Umme H. Faisal, MBBS
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Since everyone is talking about CPR these days, I think this is the perfect time to narrate this story.
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In 1880’s the body of a young girl was found in the River Seine in Paris. Her body showed no signs of physical injury, so it was suspected to be death due to suicide.
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If you're a med student or a doctor, chances are that you've definitely heard of the Tetralogy of Fallot. It is a congenital condition caused by a combination of four heart defects (Image below from Wikipedia). However, this thread is not to teach you about TOF. 🧵 1/?
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As doctors, not only do we treat but we also have a responsibility to teach and dispel misinformation. Dr Philips
@theliverdr
is amongst the loudest voices against misinformation and one of the bravest people on this platform. In solidarity with Dr Philips.
Bengaluru Civil Court passes ex-parte injunction order to X to suspend the account of Dr Cyriac Abby Philips (
@theliverdr
).
The order was passed in a suit filed by Himalaya Wellness Corporation which alleged that
@theliverdr
made defamatory allegations against the company.
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She was given the name Anne - Resusci Anne or Resuscitation Anne.
So, if you’ve been trained in CPR, you’ve seen her and even kissed her. But now, you also know her story. :)
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I'm going to be on covid duties again. I hope to come out of this alive like I did the past 4-5 times.
Send prayers. And maybe happy memes. I'm v exhausted and worried.
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Trivia alert:
@stethospeaks
Great story as usual! Let me add a fun fact :)
ResusciAnne was also marketed as “Annie”, and CPR providers in the US were trained to check for response by asking, “Annie, are you okay? Are you okay, Annie?”
And that was incorporated into the lyrics of Smooth Criminal by MJ!
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What are the chances of my starting word being the correct solution to today's wordle? Unbelievable. Absolutely unbelievable.
Wordle 226 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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I've been on covid duty for a really long time now. I'm exhausted.
And I'm absolutely appalled to see people moving about without masks or social distancing.
I have no idea how I'm going to pull through the third wave.
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We have all been taught in school that Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) is the energy currency of the cell. However, what I learnt fairly recently is that ATP has an Indian connect.
As someone who loves Medical History, I began reading more.
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We lost Abbu when I was 10, my sister was 8. I still remember the funeral where everyone pitied my mother for having two daughters to look after. "Beta nahi hai?" everyone asked.
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I have this very disturbing image in my head of micro-organisms laughing at us every time someone takes an antibiotic for a viral fever.
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My Ammi retired after 36 years of service to humanity as a primary school teacher.
Not only did she single handedly bring up two daughters to be doctors but she also touched countless lives with her kindness.
I'm so proud of her. ❤️
I want to be a teacher like my Ammi someday.
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Every morning when I wake up at 5 AM and leave the warmth of my bed and sit down to study, I keep telling myself that this will work out eventually. It has to.
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A mortician at the morgue was enthralled by the beauty of her enigmatic half-smile.
“Her beauty was breathtaking and showed few signs of distress at the time of passing. So bewitching that I knew beauty as such must be preserved”, he said & ordered a plaster cast of her face.
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The death mask was displayed, hoping that someone could identify her, and while no one did,she quickly captured the attention of the world.
The mask,known as L'Inconnue de la Seine (The Unknown Woman of the Seine), was widely reproduced - a morbid treasure among art collectors.
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Her beautiful face became highly coveted as a piece of art, gracing the walls of homes and businesses across Europe, so much so that Albert Camus called her “the drowned Mona Lisa, comparing her to Da Vinci’s famous half-smile beauty.
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I left my Littmann in the hospital and got it back.
If this is not a miracle, I don't know what is.
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Thalidomide ☠️ and a brilliant woman physician-scientist who saved countless children from life altering birth defects 👩⚕️, Thread 🧵
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In 1960, a group of doctors perfected a new life-saving technique called cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). To properly train individuals in this revolutionary technique the doctors determined a special training doll was needed. They wanted something life-like.
