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i'm a surgeon, love my job but a portion of the people i work with are so into themselves which is annoying

I actually think we DM'd when I first got into med school, crazy

surgical resident in the NE, less cases, every one is testy. Can't even get a mask without jumping through hoops. I like how they call us "heroes" but in reality it feels like we got sent into a war zone with no back up. But i'm lucky i still have a job and can't imagine how some families are...

idk about dental, i know at least from my perspective, id be losing out on close to 1 million if i went military route with tuition factored in. I hear for primary care type jobs it could be a wash, but sub specialties, its def not even close

I mean unless youre really into military and stuff, you lose out on more money in those 5 years than the debt you avoided

Hahaha i remember, now i totally understand why you said ortho and family are different ballparks and couldnt agree more.

Ortho is awesome, we are typically the most laid back/coolest people in the hospital. I'm an ex college athlete so ortho is just kinda what we do. I liked camaraderie of orthopods, not a lot of egos typically. We get to actually fix patients and get that immediate satisfaction, i like how its...

man screw the MCAT, i had to take it twice and it has 0 correlation to step scores. I actually was involved in a research project that showed there wasnt even a slight correlation. The best correlation was undergrad GPA and it wasnt even significant. I did well okay ortho wise for step 1, I was...

I don't think it would be possible to work during med school, i've never met any one that did. You're already working a full time job bc you work regular doctor hours during your last 2 years of school. So at minimum 40 hours a week on easier rotationas, usually closer to 60-80 hours a week...

i definitely took a hiatus while in med school, i just couldnt afford any luxuries and i was really focused on doing well where everything else was secondary. But with my first check in residency, I finally bought some concords I had been eyeing my whole life :lol:. I'm still a few year away...

from an investment stand point, its pretty awful for those in medicine to go into the military. it limits you a lot in terms of where you can go for residency. you also get paid much less by the military. I know when people are looking at 300k+ of debt it's super intimidating (almost never the...

:lol: thats on the low end too, most people i know right out of residency are signing 500k+ base, plus 100k signing bonus. the other half of the salary is production based. So if you operate a lot its not uncommon to be pushing close to a milli. ortho surgeons are the best paid physicians

MD, all Med schools in Texas are subsidized and less than half the cost of any school outside of Texas. I’m 99% certain that every school charges the same tuition for medical vs dental. Most doctors usually end up making way more than dentists so it’s more affordable. However at the end of the...

I love what I do and thats the biggest reason I went into this. At the end of the day I get to go home and feel really good about myself and feel like im truly making the world a better place. Growing up on medicaid I know I gotta go back and contribute to that community as well, it's not just...

i went to a texas med school

Yea I’m also a refugee that came to this country with nothing. Being on food stamps growing up was really nice

sounds like it could possibly be chondromalacia, parts of your cartilage get inflamed when sitting in one position too long, take some Ibuprofen

**Update #2*** Landed an orthopedic surgery residency in the northeast still visiting NT every so often, crazy that ive been a part of this community for close to 10 years now its funny reading a lot of the same names that i recognize but they prob have no clue who i am but here for anyone going...

not really, have some good family members that took care of me. but the debt they talk about isnt is bad as its made out to be. know a guy that graduated with 350k in debt, paid it off completely in his first of practice after residency