Islnd Chica

Sleepy time doc | Lover of good food | Wanderlust sufferer | Dance enthusiast | Hug distributor | 🇯🇲 by birth, 🇺🇸 by passport

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@DGlaucomflecken The only time I’ve ever felt competent with a neurosurgeon in the room — he was having a colonoscopy, and I had the propofol in hand. Yup. Just that once.

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@smith_jsbe8786 @RyanMarino @acweyand @alisadoc1 @AshleyGWinter @DrCanuckMD @quality_nguyen @KarenPercy1 One thing to note, for those assuming that the ‘doctor cannot spell’ — it is not safe to assume that this unfortunate patient was seen by a physician in the ER.

Along with various levels of professionalism, there are also various levels of training, experience and competence.

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@cliffreid The anesthesiologists I met as a student: so calm, prepared, kind, thorough, humane, respectful, always caring for the whole patients… in a space where there were too many weren’t those things.

I wanted to be like them when I grew up.

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@cjosephy For some strange reason, rocuronium is used liberally in anesthetizing locations without the high incidence of awareness, including in critically ill patients.

The roc has never been the issue. It’s the normalization of lack of sedation and use of terror and pain as pressors.

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@notcapnamerica …. Not Tickle Me Elmo with the privilege getting kicked off a flight…

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@kidney_boy The overhead page for all available anesthesia STAT…

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@olsonplanner The unfortunate unspoken part of this question is that many in the public believe that this is what we’re actively doing.

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@jing_gennieWang OB + Anesthesia: Baby’s heart rate down

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@miriam_khalil13 A second set of eyes and another pair of hands is help, not failure.

[Chase Anderson, MD, MS (K.C. Ardem) 🦸🏽‍♂️🏳️‍🌈 @ChaseTMAnderson]

The introverted urge to smell books, live in books, buy more books, keep buying even more books, live in a house made out of books, read books all day, ignore the world and live with the characters in books, and then buy more books before you’re done with the other books.

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@ChristiB_MD Multiply by 10x if the patient is a farmer.

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@theblondenp Just show him this thread.

Medicine is so toxic that it has different allied health professionals bragging about their race to get to the mental health breakdown finish line first.

Bragging like it’s good. Good to be the biggest hot mess.

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@snailsanctuary One of the most memorable moments in my career is one of the hospital angels (my name for the chaplains) finding me in a corner at work and checking to see if I was okay.

I wasn’t.

And I was so comforted because I felt seen.

Thank you for everything you do.

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@thebadnephron These luscious locs tho… 😍😍😍

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@ShawnteJamesMD The craziest thing about this is that it’s usually old men with crappy personalities like his that we see in the hospital - alone with no friends, estranged families and big mad at the world… getting ready to meet their maker.

… and the kids waiting to collect the inheritance

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@thewritingdomme @RCMAuthor They had all the sodas :)

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@thewritingdomme @RCMAuthor There’s a sprite flavored one that I just loved the smell of…

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@RCMAuthor I can smell this picture.
You know you can too.

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@DavidFarleyMD With all due respect, sir… it’s not too late to seek therapy for the trauma you experienced at the hands of those who taught you that abuse builds character.

Do this for yourself, and also to break the cycle for those whose education you have been charged with.

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@panagis21 I think I just won life 🙂

[Islnd Chica @islndchica]

@panagis21 How does one get invited to one of these things? I’m Jamaican and housebroken.