Mentors are important in medical training but so are Anti-Mentors! The people you meet in medicine that you NEVER want to be like. There are SO many. Try to figure out how they got to be as they are. This can shape your career in more ways than you know.

has anyone performed a central line while seated on a stool or chair?? I struggle standing in all the sterile gear without getting so damn hot and pre-syncopal

We had the most traumatic code I’ve ever seen, got rosc, and everyone just went on with their morning like nothing happened and im still tearful 14 hours later. Residency is hard

Being an intern is wild bc I’ve been the only doctor awake in the icu for the last 5 hours

god bless icu nurses who wait for you to emerge from the call room to tell you about non urgent labs or events

someone stole my art line today and my attending made it up to me by letting me float the swan. A win is a win

every once in a while, I will throw my attending under the bus so hard. Like no, I cannot prescribe you fentanyl or ketamine for mild pain but I’ll talk to the attending The attending across the room: 😑

I may have failed 3 art line attempts today but I did my fastest ever IJ and my first IO

so tired on AM rounds I said “pull and pray” and “spank the vanc” instead of “let’s trial extubation and be ready for reintubation if needed and discontinue the vanc”

How I imagine my patient who left the icu Impella-free, off dobutamine, off dialysis after four specialists told him to go hospice - absolutely living out of pure spite and audacity

I slept through sign out this morning and my coworkers just let me keep sleeping in the call room. I woke up with my pants scrunched up like pantaloons, twisted in the sheet, sweaty, and had no idea where I was

Signed off on central lines, intubations and art lines. It’s been a successful icu month

I will officially never have to hold the intern pager again

picture this: sitting with charge in front of the icu tele monitor and watching your full code patient abruptly hit asystole. The HUSTLE

stop asking residents to come in early for a meeting

me: “ I recommend no caffeine after 1pm, at least 7 hours of sleep and eating at least 3 meals per day Also me: *sleeping <5 hr a night, drinking a double espresso at 6pm to get through my post shift workout and eating 75% of my calories in the form of free snacks

I feel like the chosen one when I’m the only IM resident at the surgery resident bar crawl

I was tasked with making an intern video with zero instruction and I fear I created a mini documentary…. I found out today they are usually only a couple minutes

An incoming intern asked me what’s in my hospital day bag…. Inside my bag was 21 RX bars from the caf, my stethoscope, AirPods, and a bottle of green pepper cholula

sometimes I feel like I don’t know what’s going on in the world and then I remember it’s not normal for people to work 80 hour weeks and study another 10 hrs a week: the average person has 40 more hours to know about political events