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Kids made a work of chalk art that’s destined to be an album cover

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Reminder that GME is significantly funded through Medicare and Medicaid

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Is there a way in which cutting Medicaid and Medicare doesn’t shutter every hospital in America?

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Voting for Trump because you’re “pro-life” only to have him cut Medicaid and Medicare is a devastating FAFO but, let’s be real, you’re not actually pro-life.

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Spotted in Central Florida

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Elon Musk is objectively and openly doing what every conspiracy theory Trumper blamed Soros of doing.

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Despite the allergist reassuring me otherwise, infants can, indeed, have anaphylactic reactions to foods. The more you know…

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I’ve had the same personality since high school. Junior year I wrote a paper on Kevorkian in support of physician assisted suicide using “House of God” as my literary fiction source. For my physical project, I replaced “sodium” with “potassium” on a bag of saline and hung it, swinging ominously.

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

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I went head-to-head with a specialist this week. LinkedIn sent me an email teasing their premium version that said “[specialist] and 4 others viewed your profile. Upgrade to premium for details.” LOL

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There’s a strong probability that I leave emergency medicine in the next few months. It feels selfish and also right.

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Original “Florida” floor puzzle featuring the “Gulf of Mexico.” A true collectors item. No lowball offers, I know what I’ve got.

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Why is registering for children’s summer camps more stressful than applying to college?

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Anaphylaxis does not require angioedema. Anaphylaxis means involvement of two or more systems. That could mean rash and vomiting, nausea and shortness of breath, hypotension and cough, etc. Anyway, give the epi.

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If you’re treating a kid for an allergic reaction and you consider epi for even a moment, just give it. Epi first, epi fast.

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Meanwhile in Florida

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I will never forget intubating through a plexiglass box.

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Looking for a pediatric dietician to assist me with resources regarding best snacks for school-aged children. Our school currently has a very limited approved list of snacks which includes “fruit snacks” and “teddy grahams” but excludes any source of protein such as cheese, meats, etc.

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Not enough babies named Norman these days

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If you're struggling financially due to government fuckery or for any reason really and you need infant formula talk to your pediatrician we can hook you up and don't like to ask questions.

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Added on to my house just in time to hoard a roomful of reasonably priced sanity beans.

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Lawyers really are the scum of the earth

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Reasons I almost walked out mid-shift #3156: Repairing an arterial bleed in a hallway.

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Saving this for when my dad inevitably posts about the paper on Facebook in 2-3 weeks.

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Hardest question on that job interview, which included boards-style exams questions, was, “what do you do for fun?”

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Had to take my kid to the EDlast month. I told the physician that, based on symptoms and timeline, I was sure they had RSV. They said they wanted to test for it to confirm. I let them run the swab. They ran a full respiratory pathogen panel, not just an RSV test, and I was billed $2201.49 for it.

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RVU-only pay is bad for patients. Change my mind.

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Applying for VPK voucher (Florida’s subsidized pre-K 4 program) and there is an entire section for how to complete the application if your child is homeless.

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What’s the pathophysiology of getting hungry when my allergies flare?

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Picked my kid up from school to go to the skate park because I’m a very cool mom.

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I let my student practice starting an IV on me and it got ~incredibly bloody~ but it was a perfectly placed IV. I could taste and smell the saline flush. 10/10.

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Radiologists, you have all the power right now. Stop doing these GD fellowships and start extorting these hospital systems

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