Recent content by SeniorWrangler

This will sound dumb but the only way to motivate people like that is to befriend them so they want to be in your team and help you out. Giving little presents helps, too.

I did inpatient for a long time and eventually started to feel like Dr Daneeka of Catch-22 fame, an enthusiastic cog in a hideously broken system.

How do you judge people’s professionalism before they show up? Were they doing beer bongs on Facebook or something? Or just rude during interviews?

I tried to get a KOL marketing deal for the DISCWASHER (TM) but they acted like I was crazy.

The word you’re looking for is “salesman.” There’s nothing wrong with salesmen and they have difficult jobs but the pain field already has plenty of hype, thanks.

So Uber, but for psychiatry? Brilliant!

The Krauthammer rule says you can get on TV and make bank diagnosing unpopular public figures with psych disorders and nobody will care except for a few grumpy psychiatrists.

A thankless job no matter how you parse it.

This thread is a good example of why I say nobody should take a job because of the prospect of partnership. Partnership may never happen.

I recommend not giving a lot of thought to this, just like those feedback surveys you’ll get if you work for a hospital saying that only 93.5% of patients think you really care, when your peers average 93.6%. There’s no award in psychiatry for Dr. Congeniality.

Has anybody used Xeomin for this? Cheaper and it’s off label either way.

If you've got a spouse already, talk to them, they're going to be living with the military too; my wife did not enjoy getting sent to Kansas with me for my first duty station and it took a while for her to get her career back on track.

Consider the odds of the US getting into a reasonably big war in the next 8 years where you might get deployed from the Reserves with a small kid and a developing career. That's the biggest risk associated with reserve duty IMO, that you might end up supporting Operation [Adjective] Freedom.

You could always call them up and ask, too. A friendly call is appreciated by most patients unless you left on bad terms and will do more to tell you what happened than 100 posts. You might make it clear that you're not trying to get them back, just interested in hearing their side. That...

They probably work for peanuts and don’t ask too many questions.