MD, 2028 👩⚕️🩺 MSc. UManitoba Biochemistry & Medical Genetics, views are my own.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Joined June 2019
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Stephanie Cheetham retweeted
Images of dynamic brain cells first captured the imagination of a biology student
Today, Dr. Ania Majewska studies microglia (brain's immune cells) & investigates how they interact w/ synapses during development, learning & disease
🎙️Neuroscience Perspectives w/ @JohnnyFoxe 👇
Stephanie Cheetham retweeted
Our youngest was tested for celiac disease yesterday. The doctor asked if autoimmune diseases run in our family.
Me: “I have lupus & Hashimoto’s. My daughter & I have celiacs. Our twins have JIA.”
German doctor, after a brief pause: “Ah. Your immune systems are very ambitious.”
Stephanie Cheetham retweeted
Please don’t ever blame or shame a tired doctor. I promise you, they are not choosing sleep loss by choice. They’re filling gaps & seeing patients who would otherwise go without care.
The solution is to bolster the workforce & build systems that protect rest, not shame doctors.
Stephanie Cheetham retweeted
The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University. This was her bio:
"Renée Macklin is from Colorado Springs, Colorado and is studying Creative Writing at ODU. Her poetry has been published in Metrosphere and Coronado Literary Review, and she currently co-hosts a podcast with her husband, comedian Tim Macklin. When she is not writing, reading, or talking about writing, she has movie marathons and makes messy art with her daughter and two sons."
(People are posting the wrong woman's photo, the red lipstick photo is not her. This is Renee, from her social media accounts.)
Stephanie Cheetham retweeted
I would tell my wife and daughters to "flee immediately, no hesitation" if a masked man approached their vehicle and tried to open the doors.
Stephanie Cheetham retweeted
My patients tell me, "If I had only known I would get sick... if I could go back to the last holiday, I would've worried less, I would've been more present with the people I love.”
Cherish your people today. Time is not guaranteed.
Stephanie Cheetham retweeted
When I was a medical student I heard recordings of whooping cough. It was a horrible sound of suffering children. I have never heard it in person thanks to vaccines. The fact that this disease is back is terrifying. Please ensure you and your family are vaccinated
#vasccineswork
Whooping cough cases soar as vaccination rates drop. nbcnews.com/health/kids-heal…
Stephanie Cheetham retweeted
I advise followers to get their flu shot because it's available & takes +/- 10 days to gain immunity. If you don't want it, fine. Comments about your personal experience with flu shots are unhelpful. Saying the vaccine causes frequent catastrophic adverse effects is utter BS.
Stephanie Cheetham retweeted
Dying from pneumonia because you have measles is still dying from measles.
If you didn't have the measles, you wouldn't have gotten the pneumonia.
And you wouldn't be dead.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Stephanie Cheetham retweeted
I wish that med students had to rotate for a day with bedside nurses... lab orders that trickle in over hours, sliding scale insulin for non-diabetic patients, unnecessarily frequent vitals. We know so little of what the clicks of buttons mean for nurses or how hard they work.
Stephanie Cheetham retweeted
Research shows that admitting you don't know something actually helps people trust you more. Instead of making up an answer or pretending you know everything, try saying, "I'm not sure what this is, but I'll work to find out."
Stephanie Cheetham retweeted
Please remember that patients on ventilators can often hear you.
Speak how you would if they were awake. Introduce yourself. Say what you're doing ("I’m going to listen to your heart and lungs.") Tell them the plan for the day.
Stephanie Cheetham retweeted
We lost someone extraordinary
Ethan Neumann, a PhD candidate in my lab, worked tirelessly to study #fibrolamellar carcinoma, the cancer that would ultimately claim his life
On the day before he died he officially became Dr. Neumann:
myarchoan.wixsite.com/yarcho…
Stephanie Cheetham retweeted
People who don't drink enough water have stronger cortisol spikes when stressed.
Stay hydrated.
