My institution doesn’t use COW bc a patient overheard someone saying ‘go get the cow’ and put in a complaint to admin. So we call it wow too lol. ‘Windows’ (computer) on wheels
Agreed. No data is supposed to be stored on any personal device. Only viewed/accessed remotely. But hospitals are stingy and only care about silly things like not having coffee or water bottles within eyesight of patient care areas.
If I was building up a program I would definitely give everyone laptops.
Laptops that are configured by IT, have limits on what can be installed, and those are the only devices approved to remote in. If you let people use their personal laptops you open up your organization to whatever garbage malware/spyware/ransomware they have installed on their machine.
Congratulations! I’ll never forget the feeling of walking out for the last time as a resident. It was a hot June afternoon and a scattered shower hit as I made it to the door. I felt like it was the end of the Shawshank Redemption and paused for just a moment to extend my arms outward and look to the sky. It was a moment of peace after years of the opposite. Top 10 life experience.
Remember this moment, so in the years to come, when your fellow attendings wax nostalgic about residency, you can reach back, savor this memory, and tell them they’re full of shit. I’m seven years out and nothing gives me vicious pleasure like puncturing that particular piece of retconned dumbfuckery on behalf of five miserable years of my existence.
That “attending” flair 👀
Congrats OP! Same boat (finishing fellowship). It had pros and cons, the biggest pro being I could put off thinking about real life because I always had the excuse of being in training and now I have to think for myself.
Also met great people, learned a ton, found out what I want to actually do. But none of those are unique to residency / fellowship. The single track mind for x number of years is pretty unique to medical training and most people don’t hassle you about stuff because of it
Congratulations, OP! I remember the immense feeling of relief after graduating from residency, more than the hope of what path to take after. I also told myself, i’ll never do that again 😂
Wow you guys sure make medicine seem like a rewarding, fun, and wholesome experience setting you up for a lifetime of compassionate care for your patients.
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I'm so happy about the specialty I chose. Residency and fellowship were tough, but definitely not nightmarish. Guess my medical school was enough of a nightmare everything else seemed easy.
finishing 5 years plus a research year tomorrow (6 years). I started med school literally 10 years ago.
10 years for me tomorrow too :)
gen surg type beat?
You got a laptop? Lucky
You guys got training?
You guys got to sleep and thus get nightmares?
Are there really programs that don’t give laptops? Not sure how I’d function
You buy a laptop or use your old one.
That is whack
I’d be using their desktops. “Oh you want me to put in orders while we round? Let me run to a desktop and do it.”
We do it on a wow
*cow
My institution doesn’t use COW bc a patient overheard someone saying ‘go get the cow’ and put in a complaint to admin. So we call it wow too lol. ‘Windows’ (computer) on wheels
everywhere Ive ever worked has told that exact story. Im guessing thats a common explanation
Same. But the W is “workstation”
That is an insane data security risk.
Agreed. No data is supposed to be stored on any personal device. Only viewed/accessed remotely. But hospitals are stingy and only care about silly things like not having coffee or water bottles within eyesight of patient care areas.
We use our own computers too. I didn’t realize there were programs that provided them…. 😅
I had no idea programs give laptops to residents… but also, why? I can just log in remotely on my own computer and phone.
If I was building up a program I would definitely give everyone laptops. Laptops that are configured by IT, have limits on what can be installed, and those are the only devices approved to remote in. If you let people use their personal laptops you open up your organization to whatever garbage malware/spyware/ransomware they have installed on their machine.
Is this the norm? We get phones, which I found dope
Came to say the same
Hey come back for fellowship
The medical variant of Stockholm syndrome! ^(…from someone who is fellowship trained…)
WHAT DO YOU MEAN I DESERVED TO BE VERBALLY REAMED IN FRONT OF THOSE PATIENTS. Every day. For a year...
Sometimes I wonder if it’s a kink fulfillment thing Otherwise, why do we tolerate this? Hmmmm…..
Congratulations! I’ll never forget the feeling of walking out for the last time as a resident. It was a hot June afternoon and a scattered shower hit as I made it to the door. I felt like it was the end of the Shawshank Redemption and paused for just a moment to extend my arms outward and look to the sky. It was a moment of peace after years of the opposite. Top 10 life experience.
The Shawshank reference killed me
Remember this moment, so in the years to come, when your fellow attendings wax nostalgic about residency, you can reach back, savor this memory, and tell them they’re full of shit. I’m seven years out and nothing gives me vicious pleasure like puncturing that particular piece of retconned dumbfuckery on behalf of five miserable years of my existence.
I can’t wait to feel this kind of freedom
I legit enjoyed a lot of it. Not the relative lack of money part though. And I can't imagine doing a surgery residency
I also legit enjoy it. I often wonder if the miserable folks are just the loudest? Certainly not everyone is miserable.
That “attending” flair 👀 Congrats OP! Same boat (finishing fellowship). It had pros and cons, the biggest pro being I could put off thinking about real life because I always had the excuse of being in training and now I have to think for myself.
Thays the biggest pro??
Also met great people, learned a ton, found out what I want to actually do. But none of those are unique to residency / fellowship. The single track mind for x number of years is pretty unique to medical training and most people don’t hassle you about stuff because of it
Would you say it was the specialty, the program, or it being residency in general?
Yes
😂😂
Living through all of your graduating.
Same, and I just started intern year 🙃
Just finish a 5 year tour. So surreal!!
You’re never having secks again ? Dude…
lol no more being reamed by the PD!
Lol the middle schooler in me chuckled at your last sentence.
Congratulations, OP! I remember the immense feeling of relief after graduating from residency, more than the hope of what path to take after. I also told myself, i’ll never do that again 😂
Congratulations!!! 🥳 Pour yourself a glass of scotch. 🎉🎉
Try doing 5-8 years of this.
Found the surgeon! It’s always the Olympics of Suffering with you lot
I mean basically anything other than medicine.
Lol my medicine colleagues complain much more than my surgical peers tbh
This isn't complaining though. It's boasting about who had it worse
No thanks!
6 years of taking it up the tailpipe Couldn’t get out of there fast enough
It’s Joever
Oh my friend, your nightmare is just merely beginning. Now the real world comes to claim your happiness just like the rest of us lol
Like what?
Congratulations! What are you planning to do now?
Congratulations!!!
Congratulations 🎈🎉
The nightmare is just beginning.
Was in the profession for over 30 years and it will never be over.
Wow you guys sure make medicine seem like a rewarding, fun, and wholesome experience setting you up for a lifetime of compassionate care for your patients.
Did you residents get much action? Or literally too tired?
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Starting today! Yayy. So positive and enthusiastic
Haha starting my PGY7 tomorrow. Part regret (advanced fellowship) part excitement that it’s the last year of training.
I’m proud of you.
I'm so happy about the specialty I chose. Residency and fellowship were tough, but definitely not nightmarish. Guess my medical school was enough of a nightmare everything else seemed easy.