Barefoot Megz

Doctor, gasmonkey in training. Profane. Believes in the power of kindness. 🏳️‍🌈 she/her

[Barefoot Megz @Doc_Megz]

Love someone with mental illness?
Get comfortable not being able to fix them.
Get comfortable not knowing why they’re ill.
Get comfortable just supporting them.

You can’t fix them. And if you try, you become one more person to disappoint; one more thing to feel guilty about.

[Barefoot Megz @Doc_Megz]

@dr_lovelee Even me I feel like I remember that conversation. That was some time ago - when I was still around here a lot, and this app still had a bird!

[Barefoot Megz @Doc_Megz]

@Vodacom We didn’t let them come in or start talking, because their behaviour was inappropriate. They asked us about our internet connectivity though.

[Barefoot Megz @Doc_Megz]

@Vodacom people walking in our streets after 6pm on a Friday claiming to be employed by you and marketing your internet - are they legit? Please DM.

[Clement Lee, MD, MSc @ClementLeeMD]

@mattyheron Always the forgotten specialty 😂

For Anesthesia I pick the singles "White Horse" (as an allusion to propofol) or "Wildest Dreams" (ketamine)

[Jia Ng, MD MSCE @jiahweing]

Conference abstracts accepted, but no publications? 
It's a common story for residency research projects.
As someone who'd experienced it 6 times...
these are the reasons why many residency projects go NOWHERE. 
Brace yourself, because it's time for some tough love.

[Gnome Anne May Perceive Me @annethegnome]

Shoutout to all the women in my notifs INSISTING that's it's totally straight to form stronger relationships with women, think they are more beautiful and prefer their company 😅

I don't have the spoons to sherpa you on your queer awakening, but I wish you luck!

[Barefoot Megz @Doc_Megz]

@drkeithsiau This little shit (lol) also causes a lot of misery when local water supplies are low and we have a lot of sedimented water at the bottom of dams. Saw that a lot in the droughts in Cape Town, ZA, in 2017.

[Barefoot Megz @Doc_Megz]

Who knew that the gripe water tweets, with beloved @sindivanzyl RIP, would still be so important nearly 6 years later.

[Barefoot Megz @Doc_Megz]

@sindivanzyl The mom was young and it was her first baby. She was giving baby a lot of gripe water BEFORE feeds. So baby was basically too full to feed.

[Barefoot Megz @Doc_Megz]

@aribindi @dr_cellini In my country (South Africa), we do a lodox as they arrive in ER. That way, IF the bullet is still present, we have a quicker decision making process. Bearing in mind of course, our countries have different protocols. 👍🏼

[Barefoot Megz @Doc_Megz]

@mick_kerr @dr_rajgupta @APSForg @ASALifeline @EMARIANOMD @AmyPearsonMD Same - I also prefer to do it when they’re asleep. Then if possible I hep-lock it prior to emergence, so they don’t feel (too) restricted by it.

[Barefoot Megz @Doc_Megz]

@mick_kerr @dr_rajgupta @APSForg @ASALifeline @EMARIANOMD @AmyPearsonMD I love me an EJ line in a pinch - especially in a resus situation. But elective patients, like those for lap choles, are often less than enthused about a neck line 🥲

[jekahyde @jekahyde]

@mike_natter Never understood the logic of the long on call time. Being a nurse we would have to decide if it was worth waking the doctor/ resident. Too much pressure on us too.

[Barefoot Megz @Doc_Megz]

@aribindi @dr_cellini Honestly, finding the bullet is the least of the patient’s concerns if they have a thoracoabdominal GSW.

[Dr Linda Dykes has moved to Bluesky @DrLindaDykes]

@dr_cellini 30 years ago in an American ER (I was on my elective as a med student) I saw a hypovolaemic trauma patient w/ massive extremity trauma, in PEA, taken to CT 🤔 as the “bleeding had stopped” 😳 #AllBleedingStopsEventually

[BAR•ONE @BarOne_SA]

Bafethu, studying in the dark is not a vibe but you and BAR ONE can change that. Every time you share or retweet #NeedEnergy you add an extra bar of energy and help us fit a generator in Melville Library, Musgrave Library, Winterveld Library and Beacon Bay Library.

[Barefoot Megz @Doc_Megz]

I have a little (private ) giggle when our surgeons hit this stage - they start thinking twice before insisting we rush a patient to theatre at 3AM.

[gamerEMdoc @GamerEMDoc]

Constantly walking the mental tightrope between “Im getting too old to do this gig” vs “I just need a nap”…

[Barefoot Megz @Doc_Megz]

Why is it that “speed tills” are never speedy?

[Barefoot Megz @Doc_Megz]

@DrJenGunter Currently 1USD = 19ZAR; so would be pretty affordable if not exceptionally marked up, which happens in many retail pharmacies. Available for free at government clinics, though.