Crystal Diaz, M.D.

General Surgery Resident at Wake Forest Surgery👩🏽‍⚕️ Afro-Latina 🇩🇴

[Crystal Diaz, M.D. @DoctorCurlyyy]

This email has been YEARS in the making. Medical school has been a struggle yall, but it was all worth it for this feeling. This email solidifies that I will be a SURGEON!
#snmamatch #matchday2021 #blackmatch2021 #minoritiesinmedicine #residencymatch #WhatADoctorLooksLike

[L.N. West-Livingston @LWestLivingston]

Let’s go! I even got to spend time with my favorite future vascular surgeon, who was an intern when I was a 4th year med student @DoctorCurlyyy 😍♥️🩸 #AMP2025 #CLTIFighters

[Crystal Diaz, M.D. @DoctorCurlyyy]

@janacraig_ with the print out of car facts 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 #loveisandusa

[r @baateinvaatein]

If he wanted to he would ?!

[Michael Cellini @dr_cellini]

Putting a 10cm needle through a rib to biopsy a lung mass next to the aorta, takes about 30-60min and pays us ~$90. Tell me again how physicians are overpaid?

I paid a locksmith $155 to change my front door lock. It took 5min.

[Tyler Olson, EA @olsonplanner]

Because they spent over a decade to learn.

Because they made $12/hour for years (as physicians).

Because they put their training ahead of many valuable life goals.

Because they’re on call throughout their working years.

Because they advocate for us.

Because they save lives.

[Crystal Diaz, M.D. @DoctorCurlyyy]

My attending told me to play my favorite spanish music in the OR yesterday because he knew I was Dominican. It’s the little things ❤️ #MedTwitter #residency

[Kadijah F Porter MD @KadijahPorterMD]

Rest Well Dr Nakita Mortimer 😔

Residency programs across the country need systemic and institutional overhauls. Residents (we) are struggling.

We lost another bright light too soon.

#Residency #SuicideAwareness #InstitutionalOppression #ResidentPhysicians

[WFSM-Surgery Education @WakeSurgEd]

Congratulations to our PGY4 residents who matched into a Vascular Surgery Fellowship.
@DrBrastauskas - @UMMCnews
@AGanapathy_MD - @bswhealth_Templ
Lucas Hunter, MD - @WakeVascular
Nathan Patel, MD - @UVMMedCenter

#Match2023 @VascularSVS @NCSurgeons

[Maggie Bosley, MD @MBosleyMD]

Had an opportunity to partner with @BehindTheKnife to record a podcast on LCBDE (out today!) with supplemental video tutorial series that can be found here: https://t.co/eazdovSiD2

We’ve worked hard on this content! Let us know what you think!

#LCBDE #MedEd #surgery #CBDstones

[Amani Jambhekar MD, MBA, FACS @AjvictoryMD]

Spot the gender bias

[Bone00afide.bsky.social 🇮🇱 @bone00afide]

Gun shot injuries are so rare in Canada that their surgeons don’t know how to manage them. Can you even imagine? I can’t.

Every trauma surgeon in America, whether they served or not, is battlefield trained. Unfortunately those battlefields are our schools and our streets.

[WFSM-Surgery Education @WakeSurgEd]

It's #MatchDay!!! Congratulations and Welcome to the Department of Surgery!! #Match2023 @NCSurgeons @amyhildreth @wakeforestmed @WakeSurgonc @WakeMis @WakeACS

[Crystal Diaz, M.D. @DoctorCurlyyy]

@AwkwardResident Wake gave me you ♥️♥️♥️

[Olivia Fukui MD @_DrOlive]

Team milkshakes=team bonding! #bestMIScrew @AGanapathy_MD @WakeSurgEd @WakeMis @DoctorCurlyyy

[Kamilah Evans, MD @medmilah]

Residency truly is the worst… NOT because of the patients (truly the patients are the only thing that kept me going) but because of everything else we deal with at work. I truly don’t know how I’m going to survive another 3 years of this shit.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Average Weekly Wages
1973: $873
2022: $813

Median Home
1973: $30,200
2022: $433,100

Monthly Rent
1973: $108
2022: $2,002

Tuition and Fees at University of California
1973: $150
2022: $13,104

Boomer: But why can't the slackers pay for college & pay off their loans like we did?