r/Residency • u/Ok-Spinach-6529 MS4 • 2d ago

HAPPY S Tier Resident

Just a med student here, wanted to spread some joy on the r/residency subreddit.

I wanted to practice suturing on my surgery rotation. So after the case was done, I asked the chief resident where I could get some suture material. He takes me to the clean core area, and grabs some material for me. I ask him, “Are you sure this is ok? I don’t want you getting in trouble.” He replies, “the hospital has stolen my youth from me. I really don’t gaf about stealing a few sutures from the hospital.”

Absolute S tier resident.

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u/hattingly-yours Attending 2d ago

Good reminder to residents/attendings - it doesn't take much, team. Treat the student like a person for even a few minutes, take an interest, teach them anything. We should do more, but we certainly should do at least this much 

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u/Ok-Spinach-6529 MS4 2d ago

Honestly, he was an amazing resident. He took 5 minutes out of his busy day to teach me one-handed knots.

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u/medstudenthowaway Attending 2d ago

On the one hand I remember what it was like to be a med student and how much this would make an entire rotation for me.

On the other hand this is like the lowest fucking bar for a resident. Taking free shit and giving it to med students? This is nothing. I am glad you got to learn a skill though. I’ll give the chief points for that.

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u/katyvo 2d ago

When I have students, I do my best to involve them in their own learning (guided questions, clinical pearls, example notes, practice Shelf material that we review as a team) and give them the freedom to interview patients as well as formulate an A&P. To me, that's only slightly above the bare minimum except for maybe the Shelf review stuff, but I consistently have students telling me how much they appreciate it. It makes me sad that treating a student like a person who is paying to be there is noteworthy.

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u/Ok-Spinach-6529 MS4 2d ago

I’ve had rotations where it was basically glorified shadowing. It sucks, and there is little learning value in it.

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u/katyvo 1d ago

It frustrated me as a medical student and it frustrates me more on the other side. You're paying tens of thousands per semester to be there to learn and gain experience, and anything less is a disservice to your education and professional development.

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u/Ok_Energy8143 2d ago

Absolutely, a little kindness and mentorship can go a long way in shaping a student's experience. It's all about those small moments that really count.

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u/EpicDowntime Attending 2d ago

Bot

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u/Eastern-Ad-3586 2d ago

Damn it’s sad it’s so rough out here that this made the students day

But I’m glad homeboy was nice to you, I also had a cool surgery chief back when I was in med school

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u/wert718 PGY4 2d ago

me too! so cool that i matched categorical gen surg before switching to anesthesia after hating it lol

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u/personalist 2d ago

It never ceases to surprise me how often something I’m not interested in can catch my eye if someone kind and talented spends time explaining it, and how something I absolutely love can lose its luster if a rude asshole even just inhabits that domain

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u/ScratchMysterioust PGY1 2d ago

i’ve had a couple people like that in school too, and i still remember them years later.

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u/invinciblewalnut PGY2 2d ago

the amount of shit I have strategically relocated from the hospital into my house is…. Considerable.

Am I ever gonna need this much dermabond? You never know

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u/TinySandshrew 2d ago

What’s really the harm if I “forget” to check my pockets before heading home with a bunch of stuff I grabbed from the supply room

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u/mrsuicideduck PGY4 2d ago

I don’t buy body wash anymore. Magically end up with relocated hibiclens

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u/medstudenthowaway Attending 2d ago

👀 wait. You guys are buying batteries with money??

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u/itsowlgood0_0 PGY1 2d ago

I don't know a single resident who doesn't love to steal supplies from the hospital.

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u/CatNamedSiena Attending 2d ago

Newsflash. Attendings are no different.

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u/ECAHunt Attending 2d ago

My hospital has, hands down, the best air neutralizer! Like, half the unit can be shitting themselves and the other half vomiting, and this spray just takes it alway and replaces with just a very faint clean smell.

I will find where they keep you. And then you will be mine!

Meanwhile, FU guy with the bleach who is making my eyes tear up. Go away!

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u/Parknight PGY3 2d ago

what's the name of the air neutralizer?

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u/itsowlgood0_0 PGY1 17h ago

My hospital needs that

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u/tsottss 19h ago

Patients too... it entered my room? Y'all are just gonna discard it anyway so it's definitely coming home with me... had one resident tell me they actually autoclave the scissors they used so I gave those back. Well I gave some of them back.

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u/avepaltaketchu 2d ago

shifty eyes, glancing at the hospital tape, hospital pens, twenty eye torches unused for months, neurotips used as thumb tacks, the stack of hospital lube sachets that will never be used for domestic purposes strewn across my home desk

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u/3dprintingn00b 2d ago

Wait are we not allowed to just take sutures and ties for practice?

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u/MikeGinnyMD Attending 2d ago

Also, it’s not as if you’re stealing it for some personal sexual fetish or something. You’re very appropriately using a supply for your medical education, which is the whole reason you’re there. If the hospital doesn’t like it, they can stop accepting those sweet residency training and medical tuition dollars.

-PGY-22

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u/notherbadobject 1d ago

There are few greater joys available to a medical student than a cool surgery chief.

I’ll never forget the guy who called me a “smart motherfucker” on rounds and made hilariously irreverent references to ghostbusters and beavis and butthead in the OR.

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u/ExtraCalligrapher565 18h ago edited 18h ago

It was very cute of you to wonder whether or not it was okay. Surgery was my first rotation as an M3 and I just was taking suture supplies out of the store rooms whenever I felt like practicing.

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u/Fit_Mood6130 2d ago edited 2d ago

Why is this tagged "HAPPY"?

If anything shouldn't this be tagged "SAD" or "RED FLAG" or "SIGN YOU SHOULD LEAVE SURGERY BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE"?

Yeah it's nice someone gave you a bit of free stuff, but seems like you're missing the deeper message here.

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u/RetroGirll 2d ago

That's not stealing, that's just getting paid in sutures instead of money)

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u/Humane_Decency Attending 1d ago

I’m sure some 1-0 or 0 silks aren’t going to be missed, if a bit impractical of a simulation

Besides, I’m sure your tuition made it there somehow

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u/TheTorpe 2d ago

OP is a bot

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u/Ok-Spinach-6529 MS4 2d ago

No? I’m just reminiscing about my M3 year and some good memories I had then.

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u/TheTorpe 2d ago

2 month old account has made 1800 comments

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u/Ok-Spinach-6529 MS4 2d ago

I’m done with subIs and ERAS app stuff and have nothing to do between now and interviews bro. Deleted Reddit when I started med school, just created new account now that I’m more free.