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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

1 year

I am >5 years out of med school and my wife just asked me if I could pick up something from Target during my lunch break. During. My. Lunch. Break. 🫠

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

Just found out my intern went around on Sunday to our patients who are dads and helped them FaceTime their children 😭

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@_amolk

3 years

@LucidJay @jodyavirgan @Hipstercrite I was a medicine resident when COVID started & worked overnight in a COVID ICU in Atlanta. Andre 3000 knew one of the ICU nurse’s brother, so he took her # & FaceTimed her in the middle of our overnight shift and thanked each of us. I thanked him for Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

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@_amolk

1 year

@thatlippyhippy My lunch break will be at 5:15pm when i leave the hospital 🤣

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1 year

@DGlaucomflecken Does Jonathan do Target runs?

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1 year

I may not have a lunch break, but I do have a brain and a store on the way home 😅

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@_amolk

4 years

(thread) I just finished my 3rd critical care rotation since March and hit my 100th day working inpatient since COVID hit Georgia. 78 of them were in ICU settings. Sadly, my last 2 nights on call were my busiest nights for ICU admissions, not the direction I thought we’d trend.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

2 years

@Toaster_Pastry Reminds me of this from my intern year: “A full trauma eval was done for asymmetric pupils, and then the patient was found to have prosthetic eye and no acute traumatic injuries”

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

This feels like ROSC after 4 years.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

Voted at State Farm Arena! Only 20 minutes from parking (free deck across the street) to back in my car.

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@_amolk

4 years

@wsbtv Hey @GovKemp I work in a COVID ICU in our state. Please come visit and see why this is the worst thing you can do right now.

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@_amolk

1 year

@PhysicianDoodle lol my target run is drive-up order pickup on my way home.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

5 years

@TVietor08 @SenatorLoeffler I’m a resident doctor in Georgia and outside of the hospital, I will spend any free moment I have to get her out of office. How do we put Georgia in play? @jonlovett @PodSaveAmerica @jonfavs

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

3 years

Excited to announce that I’m joining the amazing field of gastroenterology AND that after 12 years on the east coast, I’m FINALLY heading back out west for GI fellowship at University of Nevada Las Vegas! #GITwitter

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

Today, I started virtual tele-health clinic. A refreshing change of pace. But it still hurt to hear many of my patients say that I was the only person they spoke to this week because they’re still afraid to go out. We need to do better. Wear masks. Trust scientists. Vote.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

I celebrated my 30th birthday in the ICU. I canceled my wedding and got married over Zoom on an off day, because in a world of uncertainty, there were some things I was certain of.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

They give us a socially distanced chair to sit in for 15 minutes after receiving the COVID-19 #vaccination and boy, is this an amazing time to reflect on what this year has been. For now, I feel humility, relief, and hope.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

3 years

@theactivelife @DGBassani “What is grief, if not love persevering”

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

6 years

@DGlaucomflecken I free-text ordered a can of Coke to unclog a G-tube this week and now I know what to order when I want to get in touch with the nurse ASAP

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

2 years

Has Southwest Airlines tried hiring a Chief Resident for their scheduling woes?

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

5 years

@mike_natter Guest starring, “my attending wanted your thoughts.”

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

Early voting in Georgia starts today!

Emory IM Chiefs

@emoryimchiefs

4 years

This year we are excited to have made a schedule that would give our residents a window of time to go out and vote. We want everyone’s voice to be heard. #medtwitter #vote

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

I’m grateful to all my colleagues and mentors who’ve been super supportive. But I am downright exhausted and tired from trying to treat this pandemic, and it’s only been made worse by the absolutely terrible leadership at the federal and state level.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

3 years

@DrSandman11 “Patient’s downgrading to the floor.”

