dr purl, md
@dr_purl
Followers
471
Following
945
Media
158
Statuses
8,121
pgy2 🐑 she/her 🐑 prison abolitionist 🐑 follow for resident wealth & hellness
Stolen Land
Joined April 2020
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
U STEAL MY HEART 1STMEET
• 121918 Tweets
重陽の節句
• 86346 Tweets
昭和99年
• 67165 Tweets
WHERE DO WE GO
• 61541 Tweets
高市さん
• 57000 Tweets
BTS is 7
• 53960 Tweets
Official MV
• 51180 Tweets
Yusuf Tekin
• 44767 Tweets
バースデー
• 44087 Tweets
Good Monday
• 38777 Tweets
#CDTVライブライブ
• 37360 Tweets
LINGORM CHEFPOM
• 21296 Tweets
ジャミル
• 20680 Tweets
フルサイズ
• 18388 Tweets
gelinlik
• 17142 Tweets
神ちゃん
• 14510 Tweets
PIERROT
• 10769 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
i need to rebalance my 4 humors: rage, spite, defiance & professionalism
1
7
31
my m*d student saw a patient today & came back & told me “it’s giving SIRS”
28
156
2K
in this house we believe patients are not “non adherent”; rather, we document their barriers to accessing care
4
79
519
yeah residency is hard or whatever but i am only now realizing how awful m*dical school was
3
3
98
today an ob resident told me that vascular is hard bc "all those pts made poor choices, unlike obstetrics, which is just a process of life" & i am still in a snit
11
1
70
surgical attending yelling “all of you need a union” & gesturing wildly at the field is exactly my friday vibe
1
5
55
meeting with the deans to talk
#WaiveTheMCAT
tomorrow. sending them our agenda tonight which i think is a power move
3
0
51
my neighbor chooses today, exactly 1 week before i take the USMLE Step 1, to learn to play the tuba
3
0
41
i don’t want to be labeled a g*nner, but anyone else feel like there’s so much we didn’t learn in first year? and if we don’t learn it now it’s like we are scheduling it for dedicated
11
1
40
poorly-controlled diabetes is not a choice! pregnancy is not inevitable! how does it feel to medicalize birth as your profession?
1
0
36
@juliaisobela
i called to report a needle stick injury, when they asked me where i stuck myself i confidently answered "OR 20." the occ med person was not amused
1
0
36
labor & delivery is actually just run by cops, like in what other part of the hospital do you need a urine tox screen simply for existing
1
6
33
did not get a spot on our admissions committee. now i can just organize for admissions reform without having to tone it down for the deans
#WaiveTheMCAT
2
4
25
they tell us to be empathetic but when a pt says "this hospital is bad for my mental health" & i nod & say "same," the attendings don't like it
1
1
27
pleased to announce i won a tiny obscure scholarship i don't think anyone else to applied to, which will be a drop in the bucket of my educational costs. hooray!
1
0
25
thinking about this more and it’s EMBLEMATIC that the Bar is being cancelled to avoid suing while med folks are risking their health to sit for MCAT/Step
1
8
21
love my OSCE feedback of, “student refused to sugar coat & is unsettlingly honest”
2
0
23
ppl keep asking if L&D has sparked baby fever for me? & i am here to confirm that it has instead brought on baby chills
1
0
22
@juxtanother
remember that overdressed is a fake concept invented by ppl who don't want you to feel hot & smart!
0
0
22
the most upsetting aspect of healthcare is how much of it is delivered by people whose hobbies are “golf” & “tacos”
2
1
20
shout out to my first attending ever to say, i don't care why this pt is incarcerated, this doesn't change their need for surgery
1
0
18
every time i get too high on the "i'm hot, funny, & educated" horse, i take a trip to the car mechanic & get told i'm a fucking moron
4
1
19
3rd year m*d students really need space to unpack some of the trauma we witness
1
0
18
shout out to the fourth year m*d student who emailed me late the night before his rotation started asking if he could have a “virtual day”
4
0
17
from our dean re:
#WaiveTheMCAT
"we have deliberated and drafted a proposal. This has been sent...for review to ensure that all the faculty and staff present during our discussion are in full agreement with the plan"
cautiously hopeful i guess
3
2
17
i don’t care if my doctor has tattoos, i just care if they are good tattoos
0
6
17
today at my dr’s appt they asked me if i had been to the hospital in the last 30 days
1
0
16
"students appear less engaged w the switch to p/f clerkship grading" ok but maybe students are also trucking thru clerkships during a global pandemic
0
0
16
my new bit is asking the fellow, “how do you mean?” every time she calls a patient cr*zy
1
1
14
@favproblemchild
i hope your reporting system is as janky as ours, & that the report will languish in some unread pile for years
1
0
15
just pushed our
#WaiveTheMCAT
petition out to the classes--planning to get it to our dean of admissions first thing monday
2
3
13
being a sub-i is wild, sometimes ppl are yelling at me for how i put on band-aids & other times ppl are stunned when i make a phone call on my own
0
0
15
on rounds today, “FUCK the jail” needless to say i am being precepted by an icon
1
0
14
trying to obtain an h&p while a pt’s roommate mansplains the rules of quidditch on the phone is a hell i don’t wish on my worst enemies
1
1
13
love how everyone has lots to say about premeds posting mcat scores, but stays silent in the
#WaiveTheMCAT
discussions. hooray professionalism
2
2
14
i love when things aren’t understood, bc it means i don’t have to understand them
0
3
14
nothing quite like the two straight white men in small group announcing they would be skipping the lecture on minority stress theory & race based trauma bc it won't be tested tomorrow
3
0
12
today my barber's daughter approached me about developing a compression stocking/lingerie cross over product w her, which is to say being in m*dicine is WILD
1
0
13
just once in medical school i want to hear from someone who is sober but did not do 12-steps
6
0
13
applying to residency is wild since u literally spend 1000s after not working for 3+ yrs to secure a minimum wage job guaranteed to exploit u
1
0
12
ok but make it 80 hrs w 1 day for dissociating
Congratulations on working 40 hours! You are now free to dissociate for 2 days
435
53K
288K
0
4
13
asked my resident about unionization efforts & he replied "uhh unions are a bad word" OK buddy your program is a bad program
1
0
12
a pt asked me if i was 16 today, to which my only response is, some of us spent our twenties indoors & have perfect skin
0
0
12
i will not apologize for saying i suspect an MI in a simulated situation!
