My thoughts on professionalism and swearing: if you work in healthcare and you don’t say “what the fuck” at least once a day, it’s probably because you’re one of the reasons why everyone else is saying “what the fuck”.
If a female tells you that she’s in medical school or she’s a medical student, it means she’s going to school to become a physician, not an RN, not a PA, not an NP. A physician.
Is someone going to tell male physicians that the reason they’re having a hard time dating is because their personalities are intolerable or are we just going to let them keep believing it’s because they’re too busy?
Does anyone else ever just randomly think about how winging of the scapula is caused by damage to the long thoracic nerve (C5-7) which innervates the serratus anterior?
“Back in my day, we did 24 hour call, didn’t sleep for 30+ hours, and never took days off ” isn’t the achievement you think it is. All you did was perpetuate an unsustainable system and undesirable culture and now your fear of change and insecurity is holding us back.
A couple of weeks ago, my SO said “how nice would it be if we owned a bakery (instead of being in med school)?” and I daydream about that a little too much now
It's wild how different my parents treat my brother who has been shadowing and doing free labor for a surgeon for months + hasn't even taken the mcat yet versus me who is actually in med school but still has 0 control over her own life when she comes back + is told she's selfish
One of the best things that I did for myself during grad school was put my headphones in and ignore people right before going into an exam, immediately leaving the testing center right after, and not sticking around when people started discussing their grades.
What if I don’t want to do research or have a twitter “famous” mentor or do award winning things in order to match my desired fellowship, what if I just want to build strong connections with patients and colleagues and quietly make a difference in people’s lives?
Does anyone else have a list of people that you know irl are becoming physicians/are currently physicians and there’s no way in hell you’ll let them touch your loved ones/won’t be referring patients to?? It can’t just be me. (See, I’m not as kind as y’all think)
This whole “I have a doctorate so call me a doctor” debate is screaming insecurity from all parties involved. Patients fully understanding your role in their care is more important than your ego. Bye ✌🏽
My FM preceptor makes 500k a year. He works half days in his direct primary care clinic 5 days a week and will pick up 3-4 shifts in a rural ER every month. He does not come from generational wealth and graduated from med school with 400k+ debt. 1/2
Yesterday I suggested a differential that my attending shot down and turned into a learning opportunity which was good because I don’t know the water beans that well anyway but then today he told me that I was actually right. Just wanted to document this for my future self
Respectfully, I’m looking forward to when a whole generation of toxic healthcare workers retire so my colleagues and I can can create a better environment for everyone. To those who are already out there doing the work to make it better, I see you and appreciate you.
Stop enabling and validating predators based on “they’re my friend”. It’s likely that we all have someone close to us who has harassed/assaulted others and if that becomes known to you, you don’t stand by that person because they’re your “friend”.
@EduardoManuel33
It’s about gender because it’s common for people to assume females in medical school are becoming anything other than what a medical school degree confers. Institutions can have different programs but medical school is for MDs and DOs. Is that direct enough for you?
I just think that if I’m the one paying to be on a rotation, I should get to decide when I get to go home because after a certain point, my time and money is being wasted.
My senior residents on an IM audition didn’t know the definition of HFrEF, didn’t know CHF management, told me that acute toxic metabolic encephalopathy isn’t a legit assessment 😭💔 like a dagger through my heart!!!
You want to know what’s unprofessional? Leaving applicants on a waitlist for over half a year without any communication unless it’s initiated by said applicant and even then sometimes the communication gets ignored.
Today one of my patients told me that I’m the only one who listens to him and writes things down on my notepad and I didn’t have the courage to tell him that it’s because if I don’t write it down I’ll forget 🥲
@Med_zeppelin_
Tonight someone asked me what I do and I said I’m in medical school and his reply was “oh so are you going to be an RN or LVN?” I don’t understand what the connection is other than sexism
LMFAO my classmates have been studying and some are already on lecture 10 (classes haven’t even started yet), my happy ass is sitting here grinning because I just got off a facetime call with my best friend and his fiancé. I am unbothered, these gunners will not ruin my peace 😌
Our anatomy professor told us we shouldn’t rely on mnemonics to know the cranial nerves, we should simply know them and I’m just in shock that they think I am capable of that
Opens Twitter
*something about a mug*
*you’re blocked from reading this person’s tweets*
*something about 3 hour lunches*
*you’ve muted this account*
*Black Medtwitter shares teaching point*
*White person says exact same thing but gets more engagement*
Me: 👁👄👁 wtf
Closes app
I’m not excited or anxious about the match, I just want to know if I have a job and if I’m allowed to feel slight relief or if I have to keep jumping through hoops to try and secure a job.
Imagine “being on Twitter for years”, having 25.8k followers, getting 0-5 likes per tweet, and then thinking you’re important and making a positive impact on anyone other than your own bank account.
The pre-requisites for med school are not indicative of how well you will (or won’t) handle med school curriculum, nor will they adequately prepare you. That’s all.
He worked multiple jobs after residency for 5-6 years to significantly reduce his debt to ~60k. It can be done. He doesn’t complain about how unfair it is that specialists make more, he’s going on vacation next week and living his life as he should 2/2
For our next exam, the professor is allowing us to print out the entire metabolic pathway to refer to instead of memorizing it. Am I really in medical school??? What is happening here?!
Here’s the thing, people are anon for many different reasons and not one of those accounts owe you an explanation. I’m very open with why I’m anon. I’ve been stalked and harassed for the past 5 years by someone who I briefly dated and rejected. 1/x
Maybe Ochem isn’t the problem, maybe it’s the way it’s being taught by professors who are experts in their field but have no clue how to actually teach. Oh and just because you have X+ years of experience as a professor, doesn’t mean you’ve been doing it well.
I took AP and IB bio, got my bachelor’s in biology, master’s in biomed, and studied it all again for the MCAT bc I didn’t learn it the first time, but it took being in med school for it to click that mitosis is the division of somatic cells & meiosis is the division of germ cells
Things I was supposed to do today: clean my apartment and do a few loads of laundry
Things I’ve done: took a nap, made chocolate covered pretzels, queso, enchiladas, and mojitos
I know I’m at the right school because we have interprofessional classes with the other health professions so that we know each others roles and how we will work together as a team.
#notasubtweet
Just want to say thank you to everyone for your support 😭 thank you for listening to me complain about being on the waitlist for 7 months and for dealing with my rollercoaster of emotions 😂 Once I stop crying, I’ll be ready to fight for change and advocate alongside y’all! ❤️
I told my man about my twitter fam and jokingly said I’m ~twitter famous~ and he had the audacity to tell me that all 886 of you following me doesn’t make me twitter famous 😪 like hahaha excuse me sir, you clearly do not understand
And before anyone tries to come at me, this is solely based on my experience; my preceptor for obgyn is (imo) an awful human being and should not be a preceptor.
Med students are on 4-8 week rotations trying to figure out what field we want to go into for the rest of our career. We can’t switch specialties so easily so forgive us if learning simple procedures that aren’t regularly performed by physicians isn’t a priority
@Madhur2090
I think we try to make the most of every experience bc we have fewer rotations and no residency, so the more we can learn the better. I’ve heard that some physician preceptors don’t realize that and have students mostly shadow. I could do that before school. I’m here to learn 😂
@irrelevantDO
Was shadowing an orthopod once who invited me to the cast clinic he was holding for med students, one male student was talking to his friend about his obgyn rotation and how he wouldn’t want to fuck any of the vaginas he had seen.