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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

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Academic internist. Inquirer. 🙌🏼➡🇺🇸⚓➡⛰🦁🍫➡🏔🦬 #CanesFamUnited #ForgedByTheSea #This #LetYourLightShine . Tweet/💬/🔁/💓/follow≠endorse

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

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NEW ARTICLE ALERT 🚨 ‼️ 🔔 Can you create curiosity? 🤷🏻‍♂️ Can you foster it? 👍🏼 Check out how we used #gamification to help clerkship students find resources, experts, scientists, & answers to clinical questions… Oh, & it crushed #ImposterSyndrome too! (Scroll up for link)

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2 years

Doctored too hard today.

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Medical student: “The patient (a parent of young kids) has 4 separate infections. Where do you think she got them?” Me, as a parent of young kids: “…

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Just go see the patient.

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I got laughed out of the room in medical school when I proposed giving statins to people with HIV (who otherwise wouldn’t qualify) after hearing of it’s inflammatory milieu. Glad to see the results of this study. Guess I wasn’t far off!

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Daily Statin Trial for People With HIV Halted Early for Clear Benefit

People with HIV and a low to moderate traditional risk of cardiovascular disease who took a daily 4-mg dose of pitavastatin reduced their risk of major adverse cardiovascular events by 35% relative...

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The worst acronym in medicine? I know it when I see it. @DGlaucomflecken , is this real?

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Why does it always catch me completely off guard when a patient asks how I’m doing? 😳 🥹

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6 months

Friendly reminder that the trainees on your team will unlikely get your 90s/00s pop culture references.

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7 months

Guy next to me @orangetheory was logging in to haiku. We have a problem as a profession.

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I recognize that they’re now necessary, but it breaks my heart that active shooter drills at daycare give my 3yo significant anxiety. America.

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

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#TipsForNewAuthors : Before writing “lower-status residency positions, such as family medicine and internal medicine” in your manuscript, you should probably ensure your peer reviewer isn’t an internist. 😬

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

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#LukeWarmTake : Every clinician should have a basic awareness of current events in professional and collegiate sports. Even if you don’t care, many of your patients do, and it allows you to connect with them in ways few other topics can replace. 🏀 🏈 ⚽️

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Raise your hand if an artist other than @taylorswift13 comes to mind when you hear someone say they listened to a song called “Cruel Summer.”

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1 year

Or, and hear me out, one unified medical record.

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

3 years

@gradydoctor putting her @Twitter handle on her scrubs is the most boss move ever.

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7 months

Does your dry erase board have Pike’s Peak in the backdrop?

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

3 months

Had a rising chief resident tell me I was the first person, 2 years ago, to tell her she should consider chief residency. She remembers that moment distinctly & it helped with imposter syndrome. I still remember the person who first saw me as chief. What we say matters. 🥹

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2 months

Can I put “helped a rockstar med student get in to a @Harvard residency” on my CV?

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4 months

Medications are not effective if your patient doesn’t take them. #CheckTheMAR

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1 year

“Did you read our note?” Acceptable or unacceptable for a consultant to say to a primary team? What say you, #MedTwitter ?

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4 just got into her preschool of (our) choice and I’m about to make a #MatchDay2024 sign.

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

4 months

In hospital medicine we don’t say ‘I love you’ we say ‘we’ll co-manage’ and I think that’s beautiful

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In primary care we don’t say ‘I love you’ we say ‘that’s who I’d want taking care of my mom’ and I think that’s beautiful

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Thanks @OptumRx for denying a patient’s potassium binder because the amount needed to keep the patient alive was more than your arbitrary cutoff… Ya know, hypothetically.

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

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Hear me out: Free coffee for #HealthcareWorkers not just during a pandemic. ☕️ 😷

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2 months

GI fellowship graduation party?

