sheyla

⚕️| doctor | dom 🇩🇴 | poetry & memes | dont follow me, follow Jesus

[sheyla @sheylacor]

Hey #MedTwitter!
I’m Sheyla Cordero Torres (AAMC: 16445796), physician from the Dominican Republic, with a Master’s in Clinical Bioethics.

📍Applying to Internal Medicine #Match2026.
Passionate about #Bioethics, #MedEd & preventive medicine.

Looking forward to connecting! 🤝

[sheyla @sheylacor]

Maybe growth really is as simple as choosing not to abandone yourself twice.

[Chris Malchow @_thecolorfulkid]

Colors of the Midwest

[sheyla @sheylacor]

keep dancing and call it love

[sheyla @sheylacor]

Aydiomio

[𝐋𝐚 𝐒𝐞ñ𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚 𝐃𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚 Ke0👩🏻‍⚕️ @Dra_KMedina]

Llevo una semana en mi rotación de anestesio pedía y wooow, es un mundo hermoso y complejo 🧸🫶🏼

[Jason Ryan @jasonryanmd]

Medical school is filled with simulations of patient care: sim labs, OSCEs, case conferences. These things have a role in learning but can't compete with actual patient-care experience. The first time I ran a code, I was petrified even though I'd had dozens of simulated experiences before. The first time I saw ST elevations, I panicked even though I'd prepared for that exact situation. Even the first time I took a history, I blanked on what to ask. With AI, I suspect it will become even easier to simulate patient care. But to get good at medicine, you have to do it in real time with real patients.

[sheyla @sheylacor]

broke a bone that never healed in my hand

[sheyla @sheylacor]

be a bitch or get an autoimmune disease

[sheyla @sheylacor]

Dualipa se casó o es AI la foto que anda? Ya uno ni sabe 🥲

[sheyla @sheylacor]

Si usted es una persona que no le gusta tomar ordenes o se irrita desde que se le dice que haga algo, no estudie enfermería.

Estudie para ser piloto, mánager, sea Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffet o Elon Musk pero enfermera/o no sea.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A young Harvard medical school graduate spent nearly three years stuck in his parents' house, having panic attacks and hallucinations. One evening at twilight, walking into a dressing room, he was hit by what he later called "a horrible fear of my own existence." His name was William James. The diary entry he wrote on April 30, 1870 became the foundation of modern psychology.

The line was this: "My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will." He was 28. He'd given up. So he made one decision: stop waiting to feel okay before doing things. He would do them first, and let the feelings catch up whenever they could.

He spent the next twenty years turning that one diary line into a science. His 1890 textbook landed on a simple split: the things you do are under your direct control, but the things you feel are not. You can decide to swing your legs out of bed and walk to the kitchen. The mood that hits you while you're walking, you can't dial. So you work the part you can work. The feeling side shows up on its own clock, when it's ready and not before.

Brain scanners caught up about a century later. There's a network in your head that switches on the moment you stop paying attention to anything specific. It's the voice that drags you back to something dumb you said in 2014. In depressed brains, this network is overactive. It runs in loops. It will not let go of the negative track about you. The second you start doing something that actually needs your attention, the loop quiets and a different network takes over. Action is the off switch.

In 2016, The Lancet published a trial called COBRA. Researchers took 440 adults with depression and split them in half. One group got CBT, the gold-standard talking therapy where you work on your thinking patterns. The other group got something simpler, basically James's idea written into a treatment plan: pick small activities each week, schedule them, do them, see what happens to your mood. A year later, both groups had improved by the same amount. The simpler version also cost about 20% less to deliver, because junior workers can run it. Five days of training is enough.

In 2024, a research team pulled 218 studies together, covering 14,170 depressed people. Walking and jogging produced a real drop in depression scores. Yoga, same drop. Weights, same drop. The authors' verdict: exercise belongs alongside therapy and medication as one of the main treatments for depression.

So that's the answer William James worked out from his own three years in hell in 1870, and that 14,000+ people in clinical trials have confirmed since. Action. Walk somewhere. Pick something heavy up and put it down. Show up at yoga. Schedule one small task and finish it. Any of these works, and they work for the same reason. You move, and the feeling follows.

[M @girlpov]

#goodnight

[sheyla @sheylacor]

@quilyopraa lol

[sheyla @sheylacor]

Tengo deseos como de torturarme con un PhD

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

Me whenever the stars are visible

[Kote @kotecinho]

Fazenda Itaipava 🇧🇷

Lucas Jimeno Dualde