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General surgeon flirting with trauma. MSF vet. Misanthrope. ♟ player. Traveler adventurer. Immigrant. Cats&wine. Anxious millennial. I worry a lot. #medtwitter
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In the retroperitoneum
If you were transported to the setting of the book you're currently reading, where would you be?
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Been feeling under the weather the last few days, with a pesky dry cough, so i found some covid tests from last year and swabbed myself.
Well, thank god my nostril swab came back not pregnant.
Hi, im a doctor.
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Patients ARE NOT clients
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Patie
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I'm discharging a Swiss national back to Switzerland and their insurance company sent a medevac plane with Swiss doctors and nurses to pick her up.
Brb, going to find out how one becomes Swiss while softly weeping
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Male surgeon coming to a 24hr shift vs me 🙈 WTF. I almost asked him if his wife kicked him out
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Happy 100th birthday to insulin!
Has there ever been a drug that has saved/lengthened as many lives as insulin??
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My best friend tested positive for covid on Monday and he texts me today asking if i wanna come over and hang out since im vaccinated.
Dude....🤦♀️
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Anesthesia team when the medical student finishes suturing
The entire pharmacy team when you finally write the 1 (one) controlled drug prescription correctly.
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My dad retired on March 1st after 40yrs as a gensurgeon, so i asked him what his last operation was, the closing act of an illustrious career and he said:
"Ingrown toenail on a colleague from IM"
Ladies and gents, the glamourous life of general surgery.
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Due to travel restrictions, the US had organize a domestic coup this year.
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Holy shit, 150 hospital staff in Boston tested positive....WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. 😭
#BostonStrong
#StayAtHome
#COVID19
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Good morning. Thank you all for being so invested in this, i feel i should tell you i did get the right tests in the end, and both are negative 😁👍
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On Jan 1st 2022, WHO is putting out the new edition of ICD, ICD 11, and burnout is officially being recognized by receiving a code. This will be interesting.
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Omg this is hilarious. Disturbing, but hilarious. There's a shortage of masks in Poland. SURGICAL masks. Not N95. Coz people dont know the difference and have been mass purchasing surgical masks🤦🏻♀️
My hosp is now rationing surg masks, 2/staff/day.
We're all gonna die arent we?!
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GUYS, I PASSED MY WRITTEN GENSURG BOARDS TODAY!!! 😭❤
And im going to see my family tomorrow who i haven't seen in almost a year and a half! And my cat Lucy 😭❤
Im so exhausted (and a little drunk), i haven't had the time process this properly, but im so relieved!
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But to think so many med students lack common courtesy is misplaced, it just cant be true. There is something other at play here - theyre terrified and want to remain unseen as theyve been preconditioned to feel like a nuisance.
It is us who need to welcome them.
When you are a medical student and you come into an OR, introduce yourself to the scrub/circulator in the room. I wouldn’t come to your house and watch your tv and eat your food without introducing myself. Common courtesy. Thanks for coming to my TED talk 💁🏼♀️
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The hospital ship is supposed to be for noncovid19 patients. I have a VERY bad feeling about this.
I can see a patient testing negative for covid19 (either false negative or too early in infection to be +), getting on the ship and turning out to be +.
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Well, this is interesting. My dad's a surgeon in Serbia and the Serbian government just gave a 10% salary raise to all healthcare workers because of coronavirus. (obviously, Serbia has a single payer, socialized and government run healthcare)
How do we feel about this? 🤔
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Putin has managed the unimaginable. He has united the entire world. It's quite incredible to watch countries fall in line, seemingly by the hour.
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Im loving the
#MedBikini
trend on the puritanical American
#MedTwitter
right now, and I wanted to post a bikini pic as well, but im European and we only go topless on beaches🤷♀️
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I called the person entering covid swabs into EMR to ask about my patient's result from last night & he literally broke down almost crying,begging that we stop calling coz answering the phone is overwhelming him & hes behind on entering the results,while new ones keep on piling😭
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I cant believe the conversation in the States has shifted overnight to:
"Maybe we can stop social distancing in 2 wks to save the economy, and the old people who dont contribute to economy anyway should just take one for the team."
That's some Nazi level scary shit right there.
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American CDC loosened the guidelines and now if you were exposed to a known covid19 patient you dont need to quarantine yourself for 14 days, you can keep working if you use a mask. And if you dont have a mask, you can use a scarf or a bandana😳🤯
WUT?!?! Is this real?!
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8 days in Iceland, and out of that 3 nights in a row of northern lights. I think my heart's content ☺️
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Welp, done with my briefings and on my way to South Sudan for my 4th mission with MSF😊
Not gonna lie, im terrified.
Another terrifying thing - i have my stethoscope with me.
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This is my one and only surgical mask for the 24hr shift. I already did one operation and have 16hrs left to my shift.
It's already dirty.