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I wouldn’t be the @CUMedicalSchool Twitteriest Tweeter of the Year if I didn’t live tweet my awards…

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

1 year

What’s one thing your kids say incorrectly but it’s too cute to correct? I’ll go first. Mine called @Jolly_Rancher “jelly launcher” 😝 🤣 🤪

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The problem with comfortable slippers is that occasionally you find yourself in your car halfway to your destination still wearing them. 🥿

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6 months

How is a 12 hour shift 6 hours longer than a 9 hour shift…? 🤨 🕰️

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Things We Do for No Reason™: Furosemide‐albumin coadministration for diuretic resistance - Vipler - Journal of Hospital Medicine - Wiley Online Library

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What’s your gut reaction when a doctor says “I’ve been doing this for a long time.”?

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

1 year

Got honked at twice today for: 1. Slowing down at a yellow. 2. Stopping at a red. Other driver almost went full #RoadRage . Am I missing something?

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Things that make better personal or environmental health a barrier: -Putting a paper towel dispenser in a bathroom next to the air dryer. 🧻💨 -Upcharging for a salad over fries. 🍟🥗 Others?

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

2 years

Happy to sell this as a @DGlaucomflecken prop. 🩺 💥

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@JeromeAdamsMD An evolved manatee.

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

3 months

#Confession : I publish alone so much because I often have a hard time creating a research/scholarship team: -I struggle to find junior colleagues with interest. -I struggle to find senior colleagues with time.

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

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“What’s Lymphoma?” — Risks Posed by Immediate Release of Test Results to Patients | NEJM

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“What’s Lymphoma?” — Risks Posed by Immediate Release of Test Results to Patients | NEJM

The immediate release of test results to patients, mandated by the 21st Century Cures Act, has some unfortunate unintended consequences for patients and their clinicians.

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My goal as an academic is to have as many publications as it takes to not have PubMed go…

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I give you almost May in Colorado.

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

1 year

If you’ve only listened to the #audiobook , are you allowed to say “I read…”?

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7 months

What’s one thing we do in the hospital that wouldn’t fly in any other context?

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

10 months

#SharedWithPermission . This happened and brought a 😢 to my 👁️. This is the model of how EM/IM collegiality should be.

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The biggest barrier to publication is not writing.

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3 months

Do I just have to come to terms with the fact that I’ll be paying for new cell phone payments, phone bills, and internet til I die? 📱 💻 💸

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Is there a term for when people don’t go when the light turns green because they’re looking at their phone? Seems like there should be. 🚗 🛑 📱

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

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Me, mid-morning: “You’re my last patient to see today.” Patient, looking 🤨: “What do you do the rest of the day?” Me, looking 😔: “👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻👨‍💻.”

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“Have you eaten anything today?” The question asked by both surgeons and tattoo artists, hoping for opposite answers…

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2 years

#MedicalSchool & #residency interview question #1 : “Have you ever worked in #FoodService or #retail ?”

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“emo music aficionado” 🖤

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3 months

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but a GI PCR costs $1,839.90 💩 💰

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8 months

📞 “Hey, this is Ben.” “Hello Benjamin, this is Dr. ________” 😳 🤨

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5 months

What’s your answer when a patient asks why they can’t have surgery over the weekend?

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5 months

3 (non-healthcare) topics that you could talk to anyone for hours? I’ll go first: -College football 🏈 -Scene music 🎵 -Breweries 🍻

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It bothers me way more than it should that our new hospital badges are portrait and our university badges are still landscape.

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#NewProfilePic

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1 year

Some swag I brought back from Seattle. (The artist said there was a “defect” but her craftsmanship looks fine 😉)

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I’ve heard a lot of scientific explanations for weight gain as you age… …but I’ve yet to hear “90% of your diet consists of kids’ leftovers.”

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What QI projects would you like to see on a national scale so each hospital doesn’t have to reinvent the wheel?

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

6 months

He can bake too 😏 I give to you, the #PumpkinSpice crêpe cake.

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10 months

Today marks the day where I’ve lived half the average American male lifespan.

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4 months

“Med student wuz here.”

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8 months

First day out… 🎿 ⛷️ 🏔️

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1 year

You can tell if someone is a #millennial or a #boomer by what movie they think of when they hear the word “plastics.” 🍿 🎥 🤔

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but… 🙈 Teaching is a skill… 🙉 If you don’t practice it… 🙊 That skill will weaken.

