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Jan 10, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Learner: The patient rates her pain an 8/10, but I think it's really more a 4/10.
Me: How do you know?
Learner: Well, she's happy and interactive.
Me:
Pain is an intrinsically subjective experience and we cannot necessarily infer things about people's pain level based on their apparent behaviors, especially when we are meeting the patient for the first time and have no idea what their baseline looks like!
Sep 19, 2021 • 53 tweets • 4 min read
I am going to watch Twilight.
I have never seen Twilight.
Pray for my soul.
What is happening
Like, what is happening
Sep 19, 2021 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
All right, I'm gonna level with you. This is going to be unpopular (especially with med school faculty/admin), but please know I'm speaking from experience here. Maybe this isn't universal, but here we go.
Med students heading into #Match2022 (or any match in subsequent years), please know that any and all advice from your med school administration is specifically designed to make sure *your school* is successful. They want you to match, period.
Sep 20, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I became a doctor largely because I wanted to understand my body and what was happening to it, and because I wanted to be able to explain the physiology behind people's suffering better than my doctors did to me.
I am having a patient experience. I know I'm being vague on the internet right now, & I'm sorry, but my body is misbehaving, and all the training, education, and support I have does not solve my problem, or even name my problem. I do not know what is going on, and I can't fix it.
