Your Average Stressed Resident

Residency is so not fetch 🥲 She/Her I PGY-0 I NYC I First Gen 🤍 🌸#MedTwitter

[Your Average Stressed Resident @UrAvgResident]

All this hard work just to be an average medical student

[✨neuron divergent EKG slayer MD✨ @fuqekgs]

When I say "omw", this is what I mean

[Your Average Stressed Resident @UrAvgResident]

!!!!!!!! THIS

[The Cornish Pasty @TheCornishPasty]

So this is doing the rounds on multiple antivaxx accounts, and, as per usual, "it's a bit more complex than that".
This poor girl stated that she has "PNH" - Paroxysmal Nocturnal Haemaglobinuria.
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is a clonal hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) disease. That means that a bone marrow stem cell starts making a lineage of cells with a specific genetic mutation. In the case pf PNH, there is a mutation in the PIGA gene, and the short version is that this leads to red cells breaking down unpredictably, leading to anaemia and thromboses in large vessels, such as hepatic, abdominal, cerebral, and subdermal veins.
Once thrombosis starts, the only treatment is anticoagulation and monoclonal antibodies that target parts of the complement system - eculizumab, ravulizumab, crovalimab.
These also predispose to infections, particularly meningitis by changing immune function, hence the need for vaccinations to protect against various opportunistic illnesses.
This girl has classical presentation for a PNH crisis, and yet within "10 minutes" the vaccines 'caused' her illness.
So why was she in hospital in the first place? PNH crisis presumably (no-one seems to mention this).
Long term the only definitive treatment is bone marrow transplant.
Apologies for the long post, but as per usual, the antivaxxers are lying to promote their narrative on the basis that few people would bother to actually find out the truth. So I thought I'd spread a little truth on this horrible and fortunately very rare condition...

[Michael Justus @mhjrad]

Medical school: memorize everything

Being an actual doctor: just look it up on uptodate

[✨neuron divergent EKG slayer MD✨ @fuqekgs]

You’re not demure, you’re in healthcare

[Hafsa Malik @kashmiricanibal]

- 𝑫𝒓. 𝑴𝒐𝒖𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒂 𝑫𝒆𝒃𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒉: 𝑨 𝑳𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝑪𝒖𝒕 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒃𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑽𝒊𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆.

On the night of August 8th, a 31-year-old female doctor diligently completed her duty, as she had done countless times before. After finishing her shift, she shared a quiet meal with her juniors at 2 AM. Exhausted from the long hours, she sought a moment of rest. With no designated room provided for doctors, she settled down to sleep in the seminar room, a makeshift refuge for those who work tirelessly through the night. Little did she know, this would be the last time she closed her eyes with a sense of routine comfort.

[Your Average Stressed Resident @UrAvgResident]

When the Celsius must be whipped out

[Jenni @hashjenni]

me trying to stay awake at work after eating lunch

[Your Average Stressed Resident @UrAvgResident]

My program uses sunrise…. The marina trench.

[Michael Justus @mhjrad]

“I’m in the trenches”

the trenches:

[💕 Doll Face✨ @smoke_nd_pearlz]

I think it’s crazy that ER’s don’t have a designated dentist working. People come in w/tooth pain a LOT & the most ER’s can do is give you pain meds & tell you to follow up with a dentist. That’s not helpful when it’s 2am & you’re ready to rip your tooth out.

[Erin N Boudoin, MD @Eboudo_]

3 weeks into intern year and I’m trying to figure out how to sue Shonda Rhimes for false advertisement

[Your Average Stressed Resident @UrAvgResident]

I am a doctor now. Who thought this was a good idea?

[Your Average Stressed Resident @UrAvgResident]

People really treat you like royalty all of a sudden once you match

[Your Average Stressed Resident @UrAvgResident]

Hi everyone. Allow me to introduce myself as your average stressed resident
- your previously average stressed medical student

[Your Average Stressed Resident @UrAvgResident]

See but it shouldn’t be this way. You shouldn’t have to rely so heavily on the help of medical students that your team cannot carry on. This *may* be the same kinds of residents or teams that forget their medical students need to study, eat, or go home! Especially third years.

[jamie. @j_mee949]

today was day 1 of no med students in the month long gap between current m3s leaving and the new m3s starting and the team is CRUMBLING!!

[Your Average Stressed Resident @UrAvgResident]

I just received the most life changing news on Friday and now I have to return to a normal life on Monday 🥺 t-minus 3 weeks until my very last rotation of med school is done!!!!

[Your Average Stressed Resident @UrAvgResident]

@Madhur2090 Thank you so much friend! Hope all is well!!

[Your Average Stressed Resident @UrAvgResident]

I matched. That’s the tweet 💕😭

[Your Average Stressed Resident @UrAvgResident]

I’m gonna be a doctorrrrrrrrrrr 🎶
I’m gonna be a doctorrrrrrrrr 🎶
….. omg… I’m gonna be a doctor???? 😳 the panic has set in

[Your Average Stressed Resident @UrAvgResident]

T-MINUS TWENTY FOUR HOURS

[Your Average Stressed Resident @UrAvgResident]

My future co-residents are probably praying they don’t have a weirdo in their class BUT I HAVE ENTERED THE CHAT

[Your Average Stressed Resident @UrAvgResident]

The excitement of knowing where I match + who my co-residents will be tomorrow is NEXT LEVEL!!!!!

[Your Average Stressed Resident @UrAvgResident]

My dad shared with me today that he was nervous I wouldn’t match and wouldn’t get to specialize in the field I want. All this time I thought they didn’t understand the weight of this week 🥹 but they felt what I was feeling. Just in secret 🥹