Crashing Resident
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I'm Nate, an emergency medicine resident. I began this blog to chronicle the funny highs and funnier lows of working my way through a postbaccalaureate program, a year of science classes designed to finish all the requirements for med school at once. Now that I'm a resident, this blog revolves around the humorous, twisty road toward the conclusion of my training. I promise not to..
Crashing Resident
1y ago
Since my last post, I have been hard at work like the good little tox minion I am. I have published numerous case reports and gotten my name on others written by my more skillful and motivated co-fellows. I am very proud of these case reports. They accurately reflect my internal cognitive dissonance at Skillfully ..read more
Crashing Resident
1y ago
I would like to first point out, before we even get started: after my last post, I had a minor Zoom-based showdown with the HR department about some professionalism modules I was refusing to complete and I got in pretty big trouble. In case you are interested, I stood my ground like the dumpster-inhabiting dipshit ..read more
Crashing Resident
1y ago
I want you to picture a dumpster. A bad one, full of rotting fast food, like a McDonalds-parking-lot-at-3am dumpster. One that no one bothers to lock or protect from animals because even the racoons will stay away from the fermenting, rancid waste. Got a mental picture? Now place that dumpster aboard a Viking funeral of ..read more
Crashing Resident
1y ago
I will preface this story with a disclaimer: I am not exaggerating the following. On one short-handed urgent care shift right before Christmas, wait times to see the doctor (me) stretched to four hours, at which point people started a light riot. The urgent care where I was working normally has two providers at once ..read more
Crashing Resident
1y ago
I was working on writing this gigantic 4,000-word monstrosity of a post where I tried to align specialty services with the old-school Dungeons and Dragons “Lawful/Chaotic vs Good/Evil” axes for character generation, and it was exactly as complicated as it sounds. As I worked my way through it, I realized that half of what I ..read more
Crashing Resident
1y ago
Hello! Once again it has been forever, but I don’t care. I’ve been too busy trying to prevent my head from exploding from, once again, people being stupid. (I am a tiny bit frustrated with vaccine hesitancy, which I sort of understand, and very frustrated with COVID deniers and other conspiracy theorists, who I think ..read more
Crashing Resident
1y ago
I would like to blame my prolonged absence again on COVID-19. To be fair, it does dominate about 95% of my work life and probably 50% of my personal life, but honestly, I’ve just gotten lazy. The last time I published here was March 5, where I started with “it seems like we are inevitably ..read more
Crashing Resident
1y ago
Well, from listening to the news it seems like we are inevitably headed for a massive, global pandemic. Millions of people will die. Soon thereafter, the zombies will rise, coughing and sneezing coronavirus loogies on the few healthy people left. COVID-19(/the coronavirus/SARS-nCoV-2019/whatever) is likely to be, if it isn’t already, a pandemic. Hundreds of thousands ..read more
Crashing Resident
1y ago
Yes, it has been very long. This is because my life outside of residency lately has been consumed with raising a small weapon of mass destruction named Otis. This is Otis when I got him: This is Otis now: As you can see, he is a) much bigger and b) a Systematic Toy Destroyer. A ..read more
Crashing Resident
1y ago
Another July has come, and with it an upgrade in my rank and nominally in my salary. I make a whole $2.75 an hour now! In the third and fourth years of this program, I’m considered a “senior” resident. Senior residents have some additional responsibilities over those of juniors: we are supposed to keep an ..read more