tina

surgery intern, musician, missionary, immigrant, teacher, & above all, daughter of the One who is Love Himself #girlmedtwitter #surgtweeting #tinahti

[tina @ahappytin]

this morning i was saluted by the hulk and batman and a bunch of people clapping in front of the hospital, for being a "healthcare hero". their gratitude is much appreciated, but really if they could just stay home so this would all be over, that would be so much more valuable

[tina @ahappytin]

https://t.co/7LPdpWldYc

you're welcome, my non-theatre friends (the rest of you already watched it didn't you)

[tina @ahappytin]

not gonna lie, Sondheim's 90th birthday celebration on youtube is getting me through these endless hospital night shifts #thankyoustephenforbeingborn #TakeMeToTheWorld #Sondheims90th

[Dr Philip Lee @drphiliplee1]

I don't want to be a killjoy. Dressing up in full PPE and doing a dance on tiktok might be great for morale, but have you considered how it might look to someone whose family member just died of COVID-19 in your hospital, and they haven't even been allowed to visit?

[tina @ahappytin]

@hshwket thank you so much, that really means a lot! <3

[tina @ahappytin]

Day 3 of non-stop putting lines in COVID ICU patients that literally all die and this is exactly what I needed to hear

[Doug @LungDocDoug]

My ICU team just extubated a patient with COVID for the first time in ~10 days. After a week+ of badness, we needed a win.

[Nicole Herbst @NicoleHerbst2]

I am being haunted by the memory of every central line kit mask I’ve thrown away ever. #covid19

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

anytime someone on this site says “fairy-tales are for children,” the ghost of C. S. Lewis glides into their room like a magnificent sailing ship and whispers, “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy-tales again.”

[Amy G Dala MD @AmyGDalaMD]

If you want something done right, do it yourself.

If you want something done maybe slightly differently than you would have done it but then enjoy not being on call 24/7, allow your colleagues to help.

#TipsForAllDocs

[tina @ahappytin]

At 5am (aka hour 24 of my shift), a student asked a question about repleting fluid vs maintenance fluids and I closed my eyes, words came out, and I immediately had no idea what I said. Student says it made sense and is correct (he looked it up). Where is this ability on exams??

[tina @ahappytin]

@hshwket ^ my face the entire encounter

[tina @ahappytin]

Seeing a consult with a TRI:
Patient yells at me for “interrupting” the (male) TRI, then goes on a rant about how women can never understand how men work so much harder than they do. As I’m standing there. Working. On a Sunday. In the same spot as the TRI. #igiveup

[tina @ahappytin]

@iskandp Like 64 lol

[tina @ahappytin]

Surgeon 1: “Guys, go watch American Psycho!”
Surgeon 2: “Why? I *am* an American psycho.”

[tina @ahappytin]

Studying for absite and step 3 = reviewing some of my step 1 and step 2 notes, which are filled with weird attending quotes and absurd research ideas in the margins. Here's a few:

[tina @ahappytin]

Surg attending: "The Soviets add lidocaine to their intra-abdominal irrigation, and in many ways, I consider the Soviets superior." #overheardintheOR

[tina @ahappytin]

@lilaflavin

[tina @ahappytin]

Today:
1. My toughest attending told me that I'm good
2. I coded the diagnosis for a grown man's umbilical hernia as an exomphalos and said attending had to fix it
3. Said attending then called me an "especial moron", but lovingly. I think.

Eh. I'll take it 🤷🏻‍♀️ #internchronicles

[tina @ahappytin]

My co-intern texted me that our team's list is over a page long so he messed with the fonts and sizes and borders to get it under a page.

LITTLE DOES HE KNOW I'm straight up OBSESSIVE about the list being consistent for all 3 teams and had a subsequent NIGHTMARE about it

[tina @ahappytin]

Yes, yes, and probably. I'm a little worried about what that says about me as a person #controlfreak

[Ethan J. Weiss @ethanjweiss]

1) Do you look at the menu from a restaurant before you arrive?

2) Do you read the H&P of a patient before you hear the presentation?

3) Are the two related?

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

me at 16: I want to win Emmys! Grammys! the Nobel Prize!

me now: just want to be a bear in a lil cap and nightgown who drinks sleepytime tea in an armchair by the fire, and my only worry is do I have enough wool to make Christmas stockings for the gnome family under the stairs.