We continue Women in Medicine Month by highlighting Lung Ladies holding leadership roles in ICUs! Parkland MICU director: Dr. Bethany Lussier FaceDownSatsUp Parkland Critical Care Service Chief: Dr. Catherine Chen Clements MICU assistant director: Dr. Roma Mehta Roma Mehta, MD

The day will come when he figures out the tooth fairy has reused the same $1 bill for the last 6 teeth he lost.

#CHEST2023 Recap: Pulmonologists provided guidance on the current landscape of NIV and home mechanical ventilation devices. Read more in CHEST Daily News: hubs.la/Q024_YNp0 FaceDownSatsUp #SleepMed #SleepMedicine

A pretty boss presentation by Dr Catherine Chen on AI in Pulmonary Critical Care. Bringing ‘boss’ back. #CHEST2023 UTSW Women in Pulmonary and Critical Care

A little morning deep truth to go with my coffee. DaiWai Olson

Monday 11/20/2023, contact for video link!! Pregnancy and NMD respiratory failure by Karin Provost MD CHEST Sleep Medicine Network Reshma Amin Jason Ackrivo

Me: “You stink. Shower time! Now! Let’s go” 7 yo: “Best I can offer is Saturday”

‘But I didn’t put my mouth on the airport seat mom, it’s just my lips’ And this is why we don’t travel. Or venture out in public. This is how it ends. 🤢

Quote of the day “Respironics’ behavior over the past few years has been akin to auto-amputation from the respiratory world, followed by self-immolation” - H.S.

Was told 3 times ‘mommy you stop talking now’ by a 2 year old. And even now I’m not even sure that I was talking.

Midodrine = the Spanx of medicine

It’s all fun and games until your socks get wet

Wish I could charge an insurance company a fee for every unnecessary peer to peer. Or peer to -“peer”

22 minutes into a meeting and not a single slide so far. Part of me is loving it. The other part is silently screaming ‘Lies! They’re selling you LIES!’

OPEN MIC: bring a download, a difficult / interesting case / questions to share This Thursday 3P CST

With age and night shifts I think my filter has melted. Too soon for Respironics jokes?

Me: stop calling me old- it’s making me old. Also me: I want it 5- Star spicy. But also ask if they deliver tums.

Wait! Is that the ‘PEEPs talking PAP’ crew at ATS? Reshma Amin Jason Ackrivo

My coffee isn’t weight-based; I’m wildly under-dosed for this job.

Mom blog day # I lost track. Took the 3 year old to 7’s yellow belt ceremony. All professional& serious-all the families are there watching. My kid in her pink flowered dress is busy balling up napkins & chucking them at random strangers going 'you wanna go? You wanna go?'