Trevin Cardon

Refining = making pure and efficient by removing unnecessary and unwanted elements. Family medicine resident searching for ways to refine medicine.

[Trevin Cardon @RefinedMedicine]

Admitted a young girl to the hospital who can't stop taking about her excitement for Halloween. Can't bring myself to tell her she'll likely still be in the hospital. Losing sleep over this little one missing out. Sometimes the smallest things get to me the most. #medtwitter

[RanaAwdishMD @RanaAwdish]

7yo: you know what I love?
Me: what?
7yo: that every pencil has an eraser attached. It’s like the world expects everyone to make mistakes. That’s pretty cool.
#TheKidsAreAlright

[DoctorTro @DoctorTro]

I am just not going to be that doctor that spends 7 minutes with patients.

And its completely selfish. I cant sleep, I cant feel good about myself, I cant look at myself in the mirror. I cannot un-know what I know.

I just can't do it.

[Medical Axioms @medicalaxioms]

Take care of people carrying diseases, not diseases with people carrying them.

[Trevin Cardon @RefinedMedicine]

For me it's the days I avoid the difficult conversations (often long overdue) and just do what's easiest and takes the least amount of time.

[Dr. Brian Goldman @NightShiftMD]

I'm asking my health care peeps this question. What's one thing you've experienced that makes you wonder if you've been burned out?
For me, it's the feeling that I no longer make a difference on the job. How about you?

[Trevin Cardon @RefinedMedicine]

Learned a hard, some might say shocking, lesson in patient empathy today. Let's just say I like being on the other side of the gown much better #PatientsFirst

[Trevin Cardon @RefinedMedicine]

Might be a family med resident if... you deliver one baby, assist on a c-section, admit one to the ICU, another to the floor, and admit a kid to the picu, all while managing 20 others between the ICU/med/peds/ob wards all in the same shift #FMResident #PatientsFirst

[Trevin Cardon @RefinedMedicine]

You can learn so much about people by visiting them in their homes. Spent time w/a health dept RN on home visits who @ each house washes her hands in the kitchen sink because "if there's dirty dishes, they have food" and "if the water is warm, the bills are paid" #PatientsFirst

[Trevin Cardon @RefinedMedicine]

We spend so much time in medicine coming up with and perfecting our "problem list" that we forget people have strengths. Wish the EMR had a place for a "strengths list." #StrengthsOverProblems #PatientsFirst #RefinedMed

[Trevin Cardon @RefinedMedicine]

Finishing up week one on the OB service, imagining this is how my patients must feel #FamilyMed #PatientsFirst

[Trevin Cardon @RefinedMedicine]

5 am hospital selfie before my first shift. Wish me (and my patients) luck. #PatientsFirst

[Trevin Cardon @RefinedMedicine]

Been MIA for awhile trying to spend as much time with family as possible. Today, things got real. Welcome to day #1 of residency training. #FamilyPhysician #PatientsFirst

[Trevin Cardon @RefinedMedicine]

Citing personal resilience as the cure for #PhysicianBurnout is saying that weak physicians are the problem. It's a system problem, not an individual weakness problem. Great insight from @ACDocWrites #PatientsFirst https://t.co/YsCD2LFTJ7

[Trevin Cardon @RefinedMedicine]

Is the amount of time we have to spend with patients affect our empathy? Is our core desire to help buried under the ever-increasing mountain of tasks and duties? We would do well to slow down and remember to put #PatientsFirst https://t.co/d4MfmkvGat

[Trevin Cardon @RefinedMedicine]

When we are so focused on competition between ourselves we forget that we should be putting #PatientsFirst. More collaboration would benefit both physician and patient. https://t.co/PQ6TxAD8Ek

[Nancy Rolnik MD @NancyRolnikMD]

Collaboration not competition should be the hallmark of medical school training and the practice of medicine. We truly need each other to help our patients to the fullest. Perhaps supporting each other will reduce burnout. #loveadoc @AmerMedicalAssn @somedocs

[Trevin Cardon @RefinedMedicine]

Incredibly powerful piece on what matters most in medicine. All too often I've seen the opposite happen. Great reminder to always put #PatientsFirst https://t.co/bZV8pDMAuB

[Trevin Cardon @RefinedMedicine]

How is your work environment impacting your health? Might be more than you think. https://t.co/NfvXkBqyEG

[Trevin Cardon @RefinedMedicine]

T1 Burnout comes from not being able to do job signed up to do. Always dreamed of taking care of patients, not paperwork. #HTReads

[Trevin Cardon @RefinedMedicine]

"We've been trained to prefer being right to learning something, to prefer passing the test to making a difference." Medicine is not immune to this. Let's not forget to put #patientsfirst and to #MakeADifference @ThisIsSethsBlog #MondayMotivation