Yesterday I graduated medical school. I also learned that I graduated #1 in my class. Surreal is an understatement. Here’s to a fulfilling career of caring, listening, healing, and advocating.
Primary care saves lives and lowers costs, new @thegrahamcenter study reaffirms. Patients with a primary care clinician have 54% lower health care spending for chronic disease. The data reinforce what family physicians see every day: continuity of care saves lives, improves outcomes and reduces costs. Health care policy must reflect the real value of primary care. Read the full report from the Graham Center, @MilbankFund and @PhysiciansFound here: https://t.co/SLkoGNGZ2F
Coach Lyon was who recruited me to play soccer at IU. Without knowing it at the time, what he saw in me as a 15 year old would shape my life into what it is now. RIP Coach.
Michigan, we’ve got one shot, one opportunity to get this right. If you want to protect your fundamental rights, lower costs, and grow the economy for middle-class families, then you’ve got to get out and vote for @KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz.
Civic Scholar Rachel Zuckerman is keen to cultivate skills at Booth that will equip her to improve government service delivery. #CivicScholars
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Wait so @Tim_Walz took on another JOB (coaching middle school track and basketball) to pay off a kid’s lunch debt…and then became Governor and made school lunches free.
Absolute boss.
BREAKING: Reproductive Activist Kate Cox who fled the state of Texas to get an abortion so she wouldn’t lose the ability to have future children just announced she’s pregnant and the baby will be born in time to see Kamala Harris sworn in in January.
What an amazing moment!!!
Dear #Interns of 2024-
Welcome to the noblest of professions.
You are one of us now.
It’s great pressure and stress- the world we’re responsible for in the healing arts.
It’s simultaneously a great honor.
My advice?
1. Listen closely to our patients. Hear them- they’ll tell you what you need to know.
2. Ask for help. NEVER worry alone.
3. Above all, remember your “why” for choosing this difficult route- it is worth it no matter the cynicism that you may find yourself surrounded by in the years ahead.
All of your attendings vividly remember our first day, too.
#MedTwitter
In the ICU this week, we had a graduation ceremony for a child of a patient whose wish was to be at all of her children’s HS graduations. Her wish came true prior to being terminally weaned. A moment I will never forget. Medicine is beautiful and heartbreaking.