My boyfriend’s job is in Oregon. I
#Matched
in South Carolina. So, he gave me this present. One side has a reason why he loves me (inside a plastic gumball) and the other has chocolate. Every day, before work, I read a note and savor a sweet and miss him a little less.
#Residency
A quick story 🧵: When my dad immigrated to America in 1997, one of his first “American” meals was at Olive Garden. He had never had food so rich, creamy, buttery, and cheesy before and fell in love at first bite. As his family grew…
“Well, I don’t know if you’ve ever been to the US, but we have a place called Olive Garden...” 😳
Luckily, he hadn’t heard of it, and we returned without mortally offending this Roman man.
“You are now required to respond in plane emergencies” -
@DGlaucomflecken
at my
@UMichMedSchool
graduation on Friday
“😂”-Me
“Is there a doctor on board?” -Flight Attendant on my 7 hour flight today
“Oh 💩”-Me
I introed myself as Dr. Davuluri for the 1st time & all went well!
Horrified. By day 4, he has had enough and hunted down an Indian restaurant in Rome. On our penultimate day, he peers over at our Uber driver and asks, “Does Rome have any good food?”
Driver says, “Rome is known for food! What type of food do you want?” My dad responds…
Trip to Italy, he was ecstatic. He couldn’t wait to try authentic Italian food that he thought would be even more buttery, cheesy, and rich than Olive Garden. Lo and behold, we get to Venice, and authentic Italian food is fresh, light, and elegant. My dad is…
He shared with them this love of Olive Garden. It was eaten at many family celebrations. Unlimited soup and salad truly could never be enough! When I started planning a…
My waiter for dinner introduced himself by saying “I’m in training so please be gentle and kind,” and if that isn’t the phrase I most want to say with every patient, resident, nurse, and attending I work with…
I often think about that one time my school tried to make me and two dental students, a pharmacy student, and a social work student—5 adults—build a tower out of marshmallows and spaghetti to learn about interprofessional collaboration in healthcare.
#MedTwitter
I don’t know if my residents a few months ago realized how sad I felt when they all ordered dinner around me, without acknowledging me.
Or if my resident today knew how included I felt when she called me to get my order.
The little things matter.
My cards intern, knowing I’m interested in
#ObGyn
, went home, found a 15pg paper on peripartum cardiomyopathy, read it all, prepared a chalk talk, and taught me everything he’d prepped...just because he knew what I like and understand. I literally teared up.
#MedTwitter
Do not make your deconditioned med student climb up 6 stories when the elevator is right there and then proceed to question her about her differential while she’s gasping for air. Please. Thank you.
Signed,
Atrophied in Ann Arbor
When I was 12, I got a 4.0. My dad asked why I didn’t get a 5.0. Got a 100% on a test. He asked why I didn’t get above 100%. Got an A+. Why didn’t I get an A++?
The
#immigrant
(or
#desi
?) mindset that has fueled my work ethic…and would be my downfall sans therapy.
Overwhelmed with honor and gratitude at becoming a doctor
@UMichMedSchool
and fulfilling my parents’ American Dream.
To practice medicine is a privilege I’ll cherish and try to merit every day. 22 years of school later and a lifetime of learning left! Next up,
#OBGYN
Residency!
The attending, resident, nurse, and Sub-I (me 🤓) all spoke Spanish during the precipitous, painful, non-anesthetized vaginal delivery of a Spanish speaking patient this morning and it was one of the most fulfilling experiences I’ve had ever. And the baby was so stinking cute.
A friend recently told me that the most hurtful feedback she got during clerkship year was to “Stop being too happy. Nobody else around here is chipper this morning—why are you?”
I did a dozen points below my steady practice scores on Step 2. This feels like a punch to the gut and I’m tired of people hiding their defeats because I feel very alone and crushed.
#MedStudentTwitter
#MedTwitter
20% success rate today for convincing unvaccinated patients to get their COVID-19 shot today. Bless the patients who even entertained a conversation rather than saying “Nope, I’m not getting it” over and over 😣
After a year out of the hospital to get my
#MBA
, I put on scrubs and my white coat again for my last first day of school ever! So nervous but even more grateful and excited to be back
#MedTwitter
#MedStudentTwitter
Update: it went SO well. All the aunties were charmed and so, so encouraging—they even argued with my otherwise super lax grandma about letting me live my life and told me to bring him around to the next potluck…and the uncles handed him a beer and told him to have a seat! 🥳
I didn’t know what an attending was when I started med school. And now when I mentor people who, like me, are first gen in medicine, I ensure to break down terms like this. It makes them better learners and reminds us how we should talk to our patients.
