What does he think is an appropriate timeframe for getting an in person optho consult? Because ~30 minutes feels pretty fast to me as someone who calls a lot of consults…
#Ravens LB Kyle Van Noy, who suffered a fractured orbital bone on Thursday night, opens up about his experience with the Chiefs training staff:
"They took an entire quarter to get down to talk to me in the locker room, which to me, is unacceptable. ... As a player, people have that expectation of you being professional, handling business and in a time of need, I wanted that from them, and I felt like I didn't get it."
via @YahooSports
@MerwinCourtney I can only speak from my own experience (anesthesia- 15 signals) but all of my interviews came from programs that I signaled, and that’s pretty common from what I heard from other anesthesia peeps. One or two interviews outside of signal’s at the most.
@hankgreen My frame of reference is mostly children’s hospitals, but in my experience the answer is often yes if you make the request reasonably early.
Whelp, it finally happened. My little Prius got stuck on the snow. I’ve lived in Denver for over 2 years so I was on borrowed time. God bless the kind stranger who gave me a push. A lovely little reminder of the goodness in the world.
My experience is not normal or representative of most medical students. It’s just another anecdote in a sea of anecdotes. For what it’s worth, I don’t call myself a 1st gen med student, but I also won’t judge others for having a different understanding of the term.
My addition to the 1st gen medical student discourse and why it’s not a term I use to describe myself. A 🧵
*the conversation has nuance which can be hard to grasp in tweets, retweets and likes so this might be bit on the longer side. *
Conversations about privilege require intersectionality. That’s hard when we’re firing off tweets after an annoying run in with a classmate that said something insensitive. It’s even harder when we argue against the least charitable interpretations of each others words.