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Her body was put on public display at the Paris Morgue. This was a gruesome practice employed by the morgue in an attempt to identify the unknown. Despite the fact that a lot of people visited the Morgue, nobody could identify the body.
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He developed a torso or whole-body mannequin which simulates an unconscious patient requiring CPR. He wanted his mannequin to have a natural appearance. He also felt that a female doll would seem less threatening to trainees.
Oh, That’s when he remembered!
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Flight Attendant: Is there a doc
..*barely completes sentence*
My mother: *beaming with pride, raising hand* Here!! My daughter, my daughter is a doctor!
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I went into med school wanting to be a specialist, but now I only want affordable health care for everyone.
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In 1955, Asmund Laerdal saved the life of his young son, grabbing the boy's lifeless body from the water just in time and clearing his airways. Laerdal at that time was a successful Norwegian toy manufacturer, specialising in making children's dolls from soft plastics.
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Laerdal was thus approached to make a training aid for the brand new live saving technique - CPR. His son's brush with death a few years earlier made him very receptive to the proposition.
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A lot of new people have followed me, so I'll go ahead and introduce myself.
Hi, I'm Umme! (pronounced as um-may) I'm a doctor in the Indian city of Kolkata.
Besides medical history, I tweet about the healthcare system in India and struggles of a junior doctor. (Rants, mostly)
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Being a doctor during this pandemic is both very depressing & uplifting.
Numerous times during the day, I want to apologise to patients for the broken healthcare system that they have to navigate.
But on most days, I am convinced that if not medicine there's nothing else I'd do.
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This is to tell you the story of a terrific woman who is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with the Tetralogy of Fallot. You guessed that right, we're speaking of Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig! 2/
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While working as an intern in a busy govt hospital during peak covid, I saw first hand that there was an acute shortage of blood and blood products in our blood bank. That's when I decided to be a routine donor.
It's one of the easier ways to save lives.
(My 9th donation).
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While in the other stories, she was portrayed as a young, innocent girl in love who was abandoned by her lover when he found that she was pregnant, causing her enough distress to go the River Seine and drown herself.
However, it was another drowning that immortalised her.
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She became the subject storytellers who tried to weave stories leading to her death. In some of these she was an enchantress enchanting young men, causing them to do unthinkable things.
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It was a shitty week until morning rounds today, when a patient's family member told my HOD, "This doctor is very nice, she explains everything and she also solved our problem" and my attending replied in Bengali by saying "She's the best we have on our team".🥺
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Etymology fun fact: The arteries in the neck are called "carotids," from the Greek word "karotides", relating to the word "katotikos" (to stupefy) and "karos" (deep sleep).
The ancient Greeks used it/knew that compression of the carotid arteries would produce unconsciousness.
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Today, I got "dressed" and felt pretty in ages, before heading out receive a prize for honours in surgery in Final MBBS exam.
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The best thing that young people can do for themselves is read something informative every day. Doesn't matter if its a page from a book, an entire article or a blog post. Just read.
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What a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to read, to enjoy, to love.
PS : I'm not sorry for the feet spam. :') My socks are cute and they match the flowers. They deserve all the attention. 😌
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I correctly diagnosed a case of aortic dissection today! Yay!
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Today a patient recognised me outside the hospital. She was a frail, old lady. She showed me a scar on her forehead and said I had sutured it and that she is grateful. I don't remember doing that. But she thanked me and I kept blushing like an idiot. 🙈
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Finally got my medical council registration number. Don't feel like a quack anymore. 😂
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Prefixed as "Dr" for life.
This one is for my Ammi who worked tirelessly to make me a doctor. I wish Abbu was here to see me get convocated, I'm sure he would be very proud.
Alhamdulillah for everything!
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I completed my MBBS just this year from a government hospital in Kolkata paying only ₹4500 per semester ( i.e ₹9000 p.a) for 9 semesters. Let that sink in.
The ENTIRE course cost me around ₹50,000 over a span of 4.5 years.
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The problem with people who were good students in school is that they've grown up believing that hard work is directly proportional to success in life.
