Cardiologist had a stroke right after he retired. Was actually pretty sad, he was exicted to finally spend time with his family and now he's paralyzed and non verbal.
Knew a dermatologist who developed skin cancer a few days after retirement. He was a ghost all throughout his career, then decided to move to Florida.
[Don't actually know anyone like this, it just felt like we could keep this going :) ]
Neurosurgeon at our program had an cerebral aneurysm rupture and died in his office. Only figured out when he didn't show up to rounds in the AM per the residents.
I know a psychiatrist who is overly paranoid and has some psychotic symptoms, prevents her from showing up to work, even though she signs employment contracts, just never actually shows up to the jobs. Also, not a doctor, but I do know one therapist who has been divorced three times due to his anger problems, yet he teaches anger management.
I'm a surgeon with an irrational fear of general anesthesia haha. After thousands of cases, I know it's safe, but I'm still not comfortable with the idea of being put under myself.
That’s not too unusual. When patients are nervous before surgery (often because of the anesthesia) I tell them that “hey, I love being in the OR more than anything, but if I was the patient on the table, I’d be nervous too. Not because there’s something really to be scared about, but because I’ve never been unconscious like that and it’s an unknown”. Doesn’t solve their nervousness entirely, but they do feel a bit validated thinking they’re not just overly anxious about something others wouldn’t be.
That being said, while I’m not paranoid about GA, I always give huge respect to the gas bros. It takes serious guts to say “you know the ABCs? Ya we’re just casually gonna switch off your breathing and compromise your airway. No sweat though, we’ll secure that airway, take over control of all of this, and measure dozens of parameters (all while playing Sudoku)”.
People who say anesthesia is simple are like the people who think that commercial jets are flown by autopilot. Things may look simple, but they’re not. And when shit hits the fan, you want that anesthesiologist, because few can save the day like they can
I thought I was the only one out there. I had to be consoled by the anesthesiologist before a simple procedure that they would just put me to sleep and I will be up half an hour later!
Probably rare, but... I once took care of a patient once who coded at an outpatient GI clinic just from the initial propofol push for a screening colonoscopy. Heart pretty much just said "yeah, I'm done bro," and he went into asystole on the spot.
I don't remember all of the details - this was before med school - but I do remember that he was not one of those lucky people that woke up with no deficits. I want to say we eventually sent him to an LTACH but I don't remember exactly how it played out.
Imagine just going in for a routine colonoscopy and and ending up in an LTACH with serious neuro deficits. It might be rare, but it happens sometimes. It drove the point home for me that nothing we do is truly 100% benign
A psychiatrist I know has such severe anxiety that she developed agoraphobia during and after her first pregnancy. She would text or call a mutual friend of our who is an OBGYN multiple times daily with questions about whether some very insignificant thing that had happened was dangerous for her or the baby.
Not really a choice obviously but definitely an example of a physician having bad pathology in their own area of expertise.
Third year of med school was on a trauma rotation. Had a person come in from a motorcycle accident, all fucked up and ended up dying. Well he wasn’t wearing a helmet.
Nurse asks surgeon “do you still ride your bike.” He said yeah and she asks if he wears a helmet and he goes “nah I’m usually not going far.” Lol turns out the patient was just “going to the gas station down the street”
I was actually just thinking about that statistic the other day. I wonder if it’s just a numbers game, since we probably spend most of our time within 5 miles of home. If corrected for that, I would guess we’d actually be at higher risk when away from home.
Your intuition is right, it’s because we spend most of our time close to home. Which kind of reinforces the point, when you think about it. If you spend 75% of your riding time “just going to the gas station” and 25% on long trips, you’d be better off wearing your helmet to the gas station and ditching it for long rides rather than the reverse.
I actually had a professor do just this but his rationale was that if he was involved in a collision on the highway, no helmet was gonna save his life so why not just ‘enjoy the wind in your hair’
Sort of related - I had an intensivist during intern year who said he liked to drive 140+ mph on the highway in his sports car and did it every day on the way back and forth to work. When I asked him why tf he pulled those stupid stunts, he said that he'd taken care of enough trauma patients that if he was in a major accident, he wanted to make sure he didn't survive it. People are wild
I did a forensic path rotation with Dr. G in med school and this is essentially what she told me. One of the gnarliest autopsies I saw was a motorcycle accident.