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

2 years

@Dr_Oubre Had an attending who when consenting patients for colonoscopies told them “after the procedure, we’ll come tell you what we found, and if you’d like, I’d be happy to tell your spouse that we didn’t find your head up there”

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

3 years

Last year on my birthday, I was working in the COVID ICU as we were starting our first surge. Thankfully this year, I had a light clinic day and made it home in time to demolish my PR in a Cody Rigsby @onepeloton 45 minute class @PelotonMed

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

I heard a governor and president downplay a pandemic and insist that things were fine while I was surrounded by death and severe disability.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

2 years

@terryfosterdet Another radical idea: if you don’t personally want an abortion, don’t have one. And let others decide for themselves.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

3 years

What a week: -Completed IM residency -Finished my attending credentialing for my Chief year -Paid off my car loan -Submitted 2 abstracts -Got married!

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

7 years

@esaagar @marcorubio @CNN Listening to your constituents is literally the most basic job description of an elected representative

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

I made too many phone calls to people I would never get to meet to let them know their loved ones had passed. That their loved ones hearts stopped and there was nothing we could do.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

3 years

INTERNAL MEDICINE BOARD CERTIFIED!

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

7 years

@Rockies @ajndellawhitt even as a Dodger fan, it’s hard to hate on you with these kinds of tweets.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

Even when I wasn’t with COVID+ patients, I saw the effect this pandemic had. The late STEMIs in the CCU because they wanted to avoid the hospital. The DKAs because they couldn’t get to the pharmacy to get insulin. The pre-transplant patients who waited weeks alone by themselves.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

6 years

I have to misspell “abdomen” to get an “abodmen” ultrasound.

Screaming Pectoriloquy (𝕖𝕩𝕖𝕔𝕦𝕥𝕖𝕕)

@Caulimovirus

6 years

What’s your favorite part of your hospital’s electronic medical records? Mine is how there is no simple, straightforward way to find out how much blood has been given to a patient.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

I remember holding up a walkie-talkie to a patient who was just extubated so that they could talk to their spouse in the next room who was about to be intubated. Then I called their child, younger than myself, to let them know one parent was doing better but the other wasn’t.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

I worked with brand new doctors who started their careers on call in an ICU in the midst of the worst pandemic in a century and absolutely shined.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

3 years

@DrDrAbhiKole That’s why i tell different people different start times for events

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

7 years

@BNightengale Dodger Stadium was pretty full at the end of game 2 ....

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

I played videos sent from families to my phone to paralyzed & proned patients, hoping maybe hearing a loved ones voice would bring the PEEP and FiO2 down. Because nothing else was working.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

I heard the rightful frustration in the voices of families. I heard family members whose loved ones were critically ill ask me if I was doing okay and urged me to take care of myself too.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

I’ve heard multiple reports of patients getting extubated after multiple days and their first words were that they still had their contact lenses in so maybe we will need ophthalmologists in the ICUs @DGlaucomflecken

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

2 years

@AlexiaMarkowski Yeah not sure why the original tweet. I didn’t have a car in med school due to cost and so if I didn’t want to carry my white coat home in the bus or on my walk, I wore it, including if I needed to make a stop at the store to buy stuff for dinner.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

1 year

Last day of first year of GI fellowship! Final numbers for this year: 702 EGDs 106 nights on call 60 colonoscopies 32 PEGs ♾️ times told to “stay in the middle” / “suction” / “clean your lens” 1 baby boy

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

I spent sleepless 30-hour shifts in the ICU, stabilizing admission after admission and trying to keep the sickest patients I’ve had as stable as possible.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

@SheaSerrano I worked in an ICU in ATL during the first few weeks of COVID and Andre 3000 FaceTimed us in the middle of the night to show his appreciation.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

@kmeasom_md We got a pup 2 months into all this. Even after a long call night she’s one of the best to come home to.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

5 years

@HelenBurstin As a resident, I’ve covered >100 patients at night. There is no way for me to know all the minutiae when I’m asked to “come speak to a patient’s family.” I can help with critical issues that need addressing at night, but I can’t repeat everything the day team said on rounds.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

Just a month later, we saw the patterns of hypercoagulability and made a hyperviscosity treatment protocol. Medicine evolved years in just weeks.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

@ElectProject Volunteers with @GeorgiaDemocrat are on the way to help!

