Phil McCoy

emergency medicine doctor. be kind to each other. he/him

[Phil McCoy @mededmccoy]

Teaching point for y’all out there. Eye drops can go in ears but ear drops can’t go in eyes. My pediatrician prescribed ear drops (ciprodex) for my kid,$180. Cipro eye drops: $12. Think about this when prescribing for your patients. Eye drops are often cheaper

[Phil McCoy @mededmccoy]

ROLL WAVE!! @Tulane

[Phil McCoy @mededmccoy]

Today in health insurance, @Cigna declined to cover my daughter’s urine culture done when she was 3.5 years old. Said she was not “non-verbal” & otherwise healthy. @Cigna you ever talk to a 3 year old about medical issues? Done a full history? Sounds like a @DGlaucomflecken skit

[Phil McCoy @mededmccoy]

@CDEM_SAEM @EMSwami @srrezaie @reverendofdoubt @MikeGisondi @KurteL10 @amalmattu @meganranney On my interview days over 6 years ago I’d mention how being there for people on their worst days, when they are most vulnerable, is why I wanted to be an EM doc. The resuscitations are “fun” but the true challenge and reward are the emotional cases where you help someone in need

[Phil McCoy @mededmccoy]

@amalmattu On my interview days over 6 years ago I’d mention how being there for people on their worst days, when they are most vulnerable, is why I wanted to be an EM doc. The resuscitations are “fun” but the true challenge and reward are the emotional cases where you help someone in need

[Phil McCoy @mededmccoy]

Some people talk about how, as a physician, I should not inject politics into medicine, but then you see stuff like this and clearly someone is doing it anyway

[Matthew Gertz @MattGertz]

It didn't have to be this way. https://t.co/9HgwzZq1KF

[Phil McCoy @mededmccoy]

When you visit RI you gotta rock the alma mater gear @BrownUniversity. It’s where @LizMcCoy11 and I met

[Phil McCoy @mededmccoy]

New @OfficialBlueyTV dropped and now I wanna watch it…even though my kids aren’t interested. Maybe I should’ve been a pediatrician

[Phil McCoy @mededmccoy]

Or if the lady had a dead/dying fetus and telling her she had to keep carrying it. These people don’t give a two foleys about hurting other people in their absolutism.

[Phil McCoy @mededmccoy]

A big mental trauma I experienced as an ER resident was a woman miscarrying at 17 wk (my wife was 24 wk at the time). patient was traumatized. I had to collect the fetus in a “specimen” bottle bc it was <20 wk. I can’t imagine forcing someone to carry a no viable fetus to term.

[Heartland Signal @HeartlandSignal]

IN state Rep. Davisson (R) argues for requiring forced birth of non-viable fetuses.

Asked what he would tell children of a mother going through pregnancy resulting in stillbirth: "[None] of us are guaranteed tomorrow. We must accept death as a consequence of life."

[Phil McCoy @mededmccoy]

I then had to figure out if I had to do a death certificate (no). She asked to hold the baby. Then I had to awkwardly take it and put it in the same type of cup we used for urine collections (specimen cups). I can’t imagine if I had to worry about being prosecuted

[Phil McCoy @mededmccoy]

My suspicion is that a major source of burnout in medicine is when systems are in place that devalues your professional opinion and makes you feel helpless and unable to do the right thing for patients

[Phil McCoy @PhilRealMcCoy]

A police officer getting hand sanitizer while a gunman is inside the uvalde elementary school.

[Phil McCoy @mededmccoy]

@choo_ek While irritating, I’d much rather be Monday morning QB’d by a QA committee than not do anything cause I might be arrested for saving someone’s life. It’s ridiculous

[Phil McCoy @mededmccoy]

In 5 years Japan had fewer non suicide/accidental gun deaths than the Uvalde massacre. It’s awful what happened to Abe, but there is no comparison for gun safety between the two countries

[Michelle Ye Hee Lee @myhlee]

This is how rare gun violence is in Japan:

[Stella Safo, MD MPH @AmmahStarr]

Crimo apprehended alive.

I JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW THE POLICE MANAGE TO TAKE MASS SHOOTERS ALIVE BUT CANT LET BLACK FOLKS SURVIVE A TRAFFIC STOP WITHOUT 90 BULLETS FIRED.

Like how? How does this work???

[Phil McCoy @PhilRealMcCoy]

I just donated to @DrArvindVenkat for State House https://t.co/KOLm4gB32p. from personal experience I know he is smart, hard working, and will give Pennsylvanians what they deserve in a state rep

[Phil McCoy @mededmccoy]

Just one of many reasons why the framing of “pro-life” is disingenuous

[Mona Chalabi @MonaChalabi]

I wound up going with this because numbers are people.

[Phil McCoy @mededmccoy]

Congratulations to all the @VCUEM graduating residents and EM/IM residents. You will all go on to do great things in and out of the emergency department and congratulations to @molljoel for completing 8 years of being a PD. Based off the 2 I saw I am jealous of all vcu grads

[Phil McCoy @mededmccoy]

While I get that residents need to work hours and shifts and see patients, we don’t need to do it in a malicious and exploitive manner. Unsafe for residents. Unsafe for patients.