You can say no/You can handle death The flip side of the above is that not every patient will be helped with an operation. [+]Middleofnowhere123 comment score below threshold-16 points-15 points-14 points 2 years ago (0 children), Ah I know what field you’re talking about 👍🏼 that’s some long training, [–]pennyforaprocedureMD-PGY1 11 points12 points13 points 2 years ago (7 children). [–]surgresthrowawayMD[S] 13 points14 points15 points 2 years ago (0 children). - Thats honestly all I saw on my first block. anki decks). [Serious] Does anyone legitimately not learn from Anki? REDDIT and the ALIEN Logo are registered trademarks of reddit inc. π Rendered by PID 8968 on r2-app-0d182db9fb864fdee at 2021-01-01 19:24:04.535577+00:00 running c709bd6 country code: IT. I really like my life. I really think the entering generation of surgeons (myself and the residents junior to me) are very different than their forebears, and our field will continue to improve in the future. For me I have definitely gotten burnt out, I think pretty severely during my second year and to a lesser extent during the latter half of my chief year. If you wish to contribute to the wiki please refer to this post and PM /u/FactorGroup, /r/medicalschoolEU /r/residency /r/osteopathic /r/premed /r/premeduk /r/medicine /r/FOAMEd /r/askmedical /r/MedSpouse /r/Pathognomonic /r/Scholar /r/MDPhD, /r/Healthcare /r/HealthIT /r/Cancer /r/Diabetes /r/Fibromyalgia /r/Optometry /r/GlobalHealth /r/EmergencyMedicine /r/Pharmacy /r/Nursing /r/UKHealthcare /r/dentistry /r/Podiatry /r/epileptology. I don't have kids but I know a ton of surgery residents who do and they love their kids and are incredibly committed parents. -Colorectal The Mont Reid Surgical Handbook: The Mont Reid Handbook is a great reference tool to keep in your pocket or on your phone. READ ALSO: Victoria Beckham Regrets Her Plastic Surgery. I have a question tangentially related to your last few points where you mentioned doing research. How were you academically as a medical student. This subreddit is not a place to spam your blog or solicit business. [–]surgresthrowawayMD[S] 12 points13 points14 points 2 years ago (0 children). AMA-style threads are not allowed without prior moderator approval. I took PGY3s through some awesome cases including perfed ulcers, gallstone ileus, sigmoid volvulus - all with the attending hanging out and not scrubbing. Great post! Please just be aware and do some research on that. I know the hey-day of surgeon scientists is behind us, but I'm still holding out hope that I might be able to balance the two. None of them had a particular interest to me at the time nor do they now. Me left eyelid feels and looks much more droopier then it did before. I had top surgery pre-T. [–]ChilleostomyM-4[M] [score hidden] 2 years ago stickied comment (0 children). In other words don’t lose the forest for the trees. Fellowship applications are also much more nebulous and secretive than med school or residency. I don't regret my transition but I do regret the surgery. Unfortunately this also means you're working a lot of nights - I did 2 months of trauma night float. The Academic Hamster Wheel This is specific to academic surgery and subspecialty fellowship matching - but along with this long training came the process of having to go through another competitive application process and fellowship match. [–]spartan039MD-PGY2 3 points4 points5 points 2 years ago (3 children). My attempt at an inclusive list although I'm sure I will forget something: Would you recommend against someone else pursuing a career in a surgery? Now, my second block of general surgery is ortho- which is sweet because thats one of the things I was considering, but my attending is nearing retirement, and he only does knees once a week. Typical Day. I could imagine doing any number of other things. Troll posts will not be tolerated. And what did you like about GS just wanted to know :) Everyone's answers are different but I like reading it, [–]michael_harari 1 point2 points3 points 2 years ago (2 children), Peds actually makes less than adult. And this is always risky: a popular trend might be forgotten soon, but the changes we’ve made to our bodies will remain with us indefinitely. I am starting to regret that I have done this. Support-based discussion place focused on trans men, trans-masc individuals, and other people assigned female at birth who are trans. So, when you’re voluntarily doing. We did month long blocks: 4 months on the general surgery services, 2 months at the VA, 1 month SICU, 1 Trauma, 1 Vascular, 1 Peds, 1 Transplant, and 1 CT surgery. -Intern Year Traditionally was the year where you learned how to take