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Dr. Longissimus

@DrLongissimus

3 years

In case anyone wondered what a hedgehog getting an X-ray looked like

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ER was going nuts over this radiologist’s reading that just says “NOPE”. A whole ER full of medically trained professionals took 20+ minutes to realize it actually reads “No PE (pulmonary embolism)” (Repost)

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Cook your pork people

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Not Wordle

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Happy Fireworks Day!

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Lion getting a CAT scan

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People in medicine if complaining was a sport

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Sky obstruction

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When you intubate the esophagus

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Me as an intern when people called me doctor and asked for help

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When you take the stairs at the hospital

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Hospital IT will never block YouTube because how else will you watch a video of a procedure 5 minutes before doing it for the first time

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Just saw a senior ortho resident walking around the hospital with a stethoscope around his neck bro Halloween was last week

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Urology clinic WiFi named "It burns when IP"

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Happy Fireworks Day!

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Hospital CEO visiting the resident lounge

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Dermatology while the rest of the hospital burns

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How to not manage epistaxis

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When you're unhappy with your Apgar score

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Current mood

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Med school deans on graduation day

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Follow me for more unhinged radiology tweets

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When radiology finally builds the courage to talk to clinicians about those orders

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Gulliver's Travels

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Shout out to my med school buddy who once forgot the word for leftovers and said "I'm having remains for lunch". Anyways he's a pathologist now

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To everyone currently in medical training: remember, you've done this to yourself and it doesn't necessarily get better after you're done 🙂

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[Radiology]: Sorry the CT scanner's broken [Pathology]: Say no more fam

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Why choose radiology

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Once after a 30h shift I was driving home and had a moment of panic because I thought I had forgotten the car at the hospital

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In honor of the new residency application cycle, I asked chatGPT to write a CT abdomen pelvis report using Gen Z lingo

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Work hard and suffer to become a doctor so you can work hard and suffer as a doctor

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Shutout to my pathologist buddy who got woken up by his pager only twice in residency. First time he was paged by mistake, second time the pager rang because it had low battery.

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When you're unhappy with your APGAR score

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Big nope

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Doctors take themselves too seriously chill bro you're just a nerd

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What’s your unpopular medical opinion that would land you in this position? Drop it in this thread

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By age 30 you should've already started questioning why you went into medicine

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Throwback to when a medical leech went on an adventure

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People in medicine be like why am I never productive on the weekends I dunno man maybe coz you work 80h a week and your body needs to rest tf do I know tho

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Meeting your baby for the first time, that magical first touch, that moment, priceless... [America]: That'll be 39.35$

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Hi we're with Internal Medicine have you had a chance to look at the CT for Mr. Jones?

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Last thing patients see before intubation

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MSK anatomy is easy because everything makes sense a ligament between bones A and B is literally "the AB ligament" whereas neuroanatomy is like oh this is the Nucleus Crocodilus of Rosenthal

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Radiologists when you open a random door in the hospital basement

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American doctors be like yea I did my undergrad in New York, my med school in Los Angeles, residency in Miami and fellowship in Seattle and I work in Houston like it's normal

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Me: Please write a radiology report for a CT pulmonary embolism study from the emergency department in the writing style of Edgar Allan Poe. Clinical information is "chest pain, positive d-dimer" ChatGPT:

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Radiologists are just gamers who went to med school

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Patient needed fentanyl for a biopsy today so I made sure the whole department was wearing hazmat suits

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Things you can say in a radiology report and in bed

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Sending the PACS guy my new arrow design ideas because the current one is too basic let's see what he says

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The healthcare system

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Looks like a stem for an ID boards case

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obsessed with this women who recently freebirthed in the ocean

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Saw a med student in the grocery store wearing his white coat and then I moved on

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Double double

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coffee should be free for healthcare workers

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Why Dr Longissimus' alarm didn't ring today

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You make lifelong friends in med school and they end up being useful later in life when you or your family needs help with a medical problem and I wish I knew this when I was a med student because the fuck am I gonna do now with 2 pathologist friends

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This is what came out of my left leg. I have no medical problems, on no meds, I kayak, mountain bike, and play tennis every weekend, often all in the same day. These clot shots need to be taken off the market. Thank God I wasn’t the latest one who #DiedSuddenly

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Every surgery is exploratory if you have no idea what you're doing

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Wow practicing medicine isn't multiple choice who knew

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Vox populi, Vox Dei. Allow me to introduce myself. Hi, I am Alex. I'm a Canadian radiologist living in Ohio. I love pickles and hedgehogs. This is a picture of me from last Halloween 🫣 Nice to finally meet you all!

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Should I show my face on Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.

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If you are a nurse and I, a radiologist, put in orders, do not not question them

call me Morticia 🖤🌙🦇❄️

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Nurses shouldn't question doctor's orders discourse? Don't mind if I do...

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Still faster than the PACS

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👏healthcare👏workers👏who👏don't👏drink👏coffee👏cannot👏be👏trusted👏

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Throwback to med school when one of my friends brought his stethoscope to his radiology rotation and one of the radiologists asked him to go auscultate the MRI machine and tell him "what kind of lub dub it makes" that's when I knew I wanted to become a radiologist

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Mild degenerative changes of the 254th left facet joint, clinical correlation recommended

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Med school

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Causes ?

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Date night Neurons 🤝 Action potential

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This but radiology

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Car pseudoaneurysm

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Unofficial doctor rule: if a colleague asks you to see their family member, you don't say no

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"Don't worry, dumber people than you have succeeded at this" is the best advice I've gotten from an attending in residency

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On call dermatologist at night

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New attending on rounds with IMG residents who were attendings in their countries

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I showed a med student something today and they said they've already seen that before and then we moved on

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When you're 18 and decide you want a doctor career

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[CT]: No tumor [Tumor on PET-CT]:

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It's really subtle and it took me a while, but I finally found the cause of this small bowel obstruction

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"Medicine is a calling" is a phrase exclusively uttered by people who don't have hobbies

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The wildest place in the hospital is the gift shop why are you selling a porcelain walrus

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Kate Middleton is probably lost in the hospital basement looking for radiology

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How to not do whatever you're doing

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IVC filter in the aorta because why not

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Med school dean after handing your diploma

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Radiology Nuclear medicine

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Sometimes you listen to doctors from other specialties talk to each other and you're like I thought I was a doctor too wtf are they talking about

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How to not drain a pericardial effusion

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Confessions of a Radiologist Chapter 1 I have never seen ground glass in real life.

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Unsolicited DIC pic

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Residency after med school is like seeing the tunnel at the end of the tunnel

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In every radiology department, radiologists' understanding of how an MRI machine works ranges from "profound knowledge of fundamental concepts and their application to every day practice" to "donut goes bing-bong makes pretty picture"

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If you're in medicine and you were very good at math in school then you're lying

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[Nobody]: [ER docs]:

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Roses are gray Violets are a different kind of gray Radiology

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"I could never do radiology, I can't imagine myself sitting and staring at a screen the whole day" Tom, internist, typing up his 47th Epic note of the day

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Radiologist picking up photography as a hobby