Chloe Ortega

PGY2 IM Primary Care Track • 📚 Geriatrics, SDoH, & palliative care • #FirstGen college/med & first-born daughter • views my own • she/her 🇵🇭

[Chloe Ortega @chloeortega2]

Thrilled to officially be Dr. Chloe Ortega, DO!

Graduation festivities have been so fulfilling, especially my all-time favorite moment: being hooded by my grandparents 🥺

Excited for this next chapter in Milwaukee as I keep working toward my dream of becoming a geriatrician 💖

[Laura Vater, MD, MPH @doclauravater]

A tough day of being double booked, running late, but then a patient made me tear up when he said:

“I used to hate doctors. I felt like cattle, just another number. You changed the way I view doctors & the whole profession.”

I hope patients know how much their words mean to us.

[Michael Albert, MD @MichaelAlbertMD]

1/ The 2026 ACC/AHA Guideline just retired 10-year-old guidance and brought back something crucial: explicit LDL-C numeric targets.

Not "treat to benefit." Treat to a number.

<55 mg/dL for most established ASCVD. <70 for high-risk primary prevention.

Eleven societies signed off.

[Dr. Christian Casteel @DrCasteelEM]

Everyone who works in medical education knows students/trainees who have top tier metrics but you’d never want treating you or your loved ones.

Also it’s much much easier to train an academically below avg student with a great personality/work ethic to be competent and safe to practice independently than it is is to train an elite numbers student who has pathological personality traits to do the same (some argue it’s essentially impossible).

[Laura Vater, MD, MPH @doclauravater]

Most patients don't realize their doctors and nurses think about them in the spaces between visits. While driving home, getting ready for bed, while falling asleep.

Our work is a part of us, and we care about you. That's all.

[Syed Mughees Hussain @drsmh79]

Medicine has a strange culture: we shame learners for not knowing instead of teaching them how to learn.
Curiosity grows in safety, not humiliation.
If your teaching needs humiliation, it isn't teaching — it's insecurity.

[Michael Justus @mhjrad]

What I’ve realized: the smartest doctors ask the most questions. Medicine changes fast. Stay curious, admit uncertainty, and maintain a growth mindset.

[FK @kfortzx]

Not even exaggerating, having good friends will save your life fr

[Oren Gottfried, MD @OGdukeneurosurg]

Who needs this

[✨MD neuron divergent EKG slayer✨ @fuqekgs]

I am blocked by him but I'm here to say that being a first generation IS significant and don't let someone tell you otherwise

Signed,
First generation college and medical student 💖

[Inside The Match @Inside_TheMatch]

Dear Med Students,

YOU are so much MORE than a STEP SCORE.

❤️ The #InsideTheMatch Team

#MedStudents #IMG #Match2026

[Clement Lee, MD, MSc @ClementLeeMD]

ask for antibiotics for your cough

[Chloe Ortega @chloeortega2]

2 blocks of residency down already time is unreal☺️🥹😢💗🤗🥺🧠🩺🥳🎉

[Dr sthanu subramanian @drsthanus]

An endocrinology cheat sheet, correlating clinical signs and symptoms with potential endocrine disorders:

https://t.co/fFDx6qyTXx

[Vega Shah @dr_alphalyrae]

Everyone working in a STEM field should read this - ‘writing is thinking’
https://t.co/pps0zyCURe

[CardiovascularCorner @TrackYourHeart]

Awesome graphics illustrating the differences between NSTEMI and STEMI

[Laura Vater, MD, MPH @doclauravater]

Rounded with a stellar resident team yesterday and this is still one of my favorite things to say around 3 pm:

“You’ve worked hard and cared well for people today. Now go home and enjoy your life.”

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

A major cheat code in life: Being a pleasure to deal with. Kind when others aren’t. Calm when things go sideways. Reliable under pressure. Intelligence alone is overrated. Be someone who lightens the load for folks around them. People value people who make their lives easier.