Emily Smith

Ag Comm professional👩🏼‍💻| MS Comm @lifeatpurdue | 💍 @deadlywarbler (she/her)

[annie-mai @anniemaisocial]

being a social media manager 🤝 knowing i'd be happier if i wasn't on social media

[Emily Smith @emilynkrahn]

@ffmichelle I met an EMT who referred to patients who don’t speak English as “vet medicine” because he can’t ask what’s wrong. Definitely a learned term that is just downright awful.

[Amy Faith Ho, MD MPH @amyfaithho]

A history of @theNRMP match: 🧵

The Match was established in 1952 when available resident positions vastly exceeded the number of graduating medical students. As a way to secure top students as residents, hospitals were:

1. Offering positions earlier and earlier, sometimes even prior to a student’s clinical years

2. “Exploding” offers and demanding a acceptance or rejection of an offer within minutes.

The labor market is different now. The match has also created an economic monopsony where there is one buyer (the match) and many sellers (student).

As a result, you see:

1. Wage suppression: The match eliminates any negotiation on salary or work conditions — with one “buyer”, they functionally control (and suppress) the wages of residents.

2. Lack of negotiation power: Once matched, students are obligated to accept the employment terms laid out by the program. This limits the ability of residents to negotiate better working conditions or benefits, which is a common practice in almost all other labor markets.

3. Limiting choice: Because candidates and programs must rank each other prior to the match, there is no opportunity for a student to decline an offer from a less-preferred program if they match there. This gets increasingly complex with scenarios like couples match.

4. Waste. Application fees, interview costs easily rack up thousands of dollars more of debt as students are incentivized to apply/interview at as many programs as possible to be able to rank more.

Economics aside, the match strips students of agency - to choose, to negotiate, to refuse…it treats students as widgets, interchangeable as just a body to fill a spot as determined by a faceless algorithm…

The “widgetization” of doctors is something we are well familiar with (ahem, CMGs…).

No wonder we end up how we do, burned out, treated as dispensable and replaceable by corporations, when this is how we start our careers.

@AmerMedicalAssn @AAMCtoday @AMAmedstudents

[Emily Smith @emilynkrahn]

@CharmayneAnn DO IT!

[Emily Smith @emilynkrahn]

@deadlywarbler Try not to fall in love! #BoneBros

[Emily Smith @emilynkrahn]

@MarkieHageman Woooo! You’re going to rock it! Can’t wait to hear how it goes. Wishing you and a baby a healthy delivery! 💕

[Emily Smith @emilynkrahn]

@MarkieHageman You’ve got this! 💪🏼

[Emily Smith @emilynkrahn]

I regularly rewatch Girls.
This show is ✨ g o l d ✨

[The New York Times @nytimes]

“I see so much more of myself in them. Maybe that’s why I hated them so much.”

People are rewatching “Girls,” Lena Dunham’s HBO dramedy, as some millennials reassess their 20s and a show that defined them.
https://t.co/aYBffETQf4

[Emily Smith @emilynkrahn]

@AnnaJWagner Boludo pizza is my favorite!! You’ll have to try it next time!!

[Emily Smith @emilynkrahn]

So so proud of you Jesse! Can’t wait to find out where we are off to next. #MarriedtoMedicine #Match2023

[Jesse Smith, MD MS @deadlywarbler]

Matched!! 17 years of trying, working, failing and trying some more I finally made it!

I’m going to be a radiologist!! 🙂🩻

#FutureRadRes #radres #Match2023

[Emily Smith @emilynkrahn]

@CharmayneAnn I have them saved in a “hype folder” - I’d recommend!

[Emily Smith @emilynkrahn]

So proud of you! ♥️

[Jesse Smith, MD MS @deadlywarbler]

I am honored anytime someone takes notice of my artwork. Even more so when my specialty takes notice! Thanks @ABR_Radiology for this interview! @futureradres #radart #radiology #MedStudentTwitter

[Emily Smith @emilynkrahn]

Let’s freaking do this!! 💪🏼

[Jesse Smith, MD MS @deadlywarbler]

Will it be my last winter in Minnesota? Or will we be signing on for many more? 57 days until #Match2023 #FutureRadRes

[Emily Smith @emilynkrahn]

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[Jesse Smith, MD MS @deadlywarbler]

Putting the final touches on this drawing of the old exterior, now interior of the Bellevue Hospital administration building. #medstudentart #radart

[Emily Smith @emilynkrahn]

@MarkieHageman If it’s any consolation, I’ve never had to use one and probably won’t.. (at least with the child I have now.)

[Emily Smith @emilynkrahn]

One of my new favorites! 🤩

[Jesse Smith, MD MS @deadlywarbler]

The first one is complete!

San Francisco General Hospital. Now the Zuckerberg SF General Hospital

@ZSFGCare @UMN_CFAM #radart

[Tyler Olson, EA @olsonplanner]

Yeah there is NO excuse for this.

[Emily Smith @emilynkrahn]

@nathaliejacoby1 🙋🏼‍♀️ + my daughter and husband.

[Emily Smith @emilynkrahn]

Supporting our local agri-tourism! #PumpkinPatch

[Emily Smith @emilynkrahn]

@deadlywarbler Sending healing thoughts to your heart ❤️‍🩹