all the med school hunnies marrying each other are truly missing the mark by not having their first dance be set to the lyrics "we found love in a hopeless place"
a patient’s parent filed an official complaint about me, called me unprofessional, commented on my appearance, and said that while medicine might be my “profession” it doesn’t appear to my “passion” and i know parents are parents but i feel so fucking bad about myself right now
knowing too much medicine is bad bc sometimes instead of being like “omg that’s awful” im just in my head like wtf that doesn’t make sense are u sure lol
sooo embarrassing when i tell a non medicine person that im "studying" nd they're like i thot u were done with tests and im like.......life long learner bayyyybeeee ✌🏽😔
the idea that i’ll ever be good at medicine seems unfathomable to me but also i never thought i’d get into med school, never thought i’d make it past step 1, etc so i guess i’ll just keep pushing????? and i’ll get there??? eventually???
how does one combat the starting residency-in-a-new-home-with-none-of-your-friends-or-loved-ones & feeling-in-over-your-head blues? is there even a way or do u just wait it out 😐
i was v stressed out abt something when i was a MS3 on IM & didn’t say anything abt it but my pgy-3 saw my face & asked me what was wrong & when i told her she told me to go home & take the next day off too & that she would handle it w the attending…..that was real queen shit 😭
i know "unprofessionalism" is weaponized against med students but fr some of the med students i've worked w/ or my co-residents have worked w/ are like.....astonishingly unprofessional like HUH ????? i could never have imagined saying/doing the things i've heard/seen them do.....
understanding another language well enough to know the interpreter is taking liberty with what the patient is saying and not relaying it exactly but not well enough to conduct the interview myself drives me mad
the way medicine demands so much out of u and strips u away from ur community or makes it heard to build one for years with no end in sight is truly going to take me off the deep end
i have a long white coat (that i will wear approximately for 30 minutes before never wearing again i'm sure) that has my name on it followed by MD!!!! wild!!!!
ppl expect physicians to sacrifice their life for their job, to know everything there is to know out there, do extra unpaid hrs/work, be available at every hour of the day & on vacations, and then in the same breath say they think they’re paid “too much” lol lmao be serious
if you hate(d) 3rd year of med school you’re not alone & it’s isolating af when many ppl tell you it’s “the best year” & u hear/see other ppl who love it!! & sometimes there’s the implication that you’re not right for medicine if you don’t like it!!! and that’s not true!!!
residents having restricted access to the physician’s lounge is absolutely ridiculous to me because are we not…….physicians……??? attendings who get mad about this and complain wtf is wrong w u???
remember when someone on here made a completely valid point abt too many residency bonding events being centered on alcohol nd everyone on here went bananas angry abt it??? so many ppl need to reevaluate their relationship w alcohol bc that was wild & so aggressive for no reason
maybe programs can stop posting composites of their incoming interns bc this st*nford s*rgery thing is insane and i would be losing my MIND if my face/name/med school was making the rounds like this with so many extremely disturbed people having access to it 🤍
fourth year med student: i like to read sometimes in my free time, haven’t had too much time for it the last 3 years unfortunately :(
some interviewers apparently: you like to “read” ?!!?!? 🙄 fine then name all of the books ever published in reverse alphabetical order 😡
I know ERAS season is coming up 🧐, so I want to give some extremely vague advice I’m going to call pearls 💎 that any one with common sense 🤓 would already know because I actually just want to get some likes ❤️🔥 and more follows 🤩 !!!! 😜
A Thread of PEARLS ⬇️ below 🧵:
now that i understand medicine a little bit better sometimes i go back and look at ppts from my med school lectures nd be like why did they have to explain this in the most convoluted way possible.......!!!!!
