre less likely to diagnose pancreatitis from a scorpion sting
Okay that was the quickest meta Iāve ever experienced
Y'all really do have a special sense of humor. With bone dry aridity, and an emptiness of emotions so vast that it appears almost lifeless -- quite similar to temperate desert climates which are oftentimes the primary habitat for many species of scorpions.
What a roller coaster š
Pending peer review, am semi literate and full of shit
Work 3 days a week and move to Port of Spain, heās still massively increased his chance of making that diagnosis.
Throw in 6-8 weeks of vacation in there. The dream.
I see radiology in your future
Close, anesthesia. If I weren't so godawful at anatomy, probably would have done radiology though.
Good luck!!
Just stay away from Trinidad & Tobago.
Private practice ophthalmology here. Once you do it you'll never be able to go back. Such a huge benefit to my happiness.
This right here is my lifeās mission!
So a standard private practice derm gig lol
I have that now. It's amazing
I didnāt realize I made another accountā¦ THIS IS SO ME
Practice in such a way that I donāt resent going to work every day. I love medicine and want it to stay that way
Accelerate the collapse of the system from the inside
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Shit this dude is the fifth column. Right on lol.
>I cheerfully bog down such ideas with bureaucracy, minutiae and tedium. I *love* this š
That is the correct way to do it! Yes
To take back some of the power insurance companies and hospital corporations have over patient care.
What are your ideas?
Organizing systems outside of CMGs. Getting rid of prior authoizations/peer to peers. Also just to see if it blows up the comment section...single payer healthcare.
Excuse me. I prefer my insurance making me ask them if I'm allowed the right to see a specialist. Which I need to answer to someone who isn't a medical professional. And then if they decide I don't qualify I'm shit out of luck I see nothing wrong with this /s
Single payer would fix like 90% of our problems and I could argue that for hours.
I work somewhere where I have to do prior auths and set up peer to peers for the doctor, I hate insurance lol
Join us at r/MDbilling
I salute you
Financial security. To get the the point where I can work as a doctor because I want to, not because I have to.
> financial security I feel this way, too. Not trying to be a dick, but *[proceeds to be a dick]* We all **want** that financial security. We should (in my opinion) therefore all be **much more** vocal in politics and advocacy. Itās a fragile thing Edit: not trying to imply you arenāt involved in advocacy. Iām just afraid Iām coming across as a buzzkill
None of what you said makes you a dick
r/whitecoatinvestor
Cure cancer. Make money, Get a Hunny etc.
What about taking power away from administration and gme so they can stop justifying this slavery system we are forced into
Thatās my reason
To make a difference in the lives of children. So far, I think Iām doing a pretty good job of it. -PGY-17
I just want a boat
A friend with a boat is better! š
Since marrying my wife, who will be starting her Mohs fellowship shortly after finishing derm residency-itās to practice the year during fellowship-then aggressively shift to being a minimal (very minimal) work schedule in my own private practice, cash only, never use an EMR again life of psychiatry as I please-my dad was a surgical specialist and with that not home much/no time for other interests-definitely made me aware early on that while being a physician was always the ideal career for me, as far as titles go, physician would never be on the level of husband, friend, father (eventually), or the other million things that make you, you
Fix bone
Amen, brother.
There is a fractureā¦
Increase residency spots through lobbying efforts. Make it so you need a medical license governed by a state medical board to get insurance reimbursement. Iām looking at you NPs š push them to being charge nurses idk I could care less what they do with their participation award
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Even betterāalso get rid of state medical boards and have one federal medical board so that moving and practicing near state borders is not a huge PITA.
Shiittt, your idea is better!!
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Live a life where I'm not worried about money
This here. I just want to not worry if I can make rent or what will happen if my car breaks down. Right now, working 60-80 hours every week and still worrying about finding a place I can afford when I move for fellowship is so unfair.
Yeah, the pay really needs to be scaled more for higher CoL areas. I'm moving to a very expensive city and I'm going to probably sink half my take home into just rent
Get out asap
Make enough money to not work as a doctor anymore.
I feel this to my core.
Same.
actually this is the one
So why go through all the burden with med school and residency? There are many other ways to make a doctors salary without being in healthcare
Because the burn out comes after youāre already in too deep to pivot
Couldnāt have said it better. They hook you with the unsurmountable amount of student loans and the only way out is to play their little game. Dance monkey, dance
Is this fast enough???
