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I run races and codes, but not together🤞EM Chief Resident, Masters of MedEd (2020), Wild Med. Thoughts and opinions are my own. Ultras&Tris🏊‍♂️🚴‍♀️🏃‍♂️🛌

Hattiesburg, MS
Joined November 2018
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When your swim coach becomes a cycling pro @usacycling – at West Hattiesburg, MS
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When planning block schedules for next year it should be automatic to ask if anyone observes #Ramadan . Ask if they would like to have their night float month or lighter rotation scheduled for April '22. They shouldn't have to chose btwn faith and work. #MedTwitter @acgme – at West Hattiesburg, MS
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A well-written case with clear images by Dr. Hunt (@djchunt), Dr. McLendon (@emdocmac) and Dr. Wiggins, showing the importance of recognizing and diagnosing pericardial effusion and cardiac tamponade. buff.ly/3b1uPzP
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Good on you and let it stay there. Trust your medical schools to eval the students. @NBOME – at Hattiesburg, MS
Woah @ACOEPRSO finally Level 2 PE suspended for DOs as well as MDs! @NBOME #MedStudentTwitter
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If the broke medical students of America could organize and just not participate in their 'study' they could never 'validate' and revive Frankenstein's monster. Just saying. – at Hattiesburg, MS
Come on, NBME! Your beloved USMLE Step 2 CS has scarcely been in the ground for two weeks - and you’re already out here flirting with “exciting new methodology” and “immersive virtual reality scenarios”?
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Well would you like at that?! Looks like advocacy works! When enough people speak out, the people can hold those in power accountable. Great work everyone! #CancelLevel2PE @jbcarmody @drharrislakers @NationalSOMA
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Hey @NBOME I just want to be clear. Your decision to continue to push the PE exam is causing many D.O. Students to consider full licensure with step instead. If you want this organization to stay alive, cut your losses at this time
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This guy is saying what we've all been saying for over a decade. – at Hattiesburg, MS
As the sitting National President of the Student Osteopathic Medical Association (@NationalSOMA), I failed the “Humanistic Domain” of the COMLEX Level 2 PE. This domain claims to measure “Communication, Interpersonal Skills, and Professionalism” - because of this failure...
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About time! @AOAforDOs @advocates4dos are you taking notes? – at West Hattiesburg, MS
USMLE STEP 2 CS IS CANCELLED FOREVER!!!!! No more USMLE Step 2 CS!!!
The hospital is taking the covid precautions so seriously... logged in to find this 23 attestations later... teapawt.org/EMDocMac/status/134105… – at Hattiesburg, MS
Vegas is making the odds on who wins the election and we are all waiting on Nevada to report their results... coincidence?? The house always wins. #eleccion2020 #nevadavotes – at Hattiesburg, MS
#ElectionDay is tomorrow and I've recieved more ad mail about the #Mississippi #marijuana bill than the #PresidentialElection. Just had an unknown text telling me what MS physicians think I should vote. Never mind that I'm a MS physician and disagree. #LEGALIZE not #incarcerate
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Getting sign out after a particular rough day in the ICU and they hand me this and say here is a pictorial representation of our day... "Hold on to your butts" - Samul L. Jackson #MedTwitter
Worried about toxic alcohol ingestions but don't have a lab that can run the levels? Order: CMP, VBG, EtOH, lactic, Osms - Ethanol will show up - Methanol and Ethylene Gylcol cause High AG Met. Acidosis - Isopropyl: no acidosis, but high Osmolar gap #FOAMed #MedTwitter #toxic
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Me when writing antibiotics for patients... sorry Cap 🇺🇲 @ChrisEvans #medtwitter
#Hospitals during #COVID19: 🎶Everyday I'm shuffling🎶... pts around because we ain't go no rooms 😬😔
I'm fairly certain a shift involving multiple patientd with status epilepticus is called "a night of epileptici" #medtwitter #allthekeppra
You know you like teaching when you get excited and are wide awake after a night shift to lecture at 8am on a Monday morning to lecture on bicarb with the IM folks. #MedEd
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