Qaali Hussein, MD
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Trauma Surgeon | Wife/Mom of 6 | Speaker 🇸🇴 Somali | #BlackLivesMatter | #FreePalestine | Join Defiance Academy
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FAQ about hijab in the OR: How do you wear it when scrubbing in for a case?
1. Make sure it’s laundered fresh daily.
2. Tuck in all loose ends under scrub top.
3. You can wear a cloth cap or skull cap on top to keep it secure.
4. Secure face mask and eye protection on top.
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Y’all, they took away the kids’ March for Palestine on Roblox game…
My daughter just told me that all the marches are gone…because they were reported for hate speech and antisemitism
How is this even a thing?
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Tell him I’d like a word….
Today the male Path PA on my elective (after me sharing my interest in surg) said that while he believes WOMEN should be encouraged to pursue higher education, it is absolutely IMPOSSIBLE for them to have a ~successful~ marriage/children while pursuing a career like surg.
#tysm
❤️
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New doc comes to the trauma bay, sees me standing where the surgeon usually stands and asks “Hey, where’s the surgeon? Did you call him yet?”
Me: you should call him...let’s see what he says 😏
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Today is not a good day. Had to leave work early because I wasn’t feeling well. It’s because I have
#COVID19
(yes, even after vaccination). So does my husband. And my kids are not feeling well. I have faith in the almighty that he will take care of me and my family.
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Tell em not only do you want kids, you want ALL the kids and will be able do ALL the badass surgeries
I hate when I tell people I want to be a trauma surgeon and the first question they ask is if I plan on having kids. Yes I do. Thanks for asking.
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I don’t think I can ever advise another premed or med student without letting them know that they can get a whole ass medical degree and STILL not become a doctor. No one should take on this pursuit and all the debt without knowing this reality.
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Overheard in the OR across the blue drape….
Anesthesia attending: go take a break
Anesthes resident: I’m ok
Attending: pulls up a
@DGlaucomflecken
video to teach him to never turn down a break
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The piercing cry of a mother who lost a child is something I can never get used to. No matter how many times I see it, this part of the job never gets easier.
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I once operated on a patient who was ill b/c he was bleeding to death and no one else would treat him. He fired me the next day because of my “head scarf thing...don’t like them kind of people.” Surprisingly, that moment solidified my duty to save lives, even in the face of hate.
I went to help an elderly lady who had fallen. And when she saw me, she pulled her hand back & told me to go back where I came from. This is the story of racism in America. People would rather suffer in their own toxicity than to receive help from people who look like me.
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@LexustheToffee
I saw another post of a kid who was suspended for saying free Palestine 🇵🇸
Wild!
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I got pregnant my 1st year of surgery residency. I’m told you already have Muslim and Black going against you, what were you thinking getting pregnant?
#BlackintheIvory
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Congratulations to all who matched.
To those who didn’t, I’m so very sorry. This ridiculous system says nothing about you, your work ethic, or your worth. No one who’s come this far in medicine deserves to go without a job, especially when we have physician shortages.
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When there’s no electricity to hospitals, people die
This child is not able to breathe on his own & requires a ventilator. Without it, he will die
This HCW is his ventilator. She’s keeping him alive. If she stops, he will die
This is what the medical community deems acceptable
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I’m being accused of preferentially empowering women and recruiting them to surgery...
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I have a feeling we’ll need to compile all the ways medicine justified a genocide
So I’m gonna start a thread & we can add onto it as people become more comfortable publishing their pro-genocide academic papers:
#1
-
@JAMA_current
in which the bombing of hospitals is justified
Viewpoint: do health care professionals have any responsibilities to speak out about the conflict in the Middle East?
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Dr. Ameera Elasouli is the hero you see running to save a child snipped by cowardly Israeli soldiers in front of a hospital
She has more courage than all world leaders combined
May Allah protect her and the people of Palestine
And may Allah give us an ounce of her courage
Proud to have been one of the students of Dr Ameera Elasouli in medical school. She’s the kindest and the bravest. Kudos to her and all other HCW in Palestine ❤️🇵🇸
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Combative patient in the trauma bay: “And YOU! When I was in Iraq, I killed people like YOU! A lot of ‘em.”
I just…
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It’s interesting how robustly we defend the professionalism attack on bikinis and alcohol but not the other issues.
Having an opinion on controversial issues such as racism,
#BLM
, religion, gun control, abortion is apparently unprofessional too.
Why isn’t
#MedRacism
trending?
