Raphaela Posner

magician's assistant to triple board PGY0 @brownpediatrics writer | mental health | medical humanities | English Nonfiction @BrownU alum | she/her

[Raphaela Posner @RaphaelaPosner]

I graduated medical school Sunday and am full of gratitude especially for @JBaruchMD who has been a steadfast mentor since 2015. feeling known as a writer is the best, and Jay has been able to see through me and to the heart of it from the start. To changing medicine together!

[Raphaela Posner @RaphaelaPosner]

so thrilled to continue my training in Providence as part of the Brown Triple Board family!!! couldn’t have done this without amazing mentors, family, and friends! @BrownPediatrics @BrownMedicine

[Raphaela Posner @RaphaelaPosner]

Thrilled to share a poem of mine is now online at Plexus Literary Review! Check it out along with some amazing work from others including @TiaForsman

https://t.co/IHn5tIbQv7

[Yo-Yo Ma @YoYo_Ma]

This is a little bit of comfort for those who need it.
Over the Rainbow #songsofcomfort

[Raphaela Posner @RaphaelaPosner]

@ESilvermanMD @TiaForsman

[Jennifer Spicer, MD, MPH, MHPE @JenniferSpicer4]

Required reading for everyone today:
https://t.co/DPnRudbZOP

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

We knew it was coming and yet it still took my breath away. I have no words.

[Raphaela Posner @RaphaelaPosner]

holding this poem by Mary Jo Bang which was read last night @twentystoriesla really closely right now in the face of my own anger at the overturning of Roe

[Raphaela Posner @RaphaelaPosner]

“When I look back at the beginning of medical school, when I believed in my capacity to endure anything, when I believed that any sacrifice was worth it, I was wrong.”
starting fourth year and thinking lots about this beautiful essay @lilaflavin

[Lila Flavin, MD @lilaflavin]

Excited to share my personal essay published in the examined life!! 🎉 🎉

It’s called “Goodbye stethoscope”

It’s ab the sacrifices we make in this career & the ones we choose not to make.

https://t.co/CCNE3sGJct

[Bret Jacob @electbretjacob]

Deeply troubled by anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation has once again made its way to #RhodeIsland Our community has amazing leaders mobilizing to SHUT THIS DOWN. Learn more and support 👇

[SteveAhlquist.Substack.com @steveahlquist]

Senators Morgan and Lombardo out with an anti-trans bill here in Rhode Island. Trans youth deserve our support, not legislation that further marginalized and humiliates them. https://t.co/dVnZYeWAKr

[Sanjee Baksh @S__Baksh]

A medical version of wordle called uwordle

[Raphaela Posner @RaphaelaPosner]

woke up on my snow day to coffee spilled in my backpack, damaging my laptop. what a way to spend the snowy day 🙃

[Eve Bloomgarden MD 🟦 🟧🎗️ @evebmd]

A song from #DocsWhoRock -
This is for HCW everywhere right now. A comedy, a tragedy, a parody for sure.

no partridge in a pear tree in this version, just a dumpster 🔥

Lyrical inspiration: @FutureDocs
Vocals : me and @ShikhaJainMD
Artistry: @KBrewEsq

@IMPACT4HC

[The Nocturnists @thenocturnists]

Healthcare workers,

As the #pandemic flares once again, @thenocturnists continues to be an outlet for your self-expression, truth-telling, and testimony.

Contribute an "audio diary" about Omicron here: https://t.co/xGga9Nytv6.

All voices will be archived @librarycongress.

[Raphaela Posner @RaphaelaPosner]

I've listened to this episode 3 times already and each time I find something new & different & essential to being a student, a doctor and a human

[The Nocturnists @thenocturnists]

In today’s episode, “Burn The Map,” an improv workshop transforms how psychiatrist David Elkin approaches a patient on the consult service.

David told this story live at our show @ybca in Jan 2020.

🎧: https://t.co/CY1GWB82qr @MarshallChinMD @DGlaucomflecken #MedTwitter

[Raphaela Posner @RaphaelaPosner]

"And women have been shown to spend more time with their patients, leading to a lower volume of services and procedures that can be billed for."
https://t.co/dCf63iEJba

[Raphaela Posner @RaphaelaPosner]

@alessacolaMD capturing that feeling of moving between worlds. “Lately, though, Lena hadn’t been able to muster the desire to wish for anything in particular, emitting instead a kind of wordless, soundless vibration, that she would make it through. To where, she did not know.”