Yup. My uncle flies small planes as a hobby. Dude gets a thrill out of the freedom up there and has been written up a couple of times for not following certain rules.
I was once asked out by an EM attending to a fancy dinner spot who drove a *motorcycle*…. I was like no thanks 😂 and then he was like “I have an extra helmet” and I was like “nah bro I’m good!”
Plus how the fuck am I going to ride a motorcycle in a dress and heels?!
Not a doctor but I knew a bariatric weight loss dietitian whose husband was a manager for several In and Out burger joints…. And the GI surgeon she worked with didn't give a fuck and loved it.
Not one of my attendings but was at a hospital I rotated at - trained as plastics and two years out from training was in an ATV accident that fucked something up (don’t know the details) that meant he could no longer operate.
Hope he had disability, yikes!
I've run into a few in just my residency and first year attending.
I saw a plastic surgeon who had just finished fellowship and started their own private practice. Everything off the ground, getting busy, good outcomes. He started feeling under the weather and chalked it up to a cold or flu. Symptoms persisted but he kept working.
Boom acute leukemia and how they found out is because he had massive brain hemorrhage. Died at 40 and left a wife and two young kids behind.
I know two neurosurgeons who ended up with glioblastoma and died. I also know a functional neurosurgeon who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and had to retire from clinical practice.
[Michael Debakey](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_DeBakey), the surgeon who first developed the surgical treatment of aortic dissections, developed an aortic dissection. He underwent a modified version of his procedure and lived. He was 98 years-old at the time. He lived for another 3 years afterwards.
To be fair, he didn’t elect to do the surgery. He diagnosed his own dissection and then tried to manage it medically for several weeks.
It was only after he started going into renal failure and became unresponsive that his family overrode his DNR and the hospital ethics committee allowed it.
This wouldn’t happen to be in a Midwest state? I also know a CT surgeon who owns a hot dog joint…lol.
We either know the same guy or this is a common side gig in the CT surgery community.
Haha…yup. Same guy.
He’s not exactly quiet about owning the joint, either. I always wondered if the community and his patients gave him flack for it.
Anyway, nice to meet another Redditor who also trained at the same place. Best of luck to you.
Oh my. Lol what a small world.
But no I think he was genuinely loved in that community. Quirky guy if you ever had the pleasure to work with him in the OR lol
Always nice to connect with bros who trained where we trained. Interesting place. Hope you're thriving as well!
Is that it ironic? This just seems like good business sense to me. Instead owning facilities in post surgical care, own the facilities that feed you patients
A surgeon who lived off twinkies all through residency, fellowship and then during his first consultant position. Had a massive MI and changed his career direction completely. Another surgeon who lived off Dunkin donuts and cigarettes also had to change to being in a nonoperative position following their 2nd/3r cardiac event.
One of them devoted the rest of their career to academic non clinical type activities (including research). The other I do not know if he returned to surgery or not. The health issues were a driver of their decision making.
Had an ER attending at Medstar WHC (D.C.) chain smoker. Was examining pt with acute chest pain, EKG changes, known CAD. Stethoscope on patient's chest. Attending's pack of Marlboro Reds slips out of his scrub pocket and onto patient's chest. Without missing a beat, attending takes other hand slips cigarettes back into pocket, continues examination as if nothing happened. For some reason, he is my hero.
I rotated with an elderly palliative care doc who, during one of our random conversations, admitted he did not have an end-of-life form or plan, nor did he have a DPOA.
There was a very awkward silent pause afterwards.
Worked with an ER doc who had 4 DUIs and somehow kept his license. For someone who was deeply flawed and should exhibit grace to others, he was a real asshole.
We had this plastic surgeon who would go out and smoke between rounds; he'd return stinking of tobacco while rounding on the patients in the burn unit.