care of patients. Ah thanks for the post! Anyone else feeling this, this morning? Occasionally as a PGY8 I find myself wishing I had done a field where I'd be done and have been an attending for 5 years by now. My nipples aren't that big but those damn big circles stand out. Real Talk: This Is Why I Regret Getting Plastic Surgery. By Grace Aug 23, 2015. Residency years: As she grew into her late 20s, Weiss began to regret her decision and felt she had the surgery for the wrong reasons. You can still eat things just in very small amounts. Plus there are several non-accredited fellowship programs that exist outside of the match. I'm immensely thankful that pain, bouncing, jouncing, jiggling, flopping, and bra shopping are no longer part of my life. For the fellowships you listed which ones are required to have 2 years of research? It seems from what I've seen that the challenge comes down to two main issues: 1) Time required to take call/maintain an appropriate caseload in a busy hospital with lots of patients while running a lab and 2) Financial incentives that prioritize making money for the hospital billing for procedures over bringing in significantly less money from research grants. Expectations for jobs in academia are wildly misaligned with reality. We were fortunate in our program to have a lot of APP support on the floors so interns also came to double scrub bigger cases pretty frequently. Most people don’t realize that the outcomes of sex transition are not tracked over time. The ward was bleak. [–]michael_harari 6 points7 points8 points 2 years ago (4 children). I will freely admit that my social life is pretty much 100% other doctors so I think that makes things easy. I'm sure that has a lot more to do with their mental stability and personal situations, though. Learning how to not just operate but show someone else how to operate is a whole new learning curve (that I am still very much working on). [–]surgresthrowawayMD[S] 3 points4 points5 points 2 years ago (0 children). I also understood from them that compensation in transplant surgery doesn't run off of RVUs, and that I might be able to negotiate a contract that allows for more protected time for research in exchange for less pay but I might have misinterpreted that. It is normal to be nervous or worried. It attached itself to the people themselves as if they, too, had been harshly scrubbed down with disinfectant. Great question and I don’t know that I have a perfect answer. I think the sleeve is probably the least regret provoking surgery just because you end up not that different from most people. got to leave immediately after rounds). Cookies help us deliver our Services. Moderator discretion is used to determine and remove posts of this nature. 30 | dude | top: 11.02.16. You typically would be applying for an 80% research/20% clinical position. I'm immensely thankful that pain, bouncing, jouncing, jiggling, flopping, and bra shopping are no longer part of my life. Those who do often regret it not because they realized they actually still wanted breasts, but because they were dissatisfied with the procedure results. The moderators of /r/medicalschool do not endorse/sanction said channel or bear any responsibility for any happenings within said channel. I’m happy to answer any questions. I think that the stress/burnout factor is significantly tied into why General Surgery has such a high attrition rate. -PGY2 Our PGY2s were more or less considered the equivalent of interns. Filesharing is prohibited in this subreddit. But I don't kid myself - I'm not going to be the person with 3 RO1 grants and 200 publications. He also revealed that all of the reversals he has carried out so far have been transgender women aged over 30, who have made the decision to restore their male genitalia. I have hobbies I enjoy outside of work. I'm a PGY8 and I still take in house call now. Simply to make you more competitive for X fellowship? We spoke to Emily Nolan, a model whose struggled with her body image for years and went under the knife for $25,000 worth of surgery to stay competitive in the plus-size industry. A clinical world where clock ticks seemed to scream and that vile smell attacked more than the air, the walls, and the floors. The worst part was the uncertainty. One of the most important part of your surgical training is learning when NOT to operate. I feel his care for me changed completely once he got my money. After your surgery, do not rush your recovery. My med school classmates are mostly comfortably into their attending lives by now. Your skin will relax, and if you have a good doc, your boobs will look great. You must have done pretty well on the steps