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

5 years

@traependergrast that’s so 2019, I eat breakfast with my pocket ultrasound in 2020

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

3 years

I started picking up hospitalist shifts at Grady after a 7-month absence. Did a procedure on a patient and walked the fluid to the lab where out of the blue I hear “Dr. K is that you???” Laboratory Gina is just one of the people who makes working at Grady feel like coming home.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

I considered it a sad win when families elected hospice for their critically ill loved ones and got to see their relatives last moment through a window spent in comfort rather than agony.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

5 years

@DocAroundThClok if there has been a movie-themed medical pun in the past 60 years, Pitt M4s have made it into a musical at some point

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

Memories of the past 4 months will stay with me forever. I told my 1st ICU patient in March, “good news, your breathing trouble is from a treatable blood clot in your lungs, so it’s probably not Coronavirus!” And then the test returned positive and none of us could believe it.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

7 years

@Joe_Davis Moment after moment! Memory after memory!

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

Just found out my first day of PGY-3 will be a 28-hour MICU call with first day interns. I am simultaneously terrified and excited

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

@shailinthomas Proximity of Trader Joe’s to hospital/home.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

1 year

@Noratriptyline Emory never did me this bad. Pitt on the other hand …

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

The Costco in this Atlanta suburb just erupted in cheers.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

Vaccine and Vote kind of week.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

2 years

First night as the GI call fellow starts …. Now. 😬

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

6 years

On the same call night, I have a patient with serum sodium 99 (!!) and another with serum sodium 178 (!!).

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

2 years

@timmy_l2 @schwab_mr @hasanthehun It will be 7 years after graduating med school that I will exceed $125,000 salary as a doctor

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

@TVietor08 @danpfeiffer No they legally can’t count 80% of the votes tomorrow.

Ryan Deto

@RyanDeto

4 years

@tripgabriel @bethanyhallam Not just a day off. 29k of 35k left can't be legally counted until Fri. due to court order. 29k are replacement ballots bc a contracted company delivered wrong ballots last month. Election return board HAS to legally meet tmrw before counting can resume

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

On a rotation in the field I want to go into and I forgot the word “polymicrobial” on rounds and so I called it a “multicultural infection” so excuse me while I go hide in a hole somewhere 🙃

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

2 years

30-hour MICU residency call did not prepare for me for nights with a newborn.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

My third straight July 1 at Grady, this time in the MICU. The best part was seeing an ICU nurse who I worked with when I was an intern greet me with a “you’re a senior resident already?!" #GradyMade #HurstLife

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

6 years

@ATLWatershed does this mean I can drink water now?

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

3 years

Found my residency rank list spreadsheet just now and remembered I had a “distance to Trader Joe’s” score for each hospital which in hindsight was a key factor in being happy where I matched.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

5 years

@Allan_Katie Ugh this sucks but also is “bleep” a UK thing because as a US resident (registrar?) that sounds hilarious.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

I was the ICU resident on call last night at an Atlanta hospital. It felt like New York in March.

Russell Edwards

@RussellEdwards

4 years

Athens, GA, is Region E. Home of @BrianKempGA and no critical care beds according to the GEMA report today. Tens of thousands of young people from all over are on their way to in-person classes at UGA, starting August 20th.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

3 years

@KhouryMD @gradydoctor @KillerMike @PBS @TuskegeeUniv @GradyHealth @EmoryDOMRyse @EmoryDeptofMed here it is

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

3 years

Don’t know why I get exam anxiety before Peloton FTP tests, but the 5-week program increased my performance by 12%. I’m a PZ believer now! @PelotonMed @onepeloton @MattWilpers

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

3 years

Chief resident / attending life on Thanksgiving morning means chart checking from your kitchen counter while sides and turkey heat up in your oven for resident lunch. Not a bad way to spend a morning 😋

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

3 years

Finished my first week of attending for a resident team. During feedback for them, i asked for feedback for me and the one that stuck out was “It was nice to see that you weren’t upset when we didn’t know something.” Do some attendings forget what the word TRAINING means???

