Congrats Lucas Rowe! So well deserved! 👀 watch out optho world

Affirmation of choosing the right specialty: on ED rotation and picking up complex medical patients is giving me LIFE 🌟 Grateful for so many wonderful patients this month allowing me to participate in their care. And becoming insanely stoked to start intern year 👏🏽

Had an appointment UCLA Health today. Was charged $14 to park for 47 mins. There is absolutely no justifiable reason for this. Discussions about health equity don’t just center in exam rooms, but in barriers we put up before patients can even walk through the door.

Finished my last clinical of medical school today with the same attending who interviewed me over 4 years ago. His advice? Remember how far you’ve come and have confidence knowing how hard you worked at every step in the process. 👩🏻‍⚕️

Me trying to explain the Match process to my friends/family…

Don’t like abortion? Don’t get one. Don’t like gender transitions? Don’t undergo one. Don’t like gay marriage? Don’t have one. The world would be a better place if y’all stopped worrying about things that don’t affect you.

all of us rn

why do medical tv shows always romanticize hospital call rooms? they are gross mrsa hotspots with a sticky plastic pillow

Sleep as medicine... On behalf of hospitalized patients, what is we simply stopped ordering routine lab draws before 7am. What is we wrote an order, do not disturb before 7am except for an urgent need. Or an order for 7 hrs of peace and quiet. Vinny Arora MD MAPP nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

A message this week: “We're working way over 80 hours but can’t report it. My voice is so small." Residents have little to no negotiating power & few alternative options. Their careers often depend on staying silent. And for these reasons they're exploited.

One of the most useful pieces of advice I ever heard, came from an Emergency Room Physician. I was a young Corpsman. While dealing with a teenager-as I recall-who was involved in a horrible auto accident, and just clinging to life, a nurse was starting to go into an observable

Cigna uses an automated system that allows “medical directors” (doctors employed by Cigna Healthcare) to deny a claim in 1.2 seconds without opening the patient’s file. Please read this, share it, and help us (metaphorically) burn these companies to the ground.

A reminder that Elsevier made $10.5 BILLION in 2022 from selling your academic journals and articles behind paywalls, and make more profit than Amazon, Google, and Apple every year… And paid the academics who wrote the articles $0 And paid the reviewers of the articles $0

Just blown away that I got to be featured in this article and share a bit of my story. Continually grateful for the IU School of Medicine , and couldn’t be more excited to spend the next five years with Indiana University Department of Urology !! Once a Hoosier, always a Hoosier

Buy your medical student a snack and send them home early.

It may seem like a normal part of your day: Telling someone they have a new condition, that their loved one is critically ill, or that things are getting worse. But the patient & their family will never forget that moment. Do all you can to make it full of kindness & support 🙏