Not sure when people* are going to understand that denying people medical care usually leads to them needing more expensive medical care later.
*policymakers and insurance companies
Explaining the trauma we experience to our family is challenging
Trying to explain how we’re able to see traumatic things without it ruining us is more challenging
I’ve learned that while I need that skill to do my job, I also need to process trauma to be human.
#Medtwitter
i have stolen a yogurt lid. from the trash. it’s nothing personal. i was just feeling angsty. but now the human is chasing me. and i have no choice. but to evade them spectacularly
I just found out my husband does not know the length of human gestation beyond “nine months”. I said someone was 31 weeks pregnant and he asked “out of how many” no!!!!!!
Doctors say Ebonie Sherwood died three times after suffering a massive heart attack, but she's beating the odds.
On Wednesday, she left the hospital after an emergency heart transplant saved her life. @WLWT
So instead of just, you know, paying claims in a timely manner, @Optum is now offering Pay Day Loans to health care practices with repayment automatically deducted from future claim payments. Incredible innovation from the most evil corporation on earth
https://t.co/I14oWz3JMG
Me to my patient, genuinely excited and trying to connect: “see, you can do hard things!!”
Patient: “bitch I didn’t say I couldn’t, I said I didn’t want to”
Just another day touching lives 🤗
@EM_RESUS I am a paediatric emergency physician working in Australia.
I have NEVER seen a gunshot wound in a child, and have not seen a gunshot wound in anyone for over 20 years.
This cause of death is the result of "choices" by politicians and the people they represent.
Just had a 95-year-old patient ask me for champagne repeatedly. When I told her I didn’t have any to give her, she replied “if I can’t have champagne I don’t want anything” #goals
I just listened to an entire book start to finish without pause while cleaning my house. I take no pride in this, as if you entered my house right now you probably would not be able to tell at all
No one:
Social Security: here’s the most important document you will ever receive so guard it with your life. We printed it out on a tiny piece of card stock for you so you can keep it safe for the rest of your life. If you need us don’t call! Good luck ☺️
One of the many cool things about my job is when something tragic or traumatic or scary happens, I get to decompress afterwards by transcribing the events in explicit detail for legal documents