Joanna Watterson, MD 🍎

Been having a lot of thoughts as a doctor in the making about #COVID19 and structural inequality. It's a bit raw, but that's kind of how everything feels right now.

The ED resident call room @DGlaucomflecken

@KarenKuehl @szellermd @DrWilson_Mike Awesome, thank you so much! Can you tell me more about what your curriculum looks like?

@jbwatterson Dr Scott Zeller’s @szellermd YouTube videos are great. And of course Dr Mike Wilson @DrWilson_Mike. We use their book The Diagnosis and Management of Agitation as part of our residency Emergency Psychiatry curriculum.

Does anyone have good resources for verbal de-escalation training for patients, especially in emergency medicine settings?

@proftmdunn This is a fantastic place to start, thank you!

@jbwatterson This is a great paper: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Wow I really hate when people write “hypovitaminosis D”

LOSER: Emergency Medicine programs. It’s been discussed all week, but this year, there were more unfilled EM spots than there have been in the previous 15 years combined. Only 82% of EM positions filled. That’s the lowest of all specialties except radiation oncology (81%).

LGBTQIA+ People coming to Sydney for World Pride We are making sure you can get access to healthcare whenever you need Checkout @ACONhealth for your closest clinic and please share that the World Pride Health Hub is now open at Sacred Heart Clinic

@Aidan_Baron @JuncturaTheorum @jbcarmody Or wow I think this person is racist, summarizing other human beings as “lesser candidates”.

@JuncturaTheorum @jbcarmody The interview intangibles probably yielded red flags Like “Wow. This is the kind of angry person with an over inflated sense of self worth and entitlement who would launch a lawsuit against a medical school for not getting in”

A medical school applicant who was denied admission to medical schools in Texas has sued, alleging discrimination based on his status as a white male. aflegal.org/wp-content/upl… (🧵)

@SingleSyringe 400 of bumex later…

Happy pharmacy week! Let’s all reminiscence on times when pharmacists were absolutely freakin essential to patient care. So one time I ordered FOUR HUNDRED MILIGRAMS of bumex…

@pharmpearls And if it isn’t my favorite pharmacist! 😭😭 thank you for the work you do ❤️

😂😂😂 thanks Jo! Teamwork makes the dream work amirite

Anyway, pharmacists are important and a huge safety net for us young docs learning how to take care of people.

I was an ICU intern and unfamiliar with bumex dosing and the attending was going a million miles a minute and said “order bumex it’s 40 times the dose” so I ordered 400 because I wanted 10 of lasix…

100% neurologically intact survival after hypothermic arrest in this series of nine VA #ECMO patients at @UNMHSC. Strong work by @erik_kraai @TrentWray and the rest of this awesome team.

Airway month continues with @DarrenBraude on the physiologically difficult airway. This #prehospital study found that 100% of pts with an SpO2 of 93% or lower WILL DESATURATE during the attempt. #EmergencyMedicine #Airway #EMConf #FOAMed #FOAMems

Trachea Hypermobility in Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) grepmed.com/?q=hypermobili… #FOAMed #MedEd

Amazing myxoma. A 33-year-old man complained of abdominal pain. A ghost is in his heart!

Wait did everyone know you can get 8 more at home covid tests sent to you for free? special.usps.com/testkits please rt, i had no idea

You are the GLUE You are what holds your department together You are the institutional memory that can insist on the incremental learning from one case to the next

@ChemistryCatH2O At least they got a discount on crying 😂

I'll never be a good doctor, I forgot to put in an order for "reassure patient"