The most dangerous grift in ophthalmology right now is “glasses are harmful.” People that claim diet, exercise, and a 10 part instructional webinar can help you live spectacle free! No. Stop it.
It’s not a big deal for most adults. They will lose some money before realizing that no amount of exercise and bull testicle consumption will fix their presbyopia.
But those same adults have kids. If young kids don’t get the glasses they need, their brains won’t develop normal vision. I’m talking permanent vision loss. I have seen it happen. It’s awful and entirely preventable.
The front page of tomorrow's @dailytarheel –
I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours.
Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.
I’m cackling at the various public health agencies’ ads reminding people it’s okay to go back to masking without shame, meanwhile the same agencies don’t even go back to their own policies without shame.
We live in a time.
Oh you’re going to a teaching hospital in July? Well get ready…
for the most compassionate care from extremely empathetic interns along with their vigilant supervising attendings. Hope you like open ended questions and doctors listening to you bc you’re gonna drown in it.
I remember sitting at the nurse’s station in January of 2018, writing a note. One of the nurses asked me a personal question and I told her, “You know, I think I finally realized that my life was just meant to be hard.”
She laughed and said, “Come on, you’re a doc. You probably-
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@allsyan My nonmedical boyfriend and I dated long distance for 3 years while I was in med school. We’ve been married 23 years, 22.5 of them in the same place. It’s doable.
@SBSOnTheRun MRI of my head—covered my eyes. MRI of my back—went in feet first. Either way you go in the machine, try box breathing to lower your heart rate and blood pressure.