#MedTwitter
Thinking about how the resident who treated me so kindly when I was their patient was then quite mean to me a month later when I was signing out to them as a med student
Approach your peers and colleagues with the same respect you give your patients. And vice versa.
#MedTwitter
I know that dealing with these views in patients will come with time, and with effort. I know I’m privileged as far as a lot of -isms go. I know I got validation from my attending today to be firm, and loud, and aptly horrified. Hatred is not okay. In any context. 10/10.
And we have a long, vulnerable conversation about how much it sucks to have to treat people who are racist, sexist, etc. People who are without realizing it. It stinks that there are such words and such hate in the world, and even the best places of healing can’t heal that. 7/
Growing up I thought Brown people didn’t sunburn. Just thought it was physically impossible.
Then I turned 19 and after a day at the beach my skin started peeling and I realized I am not as invincible as I thought. 🥲
Hola
#OBGYNTwitter
! I sent my application for
#Match2024
your way, so let me do a lil re-intro!
All about empowering women to have agency in their health via
#DEI
focused
#MedEd
and innovations
#MBA
I also love dancing, standup, and museums! Can’t wait to meet you!
#MedTwitter
Please do not talk badly of your patient. I watched as a bunch of attendings did so and then realized the patient was right outside the team room, listening.
I share that a patient said the N word to me in a story last week when I was alone, but I didn’t know how harshly to reprimand him. I share that I’m a 5,5 Brown woman whose voice is often interrupted in conversations. How can I establish control of a situation like that? 8/
We quickly file out of the room. I hear him apologize again to our backs. We begin to walk towards the next patient. Our attending stops us, and directs us back to the team room. We’re quiet as we go and sit down. He says, “I’m sorry, I just wanted to check in with you all.” 6/
I turned 26 yesterday! In a year, I’ll have (hopefully) Matched into an ObGyn residency, will graduate with my MF and MBA, and officially be a doctor! 26 will be a big year indeed 🤩
If you have had experiences like this, I’d really appreciate hearing about it. How you deal with it. How you overcome barriers in your way to being heard. I’m at a loss.
Today, for the first time in 9 months of clinical year, an attending said to let them know if we needed a mental health day off. That our mental health and well being trumps everything.
This needs to be the norm. From attendings/residents. For students.
#medtwitter
He is a very tall white man with a deep, loud voice. For him, being loud sounds like a shout. “SIR! NO. We DO NOT say that.” The patient becomes apologetic, trying to explain it was his son who was being racist, not him. The doc acknowledges that, but persists. 5/
@_voldecourt
Never settle!! I was *this* close to settling (for an arranged marriage by my Indian parents lol) before I found him and so glad I didn’t 💕
Provider: “We’re going to try and discharge you today if X, Y, and Z”
Non-English speaking patient: “No English”
Provider: “Well, I only speak English! So, as I was saying…”
Just…WHAT?!
#MedTwitter
#MedStudentTwitter
@madison_healey
I’m so sorry. I’m in a very similar boat of trying to convince my parents and family to accept my boyfriend and it is lousy and awful and horrible that your partner couldn’t stand up and convince them for you. It’s such a tricky and nuanced situation I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
Peep the name change—I graduated with my MBA from the
@MichiganRoss
School of Business last Friday. Can’t wait to add on my MD this Friday! So grateful for the opportunity to fulfill all my career interests at
@UMichMedSchool
.
My favorite thing about Indian culture is that if you don’t know someone’s name, you can refer to them vaguely by the term for “elder sister” or “younger brother” or “uncle” or “granny” in your language and it immediately draws you both closer
We talk about balancing shutting down hatred with maintaining a therapeutic relationship. On that note, the attending heads out to have a calmer, thoughtful conversation with the patient. The med studs and residents chat, and reflect. 9/
Good afternoon! I think it’s about time to bring back
#MedTwitterThirstTrapThursday
for 2022! 🥳
Drop ya favorite pictures of yourself below or QT! Flaunt and brag your most confident and beautiful self! ❤️❤️❤️
Leggo people!
#MTTTT
(4 T’s y’all)
I just pummeled my attending with positive feedback because anyone who spends 30 mins doing intros with the med studs, buys us coffee, orders us lunch, wants feedback, asks how we’re doing outside the hospital, and tells us to take mental health days really deserves it
When your resident offers you their badge to go get yourself lunch but not get them anything, do you take them up on the offer?