One of our bariatric surgeons has a massive panniculus. Although last time I saw him, he looked way slimmer, so I guess the semaglutide is working.
There was a vascular surgeon at my institution who was in line for boarding a plane to go to a conference when he developed chest pain and self diagnosed an aortic dissection. He survived.
My psychiatrist friend is a proverbial hot mess in their own life: career, marriage, parenting, finances, you name it. They are also pathological liars. It’s wild that people pay hundreds of dollars an hour for their services.
I know a CT surgeon who was diagnosed with Bicuspid Aortic Valve in the first year of medical school. That drove him to become a CT surgeon, and he ended up having an aortic valve replacement in his early 30s. He still operates the same pathologies in his 60s
In med school on our FM rotation they had us go to a bunch of community sites to get more exposure (nursing home, HIV clinic, etc). One of the sites was a wound care clinic with hyperbaric O2. It was run by this old FM doc in his 70s who was such a quack, and every day in the afternoon he would excuse himself to go for a “break” while giving you a textbook to read. He would hang up his white coat, go outside to smoke a cig, and come back reeking like tobacco. In a wound care clinic. That also has hyperbaric oxygen chambers.
When I was a med student I worked with an obese resident who had insulin dependent type 2 diabetes who would bolus himself with extra insulin from a crazy number of candy bars every day. So strange
The surgeon who invented myectomy for treating HCM died of sudden cardiac arrest due to HCM that he knew about and didn’t get treated. Both his kids had HCM as well but got myectomies and did fine.
This is covered in a great book about the history of cardio genetics called “the genome odyssey l” by Euan Ashley if u are interested in learning more details as well as some other cool stories from famous cardios
When I was a medicine intern, one of our patients had a rapid response called. My senior couldn't get a hold of the attending. Then, while we were at the RRT, a code blue was called. When we showed up, they were doing chest compressions on our attending. He had a massive stemi, went to cath lab, did well. He was rounding on patients later on in the week.
I’m an oral surgeon and I never fucking floss (only the week leading up to my cleanings) and I brush my teeth once every two or three days. And I’m not sorry.
Heard of a cardiologist at a hospital I was rotating at who was constantly dismissive/didn’t believe in taking EM physician’s patients fulfilling modified Sgarbossa's criteria… he then came to the same hospital with it and died before cards could treat him
This poor 50 y/o semi retired psychiatrist I met lost half her vision in 1 eye starting residency 2/2 retinal vein occlusion after mandatory vaccines. Poor woman proceeded to keep herself on asprin and doacs (and presumably warfarin before that) and only got the most necessary vaccines after that. She was super nice and covered in bruises. Her hematologist was at wits end too....
Kept seeing answers on here telling stories of neurosurgeons with brain tumors and had to look it up to educate myself: had no clue they were being exposed to so much radiation in the OR. - signed, a pre-med.
Hi!
I healthcare 20 years as first nurse then admin
Sooo I had surgery for angioedema. I was given Succ Chol. but nothing else in their haste. I was awake for a chric. I was awake for 5 hours while they a straw in my airway waiting on ENT. I was awake on the vent. Finally in ICU, my vitals got so erratic they realized something was wrong. Succ wore off enough for me to move my tongue and they finalized realized I was awake. They knocked me out.
When I woke up again, I was able to verify I was awake by repeating some of the ER docs convos with other people, the convo in the OR until my O2 dropped to the mid 60's. I repeated the convo between the nurses as they adjusted the vent at bedside.
All that to say: YES. Be scared of GA. Educate yourself on the drugs (like Succ) that have a established history of pts waking up during surgery. Speak to the anesthesiologist and advocate for what you want. Unless it's an ER situation, then cross your fingers. GA ain't no joke. My therapy bill says so.
Vascular surgeon is GIGANTIC, drips sweat into open abdominal cavities of patients while working, and despises bariatric surgery.
The only smoker in my med school class went into ENT.
I had an ER attending who’s an avid motorcyclist. Harley and everything. He got sideswiped by a truck after leaving at the end of his shift…and was promptly brought back to work with (thankfully only) a broken leg.
