Toxic positivity is pressuring people to look on the bright side. They have to suppress anxiety, anger, sadness, and grief. Healthy support is shielding people from the dark side. You invite them to express their pain, and show them they're not alone and won't feel it forever.

Just my sporadic Twitter check-in to say SURGERY IS THE BEST, YOU SHOULD DO IT.

So many things in healthcare were designed when the workforce was far less diverse, and we expected everyone else to just adapt to one "right" way. Some of these examples will resonate with you... and some will make you cringe. Are they really that hard to change? --Thread 🧵

That address on ratemyphysician.com etc comes directly from your NPI app

IM taught me habits that ended up being really important 1. Whenever you check calcium immediately after check albumin, just make it a habit to check them at the same time. 2. ALWAYS compare labs to patient baseline 3. Read the previous note, but verify info w/pt

New PGY-2 opening at Larkin Community Hospital for a Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency Program starting July 1st! Must have passed step 3 Inside The Match Advocates for IMGs IMG_stories #MedTwitter

Teach your kids to be kind rather than nice OMG Parenting @DrEmilyEdlynn Christina Dewey, MD, FAAP Dr. Mary Karapetian Alvord TRAstonDrs @DrRonnesia Candida Fink MD she/her

Hey #MedTwitter! I’m Amber Hannah a MS4 at FSU College of Medicine and I will be applying to #GeneralSurgery for #Match2023 🎉 Interested in improving health literacy, community engagement, and mentorship. I love fitness 🏋🏾‍♀️& I’m a foodie🥗! Excited to connect with you all this cycle!✨

New headshots 🤗 allow me to reintroduce myself: my name is Hana Baig and I’m a Howard University M4 applying #GenSurg for #Match2023! I’m a first gen Pakistani American passionate about surgical oncology. Excited to meet mentors & other future surgeons this cycle! #womeninsurgery

🗣 Calling all MS4s interested in SURGERY! Register for our #Match2023 kickoff event TOMORROW at 5PM Pacific to meet our Chair, Vice Chairs, and Residency Program Directors from SUSurgeryResidency Stanford Plastic Surgery and Stanford Vascular stanford.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Want to learn more about UTMB #SurgeryResidency? Join our first virtual #Match2023 meet & greet with faculty and residents on Aug 11th. See programs, #islandlife experience, & #surgical #innovation UTMB Health. We look forward to meeting you! utmb.us/6xq #medtwitter

#Match2023 #GenSurg Applicants: join us on 9/14 at 6:30pm ET and come hear more about why we love BIDMC Department of Surgery! Link to register in the flyer below. ⬇️

At its core residency is just a series of events where you slowly realize that you are, in fact, the right person to be making this decision/doing this procedure/having this conversation

Two years after the worst Monday of my life, I’m spending the evening after a (categorical) Gen surg shift cuddling this kitty who came into my life because of prelim year. Cherish the blessings along this crazy road. I promise they will be there 💗 #Match2023 #SOAP2023

To all the #unmatched physicians who graduate this year: Advice: Walk proudly across that stage. Do not let this moment take away from that timeless event where you cross into Physicianhood. That moment, my friends, is forever! You are a physician now. Celebrate it! #MedTwitter

1/ I had imagined what this day would be like. Played it out in my head and saw various iterations of me exploding in celebration. In some versions, I was doing the running man or, quite literally, running in triumphant circles, #MatchDay envelope in hand. "Wooo hooo!"

19/ That was supposed to be us, man. So. . . . if you didn't match? Or you love someone who didn't match? Know that I see you, okay? I feel you, too. But also know that the love that gets us to this point sustains us, too. Through this week and the ones to come. Okay?

There is so much lying in the SOAP from both sides, it what is necessary to survive. Awful, terrible, dehumanizing system, 0/10 would not recommend #soap2023

Our attitude in medicine absolutely needs to stop being, “I went through this terrible thing so the next generation should too” and instead be, “I went through this terrible thing and want no one to ever have to experience it again.”