Megan Meredith

@MJA_Editor Not always the case but definitely still worth getting tested!! The nasal part of my swab on 7/7 in SA was high and hard, resulted in a nasty nose bleed that recurred every time I sneezed that day...🤷‍♀️

I received this message from a nurse in Melbourne. "Hi, I’m a nurse currently deployed in the quarantine hotels. Is there anything you can do help communicate the message that the swab tests are no longer as invasive and painful as they were at the beginning?" #COVID19Aus

Watch this incredible 30 second time-lapse video showing the tissue damage a button battery can do in just 3 hours. This is why swallowed button batteries are true medical emergencies! Courtesy: @stopioid #FOAMed

So this is what I drew with the prompt “the language of medicine.” A heart translating devastating diagnoses into supportive words and phrases and disseminating them along with beauty and nature and grace.

Self administered Narcan is like self administered CPR. If you can actually do either to yourself, there is a pretty strong chance that you never needed it in the first place.

@ddaff78 @DocAroundThClok More ward than ED/ICU

@MeganM_EM @DocAroundThClok I don't understand why nurses aren't taking bloods??

RN: We're having a hard time getting the patient's labs Me: Oh no RN: We've already stuck him 5 times Me: So what's next? RN: Well...do you want to try? Me: Uh RN: Me: [trembling] I guess I coul- RN: Just kidding the resource team is coming Me: [exhales] Oh thank god

@ddaff78 @DocAroundThClok There a quite a number who can, and some are phenomenal, but as a general rule I'm told they're too busy with other nursing jobs, and that it isn't their job to do.

If I read one more piece of MEDICAL LITERATURE saying women have disproportionately poor outcomes from CVD because they “often present with atypical symptoms” of MI, I am going to LOSE IT. How you gonna SIT THERE and tell me it’s atypical when HALF THE POPULATION EXPERIENCES IT

@theEMfellow @ultrasoundpod @BenWingrove2 @luke_vater @jwbramwell @annaazeng @MedDeclan @jessleeransom

This cardiac thrombus seems to be having alot of fun. Heparin just seems cruel! @ultrasoundpod #POCUS #FOAMed

@nomadicgp @IanMeducator @drlauraduggan @Eleytherius Everyone I know overseas, from Norway to Canada, has not received their overseas postal vote!!!! Insane.

@IanMeducator @drlauraduggan @Eleytherius Even worse, I registered as an overseas postal voter. I never received my ballot papers. I have been denied both voting AND sausage. Booo!!

Not ordinarily a great consumer of sausages today I will eat democracy sausage for King and Country!!

Crazy that the very expensive Royal Adelaide Hospital still doesn't have any cold drinking water for staff, patients and guests on the wards... February 2018 these signs were made! #healthcare

Sir, you’re strict NPO, you can’t have anything to drink. Patient:

Treatment of cancer is a cab ride not a train ride. Go as far as you want. When you feel like you’ve gone far enough, tell your oncologist to stop and let you off. Walk from there. Enjoy the remaining days of your one real life.

Most common negative stereotype in med school simulations - the ‘inexperienced, unhelpful nurse.’ Let’s give medical students realistic expectations and instill respect for their colleagues by portraying the the capable and competent nurse in their sim. #simed #smacc19 #SMACC

Good technology when used badly is just bad for learning 🤔 #SMACC @Inject_Orange @SocraticEM

The call to be more inclusive with active, not passive, actions. Thank you for the encouragement to be brave, and speak up #SMACC

Doctors can be just as scared and "irrational" when faced with death as their patients. Because funnily enough, doctors are human too... #SMACC @WhistlingDixie4

Incredible to hear not just about the practicalities of ECMO, but also to come face to face with the human experience through the story of someone who experienced it. Even with resilience and positivity, there are life long complications #SMACC @WhistlingDixie4

“I recognize this person had a life, and dreams, and a family, and I recognize the people in this room who tried to help, even though they knew none of that” —James Maskalyk @jamesmaskalyk #SMACC @smaccteam

Sometimes with all the stress and chaos at work, I think we forget the basic tenet of being kind, and treating others with respect. #learnnotblame #SMACC