Deciding when to stop a code and call time of death is a heavy burden to bear- an entire team of people looking to you to make a decision that will forever alter their loved ones lives

you don’t realize how emotionally unable you are until you forgot your badge for work.

Rechecked sodium on arrival from different facility… the gasp I gusped

I think Apple Pay was the best tech invention of this generation

our receptionist in clinic walked into the resident bullpen and asked if we could break a $100…. ma’am I didn’t even come to work with a wallet because I have no money, find an attending

one day you get woken up at 4am by an intern to review a CXR- it’s flash pulmonary edema and you know exactly what to do without a second thought. Feels like just yesterday I was the intern panic paging my senior

tea and toast diet but instead I’ve made it an entire week on grilled cheese, crackers and coffee

Me: “hi this is the triage admitting resident calling back for ED 10” ED doc: **on a recorded line** ACTUALLY I have feedback for you as a resident Me: 👀😰😬 ED doc: I’m gonna need you to give a more dramatic sigh when I page to admit a soft admit, I don’t make the rules”

this patient went hospice and died that same hospitalization and I’ll never forget them

Being a doctor is crazy because one minute you’re laughing hysterically with a patient showing you a TikTok, to walk into the next room an cry with a patient when you tell them they have cancer

I left my med student to finish out an admission interview and they didn’t come back for an hour… med student: I found out the pt went on the same 3 week cruise as my parents last summer so we called my parents and found out they went on the same excursion!!

me: “if I squint hard enough I can see concepts of a p wave” cardiologist:

there is always that ONE staffing attending who asks the most outrageous, niche and irrelevant questions Like bro they are here for a 15 min sick visit- I’ve never met them before. No I did not asked them about their nonspecific CT finding from 3 years ago…

I am so SICK AND TIRED of the American health care system

today I personally wheeled a patient from my clinic to the ED for expedited work up, albeit a soft call… pts labs just resulted and I’m so glad I didn’t get those critical results after hours 👀

I need epic chat to have a thumbs down button

I just left an 14 hour shift and didn’t pee once

life of a resident: I just aame say shipped myself underwear and socks bc I’m on a 14 day stretch and not doing laundry

the highlight of my week was driving the floor zamboni at work me🤝 the hospital custodian

me to my PCP tomorrow at my annual wellness… So I ran 100km this weekend, but started throwing up black tarry blood with melena but it stopped after 12 hours so I didn’t go to the hospital to get scoped. Also I need an XR on my foot bc I think I have a stress fracture