Emma Humphrey I haven’t used a direct ophthalmoscope since 2014

I am once again asking med schools not to make students buy a direct ophthalmoscope

The family medicine residency interview

RN salary: $50k MD salary: $200k CEO salary: $18 million somebody who is good at the economy please help me budget this my hospital is dying. i think we’re overpaying the doctors

NEW: Texas Guard troops assigned to the border under Operation Lone Star have organized with the Texas State Employees Union, TSEU. They’re the first known Guardsmen to unionize in a state active duty status. armytimes.com/news/your-army…

Rep. Clay Higgins We’re not entirely sure what this tweet is supposed to mean, and we’re literally the dictionary.

The Department of Health and Human Services has announced several actions to keep transgender children in Texas and their families safe — putting the state of Texas on notice that their discriminatory actions put children’s lives at risk.

A Texas woman was put on an emergency flight to Colorado *in the middle of a miscarriage* to save her life, and NPR just gets quotes from both sides of the ‘saving women in mortal peril’ debate & calls it a day. Things might get awkward if you ask John Seago follow-up questions!

Please PLEASE read this thread. We are actively failing our patients. We have got to do better

You may be hearing the argument that before the rise of modern commercial infant formula, babies all ate breastmilk and everything was great. As a historian of infant feeding, let me tell you why that’s not true.

Medical training could be cut by years if we focused on patient care and stopped forcing trainees to learn things not relevant to their ultimate field of practice. This would decrease stress and debt burden immensely. It could even make learning more fun - imagine that! /3

But here we are again, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield. That denial letter you sent last week? One of thousands, I'm sure. Did you read her chart? Or was your letter algorithm-generated, one of those standard barriers you put up? If you put up enough barriers, lots of people give up.

Patient's peds GI stayed in the office until 11:00 pm last night finishing a multi-page letter of evidence & justification and attaching additional clinical documentation. Sent it off. And ... now we wait? Meanwhile this child is on high dose steroids with no endpoint. 2/x

Reminder: we’re PAYING for the CHANCE to INTERVIEW for a JOB #Match2023

The other thing about endometriosis is that we need to stop thinking about most Interstitial Cystitis and IBS as their own separate diseases and recognize that they are SYMPTOMS of endo. With few exceptions, young female patients given these diagnoses have endometriosis.

I LITERALLY stopped working on my memo so I could read this indictment. I am on page 24 and JESUS LUPITA NYONG'O CHRIST. HOW this man still has the capacity to shock me after everything that's happened, i'll never know. but I am sitting here *STUNNED*.

I'm starting a new med school. Research is prohibited. You may look at research and discuss existing research, but under no circumstances are you allowed to calculate a p value. You will not write about your materials or your methods. The IRB will be disbanded.

People get super upset when folks who aren’t doctors give medical advice, but every time my uncle asks me about his knee arthritis I tell him to put heat on it and I have no idea if that’s a good suggestion or not.

Are pulmonologists ok?

So the only options for getting an MRI are 6 weeks from now or send the patient to the ED with a note pinned to their shirt that says “sorry this is not an emergency more of a subacute issue but I don’t know what else to do.”