1
0
13
"thank you for talking to the m*d student" is such a condescending phrase, i can't take it any more
2
0
12
male obgyn program director is a misogynist!
in other breaking news, a golden retriever was spotted in Seattle
0
0
12
we are operating on an incarcerated pt with critical limb ischemia & my attending goes “it’s almost criminal how they limit these patients’ access to care”
yes. yes it is.
0
0
10
told my resident today that i chose m*dicine for the "competing agendas & interpersonal drama" & think he is sort of afraid of me now
0
1
11
i know i should be sympathetic but my patience is limited for med school applicants whose parents are in medicine
2
0
12
essential reading for anyone thinking about submitting a gold humanism essay
0
3
12
me, whenever i hear someone call a pt “cr*zy”
1
0
12
clin ed saying that background checks & drug tests are a "sTuDeNt ExPeNsE"?!
i know what crimes i did & what drugs i took, this should be an admin expense
0
0
12
ppl think they've seen a competitive, surgical sub-specialty sub-i but they haven't seen me realizing i could consent this pt in russian in front of the chief of the division
1
0
11
as fourth year m*d students we are either so on top of our game or pushing the code blue button instead of the light switch, no in between
2
0
12
i love that the most reliable information we have about applying to residencies comes from google docs maintained by anonymous strangers w whom we are competing
1
0
12
a sense of impending doom, but its bc i go back to m*d school on monday
0
1
11
a lot of med students talk about advocacy but decline to do anything that makes them even a little uncomfy
0
2
11
idk who needs to hear this but there is no one word on your ERAS application that will make or break yr future
2
0
10
is it unprofessional to catfish your med school’s admissions staff? asking for me
2
0
11
i wonder how much cancer presentation is delayed due to fatfobia, so many ppl think losing >50lbs in a couple months is a good thing
1
1
9
@blondemedSJW
marriage is not the only important type of relationship, this is a hill i will die on
0
0
11
for all us privileged white women w p/f clerkship grading next year: this is the time to fuck things up for social justice
1
1
10
to my haters: i grew up w russian music teachers, nothing you say in the OR can make me cry
2
0
11
i've been on anesthesia elective for a week now & handed fentanyl multiple times & yet somehow i never felt like i was at risk of spontaneously passing out
1
0
10
love that ERAS can just undergo scheduled downtime during the one month of the year it is actually needed
1
0
11
do i buy new OR shoes or a new vibrator? they both seem essential to success on this & future sub-i ‘s
1
0
11
closing w the fellow today & she drops that her husband studies “criminology, like how genetics lead to criminals”
2
0
11
a group of mds at another institution contacted me, the ~corresponding author~, & want to collaborate on a study
is this real life!!!!
1
0
10
hi i’m putting on my business casual & chipping my car out of ice to go to school to palpate a plastic prostate at 7 am on a saturday
1
0
11
i love that the chief who spent every day yelling at me & berating me for a month saw fit to write that i am among the best students he’s trained in the last decade
2
0
11
this is my motto & yet it is so consistently at odds w my choice to be a surgical resident
1
0
10
our little unrecognized sub-i union has decided we are not coming in on monday, bless
1
0
10
vascular surgeon brought up physician unions and let me sew part of the patch onto the carotid and told me i was a natural
1
0
9
my friend & i are applying to be M4 sim clinic preceptors next yr. my platform is abolishing the short white coat, hers is using the stethoscope as a flail
0
0
9
told my mother i was looking at residencies
her: so is that affiliated w your m*d school
me: no, it’s residency
her: so more school?
me: no, it’s working, but w training, & i’ll hopefully join a union
her: so they will pay you?
friends i can’t do this for another year
3
0
10
how much longer until i can moonlight at the American Girl Hospital
0
0
10
i love that if i am even 5 min late my entire pRoFfEsSiOnAl career flashes before my eyes but the clerkship coordinator can straight up not inform a site i am coming & face 0 repercussions
0
0
10
signing up to be a nude model as my last hurrah in m*dical school
1
0
10
my parents acted all grossed out when i told them about an amputation, but no one asks me if i want to hear about stocks or real estate!!
0
1
10
