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Intern 1: [Intern friend] had a really hard time in the ER.

Intern 2: Really? Why? It was such a good rotation for us.

Intern 1: He was just coming out of internal medicine.

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“In the end, there’s a lot of decisions you often have to make before getting the radiologist’s report, might as well know what I’m looking at.”

Intern with no interest in radiology after being asked why they are choosing a radiology elective.

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“It’s nice knowing that someone else too doesn’t have any clue of what to do after they finish.”

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“I wouldn’t do internal medicine out of love for internal medicine. I would allow myself to sacrifice some years of my life to it in order to get a sub [specialty], though.”

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Intern 1: Hey, does anyone have any good sources to study up on [subject]?

Intern 2: I’ll share my sources when you unblock me on Instagram.

Intern 3: Finally, after 6 years, this group chat is getting interesting.

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“Dude, there’s a lot of incest in your year.”

When there’s more than 5 couples in a ~130 student class.

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*In the CT room*

Medical Technologist: *handing out lead apron* Careful, it’s heavy.

Intern: Last week I was on orthopedic surgery, I think I can hadle it.

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“The only places where you really need to worry about antibiotic penetration is the 7 Sanctuaries: central nervous system, eyes, bone, joints, prostate, testicle and abscesses.”

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“If you wouldn’t hesitate about giving antibiotics to a pneumonia, don’t either when giving insulin to hyperglycemia.”

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Doctor: Tell us about something that made you happy today.

Intern: Well, there’s this new paper from the New England…

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“How is it that everyone comes to work without pens? I should get you all fired.”

Nurse who forgot her pen at home.

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Today I greeted an ER resident as if he was a Radiology staff (he is starting his mandatory radiology rotation).

Used the formal form of “you” and everything.

The worst part is that I have been in ER shifts with him.

Earth, swallow me whole.

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“If you open that closet, you’ll probably find my pandemic sleeping bag, alongside toads, snakes and forgotten covid variants.”

The forgotten hospital closet.

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“Vancomycin is a bad antibiotic, get over it.”

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“If you ever prescribe an aminoglycoside, and the patient doesn’t come back complaining because it fucked up their digestion, it’s because they didn’t take it.”

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“An infectious disease specialist without beta-lactams, is like a cardiologist without beta blockers.”

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“If you have to prescribe imipenem, do it. But with good reason, otherwise you’ll summon an infectious disease doctor that’ll slap you in your sleep.”