#CoronavirusPandemic
#StayAtHome
#GetMePPE
#GetUsPPE
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Few shots from last night. The lights were really strong. My first time seeing them😊
Location: 15mins NW of Reykjavík, Iceland
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All of you men suddenly left without beards, dont you ever comment again on what we look like without makeup
#N95mask
#Covid_19
#CoronaOutbreak
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-became an MD
-started and finished residency
-got board certified in gensurgery
-traveled to 30+ countries, including North Korea
-did 4 missions with MSF (including 1 in active war zone)
-rescued a cat
-bought an apartment
-ran 2 marathons
-learned a language
-became an adult
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Always worth remembering:
Before you age 10 yrs in a single second and your life flashes before your eyes because labs came back with Hgb 4.5, K+ 2, Na+ 60, think a simple a human mistake like collecting blood from a running IV line may have occured.
Off to count my greys...
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*WHOLESOME CONTENT INSTANT MOOD BOOSTER WARNING*
I hung out with a bunch of alpacas after seeing an unstagran ad for it, and it went exactly as youd think.
thread🧵
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*very popular opinion*
Dearest anesthesiologists/anesthetists,
The surgeons decide on the temperature in the OR. Do some jumping jacks, squats, drink more coffee or dress in layers. We can't operate naked.
Love, surgeons everywhere
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Ok, I calmed down a bit after having had a nervous breakdown* last night, washed my hair, styled it myself and I think I can live with this.
*fishing for compliments
Went to the hairdresser, got a major cut. Hate it. There will be no photos of me until 2023.
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This is one of those moments where you dont know who is more proud ❤
I had a similar with my dad, when during one of the summers in medschool i did a clerkship at his hospital and got scrub in with him as his only assistant. Best feeling ever, 15/10 would recommend
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OMG this is part hilarious part cool.
Polish gov came up with a phone app for people under mandatory quarantine. A person in quarantine gets random messages throughout the day requesting you reply back with a selfie🤣 You have 20mins to reply or they send the police to your home
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I dont like this. We need to stop potraying ourselves in a way that makes us look like martyrs. We must stop normalizing painful self-sacrifice for work. My job is not worth it.
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This thread👇
The first thing i learned when i started working with MSF is that heroes have no place in epidemics.
As a HCW you save yourself first, because if you die, so will all those youd otherwise save.
No appropriate PPE? Not going in.
Fuck ideals & Hollywood romanticism.
(Author unknown)
This post is for my healthcare workers, docs, surgeons, Nurses, aids, and ems, but also support staff.
There is no emergency in a pandemic
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Shit, is this why surgical training goes on forever??
Boris Johnson: it is “very, very difficult... to learn with a face mask on."
It would be funny if it wasn’t so serious.
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Ive achieved nothing in my life
Congratulations! Dr.
@JonnyYKim
, former enlisted
#NavySEAL
member, math degree holder
@uofsandiego
, &
@harvardmed
alumnus, for becoming the 1st Korean-American
@NASA
astronaut to embark on assignments to the
@Space_Station
, Artemis missions to the Moon, and potentially Mars!
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Putting on a surgical mask after hours of N95 feels like being shrouded in the finest silk🥰
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Im in the Scottish Highlands and the world is once again a good place
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Recently, someone near and dear to me decided to cut me out of their life, and just before they did so they called me a "hipster-feminist".
Do yourself a favor and dont ever mourn the loss of anyone who uses the term feminist as an insult.
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Will never understand the (misplaced) pride American female drs have for working up until they give birth. Instead of being angry, they're bragging about it. So weird. A grotesque display of Stockholm syn
last shift treating an ER full of covid at 39 1/2 weeks! ✅
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I was asked to take extra calls this month and i said no.
That's it. That was the entire conversation.
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The most surreal moment of my life was at a state dinner in Pyongyang for intl runners, few hours after ive come in LAST in the North Korean marathon and the president of the NK Olympic Committee (or min.of sport) singling me out for having the true Juche spirit for not giving up
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I just found out theres a llama and alpaca farm some 10km from my house and you can book to take them out for an hour walk on a leash.😍😍😍
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My only lasting side effect of covid vaccination is incessantly telling everyone and anyone i got it
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Guys, antivaxxers are abusing the fact some hcws have tested positive days after getting their first shot. Please be mindful about how you announce this. Its needs be explained that 1 dose is NOT protective, and not even 2 doses offer 100% protection.
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My rad friend who is on call with me tonight just sent me this🔥🔥🔥 (i feel i should say this wasnt about my 2 CT requests today😆)
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Omg never leave your contacts case on the tray while you sleep,the flight attendant will think its trash and throw it away😳That was my last pair of monthlies and im -5.0 in both eyes. Ive never been so panicked,they dug through the garbage and recovered it. Major tragedy averted
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Sent to me by
@techpriest
☠️☠️☠️🤣🤣🤣
@Medic_Russell
NHS doctor falls into canal trying to avoid a thoughtless cyclist
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Israel will never have the best vaccination program in the world as long as Palestinians in the Occupied Territories have no or very limited access to vaccines.
