“Finish every day and be done with it.”

(Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to his daughter in 1854)

M4s, look in the mirror and repeat after me:

Tanka Name the Infestation
#medtwitter
#MedicineinBrief

Eggs go down the hatch
Through gut, portal vein will catch
Liver to riled lungs
Coughed up, swallowed, worms mature
Zillion eggs, species secure

M4s setting up their interview space

“So what specialty are you going into?”

my morning routine

Most common nerve injuries in inguinal hernia repair:

𝗟aparoscopic repair = 𝗟ateral femoral cutaneous nerve

𝗢pen repair = ili𝗢inguinal nerve, ili𝗢hypogastric nerve, genit𝗢femoral nerve

you may still love me as a garden worm but what if i was ascaris lumbricoides

night team leaving after they give sign-out

humanities degrees can lead to analysis paralysis and stem degrees can lead to a reductive solutionist perspective. but I have never heard anyone from humanities question the need for stem to exist. it's a problem that so many consider humanities an indulgence and not a necessity

On The Health Design Podcast, Jared Rubenstein discusses his work as a pediatric palliative care doctor, & the role that creativity plays in educating patients & increasing his effectiveness
soundcloud.com/user-499494424… #Pediatrics #palliativecare #medtwitter #medicaleducation

trick-or-treat except it’s me going up to the residents and asking for an eval

Michael Burt Trauma leaves its mark
Under both eyes, plum and dark
Hidden rift skull base
Fall from swing set at the park
Bad news for sister aardvark

how did DW get a basilar skull fracture?

Indeed.

one of the best ways to prep for surgery cases as a student is to find images online of the procedure.

For example, this one really helped me visualize a c-section beforehand