Rhodes Hambrick, MD, MS
@RhodesHambrick
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Incoming pediatric nephrologist @lurie_nu • previously @cincychildrens @BostonChildrens @nyugrossman • USMLE tutor • opinions mine not employers’
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When your med student literally asks you to talk about SIADH on your last day and you’re like ok you asked for it!!!
#MedTwitter
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Just got an email stating there’s evidently a national shortage of blood.
Seems like
#Pride2021
would be a great time to drop the homophobic practice of denying blood donations from MSM, but what do I know, I’m just a doctor 🤷🏻♂️
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Going home for Christmas, I just found my physical chemistry 1-page “cheat sheet” we could bring into our final exam. I can’t believe I used to understand this?!
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I would like to admit, as a nephrologist, that I had my annual dose of ibuprofen today (after downing a glass of water) but dang did it make my headache better within 15 minutes
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As of today I'm officially a board-certified pediatrician! 🥳
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I just remembered that as an intern I clinically diagnosed G6PD deficiency by asking about fava beans at 2 AM and I’m pretty sure my medical career peaked in that moment
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Today a surgeon stopped me in the hallway to say thank you for the detail in a note I’d written a week prior and I almost fainted in surprise
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NSAIDs are more nephrotoxic than iodinated contrast. I said what I said
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Sometimes you get a fresh fade and are just feeling yourself 💇🏻♂️
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My brother in law finally prompted me to get my car’s oil changed once he described it as car dialysis…my poor Subaru has been uremic!
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Was called a f*ggot walking home tonight after the fireworks (ostensibly for wearing pink shorts but unclear as I certainly did not stop to clarify) so glad to know homophobia is alive and well in middle America! 🇺🇸
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If you don’t want the vaccine but would take a monoclonal antibody infusion I’m really gonna need you to google how vaccines work
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Do you palpate your own muscles when exam questions ask you about specific muscle groups, or are you normal?
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I’m excited to announce that I have accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in Pediatric Nephrology at Lurie Children’s Hospital/Northwestern University in Chicago come this summer!
I’m immensely grateful to
@CincyPedNeph
and
@CincyClinPharm
for the excellent fellowship
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So, you know, thanks for trusting me to order blood transfusions overnight on 28 hour sleepless class but not be responsible enough with my sexual health to donate blood safely
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Friendly reminder to my Vitamin D deprived friends: after tomorrow the days start getting longer again!!!
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If the rule were “abstinence for 3 months” then fine. But you’d be hard pressed to tell me that a gay man religiously taking PrEP with q3mo HIV testing is *so much* higher risk than average person who has sex not otherwise specified that you can’t accept their blood 🙄
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Happy
#Pride
month! If you’d told me 11 years ago as a sophomore in college that I would be confidently “out” in medicine, I don’t think I would have believed you. But meanwhile — I have been fortunate to have nothing but support and understanding at every step of the way —
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Last time going to work as a resident!!! Can hardly even believe I just typed that
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I just found out my 3 yo nephew calls the front desk at their apartment complex to say goodnight to whomever answers.
And my heart grew three sizes larger 🥰
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Nothing to see here just a nephrology fellow happy to work at the
#1
children’s hospital!!!
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The afternoon lighting at my new place is just 😭 so good
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Will I get bored of this skyline? Maybe eventually but not for a long while 🤷🏻♂️
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Honestly love this photo of me finishing the 10k 👋🏻
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Good morning and reminder that we do not dialyze for hypercreatininemia nor does a low creatinine on CRRT indicate renal recovery 🫠
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Was getting drinks with a couple of my wonderful senior residents (who happen to be ladies), and a man sees me with them and remakes “you’re a lucky guy!”
Disarmingly, I reply: “Thank you! Also, I’m gay as hell. 🌈”
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Can we all stop pretending we like IPAs yet?
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A little sad to be missing NYC
#pride
this weekend when I had just the perfect tank
#Pride2021
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What if I said it’s feeling like a…
Reds hot summer? 🚨⚾️
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Officially adding “successfully driving through unplowed snow and ice to get to work” to my CV
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Proud to have passed an exam to be a certified bilingual provider for mis pacientes hispanohablantes. Now if anyone wants to teach me the remaining 6500+ languages still in active use worldwide I’m missing…
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Me to my 4 yo nephew who’s pointing to different body parts:
“So which organ helps you breathe?”
“The lungs.”
“What about pump the blood?”
“The heart.”
“What cleans the blood?”
“The oxygen?”
And thus began his first lesson in renal physiology
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Me trying to pretend I’m in a good mood while arguing with an insurance company about the need for a life saving medication
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At the request of a follower…
…January to December 2023 fitness journey!
Shout out to working with
@DeanTTraining
for the better part of the year for feedback and accountability
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Finished my first 3 days of fellowship and have already ordered hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis + seen so many children whose lives have been changed forever by transplants. I picked the coolest specialty ever! 🥰
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Being on a pathology rotation is giving me so much respect for pathologists — so detail oriented and thorough. Thank a pathologist today! 🤓🔬
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motion to start calling it "dropsy" instead of "edema" again
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My James Bond moment at the wedding Photo Booth?
