5 thing to survive residency

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hi guys welcome back to my channel thank
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you so much for tuning in today's videos
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about the five most essential items for
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surviving residency this is a video that
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I put together after years of trial and
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error starting with dental school
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medical school and in a couple years of
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residency I've come down with a very
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small slip of things that if you invest
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in them will make your day-to-day life
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so much easier and some of them are
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really affordable on just a couple of
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dollars and some of them are a little
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bit more expensive and require a little
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bit of an investment but I will tell you
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go through all of them and tell you why
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I think they are so so helpful and by
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the way none of this is sponsored
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everything in this video I bought with
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my own money and so none of its
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sponsored just recommendations from
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day-to-day living in the hospital
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basically and things that I've really
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really just made my day to day easy and
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so let's get started my number one item
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is my handy dandy Apple watch I know
Apple Watch
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that this is a little bit of an
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investment you guys so this is
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definitely something that you have to
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think about if you don't already own an
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Apple watch this is a huge help in the
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hospital I actually didn't have one
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until my first year of residency and I
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wish I had one sooner but I wanted to
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wait until they had cellular
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capabilities I knew that was coming very
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soon and that was really important for
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me because the reason why this is so
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helpful is because having my phone on me
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all the time in the hospital is really
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impractical a lot of times I'm running
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around I just have scrubs on and I want
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to leave my phone securely behind in the
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residence room locked up somewhere and I
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don't have I don't want my phone on me
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especially during rounds it just gets
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really distracting and you want to be
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professional you don't want to keep
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pulling out your phone and so the Apple
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watch is a great solution because I'll
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still get text messages on my watch
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especially with cellular service and
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then I'm able to check emails and get to
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things really quickly and I can kind of
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check and see if anything is important
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and then I can go back to my phone and
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do what I need to do and you can respond
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on the Apple watch and so a lot of times
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I have these like preset phrases like
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I'll call you back I'm working you know
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when my mom calls me like three times in
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a row and I don't want her to worry
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because I don't have my phone on me and
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I can't answer so I'll just shoot her a
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quick message saying hey I'm at the
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hospital I'm working with a patient call
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you back in a little bit and so it's
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super super helpful and made my life so
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much easier and also like tracks your
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movement and so it's also kept me really
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nice and fit because I share my movement
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with a lot of my friends who are also in
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the hospital and so what kind of like
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compete with each other and figure out
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who's completed their rings and a lot of
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times like I'll take the stairs instead
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of the elevator because I want to
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complete my rings when I'm competing
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with some of my other co residents and
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so it's a ton of fun lots of different
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features you can get lots of different
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apps you can actually pay with the UM
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Apple watch and so it's saved my life so
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many times where I haven't didn't have
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my credit card or my phone on me and
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then quickly pay with my watch if you
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have that set up and so it's really
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handy it is a little bit of investment I
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think the cheapest Apple Series five
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that you can get that has cellular
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capabilities is about $4.99 I do have
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the most basic one it's worked great for
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me so far I got the regular sports band
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this is just an alternative band that
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I'm a link below I like all the products
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that I use below that I just change
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because I think this one looks a little
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bit more professional I like the way
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this one looks but it is cheaper I
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didn't get it from Apple because the one
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that Apple has was like way too
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expensive and so I will link everything
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below but I really think it's a great
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regular investment you do also have to
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pay monthly for the cellular service
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through your cellular company so I pay
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through my own company I think it's
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about ten dollars a month so it is a
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long-term investment you guys but I
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think it's totally worth it and if
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anyone's looking for a graduation
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present this is definitely one of the
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things that you should ask for or if
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you're getting cash definitely save your
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money and get an Apple watch will make
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your life so much easier okay so that's
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my number one item is the Apple watch my
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second favorite survival item is this
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handy-dandy batch older I have looked a
#2 Retractable Badge Holder
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ton for bag holders and this is one of
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my favorites I will link it below I
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found it on Amazon and it's absolutely
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the best because it carries a ton you
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guys I don't know if your programs like
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mine and you cover a lot of different
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hospitals but we have IDs for like five
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different hospitals and I have to carry
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them all with me because sometimes I
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need call to another hospital and I
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don't want my bad just to be home and so
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I have them all on this chain and so
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many of my other chains that I've gotten
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for like free or bought on Amazon or
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really little would break all the time I
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would pull because in our Hospital a lot
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of the doors are secure and you need
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your badge in order to open it and so
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I'll have this on my hung on my scrubs
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and then I'll pull and open the door
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next thing you know it this doesn't
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retract and it breaks in an instant and
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so I invested in this guy which actually
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like it tells you like it holds up to I
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don't know like 10 pounds or something
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something crazy you maybe thought not 10
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pounds that sounds like a lot but it
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holds a lot I even have a like a pretty
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heavy key on here and it's never really
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lost its retracted bility and it's
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really really great and I just stick it
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right on my scrubs and it goes on your
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professional pants as well if you are in
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clinic and you just click it right here
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and you can see when it's on here I just
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pull open the door and pull right back
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pull open the door pull right back it's
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super sturdy and I think this one's cute
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it's got like it's metallic and it's got
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a little bit of like a crocodile print
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on it so they do have some other ones
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like a black one but I think this is
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super super special trust me you guys
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you're gonna want to invest in one of
