Tricia Pendergrast, MD
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Anesthesiology PGY1 @UMichAnesthesia | #DigitalMedia Expert w/ @CritCareMed @JHealthAdvocacy @_Anesthesiology
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please stop trying to put a positive spin on a pandemic that has killed 5.4 million people. please
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hi everyone I’m excited to announce I’ve decided to take a break from my mental health to focus on social media
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nature documentary: you now have an emotional attachment to this crab
me: ok
documentary: do u promise to love him
me: yes of course
documentary: THE CRAB IS NOW IN MORTAL PERIL
me: 😭
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Incredible. I never thought I’d see one in the wild
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a 6 week abortion ban is terrifying but we also need to be talking about how in Texas you’ll be able to sue someone who miscarries and the burden is on them during a period of grief and trauma to prove it was actually a miscarriage
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this is the type of stuff that makes patients think we literally hate them please stop
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MY BIGGEST NIGHTMARE IS ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE AND IT SHOULD BE YOURS TOO
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to everyone commenting on this post about nurses, check the bias at the door please this is a doctor
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several days into my neurosurgery rotation id like to announce a (non comprehensive) list of things that are cancelled, thank you
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medical students, i am begging you, PLEASE stop going to the Olympics… the bar… you are setting the bar far too high
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if burn surgeons can wear masks and gowns and operate in 293484738 degrees Fahrenheit you can wear a bandana around your face in target, Karen
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"im an optimist" no you are dismissing death on a massive scale
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did it hurt?
ok and did the pain radiate anywhere? was there anything that made it better or worse?
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i was doing a breast exam on a patient in clinic and she picked up my hands and moved them to where her tumor is but quickly apologized because "i realize im not your teacher..."
i corrected her immediately... "you will always be my best teacher in the room"
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This is Roxy. She’s 8 years young. Pictures were taken before and after I asked why food is all over the floor.
#seniorpupsaturday
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every medical student is exactly one malfunctioning laptop away from a mental health crisis
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me: "hello i would like to study very hard so I can learn how to help people when they are sick"
united states: "ok that will be $300,000"
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I got my flu shot today and my arm hurts a bit but it’s definitely not worse than being potentially responsible for killing an infant, elderly person, or immunocompromised person, so
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Gift recommendations for medical school graduates:
1. Anything that doesn’t have this symbol on it
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I can’t believe how many people have looked me dead in the eye and said that getting an IUD inserted doesn’t hurt
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Adding this post because there are many medical professionals who LOVE what they do and will ABSOLUTELY take care of you in the ED.
@traependergrast
@alandrummond2
@NightShiftMD
@CAEP_Docs
@ACEPNow
Thank you. The emergency department is the safe place for patient to come for help. Societies safety net. It’s a privilege to work in the ED.
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yesterday I learned that a transplanted heart grows with the kid it gets transplanted into and that’s easily my favorite fact I’ve learned thus far this year
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i actually have a new favorite mnemonic, it is the alphabet
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Preparing for my end of pathology rotation presentation 🩸
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someone asked how i planned to not let family emergencies and other issues affect my educational goals during training and my answer was that id always let family take priority over training. what kind of question is that
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there's a very specific, weird kind of grief that comes with going to chart check someone you've been following and epic asks if you'd like to open the chart of a deceased patient and thats how you find out they passed
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i dont know how anyone could spend a day on internal medicine and not be convinced that universal healthcare is the only way forward in this country
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I can’t stop thinking about our physician colleagues in Gaza who refuse to abandon their critically ill pediatric patients.
“If you want to kill us, kill us while we continue working here.” - Dr. Hussam Abu Safiyah
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A conversation with a friend yesterday highlighted for me how we teach medicine like nobody in the room has a personal connection to the disease and that hurts students
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“A bad workout is better than no workout” I whisper to myself after a total of 8 minutes of cardio
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I INTUBATED SOMEONE!!!!!*
*with a lot of supervision obv
**using a glide scope
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Is there anyone else besides me who usually would have gotten a cold at least twice by this time in the year........? 😷
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giving medical students their schedules more than a few weeks in advance would help with burnout
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Bc sometimes their blood pressure is 70/40 my friend
Why would ANY Doctor choose a chemical Solution over a natural Solution first?