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It even says you can cath it with a size 14 Foley.
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Colleague has symptoms but says lat flow was negative. I'm trying to convince him to do a PCR. If even doctors are so clueless, how do we expect the gen public to know when to do a pcr 😖 we are doomed
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@RobJimFleming
I also feel the need to point out that pregnancy is a sexually transmitted parasitic disease...
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@ginorthshore
Because:
a) poking fun. It's a light hearted tweet
b) women are mostly the ones who are stereotyped to be excessive packers
c) he's a friend, i know his wife, his relationship is just fine. Again, this was a joking tweet
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Decided not to go to the departmental Xmas party this evening. The risk is just too high, especially since we've had positive cases among staff in the last few days.
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One way to "encourage" people to take the 3rd dose is to stop calling it a booster and define full vaccination as a 3-dose regiment.
Thatd mean all of the covid certificates issued after 2 doses will become null & void, and people will have to get a 3rd one for a new certificate
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2nd dose done! ✅✅ It's official!
Even got them to record it in my yellow vacc card, which is international, since there's no guarantee the little cards in weird languages will be accepted abroad.
😊💪💉🦠
#COVID19Vaccination
#covidvaccinated
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Merry Xmas from Poland. Just an abandoned stroller snowed in overnight with 2 empty bottles of vodka. Fucking toddlers man
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Resident life:
YEAHHHH, LETS OPERATE ON EVERYTHING THAT MOVES!!!🤩
New attending life:
Well, maybe this ileus will resolve with pharmacologic treatment...lets observe🙄
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When i was an international undergrad student in the US & later a medstudent in Poland, i was always lucky to have local friends whod "adopt me" for the holidays.I was always embarrassed, but always ended up loving it.
Get in touch w students like that if you can.Theyre all alone
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We often forget about behind the scenes people whose quiet jobs make ours possible. They also suffer in all of this. Here's to them🤗
Ps. My patient tested negative😊
#COVID19
#StayAtHomeAndStaySafe
#hcwshoutout
#hcwstaystrong
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Never has the choice in the US presidential election been more clear, more black and white, and never have i had less confidence in the American people to make the right choice.
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Keanu Reeves as a bariatric surgeon: Keanu Sleeves
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Medical mystery: why is internal thoracic artery the only artery resistant to atherosclerosis?Yes,its media releases prostaglandins and heparin-like substances, but WHY and only that one artery?! Why hasn't evolution eqiupped coronary arteries with such a defense mechanism?
WHYYY
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This is my Xmas photo this year. No family, no bf. Just me. A Xmas of one. With the things i love - a xmas tree and red wine. Not a hint of religion😉
Celebrate this year only with those who live with you. Otherwise your next Xmas, and the one after it may be the Xmas of one.
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Who are the people who say frusemide instead of furosemide? Please go away, retire or something
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I really hope this overwhelming support for Ukraine doesn't result in the return of blue power point slides with yellow text
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@Schnillermann
@maxfras
Polish people don't want to leave the EU. Polish people have the highest rate of any other EU member for wanting to stay in the EU, close to 80%. It is the handful of eurosceptic politicians who are loud about leaving the EU that mistakenly makes others believe Poland wants out
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I ripped off a cuticle thats now bleeding, but i cant lick it coz 1)we're in a pandemic, 2)im in the hospital, 3)im wearing 2 masks...And it starts bleeding de novo every time i wash my hands and im just gonna bleed to death from a cuticle. Goodbye
#pandemicproblems
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We just broke 10,000 new cases in a day. Our test positivity rate is close to 20%. Seemingly everyone i know is positive or quarantining for having a close contact. It feels now like just a matter of time before we all get it. Im terrified.
#COVID19
#Covid19Poland
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I arrived to my vaccine appointment 1hr early. Im never early for anything.
Its taking place in a massive expo hall and i cant begin to explain how significant and historic this all feels.
Im gonna take it all in.🥰
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Hit me with your best health myths your non-medical family member ardently believes.
My mom:
-wet hair outside =meningitis
-sitting on cold surface =adnexitis
-running =bad for knees
I❤my mom! (she's married to a surgeon and has a child who's a surgeon; get it together mom)
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Omg😭💕 I just had and passed the home check by the animal shelter staff, and im gonna become a cat momma again in the next 48hrs😭😻💛
WATCH THIS SPACE!!!!
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The Pfizer vaccine got APPROVED for use in the EU 35 minutes ago.😭😭😭
Those babies better be on those cargo planes as we speak.
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If someone said to me "here is a cabin in the Scottish Highlands, you can have it, but you gotta quit your present life entirely", id take it without a second thought
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