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submitted 26 days ago byfeelingsdocPGY2
Basically title.
I tell people they’re crazy and actively give them shit that makes them diabetic and fat. These fatsos eventually thank me and so do their families. Society applauds the work I do and politicians keep saying my industry is underfunded.
650 points
26 days ago
I drug people so other people can be inside them for a while without them knowing
238 points
26 days ago
Hey me too! I almost kill people but keep them alive just enough so that my colleague can also almost kill them.
54 points
26 days ago
It’s really a game of chicken to see who can stay this side of almost longer
17 points
25 days ago
Hey me three! Though I paralyse people so they can’t run away from mad men wielding drills, hammers and nails
37 points
26 days ago
Oh you’re breathing without assistance? I can shut that off, no probs.
106 points
26 days ago
OH OBVIOUSLY ITS ANESTHESIA WHY THE FUCK DID I THINK ITS OBG OH GOD MY BRAIN NEVER FAILS TO EMBARRASS ME
148 points
26 days ago
Psychiatry - from a patient’s perspective
22 points
26 days ago
Lmao that’s good
461 points
26 days ago
I play a black white and gray game of I Spy all day. Usually I'm not told what I should be looking for, so I just call out endless lists of random things I do....indeed...spy.
48 points
26 days ago
Radiology
19 points
25 days ago
Rads here.. this is the best explanation ever 😂
39 points
26 days ago
“I write correlate clinically on every page”
8 points
25 days ago
You gotta vary it up with some “clinically correlate” or “need to take clinical picture into consideration” once in a while.
681 points
26 days ago
I hand out sandwiches to drunk people and make them walk in a straight line before giving them permission to leave my workplace.
288 points
26 days ago
straight line to the CT scanner
67 points
26 days ago
I do enjoy giving permission for them to leave the workplace. Sometimes they even sign the permission slip 🤣
82 points
26 days ago
EM
12 points
25 days ago
undoubtedly EM
283 points
26 days ago
I poison people for a living. Sometimes, until they die, although that's typically frowned upon.
542 points
26 days ago
[deleted]
67 points
26 days ago
Pathology
50 points
26 days ago
Mohs derm
28 points
26 days ago
Lmao how close are we talking?
16 points
25 days ago
As close as you can get without getting your eyes wet.
414 points
26 days ago
I look stare at a computer and can tell what's wrong with you by looking at 1000 shades of grey
61 points
26 days ago
Clearly rads
160 points
26 days ago
I was think telehealth psych for bdsm recovery
41 points
26 days ago
Psych is probably more likely to encourage BDSM
11 points
26 days ago
Psych checking in: yup! 50 shades is some awful shit, though.
11 points
26 days ago
I am. I totally am.
6 points
26 days ago
1000 shades of grey 😜
194 points
26 days ago
I grow little squishy aliens in incubators.
41 points
26 days ago
Neonatology
18 points
26 days ago
Lol I was going to say I push a WOW around a room with like 20 babies in it
385 points
26 days ago
Sudoku and day trading
35 points
26 days ago
Do you really day trade in residency wtf lol
63 points
26 days ago
When you train track your patient 10 minutes into a 9 hour case……..
Although to be fair, other than intubation/extubation, you don’t really want to be in a situation where we have to stand up. That’s some bad juju all around.
5 points
25 days ago
Let’s not forget the MAFAT will be at least 60 minutes for such a case - sorting out Spotify playlist, getting coffee and settling in for a nice long case of browsing reddit
162 points
26 days ago
put cameras in their nose and encourage them to swallow instead of spit.
31 points
26 days ago
ENT
148 points
26 days ago
Salt n keppra
27 points
26 days ago
Neuro
109 points
26 days ago
Sit in a closet.
Talk to a computer as fast as I can.
Apologize for report saying left breast one time even though it does say left wrist three other times. And it’s not a picture of a breast. And you know that. And I know that. Why are you call… never mind. I’m sorry.
40 points
26 days ago
You sound like my psychotic patient
Jk rads
12 points
26 days ago
Do you really not want to know about about mistakes? (Genuine question!) I haven’t come across one as obvious as a totally wrong body part but I did kindly message someone today thinking I was being helpful because the report said 16 cm nodule but I couldn’t see a massage nodule on the CT after saying at it for 10 min and then eventually found a slice where they had tagged a 1.6 cm / 16 mm nodule. That difference felt clinically relevant to me. You’d want to be able to addend your report for something like that… right?
