Muhammad Nauman Malik, MD

ACE = “ace” AIDS = “aids” GERD = “gerd” PEEP = “peep” BUN = “omg did you just pronounce it ‘bun’ that’s crazy where did you go to school why are you here omg hey you’ll never guess what this guy just said…”

𝗡𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘂𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗗𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀: In 1952, inside a delivery room in New York City, a baby entered the world blue and silent. Doctors froze, unsure whether to keep trying, until a calm, confident voice cut through the panic. “Let’s score the baby,” said Dr. Virginia Apgar. That moment would transform medicine forever. Apgar had once dreamed of becoming a surgeon, but in the 1940s, women were rarely allowed in the operating room. When told no hospital would hire her, she turned to anesthesiology, a choice that would ultimately save millions of newborns. While working in the maternity ward at Columbia-Presbyterian, she noticed a tragic pattern: babies were dying within minutes of birth, and doctors had no clear way to tell which ones needed urgent help. One morning in 1952, she took a pen and paper and created a simple, five-point system to assess newborns by heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflexes, and skin color. She called it the Apgar Score. The idea spread like wildfire. Within a decade, nearly every hospital in America had adopted it. Infant mortality rates dropped dramatically. For the first time, doctors shared a universal language for assessing a newborn’s health, and countless babies who once might have been lost were saved. Dr. Apgar never stopped advancing her mission. She earned a public health degree, joined the March of Dimes, and became a tireless advocate for mothers and infants around the world. When asked how she managed to thrive in a man’s world, she famously quipped, “Women are like tea bags, they don’t know how strong they are until they’re in hot water.” Virginia Apgar passed away in 1974, but her legacy endures. To this day, every two seconds, somewhere in the world, a newborn takes its first breath, and a doctor or nurse quietly calls out a number that honors the woman who refused to give up on babies, or on herself. Post Courtesy: Nature Mind FB Page #ApgarScore I #MedTwitter

The ban we'd all prefer.

Pulmonary infections according to types of immunosuppression

If you’re a med student or resident and gave support to someone in a difficult moment today, this day was a success, no matter what else happened. Hold on to these words on the days you feel inefficient or undervalued. Your presence matters more than you know.

PLATELET COUNT THRESHOLDS

AIR MATTRESS ONLY: A typical intern's apartment usually consists of an air mattress, one pillow, and a phone charger. This is how it begins for nearly everyone. As time goes on, you'll acquire furniture, a TV, a car, then a bigger car, a house, and almost everything you desire. The key 🔑 is to always remember your humble beginnings with an empty apartment. This memory will keep you grounded and willing to help others. #Match2025 #MedTwitter #MedEd #insidethematch #USMLE #imgs #ERAS #NRMP #USA #pakistan

Part 2 of a very nice pictorial overview of the spectrum of imaging findings in traumatic brain injury by @t_vandevyvere, check out the complete article here: liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ne… #neurorad #radres #MedEd #FOAMed #radiology

more surgeons are Slytherins and more Ob/Gyns are Ravenclaws - this is science 😤🪄🧙🏼‍♀️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32033915/

got this one on repeat

It’s a real problem!

Fluids & Electrolytes cheat sheet #MedEd

@SatyaPatelMD For more of a focus on the management aspect, check out my friend @MatthewHoMD's trove of flowcharts.

Rising interns #Match2024 and sub-interns in internal medicine #Match2025, interested in practical tips to approach common issues in internal medicine? Come listen to @TradIMYale residents Drs @SanjuGarimella @RamyaSampathMD @ArshKhokhar_med and Stephanie Kim @YaleIMed @YaleMedPSTP! You can register at mc-meet.zoom.us/meeting/regist… (free). Thanks to National @APAMSA AAB MedEd committe @victoriaxcegi Jess Ellis Kevin Victoria for organizing!

@auakhan @ismail4fanty Thank You.

@ismail4fanty And well done Nomi @mnjmalik

@eerac @paulg A lot of people think of government and corporations as different, but the government is simply the worst form of a corporation in the limit, in that it that cannot go bankrupt without bankrupting the people and has a monopoly on violence.

We all have our demons to fight

@YousufMFarooq I guess this is just due to high base effect.

🇵🇰 Inflation in Pakistan is now on a solid downward trend. Still very high but headed in the right direction.