I think empathy and compassion are the two most important reasons I am a good cardiologist. Not publications, not leadership positions, not titles, not where I trained. It’s because I look at every patient as if they were MY family member. Because they *are* important to someone.
Patients are scared, they are looking to us for help. They need us to listen. All of the brilliance in the world, doesn’t trump the power of listening to your patients
So for any trainees/med students worrying about the stress of where you match/ how many papers you have/feeling overwhelmed with the rat race / just know that all of that disappears when when you see how much you’ll impact your patients lives ❤️❤️
And just a PSA: when your patients complain of palpitations, please don’t tell them it’s just anxiety. I’ve had 4 women just month this happened to. I got a monitor - all 4 have afib. We must listen to patients ❤️
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This MLK day, I want to honor Black women in medicine who are changing the world. This first thread will focus on my friend @doctortarr_ the leader of Rooted by Planted in Health, our 501(c)(3) non-profit organization! Read more!🧵
Rooted led by Dr. Sondema Tarr @doctortarr_ , is an educational outreach program focused on providing informative health and nutrition videos, print out resources, and health tips for the Black community, accessible online & free for all!
Why is this important?
Rates of heart disease mortality among the Black population have remained disproportionately high, and the impact of social determinants of health greatly impact the risk of developing heart disease.
My dad is having some statin intolerance, and we just had an hour conversation about trying a PCSK9i, so I offered to e-mail his cardiologist to give her the rundown & he said NO! He said he didn’t want me to “bother her” and he’s her favorite patient 😂
LMAO I’m a cardiologist
Playing backseat doctor with parents is always interesting 😂
PS I love my parents and they are stuck with me back seat doctoring forever. And like, if it’s in MY specialty, I feel like I’m allowed.😂
There is a huge problem of vaccine & COVID misinformation that we have been seeing in the nutrition & wellness space for MONTHS. As the vaccine is rolling out it’s getting worse. And I’m asking everyone with any sort of influence on social media, to help me with this. Thread.
If you’ve been following me on social media you already know this but - let me start out by saying that I absolutely believe in the value/health benefits of a plant-based diet. I literally work in a multidisciplinary practice with physicians of various specialties + RDs centered
around using nutrition + lifestyle + GDMT to help our patients optimize health. Believe isn’t even the right word. The science clearly demonstrates how powerful using nutrition & lifestyle change can be in reducing the incidence of chronic disease.
When you’re a doctor & you say COVID is real, promote masks & social distancing, now I understand how Fauci feels. At the advice of @RyanMarino I called local police & FBI who said there’s nothing they can do. Here’s a time stamp on Twitter in case anything ever does happen to me
FYI this was on Instagram where I have 180,000 followers. Have no clue who it was. But promoting vaccines, masks, and public health information results in this.
Thanks for everyone’s support. Spent last night crying and very scared. Now have to check in on some patients with COVID. It’s real! ☹️ Wish we didn’t get death threats for saying so.
For anyone interested in starting to eat bean pastas - often I recommend starting with chickpea pasta or lentil pasta.
I think the texture is most similar to traditional pasta.