@bmcsurgery resident | @geiselmed @dartmouth | aspiring colorectal surgeon | gratitude, kindness, growth | she/hers 🏳️🌈
Boston, MA
Joined April 2011
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Thank you for your support, guidance and teaching!! I am so lucky you came to @BMCSurgery.
I’m thrilled for these two exceptional surgeons to train at our almae matres @UMASSColorectal and @LaheyColoRectal! Proud moment for BMC Colorectal @beresneva_olga @rivardsj
So excited to continue my training at the great @LaheyColoRectal, following in the footsteps of the great @beresneva_olga and @TheJhall13 🌟🌟🌟
Congrats to our @The_BMC Surgery residents on their colorectal surgery fellowship matches! Dr. Carlos Fairen Oro matched to UMass Chan Medical School @UMassChan & Dr. Olivia Sacks matched to Lahey Hospital & Medical Center! 🎉 @LaheyColoRectal @olisacks @carlosfairenmd
Great visiting professor day! Thank you for sharing your journey @MichaelaWst
Great Friday in the @The_BMC Department of Surgery today with Dr. Micheala West @MichaelaWst as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Visiting Professor. Thank you, Dr. West (pictured with our amazing chief residents)!
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Congratulations to all of you on the next step of your journey!!
Can someone let Dr Stolarski know we’re really looking fwd to him getting started and how to sign up for this thing when he gets a chance.
Congrats to our @The_BMC chief residents (L to R), Drs. Louis Kester, Allan Stolarski & Spencer Wilson on matching to surgical critical care fellowships at @UMichSurgery, @pennsurgery & @hopkinssurgery, respectively! 🎉👏 @lou_was @SpencerWilsonMD
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Narrative review summarizes left-sided diverticulitis pathophysiology, advances in diagnosis, prevention strategies, and surgical approaches and decision-making. ja.ma/3RorrEg
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Most viewed in the last 7 days from @JAMASurgery:
Care of patients with diverticulitis is undergoing a paradigm shift. This narrative review summarizes the current evidence for left-sided uncomplicated and complicated diverticulitis.
ja.ma/3wat0OD
This was interesting to research and write. There are incredible advances being made in the field of diverticulitis. Ever grateful to @TheJhall13, diverticulitis maverick, for the opportunity.
Narrative review summarizes left-sided diverticulitis pathophysiology, advances in diagnosis, prevention strategies, and surgical approaches and decision-making. ja.ma/3vY6Rmy
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This is crazy!!
Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” has reached #1 on US iTunes after a live performance with Luke Combs at the #GRAMMYs, nearly 36 years since release.
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To be racist and sexist is to assume superior White and male leaders earn their positions through merit, and inferior Black and woman leaders receive their positions due to identity. These ideas show up in times of crisis: the Black and woman leader is assumed to be the problem.
Are you skeptical that Harvard president Claudine Gay, who is paid over $1 million per year, was not chosen based on merit, but rather on her race and gender?
Loved our night celebrating the great Dr. Habr-Gama. How inspiring!! Thanks to @jendavidsmd for sponsoring us colorectal surgery hopefuls and to @BMCSurgery for being fabulous company.
Sometimes you have to pick the one in which the fewest people have their eyes closed.
❤️ @BMCSurgery 👏 @BostonSurgical
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We most certainly have the know-how (and outside pressure from referring physicians and family members) to offer “successful” surgery to debilitated patients who have no chance whatsoever of a meaningful long term recovery. These are the toughest dilemmas in my current practice.
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“Your mother needs to be intubated”
OR
“Your mother’s breathing is getting worse. Can we talk about what this means & what to do next?”
@jackykruser Justin Clapp @rabob propose a shift in communication about patients with serious illness to promote transparent deliberation
Viewpoint expresses how use of certain language complicates decision-making for critically ill patients, and it highlights alternative phrasing for effective communication. ja.ma/3QaFKws
Amazing job @GraniteDoc. I love this project. Jack Byrne Center has given the people of NH a very dignified way to die. It also increased awareness about end of life care options and spread the PC gospel through DHMC. Thx forever to @abarnato for opportunity and inspiration.
@PalliativeMed_j Opening of an inpatient #PalliativeCare unit was associated with increased rates of DNR/CMO elsewhere in the institution - first report of "spillover" effect from PC delivery. #Hapc liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/j… @GraniteDoc @olisacks @abarnato et al
ALT FIG. 2. Hypothesized explanation for changes in DNR and CMO after PCU opening. PCU, palliative care unit.
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That sound you hear is the culture of American surgery breaking—in preparation to be rebuilt for the better.
More healthy, more vulnerable, and more human.
Thank you to @lubitz_carrie for the most important Presidential address I’ve had the opportunity to hear.
#ASC2023
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Overall, insurance access is vitally important to colorectal screening access. The West, which has greater and more equitable access to insurance sees significant decreases in stage at diagnosis at the recommended age of colorectal screening. 5/
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Our food pantry prepared and delivered over 700 Thanksgiving packages to our patients & their families. 🦃 🍽
From fresh turkeys to squash, we're #BMCProud to help our patients have a great holiday season.
Learn more about our food pantry ➡️ bit.ly/3UUazVN
Honored to be included in a @TsengJennifer selfie!!! #tsengselfie