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

@DGlaucomflecken Need to have a real goals of care conversation here and just call it.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

@gradydoctor Jealous DeKalb gets love tonight but at least Fulton lets me save the country from an NBA arena and then an NFL stadium

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

3 years

@gudcheems @EthicalStudents Coffee $100 Food $200 Rent $800 Tuition $60,000 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

6 years

@worldsoccertalk because he prefaced it with “to borrow a line from American sports history.” It’s a reference most recent to the 1-1 draw USA had vs England in 2010, when an underdog draws a match they should have lost handedly.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

3 years

Doing my final inpatient rounds of residency on the pulmonary consult service and I’m still learning new things.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

2 years

Patient in pre-endoscopy bay today: “Doc, your name sounds like Dr. Colon Guard and that’s sounds like exactly the gastroenterologist I need.”

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

“Hold up, let’s go this way. It’s the fancy elevator” - how we treat ourselves at 4am on MICU call.

Michael Jones

@Jonesy_MA

4 years

Overnight explorations led me here. It was just the *elevation* I needed @_amolk @GradyHealth #MICUnights #MICU28s

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

Today on rounds, we talked about the Berlin criteria for ARDS and the Rome IV criteria in IBS which really makes me hope 2021 leads to actual travel to places like those.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

5 years

@DocAroundThClok Future Pitt Med student

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@_amolk

4 years

Georgia.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

6 years

@medicalaxioms anticoagulation

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

1 year

@joshmcgoo I’m a GI fellow in the middle of the desert, this is actually something we make sure to ask

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

2 years

@emily_fri Or that now I need to buy blinds and appliances that didn’t come with the house … and they’re *how much* ??

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

2 years

I missed being a resident at Grady this year so much that I started picking up hospital medicine shifts. But the time has come to focus on my upcoming move! Gonna greatly miss the people — both patients and employee.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

5 years

@flatlanderlost @TVietor08 @SenatorLoeffler @jonlovett @PodSaveAmerica @jonfavs @staceyabrams @fairfightaction Oh I know, despite having a medical license and drivers license in GA, Brian Kemp tried to keep me off the voter roll

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

7 years

@molly_knight

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

Definitely pre-COVID, that’s my med school class 6 years ago 👋🏽

Pitt Health Sciences

@PittHealthSci

4 years

Today, we welcome the Pitt Med #ClassOf2024 to its first day of virtual orientation. Lots of deans and leaders will share e-introductions and advice, including Dean Anantha Shekhar. Welcome new students! (Photo is pre-COVID-19)

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

3 years

@StudentDocCaymo I slept on the floor the first week of residency and sat on a lawn chair until week 4 when we finally got a sofa 😶

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

@ramonashelburne @ATLHawks @morethanavote My normal polling location had a 3-hr wait on the first few days of early vote (when I had time to take off). I drove to State Farm and voted in under 20 minutes. Convenience factor was amazing.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

5 years

@GoodishIntent Gotta give blood so we can draw it q4h.

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

3 years

@Toheeb_Jimoh1 @Dior @BritishGQ @__dipoola Ok but now tell me the names of the photographers

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

Third year I’m having my Thanksgiving meal with residency colleagues in the hospital ... but the first year I brought Tupperware for leftovers 🤣 #ExperienceMatters

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

@_amolk

4 years

We have 180+ residents in our program ... in Georgia.

Emory IM Chiefs

@emoryimchiefs

4 years

This year we are excited to have made a schedule that would give our residents a window of time to go out and vote. We want everyone’s voice to be heard. #medtwitter #vote

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Amol Koldhekar, MD

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2 years

💯 EGDs in books!

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