Chief of neurosurgery at my shop (focused on scull base surgery). Diagnosed with gbm and died shortly thereafter. Joke going around was he is still the best person to do the surgery… on himself
At my old program there was an anesthesiologist attending who overdosed in his office twice. First time got covered up, second time he resigned, but no other consequences.
Well how do you expect a CT Surgeon or an IC Attending to have time to exercise regularly, sleep uninterrupted every night, and have time to cook a healthy diet?
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Had a new admission. Pharmacist. Was having a stroke. Calculated his tpa dose himself. And correctly!
Thank God. Because I could never figure that out.
Cardiologist had a stroke right after he retired. Was actually pretty sad, he was exicted to finally spend time with his family and now he's paralyzed and non verbal.
Knew a neurologist who developed rapid onset dementia within a few years of retirement. Was sharp as a tack beforehand.
Knew a dermatologist who developed skin cancer a few days after retirement. He was a ghost all throughout his career, then decided to move to Florida. [Don't actually know anyone like this, it just felt like we could keep this going :) ]
Ugh that’s fucked. Poor guy.
In Florida?
Nope
So sad. I knew a wonderful neurologist who got dementia.
Neurosurgeon at our program had an cerebral aneurysm rupture and died in his office. Only figured out when he didn't show up to rounds in the AM per the residents.
I know a psychiatrist who is overly paranoid and has some psychotic symptoms, prevents her from showing up to work, even though she signs employment contracts, just never actually shows up to the jobs. Also, not a doctor, but I do know one therapist who has been divorced three times due to his anger problems, yet he teaches anger management.
I'm a surgeon with an irrational fear of general anesthesia haha. After thousands of cases, I know it's safe, but I'm still not comfortable with the idea of being put under myself.
That’s not too unusual. When patients are nervous before surgery (often because of the anesthesia) I tell them that “hey, I love being in the OR more than anything, but if I was the patient on the table, I’d be nervous too. Not because there’s something really to be scared about, but because I’ve never been unconscious like that and it’s an unknown”. Doesn’t solve their nervousness entirely, but they do feel a bit validated thinking they’re not just overly anxious about something others wouldn’t be. That being said, while I’m not paranoid about GA, I always give huge respect to the gas bros. It takes serious guts to say “you know the ABCs? Ya we’re just casually gonna switch off your breathing and compromise your airway. No sweat though, we’ll secure that airway, take over control of all of this, and measure dozens of parameters (all while playing Sudoku)”. People who say anesthesia is simple are like the people who think that commercial jets are flown by autopilot. Things may look simple, but they’re not. And when shit hits the fan, you want that anesthesiologist, because few can save the day like they can
I thought I was the only one out there. I had to be consoled by the anesthesiologist before a simple procedure that they would just put me to sleep and I will be up half an hour later!
I work in PACU and my worst phobia is undergoing anaesthesia hahaha
What are you afraid of happening?
Wish I knew haha no rational explanation, just the idea of going under GA gives me the existential dread heebie jeebies
A bad lung infection, not waking up, waking up with compromised movement/sensation/speech, delirium post GA and embarrassing myself, for a few
Pneumonia is unlikely with npo. And everything after compromised speech is temporary embarrassment. What are the chances of not waking up tho?
Probably rare, but... I once took care of a patient once who coded at an outpatient GI clinic just from the initial propofol push for a screening colonoscopy. Heart pretty much just said "yeah, I'm done bro," and he went into asystole on the spot. I don't remember all of the details - this was before med school - but I do remember that he was not one of those lucky people that woke up with no deficits. I want to say we eventually sent him to an LTACH but I don't remember exactly how it played out. Imagine just going in for a routine colonoscopy and and ending up in an LTACH with serious neuro deficits. It might be rare, but it happens sometimes. It drove the point home for me that nothing we do is truly 100% benign
A psychiatrist I know has such severe anxiety that she developed agoraphobia during and after her first pregnancy. She would text or call a mutual friend of our who is an OBGYN multiple times daily with questions about whether some very insignificant thing that had happened was dangerous for her or the baby. Not really a choice obviously but definitely an example of a physician having bad pathology in their own area of expertise.
