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@PoleDoctress

3 years

There is a nursing shortage because everyone has covid. There is a blood shortage. There is an IV potassium shortage. We keep talking about how the hospital system is at the brink of collapse, but girlies, it is already collapsing

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1 year

I'm honestly confused as to why an ice cream date is a problem (and I'm 32)

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1 year

@coolnameliz1 Yeah honestly a green flag. Sounds like he's a bit more chill and she's looking for someone who's going to wine and dine her. I think he dodged a bullet

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1 year

I remember a white man in my masters program prior to med school telling me that it's hardest for his demographic to get into med school... A reminder that I was one of 2 Black people who graduated in my med school class of 260.

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2 years

This MD was a scam. I worked hard in college so I could work hard in my masters so I could work hard in med school so I could work hard in residency so I could work hard in fellowship so I could work hard until retirement???

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2 years

I told my attending that a pts temperature was 102.7F and she was like "what's that in Celsius?" Me: *stares blankly in American*

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@PoleDoctress

3 years

Just thinking about how my new gyno asked me if I've considered getting my tubes removed since I don't want kids Me. A 30 year old nulliparous single woman. Given this as a reasonable option. Needless to say, I love my new gyn

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@PoleDoctress

5 months

Most doctors are boring because training/expectations becomes all consuming that they lose the parts of them that make them interesting

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@EM_RESUS

5 months

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

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3 years

Me dissociating when a patient starts to tell me a long irrelevant story

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@PoleDoctress

1 year

@screamingmd But honestly if ice cream and a walk ate going well, it can always be extended into another activity. If it's going poorly than it's easy to end it early

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@PoleDoctress

4 months

A reminder that I once taught math to budding LAPD police cadets and they were the dumbest 18 year olds I'd ever met. Was teaching them the same things I was tutoring a 6th grader. Forever will influence my opinion of the police

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LAPD marching towards @USC

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@PoleDoctress

3 years

I get 4 days off a month, every month. And I am on pager 24hrs a day Since everyone these days thinks they're a medical professional, please cover my shifts. I'd love a break

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@PoleDoctress

1 year

Me, a 3rd year heme/onc fellow, looking at an EKG

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4 years

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@PoleDoctress

3 years

I'm really starting to understand why my mom comes home and just sits in her chair until it's time for bed

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@PoleDoctress

6 months

I got into my med school because I emailed the admissions director & asked for an interview. She called me to discuss ways to make myself competitive for the next cycle. I told her I already had acceptances but wanted to go there. She gave me the interview and then the acceptance

ethan !!!

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share a piece of lore about yourself

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@PoleDoctress

3 years

Is Omicron milder or are you just vaccinated, thus proving the point of the vaccine?

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@PoleDoctress

3 years

My friend kicked one of her bridesmaids out of her wedding because she refused to get vaccinated. Her wedding requires mandatory vaccination to attend. So much respect.

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1 year

I've lost 23ish lbs and my friend asked if I "feel better" now that I'm a normal bmi The answer is no. I felt fine before and I feel the same now. My activity level hasn't changed. Being thinner is purely cosmetic 🤷🏾‍♀️

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Microangiopathic hemolytic anemia?

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4 years

When applying to residency, I specifically only applied to geographical locations where I was less likely to experience racism from patients If something like this has never crossed your mind, you have more to learn when it comes to #BlackMedTwitter

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@PoleDoctress

3 years

Had a pt refuse remdesivir and request fenofibrate for covid. Glad to be in the know for the next hot medication that does nothing for covid but gets popularized anyway

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@PoleDoctress

1 year

Applied to a private practice job in Manhattan just for interview experience, and now they want to fly me out so I can interview in person

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@PoleDoctress

2 years

I matched my #7 choice for residency. I was devastated. I hadnt even imagined a future at that program. Plus, the match triggered the end of my last relationship. I was still complaining even once residency started. And you know what? I never grew to love it.

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@PoleDoctress

4 years

This girl is officially becoming an oncologist!!!!!

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3 years

I have a date? And he's cute? And leftist? And has a career?

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3 years

My attending called my cell phone to say he left his good pen in the workroom. He wanted me to hide it to make sure no one took it 😂😂

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@PoleDoctress

3 months

My name is officially on the clinic schedule?!?! They're really letting me be an oncologist? On my own?