Additionally, their sense of self worth depends solely on the amount of time they spend being productive.
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Some teachers change lives.
When I lost my dad I was 10 years old. My class teacher, Miss N, came to the funeral with a stack of letters from all of my classmates - letters of encouragement that felt like a warm hug.
It was a tiny gesture that made 10 y.o me feel not alone.
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Now imagine treatment advice in this handwriting.
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But Ammi turned a deaf ear to all whisperings and brought us up single handedly, facing all sorts of hardships. She always pushed us to do well academically. "Education is your only weapon" , she said.
This year I became a doctor. Two years later my sister will get her degree.
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Alhamdulillah, we have another Dr Faisal in the family as
@hippo_creates
graduated from medical school. After my father's death, my mother raised the two of us all alone. I could see that she was very happy and proud today, I wish Abbu was here too. ❤️
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My mother is an Iron woman, the epitome of strength and determinantion. She deserves to be celebrated everyday but I'm sharing her story on
#womensday
TLDR: An educated woman empowers little girls to follow their dreams.
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As a woman in science, she left a mark on the world. Taussig grew up in a country where "it wasn’t worth educating women because they would get married and give up medicine." Taussig proved these assumptions wrong. She is today known as the Mother of Pediatric Cardiology. 32/
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Antibiotic resistance is scary. There is no greater horror story than finding out that your patient has a multidrug-resistant infection. Here's a timeline of the discovery of antibiotics and the development of Antimicrobial Resistance. This terrifies me.
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“You've probably never heard of Dr. Yellapragada Subba Rao, yet because he lived you may be well and alive today; because he lived you may live longer"
- Doron K. Antrim
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In the year 1775 in England, a surgeon named Percivall Pott published his work as “Chirurgical Observations”. In it he described Scrotal Carcinoma, a malignant cancer of the scrotum. What was interesting was that he observed that this cancer was seen mostly in chimney boys.
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Deep rooted misogyny under the guise of tasteless humour.
Why would Indian med twitter be any different from sexist medical colleges?
If this is how male doctors see their female colleagues or juniors, what hope do we have left from anyone else?
Maybe it was funny in the movie, but it certainly isn't a funny/tasteful meme.
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Everyday I return from work to find that mum is already waiting with the door slightly ajar and tea already prepared. She then sits at the dining table as I sip my tea and asks me how my day was. I tell her everything about the day like I used to do when I was a school kid.
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I went into medicine wanting to do big things. Now I just want to do little things consistently that add to big things.
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You don't go into medicine to look at patients and judge them for their choices or their existence. You must treat sans judgement and you must advise what is best for them. That's it. You're not in a position to judge.
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*** When I was reading about Dr Taussig, I realised that Vivien Thomas needs a thread of his own. His role was largely overlooked due to racism and he wasn't given due credit - academically or otherwise.
Stay tuned for his story! It needs to be told and retold.
End/
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Thread of writing resources that have helped me improve my writing: 🧵
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Hi, this is your very friendly but dehydrated frontliner!
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Etymology fun fact: The thyroid gland is usually described as being butterfly-shaped, but its name has nothing to do with butterflies. The Greek word thyreos refers to an oblong shield used by soldiers. These soldiers were referred to as "thyreophoroi" because of those shields!
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I wish my father was around to see me be the person I have become. I guess I wouldn't be so clueless if he was still here.
16 years but it still feels like yesterday.
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I've not had pharyngitis for over a year now. Earlier I always had sore throat after every OPD. This is proof that masks work. And this is the only reason I'm going to stick to wearing masks in the hospital forever.
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Be the senior you wished to have when you were younger.
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I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings but I think there's an increase in the number of patients presenting with covid like symptoms in the past few days.
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I absolutely love the fact that 'oxymoron' is an oxymoron because oxus is Greek for sharp and moros is Greek for dull. So 'oxymoron' literally means sharply foolish!
