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I’m sorry WHAT. Imagine getting shot IN THE OPERATING ROOM. WHILE OPERATING. how is this a reality that we’ve allowed to persist for over 120 days. I’m lost for words.
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Just a reminder that Israel murdering people by bulldozing them is not new. They did it in 2003 when they murdered Rachel Corrie when she tried to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in Rafah. We keep telling you this did not start Oct. 7. Start paying attention.
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Weird how being a doctor makes you a good marriage prospect if you’re a guy but not if you’re a girl 🥴 so awk
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they said med school would be hard— you’d miss birthdays, holidays, weddings, funerals. but they never said you’d have to study through domestic social unrest, a global pandemic, and the genocide and ethnic cleansing of your people.
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Beyond blessed to live out a dream I’ve had for so long, to become the first physician in my family, and to honor the homeland through it all ♥️🇵🇸
yes, I cried.
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crazy how an earthquake can *literally* rock your whole world and on the other side of the globe people do not care bc you’re not white
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not me sobbing in my car after talking to my mom bc it’s finally hitting that I’m living my dreams 😭
#Match2022
#EMBound
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Hi
#MedTwitter
! I’m Ala’a, a proud Palestinian Muslim American applying to
#EmergencyMedicine
with a special interest in social EM and health equity. I’m so excited to connect with attendings, residents, and fellow applicants on this journey. Ready for you
#Match2022
!!! 👩🏽⚕️✨
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2022 is the year I become a doctor (inshallah & alhamdulilah) 🥺
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I slept so well last night. After weeks of being woken up by match anxiety, I feel like I can finally rest. I’m so excited for the future. Still feels like a dream 🥺💗
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SO HONORED to have matched at
@CookCountyEM
!!!!!!! I can’t wait to move to Chicago!!!!!!
#EMBound
#Match2022
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my sister, mom, and I always wear matching hijabs on the first night of taraweeh (nightly prayers during Ramadan). in the past few years, we’ve been getting insta friends involved by asking them to vote for a color. here’s a picture showing us in all our glory 💛
#RamadanMubarak
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sometimes it hits me out of nowhere — I can’t believe I get to be a DOCTOR in < 8 months!!!! 🥺🥰🥳
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Also I HAVE to brag on my girl
@aseeldib
! She’s a dream chaser and deserves all the good coming her way. She will be the BEST orthopaedic surgeon. Here we are, coming to an ER and OR near you!!!!
#PaliGirls
🇵🇸💗
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When I was in 7th grade, my history teacher asked me where I was from, and when I said Palestine, she made me get up in front of the whole class to point it out on her big map on the wall.
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just realizing that there are way more Muslim women in EM than I ever imagined and we all somehow matched at different places (😢) BUT these EM conferences over the next few years are gonna be amazing ✨
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But I will never be embarrassed or ashamed of my heritage, of sharing blood with the dignified and resilient, of being Palestinian.
And now, I wear the map of Palestine around my neck, close to my heart, and I carry with it the hope of freedom & peace & tranquility for my ppl❤️
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I go back and forth between being really really excited for residency and incredibly nervous 😳🥴
on an unrelated note, if u live in Chicago plz be my friend 🥺❤️
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I didn’t know it then, but she was trying to prove to me that Palestine doesn’t exist bc it’s not labeled on her map. But that doesn’t mean we don’t exist. It doesn’t mean we’ve already been erased. It doesn’t mean it’s okay to challenge a child’s heritage to push your own agenda
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started bawling when I opened these gifts from my sister on match day 😭 the first time I’ve ever seen my name with MD on the end 🥺
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day 7 of breaking fast alone. a stark contrast to eating dinner with my family every single night growing up. residency really does take everything.
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Listening to Ukrainians describe their fear of displacement and loss of land is so familiar and triggering for Palestinians, except the global reaction for each has been different.
Occupation is a crime from Ukraine to Palestine.
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It’s simply baffling to me how people are more concerned with Beyoncé getting snubbed at the Grammys than 20 THOUSAND people dying. Where’s the real tragedy
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yesterday a patient saw me walking out of the trauma bay and called me a “f***ing Muslim terrorist” from across the room, so happy world hijab day to me I guess lol it didn’t even bother me *much*
#growth
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it feels like my peers are making huge strides & advances clinically, while I’m stuck… stuck on the last 3 months in near constant tears & devastation. I can’t explain the guilt I feel for my lack of progress, not only for my career but esp for the future betterment of my people
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first day jitters hit different for a hijabi on surgery. here we go again. bismillah.
