¶ Residency Interview Preparation and Personal Update
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Dr Renee , it's been a long time .
So we've been putting out episodes y'all . But sometimes we batch the episodes and we record maybe four or five episodes ahead of when they're coming up . So it's been a minute since me and you have recorded together . I feel like we should be doing a full episode , but we don't have time to do a full episode . But just listen y'all .
We're gonna be coming with an episode about what's going on with the ceo shooting in new york city and then being caught in central pa in our backyard , our old backyard . Then we're gonna be talking about what else we gotta talk about .
There's a lot of stuff to really talk about that we're not gonna address , I'm saying , but we just know there's a lot going on . Yeah , I'm doing this episode , guys . Y'all don't know . Renee like constantly wants to do an episode . I did ?
you told me I was gonna be doing this episode and I said to you I know what's gonna happen as soon as you hit record you're gonna just take over . So I don't even know why you ever tell me oh , you're going to run this episode .
That's not true . I'm not running this episode , guys . Did I ? Did I take over this episode ?
You just introduced everything and said what we're going to be talking about , but there's other ways that you can take over an episode .
Like your effervescence your energy your .
You know the way in which the way you speak so well ? No Guys , you know what I'm talking about . No , all right .
So what's this episode about ? Y'all ?
Oh , now you want my opinion .
What's this episode about ?
Anywho . So we're not going to be talking about any of that just yet .
You're correct , we might just touch on it a little bit , but today , actually , what we're going to be talking about is the residency interview , since we are in the midst of the residency interview season and you know , when we talk about medicine , particularly medical careers , I think it's important to kind of not start from scratch , because that would be going all
the way back to pre-med , but definitely go back a little bit into time and address kind of some of the things that I think we've all either experienced as physicians or are going to experience as I'd have to say .
I'd have to say whether it was applying to medical school , applying to residency . Getting ready for the interview was the last thing I prepare for .
Oh yeah .
I never even thought about it . I was just like well , I mean , if they're inviting me , then I'm 75% of the way there and I'll just be myself , yeah , and so I got rejected from all the schools .
From medical school , you mean .
The first time I applied .
Yeah , yeah , I had a couple of interviews .
I probably destroyed them because of my interview .
Well , yeah , I mean , I think people take for granted , can you talk yourself out ?
What do you mean ? Can you talk yourself out of a position ?
Absolutely . That's why they invite you , right ? I think you're right . It's one of the last things that people prepare for , not realizing exactly how important it is . And you're right , you're about 75% , if not more . You know there , right to the finish line . They just wanna establish are you crazy ? That's for medical school .
For residency , it might be a little bit different because there are so few spots in comparison to the number , the sheer number of interviews that you know that they give and you're just competing . You're competing on a whole different level , and then you add the added dynamic of the algorithm for the match .
So I think the residency interview is a little bit different , just a little bit different , but you still could potentially talk yourself out of it , but how do you know if you talked yourself out ?
Basically , what I'm saying is if you are applying to medical school , you get an interview . Obviously they are interested in you . How do you know that the reason you got waitlisted or the reason why you didn't get in was because of your interview ? You might not .
That's what I'm saying . The difference between medical school and the residency interview , right Like it's just very different because you have that match component . So , but anyway , we're going to be talking about that residency interview . We got a question from Vincent O and I believe he is .
I don't know what he says I don't think he says what level he is , but he does leave a question . Yeah , he does leave a question , but before we get to that question , just wanted to kind of update our audience as to what the heck is going on up here . Um , with the darkos .
So so what you been up to dr knee , oh , that's the dramatic pause that I said that you were gonna take . So now you taking it . Yeah , okay , what you been up to , don't we mean ?
what I've been up to like , why , you ask me . Well , you got to learn how to live and now even a dead .
It now don't . Don't give people dead air . What you've been up to .
There's been a lot that I've been up to yeah , without without sounding listen y'all like .
Life be life .
If you watching on YouTube right now , you know that you probably see my the veins in my head Just engorged on the side of my head because there's a lot of stuff that's going on . We purchased a house and I am 90% Happy about it and 10% not happy about it .
Not because of the house , but of the process of getting the house and I'm Not because of the house , but of the process of getting the house .
And I'm , you know , like , you know how , like there's that 80-20 rule , right , like with relationships , and there's like you kind of look at the 80-20 just in life , right , like you have something that gives you 80% joy .
Why are you focusing on the 20% of something that you're really either neither going to attain or is really not really worth trying to go after it , right ? So , for me , like I'm 90% , 95% , happy that we got this house , but there's just one small little thing that happened to us during the process of closing that I'm super pissed about .
Yeah and um , we're going to talk about that on another episode . We'll talk about another episode , but it's just I have some things to resolve
¶ Navigating Homeownership Challenges
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But we homeowners I'm excited about it , I just for me , there's a couple of things . It's bittersweet because you know I feel happy to be in this neighborhood , like I mentioned in the previous episode , I'm super psyched about that . I'm happy to set some roots in one place and to be in a school district that we feel comfortable to put our kids in .
I'm happy about that . The other side of me , I'm not happy about these damn house prices , shit . You know like in all essence I feel like we have a regular house , but anybody who is used to living in a high cost of living neighborhood knows what we're talking about .
