“I hate breathlessness.” That one line reshaped how surgical resident Emily Papai thinks about purpose. It's not just helping people, but tackling the problems that really drive you.
The latest blog on The Academic Surgeon explores how to find a professional identity that lasts longer than a fellowship title. It's honest, thoughtful, and a must-read for anyone mid-training.
Read here: https://t.co/xEKBO0PFUo
Interested in how you can incorporate palliative care into your acute care surgery practice? @traumadoctors developed a clinical consensus document with all the info you need here: https://t.co/thMMUQDuGT
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⌛️ 8-week internship
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💵$5,500 living stipend+$2,500 conference stipend
🩺Clinical exposure, small group edu, opportunity for scholarship, & structured mentorship
🥼For med students from backgrounds underrepresented/historically excluded in medicine
Philly, we’re making history again! The over 3,000 residents & fellows at @TJUHospital, @TempleHealth, Einstein, & @ChildrensPhila are UNIONIZING!✨
4 Hospitals. 1 Union. We’re standing up for us, the future of the city’s healthcare, and all of our communities in Philadelphia.
In the September Executive Director's Update, @pturnermd details the ACS's work—including groundbreaking initiatives—in surgical palliative care.
Learn more about surgery's long history in palliative care and the efforts of the ACS: https://t.co/PTcFJysCOh
For the first time, the OR staff asked *me* what music I wanted after my attending left me to finish a case and I’ve never felt more like a real surgeon (obviously we listened to @taylorswift13)
We are delighted to announce the @PennMedicine#HPM fellows for next year! Welcome Emily, @miranda_haslam, & Stephen! We are thrilled to have you join the #hapc team at Penn.
Friends, I am so excited to share my first piece for the New Yorker about how we misunderstand and misuse CPR. CPR exists to reverse death. And reversing a death does not always mean restoring a life. https://t.co/xRcIkcRwcO @UMass_Medicine@UMassChan
"When clinicians, from a position of authority, describe patients with respiratory failure as needing intubation, patients and families presume intubation is what should be done."
Reconsidering the Language of Serious Illness https://t.co/IXDtDDPYTw
Trauma patients w/ palliative care consults obtained within 72 hours of admission experience reduced hospital costs, reduced hospital & ICU length of stay, reduced ventilator days & reduced rates of tracheostomies and surgical feeding tubes
https://t.co/Dk2LkGpmwj
"Love and loss create us, and grief allows us to embrace that new creation. If no love is ever wasted, then no grief is either," Kerry Egan writes in Modern Love. https://t.co/IadaKgL1cA
“If giving difficult news feels easy, you probably aren’t doing it right,” says Dr. @kekopeckMD about breaking bad news to patients and their families—one of the most sensitive and important tasks in medicine. @GretchenSchwa10
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