I told my prior job that I was pregnant before I told my own mother. 7 months later I had to sit through a meeting with a PowerPoint presentation on how we are going to handle me being gone for 3 months 🧵
According to the NRMP website, there were under 43,000 applicants in this year's Match! Well 42,952 to be exact! However there were only 40,375 residency spots available! I applied to/paid for 49 programs and I only got four interviews and I only ranked three programs!
Your occasional reminder that hernias can occur at 8 mm robotic trocar sites, even when they were far away from the midline.
This was a lateral trocar site from a prior robotic ventral hernia repair.
With permission.
It costs hospitals $250,000 to $1 million to replace one physician (who quits for burnout, lack of compensation, better opportunity, etc.) Why hospitals rather spend this $ on recruitment than on making their own employed physicians happy is beyond me.
@TolgaGidenerMD Messed up medical system...we don't let experienced doctors from other countries practice yet we allow mid-levels with as little as 8 weeks of clinical rotations practice on their own...
If your attendings were forced to take a UWorld block or NBME they would all bomb. No one practicing medicine knows the full breadth of material on Step exams. Remember that next time you struggle.