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To all aspiring surgeons:
In the OR today, we had three attendings (2W, 1M) {We had an interesting case and we love to hang out in OR even if not operating}
Between the three of us, we have 16 kids. They each have five and I have six. We’re not unicorns.
It’s doable.
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What’s your most awkward experience with
#discrimination
at work?
Mine...
Patient: You know Doc, the Bible is the one and only true scripture there is. All others are just nonsense.
Me: Sir, let me get my finger out of your bottom and we can discuss religion.
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“YOU’RE here.” He says. “I figured why make her uncomfortable.” Proud of him for also breaking with outdated hierarchy BS
Diversity in medicine improves patient care.
It’s not a gimmick.
It’s not just for public statements.
And it’s not performative.
#RepresentationMatters
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We have negative ICU beds.
That means ICU patients NOT in the ICU!!!
Overflowing to other parts of the hospital but running out of staff.
#WearAMask
😷
#WearADamnMask
😷
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I’ll cut open a chest, cross-clamp an aorta, and perform open cardiac massage.
But I will 👏🏾 not 👏🏾 poke 👏🏾 an eyeball 👏🏾
Nope!
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A word of caution ⚠️
If you disagree with my stance on
#Palestine
, please feel free to unfollow/mute/block.
However, do not come into my DMs to make you feel better about your apolitical, “both sides” stance.
I’m not here for your comfort.
#FreePalestine
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I asked my 12 y/o daughter to transcribe some audio. She’s learning how to type and I need the content. I offered $15/hr because she negotiated that was minimum wage.
She did her research and comes back w/ $50-60 market price for audio transcribers
“I’m being scammed!” she says
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As this moment in history redefines the world, we must redefine medicine & what it means to take an oath to serve humanity
Major Western medical institutions & journals have shown us that colonialism & white supremacy are so persistent in medicine that they will justify genocide
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As difficult as it is breaking bad news to families that their loved one has died, it’s even more heartbreaking when there is no one to tell that a life has passed.
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“Dr. Hussein, our transfer is here. She’s Muslim and is wearing a hijab. I got the history but sense that she won’t be comfortable if I examine her. Do you mind doing her exam?” -resident
We go and talk to the patient and family together.
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Me: Hi, I’m Dr. Hussein with trauma. How are you doing today?
Patient: You mean like Saddam? I hope you’re not related
I go back & forth between educating folks and ignoring/moving past the ignorance
Today, I’m reminding myself that other people’s ignorance is not my priority
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“Take my heart and bring him back. Take my heart doc and give it to him.” 😢
Breaking bad news to families is the hardest part of this job.
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A day in the life of a Muslim woman surgeon…
Operate ✅
Faith ✅
Family ✅
I’m not sure why there’s insistence on the idea that all these aspects of life are mutually exclusive but they’re not.
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Recruiting people to a hostile workplace that was never designed for them, then gaslighting them & dismissing them for reporting is actually more detrimental and contributes to racial trauma/burnout.
Unless you can acknowledge and fix the culture, please stop recruiting people!
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Hit a new surgery attending milestone in the OR today. Asked a med student if he knew the artist of an early 90s hip hop song.
He didn’t. The song was Regulators by Warren G and Nate Dogg
***He wasn’t even born when the song came out
Officially
#GeriatricMillennial
👵🏾
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Why are people so triggered by confident Black women?
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@anummdmph
I couldn’t agree more. Their bravery in rescuing families out from under the rubble, giving the shirts off their back to help a sister cover up, singing to comfort a sister who was stuck and scared and this…absolutely heroic. May they be reward for all their efforts
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The stories of Black surgery residents from across the country are eerily identical.
The systemic targeting, bullying, limiting opportunities in OR, then criticism for not being good in OR, gradually pushing out.
It’s like a script and these programs follow it to the T.
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It’s a blessing to be able to filter out awful neighbors just by being, but it never ceases to amaze me how big of an influence hate and bigotry have on people’s decisions.
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We’re in our 3rd neighborhood where multiple homes go “on sale” all of a sudden. There’s an open house a couple of doors down this weekend. Several cars made a quick U-turn away from it as the kids and I walked out of our house to go to the park.
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#ToxicMedicine
I got a call from one of our NPs that a neurosurgeon was berating him and the icu nurses about why his postop patient was in the icu. He brought one to tears and was yelling at the charge as well. So I called.
