Haley Nakata

Orthopaedic Resident @ LAC+USC. Interested in medical education and mentorship. Lover of being barefoot and orange monster.

[Haley Nakata @HaleyNakata]

@DanielYHongMD @phelps_hm @OrthoColumbia @TheNRMP @HandSociety @WashUSurgRes @ChrisDyMD @OrthoRes_WashU Congrats!!! Can’t wait to be hand colleagues together!

[Haley Nakata @HaleyNakata]

Thankful for Twitter for connecting me with RJOS and @MarileeClunk. Proud to be chosen for this feature during AAPI Heritage month!

[Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society @RJOSociety]

We have resumed our #WhyOrthoWednesday with Dr. ⁦@HaleyNakata⁩ at the University of Southern California. Click the link to find out how she’s making history at USC with her co-resident! 🦾🦾🦾 #OrthoTwitter #MedTwitter #ILookLikeASurgeon ⁦ https://t.co/9nVIbIRvxE

[K Brooke Golisch, MD MS @BrooketheOstomy]

This is clearly a subtweet, but I just want to offer a different set of advice to incoming interns:

1. Do nothing to prepare. You’ve worked hard. Go celebrate, relax, & spend time with loved ones.

2. Call attendings Dr unless they state they prefer otherwise.

Congrats again 🥂

[Haley Nakata @HaleyNakata]

@MKErdman How do I thumbs down this

[Haley Nakata @HaleyNakata]

From student athletic trainers to student athletes, Pops knew everyone in that training room. Almost 10 years later, and he still kept in touch with my husband and I. A wonderful man & mentor ❤️💛

[USC Trojans @USC_Athletics]

#FightOnForever, David “Pops” Scott.

A Heritage Hall legend, “Pops” worked in the equipment department from 2004-17 and served as a mentor to many student-athletes.

[Haley Nakata @HaleyNakata]

You ever lay in bed with the TV on, preparing to turn off the lights and go to bed when a @wearfigs commercial comes on? A pager ringtone then blasts, and now you, most definitely, cannot go to bed.

[Haley Nakata @HaleyNakata]

No sports cases today, so that meant some time in the hand room for me. Got to help with the sural autograft and suture in the distal end of our cabled graft. Boy does it feel nice to be back under the scope! Happy hump day!

[Haley Nakata @HaleyNakata]

Today I woke up feeling like I didn’t have anything “to do,” so I lounged in bed with my dog, got a peloton ride in, and made some coffee…too bad I forgot our scoop is a 1:1 ratio and not a 2:1, so I am now drinking mud water. Mood’s still bright though!

[Haley Nakata @HaleyNakata]

The infamous Kurt Mohty ancef mobile strikes again!! #uscortho

[Robert Cho, MD, FAAOS, FAOA @drrobertcho]

Tell me you’re an orthopaedic surgeon without telling me you’re an orthopaedic surgeon.

#orthotwitter #MedTwitter

[Haley Nakata @HaleyNakata]

Boy do I love the sterile spoon. My favorite part of a spine case is putting in the posterolateral graft with this bad boy.

[Ron Barbosa MD FACS @rbarbosa91]

🧵on the spoon as a surgical instrument.
(inspired by a post by @SKhalilMD and its replies)

By this I don't mean curettes or spoon-like instruments...I literally mean an actual kitchen spoon, as it has been used during real surgical operations.

[Kelsey @KelseyObGyn]

It’s me.
Hi.
I’m the doctor.
It’s me.

[Haley Nakata @HaleyNakata]

I haven’t travelled internationally since residency started, & now that I’m fresh off a trauma block I wonder if jet lag will affect me. My concept of time is so distorted that I’m hoping this will be my new superpower. You know what they say…with a monster, anything is possible

[Haley Nakata @HaleyNakata]

@MeganMizeraMD Rockstar!

[Haley Nakata @HaleyNakata]

Going to start a series entitled: pictures, on call

[Haley Nakata @HaleyNakata]

@FractureDoc MK front and center like the boss that she is! @MKErdman

[Haley Nakata @HaleyNakata]

@jo_hannafin Agreed! Tried it out tonight, and it was a much more pleasant and direct conversation!

[Haley Nakata @HaleyNakata]

Whenever I’m asked what I do, I say I’m an Orthopaedic Surgery resident. Most of the time, people have no idea what that means and follow up with a nursing question. Now I’m thinking (1) I should just say doctor and (2) if I were a man, no one would follow up with that question.

[Haley Nakata @HaleyNakata]

@FractureDoc @ToniRios123

[Haley Nakata @HaleyNakata]

When your mother-in-law @ToniRios123 makes new friends and that new friend follows you on Twitter. Nice to meet you @FractureDoc !! #orthotwitter

[Taylor Swift @taylorswift13]

I’m absolutely terrified that this is where we are - that after so many decades of people fighting for women’s rights to their own bodies, today’s decision has stripped us of that.