Empress 🖤

While I was getting tattooed over the weekend, there was a No Kings protest going by the shop and a Ukrainian artist just sighs and says, “your people need to learn about fire”

One of my sweet PIs wrote me the nicest card and tucked $500 in it 😭

@NadijaRieser @PoleDoctress I just went to the pharmacy and asked for it 🤷🏻‍♀️ no gyn required!

@PoleDoctress @drrdemon well now I'm re-motivated.

Cervical cancer and head and neck cancer are literal nightmare fuel and TRULY y’all are not scared enough.

@bwags @NotoriousS1Q3T3 I wrote a 20 page grant proposal without AI a few weeks ago lmao this generation is so cooked

I wrote a 28 page paper in one day in my final week of college. These people are not Built To Last

In addition, in those four Yale medical school classes, legacy admissions (which grant preferential treatment to the children of alumni) are estimated to be roughly 11–12% of the cohort (approx. 45–50 students). This group is predominantly White and highly affluent, with 34% hailing from the top 1% of income earners. The reason these conversations— which are supposedly about bringing back MERIT-based admissions—never bother about legacy admissions, which inherently function as a form of AFFIRMATIVE action for the ultra affluent, is because the debate is less about safeguarding an objective standard of merit and more about maintaining existing racial and class hierarchies.

I've been seeing posts about med school applicants which abuse statistics to make claims that Black medical students are overrepresented compared to other applicants. Here's the actual data that I put together from the 2025-2026 application cycle. You're being lied to by racists

@fuqekgs YEAH WHY THE FUCK DO THEY DO THAT

Also the different formatting for the manuscripts, including citation style 🤮🤮🤮🤮

Journals requiring different word counts for abstracts and different notations for author names and shit is so annoying, it should be illegal

@CRobichaux33405 @PoleDoctress Anything with the word “exenteration” in it scares the hell out of me!

@PoleDoctress @drrdemon I remember taking care of head/neck cancer patients post commando operation at MMSK. Some continued to smoke via their trachs post discharge. Also a patient post pelvic exenteration. You do not want these.

@PoleDoctress ME TOO

@drrdemon I actually got the Gardasil vaccine series twice because I was like oh the newer version covers more HPV strains. That's how serious I am

@HofkampMichael Total glossectomy lives in my head rent-free

@drrdemon Indeed. I make extra sure my dentist screens me for cancer during my visits. I frequently do the anesthesia for all day radical neck dissections

as a woman it's so important that you learn how to be a Problem. I know what they taught you but fuck what you heard. you will people-please your way into an early grave

@Mike_Crabile @Jack_A_Ogden Another bad faith argument from a guy who is either being deliberately obtuse or just literally knows nothing about anything related to race in America. I’m done trying to make you have a meaningful discussion jfc

@drrdemon @Jack_A_Ogden Nevermind the fact that "obstacles faced" is a very stupid criteria to use when deciding who to admit to anything. Why should that give you a leg up?

Also, give me a doctor who has overcome some adversity, who has demonstrated a commitment to the field beyond high scores, and genuinely gives a shit about serving the public over someone who got a 275 and thinks they’re superior because of it 👏 EVERY 👏 DAMN 👏 TIME 👏

@Mike_Crabile @Jack_A_Ogden This isn’t about medical school? This is about undergrad admissions which is honestly a different ball game and not what we have been discussing, HOWEVER, I support what Yale has done for the last however many years. White people don’t face the same obstacles in society 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Jack_A_Ogden @drrdemon Which the DOJ almost certainly got through discovery........ from Yale....

@Mike_Crabile Exactly. Whiny white men need to stop writing articles about how sad they are that they’re not the only people in medicine anymore

@drrdemon It's just racism. Reverse racism isn't a thing.

Forrest Bohler is the Riley Gaines of residency. Maybe if he’d actually been better than the people he won’t shut up about, we wouldn’t have to hear about it for the next millennia

@Mike_Crabile I think it’s great when doctors reflect the populations they serve!! I’ve always said that!! 😂 stop arguing that reverse racism exists and go chop some firewood

@drrdemon You like discrimination and different standards based on skin color. Just say that!

we are adults we can be critical of the way women are treated in healthcare and how it’s further behind in research without being against the very thing that saves our lives. self advocacy is life saving. be curious not stupid.

some of you aren't ready for it but you've fallen down a right wing rabbit hole of women's health and that's why you advocate against it

It’s a pretty horrible time to be alive if you have morals and a conscience.

@AnusreeMD @fuqekgs $6 meal deal has gotten me through this year omg

@fuqekgs I was more keen to 6$ meal deal tbh. Sandwich, hash browns and a big coffee, omg my lunch :3

Just in time for residency 😈