Marc Wasserman, MD 🧠

Pleased to announce that I have matched at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital in Seattle! Very excited, I hear the place is a little unusual.

@ThatEricAlper The largest city by population in Ohio that doesn’t begin with C is Toledo.

What’s the most useless thing you have memorized?

@FrHarrison Eggs Benedict

Just came up with the best name for a Catholic food truck. Friar Truck

@JT_Hume @RaminNasibov

@synapse2000 @RaminNasibov As a Cubs fan since the early part of the Reagan presidency, I hate how true this is.

What historical fact sounds fake but is true?

@danielgsydnor @RaminNasibov And yet the dealer keeps magically hitting 21.

@RaminNasibov Mathematically, no two people have ever shuffled a deck of cards to an equal result.

@STzorfas @malikatikamd I went into medical school sure I wanted to do psychiatry and realized after a rotation or two that what I really would have wanted to do in that field was psychology. I still like the mind, though, so general neurology was perfect. You never know how these things work out.

I chose neurology because of ice cream. Most people know me as a neurologist, but that’s not how I started. I began in a neurosurgery residency, and it didn’t take long to realize it wasn’t the right fit. I didn’t have the aptitude—or really the desire—for the surgical side. I was more of a thinker than a doer, and the program I was in didn’t exactly help me figure that out. There wasn’t much teaching. And even less support. I remember one moment very clearly. I was sitting with some neurology residents, just taking a break and eating ice cream. My chief resident saw me and was furious that I wasn’t working. That's when it really started to click that I did not fit in. But I am a plodder and I just kept going. A few months later I was brought into a room with the director of the residency program and told: “You have no future here. Don’t even think of leaving until the end of the year.” That meant nine more months in a place I already knew I didn’t belong. That would have broken me. Fortunately, the chairman of neurosurgery saw it differently and gave me a way out. Neurology at another institution immediately took me in, and it turned out to be exactly where I belonged. I just made it in time to start an internship in Medicine. What felt like failure at the time ended up being the most important course correction of my career. Sometimes you only figure out where you belong by realizing where you don’t.🙂 @KevinMD @STzorfas @aafp #PrivatePractice #SoloPractice #PhysicianEntrepreneur #MedTwitter #PhysicianBusiness #DoctorLife #StartingAPractice #MedEd

@badbanana Strange women laying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.

A Lady of the Lake gave me a magical sword once but you don’t see me making a big deal of it.

@Variety @NoahWyleUpdates Insurance should cover that, right?

Noah Wyle Suits Up as Dr. Robby From 'The Pitt' and Gives Fans 'Physical Exams' Worth $36,000 at Netflix Charity Auction variety.com/2026/tv/news/n…

@OGdukeneurosurg Here the “eye of the tiger” sign is totally normal.

Cat scan

@OligoclonalBand @AANmember @CedarsSinai Love this!

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@mariana057 I went to a wedding once and “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For” was the song they danced to. I’m sure it was meaningful to the couple but I don’t think I was the only one who found it ironically funny.

I tried using U2’s new search engine. But I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.

@moraleDmaestro Ophthalmology. There’s way too many unnecessary h’s in the wrong places.

Quote tweet this with the one medical term you can never remember how to spell. I’ll start: Otorhinolaryngology.

@csv_enjoyer @RKalland @CFBHome Dang it! I thought duck was due!!

@RKalland @CFBHome Don’t worry I checked the historical data

2026 Kentucky Derby results: 1. 🐎 2. 🐎 3. 🐎 4. 🐎 5. 🐎 6. 🐎 7. 🐎 8. 🐎 9. 🐎 10. 🐎 11. 🐎 12. 🐎 13. 🐎 14. 🐎 15. 🐎 16. 🐎 17. 🐎 18. 🐎

@RKalland @girlsreallyrule No wonder the trifecta paid out so little.

@mariana057 Hey, this weight is pretty heavy. Can you Spock me?

I’m thinking of opening a fitness center for Star Trek fans. I’d call it “He’s dead Gym.”

@BraydonDymm That’s why I always order an MRI of the Brian in these cases.

who is Brian and why is he getting into so many accidents??

@ThatEricAlper “Jabberwocky.” I had to memorize a poem in eighth grade and for some reason it’s still stuck.

What is a thing you can recite from memory?

@TimelessTrvlr Overpriced, but the proximity to the Rockies, a major airport, decent four season weather, and good restaurants and parks makes it hard to argue with.

Denver, Colorado. Outdoor paradise or overpriced for what it is? Which one?

@MerriamWebster Bureau. I can never figure out which vowel goes where.

What word is your spelling nemesis? This is a safe space.

New attendings - You're not rich yet. Even so, you can have pretty much anything you want, just not everything you want. Save, invest and spend accordingly.