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Finally beginning Step 3 prep and I'm...dare I say excited?

It feels weirdly nostalgic to do some practice questions and review concepts for a concrete event on a known date, rather than for the abstract pressure to constantly be ready that I've felt since starting residency.

First day of heme-onc I made the mistake of calling platelets of 48K "marked thrombocytopenia" and I was dragged relentlessly 😭

BIG WIN: If you or a loved one have asthma, you may see the price of your inhaler go down.

I’ve sounded the alarm about companies like Teva rigging the patent system to keep the price of inhalers high.

The FTC is fighting to bring your health care costs down, and winning.

💯

Holiday season will be away from the loved ones, but it's a time for growth

Trying something new this Thanksgiving. I will ONLY be giving out medical advice to my extended family. You want to know how the kids are doing? Too bad Uncle Steve, let’s talk about your prostate instead.

Bolero's Wisdom - Gator Days

Ventricular liberation

PICU de gallo

Well *now* I do, dang it

Pertussis in infants is terrifying but it’s not just the cough.

It’s the fact that babies literally STOP BREATHING.

~2/3 of infants hospitalized have apnea (life threatening pauses in breathing)

Vaccination starts at 2 mo so it’s important EVERYONE is immunized to protect our littlest ones.

Vaccines work

Just to be very clear about things that work.

Call day was *almost* busy enough to let me get my mind off of Election Day. Voted last week, so now all there is to do is wait 😬

Seeing a patient/family at discharge--hopeful but a little nervous, better than at admission but not quite 100%--can be encouraging.

Bumping into them out in public, talking & WALKING & smiling? Absolutely fills my cup. I always always leave those convos with a smile on my face

Intern year is...an experience 😮‍💨

Coming up for air to say I'm alive, I'm tired, and I'm having fun. 1 month of residency done! Finished with adult inpatient service, now onto NICU to take care of kiddos

Serious Medical Errors Rose After Private Equity Firms Bought Hospitals A new study shows an increase in the rate of inpatient complications, including infections and falls, though patients were no more likely to die.

Serious medical errors rose in hospitals after they were taken over by private equity firms, although deaths slightly decreased, a new study found. Researchers reported increases in infections, bed sores and patient falls.

Several robots stand around holding spare parts with the book title 'Would you mind waiting awhile' written above them.

6 panels show a robot slowly moving across an rocky and desolate alien world alone. He walks past a pebble and says 'Oh, look at that pebble' and continues on their journey, pulling along a little red wagon.

3 panels. 1st panel the robot inspects some rocks and says 'Another batch of wonderful specimens.' 2nd panel they begin to walk away from the rocks when's something dawns on them, 'wait...' they say.. 3rd panel, they are up close to one of the rocks which actually turns out to be a small beetle like bug. 'You're not a pebble at all.' they exclaim.

3 panels. Panel 1. the robot is carrying the bug in their hand as they walk along. "I shall name you after my friend Frederick, if you like?' Panel 2. A close up of the the bug in the robots hand, it says nothing. Panel 3. The robot turns to the creature and says "who's Frederick you ask?".

One of my favourite stories is a short story I wrote called "Would You Mind Waiting Awhile?".

It's happy sad, and personally what I think might be my best artwork.

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For some reason "values" was autocorrected to "cakes" but I guess that applies, too. If I'm promised cake it better not be in theory only

I've been so thoroughly disappointed in recent weeks by seeing people around me only holding cakes in theory, not when it's actually time to exercise them or when it's inconvenient to do so

Sure feels like if liberals are that scared of Biden losing because he supports and offers denials for an ongoing genocide the best solution would be pressuring him to either stop doing those things or to not run again. Feels like that solves the problem better than screaming at us online to vote.

sick Gordian knot you got there, would be a shame if someone *i swing my sword and miss badly, hitting the stone floor and sending a stinger up my arm* ah augh augh ah ah

At Al-Shifa hospital Gaza:

We currently have around 600 inpatients who need medical care.

We have around 37 to 40 premature babies.

We have around 17 other patients in the ICU.

We have around 600 postoperative admitted patients which need medical care.

We need a ceasefire.

Glad you're okay!

Asked about the chances of a Gaza ceasefire, Biden said “None, no possibility"

Via Bloomberg's Akayla Gardner

Ohio Votes To Codify Abortion Rights Into State Constitution The outcome is a huge win for pro-choice advocates in a state where many Republican lawmakers have taken extreme steps to try to ban abortion.

Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing a right to abortion in the state, a major win for reproductive rights

A sign reading “Free Palestine, Free Sudan, Free Congo”

A large watermelon sign

A crowd of people behind a banner reading “Israel Is Committing Genocide With Our Tax Money”

A placard reading “End War Crime In Palestine”

Downtown DC

I’m sorry for sounding like a broken record here but if maybe we could bomb less hospitals, that would be rad.