Pole Doctress, MD 🍉
@PoleDoctress
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Pole dancing/aerialist heme/onc fellow. Semi anon. Chronically single. Francophile. I rant about medicine, life, leftist politics, and dating.
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There is a nursing shortage because everyone has covid. There is a blood shortage. There is an IV potassium shortage. We keep talking about how the hospital system is at the brink of collapse, but girlies, it is already collapsing
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I'm honestly confused as to why an ice cream date is a problem (and I'm 32)
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@coolnameliz1
Yeah honestly a green flag. Sounds like he's a bit more chill and she's looking for someone who's going to wine and dine her. I think he dodged a bullet
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I remember a white man in my masters program prior to med school telling me that it's hardest for his demographic to get into med school...
A reminder that I was one of 2 Black people who graduated in my med school class of 260.
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This MD was a scam. I worked hard in college so I could work hard in my masters so I could work hard in med school so I could work hard in residency so I could work hard in fellowship so I could work hard until retirement???
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I told my attending that a pts temperature was 102.7F and she was like "what's that in Celsius?"
Me: *stares blankly in American*
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Just thinking about how my new gyno asked me if I've considered getting my tubes removed since I don't want kids
Me. A 30 year old nulliparous single woman. Given this as a reasonable option. Needless to say, I love my new gyn
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Most doctors are boring because training/expectations becomes all consuming that they lose the parts of them that make them interesting
What’s your unpopular medical opinion that would land you in this position?
Drop it in this thread
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Me dissociating when a patient starts to tell me a long irrelevant story
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@screamingmd
But honestly if ice cream and a walk ate going well, it can always be extended into another activity. If it's going poorly than it's easy to end it early
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A reminder that I once taught math to budding LAPD police cadets and they were the dumbest 18 year olds I'd ever met. Was teaching them the same things I was tutoring a 6th grader. Forever will influence my opinion of the police
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I get 4 days off a month, every month. And I am on pager 24hrs a day
Since everyone these days thinks they're a medical professional, please cover my shifts. I'd love a break
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Me, a 3rd year heme/onc fellow, looking at an EKG
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I'm really starting to understand why my mom comes home and just sits in her chair until it's time for bed
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I got into my med school because I emailed the admissions director & asked for an interview. She called me to discuss ways to make myself competitive for the next cycle. I told her I already had acceptances but wanted to go there. She gave me the interview and then the acceptance
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Is Omicron milder or are you just vaccinated, thus proving the point of the vaccine?
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My friend kicked one of her bridesmaids out of her wedding because she refused to get vaccinated. Her wedding requires mandatory vaccination to attend. So much respect.
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I've lost 23ish lbs and my friend asked if I "feel better" now that I'm a normal bmi
The answer is no. I felt fine before and I feel the same now. My activity level hasn't changed. Being thinner is purely cosmetic 🤷🏾♀️
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When applying to residency, I specifically only applied to geographical locations where I was less likely to experience racism from patients
If something like this has never crossed your mind, you have more to learn when it comes to
#BlackMedTwitter
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Had a pt refuse remdesivir and request fenofibrate for covid. Glad to be in the know for the next hot medication that does nothing for covid but gets popularized anyway
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Applied to a private practice job in Manhattan just for interview experience, and now they want to fly me out so I can interview in person
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I matched my
#7
choice for residency. I was devastated. I hadnt even imagined a future at that program. Plus, the match triggered the end of my last relationship. I was still complaining even once residency started. And you know what? I never grew to love it.
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This girl is officially becoming an oncologist!!!!!
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I have a date? And he's cute? And leftist? And has a career?
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My attending called my cell phone to say he left his good pen in the workroom. He wanted me to hide it to make sure no one took it 😂😂
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Moonlighting is so crazy. I'm spending my weekend in the hospital, but I'm reading for fun and watching Netflix like 75% of that time. Making $2500.
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I swear I'm going to fight
Guys. Physicians mostly are making $200k+ a year. Most physicians will be in the to 5-10% of earners in the US. You will be wealthy as a physician.
I literally don't care about your opinion or what expensive city you live in. You are objectively rich
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Normalize doctors not reading medical-related novels. Your whole life shouldn't be medicine. Read some murder mysteries and romance novels.
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By the time I graduate fellowship I'll have spent 18% of my life in residency/fellowship and I'll never see a 7 figure salary ever
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I'm a fellow and you can shove that "well in my day" right up your ass, respectfully.
