- - 🆉🅸🅼 - - a.k.a. Patrick Zimmerman

New England Tx by way of the Wasatch. Best assets are an amazing wife & big doggo. Trauma & critical care surgeon by day. Tweets/opinions = my own, always.

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@kipsDS2010 Quaternary in the coal mine.

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@farkomd 9

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@MackenzieCookMD @CPark_MD @rbarbosa91 @rwinfield11 Amen. And in doing so, you influenced others - like me - to aspire to the same.

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@radRounds @sminaev2015 Oof

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@rbarbosa91 @gradydoctor @mount_md @iJoLai @aoglasser @PDX_Tom @DesaisSima @AndreMansoor

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@rbarbosa91 @gradydoctor @mount_md @iJoLai @aoglasser @PDX_Tom @DesaisSima @AndreMansoor I adore Ox. My favorite restaurant while I lived there. But I think they’ve closed, tragically.

[UofL Health @UofLHealth]

"There's only so many times you can walk into a room and tell someone they're not coming home tomorrow. It breaks your heart when you hear someone screaming mommy or daddy. It just becomes too hard day in and day out."
- Dr. Jason Smith on the toll of gun violence in Louisville

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@docmartin22 @NeilFlochMD @bulgercot @kmattox1 @Me4Trauma @traumadoctors @EAST_TRAUMA @WesternTrauma @bryanacotton1

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At least it’s spring indoors.

[Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery @JTraumAcuteSurg]

❇️Best of SCC❇️

Advance directives may be markers of withdrawal of treatment, but other hospital events have a greater impact. Providers must perform more proactive discussions of end-of-life care.

@UHSurgeryRes @UHSurgeryHealth @vanessapho; @aba260

https://t.co/A74b54ietx

[BehindTheKnife @BehindTheKnife]

And another one! The steady output of trauma highlight videos continues via @clarkninam @Kniery_Bird @mcclellanjm @georgoff

[Elliott R Haut, MD, PhD, MAMSE @elliotthaut]

@PMHTrauma_ALE @topknife @WesternTrauma It’s easy to sleep at night if you always do the right thing.

Thanks for being a role model to all the residents, fellows and junior faculty at the meeting.

#WTA2023 #FellowshipOfTheSnow #SurgMentoring #MedTwitter

[Karen Wanersdorfer, DO @kwanersdorfer]

Worth the watch.

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@F_ThurstonDrake Indeed, a great man. One to be admired. One to model oneself after.

[Patrick Georgoff, MD @georgoff]

Another highlight video for y’all to enjoy w/ @Kniery_Bird @mcclellanjm @clarkninam. Full video is 10 min/narrated & packed w/ so many tips & tricks it’ll make your head spin 🙉

Due out later this year on @BehindTheKnife

Thx to my editor/wife @LGeorgoff for so many hrs of help

[American Board of Surgery @AmBdSurg]

An analysis of more than 22,000 surgeries performed by residents at #VeteransAffairs facilities found no differences in rates of complications or deaths when an attending #surgeon was scrubbed in vs. not scrubbed in to supervise https://t.co/UXiYwMl37T

[F. Thurston Drake @F_ThurstonDrake]

Dear @AcademicSurgery - I just climbed the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere. Any chance I can log those miles for some #getoffyouraas points?

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@saranimd @mindfulscalpel Ima awaiting my robot training for this very reason!!

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@ShoaClarke @DGlaucomflecken and salaries commensurate to those overseen.