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I was blown away by the #ANES20 Rovenstine lecture from @JoanneConroyMD
She initated a call to action for anesthesiologists by acknowledging the biggest issues for our specialty:
➡️#disruption
➡️#equity
➡️#patientsafety 2/8
Disruption sums up 2020. Our lives will never be the same. But disruption can make things better. Let's embrace it & lead periop medicine. Telehealth connects us to pts out of the OR, for preop eval & postop follow-up. Working remotely creates innovative practice structures.

1/5 A thread of my live-tweeted talk on work-home conflict after training for the residents. #ANES20 @ASALifeline @imswimming3 @JinaSinskeyMD @AmyPearsonMD @Duke_Anesthesia @DukeAnesRes @catherinekuhn17 @ankeetudani @amandahkumar @Jeanna_BlitzMD 2/5

https://twitter.com/ebmalinzakMD/status/1312822293333250051?s=20

For those of you who missed the live Tweet of my @ASALifeline #ANES20 RCL on perioperative management of adults with T21, CF, DMD, &ex-preemies, I've linked all of them together in this thread, for a summary. 1/19 @PediAnesthesia @SPAQIedu @PedsAnesNet 2/19

https://twitter.com/ebmalinzakMD/status/1312120170219888641?s=20

This is crazy but sharing for safety purposes. Please retweet!

Something very scary happened to my brother yesterday and I want everyone to learn from it.

@RUBraveEnough @SashaShillcutt @EMARIANOMD @JulieSilverMD @AmyPearsonMD @HarrietHopfMD My brother received a phone call from my phone # (with my name attached to it). When he picked it up, he heard a woman screaming & a man on the line told him that he had me & was going to kill me. He then tried to extort my brother by telling him to download CashApp & send $$.

In today's @ASALifeline MMO, learned about Dr Herman Barnett's accomplishments & strife. Thanks @marydahlen: "It’s clear that more needs to be done for equality, both in society overall and in medicine and anesthesiology specifically." #BlackMeninMedicine #BlackHistoryMonth

1/ Dr. Barnett was a fighter pilot in WW2, followed by 1st African-American medical student in Texas, at UTMB...although not without controversy, prejudice, & discrimination. Graduated cum laude, pursued surgery residency, then anesthesiology residency.

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Reviewing residency apps tonight. Fun to read letters of recommendation from my @Twitter friends like @emilysharpe.

However, just read this for a🚺applicant for #Anesthesiology from a Chair of Surgery: "She and her fiance are in the couples match and I am interested in her fiance for her our dept."

🚺is AOA & had full scholarship to med school. Very little written about her besides reciting her CV (which is awesome).

😠😡😠😡🗯️😠😡😠😡

@womenMDinanesth

@nytimes this article is misleading. While work-life balance of medicine has improved, it has for most professions. The life of a MD/DO is not “family-friendly.”

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@womenMDinanesth @RUBraveEnough @JulieSilverMD @WomenSurgeons @PROWDWomen

nytimes.com/2019/08/21/ups… As a 🚺 MD, I continued working after having kids bc bring a physician is a calling & I had sacrificed too much in my life to ever give it up.

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Fellow #SheleadsHealthcare participant @arghavan_salles writes in @TIME re: huge issue #WomenInMedicine face: when to pick personal vs professional life & the consequences. @womenMDinanesth @WomenSurgeons @WomenInCTAnes @AmyPearsonMD 1/ time.com/5484506/fertil… Reproductive years occur during the critical portion of a physician's training: residency. If ♀️wait, fertility is an issue (& major $$ invested in procedures that may not be successful). If ♀️have kids, lack of support from the workplace & bias occur. 2/

Watching first season of #ER again (aired 1994). Noticed a few things: 1) medical diagnoses and work ups are quite normal and accurate for a tv show,

Forming my virtual #girlgang after #WIA2017 @HarrietHopfMD @AmyPearsonMD @Cindy_Ku_MD @kristinligda @LindaHertzberg @RUBraveEnough... @HarrietHopfMD @AmyPearsonMD @Cindy_Ku_MD @kristinligda @LindaHertzberg @RUBraveEnough @KanupsKumar @LaurenJonesMD @laurenlicatino @JulieSilverMD @JWill_PediACCM @docporteous @PainDocGoel @WomenFacultyMD @allisonovermon