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2 years

Today a patient wore a shirt that said “My Dog is Smarter Then Biden.” Spelled exactly like that. I didn’t have the heart to tell them. 😂😂

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@redusa21 Ok the feet are cute but what if the baby is developing with no head. Or major organs. Abortion is health care.

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@AshleyGWinter Funny, there’s a large population of male legislators telling women how their bodies work & how to use them (both incorrectly) 🤔

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@B_DrMadden I love this ❤️ For educational purposes, this this a common way to secure a wig and will alcohol work most of the time?

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I’ve eaten healthy and exercised 3 days in a row, why am I not skinny yet? 🤔

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So it turns out a single surgeon is not an ideal candidate for a young puppy. I couldn’t handle the extra responsibility & my plate was way too full, so I returned her to the breeder. I’m very upset.

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@jameswoodskcom @DrKateTomasino They had that many children not because they increased the odds of having survivors, but because they had no choice. Their men were surely not going to stop having sex with them and they didn’t have a way to prevent pregnancy. No bodily autonomy.

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Help me understand this #medtwitter I go to med school, residency, fellowship…dedicate my life to helping others. Postpone starting a family (not that I had the time, money, support or encouragement within the academic community anyway). Now that my career & finances are stable

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@RyManns Being a woman in literally any profession 😂

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Since so many people are seeing this…. I wouldn’t be opposed to actively trying to get pregnant. Or at least practicing. 😂 Taking applications. Gotta shoot my shot 🤷🏼‍♀️

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I’m here. Feels real weird to go to a resort alone. But I’m going to relax if it kills me 😂

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Because I don’t have a preexisting diagnosis of infertility and haven’t been actively trying to get pregnant for 6 months. I’m single. Just want to put some eggs/embryos on ice. Nope. Just another way to punish single women, women docs, women who delay reproduction.

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@TraumaSoapBoxes You have to wonder if there’s a small soft tissue attachment to that one on top or if the tech just artfully arranged it on the cassette

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Your gal is board certified 🎉🎉🎉 A few moves meant it took it for the first time this year, 5 years out of training but I got the damn thing done. Thank god it’s over!!

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2 years

Fortunately I can afford the cost, but this is literally the first time I’ve been able to and I’m 40. How do people do this? They can’t. I’m fortunate but it doesn’t mean it’s right or I’m not angry. And I have “good” insurance. Talking to you @BCBST

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5 years

It’s taking all my strength to not say something. #useless

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3 years

Can we normalize NOT wishing every woman you see Happy Mother’s Day? I lost my mother 6 yr ago & am not a mother myself despite very much wanting to be one. Other women maybe don’t want kids, or have lost pregnancies, or have them but relationships are strained. #petpeeve #hurts

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2 years

I’m exploring fertility preservation. I’m 40 and literally couldn’t afford until now. I felt lucky I had at least a little fertility coverage for with my insurance. Except they won’t cover the meds my doc ordered. Only their preferred regimen. And it’s so expensive I ended up

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I’m working on a cross stitch project but I’m not sure what to do with it when I’m done. Any suggestions?

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@orthogal21

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@willtheyhear @BrandonLBradfor Orthopaedic surgeon here 🙋🏼‍♀️ Arthritis is a multifactorial, complex disease that cannot be blamed solely on weight or “wear and tear.” I’ve replaced joints in people all across the weight spectrum. Unless you are her physician you do not know the state of her health.

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5 years

#medtwitter I’m getting frustrated with the mountains of paperwork I do for medical leave after patients’ surgeries. This one asked for RTW restrictions I thought were odd. 😂 Is this too snarky of me?

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4 years

@Natekunzler How much can you bench press?

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8 months

#orthotwitter are y’all hiding some secret rehab protocol that helps people with this hip? Insurance denied THA 🤦🏼‍♀️

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3 years

I have a post-op THA patient that is so happy with his outcome that he's proposed marriage to me 2x. Why isn’t that considered on press gainey score? 😂 #orthotwitter

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2 years

Buying out of pocket without insurance anyway. I did all the testing, insurance gave prelim authorization and I had the procedure. Prepping for a 2d (and last cycle now). Except now they’re refusing to cover anything.

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Alright I feel the need to explain, though I don’t owe you people anything. I have 2 cats. I’ve had cats for years. I knew I could never give a dog the time & attention it deserves w/my job. My life is a lot more stable now. I knew an older dog would be best & I to rescue.

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It’s official 🥇 #orthotwitter

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4 years

For the love of all things holy, people...stop aspirating olecranon bursitis! 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

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She will go to a loving home and hopefully have a great life. I did what was best for me. I learned a lot of lessons & yes I feel like a lot of this could’ve been avoided. But you know what? I’m human. I make mistakes. All the people giving me shit can stfu. You don’t know me.

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@TheBlondeRN Don’t forget that some of us live in locations where trays have to be couriered back-and-forth between cities for specific cases. My reps 100% make or break my ability to do a case.

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I’m done. I’m over it today. Throwing in the towel, I’m sick of having this conversation every day. This patient didn’t like my recommendation for THA so went to PCP. What did they do? Prednisone and MRI. 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

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I am tired. 15 hours: Elective TKA Elective THA Finger fracture Rotator cuff repair THA for fracture I like the variety of being a generalist but dang I’m beat.

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@AshleyGWinter I tried to find office software for my Mac a few years ago. You know, the CD w/all the programs to load on your laptop. Nope, doesn’t exist anymore. Web based monthly subscription like everything else now. I felt so old. Just bring me my walker & show me to the old folks home 👵

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@ToddZywicki @sgremminger 9-5? 😂😂😂 where can I find this job? I don’t know any docs working 9-5. I work 7-whenever the job is done, on call 10x a month and multiple 12-14 hour days a month. 9-5? Get outta here 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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#orthotwitter 45yo F denies trauma, chronic pain, denies h/o dysplasia or childhood issues…wyd?