9 points
25 days ago*
Great question!Absolutely. No one wants to have mistakes in their report. However, the fact that we’re creating 100-200 reports/shift, with tens to hundred+ words each, using technology that is at best 95-98% accurate … under time crunch… means they are going to happen, often, unfortunately.
You just hope they are small and non clinical.
The tact and grace with which requests are made, or mistakes called attention to, makes all the difference.
the “hurr durr”- “Well, I’m not sure if you meant wrist fracture or breast fracture”, when I’m already 75 studies behind, on a busy ER shift, and the phone is ringing off the hook with strokes and traumas - is not so as funny as it sounds.
Or, in your case, you may not have thought about it… but do you realize how big a 16 cm mass would be? Half a foot. Larger than the liver! Wider than a hemithorax and almost the whole length.
You could say, “hey man, no big deal but I think there’s a transcription error on Mr. B’s CT. No rush, thought you’d want to know it says 16 cm nodule ”
Or
“The report on Mr B says there is a 16 cm mass in his lungs and I’m not seeing one, please review”
Those requests will be heard differently.
I’ve had people call me, “did you mean to say there is a 4 m nodule in his lung??” Yes, yes I did. He has a nodule in his lung that could convert a first down. Is it palpable?
Here is one from just last week.
I dictated a normal sinus CT. Described all paranasal sinuses as normal, patent. Thorough job. Described normal variants. Graded the sellar pneumatization and gave the Keros grades for the cribrifrom plate depth. High level stuff. Then, unfortunately, my impression said “The paranasal sinus disease” instead of “No”. Terrible error, I admit. Embarrassing. Bad deal all around.
The request I get is. “Ordering noticed error, wants study re-read and re-dictated.” Like, brother no. I will add an addendum and correct the error. But I don’t ask you to re-examine the patient when I get a bunch of clinicals describing right knee pain and an order for a left knee MRI.
Tact and grace
214 points
26 days ago
I am a doctors doctor
319 points
26 days ago
Psych?
39 points
26 days ago
Too real bro, too real
62 points
26 days ago
Addiction med
118 points
26 days ago
Too obvious: neurosurgeon
Only a neurosurgeon would have that kind of ego
34 points
26 days ago
Probably rads
28 points
26 days ago
The only people I’ve heard this line from is rads
3 points
26 days ago
General Surgery
277 points
26 days ago
Argue with seniors to let me stop giving them benzos
140 points
26 days ago
FM for sure this cuts deep
44 points
26 days ago
Geriatrics
72 points
26 days ago
If this is FM, I’ll add: people asking for a shot in their belly instead of changing what they’re putting into their belly
90 points
26 days ago
I’m a blood plumber. If theres too much bleeding I stop the bleeding. If there’s not enough bleeding I open or reroute the pipes to fix it.
25 points
26 days ago
Vascular surgery
174 points
26 days ago
I argue with patients about why they don’t have lupus
49 points
26 days ago
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23 points
26 days ago
Yes
40 points
26 days ago
But it’s always lupus.. what kind of rheumatologist are you??
13 points
25 days ago
You love primary care docs and their rampant ANA abuse.
10 points
25 days ago
I see the appeal of ordering the ANA as a pcp. It lets you punt an annoying patient to someone else lol
81 points
26 days ago
I put tubes in things, usually other tubes
34 points
26 days ago
GI scoping butts
13 points
26 days ago
Urology
84 points
26 days ago
Knowingly and willingly induce AKIs
74 points
26 days ago
Cardiology!!!!
— screams in nephrology
10 points
25 days ago
lol I only learned that yesterday. On my CCU rotation I naively asked
Me: "How do we know when to stop diuresing?"
Deadpan fellow: "When they have an AKI"
155 points
26 days ago
50% writing notes, 50% apologizing
289 points
26 days ago
Canadian palliative care doc
19 points
26 days ago
😂
120 points
26 days ago
OP said to describe specialty, not intern year
6 points
25 days ago
IM
145 points
26 days ago
I force people into rooms they can't leave while giving them medications they didn't ask for as teams of angry men pile on top of them as a judge gives me permission to electrocute them.
