Daisy Proksch, MD

Surgery residency interview season survivors! (Attendings, fellows, residents, PGY-0s, etc.) What is something you learned during interview season that is important to you in a program - other than location and vibe?

@BMGodinich Congratulations!!! I’m so excited for you!

I’M GOING TO BE A RADIATION ONCOLOGIST ☢️ This one’s for you mom! 💕

@MultilingualMD @Stephanie_C21 If every time you had to ask 1 question it took 20 minutes, would you avoid talking to the patient or do it every time? Most people eventually go to the first option I understand the main point but I disagree that refusing to interpret a short Q provides the patients better care

@MultilingualMD @Stephanie_C21 As someone who randomly matched in a place where 50% of my patient speak a language I don’t, I appreciate those who help me talk to my patients. It’s often just a quick Q I’m already breaking duty hours by a lot, the interpreter iPad is across the unit and out of charge.

@medburnbook From what I’ve seen, these doctors get plenty of ‘WTF feedback’ from various hospital staff (maybe less from their residents) they just chose to push through thinking they know better

One of my greatest fears is that I’ll be one of those doctors that the other doctors secretly thinks is Not Good and that they wouldn’t want taking care of their family but I won’t know!!! And I’ll just be bad!! And unaware!!

@TweetingDrE @JoseA_Rodr @airfrance I’m sure (if the patient was aware) they were *thrilled* to be denied medical care due to an employee’s sexism. Seriously do better for your passengers @Delta @airfrance

.@airfrance requested a medical dr to help a passenger on board today going from Paris to Dallas. I volunteered because I assume that if they’re calling for a dr, they need one. Turns out- they only need you to help if you have your medical license with you (supposedly)

@Noelle2Jamie Sign out your patients/pager THEN finish your notes and other tasks. Otherwise you will never leave

1st day as an intern July ‘22: Arrive 5 am. Take signout. 5:10 am - first page. ED consult for SBO. Long day, 40 pages at least. Dont finish notes until 9 pm (evening signout is 6 pm). Pager continues to chirp. Lesson - signout at signout time no matter what.

Our attitude in medicine absolutely needs to stop being, “I went through this terrible thing so the next generation should too” and instead be, “I went through this terrible thing and want no one to ever have to experience it again.”

@londyloo Sure some things would go faster without us, but if that was entirely true we wouldn’t be returning from (theoretically covered) didactics with a mountain of “boring” non urgent tasks (floor work, consults, etc) pending - EVERY week

Yes this is a subtweet to a surgical attending who tweeted that residents who go on strike would allow the OR to run more efficiently without them.

How would you feel if your boss told you that the office would run more efficiently without you being there? Would you want to show up? Or feel valued?

@AndreaLMerrill @taylorswift13 Is that a custom cap or is it available online somewhere?

From the OR to the Taylor concert!!!! @taylorswift13

@ClementineY_MD @sarayu_sub I’m so ready to finally be a pgy-2 but also so not… But 24 months is more than sufficient time to prepare 😂

@sarayu_sub @ClimbingMD too! 🥳🥳

Today I started my 24th and last month as an intern 🥳

@sebrewington We had a horribly battered toddler that would enjoy snuggling up to the hospital staff then suddenly freak out 30 seconds later because he was so conditioned to associate loved ones with fear and pain. 💔

People try to warn you about a lot of things in pediatrics residency - horrifying accidents, children ripped from existence. But I wish someone had prepared me for all the times I would choke back tears holding a baby/child that had been hurt by someone they trusted.

@jhnysuzuki @FullyMeMD Behind the knife! (Also buy the book) @BehindTheKnife

@ClimbingMD @FullyMeMD Any recommend podcasts for ABSITE exams?

@ClementineY_MD @sammypav @calzuroshoes @Leatherman It’s only $20 more on Amazon to put your name on them (much cheaper than inevitably replacing them)

@sammypav @calzuroshoes @Leatherman There's a customizing option on their website. It's a little extra money but then no one can steal them accidentally 😉

There is so much lying in the SOAP from both sides, it what is necessary to survive. Awful, terrible, dehumanizing system, 0/10 would not recommend #soap2023

@JordyGrewal I gave up explaining it to people not familiar to the residency process. I told them I would be working for my first year in Chicago and it was still TBD where I would be for the later years.

@mfnicholson1 @TowerHealthNow Congratulations! I’m so excited for you! Your hard work and persistence has paid off!

I am thrilled to have accepted a 3 year Emergency Medicine position @TowerHealthNow in Reading, PA a Level 1 Trauma center! #SOAP2023

@DGlaucomflecken When I didn’t match, your “like” supported me. When I triumphantly matched the following year, your “like” congratulated me. I appreciate your continuity of care. Seriously though, thank you for your support and reminding us ‘you are not a failure.’

The match day rules are simple. You see a match day tweet, you like a match day tweet. Congratulate and support.

19/ That was supposed to be us, man. So. . . . if you didn't match? Or you love someone who didn't match? Know that I see you, okay? I feel you, too. But also know that the love that gets us to this point sustains us, too. Through this week and the ones to come. Okay?