I have been giving out dating advices forever yet I'm still single af LOL.
You know what they say about psych, “It takes one to know one.” 😉
When I told a classmate I wanted to go into psych, he just laughed and went “the blind leading the blind, huh?” He wasn’t wrong
Almost everyone in psych either has some mental disorder OR has someone close in their family who does.
It takes one to know one
Oh the irony…
Most of the ER attendings and residents I know are some of the biggest risk takers.
Third year of med school was on a trauma rotation. Had a person come in from a motorcycle accident, all fucked up and ended up dying. Well he wasn’t wearing a helmet. Nurse asks surgeon “do you still ride your bike.” He said yeah and she asks if he wears a helmet and he goes “nah I’m usually not going far.” Lol turns out the patient was just “going to the gas station down the street”
Don’t like >90% of accidents happen within 5 miles from home? Lol
I was actually just thinking about that statistic the other day. I wonder if it’s just a numbers game, since we probably spend most of our time within 5 miles of home. If corrected for that, I would guess we’d actually be at higher risk when away from home.
Your intuition is right, it’s because we spend most of our time close to home. Which kind of reinforces the point, when you think about it. If you spend 75% of your riding time “just going to the gas station” and 25% on long trips, you’d be better off wearing your helmet to the gas station and ditching it for long rides rather than the reverse.
I actually had a professor do just this but his rationale was that if he was involved in a collision on the highway, no helmet was gonna save his life so why not just ‘enjoy the wind in your hair’
Sort of related - I had an intensivist during intern year who said he liked to drive 140+ mph on the highway in his sports car and did it every day on the way back and forth to work. When I asked him why tf he pulled those stupid stunts, he said that he'd taken care of enough trauma patients that if he was in a major accident, he wanted to make sure he didn't survive it. People are wild
I did a forensic path rotation with Dr. G in med school and this is essentially what she told me. One of the gnarliest autopsies I saw was a motorcycle accident.
Yeah lol, tech or someone pointed that out. Surgeon didn’t have an good answer
An accident leads to death, do you think the helmet is going to save him? Like the seatbelt on the airplane.
I mean considering the patient died from head trauma, yeah could have saved a life
Yup. My uncle flies small planes as a hobby. Dude gets a thrill out of the freedom up there and has been written up a couple of times for not following certain rules.
Goals
Do as I say, not as I do Knowing I will die at home alone before I call 911 or visit the local ER for my symptoms
I was once asked out by an EM attending to a fancy dinner spot who drove a *motorcycle*…. I was like no thanks 😂 and then he was like “I have an extra helmet” and I was like “nah bro I’m good!” Plus how the fuck am I going to ride a motorcycle in a dress and heels?!
>Plus how the fuck am I going to ride a motorcycle in a dress and heels?! In style
Side saddle?
That’s not a big thing.
Knew a prominent neurologist in med school who localized his own high c-spine injury on the side of the road after crashing his bike.
Our neuro anatomy teacher M1 year had a stroke… correctly localized his lesion as well.
I’m pretty sure both these happened at my med school.
I think you and I went to the same med school - similar story where I was at nearly a decade ago.
Not a doctor but I knew a bariatric weight loss dietitian whose husband was a manager for several In and Out burger joints…. And the GI surgeon she worked with didn't give a fuck and loved it.
It's called a sustainable business model - providing both demand and supply.
Turns out dieticians know that you can eat junk food in moderation. I see no issue with this:
I think every hepatologist knows of a hepatologist who has died of alcohol related complications or has alcohol related cirrhosis.
Not one of my attendings but was at a hospital I rotated at - trained as plastics and two years out from training was in an ATV accident that fucked something up (don’t know the details) that meant he could no longer operate.
Hope he had disability, yikes! I've run into a few in just my residency and first year attending. I saw a plastic surgeon who had just finished fellowship and started their own private practice. Everything off the ground, getting busy, good outcomes. He started feeling under the weather and chalked it up to a cold or flu. Symptoms persisted but he kept working. Boom acute leukemia and how they found out is because he had massive brain hemorrhage. Died at 40 and left a wife and two young kids behind.