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I’m all in on the #NA movement, but isn’t this just seltzer?

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Inpatient diabetes management circa 2013: “There is no indication for sliding scale insulin only. Basal/bolus for all!” Inpatient diabetes management circa 2023: “We gotta do something about all this inpatient hypoglycemia…”

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

3 months

NEW @NEJM ARTICLE ALERT 🚨 ‼️ 🔔 (Scroll up for link) This article is not only for those who’ve had a portal message that “the MCHC was red,” but for those who’ve comforted a patient who found out they had cancer the same way they find out if somebody liked their food selfie…

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

2 years

“Recommend admission to #surgery . No further #medical management planned.”

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

3 months

New podcast alert 🚨 ‼️ 🔔 #CrescendoDecrescendo Listen here on @ApplePodcasts :

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‎Crescendo Decrescendo on Apple Podcasts

‎Music · 2024

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8 months

What happens when 4 former metalcore bandmates find themselves at a wedding 15 years after they last played together? Air guitar. Clearly.

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Saw a car that had a bumper sticker that said “normalize hitting the curb.” Is there the opposite of a soulmate? 🤣

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“Hey #WoundCare team, can I take a picture of that sticker? @TraumaSoapBoxes needs to see it.”

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#IMproud to advocate for: #StandUpToJewishHate #IM2023

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6yo’s art installation 🖼️

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1 year

Today marks the last day of the hardest year of my life. Not being hyperbolic, just laying it all out here on this most public of platforms. Excited for my birthday tomorrow to start the next year, this next chapter. Appreciate all of you on this journey with me. #GrowthMindset

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7 said I was a cool dad so I had to video her saying it as proof for 10 years from now. 😎

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Benjamin Vipler, MD, MEd

1 year

Shoulda put a thermostat clause in the wedding vows. 🥵 🥶

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5 months

Journals still asking us to spell out “coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)” like a reader would see COVID-19 and be like 🤨?

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From @jaccjournals

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Normalize 30 minute meetings as the new default.

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Weekday, 0630: Can’t pry kids out of bed with a crowbar. Weekend, 0430: Kids up on their own watching tv.

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I hate calling someone by the wrong name. I feel so bad when I screw it up. This fear limits me from using names. I know this is not the right response. Help.

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Define “low grade fever.”

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2 years

What’s worse? Leaving your badge in your car to start the day or leave your car keys in your office at the end of the day?

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Active duty: Work week - wear same thing every day; laundry rare Home week - fresh duds every day; laundry frequent Civilian hospitalist: Work week - fresh duds every day; laundry frequent Home week - wear same thing every day; laundry rare

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@PedsHemeDoc Especially when the consult note is stopped at 7pm and has super important practice changing recs and no one was notified.

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I was a 3 sport varsity athlete in high school. Guess all three and I’ll buy you a coffee. (No cheating please)

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Phone just autocorrected “near misses” to “bear kisses.” #QualityImprovement 🐻 💋

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5000 5,000 5k 5 grand 5 large 5️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ Whatever you call it, all I can say is thank you to the #5000followers who continue to be interested in this online brand I’ve tried to cultivate. 🙏 😊 ☺️

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Privileged to live in a place where this is my gym. 💪

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T-30m ⁦ @AAIMOnline ⁩ #AIMW23

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@CardiacPA1 Yes. Especially when it’s “did you read our outpatient note from 3 years ago amongst the other 10,000 triage nurse notes and med refills?”

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“Adult chocolate milk.” #DateNight #DrinkResponsibly #DontDrinkAndDrive

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#winning .

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When your coworker drops you a random act of kindness… 🥹

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Dear #nocturnists , I discharged 6 patients today. Please be kind. Sincerely, -A concerned #hospitalist

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A surprising key to happiness: do less:

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A surprising key to happiness: do less

Dr. Laurie Santos of The Happiness Lab podcast shares keys to happiness rooted in evidence from research, and how she applied them.

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