Recent content by MedicalCorpse

--Doesn't like cities even though 100% of military training sites are in/near cities. --Not sure if they want primary care or general surgery or ophtho or plumbing. --Hates hospitals. Folks, I think we've found our Quad-Service Health Care Provider General for the year 2034. Here's what you...

There is only one thing worse than being stuck at a low volume, low-acuity MTF with no way to quit and run away... ...and that is being stuck at a terminally-downsized, understaffed, underfunded pseudo-hospital surrounded by idiot surgeons who want to play once in a blue moon by doing sexy...

I hear you, brother. Look up my =MedicalCorpse&o=date']posting history, especially between 2006-2008, and you will see that you are not alone. My best synopsis is still this post and the thread that follows: 35 Reasons Not to Join Military Medicine All Branch Topic (ABT) - 35 Reasons Not to...

Based on the Vietnam War technology I experienced in the California desert during MOBEXes around the year 2000, the most accurate Air Force terminology would be: Antiquated Medical Facility: Yurt On Yurt Off (AMF:YOYO). ...similar to the Navy's Roll On, Roll Off (RORO), without any of the...

Military physicians lost the battle with CRNAs 20 years ago. Many of us sounded the alarm, but the ASA and VA leadership didn't care, because it didn't affect their income in the slightest...and they thought that it would never happen in the civilian/VA world... What makes anyone think it will...

As I said years ago, the housekeeper who watches "House" on streaming TV is the future of "health care" in the U.S., as long as the Assistant to the Assistant to the Assistant Physician's Assistant with a ChatMD app can rake in 80% of physicians' pay with 20% of the education time and costs and...

True stories: Outside Travis AFB Hospital (David Grant), circa 1999: "Dude, what time is it?" "Ahem. Airman, that would be Dr. Dude or Major Dude to you, and it's 0703." "Oh, sorry dude, er, sir..." OB deck, Andrews AFB (Malcolm Grow), circa 2003 "Hey, anesthesia is here! Yo, anesthesia...

I hope this reply is not considered a necro at 10 days, but I feel that, given the OPs almost unbelievably thickheaded responses to the wise counsel granted him by the docs here, a bit of repetition may prove to be the mother of learning, even if it seems as though I am subjecting a deceased...

I'm glad that was your experience in the Navy. It was not my experience in the (smaller, more inbred) Air Force. I would add "greed", however, as a Fourth Horseman of Dysfunction in the military system. I sincerely believe that the brass ring of retirement is detrimental to the ethical...

At least you know I'm not an AI. They don't make an AI that can "trigger" people so effortlessly while just trying to speak the truth as I saw and experienced it first hand over 19 years in uniform. It was never my intention to insult you personally. I apologize if you feel that it was...

"Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.'." Ian Fleming, Goldfinger (the book, not the movie, 1959) If you go back over my posts since 2006, this is a typical modus operandi: the U.S. military "reinterprets" a...

There wasn't a lot exciting and new I could do during the year I took off for COVID in order to watch my autistic adult son, so, for the first time, I grew a goatee. There's plenty of gray in there to convince patients that, no, they are not older than I am at age 40. It also does not...

Honestly, thank you very much. It's kind comments like these that make getting up the morning worthwhile. I'll never forget my late father saying he was proud of me for deciding to walk away from all retirement benefits to put my money where my mouth was regarding the death of the physician in...

"Hate to say I told you so ... Do believe I told you so Now it's all out and you know..." ...and you told me so, as well, even before I got here, as I recall 8-)

Military Surgeons Deployed to Combat Environments Face Moral Injury, Distress - U.S. Medicine "Moral distress—characterized as overwhelming feelings of being powerless to do what is believed to be right—and moral injury—trauma from an event generates significant dissonance with the individual's...