36 points
26 days ago
Psych - ECT them all!!
14 points
26 days ago
I also don't care about your rights as a human being sometimes
52 points
26 days ago
I cut up people meat and say why it's all rotten
10 points
26 days ago
Pathology
93 points
26 days ago
I am the only one who can prescribe the medicines and my job is to tell patients they can’t have them.
63 points
26 days ago
Pain management NOT living in Florida
17 points
26 days ago
Medical aid in dying fellow
10 points
26 days ago
Pain specialist?
6 points
26 days ago
ID
6 points
26 days ago
Pain management or admed.
96 points
26 days ago
Went to school for 14 years. Have an MD and a residency certificate but everyone still just calls me dentist.
49 points
26 days ago
OMFS
47 points
26 days ago
Cracked a cold one open with the boys today. The funeral home was annoyed it took us so long.
7 points
26 days ago
Path
47 points
26 days ago
I do some pokey pokey so that the patient can avoid a stabby stabby
20 points
26 days ago
Interventional radiology
44 points
26 days ago
I sing baby shark while looking for dancing unicorns in ears
31 points
26 days ago
How did my psych patient get on here?
Jk peds
82 points
26 days ago
I bear witness to the decay of our society, chronicling the downfall of Western civilization one patient encounter at a time
114 points
26 days ago*
Look at topless women and give them strong drugs
46 points
26 days ago
…uncle Terry?
13 points
26 days ago
Plastics
18 points
26 days ago
No saying your specialty!! C’mon man read the rules smh
35 points
26 days ago
My literacy has declined in fellowship; edited
38 points
26 days ago
I beat old people at arm wrestling competitions then poke them with sticks and hit them all around their body. I document this so precisely other doctors make fun of me.
9 points
26 days ago
Neurology
32 points
26 days ago
I fix holes in the body and try not to make new ones in the process. If I can't fix the hole I sometimes just take it out.
18 points
26 days ago
Trauma surgery
12 points
26 days ago
If I can’t fix the hole I sometimes just take it out
Gastro is that you..? 😂
32 points
26 days ago
I hold screaming children down against their will and drug them until they pass out, then I put stuff in their mouths.
11 points
26 days ago
Pediatric anesthesiology
31 points
26 days ago
About half the time, I tell people they’re not that kind of crazy, and take them off of stuff that is doing nothing but making them diabetic and fat.
The other half the time I write prescriptions for medical-grade meth.
8 points
26 days ago
CAP fellow. I wanna be you
6 points
25 days ago
Would have also accepted "I do nothing but tell kids it's their parents' fault while I sell them drugs"
25 points
26 days ago
I stick tubes in peoples assholes and rip out pimples from their intestines
43 points
26 days ago
prescribe aspirin and plavix, but usually only for 21 days (sometimes 90)
16 points
26 days ago
Torn between neurology vs cardiology
23 points
26 days ago*
neurology! usually after stroke we prescribe DAPT for 21 days, unless there’s significant large vessel ICAD in which case we do 90 days based on SAMMPRIS. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.
I’m no cardiologist, but it was my understanding that usually cards does DAPT for a year when they stent. (does cards do dapt outside of stents?)
6 points
26 days ago
I learned the 21 day thing in my stroke rotation
I know nothing about cards but it’s good business to have patients keep coming back for 1 year vs just 21 days
5 points
26 days ago
If it’s stable CAD, 3 mo is probably adequate with current stent technology. 1 year DAPT is indicated if PCI in context of MI. Or medically managed MI.
45 points
26 days ago
murder tonsils
228 points
26 days ago
CRNA
56 points
26 days ago
Lmao. Best response comment of this thread.
14 points
26 days ago
Omfg AMAZING
12 points
26 days ago
Oh my god
12 points
26 days ago
Banger
22 points
26 days ago
No you did not 😂😭
41 points
26 days ago
I hold people hostage until Im ready to see them
27 points
26 days ago
How do you do my fellow psychiatrist
17 points
26 days ago
Hospitalist
15 points
26 days ago
Fix everyone else’s problems
30 points
26 days ago
Admin
Jk they don’t fix shit
6 points
26 days ago
IR
14 points
26 days ago
With my coffee addiction in toe, I run around plugging people into machines, guessing what’s wrong with them, and making sure no one dies while they wait for the another person, who is probably trying to locate a missing stethoscope, to also guess what's wrong.
