A radiology resident and urology resident discuss their lives, residency, and how to find wellness in a system designed for anything but that.

Mandatory Wellness Session

Episode Notes
Anoop and Sameer talk about Family Matters, a rom-com set in a Ukrainian village, and hierarchy in medicine
Breaking Down the Hierarchy of Medicine
Literature about anesthesiology hierarchy

Anoop and Sameer talk about Family Matters, a rom-com set in a Ukrainian village, and hierarchy in medicine

Episode 21: Professional Idiots

Episode Notes
Anoop and Sameer celebrate recording twenty episodes by self-indulgently riffing for an hour
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Anoop and Sameer celebrate recording twenty episodes by self-indulgently riffing for an hour

Episode 20: Oops All Bits!

Episode Notes
Anoop and Sameer discuss their lack of dermatology knowledge, a visit to a family friend, and the book Grit by Angela Duckworth and the ways it does and doesn’t apply to medical training. 
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Grit Scale
Ira Glass quote and comic by Zen Pencils
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Anoop and Sameer discuss their lack of dermatology knowledge, a visit to a family friend, and the book Grit by Angela Duckworth and the ways it does and doesn’t apply to medical training.

Episode 19: Vigil Auntie

Episode Notes
Anoop and Sameer try to quantify responses to a benign question, discuss Anoop’s time working in the Covid ICU, and describe the burden of feeling like things won’t get better. It gets…a little bleak.
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Anoop and Sameer try to quantify responses to a benign question, discuss Anoop’s time working in the Covid ICU, and describe the burden of feeling like things won’t get better. It gets…a little bleak.

Episode 18: You Can Always Add Another Pressor

Episode Notes
Recorded 3/17/21
Anoop and Sameer talk about WandaVision for approximately seven seconds and then discuss The Match and SOAP along with the long-lasting effects they can have on wellness
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/19/health/medical-school-residency-doctors.html
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Anoop and Sameer talk about WandaVision for approximately seven seconds and then discuss The Match and SOAP along with the long-lasting effects they can have on wellness

Episode 17: A Very Good Torture Device

Episode Notes
Recorded 1/9/21
Anoop and Sameer talk about a series of things, amphitheaters, pimping, and the Socratic method.
The Art of Pimping by Brancati (1989)
Direct link: https://pdfhost.io/v/Qe1BxO3tl_brancati1989pdf.pdf
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/377862
Pimping: a tradition of gendered disempowerment by Chen and Priest (2019)
https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral...

Anoop and Sameer talk about a series of things, amphitheaters, pimping, and the Socratic method.

Episode 16: The Innominate Episode

Episode Notes
Recorded 12/12/20
Anoop and Sameer discuss the most unexpected twist in Harry Potter, sublimation plus the importance of hobbies, and this podcast. A lot of discussion about this podcast.
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Anoop and Sameer discuss the most unexpected twist in Harry Potter, sublimation plus the importance of hobbies, and this podcast. A lot of discussion about this podcast.

Episode 15: You Happy Pretzel

Episode Notes
Recorded 11/22/20
Anoop and Sameer chat about interviews, Scantrons, and AP exams for some reason before a discussion about denial, repression, and suppression
The NYT article about unstructured job interviews: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/opinion/sunday/the-utter-uselessness-of-job-interviews.html
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Anoop and Sameer chat about interviews, Scantrons, and AP exams for some reason before a discussion about denial, repression, and suppression

Episode 14: Gas Station University

Episode Notes
Recorded 12/19/20
Several hospitals in the news for not including residents in the first wave of vaccinations:
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/12/18/948176807/stanford-apologizes-after-vaccine-allocation-leaves-out-nearly-all-medical-resid
https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/health-med-fit/uw-hospital-doctors-in-training-complain-about-lack-of-covid-19-va...

Anoop and Sameer go out of order to publish a VERY timely episode as a discussion about "one good thing" becomes very topical.

Episode 13: Lamp-Based Probation

Episode Notes
Recorded 10/25/20
Anoop and Sameer chat about Halloween and Thanksgiving (timely as always) along with a discussion about splitting
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