Thanks. Whipple was only a debulking exercise for me since the tumor was too close to (or touching) the Portal vein - they told me in advance that such an outcome was distinctly possible based on imaging. My tumors are responsive to lanreotide injections, so they are mostly static in size. I've been very fortunate since the Whipple recovery in terms of the course this disease has taken. That said, I'm jacked up on hydromorphone this morning thanks to radiating abdominal pain I get once every month or two, so likely costing me a visit with my daughter today. If you know of Eric Liu formerly from Vandy, he's one of my doctors for this. Figured you may know of him if you're Arkansas-based and deal with NETs.
Most of my NET experience is from training since the med center here seems to get that patient population but I do a lot of procedures for different forms of liver cancer, primary and metastatic. Also do a lot of biliary work especially post Whipple
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news...geles-county-hospitals-strike-averted/625127/ I wish more residents/doctors would unionize and strike. Was having a conversation today about a friend who basically fell into a hospital admin job and is clueless. Thinks he just needs to make the docs do more billing and preauth work and the problems of their medical system will be solved.
Anyone have experience getting an mba after residency? I’d like to have an administrative role at some point as trauma director
1. You don’t need an mba to get an admin job. 2. I have a colleague that did it and it’s a lot of work, but not that annoying or difficult to complete, there’s a shitload of mba programs that are flexible.
Thanks. I’ve always had an idea of getting one. Several fellowships I interviewed at offered a chance to get it
I thought about getting an MBA after I ditched my job, not sure its worth it but if you wanna be Hospital C-suite might be a pre-req
The thought of doing group projects with shithead 22 year olds at my current life stage is pretty funny
I’m 0.4 admin (some med school position and some informatics position) and have no other advanced degrees than my MD. Only 1 of our MDs/DOs in any admin role in our org (of 1200 physicians) has an MBA. Just fyi, I know it’s not like that in every org.
I think an MBA definitely increases your odds of landing a non-clinical/non-hospital job like with a health tech startup or other non-patient care business who needs a CMO, but I don’t know offhand. We recently had a doc leave our org for Google Health but she also just had her MD
I really like having non-clinical work to get out of the clinic and note writing grind, but I think 0.8 clinical and 0.2 admin is my perfect balance. I’ve been debating scaling back my admin work for the past year or so.
~ 2 weeks into medical school. Had my first exam. Did really well thankfully. Very next day get admitted to the hospital with some neurological issues possibly a subchranoid hemorrhage. Now I'm falling behind on my classes as they run some tests on me to figure out exactly what the issue is. not exactly the start I wanted...
Damn man. No history of hypertension or anything? CTA/MRI findings? If no aneurysm, trauma, AVM or anything like that could start looking at rare stuff like superficial siderosis. Where was most of the subarachnoid hemorrhage at?
My roommate had to have an appy the first friday of med school. He won the award for best anatomy student and is now pulm/CC at vandy. You'll be fine!
So on the CT scan they thought it might be a hemorrhage but the MRI came back clean. Now I'm concerned it might be GBS because I've been sick with an infection the week before and all my symptoms are similar to that of GBS. They did a spinal tap and my protein levels were normal but they also said that might be because it's early on. Ive had slew of APNs PT team and Nurses treat me but no one from Neuro has actually spoken to me about anything that's going on so it's been a little frustrating. Thanks I appreciate the words of encouragement
I went to the ER so it's been a slew of rotating people they transferred me to neurology so I'm being managed by a "team." But haven't actually spoken to anyone in that team since I was transferred.
Update mri came back clear. Turns out It was gbs. After 3 days of ivig treatment ended up feeling a lot better. Still have some muscle weakness and fatigue but thankful that it's not worse. Now just gotta catch up on a week's worth of material
applying for my first attending job. any recommendations for resources? I've been using 2 job boards provided by 2 trauma groups (EAST/AAST)
Also don't be afraid to go peer network, you'd be surprised how much more effective that can be sometimes.
my residency hospital just fired two surgeons and will have an opening soon unless they like running a fairly busy trauma acs service with 4 guys instead of 7. im trying to stay in the NY/PA/CT/NJ area for my girlfriend's family. i browsed sites like monster and indeed and jesus that was a waste
Yeah so comphealth, weatherby and locumtenes.com all have permanent jobs you can look and see to get a sense of what areas/cities need you but I was always told Word of Mouth >> Professional Societies >>> Recruiters.
Year 3 of my attending life. Gotta say job is finally eased I don’t get nerves and stressed too much seeing 20 plus pts as a hospitalist now. Apparently we are starting a residency next July. Gonna be a shit show.
Gen surg or ortho surg trauma? Word of mouth and networking always better than random job boards. Seen docs use headhunters too which is fine but expensive and annoying.
trauma critical care. I'm going to a conference this winter so I will of course network there. I unfortunately missed my opportunity to go to a conference as a resident d/t covid
My buddy did his fellowship at Mayo for that and then looked for jobs at systems solely based on location, knowing hospitals near here and then just reaching out and asking. The place he signed actually didn’t have a posting for his position but took him on since they had a partner nearing retirement.
Year 4 of urology residency. Going into a fellowship in uro onc for a couple of years Just here to say I’ve seen an aggressive number of penises
The only time I've called Urology is when we flipped a patient after a spine case and the foley caught on the table and there was the foley sitting on the floor, with the balloon still inflated, no longer in the patient.
Male don't remember the French size, no sneezing they were intubated and we had to flip them from prone to supine