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I feel like I didn’t adequately take advantage of my last day drinking water during daylight, but RAMADAN MUBARAK! ✨🌙
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it is SO COOL seeing people achieve their dreams. can’t wait for my turn (but also I can wait 😅)
#Match2022
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keep getting emotional on interview day hearing about all the amazing things programs offer and just can’t believe I get to be a doctor soon 🥺 as stressful as interview season is, I am SO excited for the future
#Match2022
#EMBound
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homesick is too weak a word for a Palestinian yearning to go home
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people in medicine don’t actually care about healthcare for all or basic human rights as evidenced by the lack of outcry for palestine while hospitals and HCW alike are being attacked and massacred daily.
🙋♂️ What’s your unpopular opinion in medicine that will get you in this position?
#MedTwitter
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Sometimes this deep wave of sadness overwhelms me when I think about all that Israel has taken away from every Palestinian. If it’s not our lives and livelihoods, it’s our land and our families. I barely know my family, and I don’t remember the smells and sounds of my homeland.
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My attending told me I would be a great resident today and yes I almost cried 🥺 sometimes you just need that type of affirmation
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one day, Palestine will be free. there will be no settlements, no apartheid, no walls. Palestinians will be able to travel freely from Gaza to Al Aqsa. they will break fast together during Ramadan and gather to pray on Eid. I want to see that Palestine 🤍 iA one day soon.
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We need to trash the idea that the Middle East isn’t worthy of mass sympathy and aid bc violence, death, and destruction are somehow normalized in that region.
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first annual (?) iftar hosted by my roomie
@roannabdeladl
and me 🫶🏽 how’d we do? we’re pretty proud. Ramadan Mubarak to all 🤍
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every Ramadan, Israel attacks Gaza. it’s something we know and anticipate w bated breath. but never have we entered Ramadan with this level of grief and sorrow and fear that the worst is yet to come.
اللهم بلغنا رمضان وغزة بأمان
اللهم اطعمهم هدنة مستمرة في اقرب وقت
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Some Muslims really out here commemorating last daytime meals/drinks like they’re dying 😮💨
It’s me. I’m some Muslims 🫠
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People don’t need to share traumatic videos of children trapped under the rubble or a father holding his dead child’s hand or babies born in ruin for you to feel compelled to help in some minuscule way
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It took me years to understand what transpired in that moment, but even then I felt embarrassed to be called out and singled out in front of my whole class.
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I actually feel like a broken record bc I say this all the time, but people truly don’t care when the victims are not white
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it’s absolutely surreal to think of where we were and where we are, and I’m so grateful to have had
@lakshmisub1
with me every step of the way 💗
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now friends irl!!!! thanks for showing me around OUR city and giving me my first taste of Chicago 🥹♥️
excuse the tired face—I had 2hrs of sleep last night 😓
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hi Twitter. what are some things I should include in my Chicago bucket list? recs on restaurants, activities, landmarks etc are welcome!
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We didn’t abandon Biden. Biden abandoned us. He serves us, his constituents who put him in the White House. And if you use the power we gave you to kill and starve our people, even threatening us with trump and his Muslim ban won’t make us vote for you. You reap what you sow.
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our annual Ramadan pic is just a week late, but Ramadan Mubarak from my fam!
PS my insta fam chose orange as the color this year 🧡🔥
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today I stopped to pray during the protest, and when I finished I saw a woman standing just a few feet away. She said to me, “I saw you praying and I just wanted to make sure no one bothered you.” We take care of each other. 🤍
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@wokestethoscope
I feel you. Nothing feels relatable and everything is meaningless. I just don’t know how anyone could still remain the same
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To all my fellow MS4s and OMS4s finishing up interviews, in the words of the great Moira Rose, “We are all on the precipice of greatness. And we should cherish these moments, before everything changes.”
#Match2022
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@ReemKarmouta
I wear a medical hijab made by culture hijab. It has holes near your ears for your stethoscope to slip through!
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yeah I’m, like, extremely nervous for intern year 😥 it’s starting to feel real
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quick shoutout to the real champ of interview season who loves to keep me company/provide his unwavering support while I interview 🥰🥰
PS he absolutely hates me 🤩😍
#Match2022
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I was so naive. I thought she just didn’t know where it was. So I went to the wall and searched the map although it’s too small of a country to actually be able to see and point out, esp when you’re put on the spot.
I was also like 12 and didn’t have any sense of geography.
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Saw my first thoracotomy today. Emergency procedures are WILD. Mind is effectively blown. 🤯 I love love love EM, especially the teamwork across different fields and specialties. 🤩
#EMBound
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when it comes to Palestine, I feel like a broken record. every year, w/o fail, every single Ramadan, Israeli soldiers terrorize, attack, arrest, illegally invade Palestinian spaces. Holy spaces. Simply to disrupt and continue their oppression during the holiest month of the year.