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@PoleDoctress

4 months

My sister is very anemic from fibroid bleeding, so I told her she should get a blood transfusion that would buy her time until iron infusions could be set up (and a surgery). Now why are my sister and mom fighting me (the hematologist) about if it's necessary?!?

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1 year

Moonlighting is so crazy. I'm spending my weekend in the hospital, but I'm reading for fun and watching Netflix like 75% of that time. Making $2500.

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@PoleDoctress

3 years

I swear I'm going to fight Guys. Physicians mostly are making $200k+ a year. Most physicians will be in the to 5-10% of earners in the US. You will be wealthy as a physician. I literally don't care about your opinion or what expensive city you live in. You are objectively rich

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@PoleDoctress

3 months

My friend has been living at home since the end of her fellowship and now she's almost a year into her 1st year of private practice rheumatology. She just told me that she's taking a 6 month sabbatical to travel with all of the money she's saved by living at home

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@PoleDoctress

3 years

Normalize doctors not reading medical-related novels. Your whole life shouldn't be medicine. Read some murder mysteries and romance novels.

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@PoleDoctress

1 year

By the time I graduate fellowship I'll have spent 18% of my life in residency/fellowship and I'll never see a 7 figure salary ever

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@PoleDoctress

3 years

I'm a fellow and you can shove that "well in my day" right up your ass, respectfully.

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@PoleDoctress

3 years

The # 1 person in my med school class didnt match ophtho and SOAPed into ENT. The system is broken. You not matching is not a reflection of how good you are

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@PoleDoctress

2 years

Pt has severe mucositis after chemo. I tell the primary team to put her on a PCA. They are shocked Pt has sickle cell crisis. I tell the team to ask him what works for his pain. They are shocked. Guys. This shit hurts. Why have them suffer?

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@PoleDoctress

2 years

Moonlighting shifts pay like $1500 a shift (on avg, pre-tax). But like I could do 1 or 2 shifts a month and literally change my financial situation

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Pole Doctress, MD 🍉

@PoleDoctress

6 months

I truly do not understand why so many people are salty that there are maybe like 6 Black people in every med school class

Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D.

@RepGregMurphy

6 months

Inserting identity politics and disregarding academic merit in medical school applications is a dangerous trend that is destroying the integrity of our institutions. Today, I am proud to introduce my bill, the EDUCATE Act, which bans DEI initiatives from medical schools across

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3 years

Oh no. I have way too many new followers. Guys, I will disappoint you if you're looking for medical tweets. I will 100% tweet about leftist politics, dating, and literally anything that comes to my mind. You have been warned

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4 years

Hip fracture. Ortho requested to admit to medicine for blood sugar control. Me: 🙄 how high are his sugars? Them: 580. Hgba1c ">16.4" Me: lol. Ok. We'll admit

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2 years

People should not have to reveal their stories of abuse or near death for you to care about body autonomy

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@PoleDoctress

4 years

I just admitted a professional Santa to the covid unit

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Pole Doctress, MD 🍉

@PoleDoctress

2 months

Tomorrow is my 1st official day as a heme/onc attending 😳😅

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@PoleDoctress

4 years

Why buying FIGS doesn't make sense: - you can't wear them in the OR. So their use is very limited - med students and residents are poor so why spend $100 for scrubs when you can get them for free?

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@PoleDoctress

2 months

Just had a meeting with my future clinic coordinators and they were like "do you want clinic to start at 8am or 8:20? Do you want new patients in certain time slots? 15min or 20mins for return visits? How many patients do you want to start with being scheduled per half day?"

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@PoleDoctress

2 years

Ok guys I do actually know how to calculate the conversion. This is Twitter. We are here for jokes 😅

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@PoleDoctress

4 years

Co-resident: are you going to go home for Christmas? Me: NO BITCH! Isn't that what we've been telling everyone not to do?!?!?

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Pole Doctress, MD 🍉

@PoleDoctress

1 year

@sunelfkali Yeah it's clear they aren't compatible if this was going to be a problem, but oof

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@PoleDoctress

1 year

Me trying to figure out what diagnosis exactly King George is supposed to have in this show

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Pole Doctress, MD 🍉

@PoleDoctress

2 years

This isn't to say that you can't be sad or don't complain about falling down your rank list. By all means DO! This is to say that in the end, it is what you make of it. And you'll still get to be a doctor in that field if that's what you want

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@PoleDoctress

3 years

There's an attending who is single, no kids, moonlights a bunch, and essentially makes the salary of 2 people. People wonder what he does with all of his money The dream.

