This comment was so thoughtful it’s taken some time for me to formulate a response, but I do need to push back a bit. You can do residency in Canada and not have the repeat it in the US actually, which is great, and something I’m considering. My old mentor did residency at McGill and didn’t have to repeat it when he moved to NY. If I do residency in Canada I can always come to the US and practice here without repeating residency. If I do it in any other country, I won’t be able to, and that’s another 3 years off my life.

“An abusive caretaker” is sadly apt. Thanks for taking the time to type that all out.

How I treated who? What? Please don’t put us in the same category, it makes me feel gross

So obviously beside the point…can you not turn this into Reddit please? I don’t own meta glasses or film anyone in public without them being aware. The only situation in which I would, which I’ve already said I don’t, is if I’m alone and concerned for my safety.
And yeah men are more likely to use them for perverted reasons.

I’m not in residency, I just graduated without applying for it. Currently I’m helping out at one of the top US cancer research centers because I have contacts there but it’s barely a job and I’m starting to stress about money.
This was a really thoughtful response. My issue is that the US doesn’t accept most international residencies outside of Canada AFAIK, so if I wanted to move back and practice in the US I’d have to repeat residency.
I do believe I should be a doctor and give at least 20 years of my life to the practice of medicine. I had a long path toward this conclusion, and did philosophy in undergrad, amd came to the conclusion that the best way I can help the world is through medicine. I thought about being a politician but ultimately concluded I didn’t have the temperament. I love medicine because it marries the scientific aspect with the human considerations. I never really saw a place for myself in this world before I did great work on a few rotations. I just hate the culture. Getting pimped all the time wears on you.
For instance, I got bad evals on family medicine for not being punctual. I was late one time, and that was because someone hit my car and we had to call the cops, and I called to let them know, so I was surprised to see a mention of me being late on my evaluation at the end. On that same rotation, which was an hour away by car, they failed to tell me that they didn’t open until 11 on Thursdays. I didn’t know to ask because who would even think to do that? I showed up at what I thought was on time and the support staff asked why I was there and then I went and napped in my car. Another time on OBGYN, my worst rotation, I was told by my resident to see a patient, and when I went I got screamed at by the nurse for not checking with her first. I mean genuinely screamed at, not just scolded. The same nurse also yelled at me for being on my phone but it was 1 in the morning, nobody was giving birth, all the computers were taken, none of the residents were talking to me, and I was doing flashcards on my phone in a work area. And on surgery I asked to leave at 5 pm since I’d been there since 5 AM and had been doing 12 hour days for a week straight because I was the president of a club and we were having a budget meeting. The consequence was having to meet with the course director. It’s hard to explain why I found it so upsetting. This guy wanted me to stay until 7:30 to barely participate in a minor surgery (chemo port) and show up at 5 am again the next day and he fckin tattled on me for asking to not go to that one so I could attend my club’s budget meeting. I got so upset and talked to my dean, who was an angel, and he told me if someone gave me a hard time like that again I could tell them I was meeting with him.

I know a lot of this sounds minor but when you’re in the hospital 60-80 hours a week, and you have the commute, and have to study for each exam for every rotation plus your board exams…it made me suicidal.

I love medicine and I enjoy keeping up with the latest science, but I can’t stand how I’ve been treated. It would probably feel a lot different if I were making money but doctors barely make money these days and of course as a student you make negative money.

In a perfect world, I would like to be a doctor. In the world as it exists, I don’t think I can. I would have been great.

Watch it buddy, I’m 32

There are a ton of great applications for this and other cameras. If you’re a woman walking around by herself it could help prove that an assault took place, for example. The problem is that the people buying these things are the freaks, not the innocents.

I can’t imagine being so rude to a stranger over a football game. Dense how?

I’ve looked at MSF but it doesn’t seem like they want MDs without residency. They’re all about fundraising (for what, I wonder, since they won’t let people volunteer?) and when you click on online application forms for a bunch of them you get “this form is currently not accepting responses.” I think an audit would be fascinating

Sweet summer child…are we talking exclusively in boring meme language now? Is this the level of discourse on this site? Disappointing. All I was saying was that overturning reds is not unprecedented and the cheeto demon should not be given sole credit, much as he wants it.

I love it when people who can’t play sports argue with me about them. Coed game is on Thursday, come play with me and then we can talk.

The problem with the current Brazil team is that they all play like jugglers. Like yeah man it’s super cool that you can pull nifty tricks while you’re juggling with your friends at the beach, but that’s not the game you’re in now so lock in

My thinking was that it may have/should have been overturned anyway since it was a bad initial call, but the orange wanted to put his name on it and everyone is giving him too much credit. I genuinely believe they would have rescinded the red regardless of him and he just had to put his rancid stank all over it.

I played all growing up, in college, and in coed leagues post-college and to this day. A couple of my friends were opining about different calls nd it made me realize one of the quickest ways to get me mad is to talk about a game you can’t even play. I know ball. It was the right decision and also the US team looked like clowns. I was at the game and nearly got heatstroke and they never deserved to even get this far but can we stop giving credit to the slug man?

Been there

How did you know? Jw

My cats don’t care at all. Fireworks are fun, and if dogs can’t handle that then they’re stupid. I set off a bunch of the big ones that are illegal but can be sold on reservations (I think? I didn’t buy them) for my birthday out in the rural flat middle of nowhere and it was so cool. We had the hardest time lighting them because of the wind and then when we finally got it going we had to sprint away so fast, and we were laughing our asses off. Good mems. TL;DR fuck yo sensitive dumbass dogs

That guy is weird as hell lmao

https://www.fisheaters.com/srpdf/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer-On_Stupidity.pdf

Interesting, I hadn’t read that before. I do believe it is a moral failing too. Stupidity is cowardice. You pick one lane, one side, and then stick with it and stick your fingers in your ears to any contradictory evidence. Some people do this quite young and never change, and some people astoundingly start to do it in their 50s. That sort of mental rigidity makes no sense to me. We need to give these people a massive dose of shrooms and see if we can shake things up.

Is it uncomfortable when they move? I don’t have big boobs but I always wear a bra because I don’t like the sensation of them swinging when I walk around.

Yeah it’s not Afghanistan but in Iran it’s subject to a lot of interpretation on the part of the police and if they want to harass you they can take you in for the tiniest slip of your head covering. It’s still horrible even if not as draconian.

Fair enough. One of my close friends is Iranian but lives in the US now and she spent a couple days in prison for not covering her hair properly so I guess I’m sensitive about it. My bad

They do detain, torture, and kill women who do not cover their hair completely and dress “modestly.” This is well-established fact.