Arcan57

Arcan57

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      Arcan57 replied to the thread Read anything good lately?? Book recommendations.
      Agreed. I don't think he views writing the same way that Sanderson or King does. He's spent the last decade (from a writing standpoint)...
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      Arcan57 replied to the thread Read anything good lately?? Book recommendations.
      I remember loving both books initially. Re-read them a couple of years ago and first still stands out. The 2nd one is solid but is...
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      Arcan57 replied to the thread Options for no nights, holidays or weekends.
      You’ve clearly never seen the newly minted nephrologist that’s waiting for their dialysis practice to take off. Hungriest hospitalists...
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      Arcan57 reacted to pkwraith's post in the thread ER Hall of Fame with Like Like.
      Psych patient that was swimming in our local notoriously dirty river. Stool PCR positive for c diff, plesiomonas shigelloides, vibrio...
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      Arcan57 replied to the thread Pay to Play.
      For most docs? Large 3rd parties - Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance.
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      Arcan57 replied to the thread Options for no nights, holidays or weekends.
      Buy a group then you can set your own hours. Don't know why everyone doesn't do this.
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      Arcan57 replied to the thread Clowns.
      The funny thing about CMG FMDs is that the next spot on the ladder (Regional Medical Director) is objectively so much worse than being...
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      Arcan57 reacted to EctopicFetus's post in the thread Clowns with Like Like.
      I do admin stuff and I enjoy it. I think the hardest part depends on your setup. SDG vs CMG vs academics. IMO the biggest lack of...
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      Arcan57 replied to the thread Clowns.
      As Would you work every Friday overnight or every Saturday day shift in addition to a 40hr/week of admin and another random day/evening...
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      Arcan57 replied to the thread Clowns.
      I'm not sure that's true so much as doing admin and doing EM are shockingly hard to integrate in a way that's successful on both fronts...
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      Arcan57 replied to the thread How to deal with EM anxiety.
      So you've had a few bad cases. What made them go badly? In EM, things go sideways for all kinds of reasons. Some of the reasons are...
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      Arcan57 replied to the thread Identifying Sepsis.
      Reminds me of how hospital policies are made. You can go around spending months getting every department involved, pushing it through...
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      Arcan57 reacted to EmergentMagician's post in the thread Another One Bites the Dust: My Emergency Medicine Eulogy with Like Like.
      TL;DR : EM sucks. I’m out. In Fellowship. Good luck to you all. I have spent 10+ years lurking here and have benefited greatly from...
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      Arcan57 replied to the thread "I'm A Doctor: Corporate Greed Is Killing Your ER".
      Both private equity and the current non-profit hospital "systems" run off the same B-school model of continuous unending growth being...
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      Arcan57 reacted to timpview's post in the thread Can we stop w necrobumping program review threads with Like Like.
      The thought of doing a TEE on a coding patient sounds like the dumbest idea I’ve ever heard. Obviously ruling out tamponade is 1000x...
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