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Pole Doctress, MD 🍉

@PoleDoctress

2 years

Obesity is an FDA-approved indication for ozempic. So is a BMI >/=27 + a comorbidity. Diabetics are not the only ones clinically indicated for it. We need to stop this narrative. Blame production problems on the company not the users

The Katie Phang Show

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2 years

"These Ozempic prescriptions are being given out like candy by these diet centers and, even by some physicians, to people.." @uche_blackstock on the accessibility of the diabetes drug many are using for weight-loss #KatiePhangShow

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4 years

I'm really over here trying to be fashionable while every other resident wears fi*s scrubs

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@PoleDoctress

1 year

6 months ruined an entire generation because you had to stay home?!?! Well for a year healthcare professionals constantly had to put their life and mental health at risk taking care of covid pts but ok.

Cillian

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1 year

Why don’t more people talk about what the Covid lockdowns did to young people like me? At 15 years old, I was involuntarily isolated from my friends for SIX MONTHS. I didn’t see them, I didn’t meet them. The lockdowns RUINED young people like me. An entire Generation.

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@PoleDoctress

10 months

Me: you're iron deficient Pt: that's so weird because I'm always cold but I love eating ice Me: yeah exactly

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@PoleDoctress

3 months

My first attending purchase is going to be a new bed. Please give me your mattress recommendations!

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Pole Doctress, MD 🍉

@PoleDoctress

1 year

Starting to go on dates with men who are out of 10+ year relationships/marriages and this is so ideal. All the good guys that were taken are becoming available again lol

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Pole Doctress, MD 🍉

@PoleDoctress

6 months

I matched at my 7th choice residency and my 2nd choice fellowship and while I can't say I loved every second of it, I'm about to start a faculty position that 4th year med student me could've never dreamed I'd get No matter how today goes for you, good things are coming!

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@PoleDoctress

10 days

I went on a date 2 months ago w someone who didn't actually live in my city but was planning on moving here. I assumed I'd never hear from him again, but, in a shocking turn of events, he just texted saying he's officially moved here and wants to go out again

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@PoleDoctress

3 years

My residency's wellness chief was just diagnosed with depression I case you're wondering what IM residency is like

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@PoleDoctress

3 years

Remember when we used to get applause for working on the frontline of the pandemic and now we just have burnout and PTSD

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Pole Doctress, MD 🍉

@PoleDoctress

1 year

Why is Mt St Helens horny tweeting????

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@MtStHelensWA

1 year

Who wants to slide into my vulvacano?

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Pole Doctress, MD 🍉

@PoleDoctress

1 month

Just got my 1st attending paycheck and it's simultaneously the most money I've ever had but also not enough if I want to get out of debt and save to maybe buy a condo in a couple of years (I am in academics, so please don't come in my comments talking about how much oncs make)

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Pole Doctress, MD 🍉

@PoleDoctress

1 year

No one has ever said Christians can't be doctors. What they probably said was bigots shouldn't be doctors

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@PoleDoctress

4 years

Hot take: Bridgerton wasn't that good, you're just horny.

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@PoleDoctress

4 years

My mom drove 2 hours to sing a socially distanced happy birthday to me and I'm not crying, you're crying 😭

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@PoleDoctress

1 year

Being in STEM should require that you still take liberal arts classes because some of you are boring af

Joe Milliano

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1 year

Which of your STEM education related opinions would get you in this position?

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Pole Doctress, MD 🍉

@PoleDoctress

3 years

That moment when you walk into an exam room with a Black patient and you feel a shift in the air >>>>

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Pole Doctress, MD 🍉

@PoleDoctress

4 years

The minute you realize you can get away with wearing leggings as business casual, the rest of your life begins

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@PoleDoctress

2 years

A pts daughter is reporting me for telling the pt their new cancer diagnosis Apparently, she told the primary team that she didn't want the diagnosis told to the patient, but no one shared that with the onc team 🙃

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@PoleDoctress

3 years

One of my patients is nearing comfort care and has stopped speaking except for when he saw JLo on the TV he said "JLo" AAO x jlo

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@PoleDoctress

3 months

My med school friends: - I just had a baby - I'm pregnant - I'm engaged - I just bought a house Me: - uhh... I'm finally graduating from fellowship and just hit 250 pilates classes where I got commemorative socks

