scrublifemd

If you don’t periodically sit in the parking lot and cry for no reason, are you even an intern?

So my current student loan repayment strategy is to ride out the SAVE injunction/forbearance situation for as long as it lasts - and hopefully I’m dead before it’s sorted out… thoughts? Comments? 🫠

Hate that I agree.

Have you ever watched a baby die of pertussis? I have. Several. This is what it looks like: A newborn baby can’t stop coughing. They can’t catch their breath and they can’t eat. They get dehydrated and stop peeing. They sometimes have pauses in their breathing. Parents are terrified so they come to the ER. In the ER, labs show they have a dangerously high white blood cell count. Their blood has become thick from the white blood cells and doesn’t travel through organs like it should. Less oxygen gets delivered to vital organs. They start to seize. Imaging reveals they had a stroke. They can’t pump blood to their lungs and body. A breathing tube gets placed in their trachea. They get put on a ventilator. A plastic catheter is placed in their veins and arteries to give them medicine and measure blood pressure. If they are lucky, they can make it to a #PedsICU that provides #ECMO, or full heart lung bypass. They are attached to machines that take over all their body functions. But it’s too late. Their hands and feet turn black because they can’t perfuse their bodies. Their faces turn grey/green. They won’t stop seizing from the brain injury. They are attached to too many machines to hold while alive and parents lay their bodies on top of them and cry until they fall asleep then cry again. There is nothing to do but stop the machines. Antibiotics to treat pertussis were given but were no match for the infections effects on a newborn baby. Parents finally hold their baby after the machines have turned off and their baby is cold and lifeless. Is this what you want? This is what RFK Jr will bring to American families.

“Kamala is going to raise taxes” Buddy you make 50k a year, she is NOT talking about you lmao

O.55 pph 🙈😂 I could cry but it’s honestly just too funny.

@ZubyMusic True.

By around age 35, you'll start to notice that some of your peers look 50 whilst others look 25.

@Ruesavatar This is not my experience at all. It quieted the food noise of constant snacking but I still eat 2 good meals a day. (I was never a 3 meal person.) I only feel sick/vomit when I eat high fat/dairy foods like pizza or if I drink too much alcohol.

My sister described ozempic to me and uh, forgive me, but it kinda seems like they managed to manufacture anorexia.

@DRitterMD This is lol

100% chance my first shift ends with a good cry sesh in the attending lot… 🤡

@DRitterMD I had to listen to a HR employee explain BFAST stroke symptoms ….

I, a board certified emergency medicine specialist, just had a required learning that included a question asking if I should call 911 if a friend is having chest pain.

I look so good in Bonsai. damn.

Black scrubs only in my department. I need time to process my loss of my carefully curated Figs collection. 💔 😫

@olsonplanner Hospital employee, PSLF

@scrublifemd What’s your job situation? Non-profit? Democratic group? Locums?

I’m calling it. SAVE is DOA.

@olsonplanner Still waiting 🫠

How does that new attending paycheck feel??? Pics of you and gifs both welcome 🤗

@DrCasteelEM Wow God bless ya for working already. I needed a serious time out 😂

‘Jack of all Trades , Master of None’ is some condescending bullshit. It’s a NO for me. EM docs - let ‘em know we’re masters at resuscitation. #standonit #EM

@PhysicianDoodle EKG…….

@RealBookerScott Are you dumb , an asshole, or both? JW. God Bless!!

It's sad, really, that the generation of $1000 cell phones, $500 concert tickets, and $9 cups of coffee can't find the money to pay their student loans back.

@MrsPA_C Have him screen shot his Google calendar/schedule and send it to you