Trauma Surgeon/Surgical Intensivist #weallhavetodieofsomething he/himbo/homo @UR_Med, @URochesterSurg, @UMNCare alumnus

Minneapolis, MN
Joined August 2020
I dunno, the hyperfocus, heightened pattern recognition and ability to be extremely calm in life or death situations makes me a really good trauma surgeon.
i love how this is the universal opinion of everyone with adhd. genuinely evil disorder
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“Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking middleman found dead before he could name names of elites with a penchant for sex with underage girls.” There @nytimes, I fixed your headline.
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I’m covering the trauma service this week. Today I woke up at 740 and panicked that I had overslept. Texted my partners on EGS and SICU that I was on my way and would be there in 20 min. Subsequently realized it was 740 PM and I had already been to work today. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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32. Told my mom in July ‘14. She cried, said I was displeasing to god, would die alone, and never have kids. Convo went downhill from there. Eventually, I got annoyed and told her it was her fault I was gay. Pointed out how all of her sons that look like her side are gay 1/2
com que idade e como foi a de vocês?
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the ones that look like dad’s side are straight. And two of her sisters each have a lesbian daughter. So clearly it’s genetic and from her side. And if somehow it’s nurture and not nature, she raised me so still her fault. (Never came out to my dad, he was out of the picture)
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I know this is a niche complaint, but one of the things I hate about AI is that if I’m reading a scifi/fantasy novel published in the last 3 years, I wonder if AI wrote it.
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Pt was alone in preop this week. After we reviewed risks/benefits/possible complications- Me: any questions? Pt: are you someone who prays? Me: not really… Pt: ____ Me: …but I’m happy to be with you while you pray. We held hands while she prayed for a successful surgery.
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Very Serious People are writing how bad political violence is: “disagree with his politics, he didnt deserve to die!” But the policies he aided and abetted also led to people dying. He’s a victim AND a perpetrator of political violence. I shed no tears for him.
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I can mourn that his kids lost their dad. And even that he will never have the chance to evolve into less of an asshole. But do I mourn that someone who encouraged violence and hate is gone? No. #notearsfornazis
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Charlie Kirk was an advocate for and abettor of political violence.
American rightists have been losing their fucking minds about the Charlie Kirk assassination, bawling their eyes out and babbling about “civil war” and how ready they are to use any amount of violence to crush the “radical left”. The president himself suggested that Kirk was a victim of “radical left political violence” and said he’ll be taking action against groups and individuals who he views as responsible for it. “My Administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it,” Trump said in a speech after the assassination, adding that “radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives” and complaining that “those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals.” All this despite the fact that as of this writing there is no evidence whatsoever that Kirk’s killing was motivated by left-wing ideology. The assassin appears to have been able to successfully escape after the killing, so nothing is known about what their motives were. Rightists are braying for civil war and demanding sweeping new authoritarian measures to crush what passes for the political “left” in the United States these days, based on nothing but vibes and feelings. I myself have a hard time believing the narrative that Kirk’s assassin was a blue-haired they/them Antifa ninja who had developed the skills and training necessary to shoot a high-profile individual through the jugular at 200 yards and then execute an elaborate escape plan, and yet chose to use all those abilities to murder some divisive pundit instead of Trump or somebody with real power. That doesn’t make much sense to me. It seems a lot more likely as of this writing that Kirk was assassinated by one of the usual types of sniper assassins — someone whose job is assassinating people, or some weird, fringey right winger (I’m seeing people online say that Kirk was despised by white supremacists). There are all kinds of motives someone can have for assassinating a prominent political operative, and not all of them are ideological or personal. As things stand right now there is no evidence for any of them. I don’t have much else to say on the subject, other than to tie it back in to the genocide in Gaza. Charlie Kirk was an enthusiastic cheerleader and propagandist for the Gaza holocaust, and the right wingers who’ve been talking about how gruesome they find the video of his assassination are accidentally confessing that they haven’t been watching the footage that’s being produced by the mass atrocity they support. If they had, someone getting shot in the throat wouldn’t feel like such a big deal to them. I saw more shocking things today before my morning coffee. The same day Charlie Kirk was killed, at least 72 Palestinians were killed in the genocide he supported. The Palestinians killed in Gaza on that day collectively mattered at least 72 times more than Charlie Kirk, but his death received many orders of magnitude more attention from the mainstream press and from western political discourse. Westerners do not regard Palestinians as fully human. So on this particular day I would like to express my sincere condolences to the families of everyone in Gaza who’ve been massacred by bombs and bullets every single day for the last two years with the facilitation of the US government and cheered on by wealthy Republican pundits. I don’t believe anything positive will be gained by Charlie Kirk’s death; he was a mediocre man who will be easily replaced by the next mediocre man in the right wing punditry pecking order. But he was also a piece of shit, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise just because he’s dead now.
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I’ll never understand transphobic Christians. Was god not the first to look at His son and think he needed more holes?
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Why, in 2025, should anyone be expected to give up their seat on the train based purely on perceived gender? Using a mobility aid or service animal? Definitely. Pregnant? Yes. Elderly? Most likely. Inhabiting an AFAB body? No.
I’m on a train and men are sitting in seats while women stand or sit on the floor. The declining birth rate isn’t a mystery.
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Croissant loaf? You mean the bro-nut?
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I make well over the cap, and am already in the highest federal tax bracket. (No kids, no mortgage, work on a W2.) I will WILLINGLY paying more taxes, IF all of the truly wealthy to pay the same rates I do.
reminder that the answer to Social Security is literally just remove the contribution cap there are very few "one neat tricks" in government policy but this is one of them
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I COULD buy myself flowers, but my friends did. So I don’t have to.
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I’m sure Miss Bianca (1 yr old spayed female, 35-40 lb) does this with all of the volunteers, but damn did I need the extra dopamine boost today. #adoptdontshop #MACC #dogrescue
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Bianca was adopted 2/1. 🥰
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I have always struggled with accepting help. So I started asking “what would you do for a friend in this situation?” And accepting the same things from my friends. #therapy #breakthrough #igetby #withalittlehelp #frommyfriends
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Sage wisdom from two experienced legal aid attorneys. In any interaction with police or law enforcement: “Shut the f*ck up.”
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like my coffee like I like my men… - dark - strong - full of leche
Replying to @SilverGill47
That’s a new one on me ☕️
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