When I was a child I used to eat the red wax cover on babybel cheese. I thought it made it “artisanal” until one day my friend showed me how to peel it off and I was so greatful I didn’t have to eat the wax part. Anyways they somehow let me into med school
“I know it’s Valentine’s Day that’s why you’re gonna be here in clinic to remind people that if they don’t use protection tonight they’ll have a Scorpio” -OBGYN resident
IM taught me habits that ended up being really important
1. Whenever you check calcium immediately after check albumin, just make it a habit to check them at the same time.
2. ALWAYS compare labs to patient baseline
3. Read the previous note, but verify info w/pt
“Ya know in greys anatomy, the doctors are really super attractive, kinda makes you wonder why they thought that was reality” - my patient this morning
I want to reiterate that if you don’t want to teach medical students don’t ask us to scrub in. It’s a waste of everyone’s times. I won’t waste your time and you won’t waste mine. It’s a good trade off
Incredibly proud and excited to be joining the Family Medicine program at University of Illinois COM-Peoria! Can't wait to see where the next three years take me!
@aafp
How does one bring up the conversation of having severe financial debt to their significant other?
“Hey baby sit down I need to talk to you. Remember when I told you I’ve got a rough past? Well I spent over a quarter mil to learn about Interleukins and I can’t do basic math.”
I see alot of med students say “im a future ____” and at this point the only thing I can say for certain is
“I’m a future psych inpatient admit” at the rate my mental health is going.
Tell me why the hospital staff literally pressured me to put ash on my forehead even though I literally told them I don’t celebrate??? Like save it for the actual Catholics
Its annoying how people both in AND out of medicine are always like "but yeah you're gonna make a bunch of money as an attending", like okay??? But I'm broke now and being a grown adult who can't do many activities with his friends because he's broke sucks alot.
Y’all would rather force birthing bodies through the physical and emotional trauma of delivering an anencephalic baby that WILL die rather than just let people choose for themselves??? Please grow some fucking sense.
Unpopular opinion: people with anencephaly ought to be born & loved for as long as possible. They deserve palliative care, not murder in the womb. Abortion is not euthanasia.
Small slightly emotional rant, I love medical school. Like I LOVE it. For the first time in my life everyday feels like its such a challenge and it gives the most amazing feeling of accomplishment. But the entire medical training system BEATS the ever loving life out of students.
She’s right. we as physicians have been forced into this culture of publishing an insane amount of sub-par not useful research. Many of us are not physician-scientists and thus should not be trying to publish the garbage we do.
If all the MDs up and decide they want to do research, who is going to practice medicine?
I guess all the PhDs. We can learn to diagnose, intubate, and prescribe in a month, right? Like y’all do a month long research rotation and be ready to publish “groundbreaking” research.
Want to know what SOAP is like? Imagine doing Match at 1000X times speed and you're left second guessing everything about yourself because you have no idea why nobody wanted you and you have interviews starting tomorrow and you have to somehow fix yourself then.
Getting medical students to do all the data collection with the fleeting promise of third authorship on a paper is how people put up 150 pubs in that short of time.
3. Find medical students interested in research! Specially for clinical projects that require a lot of data collection!
That can help expose the medical students to research and help increase your productivity. Remember, most institutions are affiliated with medical schools.
It’s my final day of OBGYN and my resident gave me 4 hugs and told me I was incredibly special and she hasn’t had a student of my caliber in a long time. Then told me to keep sending her cat memes and visiting her.
🥺
Have a peds onc patient who is in patient and we spent an hour watching tik tok on my phone and talking, only to have her ask me if the reason I have so much time to spend with her is because I don’t have a girlfriend. 🥲
I have decided I will annoy all of the ENT department until they give my patient the tonsillectomy she clearly needs but they’re refusing over arbitrary reasoning. They do not realize I have nothing to live for, subsequently making me their most dangerous enemy
Now that I've gotten through SOAP I want to say thank you to all of you that reached out to me in DMs or wrote encouraging things under my posts. I'm sorry for not responding to everyone but I promise I read each one repeatedly because it kept me sane through this process.