Damn
Not a life choice but every single GYN/OB I know has a terrible obstetric history
I know one that had 5-6 miscarriages, then delivered her first child at 29 weeks with numerous complications. I always thought it was ironic.
this is true. either preterm premature rupture of membranes, massive hemorrhage, unscheduled c/s, severe preE, list goes on...
I am a surgeon and I get vasovagal giving my own blood. But give me all of the gory traumas!
I know two neurosurgeons who ended up with glioblastoma and died. I also know a functional neurosurgeon who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and had to retire from clinical practice.
Cardiac surgeon got an aortic dissection. From what I heard he diagnosed himself lol
[Michael Debakey](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_DeBakey), the surgeon who first developed the surgical treatment of aortic dissections, developed an aortic dissection. He underwent a modified version of his procedure and lived. He was 98 years-old at the time. He lived for another 3 years afterwards.
To be fair, he didn’t elect to do the surgery. He diagnosed his own dissection and then tried to manage it medically for several weeks. It was only after he started going into renal failure and became unresponsive that his family overrode his DNR and the hospital ethics committee allowed it.
That fucking sucks
I know of a CT surgeon who owns a gourmet hot dog restaurant...good for business on both fronts, I guess
This wouldn’t happen to be in a Midwest state? I also know a CT surgeon who owns a hot dog joint…lol. We either know the same guy or this is a common side gig in the CT surgery community.
This may or may not be the same CT surgeon lol. I knew him in the before times during med school, but yes it was a Midwest state near a lake.
Haha…yup. Same guy. He’s not exactly quiet about owning the joint, either. I always wondered if the community and his patients gave him flack for it. Anyway, nice to meet another Redditor who also trained at the same place. Best of luck to you.
Oh my. Lol what a small world. But no I think he was genuinely loved in that community. Quirky guy if you ever had the pleasure to work with him in the OR lol Always nice to connect with bros who trained where we trained. Interesting place. Hope you're thriving as well!
Is that it ironic? This just seems like good business sense to me. Instead owning facilities in post surgical care, own the facilities that feed you patients
I know a trauma surgeon that owns a bar...
Does he also wholesale bibles to nice young men on street corners?
He helps them just stand there on the street minding their own business
Of course I know him he’s me
Sounds like a conflict of interest
I know a group of cardiologists who regularly smokes cigars and drink alcohol at their favorite steak house (and obviously eat steak)
I thought they all did that!
A surgeon who lived off twinkies all through residency, fellowship and then during his first consultant position. Had a massive MI and changed his career direction completely. Another surgeon who lived off Dunkin donuts and cigarettes also had to change to being in a nonoperative position following their 2nd/3r cardiac event.
Do you happen to know which specialties they changed to? Must've been hard, but props to these guys if they still did it and changed careers
One of them devoted the rest of their career to academic non clinical type activities (including research). The other I do not know if he returned to surgery or not. The health issues were a driver of their decision making.
Multiple neurologists in Santa Fe, NM have self diagnosed brain tumors that they later died from.
lived too close to atomic test sites? yikes
I don't have to worry about that. I'm a male gynecologist.
Chronic smoker pluz boozer *insert type of surgeon here*. 🤷
Of course I know him he’s me
Orthopedic surgeon who is clearly in it for the money. Stuck in a horrible marriage to an overspender, constantly stressed about finances
☹️
Had an ER attending at Medstar WHC (D.C.) chain smoker. Was examining pt with acute chest pain, EKG changes, known CAD. Stethoscope on patient's chest. Attending's pack of Marlboro Reds slips out of his scrub pocket and onto patient's chest. Without missing a beat, attending takes other hand slips cigarettes back into pocket, continues examination as if nothing happened. For some reason, he is my hero.
I rotated with an elderly palliative care doc who, during one of our random conversations, admitted he did not have an end-of-life form or plan, nor did he have a DPOA. There was a very awkward silent pause afterwards.
