dual certified nurse practitioner. changing communities through approachable healthcare. dog mom. 🖤
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Yes someone at MGH won this year's Nobel prize in medicine but just a few floors away I'm making sure everyone on my ICU list has a bowel reg ordered where's my prize
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that's my emotional support room-temperature iced coffee with an inch of water floating on top
The pride flag I wear as an NP is so my LGBTQ patients know they won’t suffer neglect by my hands, because I care about them in their entirety and they are safe with me.
I wonder how many years have to pass before I stop speaking out loud while trying to fall asleep at night, “I can’t believe my mom is dead.”
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There is no amount of self-care or wellness that can fix a broken system.
How many more residents have to suffer?
Dr Nakita Mortimer may you rest in power and finally find peace🕊️
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Fucked me up to learn that, if a cow has Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, dies and decomposes, any plants growing there will be contaminated with prions.
If that fucker dies in a cabbage patch, you could accidentally make prion slaw
And the patients love them! Some of Mom’s favorite daily faces were the precious ladies working EVS. They asked how she was doing and *meant it.*
And they will have the curvy girls in the frumpiest grandma-level shit. We’ve seen this before. Pass.
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I will never forget getting the “I have cancer,” phone call from my mom. I started thesherproject.com in her memory, to raise funding for researching incurable cancers. Hoping for more good days for others who find themselves here one day.
A year ago today my best friend Erika sent me and our other best friend this text message.
At the time we didn’t realize this moment would change our lives forever and 11 months later she would be gone. She was 31 years old and 34 weeks pregnant when diagnosed with stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer.
I remember this moment vividly. I was sitting on my phone watching TikTok after I had just posted a video. A minute before I was blissfully unaware of the complete shit show life would become.
I didn’t understand at first. I’ve never known anyone with cancer. When Erika told us, I thought it wasn’t a big deal. I thought it was something she could “just get scraped out”.
The few days that followed included me not eating or sleeping, sitting on the edge of my bed as I called in every favor I could to get Erika into a top hospital as she waited to be induced to give birth so they could start chemo immediately.
I took on the roll of being the messenger for our college friend group. I started a GoFundMe. I begged people for help on Twitter. I’ve never been so desperate for help and answers in my life.
Life is much more fragile than anyone wants to realize. Within moments Erika, and everyone who loves her, lives completely changed. A month since she’s passed and I miss her non stop. Not a second goes by that I don’t think about her. Even the way I exist in the world is completely different now.
I know that she’d want me to use my platform to bring awareness to pancreatic cancer, especially the way that many families still have a lack of answers and resources post-diagnosis. I hope to continue to do that. 💜
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US healthcare workers must be prepared to care for incarcerated people.
Unfortunately, few of us are taught how to do this.
For 19 years, I have answered ethics questions, including re: patients in prison.
Here are 7 pieces of ethical advice to protect your patients.
🧵👇
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As the golden child, I learned to suppress my own needs, to achieve, and to be as easy as possible in order to be loved.
Here's some signs you were the golden child:
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med students are like “you can remember that bone marrow is stimulated by interleukin-3 because BONE = 4 letters = fourth letter of alphabet is D = Durham, North Carolina is where my friend Matt lives = Matt threw up in my car 3 times in college = interleukin-3”
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Our dream comes true: the #WATERFALLtrial has been published in @NEJM Aggressive fluid resuscitation in acute pancreatitis is not safe & does not improve outcomes #GItwitter #SomosAEG @aegastro
What's behind this publication?
It all started 21 years ago
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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Finally!! Thanks to Tim Gardner for his @NEJM editorial on the #WATERFALLtrial! nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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being alive is more important than being sober, and getting sober is only possible if you're still alive
Y’all, UAB issued pay cuts across all nurse and APP positions during the COVID pandemic. But right now…right now they’re serving a holiday meal to employees and there’s fucking ice sculptures. Snowman. Ice. Sculptures. And cafeteria to-go boxes. Smh.
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16 teams registered so far & that isn't even counting our inaugural #BladesNBougies #HCWvsHunger winners!
I hear they have new leadership this year (ahem @drchadb) & @kari_jerge is back 👀
There's still time to form a team & help us surpass $1 million raised to fight hunger🍎
