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What do you know now that you wish you knew then?

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  • #16
    Live in the present. Don't spend all your time daydreaming about what comes next.
    I'm just trying to make it out alive!

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    • #17
      Originally posted by corn poffi View Post
      Live in the present. Don't spend all your time daydreaming about what comes next.
      This is something I know in theory, but is so difficult to put into practice.

      Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk

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      • #18
        Originally posted by MAPPLEBUM View Post
        please expound!
        Medicine is a small, SMALL world. People talk. A lot. Med peeps are some of the worst gossips ever. A juicy tidbit WILL make the rounds several times, particularly where there is a lot of turnover like training programs.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by diggitydot View Post
          Medicine is a small, SMALL world. People talk. A lot. Med peeps are some of the worst gossips ever. A juicy tidbit WILL make the rounds several times, particularly where there is a lot of turnover like training programs.
          Oh yes, totally. There was an instance last year when I had the opportunity to get to know a couple of partners of Caribbean med school peeps and something told me to hold off. Turns out they were interviewing at SO's hospital later on. Bullet dodged.

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          • #20
            What do you know now that you wish you knew then?

            Originally posted by Curegirl View Post
            Oh yes, totally. There was an instance last year when I had the opportunity to get to know a couple of partners of Caribbean med school peeps and something told me to hold off. Turns out they were interviewing at SO's hospital later on. Bullet dodged.
            There was a candidate who interviewed at DH's program several years ago who claimed to be working at a "satellite clinic" associated with a hospital in my hometown, which was where this this candidate lived prior to attending med school overseas. Unfortunately for them, that hospital had been converted into a lockdown mental health facility while they were gone. It didn't HAVE any clinics. Anywhere.

            I talked with the candidate and asked lots of questions trying to get to know them better, hoping I had misunderstood. Nope. The candidate reiterated the same story SEVERAL times. I eventually clued in the chief resident and PD when they cornered me and asked me my opinions on the candidates that they needed to double check this person's claimed work history carefully because the clinic they was claiming to work in didn't exist. (I still have family in that town who are in medicine and double checked with them before saying anything.)

            Come to find out that the work history wasn't their only fib.

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            • #21
              Yikes DD! Stories like that freak me out because you'd expect more from health care providers and well, decent human beings.

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              • #22
                This makes me laugh because what you learn is THE journey, that's what its about. Of course you make stupid, rash mistakes when you're young. What the hell is the point otherwise? LOL.

                I will tell you that you will get to the next stage before you know it. And it's all good. Even when it really feels the opposite of 'all good', it really is turning out the way it should. it definitely is easier to know where you want to go and then work backwards to take steps every single day.

                Enjoy the ride! You know, because I've been so LOW KEY every step of the way. LOL
                In my dreams I run with the Kenyans.

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                • #23
                  We have so much more to go, but I'm okay with our med school choices for now.

                  Maybe because you all clued me in early?
                  Married to a newly minted Pediatric Rad, momma to a sweet girl and a bunch of (mostly) cute boy monsters.



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                  • #24
                    Not to put my dreams on hold.

                    Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337 using Tapatalk

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                    • #25
                      don't pick a long specialty. given a choice with short or long specialty, pick the shortest possible because 1 or 2 extra yr is really makes a big difference.

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                      • #26
                        It's not all champagne and orgasms at the end of the tunnel.
                        ~shacked up with an ob/gyn~

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by rainbabies View Post
                          It's not all champagne and orgasms at the end of the tunnel.
                          and if it is you might be the only one in the room

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                          • #28
                            If academics is the goal, training at a big name hospital helps a lot, whether it's for residency or fellowship.
                            Student and Mom to an Oct 2013 boy
                            Wife to Anesthesia Critical Care attending

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                            • #29
                              I wish I'd known neurosurgery would be such a good match in personality for DH. He spent months and months navel-gazing between neurology and neurosurgery, because I was so afraid of giving him my inclination (neurosurgery) because I didn't want to be "responsible" if he ended up unhappy...that he was left to think about it all alone.

                              I wish I'd known that you are never "ready" for kids. I spent a lot of time paralyzed about having kids because I was obsessed about not messing up his professional life. Turned out that having kids man him a better doctor and a better person.

                              I wish I'd known that (unlike, I think, a lot of spouses) I came into medicine under the impression that it was a truly miserable venture that would be difficult to survive. My MIL had been so miserable all her life. I wish I'd know that it would not be that bad, and in many ways, truly great.

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                              • #30
                                With regard to residency I can honestly say you've all prepared me for everything. There weren't any surprises.

                                But I will admit I always wondered how you all juggled it all.... But you just do it.


                                Wife to PGY4
                                Loving wife of neurosurgeon

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