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I’m nearing the finish line of this match cycle and I am so so tired and so full of absolute dread

Confirmation of life, fellow blueskyers 🫣

America has never been broke. It’s just violently anti-poor. Troops in LA cost $134M — the price of 44 million school lunches. But sure, let’s keep pretending the issue is lazy parents and not a government that eats kids for breakfast.

I have now done 8 interviews and am just in a constant flux of anxiety and dissociation lol

Men finding out I’m a doctor and then no longer being interested in me this week: 2 🫠 masculinity so fragile

Interviewing for a research job this week and I’m feeling stressed/like giving up already

Trying to figure out what else I’m going to apply to is not going well, besties

Feeling a little better after a lot of alcohol, a moderate amount of time in the sun, and many therapeutic chats with my unmatched besties. This will pass… it’ll pass like a kidney stone, but it will pass 😔

I wish I had just gone through with my original plan of research year instead of entering the SOAP because the result is the same, but now I have never felt so fucking bad about myself in my life 🙂

No interviews going into offer rounds so I guess we’ll see, but it’s looking pretty grim

The SOAP process is absolutely exhausting

Phew. Today was a whirlwind in the worst way. Fingers crossed for my next steps 🤞 and if you’re in the same situation, remember that hungry 👏 dogs 👏 run 👏 faster 👏

Also on the topic of beauty trends, I’m so glad we’re leaving clean girl aesthetic in 2024 and embracing glitter again

I curse the name of whoever brainwashed us all into avoiding silicone hair products

Find out who you are and try not to be afraid of it

Had surgery today and boy howdy that shit was a disaster on all accounts EXCEPT my lovely anesthesia team

Less than 4 weeks until I find out if I matched or if I’m completely up shit creek without a paddle lol

This is truly the worst time to be looking for research positions 🥲

Spent an hour walking a med student through how to succeed on their sub-i and it was the most rewarding part of my week. I got to be who I needed as an M4 🥲 just wish I’d had someone do the same for me

One of my proudest moments in medical school was when I stood up for my undocumented patient and got them the care they needed in spite of my bigoted asshole attending. I will never forget it and I’ll never forgive the fact that I had to.

My cat, who ate so fast she threw up, tried to eat her vomit, then dragged her ass on the floor to dislodge poop that was stuck to her butt would still make a better HHS secretary than RFK Jr.

We are definitely in the bad place

It feels like somehow every day is worse

Things I don’t want to hear: ableist statements about RFK Jr’s spasmodic dysphonia Things I do want to hear: criticism of his intentional spreading of misinformation, longstanding hypocrisy, and generally being full of shit

My interview season is officially over and I gotta say, it feels bad! I am feeling extremely bad!

it’s the hope that kills you

GO BIRDS 🦅

Protect Fauci 😫

Now no one can get mad if we call them Nazis, right?

I hate Elon musk so much

Someone said this to me and I did indeed show up with a fist full of cash and they were so surprised 😑 whoops. Please just say what you really mean!! The NDs in your life are begging you!!!

I have a folder on my laptop called “GREAT JOB YOU CHAMPION” and it’s full of good evals from med school, nice emails from friends and mentors, and other things that remind me that I’m doing well even when it doesn’t feel like it ☺️

Amazon has denied a leave of absence to an Alabama woman who was struck by the New Orleans attacker’s truck and shot in the foot during the attack. She worried she won’t have a job to return to when she recovers. www.nola.com/news/crime_p...

Reminder that the fight against US health insurance is not left versus right; it’s us versus them.

I should have been asleep hours ago but I have so much anxiety 😀 what fresh hell will today bring

Hot take but only totally benign or normal findings should go out via MyChart. I’m all for patient autonomy and whatnot but getting a potentially life-changing result on a Friday night and having to wait who knows how long for my surgeon to call me is cruel and avoidable

It’s been… 2 weeks since I became symptomatic with Covid and I have new onset of cluster headaches since then and wow these suck

Saw the gladiator movie and I related to the guy because I, too, have a limitless amount of rage

The ER doesn't need AI as much as it needs a robot that asks patients to go give a urine sample

Why did I decide to sign up for barre at 8am on a Sunday

When I was 11, I wrote a persuasive essay about why Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act should be implemented throughout the states and I still stand by that shit

First time for everything, I guess 🥲

America: where our lab companies offer Black Friday discounts for tests you probably don’t need

I wish I could describe the fatigue associated with really terrible allergies

Someone took a picture of me and declared that the real thing was much better and it was “like trying to take a picture of the moon, always looks terrible compared to what I can see” and in my head, Casual by Chappell Roan started playing

Someone’s gotta say it. Celsius is not good. The unit or the caffeinated beverage

Since everyone’s finding old and new friends, take a moment to read my story, I’m a 32yo polio survivor because I was not vaccinated. Pass on my story, repeat it, tell it to any vaccine hesitate parent. No kid deserves vaccine preventable diseases www.voicesforvaccines.org/as-a-polio-s...

I think men in ancient Rome were probably giving one another more than a forehead kiss