Attending Struggle Bus

Did you make it through the pandemic relatively unscathed or do you fall asleep on your stomach every time you get a cold on the off chance you go into ARDS in your sleep?

Wedding drunk is the best kind of drunk

If you were wondering how things have been going for me, I gave myself a paper cut on my face yesterday. With a piece of cardboard

This year has slowly sucked the life out of me but goddamn if I’m not jazzed all to hell when I get to practice actual medicine

If you’d asked me six months ago what the toughest part of my job would be I would have said “teaching struggling learners” not “running into constant red tape from people who put their own interests over those of the residents whenever I try to make positive change”

Pro tip if you overshoot the drop down menu for @dominos you may accidentally order anchovies instead of extra bacon on a spicy bbq Hawaiian pizza and render the whole thing inedible 😂 my fault for not double checking the order I guess

How do people combat the existential dread ™️ of wondering whether you messed up or missed something as an attending?

Boards tomorrow. Either it’s the last test I’ll take for 10 years or I’m out another $1200. Weird how the stakes feel so much lower than like any STEP exam

When you’re reading fanfic and the medicine is accurate 🙏🏻💯🔥

Taking a bite out of the middle of the candle for extra burn potential

Oh also, I’m a chief resident now and I can confidently say I still have never seen the JVP (and not for lack of trying, I have nodded knowingly while staring at SO MANY NECKS)

So far being a chief feels like being a walking talking suggestion box that comes bearing snacks

Crazy how I went from “too sleepy to function at 2AM” to “all nighters don’t even make a dent in my mental” in the span of 3 years

It’s 4AM and I feel 7AM tired this does Not bode well

Threaded the wire for the central line before I vagaled so, you know, progress

I am more miserable on elective than inpatient. I’ve probably gaslit myself into believing I have to be useful to be happy

My hospital has a bunch of signs that say “get boosted” at it’s all I can do to keep my little gamer brain from thinking I have received the Gravest Insult

I don’t check this account often, so I’m a bit behind here but I’m literally a medical doctor and I would never dream of introducing myself as “Dr. Soandso” outside of being in a hospital

Nothing like a good old fashioned elective rotation to remind me that I, too, am a human being! I mean it’ll get ripped away again in like less than a week but for now

Also who TF introduces themselves as “doctor” outside a medical setting? Like hi my name is Res but you can call me “Doctor Strugglebus” absolutely not