Stacy Mitchell, DO

Family medicine resident physician, wife, mom of 4, Diet Coke addict, sports enthusiast, southerner, costume party enjoyer. Aspiring rural FM-OB.

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

So I have once again made rhyming scavenger hunt clues for each kid to find their baskets in the morning, and we’re setting them up and my husband is just going on and on about how creative and witty and smart I am as he reads them. This man LOVES loves me, y’all. 🥰

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

@NotoriousS1Q3T3 You are infinitely deserving, friend! So proud of you for sticking with your dreams!

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

When your patient isn’t eating much in the hospital but tells you she loves Bomb Pops. Say less queen. 🥰

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

@heywardboyce In some ways I do think it’s like that. I am quite smart, and I pick up on most things quickly, so it’s fairly easy for me to learn even very difficult things. But I struggle with other things - focus, confidence, procrastination. Being smart can’t fully compensate for that.

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

Today I was talking about something that happened in 2007 and my coresident asked what grade I was in then and I had to be like “Um I was 21 and giving birth to my first baby.” 😅💀

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

My daughter had to do a presentation at school about her future career goals and she did hers on being a family doctor and talked about medical school and the Match and referenced my profile on our hospital website. How freaking cool is it that my life is my kid’s dream?? 🥹

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

When your mom/wife keeps staying at work late to catch babies and you never know when she’s gonna be home. 😅

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

When residency has been making you miserable and exhausted all the time, but then your 15 year old daughter posts a TikTok of her studying captioned “motivated because every day I’m closer to being just like my mom” and you just 🥹😭

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

God I have never felt anything more strongly

[cooper @marnieapologist]

my body does not know the difference between a mistake at work and being hunted for sport

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

I knew residency would be extremely busy, but I did not realize how impossible it would feel to schedule anything during normal business hours. I need to file something at the courthouse, see my own doctor, and get a haircut, and this requires expedition-level planning.

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

When your son sends you a picture of a laceration on his cheek to ask if he needs stitches, and when you ask what happened he responds “Oh we were playing basketball and I hit it on the rim of the goal.” 😳

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

Parenting teenagers is fun. 😅

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

Today at work nothing extraordinary happened, but I was struck multiple times by how I was handling situations/procedures with ease that would have made me nervous/uncomfortable even 3 months ago. Super cool feeling. The growth is expensive, but worth it.

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

@CanadianKayMD Absolutely wild. Like it’s impossible to exaggerate how perfectly fine and chill this lady was. Just “it’s been feeling kind of hard to swallow for a few days.” Unreal.

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

I wish there was a way to block Pitt discourse on here because whew lord the desire to respond to some of these takes from people who clearly have no idea what our jobs entail is making me crazy.

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

@drrdemon Barely hanging onto the third thing, but for the first two I’m lucky that my husband is willing to do it all. I’m absolutely useless once I leave work.

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

I am so sorry that this man is busy running a business so that we can afford luxuries like food and health insurance and he cannot immediately respond to your inquiries about Kinsley’s jersey number. May I suggest that you get a job about it?

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

Lolol my husband got demoted to assistant coach of our 7yo’s rec basketball team today because he would only respond to the group chat after work in the afternoons and the neurotic moms wanted “someone more committed to the [completely volunteer!!] job to head the team.” 😅🤣

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

I wish I was the kind of person who could just not care about making things better. Like I’m envious of people who can just sort of shrug and put up with suboptimal parts of systems without the burning need to improve them. I’m an irredeemable fixer and it causes me such grief.

[Stacy Mitchell, DO @stacybmitchell]

It’s my 40th birthday, and after a 15 hour night shift I’m happy to report that I don’t feel a day over 65! 🥳