Awesome turnout for this fantastic Dx Reasoning with POCUS session from Daniel Restrepo, MD Sanjay A. Patel, MD (he/him/his) Renee Dversdal #shmconverge2024

Wanna learn some #POCUS in Hawaii? You’ll hang with some of my favorite peeps, hone your skills, and surf after. Can’t beat that

So a full body MRI takes long enough that you’d barely be able to pay the tech to run the incredibly dangerous machine to do the scan with that money.

Man it really bothers me when people label certain specialty residency programs as “easy.” All it does is invalidate any mental/physical challenges trainees may have, and it’s just flat out wrong.

One of my favorite courses to teach at with one of the best collections of expert faculty. Can’t wait and would love for you to join us!

In a functional system there is communication and everyone values each others expertise (we have it all self contained with a pre-op clinic), but anesthesia is a procedure so the proceduralist should 💯 have final say of doing the procedure just like the surgeon on the surgery.

If this isn’t how you approach chipotle you’re making a huge mistake.

Great study! My take away when combined with US studies is that it continues to be riskier to not learn/use POCUS that to learn/use it.

To be fair dealing with that nonsense adobe software not to mention my MacBooks ever present desire to subvert it is regularly one of the most challenging tasks I face.

So was stranded in Denver (luckily at my parents) due to a PDX snow storm and missed a POCUS conference then finally got home to get stranded (at home atleast) without power and school/daycare closed all week due to an icestorm. Those CA fires aren’t looking so bad in rearview.

Only thing to be wary of is cancelation policy is often way worse when you book direct.

Awesome thread. Such a nuanced topic. If I had to choose one though it’d be fluid tolerance given responsiveness is about 10x harder to determine. If I can know I’m not going to hurt the patient, then giving fluids that don’t help a ton isn’t a terrible outcome.

Had this sorta epiphany maybe a month ago (not necessarily calling myself a high performer but definitely a prior guilt driven worker). Amazing to have the guilt largely dissipate and no one has called telling me I’m dropping the ball.

That’s a pretty big difference and probably explains the outcome. Can’t go around saying that to refs and expect to keep playing.

So good.

Some people’s goals are to get in the NEJM, actually improve medicine, or the far more difficult goal of becoming full professor. Mine is to get in the BMJ December Issue. Just haven’t quite found the study yet but I’m looking.