Please don't forget that the only difference between you and a disabled person is time. Even if the disability is temporary, it will happen in your lifetime. Disability is part of the human condition. Advocating for disability rights is advocating for your inevitable future.
Pressure doesn’t build diamonds in medicine - it builds burnout.
What shapes a doctor is not sleepless nights, but systems that respect limits.
Stop glorifying suffering. Start designing sustainability.
I consider Emergency Medicine the most difficult specialty. That said, in a non-mass casualty ED situation, sending to the ICU a septic patient, hypotensive on 2 pressors, anuric, hypoxic, w a Hb of 5.0, lactate 10.0 & K 6.0, w an IO & a non-functioning 22g may be less than ideal
Match Week etiquette reminder:
Don’t text people asking if they matched.
Don’t ask if it was their #1.
Don’t pressure them to announce immediately.
Don’t share their results before they do.
This week is life-changing. Let people share and process on their own timeline