My perfect Philly day would be being able to buy a house at a reasonable price.

News flash, nobody cares anymore. Not the trash man, not the mayor, not the cops and certainly not the teenagers that will beat the piss out of you for a few bucks.

Yeah, you need a new photo every 4 years. I don’t think you’ll need any additional documents besides the camera card, since they have it on file.

It’s like socialism for the admin sector of health care, both at hospitals like Penn but also insurance companies, pharma, etc. I don’t have the figures to hand but the size of the admin sector at most medical centers has grown tremendously compared to clinicians of any level.

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I’ve had really good luck with the folks in our neighborhood. The wind can obviously be a huge problem but they people who do our collections almost always pick up stuff if it falls out, are the friendliest people ever, they love talking to our son who thinks they’re the coolest, and are generally great. Obviously there’s tons of different routes but they’re probably one of the most underpaid and overworked groups in the city. We should pull all the cops who are soft striking and not doing jack and use them in sanitation.

And at penn it’s even lower. Hospitalists at penn start at the mid $140s. After 10+ years post residency they can expect to be in the $200s.

Lol this is coming from Mr. Rittenhouse. I graduate this year with 300k+ in debt (only from med school). Will get paid ~60k working 80+ hours and most of that will go to my loans. I'm just hoping the match algorithm allows me to stay in my $750 a month apartment that floods with a hole in the ceiling that I felt lucky to have for med school given my financial situation. Yes, as an attending I'll finally get paid a good wage nowhere near 700k (200k if I'm lucky) and most of that money will be going to those loans for a while.

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Thats why its called a residency lol. You are expected to live there.

Yikes.

How much are you making now?

Yep, my dad said he basically lived at the hospital when he did his residency back in the 70s. Talking 120hr weeks

It's probably a tiny bit more than that (I would estimate low 200s), which is good money, but people often forget the INSANE amounts of debt we take on for med school. I'm finishing up my third year and 200k in the hole, and I'm one of the lucky ones because I don't have undergrad debt. Some of my classmates are on track to hit $500k in debt by graduation :(

Absolutely laughable how divorced from reality this is.

Also, future earning potential is not an excuse for working conditions that are unsafe for residents (and their patients).

Honestly, if the weather is going to be windy I just hide the recycling with the trash in a black trash bag. It is ridiculous. They pick up the trash in my neighborhood around 8am and don't return for the recycling until about 6pm or later. As you can imagine, it blows everywhere.

It's so much more convenient not to recycle. If I had any hope that my recyclables would be recycled, I'd recycle them. But I don't think that's happening, so I don't stress over it and I just enjoy the ease of putting everything in big contractor bags the morning of.

Amazingly, my lid lasted 2.5 years before getting destroyed after they flung it into the street. (Or maybe they flung it onto the sidewalk and the wind then blew it into the street...same outcome). And that was after being run over twice.

Never thought of zip-tying it to the bin like people mentioned. I'll try that if I ever get my hands on another lid...

Damn that's rough

Thank you! My coparent and I are thinking the same approach. Also thanks for the DM offer, I might take you up on that. Have a great weekend!

That is patently untrue lmao. There are some surgical specialists (cardiac, neurosurgery, plastics) who make 700+, but not many. 300-450k is more in range for general surgery, and these are people who have been through 5 years of grueling residency and usually have $250-500k in student loan debt to pay off. Surgery is not as sweet a deal as it seems to the general public, in fact it's widely regarded in medicine as a specialty for insane people.

I think it was: birth certificate, old/current license, proof of residence like utility bill, and social security card.

Our recycling truck comes after dark some days. These guys are working crazy long shifts, they must be understaffed to death

I’m talking about the findings of the FIRST study with surgical residents our of Northwestern as well as findings in Canadian ICU residents.

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2016/02/longer-shifts-surgical-residents-safe

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150209122838.htm

And yet they keep building shiny new buildings. Its almost as if they are profiting off the sick and dying.

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