Jacob Herstein

IM PGY-2 🩺 by way of UTMB JSSOM (c/o 2024)☀️🌊 Op-Med Fellow ‘22-‘23 📝UT ‘19 🤘🏻Views are my own

[Jacob Herstein @JacobHMed]

Had an amazing time this past weekend presenting our med school passion project at UTMB's 1st annual Osler symposium! Fantastic talks throughout the day covering thousands of years of medical history.

@utmbhealth @AmericanOsler

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Giving Patients the Focused Attention They Deserve
https://t.co/MRHpPdcFQn

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One Size Fits All — An Underappreciated Health Inequity
https://t.co/OYZlXEFXHa

#MedTwitter #MedEd #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth

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Talking About Dying

https://t.co/QHxAuXTH5F

@SchenkerYael absolutely amazing read. Beautifully written and powerful message.

"Acknowledging death helps us refocus on living."

#MedTwitter #MedEd #PalliativeMedicine

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Spielberg’s Secret https://t.co/cY9jwQq6Lg

"A rising tide does, indeed, lift all boats"

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Best of Graphic Medicine https://t.co/0soAOYKTnI

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The Other Side of the Waterfall https://t.co/NTgePuANeb

"What does collective success mean to a person in the face of individual failure?"

#MedTwitter #MedEd #Oncology #Poetry

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Stargazers https://t.co/G6F6Eq696d

"The loneliest patients are always watching.
Their bodies are skies speckled with stars."

#MedTwitter #MedEd #Oncology #Poetry

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Love and Medicine https://t.co/O97TIVnNV9

"For love, much like practicing medicine, can be both a terrible burden and a tremendous gift."

#MedTwitter #MedEd #Oncology #NarrativeMedicine

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The Margins Matter https://t.co/xiYpk96VRj

"By inquiring about and documenting the human dimension of patients’ lives, we physicians can attempt to make tangible differences in their lives and in our medical and social systems." #MedTwitter #MedEd #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth

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It Will Be Different When I'm a Resident, a Fellow, an Attending https://t.co/G3maKQLPzJ via @doximity

A message for 2024: "The reality is that there is no 'other side,'... there is only the present, and what we make of it." #MedTwitter #MedEd

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Cycles

#MedTwitter #poetry #oncology

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Miscommunication in Cancer Care—Do You Hear What I Hear? #MedTwitter #MedEd #Oncology

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My sixth (and final piece) for the '22-'23 Op-Med Fellowship - it was an honor to have this platform for sharing my reflections!

Knowing When to Stop https://t.co/vP51an54z4 via @doximity

#MedTwitter #MedEd #CPR

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Images of the Week https://t.co/JBZ8RqhvhF

"I know you carry them / not in an album or a jpg file, but thumb-tacked to your brain"

Beautiful piece of writing from @wendystead5 to start your Saturday! #MedTwitter #MedEd #poetry

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Dabrafenib plus Trametinib in Pediatric Glioma with BRAF V600 Mutations | NEJM https://t.co/np48Bket4E

Dabrafenib plus trametinib - "significantly more responses, longer [PFS], and a better safety profile than standard chemotherapy" #MedTwitter #MedEd #Oncology #Pediatrics

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2023 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay: Academic Medicine https://t.co/kVHoVQI8zH

"They gave me the greatest gift by reminding me that connection is the soul of our work. A gift I can never repay." #MedTwitter #MedEd

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Chemo, 7 Years Later https://t.co/qUgyMeaPhl

"Chemo
The smell of it,
My toxic sweat and my toxic blood and
My toxic piss and my toxic thoughts"

#MedTwitter #MedEd #oncology

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Lying to My Mom https://t.co/9mle56yVY4

"Love and respect and beneficence often require trade-offs that defy straightforward rules" #MedTwitter #MedEd

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Why Medical Students Should Care About Ambiguity Tolerance https://t.co/yTVOQpisw6 via @doximity

"The beauty of uncertainty is infinite possibility." #MedTwitter #MedEd - great writing from @snehanandy26!