Bill Dixon MD

Husband to a terrific wife. Dad of 3. Family Doc. Residency Program Director.

[Bill Dixon MD @whdixon63]

Applies not just to athletic talents. Well said sir.

[Inky Johnson @inkyjohnson]

Don’t become a victim of your talent …

[Bill Dixon MD @whdixon63]

@DrQiu @rshawnm And schools need to stop celebrating their IM numbers as primary care -- very few IM GRADS are doing primary care 5 years after residency.

[Bill Dixon MD @whdixon63]

@DrQiu @rshawnm I agree but also disagree. Med schools know from demographics data who is more likely to pursue primary care and who is more likely to stay in their service area. Neither is guaranteed, but med schools can do a lot more to push their primary care pipeline.

[Bill Dixon MD @whdixon63]

@ninaagrawalmd @amyfaithho @TheNRMP If Med Schools and IM residencies were honest, they would publish the % of their grads at 5 years that were actually practicing primary care. The number is so low that it makes it difficult to consider IM as continuing to be a primary care specialty.

[Bill Dixon MD @whdixon63]

Awesome. Worth the read!

[Lady Glaucomflecken (she/her) @LGlaucomflecken]

In my 10+ years of co-survivorship, doing life with @DGlaucomflecken through 2 separate cancers, 1 SCA and fighting off his death with 10 mins of #CPR, only ONE (1) of the medical professionals we interacted with has ever asked how I was doing. Meet Roger. https://t.co/NR4F2mkcZC

[Bill Dixon MD @whdixon63]

@DavidJuurlink In 20 years of practice, I've had lots of times where the exam (and history) didn't match up with the imaging. The exam was more often found to be correct >> the imaging. Interpreting imaging without an exam is Russian roulette.

[American Board of Family Medicine @TheABFM]

Recent study published in @STFM_FM compares how rural and urban family medicine residencies prepare physicians for practice. Learn more about the value of rural training: https://t.co/RHWGLuznjX

[Dr. Shadowgazer @DShadowgazer]

when you don’t know what to do so you give vancomycin and zosyn

[André Martin Mansoor @AndreMansoor]

1/11
A 55 y/o man presents for evaluation of chronic diarrhea. We walk into the room to meet him.

We have an opportunity to make an “augenblick” diagnosis – one that can be made in the blink of an eye.

[Bill Dixon MD @whdixon63]

@pagingdrjett The impact on a community by a primary care physician is tremendous. The impact on 100's of communities that an academic doc has is also tremendous. I love that! It is also Variety on steroids. An environment of learning keeps me engaged. It adds to my work's purpose and meaning

[Bill Dixon MD @whdixon63]

@SBowersMD The only thing worse is the cottage industry on YouTube trying to teach med students how to succeed in the process. Some of that is really, really bad.... and they are profiting from it. Sigh.

[Bill Dixon MD @whdixon63]

@SBowersMD I am constantly amazed at the bad career and interview advice I see some students get from some of their schools. I am also constantly amazed at the students who choose to ignore the good advice they get from some of their schools, and are then shocked come Match day.

[Bill Dixon MD @whdixon63]

Lots of amazing family docs started out dreaming of other careers. Glad they are with us! However, our patients cannot afford for us to keep getting this small but real number of residents wrong within our specialty.

[Bill Dixon MD @whdixon63]

I Don't tweet much, but I have so many mixed feelings today for the Resident Match. Congrats to all of the students that matched, and all of the programs who filled. I keep coming back to one tweet that bothers me, though.

[Bill Dixon MD @whdixon63]

Our patients deserve a specialty that respects itself enough to not to be OK with being the fall-back option. #FMRevolution I am speaking only for myself and not the residency program I am with.

[Bill Dixon MD @whdixon63]

So true for medicine, and personal development into the best doc you can be, as well. Well spoken

[Brian Bannister @BrianBannisterX]

The most important bullpen of my life happened 30 years ago...and I didn't throw a pitch.

Here's why:

[Başak Çoruh @basakcoruhUW]

1/ This tweetorial tackles paradoxical clinical worsening with high PEEP...why might this happen?

See https://t.co/3IBbqX3Hl4 for a deeper dive (written with the brilliant #andyluks), but summary below...