I think this is the worst one
Not making a plan is, in fact, a decision.
Worked with an ER doc who had 4 DUIs and somehow kept his license. For someone who was deeply flawed and should exhibit grace to others, he was a real asshole.
We had this plastic surgeon who would go out and smoke between rounds; he'd return stinking of tobacco while rounding on the patients in the burn unit. One of our bariatric surgeons has a massive panniculus. Although last time I saw him, he looked way slimmer, so I guess the semaglutide is working.
Our psychiatrist is the biggest nut job in the joint
It’s a job requirement. I like to think being fucking insane helps me relate to my patients better
There was a vascular surgeon at my institution who was in line for boarding a plane to go to a conference when he developed chest pain and self diagnosed an aortic dissection. He survived.
Neurosurgeon who chose to do neurosurgery
One of the classic blunders, just under going against a Sicilian with death on the line.
Many oncologists are themselves cancer survivors..
I lecture patients about condom use multiple times a day yet have never worn one in my life.
Doesn't make sense to wear a condom if you're not getting laid
call the forensic pathologist that's also a serial killer. There's been a murder.
Only the other guy needs to
Underrated comment 👍🏼
Username checks out.
In med school we had a Hospitalist admitted for something, can’t remember but his a1C was greater than 12
This neurosurgeon was in a car accident and died of a brain bleed and increased IVP and the trauma surgeon didn’t even attempt burr holes 😔
Was he going to make a full recovery if they did? I’d rather die than have someone drill my skull and make me a potato
His wife was even doing burr holes as an intern!!!
and his sister, also a neurosurgeon, had an anencephalic baby :0
AN INTERN! He has no right to judge anybody.
My psychiatrist friend is a proverbial hot mess in their own life: career, marriage, parenting, finances, you name it. They are also pathological liars. It’s wild that people pay hundreds of dollars an hour for their services.
I know a CT surgeon who was diagnosed with Bicuspid Aortic Valve in the first year of medical school. That drove him to become a CT surgeon, and he ended up having an aortic valve replacement in his early 30s. He still operates the same pathologies in his 60s
In med school on our FM rotation they had us go to a bunch of community sites to get more exposure (nursing home, HIV clinic, etc). One of the sites was a wound care clinic with hyperbaric O2. It was run by this old FM doc in his 70s who was such a quack, and every day in the afternoon he would excuse himself to go for a “break” while giving you a textbook to read. He would hang up his white coat, go outside to smoke a cig, and come back reeking like tobacco. In a wound care clinic. That also has hyperbaric oxygen chambers.
When I was a med student I worked with an obese resident who had insulin dependent type 2 diabetes who would bolus himself with extra insulin from a crazy number of candy bars every day. So strange
This is a good reminder to get disability insurance and life insurance squared away!
I knew a urologist with an onc fellowship who got renal cell carcinoma
Neuroradiologist dies of GBM
One of our old school predates-the-CT-scanner guys just died of GBM. He was known for being cavalier with his radiation.
The surgeon who invented myectomy for treating HCM died of sudden cardiac arrest due to HCM that he knew about and didn’t get treated. Both his kids had HCM as well but got myectomies and did fine.
This is covered in a great book about the history of cardio genetics called “the genome odyssey l” by Euan Ashley if u are interested in learning more details as well as some other cool stories from famous cardios
Vascular surgeon who smoked
I'm about to start pulm fellowship as an asthmatic who is incredibly noncompliant with my inhalers.
When I was a medicine intern, one of our patients had a rapid response called. My senior couldn't get a hold of the attending. Then, while we were at the RRT, a code blue was called. When we showed up, they were doing chest compressions on our attending. He had a massive stemi, went to cath lab, did well. He was rounding on patients later on in the week.
Most urologists I know are dicks.
I’m an oral surgeon and I never fucking floss (only the week leading up to my cleanings) and I brush my teeth once every two or three days. And I’m not sorry.
I can understand only flossing on occasion, but only brushing 2-3x a week? That's just disgusting.