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1 year

@rkh_md Did you use the actual phrase “bone on bone?” I’ve learned medical words don’t get surgeries approved, they just want to hear bone on bone. (I’ve had TKA denied for not using this phrase)

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@laurenthehough Counterpoint: when the plane lands why to people in the back jump up and grab their things and all cram in the aisle jockeying for position? One exit at the front, you’re not going anywhere faster.

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5 years

@DevonESawa Just put on Fox News 🤮

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9 months

@drzainabtasneem It’s genetic metabolic disease that produces black urine but in this case it turned the cartilage black.

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Rural community hospital, call yesterday: 5 hip fx (really 6 b/c one is b/l), 2 humerus fx that are surgical, tibial plateau, one multiple metacarpal fx, finger with pus/osteo. And a few non-op consults. Definitely a full moon. Send help.

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So I think I may stay here

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3 years

Today is my birthday. Last year in my 30’s 😭😭😭

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If I learned anything in residency it was that late night cases need peanut butter. But I stopped messing with the graham crackers 😂😂

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Look at yourselves and your lives before you criticize some stranger on the internet.

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Weekend in NYC for my bday, about to do the thing I based the whole trip around 😂😂👊🏻

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Work has been 💩 🔥 lately but today this little girl gave me artistic license with her cast. It changed the whole day. Y’all it was so much fun and I’m only placing bespoke casts from now on. 😍

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Omg #medtwitter have we really spent half a day arguing over tuck/no tuck scrubs 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

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I need practical tips for making myself get up early. Something besides “put the alarm across the room.” I am impossible to get out of bed no matter how much sleep I get. No one to make me, the motivation has to come from me (and at 6am it’s not there).

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Alright…I’ve reached that stage where I have Amazon packages at my door and no idea what I ordered 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

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ISO: good puppy names. The more ortho-y the better, obvi. (Golden retriever, picking up in another 6 weeks) #orthotwitter #MedTwitter

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I just drove by a teenage boy skateboarding with a short arm cast on. It took all my strength not to roll down the window and scold him 😂😂😂

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Taking applications for new office staff. 😂 Just joking, they’re great. But I’m not doing great today. Someone give me hope that 40’s are ok! And I’m not past my prime. 🖤

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Kicking off 2022 in style 🎉

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#orthotwitter I just did my first suprapatellar tibial nail. Where has this been all my life? 😂❤️ #loveit #nevergoingback

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@amyfaithho @Davembmd I mean I get the humor but it’s getting old. Why don’t we ask IM residents the optimal fixation strategy for a complex periprosthetic fracture or how to do a knee replacement? Or just read a simple xray? Not their scope of practice. Ours isn’t management of multiple med issues.🤷🏼‍♀️

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#orthotwitter any advice for operating in a boot? This thing sucks

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@AshleyGWinter @momandel Thank you for sharing this. This is my worst fear. I’m a few months from 40 and still haven’t found anyone…considering using a donor and doing it alone but I think the chances of me conceiving are next to zero. I wish I’d done this 15 years ago.

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#orthotwitter can we petition someone to have the term “compound fracture” removed from the English language? 🤦🏼‍♀️ @cnn is very triggering for me tonight.

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I’ll take some prayers if anyone has a few extra laying around #orthotwitter #MedTwitter

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Can we stop mass recruiter texts in 2024? It’s getting ridiculous. I’ve been an attending for 8 years.

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@TraumaSoapBoxes We really need NPs in areas like mine. I think the answer is improving training not eliminating the position

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I just passed a woman in my subdivision walking a giant pig on a leash 🐖

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I’m not going to turn this into an account that posts everything I cook. But right now it’s a good distraction and I’m proud of this one. Sweet potato coconut soup. Little bland though, and I added the coconut milk a little too early so the texture is off. But I made it. 😂

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#orthotwitter How much sweat is considered pathological? 15 minutes after THA finished & out of room, my scrubs still look like this (top)...dry scrubs on bottom for reference. 😂

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Sometimes working in a rural community has great perks ❤️

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@QaaliHussein1 As a 3d year resident my attending kept calling me babe. I told him to stop. He kicked me out of the OR in the middle of a case. 😡

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Saturday night as a single woman in her late 30’s, summed up in a single pic:

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Having a hard time keeping gratitude at the forefront today and not throwing a pity party. Funny memes or pet pics appreciated 🙏🏻 #MedTwitter #orthotwitter

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@medicalaxioms Hi! I’m an orthopedic surgeon. You might know me from my greatest hits including “fractured and broken are the same damn thing, “please don’t cut off your own cast,” “BMI of 50 will not translate into a successful TKA,” and “non weightbearing x-rays = nonuseful.”

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#orthotwitter has anyone left medicine or known anyone that has and actually been happier?

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I really want to go on a twitter rant. But I’m tired, y’all. 😫 To summarize: 1) knee arthritis, especially when it’s bone-on-bone, does not need an MRI 2) nor do non-operative “arthritis clinics” need to do U/S-guided HA injections every few months...

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@kaylamellis_ Also if you wait until you’re older and you have fertility issue, IVF is incredibly expensive, time consuming (and you already have no spare time), and often not covered by insurance. People suck. You’re doing great 👊🏻

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@l_krishnan @RiderToast Anyone that comes at my clitoris with a needle isn’t getting that arm back.

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When you have an early Saturday case and decide to bring the OR breakfast...but so does your nurse. And you both went to Chick Fil A. Chicky nuggies for everyone!!

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