me at work: placing central lines, intubating patients, somehow in charge of extremely sick patients who are over twice my age, etc
me anywhere else: im just a baby 🥺
ten years ago i did not think i had what it takes to become a doctor and now!! i am a (resident) physician??? and i go to work every day in the hospital??? so cool!!!! :,)
random quick way i remember which murmurs are going to be systolic vs diastolic for test q's:
MRSA = systolic (mitral regurg, aortic stenosis)
& the opposite for diastolic (mitral stenosis, aortic regurg)
a question i asked residents in every residency interview was "in what ways do you feel supported by the faculty and/or program" & if u can read between the lines (imo) the answers will give you such good insight into the culture + to how valued the residents feel
once again the things u see and do in medicine on a daily basis is just not normal and carrying all of that back into the world when u step out of the hospital is hard and strange
i really really really miss being near my friends/family/etc during residency like it really sucks feeling isolated and alone during my training and as i’m getting older idk like people are what matter in life so what am i doing here u know
all i do is work or sleep and i do not understand how anyone in residency ***without support nearby*** has the time or energy to do anything more than that
walked into the hospital and asked the the volunteer at the front desk for a mask bc the box was empty and she gave me a lecture on how the hospital goes thru thousands of masks a week bc “the healthcare workers don’t bring in their own masks”….. ma’am…?!?????
my attending told me to give this pt "tenedex" and i was LOSING my mind being like wtf how have i not heard of this i am a FAILURE trying to google it & everything bf i had to be like ??? help to him......he was saying 10 OF dex 😭😭😭
i don’t think physicians tweeting abt med students calling them “it” as a “joke,” judging them for wearing their white coats out of the hospital, publicly tweeting screenshots of their ERAS application, etc is appropriate at all but maybe that’s just me 😐👍🏽
i have not found ~my people~ in residency and i’m not surprised but i am extremely sad abt it like i miss MY people i miss feeling light and feeling understood and safe and i miss feeling like myself :(
why don't more people talk abt how mf isolating residency can be !!!! like i logically know i'm not the only one feeling this way but it feels like im yelling into the abyss !!!!!
i dont think we as a collective group got mad enough about how they added a pediatric hospitalist fellowship as if the residents don't already spend a majority of their residency inpatient....that's 2 extra years of working hard and not getting attending salary and for what....
just a girl and her emotional support banana that goes from home to her backpack to work to her backpack to home to her backpack and to work and then eventually the compost bin
girl pleaseeeeee one time an attending i’ve never met, i dont even work with, and NEVER will work directly with handed me a VBG and was like “what do u want to do?” SIR ???? whose VBG is this??? who are u????
hi you're allowed to feel disappointed if you didn't match, match where you wanted to, match in your specialty of choice, etc. we don't allow enough space for that grief - & i know how intense it can be. talk to people who will give you that space & you're welcome to DM me too.
there’s nothing going on rn so me, the other resident, & the attending are all on our phones while the poor med student is pretending to look busy by looking through charts bbgirl i’ve been there 😭
i didn't understand the obsession w cats until i got one of my own..............................i would fr die for them.........i was fooled into thinking i didn't like cats all my life.............i love cats so mf much
me: do u have any medical probs u see ur doc for?
him: no
me: hx of diabetes? high bp?
him: no
me: meds on a daily basis?
him: no
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me: everything is looking ok but ur sugar is high u should f/u with ur pcp u may have diabetes
him: uh...i have diabetes i take insulin every day
im
@so
confused when it comes to third/four year rotations at DO schools it legit sounds like they just throw u out nd are like figure this out yourself good luck??? or is that just some schools???
residency is temporary it wont be like this forever residency is temporary it wont be like this forever residency is temporary it wont be like this forever
residency is temporary it wont be like this forever
residency is temporary it wont be like this forever
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me shocked & bewildered on why i feel awful when i work irregular hours, am constantly around sick people. & my daily diet consists of 4 espresso shots, cheetos q12, a bag of popcorn & chocolate chips, and a can of monster
many of the residents & attendings in my residency program are making a real, honest effort to say my name correctly instead of the american-ized version i typically go by and i think that is INCREDIBLY hot & sexy of all of them :,)