http://imgur.com/a/xyX2O
― k3vin k., Thursday, 4 May 2017 23:16 (seven years ago) link
lol
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Thursday, 4 May 2017 23:22 (seven years ago) link
sooooo otm.
― k3vin k., Thursday, 4 May 2017 23:23 (seven years ago) link
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-usc-dean-ethics-20170723-story.html
btw this stuff is WILD
― k3vin k., Monday, 24 July 2017 03:14 (seven years ago) link
What the hell
― El Tomboto, Monday, 24 July 2017 03:37 (seven years ago) link
yeah that story is bananas
― gbx, Monday, 24 July 2017 15:18 (seven years ago) link
def gained an immense respect for plastic surgeons, was really ignorant as to the variety of cases they do
― k3vin k., Friday, April 27, 2018 6:45 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
so we can stop shitting up ILH with medical nonsense
anyway yeah I also never realized how difficult flaps are. like, the planning and spatial manipulation is crazy
so are you just finishing up third year? extremely senior resident voice: ~~what're you gonna be when you grow up ~~
― gbx, Friday, 27 April 2018 23:50 (six years ago) link
yeah, I’ve got peds to finish the year and then step 2 and 4th year
I’m going into internal medicine. it’s what I came into med school thinking I’d do, and though I’ve found things to really enjoy about all the clerkships I’ve done, I just can’t imagine not doing it. I originally was pretty sure I wanted to be a heme/onc doc, but this past year I’ve found myself more drawn to cardiology...so I’m not sure what the future holds there.
looking forward to next year, both to learn more and to hopefully recharge a bit before this internship thing I keep hearing about
― k3vin k., Saturday, 28 April 2018 04:01 (six years ago) link
oh boy cardiology
i worked for ACC, pls talk with me before u commit!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 28 April 2018 04:07 (six years ago) link
haha ok bookmarked, curious to hear your thoughts
― k3vin k., Saturday, 28 April 2018 04:13 (six years ago) link
seconded
― gbx, Saturday, 28 April 2018 04:33 (six years ago) link
just graduated from fellowship (but still have a couple weeks of work left), incrementally closer to being a Real Boy
― gbx, Saturday, 9 June 2018 03:06 (six years ago) link
congratulations! it's a long haul
― Dan S, Saturday, 9 June 2018 03:17 (six years ago) link
congrats!
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 9 June 2018 03:18 (six years ago) link
anyone else making this mistake
― gbx, Wednesday, December 26, 2007 2:49 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
thanks yall, and yes, it is a haul
― gbx, Saturday, 9 June 2018 03:19 (six years ago) link
hey that's awesome, well done!
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 9 June 2018 03:21 (six years ago) link
Sounds hard. Good job!
― valorous wokelord (silby), Saturday, 9 June 2018 03:25 (six years ago) link
huge if true
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Saturday, 9 June 2018 03:30 (six years ago) link
still a chance i could fuck it up, we've got time
― gbx, Saturday, 9 June 2018 03:43 (six years ago) link
I have no doubt you will be patient-oriented and outstandingly compassionate in your chosen specialization, gbx. And keep on fuckin with climb cuz climb pays!
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 9 June 2018 03:59 (six years ago) link
thanks man!
planning on some climbing up in the pecos p soon, it's a pretty good place
― gbx, Saturday, 9 June 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
gbx it has been so awesome to follow your IAAD journey! Huge congrats. What's your next gig?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 9 June 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
congrats gbx!
― k3vin k., Saturday, 9 June 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
thanks pals!
today's gig is tele-conferencing a seminar on mental health evals for asylum seekers, next gig is working at everyone's favorite federal agency for veterinarians
― gbx, Saturday, 9 June 2018 16:22 (six years ago) link
I am doing psych evals for asylum seekers too!
such a humbling and frankly frustrating process. let them all in imo
― k3vin k., Saturday, 9 June 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
very same
my friend is an immigration lawyer and tells me that asylum seekers that have psych evals have a much higher success rate (at least in this jurisdiction)
― gbx, Saturday, 9 June 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
that's great that you're doing them -- is that a formalized thing through school?
― gbx, Saturday, 9 June 2018 16:41 (six years ago) link
lol thinking gbx is going to the USDA
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 9 June 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
a couple of lawyers came to give a talk about it last year at school, and I got in touch with their group who does this stuff. when they get a case they have one of the psychiatrists do an evaluation while we take notes. then we draft an affidavit and the psychiatrist reviews it and signs it. what your friend said about the usefulness of the psych eval is what I've heard too
― k3vin k., Saturday, 9 June 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
so great that you're doing that, the lawyers need as many docs as possible -- there's basically three (!!!) doing it in new mexico
― gbx, Saturday, 9 June 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/us/politics/sessions-domestic-violence-asylum.html
fuck
― k3vin k., Monday, 11 June 2018 22:13 (six years ago) link
k3vin are you a cardiologist now
― gbx, Saturday, 17 February 2024 01:51 (seven months ago) link
nooo I am a simple semi-academic hospitalist, and I love my job so much! general medicine is endlessly fascinating and I love our pts and learning new stuff every day. I did seriously consider cards and ID but came to the conclusion that I am v v old and in a lot of debt and it’s hard to beat what I’ve got going now. as it turns out for partner-related reasons I’m moving across the country this summer and just accepted a new job at UCLA.
what’s new with you?
