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Best Medical Resident Stories

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To become a medical resident, you work hard in college, finish the MCATs, slog through medical school and FINALLY get matched into the next step in your journey: your residency or fellowship program which will act as the launching pad for your professional career.

And now that you’ve found yourself as a medical resident or fellow, the real craziness can begin! We wanted to celebrate you first-timers and your grizzled vets. We’ve compiled a list of a few of the best stories to get you laughing. Just hope you don’t end up on our next list.

Reddit user /surgresthrowaway shared this story about ‘co-worker miscommunication’ from his residency a few years ago:

Medical resident Redditor /Nysoz shares a little story about creative delegation from one of the team’s interns:

Medical resident Redditor /ENTdo shares a story about working hard, partying hard….and paying the consequences:

This next bit of advice comes from the Student Doctor Network: don’t put your foot in your mouth:

Some people need to learn to control their thoughts a bit better:

And for those moments when everyone is getting just a little bit….punchy:

And, finally, the way we all felt during med school, residency, fellowship and even those early practicing years:

We provide loans for medical residents in addition to great stories!

If any theme comes through, it’s that medical residency can be a crazy time and we wouldn’t have skipped that experience for anything. But the experience we would skip is racking up tons of credit card debt and hurting our credit scores.

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