One month in as a doctor! The biggest takeaways from the month:
1. it’s ok to ask for help 🙋♂️
2. whatever you’re feeling, someone else is too ❤️🩹
3. coresidents = greatest treasures
#internyear#residency
Updates:
- graduated from med school 👨🎓🩺
- moved to my new city 🏠🩵
- sent the next round of book queries🤞
- now traveling /writing in the UK ✈️
“The only thing that could make this day better is ice cream 🙂” - Michael Scott
@medschool_life@UNC @WritingestState
“Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.”
- C.S. Lewis
Happy #Easter 🩵
Match Day ✅
Mama B birthday ✅
Best Day ever ✅
So thankful for everyone who helped get me here. Wishing everyone the best match day celebration!
#MATCH2024#MatchDay2024#MATCHDAY#gdtbath
Currently reading through beta reader comments for my next book’s first draft. It’s a constant joy and terror, but so incredibly thankful for everyone taking the time to help!
An 11-year-old just told me she wanted to be a pediatrician and a fantasy writer but didn’t think it was possible to do both. Couldn’t tell you whose smile was bigger after talking, hers or mine
Had to share this today:
“Books can lift children out of difficult situations, encourage them to dream, spark their imagination, and most importantly, give them hope.”
- Mary Pope Osborne, author of The Magic Tree House series
@MaryPopeOsborne 🩵 a gem we don’t deserve
Thanksgiving Nouns: a person, place and thing you’re thankful for.
Person: my grandpa - he’s the best around
Place: Lothlórien - for all it provided the fellowship on their journey to Mordor
Thing: Penny (my dog) - for being the cutest
What are your Thanksgiving nouns?
Psychiatry for Kids: A Fun Picture Book About Mental Illnesses and Developmental Disabilities for Children (Gift for Kids, Teachers, and Medical Students) (Medical School for Kids) https://t.co/SWuAp9GXzN
Reader: “How do you come up with character names?”
Me: “Sometimes they name themselves. Sometimes their name has great meaning. And sometimes….you just have to pull out a book of baby names to get started.”
October in pediatrics. Asking kiddos what they’ll be for Halloween.
Best answers so far:
- a bat man (but not Batman, he emphasized)
- Dr. Barbie
- a princess warrior
- winning (big brain energy on that one)