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by jac241 6y ago
Definitely interesting. Only things I'd be concerned about when thinking about painting them with a racially biased admissions brush is that UCSF's class size is not large at 171 so a swing of 20% in 1 year is only 40 students. It
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by jac241 6y ago
Yeah for sure. Just wanted to lay out for other passerby's in the thread that there's nothing forcing people to take medication that they don't think is beneficial for them, or for people who've never seen someone in a f
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by jac241 6y ago
The patients benefit from the treatment significantly since a lot of time people who are manic are living recklessly, spending all their money, gambling, being hypersexual, trying drugs, getting into fights, committing crimes, tearing up th
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by jac241 6y ago
Because you want to help people and not hijack their reward systems to maximize ad revenue?
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by jac241 6y ago
https://www.mdcalc.com/phq-9-patient-health-questionnaire-9 . You deserve to feel happy and enjoy life. Don't let a stigma about mental illness prevent you from getting treatment (therapy and/or antidepressants) i
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by jac241 6y ago
Amen. Depression is a a feeling of worthless or loss of interest in things that is significant enough to negatively impact your life.
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by jac241 6y ago
That's textbook major depressive disorder. How long would you let Jenna suffer out of principle? One month was too short a time for you, so what a year, two? She's not attending classes, crying all the time, sleeping more than usu
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by jac241 6y ago
Are you suggesting that impotence is an invented ("medicalized") condition? I should start a physicians of hacker news blog... Prozac and premenstrual dysphoric disorder is a better example.
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by jac241 6y ago
It'd probably be worth shooting professors in those departments at those schools an email to try to set up research with them during your summers. There's at least some chance they can take you on or there is a research program yo
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by jac241 6y ago
Like you said I think intrinsic motivation matters more than where you go. I went to a "shitty" (at least that's what CMU kids have said more than once to me to my face) school, University of Pittsburgh. I did fun research du
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by jac241 6y ago
M2 here. This site never gives doctors the benefit of the doubt and has some of the worst takes on the profession. Every thread where physicians get brought up you can count on someone saying they're overpaid, can EASILY be replaced by
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by jac241 6y ago
Here are the swiss salaries - https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/a8t87g/swiss_phys... Most are the same as US. They pay anesthesiologists more, dermatologists less, gastroenterologists more, etc
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by jac241 6y ago
It's easy to point at physicians and say they're artificially limiting the number of physicians created but they are not. Residency spots are funded by Medicare and that is the limiting factor. The hospitals get paid 150k for each
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by jac241 6y ago
Everyone loves to compare doctor salaries between the US and the UK, but they fail to compare the salaries for other professional roles. These kinds of jobs often pay the same 1.75-2x premium comparing the two countries. They also fail to c
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by jac241 6y ago
Call me crazy but software engineers are over paid. All they do is Google for answers on stack overflow and copy and paste the code. You used to need highly intelligent engineers who could hold all the APIs in their head at a minimum. Now y
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by jac241 6y ago
Leaving a practice means rebuilding a patient census and practice at another location which makes it more difficult for many kinds of doctors to switch jobs. EM, anesthesia, radiology, and others that don't have their own patients do s
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by jac241 6y ago
Probably jealously about people working at places like this getting paid more and more - https://c8.alamy.com/comp/W9509T/a-billiard-table-a-table-te... Versus people working here having their per unit value of wo
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by jac241 6y ago
Can corroborate. Schools care about GPA too much even in the face of work experience (most doctors on admission committees have never had another job..) + MCAT score. Median GPA is 5% of the grading in the US News research rankings and that
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by jac241 7y ago
I get that a heart attack hospitalization is expensive, $55k on average. The physician is not pocketing all of that $55k. They aren't the ones charging that, that is the hospital. The physician will get ~$1k of that (look below for the
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by jac241 7y ago
You said physicians get paid a couple hundred bucks for each visit. I provided the source that says how much a physician gets paid by medicare for an established outpatient visit. An outpatient visit for a new patient (99203) is 1.42 wRVU +
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by jac241 7y ago
No, the Stark Law prevents that (self referral, referring to another business the physician has a stake in) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_Law . Physicians are paid according to a fee schedule that decides how muc
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by jac241 7y ago
They don't make a couple hundred bucks. A 99213 established outpatient visit is worth 0.96 work RVUs * $36.0391 Medicare conversion factor = $34.59 for a standard outpatient visit. Even if you add the facility RVU = 0.48 + malpractice
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by jac241 7y ago
Saves me a ton of time in medical school vs trying to brute force the facts in. Plus it keeps things I learned over a year ago fresh so it has been very helpful for preparing for USMLE Step 1. Medicine might be an ideal case for this kind o
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by jac241 7y ago
The desktop app is GPL and it's all backed by a Sqlite db so it's possible to reverse engineer.
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by jac241 7y ago
I use the suspend card (or note) command for this. Press @ when your reviewing and it will suspend the card and you won't see it again.
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by jac241 7y ago
Fair assessment. Any thoughts to what could work as an alternative? For it flaws, overwork being the main one, I think other parts of residency make sense. Every year you advance further in a system of graduated responsibility until you bec
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by jac241 7y ago
The poor population outcomes and lack of access to healthcare in America is shameful and disappointing. One of the big issues in my mind that comes from the debt is that it traps people who realize that they don't want to be doctors af
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by jac241 7y ago
I don't see why they shouldn't fund more CS and STEM spots and universities in general. They will probably see a good return on investment. AFAIK higher education is subsidized in other countries but I'm not super knowledgeab
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by jac241 7y ago
Compared to what's on levels.fyi, most specialties will earn less than software engineers. Only cardiologists, gastroenterologists, radiologists, anesthesiologists, and the surgical specialties will have a chance at out earning someone
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by jac241 7y ago
I think it is because the government finds it valuable to have a well trained workforce to take care of its Medicare patients. Do you want physicians to pay for the opportunity to work for hospitals taking care of their patients?

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