Doctor, gasmonkey in training. Profane. Believes in the power of kindness. šŸ³ļøā€šŸŒˆ she/her

South Africa
Joined May 2009
Love someone with mental illness? Get comfortable not being able to fix them. Get comfortable not knowing why they’re ill. Get comfortable just supporting them. You can’t fix them. And if you try, you become one more person to disappoint; one more thing to feel guilty about.
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Replying to @mattyheron
Always the forgotten specialty šŸ˜‚ For Anesthesia I pick the singles "White Horse" (as an allusion to propofol) or "Wildest Dreams" (ketamine)
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Barefoot Megz retweeted
Conference abstracts accepted, but no publications?Ā  It's a common story for residency research projects. As someone who'd experienced it 6 times... these are the reasons why many residency projects go NOWHERE.Ā  Brace yourself, because it's time for some tough love.
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Shoutout to all the women in my notifs INSISTING that's it's totally straight to form stronger relationships with women, think they are more beautiful and prefer their company šŸ˜… I don't have the spoons to sherpa you on your queer awakening, but I wish you luck!
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The mom was young and it was her first baby. She was giving baby a lot of gripe water BEFORE feeds. So baby was basically too full to feed.
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Who knew that the gripe water tweets, with beloved @sindivanzyl RIP, would still be so important nearly 6 years later.
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Replying to @mike_natter
Never understood the logic of the long on call time. Being a nurse we would have to decide if it was worth waking the doctor/ resident. Too much pressure on us too.
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Replying to @dr_cellini
30 years ago in an American ER (I was on my elective as a med student) I saw a hypovolaemic trauma patient w/ massive extremity trauma, in PEA, taken to CT šŸ¤” as the ā€œbleeding had stoppedā€ 😳 #AllBleedingStopsEventually
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Bafethu, studying in the dark is not a vibe but you and BAR ONE can change that. Every time you share or retweet #NeedEnergy you add an extra bar of energy and help us fit a generator in Melville Library, Musgrave Library, Winterveld Library and Beacon Bay Library.
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I have a little (private ) giggle when our surgeons hit this stage - they start thinking twice before insisting we rush a patient to theatre at 3AM.
Constantly walking the mental tightrope between ā€œIm getting too old to do this gigā€ vs ā€œI just need a napā€ā€¦
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Why is it that ā€œspeed tillsā€ are never speedy?
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Barefoot Megz retweeted
Dear folks at @PicknPay @CheckersSA @WOOLWORTHS_SA and @My_SPAR I don't want your money or products. I come to you pleading for a simple change that could save lives. A change so simple that it just needs to be retyped. Let me explain. A thread.
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It’s really inhumane to expect people to work and function at their level best post call. – at Mafikeng, South Africa
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Dating a non-medic be like šŸ¬
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How did New York City gaslight an entire nation into thinking their pizza is the golden standard?
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I'm a neurosurgeon in the NHS. I've worked alongside more than 500 doctors in training and know when someone will be a great colleague. Here are the 10 signs of bright future:
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A hill i would die on
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Lol. The other day I had an incident with a stubborn vial of fentanyl, and ended up needing steri-strips. Still didn’t OD. Not even a little buzz.
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Also. It’s been years. Why are we still debating this shit.
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