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@venkymd
Sir, I was studying ACLS and I began wondering why the dummy looks a certain way. Then I spent rest of the study time on the Internet, digging up information. :)
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I left my hostel room today where I stayed throughout my MBBS and Internship and House-staffship.
A few juniors hugged me goodbye and cried.
I couldn't stop crying on my way back. Left behind so many memories.
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Today I lost a patient who had a child who was of the same age I was when I lost my dad. I tried my best but couldn't save her.
Some days in medicine just feel like you've been hit on the face by a massive truck load of sorrow.
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It's a beautiful Sunday.
Also, look at my very cute socks. :')
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"If you're stupid enough to dream it and stubborn enough to chase it, eventually you'll get it."
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I'm glad that as a freshly graduated MBBS doctor, I get to ask such questions and my seniors don't make a joke out of it by posting on twitter. Oh yes, and they also answer my questions extremely patiently.
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I began listening to audio books at 1.5x then 1.8x and now I can comfortably follow what's being said at 2.5x. The Human brain is amazing.
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If you’re a student of Medicine, you’ve most certainly heard of HeLa cells. This is a thread about the person from whom these cells were harvested, explaining what was special about this woman, who was recently featured in an HBO movie, ”The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”.
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I'm just very excited that Ramadan is almost here and my small family (mum, sis and me) will be having sehri and iftar together after SOOOOO many years!!! 💃✨💫
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I am from a middle class family. My sister and I were raised by a single mother. I was able to study in a government medical college only because I got a good rank and more importantly because the fees were affordable.
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I went to med school having binge-watched House MD. Imagine my horror when I realised that:
A. No, you don't get to play doctor from day 1.
And B. No, nobody irl diagnoses things like Dr. House does.
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I find myself thinking of my father everyday, after all these years. I would be a very different person if he were alive today. This isn't grief anymore. It is just a gaping hole in my heart that cannot be filled.
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I was going through my old things at home when I came across this book. My father had bought this from College Street in Kolkata. It was a yearly ritual - we went to Kolkata during Pujo vacation and dad bought us every book we wanted. Little did I know that it would be our last.
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It's dengue season here.
70% of my conversation with patient's family members is about how Caripill/ Banana leaf/kiwi are useless for increasing platelet count. 😓
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If a patient tells you that they are taking antidepressants, you should realise that they trust you enough to talk about it. Most doctors I know start looking down upon such patients & classify their symptoms as "functional". This is SO wrong.
This is a hill I'll die upon.
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I was smiling underneath the mask like it's going to make a difference to the weird photograph.
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I love the hospital. I love it more in the wee hours of the morning when the whole world is in a profound, lucid slumber. It is different walking through the ward at this hour, looking over people curled in their beds - their faces relaxed. I hope they're dreaming happy dreams.
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Being easy to work with is such an underrated career skill.
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Unpopular opinion: I feel its important to take internship seriously and if the need be, take a year or two & work in different settings to figure out what you want. You may not know what sort of a doctor you'll be,but you'll definitely get an idea of what you don't want to be.
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I began medical school thinking that the big hospitals were the edifices of healthcare, only to realise by the end of it that it's the PHCs that are the foundation stone upon which the entire system stands.
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Meanwhile, her deafness continued to worsen. In order to get over this impediment, she began to “listen with her fingertips” to her young patients’ hearts. She was eventually so proficient at it that she wasn’t inferior to a paediatrician with normal hearing and a steth. 13/
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I FINALLY GOT AN INTERN!!! Can't wait to teach them everything I've learnt in the last year!
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I am forever going to be amused by the confidence of stupid men and under confidence of brilliant women.
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The ability to write well is often underrated and the ability to speak well is often overrated.
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ASHA workers get work done despite the failed system, not because of it. No body should have to go through such hardships, without adequate child care support that too, to do their job.
ASHA worker , Smt Manati Kumari
from Latehar District in Jharkhand
carrying immunization vaccines in a vaccine carrier with her own child tied on the back.
These are the heroes our society needs. 🙌🏻
She is a real warrior.
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