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The saddest event tracking board I’ve ever seen in an ICU
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But I have no faith in our healthcare system to do right by me or my family. My biggest fear is if I were to get really sick, who would advocate for my family? Who would call out the inappropriate care they would undoubtedly receive because of
#RacismInMedicine
? May Allah help us
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About three years ago, attending a women’s empowerment conference made me swear off of going to anymore women’s empowerment conferences…a 🧵
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#MedTwitter
#MedEd
To all students and trainees, please do the exact opposite of this.
Having a family, caring for your family, wanting to see your family will not make you less of a physician. And it certainly says nothing about your dedication. Go home and see your family.
I have had students and residents that want to get out as soon as possible to see their family and others that are willing to spend an extra few to spin the urine or walk down to the ER to see the patient with the sodium of 103.
I know which ones I would want to care for me.
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Nsg (no livid): I’M CALLING THE DIRECTOR AND CMO TO TALK ABOUT THIS!!!!!
Me: Great! Let me know what they say.
Nsg: ~click~
Toxicity doesn’t end, even when you become an attending because this bad behavior is never checked. We just have to learn to check it ourselves.
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A curious resident came to the OR to watch my case this morning. As a guest in an unfamiliar place, he felt it was OK to yell at our OR staff because they warned him about contaminating the sterile field.
Instantaneous feedback was given.
Don’t be this resident.
#MedTwitter
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Israeli pediatricians co-signed the bombing of hospitals
And then they bombed a children’s hospital
And the entire medical community, w/the exception of a few select HCWs, remains silent and complicit
We will remember your role in this genocide
#MedTwitter
Dozens of Israeli doctors told the Israeli army that it must bomb Gaza's hospitals, stating that "the residents of Gaza" have "brought their annihilation upon themselves" for allowing hospitals to become "terrorist nests."
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Gotta love physician lounges filled with physicians watching Fox News and devastated by the “economic cost of these riots” and not bothered by the underlying cause of
#PoliceBrutality
and the murders of unarmed Black people.
#SystemicRacism
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Mom’s classification of mango eaters:
American born | OG mango eaters
⬇️ ⬇️
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#MedTwitter
,
Can you say this with me?
#Racism
disproportionately affects Black people.
#PoliceBrutality
disproportionately affects Black people.
#RacismIsAPublicHealthCrisis
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What actions are we going to take to deal with
#racism
and
#AntiBlackRacism
in medicine?
We need:
Accountability
Transparency
Protection from retaliation
@Surgeon4aCure
@pringlmillermd
@uche_blackstock
@DissanaikeMD
@ACSTrauma
@bulgercot
@DrFNA
@DrCSWilliam
@LashNolen
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5 exploratory laparotomies back to back for gunshot wounds to the abdomen , one of which had an inferior vena cava injury I repaired... while 8 months pregnant.
Tell him to shut it!
Yesterday, a doctor urged me NOT to become a surgeon. He prefers to refer to male surgeons, who don’t take mat leave & told me that as a woman I shouldn't expect complex cases.
Yes, our system is gendered & broken, which is EXACTLY why I want to become a surgeon. Happy
#IWD
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Medical students & residents are finding it difficult to speaking up on
#Palestine
for fear of retaliation. Some have shared w/ me that supervising physicians are openly sharing their birth right trips & their support for Israel. How is this a safe space for learning?
#MedTwitter
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I am a physician and I call for a
#FreePalaestine
and an end to the Israeli state's apartheid. This is integral to both my moral world view and my scholarship.
#MedTwitter
#GazaUnderAttack
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@Sportsfounder
Yup. They were all excited about the virtual protests and now they’re all gone
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We’re at the stage of genocide where entire families are massacred, leaving children with no one to care for them
It’s so common in Gaza that it has its own acronym
WCNSF
Wounded Child No Surviving Family
And the medical community, who vowed to “Do No Harm”
Says Nothing
Children are being admitted to hospitals in Gaza who have lost all of their relatives in the bombing. This happens commonly enough to get abbreviated to ‘WCNSF’; wounded child with no surviving family.
#Pediatrics
#MedTwitter
#NurseTwitter
#emergency
#humanity
#CeasefireNOW
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Subhanallah😢
Shame on every surgeon & surgical org for supporting this genocide / remaining silent/complicit
Shame on
@AmCollSurgeons
@SAGES_Updates
@SCCM
& every org who supported this genocide
Our colleagues are experiencing hell on earth & you chose politics over your oath
A surgeon in Gaza had to do an amputation surgery for his OWN child without anesthesia
Then he watched his child die from all the pain. 💔
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They say worse things in private.
Surgeons love to uphold the myth of meritocracy and make it difficult for those historically excluded from surgery to succeed despite their hard work.