― truly humbled underdog (k3vin k.), Saturday, 17 February 2024 02:47 (seven months ago) link
that's really great! semi-academic sounds like a dream rn
i'm the medical director of the BH service at our local hospital and while i very much enjoy clinical work i do not enjoy all the other stuff, i just wanna see patients
― gbx, Saturday, 17 February 2024 04:47 (seven months ago) link
I am very glad you did not pursue cardio, those guys (and by guys I mean TOO MANY MALES) are like the dorky orthobros.I am 90 miles north of LA and my amazing PCP and cancer docs are with the Santa Barbara outpost, also spent time on main campus and am jealous of all the delicious Persian food you will have at your disposal. Keep in touch and we can do LAFAP!Gbx I bet you are super awesome at your job, even the dreaded admin parts. Thank you for going where quality care is most needed.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 17 February 2024 15:08 (seven months ago) link
*Santa Barbara outpost of UCLA. That org sure knows how to follow the money
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 17 February 2024 15:09 (seven months ago) link
Currently studying for the med school entry test (GAMSAT). Absorbing my whole life, but enjoying the process.
― H.P, Saturday, 17 February 2024 15:38 (seven months ago) link
hey quincie! i think i am just generally OK at my job (the admin parts) but i appreciate the encouragement. i'm learning that in some important and also very stupid ways that the admin part is pretty essential in our very broken healthcare system (esp here in NM)
HP -- how does med school 'work' in australia? like do you apply after undergrad or are you applying right out of high/secondary school?
― gbx, Saturday, 17 February 2024 23:30 (seven months ago) link
There's two routes! Not as familiar with the out of high school one, but from what I know it's for the top 99.99% achievers who do a small but not quite so hard test, followed by a 6 year degree, 2 year fast tracked bio-science undergrad, 4 year med school proper.I'm taking the other route, where you do any undergraduate (literally any, I did a bachelor of philosophy/bachelor of theology) and then take this ridiculous gamsat test. To get an interview, universities weight your undergrad marks and your GAMSAT marks 50/50. The combined score needed for an interview is about 170%, I.e. 100% top marks in university and a 70% on the test, or vice versa/any combination of the two. I'm going into the test having received straight high distinctions for my degree filling 100% of the 170 quota, but still to get a 70 on the gamsat feels like a nearly impossible task. It's a 3 part test, humanities, two essays and sciences run over a whole day. It is ridiculously difficult, but I'm committed to the journey and think I can notch a 70 after a few trys. I'll be happy with myself as long as I can get 50+ on this first attempt next month. That's something I can build from
― H.P, Sunday, 18 February 2024 00:28 (seven months ago) link
Loving your job, no regrets gbx? Any advice you'd give? I'm very much excited for this ride, have tentative plans of pursuing anaesthetic and less tentative plans of giving myself to some humanitarian work down the line. That's my drive for this whole thing really, which I'm glad to have as it is a very powerful motor to making sure this happens
― H.P, Sunday, 18 February 2024 00:33 (seven months ago) link
I can confidently say I'd hit a 70 (or at least very close to it) on the test first time If there was no time limit, but the amount of info they ask you to absorb to answer a question 90 seconds seconds is absurd. It really feels like primarily a stress test from all the practice exams I've done.
― H.P, Sunday, 18 February 2024 00:36 (seven months ago) link
If you're a rural applicant the combo score drops to 1.55 and my wife and I live 20 minutes away from a "rural" area which we have dreams of moving to in a decades time.... its not feasible to move now tho and you need to live rural foe 5 years for it to count. So close but so far!
― H.P, Sunday, 18 February 2024 00:40 (seven months ago) link
I'm taking the other route, where you do any undergraduate (literally any, I did a bachelor of philosophy/bachelor of theology) and then take this ridiculous gamsat test.
that's roughly the process here in the US as well. I was an English major and did ultimately have to go back for some post-baccalaureate classes in order to qualify for admission
i love...parts of my job. the US healthcare system is pretty busted and that can lead to a lot of indirect moral injury if you're not careful (eg my clinic is so short-staffed, and my patient panel so large, that there have been times that the soonest follow-up appointment I can get someone is months out. this is Not Great for when someone is in crisis). but ultimately very rewarding, yes. do i sometimes think that i should have been an electrician? also yes
― gbx, Monday, 19 February 2024 16:16 (seven months ago) link
Combine careers. Go into surgeries in a jumpsuit and explain loudly why the previous electrician really fucked up the cables and didn't know what they were doing as you blare loud music of some sort from your iPhone, all while the surgical team are anxiously waiting for you to fix the issue with the essential piece of equipment for the ten-hour procedure that stopped working halfway through.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 February 2024 16:21 (seven months ago) link
hmmmm yknow maybe not
― gbx, Monday, 19 February 2024 16:31 (seven months ago) link
Lol Ned. Sorry to hear about that. The US healthcare system does give me the heebie jeebies but glad to know there's doctors that care working in it
― H.P, Tuesday, 20 February 2024 00:11 (seven months ago) link
Test finished, now the painful 2 month wait for results......
― H.P, Saturday, 23 March 2024 04:54 (five months ago) link
good luck! these exams, and the wait for the results, are always excruciating. and if it’s anything like the US, there will be another 2-3 tests with similar stakes. it does get better eventually!
― brony james (k3vin k.), Saturday, 23 March 2024 10:44 (five months ago) link
Thank you! I have no patience so these two months will be painful. Just this one and then an interview and we get into med school! Obviously that's where it REALLY begins. You're Dr.'ing? Or just in the know?
― H.P, Saturday, 23 March 2024 12:24 (five months ago) link
I am doctoring!
― brony james (k3vin k.), Saturday, 23 March 2024 12:29 (five months ago) link