right? For moderation issues that arise there contact the moderators of the channel and not the moderators of /r/MedicalSchool. If you're reading this and you're a resident who wants to share your specialty experience, check out this post to see some requests, and then start your own "Why you should go into X" thread in the sub. This IRC channel is an entity that is independent of this subreddit listed here for the convenience of the community. Much of it is very similar to what has already been posted. I'm really interested in transplant and or peds surgery, as they both align particularly well with my area of research and tend to be concentrated in big academic centers anyway. According to a British poll, a whopping 65 percentof those who’ve had various cosmetic surgeries regret it. Other residencies are hard too. [–]michael_harari 4 points5 points6 points 2 years ago (0 children), Yes, and most academic programs require either part or all of each class to go to the lab, [–]Paddycake8 7 points8 points9 points 2 years ago (4 children). My name is Walt Heyer and in April of 1983 I had gender reassignment surgery. There are all kinds of reasons to undergo plastic surgery procedures. What our junior residents (interns and PGY2s) did was do 5 night/2 night system to cover a week - so an intern did 5 nights in a row (M-F), then flipped back to days; and another intern did 2 nights (Sat/Sun). Wondering how you’re PGY9, [–]surgresthrowawayMD[S] 47 points48 points49 points 2 years ago (2 children), PGYs1-7: general Surgery + 2 yrs research, I don’t disclose my field because it narrows me down to a very small number of people and I hold out hope for some shred of anonymity, [–]spartan039MD-PGY2 9 points10 points11 points 2 years ago (0 children). tl;dr I regret the surgery because of a complication and am seeking advice on how to live with "bad results" and associated regrets. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. 25 Oct 2019 1 year post I used a medical loan to pay for an inner thigh lift. Is it one of those super competitive (peds/surg onc/plastics) fellowships off of GS? I'm so torn with picking general surgery against the sub-specialties. They wish they had been more loving to the people who matter the most. I have an Instagram where I'm probably going to post pics so if your interested PM me and I can give it to you. Background: I am a PGY-8, about to be PGY-9 (the flair only goes to 6 on this forum) surgery fellow. The moderators of the /r/MedicalSchool subreddit do not officially sanction/endorse any channel or take responsibility for any happenings within any channel. If you're serious about surg onc you should do 2 years. This can be a good thing or a bad thing. Press J to jump to the feed. A lot of burnout comes from a misalignment of expectation and reality. should be directed to the PREMED subreddit. I can call these people any time any where for support. Which were must haves, apart from First Aid? You may not recruit for your research study without prior moderator approval. Very tough/nuanced question. Not true for general surgery. I'm glad to hear you're quite happy with your overall results (aside from those aesthetics) though :). The expectations for operative volume and case complexity go way up. General Surgery is just choles and hernias I see these types of comments a lot, often deriding general surgeons or saying why someone picked a “cooler” subspecialty. Still, I do NOT regret having the surgery. -try to focus on your purpose/goals/etc - may sound corny and doesn’t always help when you’re stuck trying to put in an NG at 2am. How do you know if general surgery ISN'T right for you? Shows there's a great variety of training opportunities out there for sure. But overall it looks near-perfect and I'm 100% satisfied. That said, the huge majority of people who have top surgery don't regret it. The oncologist tells the patient lets try one more round of chemo or that new trial; the general surgeon is the one who has to tell them they've now perforated/obstructed/etc. May sound obvious again but if you’re the type of person who doesn’t deal well with bad complications or patient outcomes - don’t choose a field where those are part and parcel. I had left upper eyelid ptsosis surgery on 10/06/2016 (6 weeks ago). I picked surgery because it was my favorite, but I could see myself doing other specialties and having a reasonably good time of it. Many people expressed sorrow for not having been more understanding, caring, and present for the people who were important to them. -Plastics. The only things I regret about mine are (1) not being crystal clear about some aesthetic choices, and (2) not aggressively