Emily Mortimer

WMU Alumni. I'm a highly functioning hot mess. She/Her/Hers

[Lexie Mannix, MD @ALMannixMD]

The ED is where policy meets reality:

No access to primary care → med refills in the ED
No mental health funding → crises in the ED
No addiction services → overdoses in the ED

We don’t just see patients. We see policy failures.

[chels ☼｡˚ ❀ *·ꕤ｡˚𖦹⋆ฺ ♡ @rumorzfrominez]

as a great poet once said:

[The Saurus @TheSaurus831]

Really is a tough call.

On one hand - every Nobel prize winning economist is adamantly stating that Harris has a significantly better economic plan

But on the other hand - the dumbest people I’ve ever interacted with say Trump is a good businessman

Quite the dilemma

[Jenni @hashjenni]

when everybody sees you waIk in and they say “oh thank god you’re here”

[Beth Booker @itsbethbooker]

“You let your pets sleep with you?”

Sir, I would let my animals represent me in a court of law.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

There is absolutely no place for political violence in our democracy. Although we don’t yet know exactly what happened, we should all be relieved that former President Trump wasn’t seriously hurt, and use this moment to recommit ourselves to civility and respect in our politics. Michelle and I are wishing him a quick recovery.

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

oh, we’re just gonna “play it by ear?” [starts sweating] we aren’t making a reservation? [gnawing at fingernails] oh, we don’t even have a restaurant picked out? or a general time? we’re just gonna “see what the vibe is” day of? [begins bashing head into wall] no, im chill :)

[Laura Kelly @laurakaykelly]

What I’ve learned / had reinforced from this crazy few weeks:
- fight for the people you love
- defend the NHS at all costs
- my friends and family are amazing
- my husband is the bravest, strongest, hardest-fighting man I know
- we should all know CPR

[Mark Lewis, MD, FASCO @marklewismd]

You may dislike springing forward for Daylight Savings but I take some small pleasure knowing that, for just one night a year, the insurance executives who profit from denying treatment to patients finally have to lose sleep over something

[Jenni @hashjenni]

My only motivation to work hard

[trash jones @jzux]

hey can i get an ETA on that this too shall pass?

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

He’s right, you know.

[Adam @adamgreattweet]

the grinch is the hero of the story when you realize he’s just an introverted dog person who’s tired of capitalism

[ScratchpadMD @scratchpadMD]

“Mr. Smith, can you tell me where you are right now?”

Mr. Smith: “Hell.”

[typing progress note]: 𝘗𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥.

[Amy Faith Ho, MD MPH @amyfaithho]

The first time I was assaulted, I was a 3rd year medical student, and a psych patient handcuffed to a gurney rail in the ER fought so hard, the entire metal rail (still cuffed to his arm) separated from the bed.

The 6ft piece of heavy steel would’ve gone flying into my skull had my former-linebacker attending not thrown me back, where I safely hit the wall instead, and he and two officers and two burly nurses wrestled the patient back down.

I never felt unsafe in medicine, even after that, because it wasn’t a targeted assault — I was just there as a victim of his pathology, which he couldn’t control either.

But times have changed.

People are angrier, in healthcare and in the world.

Compounded with the pressure cooker of the circumstances that land people in the ER, we exist in an explosive and violent world every day.

Healthcare has more non-fatal workplace violence than any other profession…and we’re supposed to be the field of healing…

🤨

[Thoughts of Dog @dog_feelings]

it often seems. like the human is jealous of me. because of how happy i get. about the simplest things. i don’t know how to tell them. they can do that too

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

reading about WWII blackout regulations is wild knowing that if we tried that today around 20% of the population would immediately put up their Christmas lights in August and buy floodlights to beam at the sky