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Officially done with rounds as a
@CincyPedNeph
fellow! Had a great week pre-attending and excited to join the
@lurie_nu
group soon 🥰🥳
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Ready for 3 years of “Hi I’m Dr. Hambrick, you can call me Rhodes, yes my name tag says Horace, Rhodes is my middle name” 🥰
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I don’t hate the lighting at my parents’ house 😇
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In retrospect is anyone else bothered that “perfect attendance” was ever an award?
Like some kids get appendicitis! Or pneumonia…or need a mental health week because their parents pass away…
?!
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My father (
@hphambrickmd
) is a general pediatrician. We are both on call this weekend. He just told me he was going to check potassiums in all the babies in the nursery via heelstick and call me if they were elevated. If that’s not trolling…😆
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When your apartment finally starts to look livable 😍
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Merry Christmas from me and my fav little Christmas angel atop the tree at home 🎄
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Sharing with gratitude, excitement, and astonishment 🤯:
I was just awarded an Early Career Award from the Thrasher Research Fund for my work to understand the pharmacokinetics of antibiotics in kids on CRRT.
Grateful does not even begin to describe!
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Decided this was my fav selfie of 31 — watch this space for 32!
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Shout out to mom for saying “the lighting in this greenhouse is great, let me take your picture”
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Convincing an entire family to get vaccinated against COVID-19 will NEVER get old 🙌🏼
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Every year I’m like “wow we don’t deserve summer”
then I realize I’ve just been abused by New England
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Thumbs up for the afterglow of Taylor and the first day of service as a third year fellow …!!
PGY-6 (AKA my 10th year of medical training), here goes ✨
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A plant seems somehow the most appropriate birthday gift to get from a family as a pediatrician. Here’s to continued growth and flourishing for all children 🌱🌳
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I guess I own a car now?! First time in 7 years lol
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@viewtiful_joe__
While as a chemistry major I loved all of my chem classes I agree that the complexity of o-chem (multi-step syntheses? stoichiometry??) has largely not been applicable over the next 8 years of med school, residency, and fellowship...more intense stats and epi would be better
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That face when your niece is like
…are you my father?? 🥰
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And for good measure, photo evidence of me psyching myself up beforehand 😂
Had a great experience presenting my research regarding improving accuracy of drug dosing for kids receiving continuous dialysis at the NIH T32 annual clinical pharmacology trainee meeting
Thanks
@slgold777
and
@STangGirdwood
for the excellent mentorship and the opportunity
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People really out here prescribing vanc/zosyn like it’s 2016!!!
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To those taking this 100% literally: I appreciate your earnestness and would also like to introduce you to the word hyperbole :)
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My program director declared me the “nerdiest person in the room” during a divisional meeting today so I’ll be embracing that as a compliment for years to come 😇🤓
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I don’t have words to express how humbled and honored I am to have received the Frederick H. Lovejoy, Jr. Outstanding Senior Resident Award from
@TheBCRP
at my residency graduation today, and to be with my family to join in the virtual celebration.
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To everyone who dreamt of a white Christmas, I hope you’re happy
Meanwhile I am perfectly content staying inside 🎄☃️🪵🔥
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Happy “first day of seasonal beard” day to all who celebrate 🍂
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I’m quickly discovering that if you have a mustache people will have an OPINION about it
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I feel it should not be 75 and sunny in February if only because now I’m spoiled ☀️🥰
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Appreciating a sunny moment on a cold day ☀️
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It’s now official, as of today I have two more letters after my name!
Grateful for the opportunity to get a Masters in clinical and translational research from
@uofcincy
to learn about biostatistics and study design to inform my research as a pediatric nephrologist. 👨🏻🎓🎓
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Cutest fellowship grad gift commemorating the transition from Cincinnati
@CincyPedNeph
to Chicago
@lurie_nu
🥰
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Proud to be representing
@CincyClinPharm
and
@CincyPedNeph
at the
@ESCMID
2024 global congress in Barcelona!
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Giving my first ever oral presentation at a research conference tonight at the 2024
#AKICRRT
meeting, wish me luck!
And if you’re in San Diego, come learn about cefepime PK in AKI :)
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Wait...it's now 2024...which means it's the year I graduate from fellowship!!!
Finishing year 10 of medical training here we come...!!!
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Pardon some vanity as I celebrate turning 31 today and the body transformation I’ve had since 27 ☺️
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Continued the selfie game; had to capitolize on the time in DC 😉
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And with this week, my seasonal affective disorder is officially in remission 😍
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does it bother anyone else that it's "gentamicin" but then "tobramycin" and "azithromycin" and "clarithromycin" and "erythromycin"
like why is gent too fancy for the y? And why do aminoglycosides and macrolides have the same ending???
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Took everything in me not to take this cat home
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In very
#residency
fashion I got 3 ICU admissions in my last 4 hours of call but it’s over!!!!! See you later Boston 😭
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All I’m saying is, I moved to Cincinnati this year and now the Bengals are in the Super Bowl
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