Urological surgeon | Mother to a superfun kid | Shoes, champagne, shopping, flying | Opinions my own
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Dr Imogen Patterson retweeted
A plane crashes in Florida, lives are lost, and within HOURS the blue-checkmark crowd is blaming a female pilot and screaming “DEI.”
Here's the problem: They don't understand how a two-pilot cockpit works.
As a pilot, I'm disgusted. Watch this before you embarrass yourself.
It's a biscuit.
None of this "cookie" rubbish.
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Dr Imogen Patterson retweeted
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
Dr Imogen Patterson retweeted
Female doctors get their patients better outcomes. Female doctors do not outlive their male colleagues. The trade is not an accident.
Dr. Noemi Adame, board-certified pediatrician and founder of Culver Pediatric Center, sat with this on The Podcast by KevinMD.
The data she walks through:
Female physicians demonstrate better patient outcomes across multiple fields of medicine.
Portal data shows patients and staff make 25% more requests of female primary care doctors than male. Same panel. Same hours on the schedule. 25% more inbox work. Unpaid. Unrewarded.
A JAMA article found that while women generally outlive men, female physicians do not get that longevity benefit. The added stress of being a female doctor may be why.
When Adame was a hospitalist, she noticed staff and patients interacted differently with her than with her male colleagues. When she was in corporate medicine clinic, she was the last one out the door, often by hours. She blamed herself. She asked her employer for a time flow study, certain it would prove she was inefficient. The EHR super-user who shadowed her found the opposite. She was faster than average. Her notes were so thorough a scribe would have been a downgrade. The system was the variable.
Her playbook for holding a boundary in medicine, worth bookmarking:
Ask if the request is fair to both parties or only to one.
Replace "I'm sorry" with "Thank you for waiting."
Do not bend a rule once, because the negotiation never ends.
Tell the patient exactly what you are giving up so the trade is visible.
The structural problem she names is sharper than the burnout conversation usually allows. Female physicians are not burning out because they cannot keep up. They are burning out because the system asks them to do more for the same pay and rewards them with shorter lives.
Listen to the full conversation on The Podcast by KevinMD. Link in the replies.
For female physicians: at what point in your career did you realize the workload was unequal, not your time management?
#ThePodcastbyKevinMD #PhysicianBurnout
Dr Imogen Patterson retweeted
"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew."
Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."
Dr Imogen Patterson retweeted
"We will always choose each other."
Mission control has reacquired signal with the Artemis II crew after the mission’s planned loss of signal. Our astronauts are once again using the Deep Space Network to keep conversation and science data flowing between space and Earth.
Dr Imogen Patterson retweeted
The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.
Well played FR24, well played!
It's a supersonic day for aviation. Currently #1 most tracked is #BA9999 from LHR to JFK. flightradar24.com/BAW9999/39…
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Dr Imogen Patterson retweeted
Credit where credit's due, none of this would have been possible without the vision Mike Baird, Gladys Berejiklian, and Dominic Perrottet had for Sydney.
This achievement belongs just as much to you.
Yeah nah.
She's not even a tall enough poppy to try and cut down, as Aussies like to do.
What nobody understands about the Aussies is that Dr #Raygun will be hailed as a returning hero, will never have to buy herself another drink, will publish prolifically, probs get a TV & podcast deal, and may very well be the next Prime Minister of Australia.
Well played
#Australia #OlympicGames #breakdance #breakdancing
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Ageing is a privilege denied to many.
I, too, remind my patients of this.
Maybe it’s because of my cardiac arrest, but I don’t understand why patients get upset when I say their symptoms are due to aging. 95% of what I diagnose is because we get old. I always bring it up as delicately as possible, but like do you know how lucky you are? I see patients in their 80s and think, “man I hope I get there one day.” So many things in this world can kill you. You’ve beaten the odds. Honestly, congratulations, you’re old.