For a president of a major society to present this is not the least bit surprising.
#STS
If someone had it in them to say this publicly at a conference, i cant imagine what they say indoors.
Academic medical centers are not safe places for Black and Indigenous folks.
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Imagine being a
#Palestinian
med student watching your people getting bombed, or having a family in
#Gaza
or
#SheikhJarrah
& being told to stop advocating for your people because you’re making other people “uncomfortable”?
This is what
#MedEd
is doing right now.
#SavePalestine
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So many pneumothoraces from
#COVID19
in this wave. I don’t remember putting in this many chest tubes in any other wave. Anyone else seeing this?
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I have said this before and I’ll say it again.
If your response, as a physician, to the anger and grief of Black people mourning the reckless murder of
#BreonnaTaylor
and lack of justice is to “keep politics out of medicine,” you’re upholding the oath you took selectively.
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#microaggressions
in surgery be like: being the trauma surgeon on call, doing the ED thoracotomy, stabilizing the pt and going to the OR, patient in ICU recovering the next day, and senior surgeon asks “YOU did the surgery? YOU made the decision?”
Yeah...I did.
#IAmTheSurgeon
In case you wondered, microaggressions be like: being a keynote at a conference, bio in program, introduced with all your credentials, discussing your work in the keynote...but still getting asked by an elder white man how your doctoral program is going. I. Am. A. Professor.
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HCW targeted and killed by Israel as of 11/23/23
Total: 249
-Physicians: 44
-Dentists: 20
-Med/dental students: 22
-Med scientists: 4
-Nurses: 77
-Paramedics: 22
-OT/PT: 9
-Pharm: 30
-Lab techs: 14
-Optometrists: 6
-Admin staff: 1
A 🧵 on some of their stories 👇🏾
#NotATarget
Eyewitness accounts surfacing from Gaza's hospitals are harrowing and disturbing. An entire generation of doctors and health care workers has been targeted in this War on Hospitals.
#NotATarget
. A 🧵
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The toxic culture of surgery...
The story of two attendings. One we’ll call Toxic and the other Nice.
Toxic is your typical surgery bro with a god complex.
Nice is a good surgeon and a patient teacher.
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Telling BIPOC students, residents, fellows to go up the chain of command in reporting abuse and discrimination assumes that they’ll be heard and treated fairly. Reality does not support this assumption.
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Increasing the number of medical students without increasing the number of residency spots seems like a major money making scheme that’s hurting many URiM students.
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The dean of my med school was a Black woman.
Our students were as diverse as they could get (from around the world!)
30% of us scored 99th percentile on Step 1
Why?
Because our dean invested in us (time and resources).
#MedEd
needs stop blaming students for their failures.
My first year of medical school, at a town hall, a Dean was asked “Why do we get below average scores on STEP 1?”
His answer: “because we admit more diverse students”
Imagine how I felt after I got a below avg score on STEP 1.
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The persistent narrative that women need to choose between career and family, which limits the potential of so many women does not have to be so.
Instead of pointing out the impossibility of “having it all,” how can we empower women to identify and stand up for their own values?
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The entire medical community should be appalled by this violation of Medical neutrality and targeted killing of healthcare workers.
@AmCollSurgeons
and
@AmerMedicalAssn
remain hypocritical in their silence on these attacks.
Feb. 8. 2024: This doctor was hit while he was in the operating room in Nasser Medical Complex. The occupation sniper hit him directly and intentionally while the MD was in the middle of his work inside the OR. The sniper hit him directly in the chest and his condition is very
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Realtor: I see commute time is important to you all. What’s your husband’s preference?
Me: His work is mobile. It’s for me.
R: And what do you commute for?
In the year 2020 🙄
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#Gaza
continues to be attacked nightly despite a “ceasefire.”
The healthcare infrastructure, already on the brink of disaster, is decimated. Yet, the world remains silent.
Remember our article on HCW in Solidarity with
#Palestine
in
@sciam
on June 2nd?
#StopCensoringPalestine
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I have no words. I cannot put into words the level of depravity and inhumanity required to torture ill and injured children in a hospital.
And I cannot comprehend the mental gymnastics physicians have to do to ignore or even support this.
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A message from pediatricians calling on
@AmerAcadPeds
to call for a
#CeasefireNOW
Sign the petition here 👇🏾
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Today’s call schedule:
Trauma: Me
Back up: Muslim sister from E. Africa
Neurosurgeon: Muslim sister from E. Africa (who I just met and connected with!)