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The # 1 person in my med school class didnt match ophtho and SOAPed into ENT. The system is broken. You not matching is not a reflection of how good you are
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Pt has severe mucositis after chemo. I tell the primary team to put her on a PCA. They are shocked
Pt has sickle cell crisis. I tell the team to ask him what works for his pain. They are shocked.
Guys. This shit hurts. Why have them suffer?
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I truly do not understand why so many people are salty that there are maybe like 6 Black people in every med school class
Inserting identity politics and disregarding academic merit in medical school applications is a dangerous trend that is destroying the integrity of our institutions.
Today, I am proud to introduce my bill, the EDUCATE Act, which bans DEI initiatives from medical schools across
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Moonlighting shifts pay like $1500 a shift (on avg, pre-tax). But like I could do 1 or 2 shifts a month and literally change my financial situation
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My sister is very anemic from fibroid bleeding, so I told her she should get a blood transfusion that would buy her time until iron infusions could be set up (and a surgery). Now why are my sister and mom fighting me (the hematologist) about if it's necessary?!?
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Oh no. I have way too many new followers. Guys, I will disappoint you if you're looking for medical tweets. I will 100% tweet about leftist politics, dating, and literally anything that comes to my mind. You have been warned
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Hip fracture. Ortho requested to admit to medicine for blood sugar control.
Me: 🙄 how high are his sugars?
Them: 580. Hgba1c ">16.4"
Me: lol. Ok. We'll admit
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People should not have to reveal their stories of abuse or near death for you to care about body autonomy
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I just admitted a professional Santa to the covid unit
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Why buying FIGS doesn't make sense:
- you can't wear them in the OR. So their use is very limited
- med students and residents are poor so why spend $100 for scrubs when you can get them for free?
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Ok guys I do actually know how to calculate the conversion. This is Twitter. We are here for jokes 😅
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Co-resident: are you going to go home for Christmas?
Me: NO BITCH! Isn't that what we've been telling everyone not to do?!?!?
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@sunelfkali
Yeah it's clear they aren't compatible if this was going to be a problem, but oof
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Me trying to figure out what diagnosis exactly King George is supposed to have in this show
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This isn't to say that you can't be sad or don't complain about falling down your rank list. By all means DO!
This is to say that in the end, it is what you make of it. And you'll still get to be a doctor in that field if that's what you want
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There's an attending who is single, no kids, moonlights a bunch, and essentially makes the salary of 2 people. People wonder what he does with all of his money
The dream.
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Obesity is an FDA-approved indication for ozempic. So is a BMI >/=27 + a comorbidity. Diabetics are not the only ones clinically indicated for it. We need to stop this narrative. Blame production problems on the company not the users
"These Ozempic prescriptions are being given out like candy by these diet centers and, even by some physicians, to people.."
@uche_blackstock
on the accessibility of the diabetes drug many are using for weight-loss
#KatiePhangShow
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I'm really over here trying to be fashionable while every other resident wears fi*s scrubs
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6 months ruined an entire generation because you had to stay home?!?!
Well for a year healthcare professionals constantly had to put their life and mental health at risk taking care of covid pts but ok.
Why don’t more people talk about what the Covid lockdowns did to young people like me?
At 15 years old, I was involuntarily isolated from my friends for SIX MONTHS. I didn’t see them, I didn’t meet them.
The lockdowns RUINED young people like me. An entire Generation.
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Me: you're iron deficient
Pt: that's so weird because I'm always cold but I love eating ice
Me: yeah exactly
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Imagine. She walks in and introduces herself as the oncologist
#naturalhair
In full afro today and my patients all loved it 😊😊😊
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Starting to go on dates with men who are out of 10+ year relationships/marriages and this is so ideal. All the good guys that were taken are becoming available again lol
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I matched at my 7th choice residency and my 2nd choice fellowship and while I can't say I loved every second of it, I'm about to start a faculty position that 4th year med student me could've never dreamed I'd get
No matter how today goes for you, good things are coming!
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My residency's wellness chief was just diagnosed with depression I case you're wondering what IM residency is like
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Remember when we used to get applause for working on the frontline of the pandemic and now we just have burnout and PTSD
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Why is Mt St Helens horny tweeting????
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I can't believe I look like this and y'all let me be SINGLE ???
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No one has ever said Christians can't be doctors. What they probably said was bigots shouldn't be doctors
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Hot take: Bridgerton wasn't that good, you're just horny.
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My mom drove 2 hours to sing a socially distanced happy birthday to me and I'm not crying, you're crying 😭
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Being in STEM should require that you still take liberal arts classes because some of you are boring af
Which of your STEM education related opinions would get you in this position?