pursuing a revision for those aesthetics that didn't turn out how I wanted. The family of a trauma patient comes in and you have to break the bad news about their loved one. General surgeon here with an MIS fellowship. Even if I ever decided to detransition (not likely), I'd be like, NO BRAS MOTHERFUCKERS! This is major surgery no matter how easy the recovery might be … So surgeons of reddit, do you really work 80+ hours per week? [–]michael_harari 2 points3 points4 points 2 years ago (0 children), Surg onc and peds need 2-3 research years for sure, unless you did a phd in med school and had a ton of GOOD publications, [–]NysozDO 2 points3 points4 points 2 years ago (0 children). I will say that surgeons more accurately have a reputation for being direct. ... With general surgery training, research time and my vascular fellowship combined, I did nine years training post-med school. I just hope that by being honest i can help someone else avoid it. Get an ad-free experience with special benefits, and directly support Reddit. But hormones and sex change genital surgery couldn’t solve the underlying issues driving my gender dysphoria. use the following search parameters to narrow your results: Please keep all topics germane to current medical students. [–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 2 years ago (1 child), [–]BegToDifferMD-PGY2 0 points1 point2 points 2 years ago (1 child). Any significant cases they get, they ship downtown. What is the reasoning behind taking two research years? - try and make good career choices. It's very satisfying to fix a problem with your hands and see the patient recover as a direct result. -spend more time with patients. Even in fields that aren't thought of as that competitive, there is a strong gradient within the fields and to be competitive for the better programs you still benefit a lot from research. I haven't regretted it at all, even though the nipple grafts failed and I ended up getting them tattooed. Thanks a lot for any and all info. Thanks! It's okay to take a while to think. Do you regret not going into a surgical subspecialty with a better lifestyle/pay? The Guys Who Got Vasectomies — And Now Regret the Snip ‘For a little over a week, I was more depressed than I was for years.’ Bryan Cooper married his high school girlfriend when he was 18; seven years later, he was a father to twins. It's crucial that surgeons be able to connect with patients quickly and it is painful to watch a surgeon that can't do this well. These are becoming increasingly rare - something like <10% of trauma activations went to the OR), rounding in the trauma ICU. -Cardiothoracic Timothy M. Pawlik, MD, PhD, MPH, MTS is the chair of the Department of Surgery at The Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, where he is also the Urban Meyer III and Shelley Meyer Chair for Cancer Research. Treating psychological pain with sex change surgery doesn’t work. It is also definitely the most academic, with a long history of surgical chairs being surgical oncologists/HPB surgeons. If you are marketing yourself for that type of career it is a very different application process for a job. Do not worry! We examined the relationship between dispositional optimism, major complications and decision regret in patients undergoing microsurgical breast reconstruction. Appendicitis cured. I'm also pretty sure for right now at least I don't want to go on T and if I do it'll likely be after top, so it's difficult to find results for pre T folks... any thoughts? Sometimes it makes me want to just go do hernias for a living and avoid it all. Especially at a major academic center than mine. You enjoy immediate impact of your work One of the great things about surgery is that you take action and it has a near immediate effect. Hernias fixed. Chief year is also what you make of it - I'd show up for some hernias or smaller cases because I knew the attending was cool and would just let me do the case with the junior. How do you manage the burnout from dealing with what looks like a pretty stressful job? You can have tough conversations with patients General surgeons are too often the bearer of bad news. Some of the days where I’m stuck at the hospital the longest are because I got caught up talking to a family for a while; those tend to be days where I feel the best coming home even though it is late. My chief class in particular, and residency program in general, was a HUGE support network and I couldn’t have done it without them. After your surgery, your boobs will look ridiculous, as your skin will be completely stretched out. As for the other fields, I don't regret it at all. Difficult outcomes It is very