Just a general, sweeping statement for all those confused on my stances:
1.I don’t think PAs should practice without an SP
2.I love and respect docs, am married to one and have 2 more in my immediate family
3.Teamwork makes the dream work
4.Haters gunna hate
5.Go Vols
Me: really enjoyed the call. Please see attached financial modeling test
Gen Z applicant: this looks like a lot of work. Without knowing where I stand in the process, I’m not comfortable spending 90 minutes in Excel
Me:…well…I can tell you where you stand now
Guys.
The amount of flu symptoms with negative flu swabs but positive pneumonias on CXR since January.
.......I think I’ve seen a lot of covid-19 and just didnt realize it.
My mind is reeling right now.
The number of times I said “we’ve been seen something viral that looks like the flu and acts like the flu, but isn’t the flu this season”
Thought it was a new strain of flu or something, honestly.
There is a specific “cry about a family member death” and then there’s the “wail of a mother sobbing over a child” and I really don’t know how to explain that to someone not in medicine
But anyways I’ve heard both today and am only 4 hours into my shift so OFF TO A BAD START
A 4-month-old baby in Arizona was killed after her parents brought her out on a boat in 120-degree heat. No charges have been filed.
They started a GoFundMe and raised $50,000.
Just discovered that my OB is on the childfree Reddit list, meaning he will sterilize women who don’t want kids at any age no questions asked 😭😭😭👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Seeing a heavily pregnant doc run a code, insert a chest tube, and Intubate somebody without even breaking a damn sweat is by FAR the most bad ass thing I’ve ever witnessed 😍😍😍
Not to be dramatic but ya girl just caught carbon monoxide poisoning with symptoms that could’ve been chalked up to the flu 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
The thought that I could be forced to carry a fetus non compatible with life TO FULL TERM
I………I can’t even verbalize how absolutely abhorrent and inhumane that is.
This is your reminder that if “everyone” is watching the kids in the pool, then NO ONE is watching the kids in the pool
So yes I will continue to be a helicopter parent when my toddler is in near or around water 🥲🥲
My white boomer father just asked how many weeks was gestation
……he has 4 children
And THATS the demographic who determined our maternity leave policy in this fucked up system, ladies and gentlemen 😑😑🙃🙃
This is gunna sound very naive of me but I truly do not understand how one initially accesses the dark web
Do they start by googling “access dark web”? Truly don’t understand
Me: *has physician husband look at my throat to see if I have strep*
Him: “ew your throat looks horrible”
Me: “is it strep??”
Him: “I DONT KNOW IM NOT THAT KIND OF DOCTOR”
And that my friends is what happens when you marry a radiologist
@alanaauston
In the article the baby lost a heartbeat…every second wasted is a second longer that the baby is developing an anoxic brain injury
A small laceration on the face of an ALIVE BABY is better than a dead baby without a facial lac
For example, if I have to call out of work 4 times within a calendar year to take care of a sick child, I am up for termination.
But my husbands a resident who can’t really call out either, and since he has the higher income potential, his career needs to be prioritized
@nurseweezie
I truly don’t know but the parents who freak out the most about this are the ones whose kids NEED the private convo with the doctor the most
Me to husband: “I have a deep irrational fear of being in a trauma and ending up in my own ED and having my coworkers stripping off my clothes, seeing me naked and placing a foley, especially when im not well groomed”
Husband: “babe... WTAF”
😂😂😂 am I alone in this?!?
I had it written into my egg donor contract that unused embryos will be shipped out of state if needed for destruction because I was afraid of this happening
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that frozen, unimplanted embryos qualify as human children under state law.
IVF has long been in the crosshairs of the anti-abortion movement, and this unprecedented decision immediately imperils all IVF access throughout Alabama.
Possibly controversial opinion: I think everyone in the hospital deserves to have at least 1 visitor with them at all times despite covid
Sick people need advocates, and often aren’t In the position to advocate for themselves
In honor of my final dry heave of this pregnancy, here are my final pregnancy stats:
*37+5
*19# weight gain
*persistent nausea and dry heaving x9months
*severe SPD pain since week 22
*moderate to severe back pain from spondylosis
*covid at 36 weeks
LETS HAVE A BABY TODAY YALL
Her timing was truly impeccable. Waited until we got home from the vet, my daughter got to love on her. My daughters last words to her were “night night Heidi, I love you”
The absolute best fucking friend, my soul dog.
