Just Plain Ruff Posted April 12, 2012 Posted April 12, 2012 Good intentions to live off campbells soup and riding the bus but you will bow down to the god of consumerism and have an Iphone and a mercedes or lexus before your first year is over. You would have to keep up with the ERDOcologist. So you would start out with great intentions but you would fail, miserably, but fail nonetheless.
Kiwiology Posted April 12, 2012 Posted April 12, 2012 Hell no I'm a laid back good ole boy redneck on the inside, I'd have my ass a pick up truck And I have concluded iPhone inferior to Android
ERDoc Posted April 13, 2012 Author Posted April 13, 2012 Droid sucks, I can't wait to trade it in for an iphone. I drool over BMWs and Mercedes as I drive my Nissan. If I didn't have a family when I graduated I would have lived like a resident for a few years and pay off the loans. I hate debt.
Kiwiology Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 Your fault Emergentologist ... So I just heard from Doctology school; 20 seats and 150 applicants, ... yes hello is teh Jeebus available at all?
ERDoc Posted April 13, 2012 Author Posted April 13, 2012 Best of luck bro. Hopefully you will be part of the brotherhood soon. I will teach you the secret handshake.
Kiwiology Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 (edited) Thanks Doc, I have two chances so it's not the end of the world and if not work til I'm eek, 30 and save up large and do a four year degree in Australia. So I am watching Something the Lord Made; the story of Al Blalock and Vivien Thomas and their surgical correction of Tautology of Fallot; it's also a PBS Documentary Partners of the Heart and it's very good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llpXsaUeJp0 Edited April 13, 2012 by Kiwiology
Richard B the EMT Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 Cambell's soup? Not the US "Traditional" Rahmen Noodles? My cell phone is 2 tin cans and a lot of 10 pound test fishing line (computer is an abacus). fyi, my car is a 2009 Nissan Quest, for which I'm in the middle of a 5 year payment plan. Next time, I buy a used "Blue Bird" school bus.
Kiwiology Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 Nope, Ramen has too much salt and cholesterol mind you Campbell's soup probably has too ... 2009? Bloody hell! my car is 1996! Did you get tired of taking the subway mate? or did you get busted for turnstyle jumping too many times? I got busted for slipping through the gate and tried to leg it, much to my dismay I had recently purchased a Sunday copy of the New York Times and was therefore unable to run very fast. You know Emergentologist I find it interesting that your residency spots are paid for by the Government off the back of Medicare and you only get a stipend not an actual salary as such; our Registrars are employed by the applicable District Health Board and are subject to the collective employment agreement for residential medical officers so they have a budget for X Reg posts and if you're a Consultant in one ology but want to move into another ology and you're happy to fill a vacant Registrar post at the start of the training year and take the drop in salary it's all yours Now as much as I absolutely despise Modernising Medical Careers in the UK they have done two good things (in theory): one is replace the titles of House Surgeon/Senior House Officer with Foundation Doctor and they have something called he ACCS or acute care core stream which is where where the first three years of residency (Specialist Training in the UK) is the same for all Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia trainees then you do your final three years in whichever of the three specialities you pick. In theory if you wish to change to another in the future and get dual-Fellowship you only need to do the "advanced" latter training. Yes, the UK has the crazy idea that all speciality training should be six years except GP training which is three on top of the Foundation Programme i.e. the House Surgeon and SHO years. I mean it's not tooo dissimilar from here but some of our vocational training is four years, some five and some six and GP is three. I also find it interesting the term Resident comes from old time Europe when this guy (I forget his name) had the idea to make Doctors live at the hospital; the term House Surgeon or House Officer comes from Europe as rich people had a Doctor (Chiurgeon) as part of the house staff while the term Residential Medical Officer (meaning everybody not a Consultant) here is sort of a combination You can also find that stuff I uploaded for you here http://www.aus-sim.com/FSX.rar gosh I am so good to you Emergentologist, and you don't even have any single bloody nieces to hook me up with ... for shame
ERDoc Posted April 13, 2012 Author Posted April 13, 2012 I will take a look at that stuff. I am an only child and only have 1 brother-in-law who has a son. So, I've got a nephew but you will need to wait a few years since he is well under 18 years old.
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