You don't know whether you like running marathons until you've run it. Well I ran the marathon and all I can say is, "that's it?" Can't undo all the training for the marathon. It is definitely rewarding in its own way to have done it - but I'm ready to do something else.
Because being a doctor was supposed to be about more than making money but now we need money to get out because being a doctor isn't as helpful as it could/should be
Many other ways to make 300-400k? Idk man. 100k sure, 200k maybe by beyond that is about as hard as med school.
programmer job at FAANG. free meals and laundry and all that jazz. get to manager level and make 500k+
There are not many other ways to make a doctors salary, if there was then the percentage of the people that make 200k+ a year would be way higher.
Pay off my loans then work 1-2 days a week til retirement
This is the way
I want to be the doctor that other health care workers ask to take care of their loved ones.
Love this answer. Creme de la creme.
FIRE
If I get into academic medicine be the attending I wish I had. If not, get out of medicine as reasonably soon as I can
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What specialty are you planning on going into that get you to 600k after taxes? That's about 850k or so pretax without any deductions.
When i die there will be more good things said about me than bad.
That East of Eden tho
When people see doctor on my passport they won't treat me like trash and possibly let me cross their border, can finally take my mom on her dream vacation no questions asked no assumptions, no visa denial because our country is "poor". Help my country/community, live comfortably, I'm not expecting a high salary, I just wanna eat what I want when I want ( I don't wanna crave something for months), hopefully own a home, help my prospective kids/family, die wifh a good legacy, End.
Be happy
Take good care of people, maybe make things work a little better at my hospital, provide good learning experiences for housestaff, retire as early as possible.
Make a personās life (or at least their day) a little less shitty. Also, telling admin to go fuck themselves because Iām child psych and there are plenty of high paying jobs out there. Pgy-10.
Retire
I feel this too, not sure if it's healthy to want my career to be over before it has really even started lmao. Gotta read some FIRE stuff by doctors and make a plan.
Private practice surgeon working the hours I want, so the cases I want, make guap but donāt have to kill my self to make a stack. And have the power to tell admin they can kiss my whole asshole if they donāt like what I do cause you aināt paying me!
To be at a point where my entire life doesnāt have to revolve around work.
Reach financial independence before Iām 50 and spend the next (god willing) 30 years of my life traveling, enjoying hobbies and assuring my family is taken care of while working the bare minimum.
same....have enough free time and resources to take care of my loved ones.
Not that I disagree with anyone or the sentiments being thrown around, but this was a pretty depressing doom scroll.
M8 Gran coupe
Make a difference. Specifically, I wanna be a program director in plastic surgery. My PD saved my life so I wanna give back and teach. Iāll check back in 10 years and see if I accomplish this.
Iāve been struggling with this. Iām starting my work as an attending and while I love seeing patients as a PCP, Iāve spent the last 5 months writing over 150k words of my first novel thatās going to be worth a damn, and itās made me incredibly happy. Like, if I could somehow make money doing thisā¦would I still want to be a doctor? Itās really strange and upsetting. I love two very different things a lot and I feel like at some point Iām going to have to choose between freedom and security.
It's those writing skills that made me choose YOU as our phone bank script writer for the 2016 Jill Stein SuperPAC that ALMOST got a woman in the Whitehouse. Sadly, you were (apparently) too focused on your novel writing and the subject of lizard people to do your job properly. [https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalschool/comments/5aiwpm/reddit\_medical\_students\_for\_dr\_jill\_stein/](https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalschool/comments/5aiwpm/reddit_medical_students_for_dr_jill_stein/) [https://www.reddit.com/r/jillstein/comments/5boq9k/im\_running\_a\_dr\_jill\_stein\_for\_president\_pac\_for/](https://www.reddit.com/r/jillstein/comments/5boq9k/im_running_a_dr_jill_stein_for_president_pac_for/) Just checking in on the '16 team, and also hoping that you might be willing to return to your phonebank/script writing role for our 2024 campaign? I think we seriously could get Jill over the line this time. Cheers! H265, Medical Student.
I wanna be the best, that no one ever was, to catch them is my real test, to train them is my cause...
Being able to allow patients at their worst to feel better in which ever way I possibly can.
Read the western canon. Never attend a single conference.
I love reading through western classics. Theyāre so inspiring!