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three years of medical school and i still have no idea if contrast-induced nephropathy is real or not in fact i'm more confused about it than when i started
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please stop asking medical students if they have hobbies. we do not have hobbies.. we barely have time to feed ourselves. our hobbies are converting glucose into carbon dioxide, thank you
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the way I’ve been describing how it feels to be in medical school right now is that you’re preparing for a new job at a building except the building is on fire and everyone is evacuating
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all you have to see is one neonatal resuscitation go very right to understand how dangerous home births could be if even there's a small problem
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I truly believe anyone working in healthcare should be pro-choice. Ultimately it represents the commitment to patient autonomy we are expected to uphold.
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our EPIC tech support just asked me if the intensive care unit was inpatient or outpatient
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Im not sure you can teach resilience, but you can make systems less abusive
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Time OB emergency declared: 0309
Time of incision: 0317
Obgyn is so metal
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presidential candidates as medical school professors, a thread
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med school culture is crying for 45 seconds because you're so overwhelmed only to realize crying is not a luxury you cannot afford and then return to studying
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no kevinmd, the vaccine is the vaccine med students need right now
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the question of the day is not "should physicians make political statements publicly," the question of the day is why do physicians think its political to be outraged when Black men are killed by police
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ur not a real doctor unless you eat breakfast with your stethoscope every morning
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I did a pulmonary medicine elective over a year ago at this point and have not purchased essential oils since 🤷🏻♀️
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what is up with holding birth control prescriptions hostage until people can come in for appointments (especially in a pandemic)
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me, on hour 29 of being awake, explaining to a patient’s family the importance of sleep wake cycles in preventing delirium
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every time I explain the residency match system to a new family member they are very alarmed that such a system is allowed to exist
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if only we cared about women getting sexually harassed in our departments the same way we cared about being called a provider <3
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don’t confuse your Google search for this flow sheet I found on uptodate
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@katimcf
@gender_hoarder
@BillTooke
@natalie_morrill
Me, future anesthesiologist, ready to make sure my patients are treated with respect
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The lack of a unified electronic health record system in the US is a threat to public health and absolutely affects patient outcomes
patients get suboptimal care when we dont have easy access to their records from hospitalizations at other facilities idc
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when are we going to start treating mission trips on amcas applications like the red flags they are and not kitchsy clinical experiences
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FYI the response to someone saying “I’m having a hard time” is not “well we’re all having a hard time right now”
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my dad is 45 years sober today can I get a hell yeah
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Do you lock a car immediately after getting in it or are you a man
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getting vaccinated then going to a country where nobody can access the same vaccines bc your country is hoarding them is a peak colonizer move
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and you don’t even need to know the person... what this boils down to essentially is a bounty system (with attorney reimbursement if you “prove” the miscarriage was intentional)
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the more research "gap years" become necessary for certain specialties, the more those specialties become inaccessible to medical students who do not come from wealthy families
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There’s a 22 pound Turkey cooking in the CVICU breakroom right now (it’s secured with zip ties)
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if people think the premise of love is blind is unrealistic wait until i tell you about how medical students choose the career path they'll spend the rest of the their lives with after only 6 weeks of knowing it
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physician "celebrities" and medical "influencers" should not exist. leave them in 2020
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my final OR case as a third-year medical student was an intense and meaningful team effort between surgery and anesthesiology to save the life of an intrapartum patient who lost her entire blood volume and then some.
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to those colleagues traveling abroad for a global health rotation: black children are not an accessory for your instagram, twitter, or blog
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how do we prevent racist people from being admitted to medical school? It’s not just a thing of the past.
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me vs the compounding interest on my student loans
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normalize having gay patients in question stems without any discussion of HIV 😤
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i want to talk to the people who named the nephritic and nephrotic syndromes and ask why they hate medical students ,thank you
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I hate that women in medicine literally are forced to work until they are physically crowning so they can get a smidgen of time at home before coming back to work and then making up the call they didn’t take while on maternity leave
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unpopular (?) opinion: the term “frequent flyer” is completely derogatory, and the medical community’s way of badly coping with the fact that there are patients whose needs we cannot meet
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This is a call out post for myself who has been in medical school for almost a year but still googles what dorsal and ventral mean just to be sure
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I hit a major medical student milestone today!!!! I shadowed rounds and forgot to eat or drink water beforehand and almost passed out. Thank you to the kind intern named Brianna who brought me juice and crackers. I will now die of embarrassment
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holding psychiatric med refills hostage until someone can get in touch with your office to schedule an appointment is terrible patient care
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in medicine we dont say "that person is a nazi" we just rename the disease they discovered and i think thats beautiful
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when ur Brain cannot study anymore for the test so you just sit and await your Fate
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