Today’s tox adventure: antidote tasting 🤩 trying plain NAC really made me appreciate that apple juice dilution 🧃

I heard if you chant charlatan three times to yourself in front of a mirror a pharmacist will appear and cancel your Vanco

Sarangarm et al 2023-UpdatED: The emergency medicine pharmacotherapy literature of 2022. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37116295/ #FOAMed #MedED Thank you, #EMpharmacists for all you do!

Meta-analysis of 11 RCTs finds an increased risk of mortality when etomidate is used for induction: RR = 1.16 (95% CI 1.01–1.33), NNH = 31. This justifies my practice; I’ve basically stopped using etomidate altogether for the last few years (ketamine instead).

if I was in charge of naming drugs I would give them easy names like SeizeNoMore instead of levetiracetam

Overgeneralization is the process of taking one moment and making it determine your identity. Instead of saying “That was a mistake” I made it mean “I am a mistake” How do we defeat this? The antidote to overgeneralization and imposter syndrome is self-compassion. 3/

An older man comes to the ED with abrupt onset nausea, & diarrhea He is joined by her daughter whom he is visiting from abroad Testing is below The diagnosis is unclear Until his daughter got just as sick too 🧵 #livertwitter #liverstory #MedTwitter

I woke up yesterday morning, looked out my window and saw the neighbors had hung this flag on their children’s playground. Pull up a seat, and join me, friends, for The Chronicles of Being Black in a Rich, White suburb A thread 💀

one time in med school I cried after one of my patients died I felt embarrassed for crying and ashamed for showing emotion…until I saw that my attending was crying too. it’s ok to have feelings in medicine

for all the medicated barbies out there

You were calling a pharmacist & were upset they were being called upon in so many facets they were unable to help you …. the ultimate testament that pharmacists are vital. You needed one, you were calling one! Lift up professions other than your own, THAT is true patient care

Make sure you don’t think that Academic medical center equals great program for YOU. Community shops with great preceptors are better than a big name with preceptors that use to care. Talk to ppl and realize what you want!