challenging. Taking the time off was basically a requirement at my program. In that way, the lifestyle is not that much different from general surgery, but your day-to-day scheduled cases can be focused more on what your interests are. Thanks so much for writing this up. Good luck out there in practice! Typical operative volume for intern year was ~100 cases - mostly melanoma/breast/hernias with the occasional lap chole and appy. The process of applying for fellowships sucks. For fellowships my experience was that academic pedigree and "who you know" mattered far more than anything else. Whether it’s for a life-saving operation or a routine, out-patient procedure, it’s easy to become nervous and filled with anxiety. It's important to have a significant other who gets what you do, is independent in their own way, and isn't reliant on you having a fixed/predictable schedule. You also lead the team on rounds and cover senior resident call sometimes. Most of my friends that did well on Step 1 are the type that love surgery and are going into the surgical specialties because better pay/lifestyle (uro, ENT, ortho). You also run the show at the VA for two months. That said, there are specialties within general surgery that allow you to largely avoid this (bariatrics, MIS for example). I'm a non-binary FTM who transitioned gradually over the past five years and had top surgery two months ago. Serious[Serious] Why you Should do General Surgery - a Recent Grad/Fellow's perspective (self.medicalschool), submitted 2 years ago * by surgresthrowawayMD. ... Do you regret pursuing a career in surgery? I think the keys to managing it are: Call: [–]WohowudothatMD 3 points4 points5 points 2 years ago (2 children). We'll save it in our wiki for future reference! : Doesn't even have to be super academic - even the big private hospitals I've been to (in major metro centers) do stuff like whipples, robotics, and even at one they have a liver transplant program. It was wildly unpopular, and we were in the process of developing a month long night float rotation to replace it when the most recent hours changes came along. [–]seansssM-4 1 point2 points3 points 2 years ago (0 children), [–]SPACE_CHUPACABRA 1 point2 points3 points 2 years ago (1 child). © 2021 reddit inc. All rights reserved. But bottom line is even though I matched at my top choice I had no real idea of how competitive an applicant I was and it caused a lot of anxiety throughout the process. Mine didn't trim my areolas. That 3-6 week figure sounds like it could be really useful for a lot of guys going into surgery. Heather Yeo is an academic surgeon who is publishing a lot of interesting stuff on this issue right now. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy. It was written by a group of surgical residents and is very high yield. I was like wtf. You love to operate I put this first because it is the most important. I detransitioned more than 25 years ago. -make friends with your co residents. That is, no one knows how many people are happy, how many have regrets, how many return to their birth sex, or how many have died as a result of suicide. -Surgical Oncology -HPB I'm non-T, non-binary, and just got top surgery on the 20th, and obviously it's not a lot of time to go off of, but I'm super happy with my decision. Two mentors of mine (both transplant surgeons) have encouraged me and mentioned that transplant might actually fit in well with a surgeon/scientist career path, mentioning that I might actually have time to do research if I wasn't doing HPB/bread and butter abdominal cases in between transplants to keep busy as many surgeons do when not doing transplant cases or covering the floors. But sometimes, beauty standards require us to change something in our bodies. The Asshole Trope I am often mystified when I read the comments on reddit from med students about the way their surgery attendings/residents behave. Fashion is a very moody and fickle thing. Sometimes people want to look or feel a certain way. I don't regret the surgery. This goes for both practice and training. Our duty hours system tracked the number of call days and I did exactly 100 calls in one year. What is MIS surgery like? Call for us meant usually somewhere in the neighborhood of a 25-26 hr day (i.e. This includes discussion of filesharing or sources of pirated materials (e.g. I told PD I regretted it almost every day because the hours are terrible, 80-100/week, and this is not the life I envisioned. These nine regrets expressed by hospice patients can teach us how to start living a better life today: 1. Long story short, what would be your suggestion to get a better picture of surgery? If you