Like a regular , you know , three and a half bedroom or four bedroom , two bath type spot is is mad loop . And just because you're paying a large amount of money doesn't mean that it looks like it's a large amount of money in the house , if you know what I mean .
So yeah so that's one thing that's going on , so we're super psyched about that yeah , yeah , yeah , I think , yeah , I'm oh , let me fix your microphone while you're talking I'm with you on um .
I'm with you on the house .
They're just yeah , we definitely have talked about it on a different episode about just kind of the process of buying a house and the potential to have strife with a seller and even with your own attorney , so that we will need to talk about a little bit later on With a seller and even with your own attorney , so that we will need to talk about a little bit
later on Other things that are going on . Other things that are going on . So I think we talked about this on the show before , but that I spent a month in a Canadian hospital , yeah , with my mom . We talked about it very briefly . It feels , like a while ago .
It feels like a while ago a Canadian hospital with my mom . We talked about it very briefly . It feels like a while ago , but it really wasn't .
Yeah , it was a little bit more than well . We're going on like two months ago .
Long story short the health care experience , I think for you was a shocker right .
Yeah , and I don't know if it's positive . There were certain things that were shocking . I don't know if there were certain things that were .
I don't know if it's positive or if it's negative , but it's just not the way in which you're used to have , the way in which you guys would be used to seeing in the united states .
Yeah , there were certain things that were shocking and other things that were , um , kind of refreshing . You know , very quickly I'll just I will just say that , um , two things . I'm going to mention two things . So one was that there was a communal bathroom .
So there was not a bathroom in the room , right , and this this is an admitted patient post-op there was no bathroom in the room . Now that was kind of weird at first , but then I realized it was actually to my mother's advantage . My mother was the one that was admitted . It was to her advantage because it forced her to walk .
Right , we're always all ambulate the patient , ambulate the patient . It's like , you know , you come in , you ask the patient did you ambulate ? You know , did you walk ? And they're like , yeah , I walked to the bathroom . You look at the bathroom , it's like two steps away . You're like , okay , that walking .
But this , my mother had to walk all the way down the hall and then walk all the way back . So that was definitely a plus , whereas I thought it started out as a minus . It really was a plus . And then the other thing was that the pharmacist came to her bedside . The pharmacist came to her bedside .
The pharmacist showed up twice at her bedside to confirm meds , to change meds , to basically take care of her meds , and I was like what are you doing here ? I literally asked the pharmacist what are you doing here ? And she was like yeah , you know , we come and we just , you know , take care of some things . So I thought that that was pretty interesting .
And now I'll mention one more thing they bathe the patients . What do you ?
mean they bathe them , they bathe them . They sent somebody every day for like the first three days , while my mother still had her Foley , and if you had a Foley in , they came in and they bathed you .
They bathe you Like a birdbath . Yeah , okay .
They came in and they bathe you . I don't think they do that very often in US hospitals anymore .
They do . It's just in my experience it's a you have to ask for that type of treatment , the pharmacist . I've seen that . I think in trauma you see that more often because you see pharmacists either in the ed . You see pharmacists in critical care and , uh , depending on you , know what the resources of the hospital is like .
You'll see that on the floor also , so I'm not completely shocked about that .
Okay , the communal part .
I wonder if that's just a really old hospital . It might be , you know before it might be , you know even though , like like nowadays , you go to the hospitals in the United States like the big thing now is just one person per room and there's a bathroom there .
Right , but like you know , decades ago , which most hospitals are still in , it's two people per hospital sharing a bathroom . But I think before , that is , you know , depending on where in Canada you're at you know it's a communal bathroom , probably .
Yeah , it was a pretty old hospital . The hospital looked like something out of seriously like something out of 1973 , actually even before St Elsewhere , so that was really interesting . But yeah , thankfully mom is doing fine and yeah .
Travel insurance everyone . Make sure you get it .
Make sure you get travel insurance , don't leave home without travel insurance .
I used to think that it was like , not that big of a deal , yeah , and then we started getting it , maybe about two . Well , we definitely got it for Ghana we got it for our trip , to our honeymoon trip .
Right .
We got travel insurance when we were going to New Zealand , bali and Australia because there were places that we were going to that we just didn't know . Like we're going to the outback and it's like what if I get appendicitis out there , what are we going to do ? But even then I was like man , it's a waste of money , we only need this .
And then once we started going to Ghana with the kids- yes with the , with our firstborn . That's when we're like let's get travel insurance . And , um , this opportunity was one of those like , yeah , like get traveling .
Your mom should have had travel insurance thank well , thank goodness she has medicare because she is elder . So medicare , you know , covers at least her plan . I don't know if it's all of Medicare , but it covers international . So luckily , you know , even without the travel insurance , she did well .
But you know , I just started thinking because my brother was out there with them and I was like , oh , my God , what if this had happened to my brother ? So , because he is not quite elder yet and he would have needed travel insurance . But anyway , that's what's been good . That's only a glimpse of what's been going on .
There's a lot going on in the household , out in the world . You mentioned the thing with the UnitedHealthcare CEO and potentially finding the killer in Altoona , where we lived for six years .
So that was a little bit of a , a little bit of a shocker and um , yeah , so when we get into this question I'm running this episode yeah , let's jump into this episode I'm I'm running the episode gotcha go ahead go ahead . So anyway , we're gonna jump into this question .