VirtualMedStudent

@Mishtakes21 The only thing I use a stethoscope for now is to check reflexes 😂. And it is usually the nurses stethoscope.

Hello everyone I am in my second semester of medical school and today I learned that stethoscopes are DOUBLE SIDED that’s right you can listen through BOTH SIDES

@Travis_M_Wilson Evaluations should be honest. Good students get a good evaluation whereas mediocre or poor students get the same. Time to bring back the meritocracy.

@christinajoi @Dr_amoytheemd The problem is the medical field is filled with many high achieving narcissists. You absolutely do not need to pamper them.

@virtualmedstud @Dr_amoytheemd I wholeheartedly agree with you @virtualmedstud but sometimes we gotta pick and choose our battles. The attendings and specialists talk amongst each other and I’ve heard ear hustled on some of their talks, so she do better cussing them out in her head. 😂

@GavinPrestonMD Being a doctor will afford you a nice upper middle class existence but you are unlikely to obtain true financial independence unless you are a very astute business person or get very lucky investing.

Student, if are thinking of going into medicine to get rich, forget it. All my lawyer and accountant friends have made far more than I have. At the end of the day, this is a calling.

This poster probably shouldn't be a doctor. He will harm someone or many people with his arrogance. I have been in specialty practice for about 15 years now and realize how important every single member of the medical community is. I literally cannot do my job with an anesthesiologist! I cannot do my job without a scrub tech. I cannot be the "alpha" male without these people helping me... I know very little about diabetes management and even less about GI diseases. I call my colleagues for help when I don't know the answer. This poster needs a solid dose of humble pie and quickly!

Best advice I ever got from an attending during training was before operating always ensure you have the right patient with the right pathology and are intervening at the right time. Missing one of these components? No surgery. #medstudent #medschool #Medical

@HarryDauerman @djc795 @rcstoler @jjlop131 God bless him and his family. It is such a major loss to not only his family but to his future patients and those he could have helped.

John passed away yesterday. He was the consummate Beth Israel cardiology fellow—very intelligent, superb clinician, always kind. My heart goes out to his family and patients in Maine @djc795 ⁦⁦@rcstoler⁩ ⁦@jjlop131⁩ vitals.com/doctors/Dr_Joh…

What is the difference between now and medicine in the 1950s or 1960s? Were doctors less burned out then? Or did it just not get any attention? I would conjecture that a great deal of burnout is related to non-doctoring things in the setting of an onerous legal landscape and the demise of paternalistic medicine (the notion that doctors know better than their patients and patients should respect them for their knowledge). Paternalistic medicine should be tempered, but not completely eliminated. Doctors have become a shell of their former worth because we are consistently being told our opinion doesn't matter and that Google has the answer. Otherwise why have physicians at all? If my opinion and expertise are not treated with respect and at least some degree of deference it makes burnout even worse because now even the patient is skeptical.

A CDC report this week on burnout in healthcare concluded with this: Solutions should emphasize “improving the work environment to support mental health, rather than asking workers to be more resilient…” Resilience isn’t the issue. The environment is.

@DOctorcayenne Oh yes I remember that... I put 5000 on a zero percent credit card and paid it off over 5 years 😂. The killer thing was the interest free period was only 6 months. I think the interest ended up costing me more than the original amount 🥴

@virtualmedstud So my only thing about in person interviews is the cost. 😭 flights + hotels are easily $600+ these days. Especially if your program is in a big city. My poor med student pockets can’t afford

As a Match 2024 applicant, I definitely can see how virtual interviews have caused interview hoarding. If you know realistically you don't want to go to a place then don't accept the interview. That could be someone's dream program and you're just wasting everyone's time.

@seleniumdrive I would argue the jump from senior resident to attending is the hardest. You start to learn about true responsibility and also the business of medicine which will make your blood boil sometimes. Good luck!

Mankind has been involved in this type of behavior for thousands of years. It is unlikely to change. I read an interesting article that talked about humans being a stepping stone in the evolution to AI generated robots. Imagine if the next iteration of "humans" are actually robots and AI taught itself that war and death has little intrinsic value. Imagine if the traditional biological Darwinian evolution is replaced by a technological evolution in being. Pretty far out there but not entirely unlikely.

Have we lost our humanity? As a physician I have dedicated my life to saving any and all life. The loss of thousands of innocent children lives is inhumane and should not be tolerated. Don’t dehumanize others, their is no justification this. Have courage to stop this evil.

@Amber_LeeOMS Yeah crush it! I know you will! Be confident but compassionate... These are both traits you have been developing over the last 4 years. Good luck!

Twas the day before my first interviews for residency. Any last minute tips?

@doclauravater A great book is Talking with Strangers by Gladwell... Similar idea that we have very little understanding of what is happening with other people.

@doclauravater This video from Cleveland Clinic on empathy hits really hard. It speaks to exactly what you are talking about... youtu.be/cDDWvj_q-o8?si…

Once, a woman stopped me in the lobby. "I'm sorry, I can’t find the ICU.” I showed her where to go. An hour later, I was called to the room—her husband was dying from cancer. That was the day I decided to treat every person in the hospital as if it were their hardest day.

@doclauravater The first time I told a buddy I had a golden weekend he looked at me like I had 2 heads 😂.

In medical training, we get so accustomed to working all the time that a weekend off is a "golden weekend" and working 40 hours per week is "part time.”

Major problem... Not as bad in the US but it is getting there. I would prioritize time with your family especially if the pay is poor. In the US we have an RVU system which incentivizes amount of care over quality of care. Do your best to maintain your morality. It is hard but can be done. Attached is an article we wrote about this type of care... virtualmedstudent.com/archives/the-f…

What's the actual point of training to be a doctor now? I look on LinkedIn and find multiple PA jobs which are paid better than I would be as a Dr. I look at doing getting a PA qualification - those with medical degree aren't allowed to apply?!

@RJ_Med_ Congrats on first interview! This is always an exciting time in the life of a young doc.

I was feeling so anxious yesterday- but today, the pain fellow let me do trigger point injections for the first time, and right after that, I got my first PM&R interview invite 🥹🥰 y’all were right, I need to trust the process!

@jaskMS3 Ha ha nice! Good luck! And 👍

Told my parents I received interviews at a few of my dream programs and their response was “👍” I’m sure all my immigrant friends can relate😂