Brian Fromm

Traveling emergency physician. @JeffEMRes trained, @emresidents alum. Came for the #FOAMed, stayed for the memes. Views are my own and ≠ medical advice

[Brian Fromm @BrianSFromm]

@HadderDamon @DGlaucomflecken I definitely thought the ending to “I’ve been wearing contacts since the 3rd grade” was going to be “and I still haven’t taken them out yet”

[Brian Fromm @BrianSFromm]

I don’t post on Twitter often, but today my discharge counseling to a patient included the sentence, “I recommend you don’t pull out any more of your own teeth with pliers.”

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@hrh_approved RVU is such a messed up system. It encourages wrong priorities (let the other doc take the hypotensive patient coming in, I’ll go reduce this patella) or unnecessary procedures (that fracture could probably just be splinted but I’ll $edate/redu¢e anyway)

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@AnotherSFwriter @TwoWolvez @choo_ek Or there could just be one product for one price with two sets of instructions on the box for men and women.... or you can price gouge women for no reason

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@CanadianKayMD @choo_ek @mcgregormd They could also sell one product at one price and just put instructions on it for men to use twice a day and women to use once a day

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@ErinKarl_MD @KamalaHarris Glad I wasn’t the only one who stopped asking my patients who the President is for a full four years 😂 literally never asked it once

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

When the emeritus faculty shows up to grand rounds and sits there silently judging everybody who says anything

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@JeffEMRes @pjtomaselli @CarlosRodz_EM Excellent choices!! Both are total all-stars

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@pjputh @DocAlsup Pretty sure the guy can ride a bicycle vertically up a sheer cliff

[Brian Fromm @BrianSFromm]

@pjputh Summary of the past 2 minutes of my life: checking your recent times on Strava and comparing them to mine, deciding I can’t call you out as slow since we put up pretty similar numbers, but realizing yours are more impressive since you’re so damn old.

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@LonelyChell79 @pjputh @pjtomaselli Glad you have standards! My pt got woken by call at 2am and told to go to ED immediately or he could die because K >8. He had had routine labs during home IV abx, home RN drew blood, put box outside, wasn’t picked up for 24hr. Obviously guy was fine

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@Megsahokie Number 4 here (or 6 after the Peters): totally agree!

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@mcsassymd @allizuck One of my favorite @JoeLex5 quotes! I use it to answer that question all the time. "Emergency Medicine is the most interesting 15 minutes of every other specialty.”

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@pjputh @mike_natter “Haldol and Ativan and..... *squints at notes* ...... Bactrim! 4 point restraints so you can draw his.... *checks notes again* .... LDH!”

[Brian Fromm @BrianSFromm]

@mike_natter Good reminder that most of these acronyms are vague and can have multiple meanings. Ask a neurologist and an OB what GBS means and you’ll get 2 very different answers. And remember to have your patient with PCP on PCP follow up with their PCP.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

...yes

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

For the record @Mike_Pence, it’s Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez to you.

[Brian Fromm @BrianSFromm]

@aabramson I feel personally attacked by @aabramson 🤣

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Thanks, I’m fine. But everyone better vote.