Recent content by rokshana

Thanks for the update!

Sorry, but your program is the exception not the rule… we were supposed to have a month long selective in 3rd year on the business of medicine but it really was about to weeks di to changes in the program and really didn’t cover billing and coding.

Have you done residency? They don’t.

Actually that’s not true… there are 110% residency spots to us md/do grads, so there are still more residency spots than graduates… but of course some people apply to things that are over competitive and are not Uber competitive applicants ( or are and it’s just a numbers thing for that...

You’re a second year med student… will your spouse still be a trainee for very long?

They will eventually need to lengthen residency.

Mmi can take a few days to kick in, but you can see the changes in ft4 in the matter of days to weeks. I’ll recheck that every 1-2 days to monitor in a storm or severe thyrotoxicosis so o can start to drop the doses to a maintenance dose. TSH does lag and it can take months to almost a year for...

Doing the LKA for IM and I like it… no prep time, no buying mksap, takes an hour generally…

feed her...they always respond to that.

Said no one in an ED ever…

Don’t repspomd to her when she calls you by your first name… like you didn’t even hear her… and when she finally calls you by dr last name , look up and say yes…

Saw that post and frankly that spouse has other issues…my brother is GI, and his job is pretty chill…he’s usually home by 5p every day and weekend call 1:6 weeks…

Money… and the amount of work to make it… More established nephros made their money owning dialysis centers… now that doesn’t happen. Decreased reimbursement for HD pts… Eh… depends… endocrine is lower paying in the IM specialties, but I like the topic and couldn’t see myself doing outpt PCP...

maybe family medicine where they are an opposed program and do little to no inpt service. or do a pgy 1 in something and then do occupational or preventative medicine

Her husband came in observed procedures… under her ID? That’s a pretty big deal in this day and age of security…it was probably not just the one thing, but sometimes one thing can be a big enough deal.