CPap vs BiPap is something I always struggle with. We use both so much and its easy to mix up. Here is a V easy and short guide to get a few basics of both. This is NOT a comprehensive piece about airway mgmt.
How are physicians who work for these insurance companies looking at these prior auths and able to say, "yeah I know you have cancer but I don't really feel like giving you the best way to treat it, get bent". Did you lose your soul that much in training to become like this?
Some of us want to do medicine without having the need to put long hours into doing work we do not care about in some shitty predatory journal just to put it on an ERAS app. Stop making residencies have this stupid barrier. Research publication in no way makes you a better cand.
The research arms race for U.S. medical students
The average *unmatched* applicant in 2020 had more abstracts, presentations, and publications than the average *matched* applicant did in 2009.
(Data from
@TheNRMP
Charting Outcomes in the Match)
There's something so incredibly sexy about turning 29, graduated med school, clear skin, great hair, working out consistently, better mental health. Love this all for me
I genuinely feel like the more I learn. the more I don’t know and I don’t think I’m smart enough to be in medicine. How do people just seem to always know the right thing to do?
If your partner uses menstrual products you should ask them their brand and type preference and stock your own bathroom with a box of it. Also keep a box of pads in your bathroom anyways in case someone else needs it.
Most med students I know are afraid to ask for basic necessities let alone ask a hospital executive to change policies. We are free labor to be abused by hospital systems so let’s not put the onus on us to change shitty policies.
Medical students, if the executives running your non-profit hospitals are paid millions while you learn in environments in which you're forced to deny people care based on their insurance/wealth status, you collectively possess power to do something about that contradiction.
One last time for all my fellow Match friends
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I just got the first of what will be many medical bills, and I just want to say a few things because I am just all together too tired anymore for this
1. Fuck this entire system for finding ways to torture patients with outrageous bills so some CEO can have his second bonus.
Offered to teach my niece simple interrupted sutures doing an instrument tie and she grabbed a kitchen knife and asked me how I was going to create a wound on myself for her to practice on??????? IS SHE NUTS??!?!?!!
Match does not determine if I'm a good or bad doctor. Match does not determine if I'm a good or bad doctor. Match does not determine if I'm a good or bad doctor. Match does not determine if I'm a good or bad doctor. Match does not determine if I'm a good or bad doctor.
I didn’t get yelled at, berated, abused and I learned by working directly with the attending and seeing patients on my own in pediatrics and I got home by 5??? Is this real???
Little kid kept asking me about the UWorld questions on my phone because she seems to think they’re a game. So I’m letting her answer them with me. She correctly guessed three answers in a row and I stg I actually got so jealous I almost told her to go away 😂
There’s another student here who is talking about how they like to read certain journals regularly to keep up to date with the latest in Oncology, meanwhile I follow certain cats on Instagram to keep up to date with their lives 😂
One of my patients from two weeks ago said "hey, remember me I'm your patient" in the elevator and I was so shook that someone remembered the idiot 3rd year who saw them in clinic!! 🥺🥺🥺
I feel fucking embarrassed the attending had to actually tell me to leave this case and go rest. How could I not manage to get through all these cases.
Today I heard a grown ass attending talk about how there’s a new brand of fentanyl that if you touch it you die and I’m now certain that there are many attendings getting their medical info from Fox News.
4. Check previous admissions it can save you alot of time
5. Hospital BPs/Glucose values are always higher than normal, don't chase it too much
6. READ THE RADIOLOGY REPORT, don't just skip down to Interp
7. People copy & paste notes, if you must don't do it for HPI or A&P
The women of Medtwitter are like genius IG models who do all these amazing things and meanwhile I can barely string three sentences together without giving myself a headache.