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TK, DO

@TK_EMDOc

#firstgendoc, DO, EM Attending, EMS Physician, tweets = opinion ONLY; she/her; 🏳️‍🌈🌈

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Joined February 2012
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TIPS FOR NEW INTERNS CALLING CONSULTS: -Never ever apologize. Especially at night there’s a tendency to lead with “Sorry to bother you.” You can be polite without setting the tone of the conversation immediately on the defensive. “Thank you for taking my call.” 1/x
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We begin reviewing apps for rotation in March. Direct apply (not on vslo), no fee's, details on the website. We provide: - Housing - Meal stipend - SLOEs (always on time) - Application mentorship gme.conemaugh.org/emergency-…
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I told my boyfriend I’ll be home in an hour 4 hours ago and that’s what being a doctor is all about- time management
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Why do academic hospitals put residents on call for OSH EDs but then “can’t give advice” because they are residents? Honest question that seems to happen at a lot of tertiary/quaternary care places.
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We live in a wild world where laypeople on X argue with medical professionals about whether or not VFib is a lethal rhythm… #wild
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Teaching in EM isn’t a lecture hall. It’s a nod, a question, a quiet correction at 2am.
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The reason we MANDATE vaccines to attend school is because while it is certainly your right to put your own children’s health/lives at risk for your own stupid anti-scientific reasons, you do not have the right to ENDANGER the health/lives of EVERYONE ELSE. This isn’t complicated
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We agree with Charlie Kirk on basically nothing. Except that he deserves the right, as every human does, to speak freely without the threat of violence.
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I'm sure at least one of you needs to hear this today.
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“Doing a good job at work is great until you're expected to take on extra responsibilities without getting paid anything extra for it….”
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A year ago, I began a small tradition —words and a coin to honor how strangers became family in the hardest, most beautiful way. What started with my own class has grown. Last summer, I gave coins to the faculty who (sometimes against our will) shaped us into emergency medicine
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doctors who can handle whatever is needed. And this week, I had the privilege of passing them on again-to a new class of graduates who now carry the legacy forward. To our newest graduates- I'm so proud of you. You've earned every bit of this.
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My door is open, my phone is on, and my heart is with you. Always. @ConemaughEMres
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The most dangerous phrase in medicine isn’t “I don’t know.” It’s: “That’s the way we’ve always done it.” A thread on epistemic humility, diagnostic inertia, and how medicine forgets—until it remembers. 🧵
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Attn 3rd yr EM interested students! We’re starting to look at apps to schedule for next year. Direct apply (not on vslo), no fee's, details on the website. We provide: - Housing - Meal stipend - SLOEs (always on time) - Application mentorship conemaugh.org/emergency-medi…
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My evergreen advice for a happy match day: I wrote down a list of reasons I’d be thrilled to go for every program I ranked and put them in sealed envelopes. That way on match day, no matter where I matched, I had an envelope to open with reasons to feel excited. #match2025
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I overslept one time in all of residency and all I got was a phone call asking if I was okay! That’s how I know I was in the right program ❤️
mdb (@mdbtvh) profile picturemdb@mdbtvh14 Mar 2025
i overslept 1 time in all of residency and got an attitude from my attending all day & then an email about professionalism 🤡
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Make it 3 years + they’ll be ready by 3. Make it 4 years + they’ll be ready by 4. Make it 5 years + hospital admin will be licking their lips at the $$$. Make it 6 + we will have 2k open EM spots after match because it’s so much easier/cost effective to become an EM NP/PA. 💅🏿
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ED boarding is harmful to patients and bad for patient care. I said what I said.
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Happy to pass the ABEM Qualifying Exam today! But shook at the overall drop in pass rate 😳
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I’m shocked by how misinformed the men in my life are on abortion bans. Most of them support a woman’s right to choose - but they don’t understand that bans put lives at risk. One said to me “I’m sure they don’t impact women who WANT to start a family”. They do - here’s why 🧵
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