#MedTwitter
#MedStudentTwitter
A few months ago, my boyfriend and I finally let ourselves stop saying “In the future, I will…” “When I…” “My house…”
Instead, we say:
“In the future, we will”
“When we”
“Our home”
And it brings me such gratitude for him and excitement for the lifetime together ahead
Aaaand that’s the third time this year a random person, unprovoked, said “Namaste” to me. The day after my patient asked “What tribe?” when I said I was Indian.
I’ve got to be quicker with my quippy responses.
This week, for the first time ever, I put my stethoscope on a chest and didn’t hear anything.
No heartbeat, no chest sounds, no gut gurgling.
My patient was dead.
#MedTwitter
#MedStudentTwitter
a number of Latino attendees as well. Microaggressions have seeped into his words. He’s trying to show us he gets along with all races. His eyes land on me frequently, the darkest person in the room. Then, as he quotes his bigoted son, he says the N word. Loud. Unabashedly. 3/
“Is there a medical professional on the plane?” had me perking up my ears. I looked forward a couple rows to where all the flight attendants were frantically standing and saw 1/n 🧵
#MedTwitter
I’m at the VA. We walk in, and the patient is super happy and starts telling us stories of his farm, wife, and health at home. We’re all giggling, relishing his stories. He begins talking about his church, which is predominantly Black, with an African American pastor, and 2/
Left my 🐶 with my SO while my family is away, and when he threw a lil gathering for vaxxed friends, my 🐶 was obsessed with a guest who spoke to him in Telugu like we do and my heart just 🥺🥺🥺
I was a lil anxious about my
#Desi
parents meeting my boyfriend’s Desi parents this past week because I really wanted them to all get along…and now my boyfriend, my dad, and his dad are all playing pickle ball together on Sunday 🥹
It was Fall, 1996. My mom was having bouts of nausea. Her mother in law asked her when she had her last period. And that’s how my mom learned where babies come from. She was scared, hopeful, vulnerable.
As an
#OBGYN
, patients like her are the ones I aim to empower.
#Match2024
@MChalasani
@DGlaucomflecken
@UMichMedSchool
I also waited and then told them and they laughed but accepted my help…then a seasoned nurse arrived and we tag teamed it. Her presence was very reassuring 😅
As I wrote my PS for
#Match2024
, I was told to sort of “explain away” my MBA to emphasize I want clinical practice.
In reality, my connection to business is how I can best advocate for my patient’s health within and outside of the clinic room.
#OBGYNTwitter
@SolecialGirl
It’s becoming more common! People do it for hospital admin, launching biotech devices, private practice management, to be a consultant, etc!
1 month post-start of a Twitter break, 1 week post-STEP 1, and 1 day post-sunrise watching on a beach in Miami
Oh, and 1 month post-purple hair dye 💜
#backtoreality
The day team told me that a patient I counseled on contraceptive options (with my own experiences sprinkled in) a few weeks ago told them she “want[s] whatever type of IUD Kavya has.” 😂
How do you deal with people who don’t (won’t!) recognize how busy medicine/med school is and aren’t willing to show you the same grace and understanding they give themselves and their own lack of free time?
#medtwitter
It feels like gaslighting.
If doctors can be physician-scientists, physician-advocates, physician-educators, physician-leadership…
I can be a physician-investor. And change healthcare by bringing industry innovations closer to how we do medicine—especially for women.
#MedTwitter
#ObGynTwitter
#FemTech
Is there a Guinness World Record for the number of sketchy videos you can watch on a flight to India? Cuz I’m about to set it.
Let the Step 1 studying commence!
#MedStudentTwitter
This feels so surreal to share:
✅ Surgery
✅ Ob/Gyn
✅ Pediatrics
✅ Internal Medicine
✅ Neurology
✅ Family Medicine
✅ Psychiatry
Officially 50% an MD! M3 year, here I come!
#MedTwitter
Yesterday, I started my last rotation ever as a medical student! I’m on perinatal psychiatry, which I cannot wait to apply as an OBGYN resident in just a few months!
#OBGYNTwitter
#MedStudentTwitter
@DPryluck
Yes! But it was not conducive to any real application to the clinical environment in terms of understanding how we think differently about caring for a patient. We didn’t really have any sessions on that, so to supplant a valuable discussion with a leadership exercise felt cheap
@uroskeptic
You just referenced it without saying it! That’s perfectly fine. Using a word that signifies such a disgusting hatred, even in reference to the word itself, is never called for.