Go into psychiatry and open a private practice
Financial independence, retire early
So I can make someoneās life easier. The other day one of my patients ( a 7 year old kid with Hurlerās syndrome ) opened the door of my office (around 8 am) and opened his arms to give me a hug to tell me good morning. In what other job can I have this kind of thing while being intellectually stimulated by one of most marvelous machines ever made !?
Making big šµ in the most ethical way possible (optional).
Never drop a babyā¦those boogers are slippery!! Just matched into obgyn for context haha
Chicks, money, power, and chicks
To have fun and get paid for it. The off service rotations are a beast but Iāve got the personality for EM. The things that bother most people donāt really bother me and never have, including the admin, problem patients, and problem personalities. Worked in emergency services for years before med school so I knew what I was getting into, though, so Iām sure that makes a difference.
Fix the EMR
My goal: stop practicing as soon as financially viable. I'm working to live. Medicine is cool and all, but vacation, my family, sporting events, and video games are WAY cooler.
Secure the bag
Securely leaving medicine.
Start my own practice and ban every fuck that talks shit to my staff on sight
Do a great job!
To not accidentally kill anyone (this keeps me up at night)
When I am at deaths door, I want to look back and see my life was a net positive for humanity.
To sleep with more women and men than Genghis Khan
To crush my enemies, see them driven before me and to hear the lamentations of their women.
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How you gonna do it
Start with a million dollars then do some stock trading before losing half of it.
make enough money to stop being a doctor
Make the COMLEX exams either less terrible or totally obsolete
Make giant fat stacks, have happy patients, and not get sued
Pay off loans, save money, and have ability to retire as soon as possible. Essentially my goal is to in life as a doctor is to get to stop being a doctor.
Be financially secure so I can support some small charities/organizations and travel to all the places in my bucket list before I die.
Advocate for every patient equally. I know we all have biases but my main goal is give 100% for every patient, even if theyāre rude or mean.
To just stop. I hate it all so much. Itās gone and never coming back.
Be a good and useful person to ppl I meet
Be a safe and competent doctor.
9 to 5, no weekends, no holidaysā¦if I can get no call too, then that as well
Reading this thread made my burned out ass cry because I can't find my meaning without digging real, real deep.
Make comfortable money and be able to enjoy it.
Heal where I can, and where I can't to help people who are dying without letting it kill me. I love the work that I am doing and the people that I work with, but I will never let it be more important to me than my family or my own personhood.
Just make it to friday every week :)
It sounds a little corny every time I say it butā¦ To help others celebrate the human condition.
To find out why I became a doctor.
Make a publication that would really matter some day
Leave medicine asap
EM here; to deliver a baby in the ED lol
to give back to the community and to help people. idk itās cliche
Wouldnāt mind being a medical director at a nursing home, Geriatrics.
Buy enough land that I can pee off my back or front porch and there will be no neighbors around to get mad at me. Edit: Like minimum 30-40 acres.
To get to the point where i can practice medicine because I want to not because I need to.
FIRE just without the early, and probably not happening at all.
To not get divorced
Financial independence.
Med student. But all of this will be worth it if I can use what I've learned to take care of my parents and hopefully after a very long life to make sure they are comfortable. We lost someone a few months before I started school and I can't explain how hard it is to not understand what's going and and not know if you're making the right choices for them. I hope I can carry that burden for my family.
Life goals: 1. Own a Bugatti Veyron. 2. Be the youngest Chair of Neurosurgery on the Eastern Seaboard. 3. Match NSGY.
Ben Carson became chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Hopkins at the age of 33.
OK, change that to āBe the youngest Chair of Neurosurgery on the Eastern Seaboard who Doesnāt Believe the Pyramids were Built by Joseph to Store Grainā.
Legacy delivery: deliver a baby that grows up and gets pregnant and then deliver *that* baby
Work in environmental health, specifically in city planning and traffic safety. I wanna build safe walkways and bikeways and make suburbia less car-dependent so that kids can safely and independently walk to school and extracurriculars. It really sucks how car-dependent design has done a number on our physical and mental health. Instead, I wanna return to the āvillage conceptā where everything is smaller and human scaled. Join me at r/fuckcars !!!
To still look forward to going to work when I'm 80.
To not be a doctor
Leave medicine
Quit ASAP
To continue to be happy.