26 is pretty young. Suck it up and go the MD route -- it offers the highest level of training in whatever field you end up in, hands down. The average age of matriculation in med school is a little...
This whole scenario reeks of unprofessionalism. I'm with the crowd that would have waited till leaving the room before discussing patient management rather than attempting to make the physician look...
Thanks for the concern, netglow. I appreciate it. I'm not asking for sympathy or anything. However, I'm not worried about the future either. No matter what, I'll always be able to find a job. Pretty...
Why don't you focus on getting quality training instead of being worried about how quickly you can get through it? There are no shortcuts to developing into a good
Agreed. That's a huge reason why many of us in medicine have also preferred to hire PAs rather than NPs. Their curriculum is pretty solid! Plus, it's standardized! So we have a pretty good idea of...
Not really for those reasons. Trust me, no physician is "fearful" of midlevel incursion. We still know we have the highest level of training in our fields, by far. It's mostly the bad associations...
Again, I don't really see what the big deal here is. If I was your physician, I wouldn't give out a referral either. Especially if you call me and say you need a referral to get some steroids. That's...
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Yea, no. This may have been true a few decades ago, but certainly isn't true anymore. Are there still a lot of nerds who make it to med school? Absolutely. You have to be smart and, more importantly,...
Why would the physician risk a potential lawsuit in case you turned out to be wrong? I refuse to give anyone a referral just because they ask if I don't physically assess them myself. The physician...
It's where residents present articles and dissect them. Ex. the results of a large, potentially practice-changing clinical trial are published. A resident presents this data, along with a thorough...
Actually, that's completely wrong. We "go back to the classroom" throughout residency training and beyond. During residency, we have mandatory conferences, grand rounds, journal clubs, and weekly...
I'm not DocsWifey, but no, pH isn't the only measurement you look at when trying to figure out compensation. You also have to take into account the HCO3- and pCO2 levels, along with the rest of the...
Use a systematic, step-wise approach to acid-base physiology: 1) What's the pH? If it's below 7.35, it's acidosis. If it's above 7.45, it alkalosis. Now, you've established whether the patient is...