Pole Doctress, MD 🍉

@PoleDoctress

3 months

After a year and a half since starting pilates, I've officially done 250 classes

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Pole Doctress, MD 🍉

@PoleDoctress

1 year

Oh and when I started my fellowship, I was the only Black doctor in the entire department 🙃

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@PoleDoctress

2 years

I [eventually] stopped complaining because I couldn't change anything. I made the most of it and then matched my #2 for fellowship

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Pole Doctress, MD 🍉

@PoleDoctress

8 months

My mentor voluntold me to present during a case-off at a conference. Of course I said yes and was planning to just do the work for exposure per usual. Turns out, they are paying for my hotel, paying me a $1500 honorarium, and $25/person who registers for the conference w/ my name

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@PoleDoctress

3 years

I wouldn't order metoprolol IV for a patient in sinus tachycardia so the nurses went behind my back and called the nocturnist (who knows nothing about the pt and does not get signout on them) and she put it in for them 🙃

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@PoleDoctress

3 months

Welp it's starting. Thanks to that article about UCLA med school, my friend has her 1st pt who mentioned it and started asking about the age of the docs she was going to see because she doesn't trust the docs of the younger generation now.

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@PoleDoctress

3 years

So I matched my 7th choice residency. On match day I was devastated. During orientation I was bitter. I stopped complaining (mostly), but never was happy about where I ended up I matched at my 2nd choice for fellowship, at a top program and things do work out in the end

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Pole Doctress, MD 🍉

@PoleDoctress

3 years

Ugh I hate when male patients try to be flirty. It's so uncomfortable.

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@PoleDoctress

3 years

During my overnight admitting shift, I got ortho to admit their own patient instead of medicine

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@PoleDoctress

2 years

What do you think the temperature is outside?

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@PoleDoctress

1 year

I truly cannot believe how mad people are about this. Kudos to all those women who clearly worked hard for their spots. And fuck you to all the ppl blaming "wokeness" and calling them "diversity" hires

End Wokeness

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1 year

Stanford’s 2023 surgical team: 92% women (US: 50% women) 69% nonwhite (US: 38% nonwhite) 0% white men (US: 30% white men)

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3 years

I just paid $800 to renew my medical license that I need to continue being a doctor and it expires every 2 years... A SCAM.

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@PoleDoctress

4 years

How to succeed as an intern: 1. Know your patients! That means getting a signout on your patients before you start a rotation. It means knowing what's happening and WHY it's happening. As you progress through the year, know basics about all the patients on the team (1/?)

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2 years

The residents all went on their annual retreat (where they essentially drink and party for 3 days) and now people are "feeling a little sick" and are testing positive for covid Like???? Duh! We can't be surprised when none of them got tested before the retreat 🤦🏾‍♀️

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8 months

What if I, a 32 year old physician, buy these??? 👀

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3 years

I can't believe that I ignored my own self care to work on the frontlines of a pandemic only for people to literally refuse to end it I hate how my body has changed after being drafted in this war. I don't think I will ever forgive those who refused to take this seriously

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1 year

Does this guy want to go on a date with me, or does he want a doctor's appointment

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3 years

Woman patient: sorry, I didn't shave my legs Me: me neither 🤷🏾‍♀️

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3 years

I'm in the global pandemic. I'm in the World War III. I'm in the combination global pandemic and WWIII.

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1 year

Is this man trying to murder me? Yes or yes?

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3 months

My friend has no med school debt, her parents helped her buy a house for residency 6 years ago and now they are helping her put a down-payment on another house as an attending. I'll be making more money as an oncologist, but my 6 figure debt makes buying a house feel impossible

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Inherited wealth in academia is such a thing. Determines whether you can even apply for a PhD, whether you can do it without a scholarship, whether you will be in debt for rest of life or not, and going forward, whether that salary alone will ever be enough. It is what it is.

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Aaaand I'm covid positive 🙃🙃🙃 Being a doctor, following quarantine, wearing masks... you are still at risk

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@JWLevitt The fact that you're calling these students "terrorist supporters" shows that you are also not the sharpest tool in the shed

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Pole Doctress, MD 🍉

@PoleDoctress

4 years

Briefly breaking anonymity because I just survived my first interview of the season!

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@PoleDoctress

1 month

This can not be the same attention span that studied for step 1 😭

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6 months

I love that my mom still gives me, the only doctor in the family, medical advice

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2 years

This cannot be the same attention span that used to study for the MCAT from 9am-9pm

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