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That moment when you walk into an exam room with a Black patient and you feel a shift in the air >>>>
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The minute you realize you can get away with wearing leggings as business casual, the rest of your life begins
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A pts daughter is reporting me for telling the pt their new cancer diagnosis
Apparently, she told the primary team that she didn't want the diagnosis told to the patient, but no one shared that with the onc team 🙃
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One of my patients is nearing comfort care and has stopped speaking except for when he saw JLo on the TV he said "JLo"
AAO x jlo
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Oh and when I started my fellowship, I was the only Black doctor in the entire department 🙃
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Since I'm feeling myself today, here's more of my face 🤓
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I [eventually] stopped complaining because I couldn't change anything. I made the most of it and then matched my
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My mentor voluntold me to present during a case-off at a conference. Of course I said yes and was planning to just do the work for exposure per usual. Turns out, they are paying for my hotel, paying me a $1500 honorarium, and $25/person who registers for the conference w/ my name
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I wouldn't order metoprolol IV for a patient in sinus tachycardia so the nurses went behind my back and called the nocturnist (who knows nothing about the pt and does not get signout on them) and she put it in for them 🙃
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Ugh I hate when male patients try to be flirty. It's so uncomfortable.
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So I matched my 7th choice residency. On match day I was devastated. During orientation I was bitter. I stopped complaining (mostly), but never was happy about where I ended up
I matched at my 2nd choice for fellowship, at a top program and things do work out in the end
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During my overnight admitting shift, I got ortho to admit their own patient instead of medicine
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I truly cannot believe how mad people are about this. Kudos to all those women who clearly worked hard for their spots. And fuck you to all the ppl blaming "wokeness" and calling them "diversity" hires
Stanford’s 2023 surgical team:
92% women (US: 50% women)
69% nonwhite (US: 38% nonwhite)
0% white men (US: 30% white men)
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I just paid $800 to renew my medical license that I need to continue being a doctor and it expires every 2 years...
A SCAM.
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How to succeed as an intern:
1. Know your patients! That means getting a signout on your patients before you start a rotation. It means knowing what's happening and WHY it's happening. As you progress through the year, know basics about all the patients on the team (1/?)
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The residents all went on their annual retreat (where they essentially drink and party for 3 days) and now people are "feeling a little sick" and are testing positive for covid
Like???? Duh! We can't be surprised when none of them got tested before the retreat 🤦🏾♀️
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What if I, a 32 year old physician, buy these??? 👀
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Does this guy want to go on a date with me, or does he want a doctor's appointment
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I can't believe that I ignored my own self care to work on the frontlines of a pandemic only for people to literally refuse to end it
I hate how my body has changed after being drafted in this war. I don't think I will ever forgive those who refused to take this seriously
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Woman patient: sorry, I didn't shave my legs
Me: me neither 🤷🏾♀️
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I'm in the global pandemic. I'm in the World War III. I'm in the combination global pandemic and WWIII.
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Aaaand I'm covid positive 🙃🙃🙃
Being a doctor, following quarantine, wearing masks... you are still at risk
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Briefly breaking anonymity because I just survived my first interview of the season!
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I love that my mom still gives me, the only doctor in the family, medical advice
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@JWLevitt
The fact that you're calling these students "terrorist supporters" shows that you are also not the sharpest tool in the shed
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Research is so dumb
I just got an email that said I'm listed as a co-author on a submitted paper I know nothing about because the heme/onc department likes to help us pad our resumes. It's all a made up game 🙄🙃
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This cannot be the same attention span that used to study for the MCAT from 9am-9pm
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@RiderToast
Ok so I know this family. 7 kids. 5/6 of them went to med school (one isn't old enough yet) and of those 5, 4 of them went to Jefferson (where Wills Eye is and where their parents are both world renowned ophthalmologist). Nepotism has never worked so hard
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Just found out that like 1/3 of the nurses on the bone marrow transplant unit aren't vaccinated (despite the institution mandate) and are actively pursuing "religious exemption"
I think they should all be fired because f**k them! Our patients literally have no immune system
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While internal medicine isn't a sexy field to go into, we know so much about all of adult medicine and it's so underrated. Easily some of the smartest people in the hospital
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Confused as to why someone felt the need to dox me because they didn't believe that I was 1 of 2 Black people who graduated in my med school class. I fucking swear people on this app are the worst
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Good morning. Just thinking about how good I looked for my first night in Mexico City
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To clarify, I've wanted to pursue oncology since I started med school and have zero regrets. Doesn't mean this schedule is killer and the work is hard
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@jeanettington
After years of paying to apply/interview, someone wants to pay to meet me?!?!
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