Whitney Buckel

Infectious Diseases Pharmacist with Intermountain Health. I love to travel, read, hike, bike, eat cheese, drink wine and chat about life! All views are my own.

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

Amazing talk on statins and daptomycin by @DHpharmd at #IDWeek2024 — I learned so much and appreciated the cardiology perspectives shared!!

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

The best way to make time fly is to agree to review a paper. Where did those two weeks go???

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

Props to the planning committee for generating such a fun title. 😁 I look forward to presenting with @helennewland in Boston in just a few weeks!

[SIDP @SIDPharm]

Join @helennewland and @tinymuscles and get BCIDP/ACPE credit while learning how #ArtificialIntelligence can be used to improve your current ID practice! #SIDP2023 #IDWeek2023

Register today! https://t.co/bPaD6ZvyGQ

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

@domkchan Big news!!

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

Couldn’t be more delighted to support SIDP in this way and work together with so many amazing colleagues to further SIDP’s mission. Grateful for the opportunity!

[SIDP @SIDPharm]

THE RESULTS ARE IN 🗳️👏

Congratulations to the Newly Elected @SIDPharm Board Members for 2023-2024! 🎉🎉🎉

President-Elect: @ErinMcCreary, PharmD, BCPS, BCIDP
Secretary: @helennewland, PharmD, BCIDP
Board Member-at-Large: Whitney Buckel (@tinymuscles), PharmD, BCIDP

[SIDP @SIDPharm]

We’re excited to release our new #AntimicrobialStewardship Certificate Program!

To view the program description and register, please visit https://t.co/6uZHMmKr20 #TwitteRx #IDTwitter #ASP #stewie

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

Congrats @alzaidi_sameer on an impressive residency year!! Be well, do good work and keep in touch!!

[Sameer Alzaidi, Pharm.D, MBAc, BCPS, BCIDP, AAHIVP @alzaidi_sameer]

I’m so proud to complete my PGY2 in ID @Intermountain. Having the opportunity to work with these intelligent and globally recognized people is the most meaningful reward I gained this year. Thank you so much for shaping me into the person I am today. #PharmRes #IDTwitter

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

@DrSamuelBrown I loved biking the Galloping Goose on Vancouver Island! We also really enjoyed Gabriola Island. There are ferries you can take from Vancouver to Victoria and Nanaimo.

[Billy Oppenheimer @bpoppenheimer]

Colin Jost & Michael Che are the longest-tenured Weekend Update anchors in SNL history.

But after their first few episodes back in 2014, an NBC executive called a meeting with SNL producer, Lorne Michaels.

“Do you think Jost and Che are working?” the exec asked.

Michaels said,

"No."

"Oh," the exec said, "you know?"

Yes, Michaels said. He said he was well aware that his new Weekend Update anchors were not performing all that well.

"But it's a thing," Michaels told the exec. "People have to be bad before they can be good."

He likes to use the analogy of an ugly baby:

"All babies are ugly (unless they're your baby), but after three months, everyone says, 'What a beautiful baby.' You just have to live through that period of people not being good."

Takeaway 1:

Lorne Michaels said people are bad before they are good. And what's true of people is true of just about all creative work.

The co-founder of Pixar Ed Catmull, for instance, calls early mock-ups of Pixar movies—coincidentally—“ugly babies.”

“They are not beautiful, miniature versions of the adults they will grow up to be,” Catmull writes.

“They are truly ugly: awkward and unformed, vulnerable and incomplete. They need nurturing—in the form of time and patience—in order to grow.”

Takeaway 2:

Colin Jost and Michael Che, Lorne Michaels told the NBC exec, just needed some time to get through the period of being bad.

The record producer Rick Rubin talks about how it’s an underrated ability: the ability to sit with discomfort through that period of being bad.

Talking with his fellow multi-Grammy-winning producer Finneas O’Connell, Rubin said, “There’s a great deal of patience involved."

Because, he said, everything is bad for a while before it gets good.

Finneas agreed, saying,

“I think it’s shocking every time how bad things can be on their way to being good.

It blows my mind.

It’s like when someone’s solving a Rubik's Cube, and it looks like they’re so far from solving it right before they solve it.

When you’re in the middle of something—you listen to it, and you’re like, ‘Tomorrow, this might get amazing, but today, it’s so bad.’

The exciting thing is that it’s every time.”

“Every time,” Rubin repeats.

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“You’re only as good as you’re willing to be bad…You’re never going to get good unless you’re willing to be bad.” — Randall Stutman

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[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

I enjoyed working with you on this @E_Stenehjem! You have left quite a legacy @Intermountain. @Payal_Patel and I hope to continue the great work and partnership in the outpatient space!

[Eddie Stenehjem @E_Stenehjem]

👇Check it out. Successful urgent care antibiotic stewardship initiative in 38 urgent care clinics at @Intermountain. Resp encounter prescribing 48% ➡️ 33% and SUSTAINED at <30%.

Such a great partnership with our incredible urgent care clinicians.

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

@GidMK What is the “Number, n(%)” row referring to exactly?

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

So proud of our PGY2ID resident @alzaidi_sameer! Great work under the mentorship of @jvilletti @stephshealymay @m3rkat

[David Ha @DHpharmd]

@alzaidi_sameer starting off our #MADID2023 trainee abstract session l: Oral BLs vs FQs for uncomp GNR BSI 2/2 urinary source. Interesting findings! 👀 @tinymuscles

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

So proud of our ID resident! @Intermountain

[Sameer Alzaidi, Pharm.D, MBAc, BCPS, BCIDP, AAHIVP @alzaidi_sameer]

Honored to present my research at #MADID2023. Thank you @MAD_ID_ASP for this wonderful opportunity! ! #PharmRes #IDTwitter

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

Last year as co-chair @SHEA_Epi Antimicrobial Stewardship Training Course #SHEASpring2023. I am so grateful for all those who joined over the past 3 crazy years, how much I learned from everyone, and new amazing friends @NateShivelyMD, Chris Evans, @PriyaNori, @Kuperrx and more!

[Nate Shively @NateShivelyMD]

Thanks to everyone who joined us for the #SHEASpring2023 Antimicrobial Stewardship Training Course, to our amazing speakers, and to my phenomenal co-chairs, @tinymuscles and Chris Evans.

Look forward to seeing everyone in Houston for #SHEASpring2024!

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

Resources recommended at the Communicating Data that People Will Understand session at #SHEASpring2023 by @MartinaAClarke and Dr. Luis Zeman:
1– The Art of Statistics by David Spiegelhalter
2– Data Story by Nancy Duarte

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

Check out this website he created as an example of learning through interaction: https://t.co/AzmeVG6k3k

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

Dr. Luis Zeman gave the coolest talk at #SHEASpring2023 this year where he taught us about evolutionary computation, then went meta about what tactics helped in sharing this brand new type of data with us: start simple, add complexity, custom pace, tell stories and interact!

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

If you missed this fabulous talk by @MartinaAClarke at #SHEASpring2023, check it out. Not only will you learn, you’ll laugh, and remember these great tips!

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

2/ Think about form and make sure it’s helpful (eg avoid 3D bar charts unless it’s truly adding something) https://t.co/x5ACqsaW2g

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

4/ Be aware of and leverage spatial positioning

[Whitney Buckel @tinymuscles]

3/ Use movement for emphasis…. But do not overdo it. Loved this example @MartinaAClarke because it hit home, made me laugh… and was such an illustrative example of the power of movement. (Basically the slide moved up to see the top of the very high last column.)