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Exactly. Huh?...

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True, but maybe you hurriedly seeing 20 patients in 4 hours may have had something to do with you sending in the wrong dosage of a medication. Something...

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Depends the patient. If it’s one of my geriatrics and they’re recording it because they have memory issues or can’t hear well, I’d say go for...

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Dr. Glaucomflecken has some hilarious videos on YouTube with physician stereotypes.

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Ugh, both sound pretty miserable. Would have to go with sitting if I had to choose one only, mainly because my back will spasm up if I stand for long...

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I’ve been an FM doc for 25 years. Seeing 10 99214s in 2 hours is not good care. I’m sure you’ll disagree, and I’ve worked with several FM docs...

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That’s really nothing to be proud of....

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Nah, I’m good, I prefer giving my patients more than five minutes of my time, but thanks anyways....

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I’ve been doing family med for 26 years and I really don’t see how you could, but ok, if you say so…....

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20 99214/99215s in 4 hours in family med? You sure you’re giving good care to those patients?...

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I’d take a PA over an NP any day of the week....

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Massive eye roll…🙄🙄🙄...

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I won’t refuse to work with them, (I can’t since I’m an employee), but I refuse to supervise them.

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Or just be like the sucker that I am. I paid off my own student loans, I paid for my kids college educations, and now I’m going to pay higher taxes...

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Ugh, looks like I fed a couple of trolls in this thread. I must be slipping, I’m usually better than that.

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Dying with $50M would make me really sad. It would mean that I worked a lot longer than I should have....

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How can you possibly make a claim that osteopathic students are less competitive for these top allopathic schools compared to any other students? What...

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In 2020, the average MCAT and GPA for students entering US allopathic programs were 511 and 3.74. The average MCAT and GPA for students entering US osteopathic...

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This isn’t even close to being accurate....

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Exactly. Many won’t admit it, but I’m sure some of the hatred comes from jealousy....

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Their stock price and profits aren’t as high as they’d like....

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I’m sorry, but this is a really horrible analogy....

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Personally, I’d decline to work for free for a med school that charges $50,000/year. That $100K that the school collects in the students 3rd and 4th...

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I did this once many years ago, don’t remember the name of the airline. It took me over an hour on the phone, talking to several people and supervisors...

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and the alt-left too, including actual communists. Both polar ends of the political spectrum are equally to blame....

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If you’re going to Zion and Arches, definitely go a little out of the way to Bryce Canyon, it’s worth it!...

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Either France or Italy, or both, can’t decide! Probably a trip to Michigan to see my parents new house, hopefully a lot of overnight camping trips,...

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I’m leaving my job (Yay me!!!) in 6 weeks, taking 2 months off, then going back to do only some prn work, so I’m not really retiring, but semi-retiring....

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More stupidity in medicine. Administrators can make as much as they want, there’s no cap, but we’re limited to “fair market value”, no matter...

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No, I would not sign...

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Time for a new job...

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I bought a gallon of gas yesterday. I was going to buy 2 gallons but I didn’t really want to tap into my home equity to do it.

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“Or” is definitely the correct wording here....

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Honestly though, and as a family medical doc like me, you know that a decent amount of family med residency is a waste of time. After delivering dozens...

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Not needed? So 25 years ago when I was a resident and I worked 36 hours straight for $23,000 a year, society caught on a century ago that this wasn’t...

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I couldn’t disagree more. I guess by this logic, unions a century ago should have never formed, since working in a factory or a coal mine for long hard...

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I just laughed so hard that I spit out my milk.

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Chatty person isn’t a problem. Wait for a break in the conversation and pop in the ear buds. The other two are equally annoying....

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6K per year with 4 vehicles and 4 drivers, 1K deductible. Having two kids covered under your auto insurance isn’t fun.

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FLP is like a chupacabra, we just think we see him, then he’s gone…...

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Progressives are all for free speech, as long as you agree with what they think....

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Maybe Musk can save the cesspool that is Twitter. It can’t get much worse....

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I know. I think your sarcasm meter is not on tonight....

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The Twitter estimate? Yep, I agree....

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Twitter’s value is estimated to be $13.3 billion, and Trump’s net worth is estimated to be $2.5 billion, so he actually could buy almost 20% of it...

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I literally laughed out loud at this post!...

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I literally clicked on this thread hoping Fat little pig was here. Oh well…

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Meh, maybe so. Maybe most of us are, honestly....

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Not picking on this post in particular, but why do some people believe that just because you were born smart or became smart as a child you have an obligation...

