how to place a consult: you MUST understand the five stages of consultant grief.
once you can understand this painful and natural process, requesting consults will make a LOT more sense
buckle up, it can be a little rough…
🧵 1/6…
People have this romantic notion of retirement - beautiful carefree days of rest and relaxation, travel, pursuing hobbies.
Maybe. But it can also be declining health, disability, a lot of doctor appts, & medical treatments.
Do all the beautiful things as you go along.
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.
Breaking News: Wisconsin tipped control of its Supreme Court to liberals, a seismic shift that could end the state’s abortion ban and gerrymandered maps. https://t.co/6sX4KAnDw8
2022: cancer staging? There's an app for that. Memorizing AJCC manuals harkens from a time of phone booths and Blockbuster. Except for RadOnc! Since I don't believe in brute-force techniques, I created a "Mind Map" for mentally consuming the AJCC 8th edition:
Just thinking about how most of the people I know who are classically successful in medical training have superhuman skill in making their outward demeanor different from their inner feelings
Jennifer Stanley, MD, PhD, @WashURadOnc resident, has been awarded a Research Resident/Fellow Grant for her work "Exploiting Radiation Induced Anti-tumor Immunity in Advanced-stage and Metastatic Ovarian Cancer"!
@RSNA@SitemanCenter@JulieSchwarz14
The @stlzoo announced it will close today until further notice "as a precautionary measure against the spread of #coronavirus" and says it will determine plans to reopen at the end of the month https://t.co/jTwoo01mP1