You’re not a failure

I didn’t match this year but I am gonna give #SOAP my best try. Today is my birthday so I can’t help but feel that something good is bound to happen. To my fellow unmatched applicants, we hurt but we persevere. #pedsmatch2022 #Match2022

Monday, I got the unwanted email letting me know that I did not match into Emergency Medicine. However, I'm here to boldly state God's plan will prevail. So to anyone else in a similar situation, keep the faith. It's all gonna work out! #UNMATCHED #Match2022

Accepted a Prelim Surgery position this morning! Now that’s the kind of #SOAP2022 I want!! Surgeon 🧼 💁! But also why does NRMP® insist on continuing to troll me? I want my congratulations email!!! #SurgTwitter #MedTwitter

It’s great to see these issues being detailed in more mainstream media coverage, especially so soon after match week

No one tells you that residency is impossible. Like that it’s literally physically impossible to: excel clinically *and* rest adequately *and* maintain all your relationships *and* get published *and* do everything you can for patients *and* have work/life boundaries *and*

Medicine/residency is broken to the point that you feel inadequate when logging 42 hours of work on an outpatient elective

Currently:

We're giving our official notice today that we are planning to engage in an unfair labor practice strike in Los Angeles County. But we are still hopeful that we can avert this possibility and we urge the County to do the right thing. #Care4USLA Full statement: bit.ly/3arf5Zg

Is anyone else seeing a tidal wave of COVID croup!? 👀

Insurance companies are the devil

Yes I have noticed this!

what’s the point of duty hours if so many residents don’t feel comfortable accurately reporting them due to fears of repercussions from higher ups, residency culture is wild!!!

The overworking of residents directly impacts our mental health - the rate of depression is 3x higher in trainees working 90 hour weeks than those working 40 hour weeks. Medical training harms us.

Seems like Elon Musk is using similar tactics to Trump and SHOCKINGLY it’s working

Dear Teachers, As some of you may know, if you have any students in your class who identify as Christian, they may ask to be excused from school to observe the Christian holiday of “Christmas,” more popularly referred to as Yom Christmas or Nittel. 1/x

#DearTeachers, Some of your students may be requesting a day off to celebrate the Chag Milat Yeshu, also known as the Pope Gregory Rosh Hashanah, and is observed by Christian people as the #Christian #NewYear. 1/x

Appreciating 4 years with this guy

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