Today a homeless frequent flyer came in, covered in mud and urine.
Nurse and I Gave him a bath, fed him, and got him dry clothes.
He started sobbing out of gratitude.
I can’t fix his underlying issues but I could at least help him tonight
This is why I went into medicine
I don’t understand how OB’s schedules work
Just got to my appointment and was told my Ob just “ran out” to “do a quick c section” and I was like ok so I’ll leave? And they said no no just wait
Like WHAT? how do you OBs handle this?? God bless all of you 😭
Honestly don’t know how people function if they don’t like their spouse
I’m sitting here thinking “yesss only 3 hours until husbands home so we can hang” 😂
It’s been 10 years and I still like em. Feel like that’s a good sign for the future
Just once I want a medical show to really hone in on the minutia
I wanna see the rn calling pharmacy saying a meds not in the Omni cell and then pharm not being able to send it bc they don’t have any tubes, and then the RN calling 2 diff floors asking for tubes bc the ED is out
Told one of my siblings that I wasn’t allowed to run when I start injections for the egg retrieval, but allowed to
Stationary bike except I don’t have one of those at home
….and yo what showed up on my doorstep 2 days later… A DAMN STATIONARY BIKE 😭😭😭😭
How come in Greys anatomy theres like no ED docs anywhere
Like where does chief of neuro and chief of surgery and chief of trauma just chill together in the ED
It always cracks me up when people say “WE SHOULD DO MORE BIRTHS WITHOUT MEDICAL INTERVENTION, LESS ULTRASOUNDS”
And I’m like mmmmmm me and my baby straight up woulda died without extra ultrasounds and medical intervention
Ya know, like in the ‘good ole days’ 🥰🥰
My favorite argument is when people say “but covid is just like the flu! Why are you wearing a mask??”
My brother in Christ, even if that was true, I don’t want the flu either
How come daycare is so expensive but the teachers make shit money
My daycare’s infant room is making $11k a month by itself with just 8 babies
….the toddler rooms have like 15 kids, + the 4-6 year old rooms
Make it make sense
Yesterday my ED was short 8 nurses and never had less than 35 in the waiting room
We had 3 people being bagged in the hallway
Not sure I’m emotionally prepared to go back there tonight 😭
Welp husband got the state we wanted but not his number 1 😭😭😭
I am disappointed but not upset. It’s only a year and not a bad spot by any means! Fantastic program and like, RARELY HAS TORNADOS 💃💃💃
Look, I grew up in the Deep South
But when I tell you that the summers are getting hotter and hotter for longer and longer…. I am NOT exaggerating.
It’s not safe for like anyone to be outside unshaded for any period of time
I don’t understand why people think it’s a flex to say “oh I NEVER take medications, even during childbirth”
....like cool?? So you just suffer needlessly? You do you, but it’s not as cool as you think it is 🥱
When I get stressed about our new budget I just have my husband look up salaries for attending radiologists and then I just gotta tell myself that we just gotta survive a few more years 😅😅😅
CANT WAIT UNTIL MY LONGTERM INVESTMENT PAYS OFF (my husband)
It always makes me giggle when I walk into the lounge with my scrubs, sweatshirt, hair in a messy bun, no makeup and an n95 on and I see IM docs with pressed white coats, hair down, makeup on and wearing a dress and heels
This is your reminder that BMI is a terrible way to measure health
…I was an 8 year old ripped competitive gymnast who could climb a 20 foot rope without using my legs and was considered overweight according to BMI 🤡🤡💀💀
Did purel like go out of business?
Why can we still not buy normal hand sanitizer and are stuck with this shitty ass off brand crap that smells like bad tequila that may or may not give you ethanol poisoning
*in urgent care*
MA: “the patients BP is like REALLY high, like REALLY REALLY HIGH”
Me: ok what is it?
MA: “150/91”
🤣🤣🤣 guess working in the ED decreases your excitement level about things
I can maybe understand why people may expect a calm birthing experience but at the end of the day it is a fucking DANGEROUS MEDICAL EVENT and I don’t think all people truly conceptualize that
Husbands out of town.
I can’t sleep alone anymore.
Got a call at 3am from him and I panicked that something happened.
Turns out that he can’t sleep alone anymore either and has been up all night too😂😂
Is this cute or pathetic?