Honestly, 99% of being a good doctor is simply listening to your patient, never missing a diagnosis, ensuring high quality outcomes despite having only a few minutes for each visit, charting perfectly to maximize billing, fighting insurance companies to cover basic care, never cr
The peak of EM is taking a sick, undifferentiated patient - managing their critical illness both intellectually and procedurally, checking off the boxes in their work up step by step and then, when you’ve stabilized them, moving to something entirely different
After a month of geriatric medicine,
I think being a BPT or Medical Registrar would actually destroy my soul.
Hospital medicine is designed around the convenience of early 1950's consultant doctors
It's incredibly harmful to patients
Why do we do all these terrible things?
How many of you have ever had a straight man act like a whiny baby or get unnecessarily angry just because you didn’t feel like having sex or rejected their advances?
Me: *dropping pen on the floor, bending down to pick it up, pen light falling from pocket, glasses falling from other pocket, crawling on the floor to pick them up*: hi, i’m tobias. I’ll be assisting during your surgery today
Patient: …
Hi, ER Doc here.
I use this account to teach people about medical emergencies. It’s my birthday today and would love to hit 200K followers to be able to reach more people.
Can I get some follows and RTs to help me get there?