Rabia Ishaq

Resident Physician 🇰🇼🇵🇰 | 𝐃𝐫. 𝐈𝐂𝐄 - your Friendly neighbourhood doc who sometimes writes about her #LifeinMedicine

[Rabia Ishaq @rabiamishaq]

Nothing is more rewarding than seeing a patient,post-op on which our team performed an extremely high risk Abdominal Aneyrusm Repair 3 days ago, now awake, happily sitting in his wheel chair and singing songs to express his gratitude.🥺♥️
#bestMomentsofLife #gratitude #MedTwitter

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

Saw a patient today with a hemoglobin of 1.9 g/dL. For context, a level that low is almost incompatible with normal consciousness, but she walked right into the clinic on her own feet.

For three long years, she lived with crushing weakness and since last 6 months breathlessness from just walking across a room. Why didn’t she get help sooner? At first, it was because the kids had crucial school exams and later her husband was reluctant to deal with the hassle of a hospital admission.

Her health was treated as a background inconvenience.
When we dug deeper, it got worse. A year ago, her Hb was 6.4 g/dL. A doctor explicitly told them she needed immediate admission. The family refused, walked out with a basic strip of iron tablets, she took them for two weeks, forgot about them, and nobody in the house ever bothered to check on her or remind her.

She didn't even come to the hospital today because of the air hunger. She came because her periods had completely stopped for months. Her body was so profoundly starved of iron and oxygen that it literally shut down her reproductive axis just to divert what little blood she had left to her heart and brain.

It’s completely heartbreaking. A woman will literally bleed her body dry, gasp for air for years and keep working silently, only to be brought to a doctor when her normal functioning stops.

Please check on the women in your homes. Stop letting them normalize chronic exhaustion.

[Rabia Ishaq @rabiamishaq]

@ClementLeeMD Lolss so trueee

[Rabia Ishaq @rabiamishaq]

@DocPriyamMD Brugada syndrome

[Rabia Ishaq @rabiamishaq]

@_sorrengailll Fact 💯

[Rabia Ishaq @rabiamishaq]

@kipkoecheruiyot Thats devastating,

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

When you realize that the two most profitable businesses are war and illness, it’s easy to understand what’s going on.

[Rabia Ishaq @rabiamishaq]

@Bunny_ngl ECG first

[Rabia Ishaq @rabiamishaq]

@FEMMY466 Acute cholesystitis and ectopic pregnancy left the chat 😅 orthobros for ya

[Rabia Ishaq @rabiamishaq]

@DrKamleshDarji1 Agreed 👍🏻

[Suneel Dhand MD @DrSuneelDhand]

The best doctors are always trying to stop medications. Not start them.

[Rabia Ishaq @rabiamishaq]

@anas081081 💯💯

[Rabia Ishaq @rabiamishaq]

@hotniqqha Agreed 💯

[Rabia Ishaq @rabiamishaq]

I used to think doing more meant caring more. Now I know that isn't always true.
Sometimes the hardest part isn't starting the treatment, it’s knowing when it’s no longer a kindness and truth is that sometimes, stopping is the last act of care we can offer..
#postcallreflections

[Rabia Ishaq @rabiamishaq]

@PJaseja Fundoscopy for hypertensive changes.

[Rabia Ishaq @rabiamishaq]

@Dr_Chris_Twine The weight of human life is a heavy burden to bear, indeed.💯

[JaPrado. @Dr_AustinOmondi]

To all junior medical doctors, you don’t need connections to rise. No matter how isolated you are, as long as you are out there giving your best, people will notice and life will work out.

[Rabia Ishaq @rabiamishaq]

@Dr_AustinOmondi True💯

[Rabia Ishaq @rabiamishaq]

@CitImmCanada @dr_saadiqbal

[Rabia Ishaq @rabiamishaq]

@Patrickwebb 😶‍🌫️

[Rabia Ishaq @rabiamishaq]

@isalmonfish Yes it’s permissible.