Future Female Family Physician

4th year osteopathic medical student in the US, working through residency interviews and waiting for May. Things I know something about: medicine (work in progress), sarcasm, cats, baking, baseball, and traveling. Ask away!

[futurefamilydoc]

“Of course I’m white. I’m Satan.”

- Satan (@s8n) on twitter live

[futurefamilydoc]

Wound care

When your patient says the wound is better but you still check it like

[larynx-lover]

Medblr

Please reblog this if you’re still an active Medblr! I’d like to follow more of you, and I feel like a lot of the big medblrs aren’t very active anymore. And say what year in med school you are and maybe country? I know some people prefer to stay mostly anonymous.

NEW FRIENDS!

PS- if I follow you it’ll show up as a-lovely-contradiction bc that’s my main blog

[heartbeatsandrainstorms]

MS3, United States

[wheresonichedgehogwnt]

PGY-1, US

[traveldoc24]

MS4, US

[captainmdphd-blog]

PGY-1, Southern US

[medamoiselle-blog]

MS1, US. I’d use the word active loosely because school demands and gets so much of me these days…

[modernathenamd]

MS4 for about another month and a half. Been quieter than usual lately due to long commutes and serious levels of anxiety but will be back up and running once I get my stress-levels down this weekend.

[pleasedotheneedful]

I’m still active, just dying inside 😐😗

[ermedicine]

OMS2 - currently dying inside as well while studying for boards 🙃

[thebiopsy]

MS4 here!

[drdessertfox]

MS2, 1.5 blocks away from dedicated!

Why the fuck do we end so late!?

[futurefamilydoc]

OMS4 just a few months from graduation. Probably more posts coming since I'm in an interesting rotation again!

[futurefamilydoc]

[squilliamvevo]

Why

[squirticuno]

OGRE-IES!

[futurefamilydoc]

Both

Getcha a [guy/girl] who can do both. My husband is a goofy, fun-loving, type B guy who loves to wax philosophic and challenge thoughts. I am a type A, scientific, reason-driven pre-med-almost-doctor. We're watching "This is Us". In this episode, a guy is on the verge of suicide and a main character is talking him out of it. We've had a two and a half hour long conversation on suicide, death, afterlife, and religion. Now we're currently cuddling with our kitties and cracking jokes. Both. Doing both is so important.

[keygateiron]

how i feel about residency programs

[docitaliana]

Damn you, Grey’s and your ability to accurately represent my feelings.

[futurefamilydoc]

30 days til match day, but who's counting.

[larstheyeti]

The Awkward Yeti

[mattmcguigan]

[docitaliana]

Pretty much my reward system during fourth year of medical school.

[futurefamilydoc]

"Emergencies"

"America is great because we have this fantastic system set up in order to deal with emergencies. We tell people to call if they have an emergency, and they do. The problem is, we never explained what a true emergency is." - MIH preceptor commenting on some of the ridiculous "emergencies" he's been called to

[futurefamilydoc]

Mobile Integrated Healthcare (MIH)

So my rotation right now is interesting. I've been on lots of him visits in the last week. It's a cool setup. People who are frequent fliers at one of the ERs in town can be referred to this service that uses paramedics to conduct home visits in the hopes that it keeps the patient out of the ER. They spend one hour at the patient's home, talking, answering questions, going over meds, etc. An hour is such a luxury. I keep thinking about the 15-20 minutes I'm used to spending with patients... And. Being in their home brings it to a while new level. The patient is relaxed, comfortable, willing to share. We get to see potential hazards, barriers to care, interactions with family members. It's a true patient experience. And it's great. The next two and a half weeks should be really cool.

[itssorelatable]

[futurefamilydoc]

The beauty of fourth year: time for baking!

[texanforevermd]

The Heroism of Incremental Care

We devote vast resources to intensive, one-off procedures, while starving the kind of steady, intimate care that often helps people more.

Why primary care is VITALLY important (written by the wonderful Atul Gawande!!!)

[md-admissions]

Why I hate clinic (I’m impatient) but also why I will never half-ass my clinical duties. Outpatient primary care is so critical.

[hostileshrubbery]

Someone sent me this literally just this morning. It’s excellent. Dr. Gawande is wonderfully articulate as always. This is a must read for pre-meds, med students, hell, everybody really. 

[futurefamilydoc]

Incredibly well-written. Definitely worth the read.

[futurefamilydoc]

Back to reality

Made it home from Thailand...time to resume "regular" rotations. But hey, only three more left! Graduation is steadily getting closer. Which means *dun dun dunnn* the match is closer, too!

[futurefamilydoc]

Thailand - so far, so good! Yesterday and today we used to get over the jet lag and do some sightseeing. Monday we'll be headed to a hospital to work with a family practice doctor!

[futurefamilydoc]

Thailand adventure

For the next three weeks I'll be in Thailand on a public health rotation. Let the adventure begin!