Commentator 1: “Why aren’t the South African players attacking?”
Commenatator2: “it’s because the Mexicans are white, they only attack when they see black people”
I recently had a young person reach out. He had been in medical school but dropped out third year because he was more interested in practicing the "type of medicine" I practice vs the type of medicine he saw in the hospital.
He wanted my advice.
My advice would have been - stay in medical school. Go through residency. Practice medicine in a hospital for at least a few years.
Then, start adding to your knowledge. Read. Attend courses. Read some more.
Eventually, if you want to add a few less traditional pieces to your medical repertoire, great.
Or, if you want to leave traditional medicine and branch off into something more integrative or proactive or whatever... Great.
But those 7-10 years spent learning medicine cannot be replaced with books, Twitter posts, or even pubmed articles. They just can't. There's no substitute for being responsible for the lives of real, sick patients in a hospital.
You can disagree but I doubt many people who've gone through the entire process will.
How can you fully understand how to make a system better if you've never spent time in the system?
Suggested New Year's Resolution: more mindful prescribing of IV fluids 🫧
Far too often I see IV fluids thrown around with minimal consideration; meanwhile, we'll deliberate for hours about a dose of lasix 🤦♀️
Here are the 10 most common fluid prescription mistakes I see 🧵
@Nakhumicha_S You belong to the farm. MOH was a very big mistake. The atrocious cruelties that you subjected the current generation of young medical practitioners to will forever be etched in our memories.