Peter Strickland

Received a huge reward from a patient’s kid today

Roses are red 🌹

Violets are blue 🪻

You should only be giving *minimal* doses of naloxone 💉

And remember oxygen too 🫁

Starting my OBGYN rotation with a mandatory 630Am zoom conference, sure why not 🤷🏼‍♂️

Shoutout to the real hero of my General Surgery rotation: the med student who left his rare Jasmine Edition of Surgical Recall in the break room. Dr. Luehrs you saved me from so many attending questions

Hot take: I’m glad DeepSeek is making all the tech /wall street guys freak out. Most AI feels overhyped and not nearly as impressive as the sales pitch. Competition is a good thing

Surgical aid - “hey what age do babies usually develop a pincer grasp?”
Me - “umm I think it’s typically around 1 year”
SA - “ok so you should be able to hold this retractor right”
Me - 🫠

Idk man at some point they should just delete the card for you

Supposedly we will be getting specialty specific advisors next week. But for now our poor dean had to try to answer any and every question people could throw at him

School decided that the first week of January was a good time to give us a complete crash course into how The Match is gonna work.. have you ever seen 100+ med students have panic attacks on a single Teams call?

I’ll just go ahead and make this into a flash card

Health insurance board members on their conference call tomorrow morning

Brian Thompson, C.E.O. of UnitedHealthcare, Is Killed in Midtown Manhattan The executive, Brian Thompson, was shot in the chest in what people briefed on the investigations said appeared to be a targeted attack.

I feel like any honest reporting on this needs to also include the record profit margins United was making along with some of the harms that causes

The Pitt | Official Teaser | Max YouTube video by Max

So is it like an ER sequel? Same cinematic universe? Do all over the top medical shows just exist in the same reality?

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If extreme exertion is on the diff is it worth asking about Pre-workout / supplement use? I can’t imagine that creatine supplements are doing any good to a young athletes kidneys

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Why is airway management listed ahead of vascular access and fluid resus? Wouldn’t you need vascular access before attempting to RSI?

Wall painted with a very incorrect and erratic EKG strip

I want to know who signed off on painting this rhythm on the medical school library wall

So if anyone has any good study guide recommendations I’m all ears

Basically the Tintinalli table of contents

Me: messages EM attending I’m hoping to shadow
Him: yea come on, just check out a few topics first
Me: oooh cool cool yea no problem…
#EMsky

Surely I misheard. There’s no way Dr. Oz, the OG grifter, president of grift university, has been tapped to lead the largest and most influential US healthcare entity.

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At this point I think I’ve learned, forgotten, and relearned Sacral OMT more than any other concept in all of medicine

Update 2x: I’m fine, I don’t swallow it, they just made sure I rinsed well 🫠

Update: called poison control.. I can’t show my face in the ED here, I know the attendings

Just accidentally put hydrocortisone cream on my toothbrush instead of toothpaste. Hope everyone else is having a great night

University supplied dorm room / maybe once an old hotel for this rotation.. think the RA is gonna come check in on me?

Yea I’ve got nothing against OMM, but it’s a lot of work just for a small number of clinical hours 🤷🏼‍♂️

Currently packing up my car to move back to the main campus so I can complete a 1.5 week Osteopathic Medicine rotation… seems like a lot of moving parts for a pretty short rotation