I want to spend a week living in the universe where we domesticated raccoons instead of dogs. You know they'd just be hanging out in your house drinking coca cola and trying to figure out what to watch on Netflix.

making kidney memes instead of working on the meat of my presentation: some things never change

This fantastic new Review discusses the prostate as a sexual organ & how treatment for prostate cancer can affect quality of life in people from sexual and gender minorities, especially those who engage in receptive anal intercourse. Read it here: rdcu.be/dcTvf

PSA: Your period should not 🩸last longer than 7 days 🩸interfere with your life 🩸happen more than monthly 🩸require product changes more than every 2 hours 🩸have clots larger than a quarter 🩸cause debilitating pain 🩸require double product coverage 🩸make you anemic

“I think I’ll name her Ellie, short for Eliquis” - my friend naming their new dog

When a patient says they recently ate "home preserved fish" and they have vision changes 🚩 🚩 🚩 🚩

It's heartbreaking how many of my patients get complimented on their (unintentional) weight loss when the reason is cancer Hardly a novel observation that we tie too many snap judgments to body mass but your understanding of someone else's changing appearance may be skin-deep

saving this to show One Very Specific Patient, did not have "hank green making excellent cancer memes" on my 2023 bingo card but here we are??

when i started intern year w/way too much energy, i thought (to quote the The Mountain Goats) "everybody's got their limits, nobody's found mine." by spring, i knew my exact limits: after 18 hours on shift or 9 days (ish, of 12 hour shifts) in a row, i'm not a good doctor

Goddamn I forgot about the time this happened to me, what the actual fuck

1664 clinic visits. 146 babies delivered. 47 twenty-four hr call shifts. 8 classmates. 3 personal bouts with COVID. 2 board exams. 1 donor nephrectomy (mine) 1 splenectomy (not mine...long story) 1 board certified family doctor! Countless: grace, tears, RRTs, COVID.

It's extremely surreal to realize repeatedly that I'm an attending now. Is it just??? Like this forever???

🧵regarding several ways in which you can inadvertently damage the tissues when approximating them with sutures. These are particularly important to recognize when the tissue is thin or fragile, because this is when you may not get away with using sloppy technique. (1/ )

who is responsible for the absolutely KILLER vibraslap in clean slate, The Mountain Goats ?? Who do I thank???

I need the small intersection of people I know who are in the category of "knitters who seam stuff" and "people who deliver babies" to understand my thoughts on mattress stitching my knitting together and how doing a crown stitch is different in those two contexts

this elucidated a lot of the feelings about the practices i've worked out for myself, bravo

First delivery as an attending, check. Was I still wearing a The Mountain Goats t-shirt because I didn't have time to get a scrub top? Yes. Does that give the baby a mysterious boon? Also yes.

10/10 recommend the new The Mountain Goats Jenny From Thebes shirt for all of your baby delivering outfit needs at 3 AM. It even matches my scrub pants!

Rural family medicine is the best job of all time. No question, no competition. My heart is so full every day 💓

i wish they made dinosaur print scrubs to go with my dinosaur print shoes