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I went to Ross as a single mom. My older children contributed immensely and I am very grateful for that. Ross’ on campus daycare and day school were both excellent. They also provided basic medical care for my children. I am in an IM residency currently. It’s been a rough journey, but that’s...

No, I did not say that I was putting patients on Zyprexa. I have never even put a patient on Zyprexa or anything else. As I said in my post, I am an m4 trying to match into psychiatry. I am just trying to understand and learn from the cases I am exposed to for future reference. In my limited...

I never said it was long. It was organized well and was quite helpful. The patient is extremely aggressive. So the few extra bits of information were helpful in knowing how to set him off less.

Ironically, one of these patients requested injectables. Could not get the coverage. Yes, a different can of worms I know. So, even if the patient is severly underweight, it may be better to start with something other than olanzapine as opposed to start olanzapine then switch when the patient...

The OP (a student) asked "what would you do?" The question was not "would you, a superior, ask a student for a favor?" I understood the question as being from one female student to other female students. (Though for coffee, I think gender is irrelevant.) I would do the favor. In spite of...

It seems relevant.

Not sure what you're looking for here. I apologized for my blatant stupidity. I do see how they are different. I never said they were the same. I only pointed out that we ask attendings for favors, too.

I'm sorry. I actually did not realize just how stupid it was. I guess it's only blatant to others.

Blatantly stupid? Nice. It wasn't a comparison. Sometimes we ask for favors. Sometimes people ask us for favors.

I should clarify, we are talking adherence lasting several months, up to just over a year, at a time. Thanks for the feedback!

Seriously, it's not that bad. Yes, it's difficult but it's certainly easier than taking prerequisites and having multiple part-time minimum wage jobs without guaranteed or set hours. Student loans are enough to live decently on. Sure, you study every waking moment, but that's better than working...

I have met two different patients with this pattern: quit taking antipsychotics because of the weight gain. They lose weight, go back inpatient, we put them back on olanzapine because they are so skinny. Looking through the charts, the pattern repeats itself. I'm an m4 trying to match into...

Not following your logic here. So I can ask my attending for a favor that may take hours, but she can't ask me for a favor that will take ten minutes?

Yesterday I was looking thru a pt's EHR and checked out his notes from psychology. Um, yeah. Our psychiatry notes don't look like that. Those notes were impressive:=|:-):!

You may be able to count on score to get you interviews in psychiatry, but it actually does not have a lot to do with your rank order (according to the program director survey)