There’s room in surgery for everyone!
Please stop telling women to not pursue surgery!
#MuslimTwitter
#MedStudentTwitter
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Spent a majority of my call looking for resources (ICU beds, ICU nurses) for trauma patients. Hospitals full and can’t accommodate anything beyond true emergencies. And we’re only at the beginning stage of this nightmare.
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I just found out a medical student I spoke with back in 2018 about pursuing surgery will soon be training to become a surgeon! Another
#hijabisurgeon
in the making, Alhamdullilah!!!
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Heard on morning rounds:
“You’re the Surgeon? Where are you from?”
“Doctor? Hmm 🤔 ok...”
“How long have you been doing this?”
And one pt refusing to make eye contact with me.
Grateful for the constant motivation and reminder to keep doing what I’m doing.
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Dear
#MedTwitter
,
As physicians, we have a vested interest in public health. When we identify issues which directly affect our patients and increase morbidity and mortality, we speak up. We advocate for our patients.
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Found ortho’s documentation room.
Got me thinking about what to call our hideaway…
Gen surg: The Rectal Vault
Trauma: The Damage Control Room
What’s your room called?
#MedTwitter
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Imagine standing up at M&M and claiming that your patient’s death was their own fault.
#DrSusanMoore
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It’s Islamophobia and racism, not “workplace conflicts.”
Businesses can sack Muslim women wearing the hijab headscarf if they work face-to-face with customers or if the wearing of the religious clothing causes workplace conflicts, the EU’s highest court has ruled
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It’s a privilege to be an apolitical physician.
Doctors excel at treating people with disease. That is our calling. Political activism is fine, but it ought be done only as private citizens. I agree with Dr. Satel >
(Kudos to
@Yascha_Mounk
for starting Persuasion)
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Going into the holy month of
#Ramadan
with a heavy heart.
As a mother of Black boys, this is all just too much.
#DuanteWright
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Dr.
@GhassanAbuSitt1
honoring his oath as a physician. May he be blessed immensely for his work to save lives. And may Allah continue to protect him and all the healthcare workers in Gaza.
#CeasefireForGazaNOW
Our sleeping quarters.
I think the sound of newborn babies from the ceasarian sections done in the OR filled the air with the optimism of a new tomorrow.
Laughter heard amongst the staff for the first time in a long while.
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So when we see charts like this one showing Black and Latinx trainees being driven out of surgery and surgical sub specialties, it’s not only because of those who contribute to the toxic culture of surgery. It’s also because of the nice bystanders who say and do nothing.
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Male Med student getting report from EMS as the “attending” on a severely injured patient while I’m standing right next to him...
#MedTwitter
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This post is not meant to imply that vaccines don’t work. I’m glad to have been vaccinated and will get the 2nd dose as soon as I’m able. And my family will get theirs when their turn comes.
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One of the criticisms that’s always annoyed me is the perception that I’m “oppressed” because I wear a hijab. It’s a choice. Whether a woman identifies with Barbie or wants to wear a burqa, it’s
#herchoice
. Thank you
@choo_ek
for the
#BarbieChallenge
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Pt: I’m waiting for the surgeon. I was expecting an elderly gentleman.
Me: You’ve got me today.
Pt: Well I’ll be damned! Ok, doc! How am I doing?
#Time4Change
#ILookLikeASurgeon
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My first and only interview for an academic position: Chairman of surgery threw my CV across the table and told me that I have “accomplished nothing” after 5 yrs of Gen surg, 1 yr critical care fellowship, and six kids, then THREATENED to ruin my career if I didn’t impress him...
The moment when I decided to leave academia was when I finally realized that my self-worth was no longer dependent on being in academia.
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Getting home from call in a hospital filled with
#COVID
patients and haven’t seen my kids for 24 hrs. As I walk through the garage door, one of my sons runs towards me for a hug. I have to recoil and refuse his hug. The sadness in his eyes kills me as he says “I hate corona.”
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Twitter fam,
I was introduced as Hurricane Hussein on a surgery panel today!
What is happening! 🤭 😆
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“We were going to ask you to take off your hijab.”
I was made aware of this idea at the end of my term at one of the institutions I trained in. Timeline ranges from 2004-2015.
This was the conclusion reached after a faculty meeting.
A FACULTY MEETING‼️
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#EidMubarak
to all. Finding it especially difficult to be celebratory this year. Keeping the people of Palestine and all oppressed and persecuted Muslims around the world in my prayers. May Allah protect you all.
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