TFW you hop onto the “chill” rotation afterward and realize that ish is still work #shawshankredemption #resident #intern #pgy1 #micu #inpatient #doctor #relatable #uchicago #pritzker #womeninmedicine #blackdoctors #graphicmedicine #premed #premedmotivation #im #residency #internyear #internalmedicine #medschool #medicine #medicalschool #medlife
I’ve been working on serious comics all throughout intern year. Here’s a page from a vignette about end of life conversations in the MICU. #endoflife #goalsofcare #icu #poa #codestatus #death #inpatient #doctor #relatable #uchicago #womeninmedicine #blackdoctors #graphicmedicine #premed #premedmotivation #im #residency #internyear #internalmedicine #medschool #medicine #medicalschool #medlife
the lights in my kitchen were broken for three months. I couldn’t get a time to fix them until I was on nights. #resident #intern #pgy1 #inpatient #doctor #relatable #uchicago #pritzker #womeninmedicine #blackdoctors #graphicmedicine #comics #premed #premedmotivation #im #residency #internyear #internalmedicine #medschool #medicine #medicalschool #medlife
Always during rounds, always during my presentations.
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Me when the attending is there: “this is Miss Xyz who has a PMHx of HTN and DM2 here with HTNive urgency, now with improving headache”
Me alone with the patient: “GIRRRL I SEE YOU TODAY WITH THE BONNET! WHERE YOUR WIG GO”
Patient: “ooh girl I took the wig off and cured myself it was cute tho”
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Next comic- trying to politely exit a room of a patient who keeps talking without looking like you’re trying to escape
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WHAT’S THIS? Two posts, two days in a row??? What the what?? Anyway, i just got off of two weeks of nights, and man was it a struggle! I have an incredibly stubborn circadian rhythm, and so I spent the first week yawning and the second one alert but still struggling with insomnia. One of the best things about nights is that your patient census gets more than quadrupled during the course of it- you’re on call everyday, and provide crosscover for all the cardiology and some of the Gen med teams overnight, so after a couple of days I already knew most of the patients pretty well. Because, well, I’d admitted them. On top of that, I’ve read (slash been pimped on) a million EKGs, and so for once I think my understanding of them will stick.
I’ve got to switch to days tomorrow bc Residency, so I’m going to attempt to stay awake all day today so I can return to the land of the living! Wish me luck!
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I spend a good five minutes in front of the mirror in stunned, silent self appreciation the first time after a rotation I put on eyeliner . . .
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Some patients really roll up in here acting like this is an Applebee’s…. Ok, treating pain is a big ol, complicated topic, especially for those of us who are getting our training during the opioid crisis. I follow a lot of artists, and many of them speak to how doctors ignore, belittle and under or even over-Medicate their pain, especially if they are women and minorities. Doctors miss diagnoses all the time, and blow off patient complaints. I am terrified of one day doing that. This comic isn’t about that.
This is about that patient that your team labels as “drug-seeking” because they are. The one who lives at the edge of your sympathy bc you know their lives are hard but they also know that they’re harassing your nurses, setting ultimatums, being disrespectful and making your job even more difficult than it already is. This is the one who you do thousands of dollars of increasingly out there tests to find a source for the pain- because they’ve been worked up for everything under the sun already, often at different institutions- and who become belligerent when you inform them that they came out squeaky clean. Thing is, those patients are sick too. In a lot of ways, opioid addiction is an iatrogenic disease, and there are myriad social issues that are tied up in it too. But a lot of these issues are not what we’ve been trained to deal with, and the hospital isn’t really equipped to best serve these patients. And so instead we end up admitting people for lengthy but likely unnecessary workups and being, well, fairly grumpy for their (usually lengthy) stay.
How do you handle your interactions with patients who have opioid addiction?
#pain #opioidcrisis #resident #intern #pgy1 #gens #genmed #inpatient #doctor #relatable #uchicago #pritzker #womeninmedicine #graphicmedicine #premed #premedmotivation #professionalism #residency #internyear #internalmedicine #medschool #medicine #medicalschool #medlife
Fr if I’m going to spend 12+ hours of my day in the hospital the least I can do is trauma-bond with my seniors… #resident #pgy1 #inpatient #doctor #relatable #uchicago #pritzker #womeninmedicine #graphicmedicine #premed #premedmotivation #professionalism #residency #internyear #internalmedicine #medschool #medicine #medicalschool #medlife