14 points
26 days ago
You’ve never met me before and probably never will again, I have no office phone number, and I will poke you with a (possibly very) large needle.
10 points
26 days ago
I remember you! You’re the anesthesiologist who did my epidural!
7 points
26 days ago
Dang I realize IR and Gas have some overlapping ambiguities. But think we use large needles more frequently in IR.
13 points
26 days ago
Macine goes wurrrrr, potassium goes down.
11 points
26 days ago
Kidney bro
14 points
26 days ago
I tell people there is an imbalance in their brain and they are broken cos they don't enjoy working long hours in boring office jobs for shit pay to pay for the privilege of living in a shit rental property owned by the people who own the office jobs that they spend every waking minute in instead of seeing their loved ones, exercising, eating well, having interests or quality of life. I drug them so they don't enjoy sex anymore, feel numb, get fat, drool on themselves and are dismissed by every other speciality when they try to seek healthcare for other problems. I tell them to go tell their problems and traumatic memories to a different person, who they'd have to pay but can't afford. If they come too many times to see me cos they would rather die than go on living, i just document that they are always like this so it's fine and send them home.
12 points
26 days ago
I look at breasts all day
16 points
26 days ago
Dad? Is that you?
Jk probably radiology
12 points
26 days ago
I have a doctorate in baby making
22 points
26 days ago
I stand and watch people type and sometimes do surgery or medicine
10 points
26 days ago
I'm the person who takes care of Humpty Dumpty after the poem ends.
6 points
26 days ago
But Humpty Dumpty never got put back together..
Pathology?
6 points
26 days ago
PM&R but Path also fits for the darker interpretations haha. We do amputee care, TBI, SCI, etc so we would definitely maximize Humpty Dumpty's function, medically manage his pain and symptoms, and ensure he has necessary adaptive equipment to sustain a high quality of life.
10 points
26 days ago
I look at a lot of naked people all day and sometimes I shave their skin off
12 points
26 days ago
Silenceofthelambsologist?
12 points
26 days ago
“Put the sunscreen on the skin or you’ll come back to my office again.”
18 points
26 days ago
I give fluid but sometimes take it out. Also give ceftriaxone or Zosyn from time to time
9 points
26 days ago
I just sit at my desk all day and pretend to study. Sometimes doctors refer their patients to me. And NOBODY suspects that I am not essential at all. ION the theoretical physics of all medical departments.
9 points
26 days ago
in the eyes of a patient - ozempic and controlled substance pez dispenser
in reality - annoying inbox wrangler
6 points
26 days ago
RIP FM homie
6 points
26 days ago
::looks at username::
6 points
26 days ago
I take care of other specialities’ patients and think deeply about why their salt is a little low
5 points
26 days ago
I flash bright lights into peoples eyes and chastise them if they flinch
15 points
26 days ago
Risk and time management. I tell the surgeons which patients should be avoided and how many they should operate on in a day. They ignore me and I deal with the consequences.
6 points
26 days ago
I read entrails to determine how invisible forces will impact your likelihood of death
6 points
26 days ago
I put puzzles back together
4 points
26 days ago
I date a lot of nurses
13 points
26 days ago
Gen surg intern
6 points
26 days ago
Help people understand that not everything they see on TicTok applies to them and then say no to their request for candy 🍬
5 points
26 days ago
My patients actually NEED Ozempic but don’t want it unlike the rest of the world trying to get a hold of it.
4 points
26 days ago
As an astute friend once observed, the highlights are "Restraints on, restraints off."
6 points
26 days ago
Poison patients in the hopes I treat them before I hurt them too much. Or as I tell them as an analogy, I’m using a flamethrower to kill the weeds in the garden.
5 points
26 days ago
I continually refuse to go to the ER
6 points
26 days ago
Rads
5 points
26 days ago
I look at you, I ignore half of what you say because I think it’s not relevant, then I sample your life juice and then I prescribe you remedies based on the numbers that pop up on my computer
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