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The truth about burn out...... gotta day this one hits it on the nail

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Happy national women physicians day to all of the lovely lady docs out there. My grandma got her MD in a day when she wasn’t allowed to attend the boys medical school, where each hospital only had one or two female doctors on staff. Because of her I never doubted my ability to become a physician because of my gender, I never associated being a doctor with being male. According to a 2017 article in JAMA, the patients of women physicians have lower mortality and readmission rates than those of our male colleagues. Despite this fact in the 6 years since I’ve entered medical school I have been told everything from “you don’t look like a doctor” to “your voice is too sing-song-y, if you lowered it people would take you more seriously” to “I’ll wait for the real doctor” to “they let women be doctors now?” So today is for all the women who are working 80 hrs a week while trying to be home in time to put their kids to sleep, for the women who smile and ignore all the times their patients call them the nurse, for all the women who have been told that they would be a better doctor if they were more like a man, because you are strong and brave, and I am proud to stand in your growing numbers and thank all the women who paved the way for us

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So long intern year......

Hello all my beautiful followers! Long time no see!

But really sorry Ive been a little absent..... Again........

Today is a very special day. Unlike the rest of the world the world of medicine functions on its own calendar, and today, July 1st we celebrate our version of new years. If you walk into any hospital in the US on the first day of July you’ll see newly ironed white coats, and cheery nervous smiles of the new interns. 

If you didn’t know better these new doctors might look shinier and more put together than the doctors you saw yesterday; that is their hair is nicely done, they’re sporting new business casual clothing, they are carrying stacks of paper, and there are no large bags under their eyes. You would be wrong...... yesterdays haggard looking, white coat and paperless interns have now graduated to the slightly more prestigious role of the senior resident and in there place is now a new group of newly minted doctors. Today they will place their first order (probably asking their senior to check and make sure they repleted that potassium correctly), write their first note that counts in the medical record, they will call them selves doctor for the first time to their patients, and if their heads are not in the clouds it will be terrifying. 

The truth of the matter is,  no matter how many years you spend earning the term doctor, the first day a patient finally calls you one, and truly places their lives in your hands is unlike any other feeling in the world. To any brand new interns reading this, its okay to be scared, its okay to ask for help (in fact its preferred) and you know more than you think you do. 

My intern year has been amazing, difficult, wonderful, horrible, exhausting, confusing, frustrating and empowering, many times all at once. It feels like yesterday, but also maybe about 20 years ago at the same time, that I was the bright eyed intern with all of the questions and none of the answers, accidentally calling myself a medical student while introducing myself to a patient. So to those of you struggling through your first day as an intern, you made it, your amazing, and get ready for the craziest year of your lives!!!! Im so excited for you!!!!!

On a totally different note I like to use July 1st ad my own little new years, my planner works so much better when planned around my medicine schedule than the normal calendar year, so look forward to my new planner layout coning your way soon!!!! 

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Shine bright

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Caffeine infusion definitely needed

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Amazing page of the night

Nurse paging to ask if giving antibiotics more frequently will help with the fever.

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ANTIBIOTICS ARE NOT ANTIPYRETICS.

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Pink Grapefruit Weekly

I feel like if I drew this again now, it would look better lol

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outtakes

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30-03-2018

Autumn is upon us. The weather is getting colder and my cups are overflowing with hot chocolate. I cannot wait to wear warm sweaters and cuddle in front of the fire so I decided to make my theme for April reflect all that I love about Autumn. 

https://youtu.be/NO2aGu9_kQE - feel free to check out how I made this spread in my April Plan With Me video :)

xx

the little mouse that reads

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Happy Medicine Monday! Approach to abdominal pain: the abdominal clock

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Study time! I’ve gotten some questions about how I study during residency, honestly I’m still figuring it out but I try to pick a topic that’s come up in a patient and I need a little brush up on and I pull out all my old notes and books etc and try to synthesize the most important information.... while adding a little pretty to it (oh hey day 015/100) ..... swipe👉to see the less instagramable set up my study time normally takes on 😂 ... you can find the less tumblr ready look at my full study set up on my instagram

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Acid base disorders are one of the more confusing things to learn as a medical student. This algorithm was the one I learned in med school and it continues to serve me well through residency!

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The thing everyone tells you when you start a career in medicine is to keep up with the things you do outside of work, to have some sort of outlet or break to keep medicine from taking over our lives completely, well I’ve done a pretty bad job of keeping up with my drawing/journaling etc. so I’m taking on #the100dayproject every day for 100 days I’m committing to do something creative outside of work. It doesn’t have the specificity a lot of peoples projects do, but I think it follows the spirit of the project just fine. So here’s day 001/100: my bullet journal spread to track my projects progress. I’m going to post my favorites here once a week or so, but you can follow my full project on my instagram @stethoscoping, following the tag #100daysofcreativecoping

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I’ve had a pretty crazy month on the CCU, here’s the 6 things I couldn’t have survived without 1. It’s worth the money to invest in a good stethescope, mines the Cardiology IV Littmann by 3m 2. I can’t get through anything in life without good pens, my go-tos are a micron pen, and mildliners 3. If you don’t have one already you’ll need a good ekg book, my favorite is Dubin’s “Rapid Interpretation of EKG’s” 4. I take all my notes on the fly in my erin condren notebook my bestie bought me for Christmas 5. It’s always helpful during codes and RRTs to have a watch, I love my hybrid watch by @katespadeny which tracks my steps to keep me active on long days on the unit 6. Any intern will tell you you can’t go anywhere without your pager

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Throwback to strange days and anatomy lessons

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Guess who’s on NICU! Here’s some baby resuscitation 101

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