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Of course my first interview invite is sent while I’m taking a ~lengthy~ nap. On an unrelated note, I will not be sleeping until March 18
#Match2022
#EMBound
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baby bro graduated today—we now have a house full of college grads!!!! 🎓🎉
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Spent my shift checking the news in between seeing patients. The lack of institutional support we get when Palestinians are attacked always makes working feel surreal, like you’re living in this reality alone. I can’t explain it. Almost feels like it’s not really happening.
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some people in medicine are literally so toxic. there’s no reason for learners to walk on eggshells around you to avoid setting you off.
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Everything is hitting me really hard tonight. I can’t sleep. I feel sick to my stomach. I can’t look at one more photo, one more video. But I can’t look away. If we don’t bear witness to their suffering, who will? Who will care when the whole world has turned their backs on Gaza?
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if your churches don’t mention the massacres, occupation, and apartheid occurring in the holy land on Christmas, you are dishonoring Jesus (PBUH) by refusing to acknowledge the genocide of his descendants in his homeland while claiming to celebrate him and all he stands for.
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Okay
#EM
folks! What’s your take on 3 year vs 4 year programs? Would love to hear from people in each type of program.
#EMBound
#Match2022
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let’s talk about Palestine.
Sheikh Jarrah is a Palestinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem that is the current target of evictions and settler colonialism.
6 Palestinian families that have been there for generations are facing eviction THIS MONTH to make room for Israeli Jews.
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So I just said, “it’s too small to see but it’s in this area” and pointed in what I assumed to be the general vicinity of the Middle East.
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failed my first intubation attempt yesterday 🙃 just thought everyone (including myself) should know that it’s okay not to get something on your first try or even your second or third
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I want a Morocco-France semifinal so Morocco can beat their colonizers on the largest sports stage to exist 🇲🇦❤️
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I would hope that despite the loud silence that is routine after a middle eastern tragedy, some of you may be donating your money if not your voices to help with rescue efforts
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Here are some places you can donate to:
UNICEF:
Turkish Red Crescent:
White Helmets
Doctors Without Borders
Save the Children
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I’m an ER doctor, but some of the stuff I’ve seen coming out of Gaza shakes me to my core.
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wow I tweeted this the day I interviewed
@CookCountyEM
🥺❤️
keep getting emotional on interview day hearing about all the amazing things programs offer and just can’t believe I get to be a doctor soon 🥺 as stressful as interview season is, I am SO excited for the future
#Match2022
#EMBound
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Happy
#WorldHijabDay
! In this thread, I want to share some words I wrote last year when reflecting on my clinical experiences as a hijabi in medicine. They still ring true today. I hope you take some time to learn about your Muslim colleagues’ experiences & show them some love❤️
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friendly reminder that places that have “seen conflict raging for decades” still deserve your attention, support, and sympathy. tired of people using this narrative to justify ongoing violence in the Middle East while expressing horror that it could happen in Europe
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for the first time in 27 years, I didn’t get to fast a single day with my family. and when I just got some ma3moul (Eid cookies) from my mom in the mail, I cried. I miss my family more than I ever thought I could. Tomorrow is going to be hard. Alhamdulilah for everything.
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don’t you dare tell a palestinian Biden is the lesser of 2 evils after we watched him finance and facilitate a genocide on our people for the last 109 days
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I am a medical student and I call for a
#FreePalestine
and an end to the Israeli state’s apartheid. This is integral to both my moral world code and scholarship.
#MedTwitter
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my sis (a pharmacist) giving my youngest brother the covid-19 vaccine is the sweetest moment of 2021 🥺
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Idk about YOUR programs but MINE just matched >60% WOMEN for the third year in a row 🥳
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Lost my first patient today. He was 15 months old. Please send a prayer to his grieving family. 💔 May God give them the strength to get through this tragedy.
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it’s officially the-best-things-about-my-program-are-the-people season at
@CookCountyEM
!!! happy interview season!
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appreciation post for my co-rezzies in honor of a new interview season! this time last year I was terrified that I wouldn’t get enough interviews, wouldn’t match, wouldn’t find people to connect with. so grateful to have found my people ❤️ thank u
@CookCountyEM
💓
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I don’t except kindness from strangers, so shout out to the lovely people who secretly paid the restaurant bill for a group of hijabis. you really made this girl’s WEEK 🥺🤩❤️
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As a hijabi, people either think you have long hair or are bald. There’s no in between. 🧕🏽✨
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hi yes stop using the term “Israeli Arabs.” They’re Palestinians. Arabs in Gaza are Palestinians. Arabs in the West Bank and Jerusalem are Palestinians. And Arabs in “Israel” are also Palestinians. Don’t take their identity away from them. It’s all Palestine.
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