decide to pursue strictly MIS or bariatric positions, you will not have nearly as many job openings as if you were looking for general surgery. I can tell you that even coming from a very academic residency program, only a small fraction of our faculty ran a basic science lab, and only a smaller fraction of those had successful federal grant funding. I had my surgery years before I decided to try testosterone, and I don't regret doing it first. You run the service. Please include one of the following in your submission title, as appropriate for your submission (and include the brackets!) Updated May 2015; 1. For the study, an anonymous survey was given to general surgery residents at 13 programs, and 10-year attrition rates were collected for each program. Right now I can't see that happening because I feel nothing but either neutrality or discomfort (depending on the day) with them most of the time but the uncertainty haunts me. Once you have a position in more of a niche field, you are a lot harder to replace then someone who has more of a general background. The only way to get a better picture is go to a bigger hospital with a real department of surgery, not just a small to medium community center. 2 Jul 2019 I did not have a good experience with this doctor. Just finished a GS residency and while the structure was slightly different I’d say this is a very fair assessment. Almost all of the programs are a match, but not all are done through the NRMP, and they are almost all on slightly different matching schedules. I think getting used to a new "normal" takes some time for some people, so you might see the most negative feelings about surgery during this time. I am a fairly introverted person and confrontation is not in my nature. Every year people match into every field including peds and surg onc without the research. Rendered by PID 8968 on r2-app-0d182db9fb864fdee at 2021-01-01 19:24:04.535577+00:00 running c709bd6 country code: IT. Typical operative volume for intern year was ~100 cases - mostly melanoma/breast/hernias with the occasional lap … The only things I regret about mine are (1) not being crystal clear about some aesthetic choices, and (2) not aggressively pursuing a revision for those aesthetics that didn't turn out how I wanted. Chief Year In an academic program like mine, chief year is what it's all about. Coupled with the current issues in access and barriers for those seeking gender-affirming surgery, research in this field is extremely controversial. I too had the step 1 score for just about any subspecialty (maybe not integrated plastics/vascular). -Vascular Night Float After 2011 my program introduced a semi night-float system. Posts not following this rule will be deleted. Great write-up, and I definitely agree with the idea that you can't go into surgery unless you don't see yourself doing anything else in the world. If a program isn’t offering you something like that (or maybe 70/30) and is still acting like you’re expected to be applying for an R01 and running a basic science lab - you should run for the hills from that job. They also carried the general surgery consult pager on our emergency surgery service and served as first responders (in charge of secondary survey and lines/chest tubes) for trauma alerts. I’m writing this review not to bash him, but to provide my story and give some information to those considering plastic surgery. Some states have poor insurance coverage for bariatrics on the whole and would be a tough place to survive just on bariatrics. I won't be the last person from my med school class in training but I will be damn close. And the burnout/failure rate is high. People who regret their tattoos, plastic surgery, or … Hormones, surgery, regret: I was a transgender woman for 8 years . EDIT.1: Sheesh. We have an annual inservice exam called the ABSITE but I got the impression (and was told) on the interview trail that no one cared about it as long as your scores weren't abysmal. No one expects you to get this surgery until you are sure you want it. | T: 11.18.16. My general surgery program was done at a quaternary referral center with ~1000 beds and a Level 1 trauma center. But try to focus on why you became a surgeon and the “big picture”. We find time for date nights, dinner/drinks out with pretty reliable basis. JK Rowling receives 'heartbreaking' letters expressing trans surgery regrets By Brandon Showalter , CP Reporter Follow | Friday, December 11, 2020 Facebook Twitter Email Print Img No-img Menu Whatsapp Google Reddit Digg Stumbleupon Linkedin Comment I have some research ideas that I'm genuinely interested in. 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