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If you think doing geriatrics is zero stress you’ve never done geriatrics....

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In my opinion, getting called into the hospital at 2am at any age is pretty bad....

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It’s not in my contract, we just split non paid free slave labor call with the other physicians and midlevels who are currently working in our clin...

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If you want to practice only outpatient, choose family medicine. If you want options, choose internal medicine.

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Wow, I must be slumming it, I’m in the 500K-750K bracket...

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Wow, I thought family med was bad, you make ER sound like ************************....

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Winner, winner, chicken dinner....

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In negotiations, the first person who speaks loses. Ask them what their offer is first, and go from there.

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I’m pretty certain that I know the answer to this question, but I just want to ask since I can’t completely verify the answer. I have a non-government...

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From a purely financial standpoint, it doesn’t. We’re a dying breed....

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Wait, what, orthodontists need to pay for their residency? What kind of sick twisted person makes someone pay to be a resident?

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Nope, didn’t age well at all! Oh well, if I could go back in time I’d make the same prediction, the invasion didn’t and still doesn’t make alot...

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I use the BetMGM app. Nothing big, just some $25-$50 bets during the football season, makes the games more fun. Let’s just say I won’t be retiring...

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When I was a resident 25 years ago, to get to the hospital we’d walk uphill, against the wind, in the snow, with no shoes on, and no one complained!...

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Speaking for myself, I greatly prefer that if you as a specialist wants the patient to see another specialist for you to refer them yourself. Notifying...

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If I’m an idiot for noticing that gas prices went from $1.89 a gallon a little over a year ago to the $4.59
a gallon that I paid yesterday, then...

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The CDC hasn’t had a science basis for anything since Covid started....

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I agree, but the government shutting down the keystone pipeline definitely causes me to blame them....

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As a family med physician, don’t get me started on this. This is definitely not how it should work, but unfortunately some rare specialists think it...

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Thanks Joe….

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Family med, probably one a day at the most.

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This comes from the same President who stated last month that in his first year he exceeded expectations, so take that with a grain of salt....

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When I’m biking up a long hill, I’m usually thinking about what type of tacos I’m going to eat when I get home....

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According to federal law, poker is not gambling, since it is predominately not a game of chance....

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My seniors still think so, and most get mad when I explain to them that they’re not getting one....

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I usually pick 7-10 days with a few events that I want to play, and fill time in between with cash games. Registration is never a problem, you can late...

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8.57% gain. Plus or minus 0.01%

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Thanks! Gonna play the seniors this year too, first time, guess I’m getting old enough that I can😢. I LOVE when the WSOP schedule comes out each...

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I’ll be there the week of June 19th, starting with millionaire maker weekend. I’ll miss the Rio (I don’t think many people share my sentiment),...

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An attending in med school 25 years ago told us the same thing, and I think it’s true....

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The original Red Dawn with Patrick Swayze was great, the remake, not so much....

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They are, and I don’t think it’s even close....

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As your hand is already on the door handle…...

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Ugh, I hated this one during the early days of covid! We’d hear it from C-suite all the time as they’re sending an email or conducting a zoom meeting...

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“I don’t understand how I’m gaining weight, I eat and exercise PERFECTLY!”
”I know doctors hate this, but I looked up _____ on Google”...

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yep, pretty much....

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Could you imagine a fibromyalgia/chronic fatigue patient coming in to see an AI provider? Each office visit would end with $20,000 in tests being ordered....

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I had a patient who did it and loved it.

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Gotta pay your fair share….🙄

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I full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine is unlikely. If the market drops this week it’ll be unrelated.

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No, you’re pretty much paying the right amount of attention already, but less is not a bad option either....

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I think he meant FatLittlePig is back...

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What the???? FLP is back?!? Where you been?...

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Ok, just out of curiosity, since I’m not on Twitter, I googled medtwitter to see what it was. I just, ugh, I just don’t get it….that’s unfortunately...

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I love my old Tundra pickup, key in the ignition, no crazy buttons to figure out....

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I forgot why I wasn’t on Twitter, then I read the Twitter thread, and suddenly it all came back to me why I’m not on it….

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With your inexpensive (in relative terms) lifestyle, what are you going to spend all that money on in retirement?...

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I have the Amazon CC, 5% off on Amazon and Whole Food purchases are nice, but honestly for you I wouldn’t do it. The stress it would seem to cause you...

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Yep, that’s pretty much sounds like my school. Part of the joys of going to a private med school....

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Not sure how other schools are, but at mine if you failed one class, meaning less than a 67% in the class, you had to repeat it and you had to wait to...