We spend so much effort to prolong lives, yet so little to make those extra years worth living.

When you're finishing residency and someone asks you if you're planning to go into fellowship

Solid advice

Me walking in the hospital after consulting both cardiology and nephrology on 6 different patients on the same day x.com/i/status/17130…

On call today but I hope all my friends here get to spend the holiday with their loved ones Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

This seems about right....

Patient in the hospital: gets all their medical issues managed, their discharge orders are released, but they cough 2 times as they're about to leave the hospital No one: The internal medicine team:

The dermatology team when they're rounding on their 2 inpatients and run into residents from other specialties doing 30 hour shifts.

Surgery note: The patient had half their body removed last week, but they were able to walk and poop, ready for discharge. Medicine note: The patient coughed 3 times when I was talking to them, the cough makes me suspicious they have one of the following 17 conditions. Will

Me pretending to listen to a murmur that I absolutely cannot hear after the cardiologist repositioned my stethoscope by 0.1 inches

View during a colonoscopy performed for abdominal pain in a patient with Crohn's disease/inflammatory bowel disease. Thoughts on the diagnosis/what's being done?

Studying which topic during medical school?

When the medical student asks a quick question on internal medicine rounds

Healthcare workers when they spend 12 minutes buying groceries and 10 minutes doing chores after a call shift before they go to sleep to wake up and do another call shift