Stephen Benzinger

Med-Peds resident, Avid Cook and lover of food, podcast creator @resident_lounge, thoughts and ideas my own. he/him/his

[Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet]

I worked an unexpected overnight last night

This 🧵 is an exhausted, muddy-headed takedown of the historic but continued saddling of medical trainees with ridiculous work hours

There will be no data and I will appeal to emotion a lot

Here we go!

#MedTwitter

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[Stephen Benzinger @SteveBenzinger]

Wait what? People are doing this???

[Jon Klein PGY47 🇮🇱 @JonBKlein]

I’m a kidney doctor. I’ve studied how the kidneys make urine for 39 years. Do not, I repeat do not, drink urine to treat COVID. That is all.

[Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, MD, FAAP, FAIM @innodim]

In the year 2022, I don’t want to read anywhere that “Black race” is a risk factor for disease.

📣For the last time:
Anti-Black racism is the risk factor for disease.
AntiBlackness is the vector of illness.
White Supremacist Patriarchal Capitalism is the etiology of malady.

[Graham Carlos @GrahamCarlos]

Sore throats don't kill people. COVID does.
Car accidents haven't increased. COVID has.
The real crisis are when leaders like @marcorubio and @AGToddRokita deceive the American people.

[Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet]

OMG

[Riley Children's @RileyChildrens]

Dr. Elizabeth Weinstein: “It is meaningful for us to take care of any child and family who needs us here in Indiana, whether they’ve been here for generations or they just arrived weeks ago.” https://t.co/khtkCSlgyI

[Stephen Benzinger @SteveBenzinger]

Totally agreed! It was a blast! Excited for the new incoming crew!

[Averi Wilson-Raya, MD @AveriWilsonMD]

Also feeling VERY nostalgic thinking of all the fun we had during our 2018 match cycle 🥰 @anjalivora17 @jmuniz2148 @michaeldienst @KapilSasha @air_carpenter @ajbradsher @SteveBenzinger @J_Dylan_Hall @_angelicawillis & so many more who I can’t find on Twitter!! #MP4L

[Stephen Benzinger @SteveBenzinger]

@doctordpink Also it would be fun to have strange colored bodily fluids. Check that off the ol bucket list.

[Joseph Weber, MD @JosephTWeber]

Today is the first time as I looked around the ICU at the patients and at the staff, that I’m not sure if we are gonna make it through this intact without losing something of ourselves.

[Courtney A Welch, MD @Courtneyawelch]

Thanks @WRTV & @nikkidementri for telling our stories from COVID-19 unit. I’m honored to share the resident perspective on what the pandemic has been like:
https://t.co/vV5kdPdiSn
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[Rachel Peterson @MPAcadHosp]

So awesome to see this great work in publication. Excited for my friends/colleagues @efboggs52 and @AJenkins_MD and advisee @IUMedPeds @hluttrellMD! Well done!

https://t.co/JB0mJ4sc2P

[Graham Carlos @GrahamCarlos]

When doctors and nurses stop caring for people who made bad life decisions we lose ourselves.

Love them. Care for them. All of them. Equally.

[David L Howard, MD PhD @obstatsinc]

As July 1 approaches, Let us normalize treating residents as human beings.

[Willy Frick @willyhfrick]

American healthcare:

Last week I gave a patient zoledronic acid 4 mg IV (Zomeda) for hypercalcemia. Cost the hospital $50.

Today I ordered zoledronic acid 5 mg IV (Reclast) for osteoporosis and the pharmacy rejected the order because it costs $3000.

[Nabihah Kumte @NabihahKumte]

My little sister just asked me if I get paid for rotations

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Kevin Zhang, MD @kevinjuanzhang]

What exactly is the cytokine storm in COVID-19?

Throwing the term casually here and there, I realized I was wondering the answer to this very question.

[Willy Frick @willyhfrick]

Tell your more junior colleagues (med students, interns, residents, etc.) when you realize a mistake. Model performing the cognitive autopsy.

“I anchored on re-expansion edema and did not pay enough attention to the tachycardia which delayed my recognition of the hemothorax.”

[Willy Frick @willyhfrick]

The patient is NOT "a poor historian." The patient isn't a historian at all! The patient is the primary source.

YOU are the historian.

[Medical Axioms @medicalaxioms]

We teach wrong when we teach residents to write elaborate notes. 1/many

[Stephen Benzinger @SteveBenzinger]

@AveriWilsonMD Just discussed to a medical student about how Neonatology and Geriatrics are essentially the same field.