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she/her ◦ pgy-1 ◦ tech → medicine ◦ tck ◦ posts are not medical advice / not the views of my institution

Texas, USA
Joined January 2012
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some big dude covered in tattoos smoking a cigar infront of my apartment “hey idk if anyone has ever told you but…. you are phenomenal at parallel parking — I’ve seen you a few times like ‘she ain’t gonna make it’ and then you do, incredible”
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first day of gen surg residency and truly still floating I feel so lucky
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have you heard of medical school
no bad time to remember that as an adult you can’t actually be in trouble with another adult. they can be annoyed at you, misunderstand you, dislike your choices, dislike *you*- but you’re not in trouble! because you can’t be!
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hands down the best thing I saw in Japan was a 12 year old wearing a tshirt with a picture of a shrimp on it that just said SCOLIOSIS
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if anyone wants to let me know how to flip my app to full send gen surgery this late, let me know
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have gotten conflicting info about research yrs/ aways / et al., will meet with home program soon, but love all the advice I can get
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unfortunately love OR and have loved all my teams and cannot conceptualize being done at the end of this rotation
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propranolol needs to give its extra “r” to bupropion
we all agree that bupropion should be buproprion right
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no I actually love that my apartment waited til I flipped to nights to demo the unit above me all day long
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prerounding:
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medical school
what is it called when you lock in & crash out at the same time
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My younger sister has CF. Her whole life we have emotionally prepared for her to not make it past her 30s. Now, I will get to see her live a long life, maybe start a family or dive into a career. It makes me sad how we've villainized biomedical science when it has changed lives.
Too many people take biomedical innovation for granted.
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worst thing about third year definitely the many hours of random busy work that we have to do on top of working > than full time while also trying to study for shelf exams and step 2 and pretend to know what we wanna do for the rest of our lives and VSLO and ERAS and pubs and
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like I literally just drove an hr to take a shelf, drove an hour back to fiancé’s, have been doing bs busy work for the past 2 hrs and still have like 3 more hrs of work, JUST got next rotation’s schedule with orientation on Monday 1 hr away from actual rotation site….
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and this just keeps going til July and there’s a random step 2 practice exam somewhere in there (either during surgery or OBGYN) like ok this makes sense
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Wake up babe a new PCR protocol for eggs just dropped
The perfect approach to boiling an egg, researchers found, was cooking it in 100°C water for 2 minutes, then 30°C water for 2 minutes, and repeating for a total of 32 minutes. scim.ag/4hEpmiK @NewsfromScience
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Replying to @jasonryanmd
Clever way of them to address the supply-demand of ER attendings by paying another year of resident salary rather than an attending salary and getting the same experienced physician
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constantly ignoring the emails begging me to declare a specialty
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Submitted an NIH grant today in hopes that the NIH will still exist in the near future to support biomedical research. I'm an optimist!
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live from Galveston @KPRC2
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