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these for your badges makes it super
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easy to get around the hospital so that
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is my second item that you should
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definitely invest in again I'll link
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everything below the third item that you
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definitely should've bet invest in is a
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pack of pen lights okay you don't need
Pen Lights
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to be surgery resident I'm an oral
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maxillofacial surgery so this is
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extremely important for me because I
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always have to look in the mouth and
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things are dark and I just tell patients
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open up so I can see inside your mouth
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and I definitely need a pen light on me
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but you don't have to be a surgery
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resident to need these pen lights you
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guys we always have to examine patients
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and if you've been in the hospital on
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the floor you know that the wards it's
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super super dark in there and sometimes
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you have to do pre-round on patients at
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like 5:30 or 6:00 in the morning and
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they're sleeping and the worst thing you
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could do is walk in the room and turn on
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that big light just to see something on
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their skin or check on their JP drain or
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something like that and so if you have a
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penlight you can you don't have to
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bother everyone in the room especially
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if they're sharing the ramp you can just
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turn this on look at what you need to
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look at without bothering the patient
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too much and just minimizing things and
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then getting to place it
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we're the big lights can't get to and
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doing a really thorough exam you have to
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have these pen lights and I just
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invested in like a pack of like 10
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because these do get lost people borrow
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them or they fall and they break or they
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you know something happens to that so I
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invested in a big pack right from the
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beginning and I just like tape I pull
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one in my backpack put one my scrubs put
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one of my pants and literally I have
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them everywhere and these are extremely
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extremely helpful and they are extremely
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affordable I will link that below but
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definitely invest in some pen lights
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that is the way to go the other item
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that you absolutely should invest in is
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this handy dandy little stethoscope
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holder this was a lifesaver when I was
Stethoscope Holder
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on medicine rotation because you always
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had to have this on you when I was on
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anesthesia rotation and now that I'm on
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general surgery you know you always have
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to carry your stethoscope with you and
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honestly putting their stethoscope a lot
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of doctors will just put it on around
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their neck and I hated doing that
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because when I pulled it off to see
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patients it got stuck in my hair would
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pull my hair was super painful and
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honestly after a while it gets super
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heavy and I started getting some neck
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pain so I wanted an alternative solution
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and this guy I found my Amazon there's a
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ton of different options there's these
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like plastic ones but I thought this one
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actually looks really professional and I
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love the way it looks and it fits right
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next to my badge and so you put this guy
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on you can stick it on your scrubs or
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even goes nicely on your your slacks as
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well and so you put this on and you open
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it up like this and then you can
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basically twist your stethoscope into it
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and you just close it right up and then
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you have it handy dandy with you at all
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time so you can see how it is it sits on
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your pants it's super comfortable it
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doesn't hurt your neck and when you need
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it all you have to do you can do it
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one-handed because sometimes you need to
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be one-handed it's like this hand is
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gloved you don't like pull your
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stethoscope really quickly so you can
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see I could pull it out with one hand I
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don't need to hand and then you can just
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easily put it right back in and close it
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and I think it looks nice and
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professional it does come in a bunch of
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other colors so I will link it below I
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think this is a really really great
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investment and you can just put it on
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your scrubs or put it on your pants and
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have your stethoscope with you at all
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times without how
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to hang it on your neck or put it in
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your white coat pocket and so this was a
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great great investment in a really good
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solution last but not least you guys
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this might be something that's kind of
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funny but uh trust me when I tell you
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this was the one of the most essential
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investments for me and it was socks yes
Socks
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this sounds funny but this was always my
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limiting factor when I was a resident I
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changed my socks so many times
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throughout the day you're wearing socks
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all day long and so my limiting factor
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to doing laundry was always socks I had
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plenty of scrubs had plenty of
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undergarment and the only time that I
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absolutely needed to do laundry was when
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I ran out of socks and so the best thing
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that I did was invest in like a pack of
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like fifty but I'm not even joking I
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just got tons and tons of socks or like
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all-black so that I don't have to ever
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worry about you know what it looks like
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and I just got tons and tons and tons
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and tons of socks and trust me when
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you're a resident last thing you want to
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do on your one day off is laundry you
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want to do laundry absolutely the last
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possible moment that you need to and so
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having a ton of socks just extends that
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time and has made my life so much easier
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and I put extra pair of socks in my bag
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at work because there's so many times
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where I've gotten like fluids on my
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thoughts I know it's so gross so
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disgusting and the last thing I want to
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do is walk around the hospital with wet
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socks and so I just take them off and I
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have so many pairs and these are these
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were totally affordable I will link a
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bunch of different socks that I've tried
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out but I'll take them off either toss
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them or wash them or whatever but the
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limiting factor to me doing laundry was
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always socks and so that was one of the
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biggest investments that I did when I
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was a resident so that's a you guys
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those are my five most essential items
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we'll go through them again one your
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Apple watch is a huge huge huge huge
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huge life saver and a really great
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investment to was getting your badge
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holder that I absolutely love and always
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have on me and super easy to carry
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number three was getting all of the
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different pens and having these pen
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lights that really helps um save you
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from having to turn
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the lights and trying to look into
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people's mouths so look behind their
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ears or look on you know different parts
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and then four was definitely the
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stethoscope holder which I absolutely
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absolutely love and last but not least
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investing in a lot of socks so that's it
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