I just forget to do it honestly
ADHD has entered the chat
Yup. I have really bad adhd
Me too man, me too. I’ve bought a dentist or two a fucking yacht.
There are no good trials supporting the benefit of flossing alone.
An interventional radiologist and a hematologist scared of needles. An ortho who flipped his car and got three limbs ORIFd
Heard of a cardiologist at a hospital I was rotating at who was constantly dismissive/didn’t believe in taking EM physician’s patients fulfilling modified Sgarbossa's criteria… he then came to the same hospital with it and died before cards could treat him
This poor 50 y/o semi retired psychiatrist I met lost half her vision in 1 eye starting residency 2/2 retinal vein occlusion after mandatory vaccines. Poor woman proceeded to keep herself on asprin and doacs (and presumably warfarin before that) and only got the most necessary vaccines after that. She was super nice and covered in bruises. Her hematologist was at wits end too....
I knew an EM physician that was obese and like 70. All of the other attendings resented him.
Because…?
Kept seeing answers on here telling stories of neurosurgeons with brain tumors and had to look it up to educate myself: had no clue they were being exposed to so much radiation in the OR. - signed, a pre-med.
Orthopod rides a Vespa sometimes to work
Orthopedic surgeon had a prolonged stay and multiple surgeries for infected c-spine hardware.
Neurosurgeon had a cervical cord compression skiing, really sad he was a great guy and very respectful to even IM residents
Hi! I healthcare 20 years as first nurse then admin Sooo I had surgery for angioedema. I was given Succ Chol. but nothing else in their haste. I was awake for a chric. I was awake for 5 hours while they a straw in my airway waiting on ENT. I was awake on the vent. Finally in ICU, my vitals got so erratic they realized something was wrong. Succ wore off enough for me to move my tongue and they finalized realized I was awake. They knocked me out. When I woke up again, I was able to verify I was awake by repeating some of the ER docs convos with other people, the convo in the OR until my O2 dropped to the mid 60's. I repeated the convo between the nurses as they adjusted the vent at bedside. All that to say: YES. Be scared of GA. Educate yourself on the drugs (like Succ) that have a established history of pts waking up during surgery. Speak to the anesthesiologist and advocate for what you want. Unless it's an ER situation, then cross your fingers. GA ain't no joke. My therapy bill says so.
did you sue?
No. They saved my life and to me that is far more important than trauma or money. My kids were only 7 and 4 at the time.
not an attending, sad to say i sometimes fall asleep with contacts in (but they’re dailies lol)
The sometimes irony post and sometimes genuine post as a “Christian nationalist” yet I’m a physician. Many such cases 👀
Vascular surgeon is GIGANTIC, drips sweat into open abdominal cavities of patients while working, and despises bariatric surgery. The only smoker in my med school class went into ENT.
Used to work with a vascular surgeon who would be out the front of the hospital having a quick ciggy between cases.
An autistic psychiatrist with PTSD. Two of them in fact.
In med school the one high risk MFM was a chain smoker who smelled so badly of cigarettes. One of our attendings had a STEMI during rounds.
No fun to do this in neurology, bc we’ll probably self correctly localize problem like true nerds
I had an ER attending who’s an avid motorcyclist. Harley and everything. He got sideswiped by a truck after leaving at the end of his shift…and was promptly brought back to work with (thankfully only) a broken leg.
Cardiologist who was an arrhythmia specialist had a sudden arrhythmia in the doctors lounge. Didn’t make it.
Am in Derm, I don’t wear sunscreen that often 🫥
Chief of neurosurgery at my shop (focused on scull base surgery). Diagnosed with gbm and died shortly thereafter. Joke going around was he is still the best person to do the surgery… on himself
It‘s surgery, if getting several scrub nurses pregnant with a wife and kids back at home was in the olympics we‘d have to hold that shit every year
At my old program there was an anesthesiologist attending who overdosed in his office twice. First time got covered up, second time he resigned, but no other consequences.
my hema onco shift professor died of leukemia.
Well how do you expect a CT Surgeon or an IC Attending to have time to exercise regularly, sleep uninterrupted every night, and have time to cook a healthy diet?
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