Lisa G M Friedman, MD MA 🐈⚾️🐧😷🦴👩‍👦

🚩 Free to read until July 19: "As I tried to order my fellowship rank list, I found myself wishing I had taken better notes. All the programs said they were great, and I believed they all were," writes Lisa Friedman MD in her latest #ResidencyDiary. "I found myself looking back on my best and most consistent documentation of my trips—a diary written by a stuffed penguin in a red notebook for a 5-year-old boy." "There is no work-life balance; only a busy, messy life in which I am trying to hold close to me the things that are most dear." Read "Residency Diary: Percival Ignatius Penguin" here: ow.ly/tpx250Zmya9 #orthoTwitter #medTwitter #meded #residency #fellowship #interviewseason #becomingasurgeon #worklifebalance #weeklyfreebie

🚩 Free to read until May 17: "It was the last case of a long day when we set out to put her arm back together. It was not clear which pieces connected to which other pieces and in what orientation. After 4 hours, we finally had the pieces arranged such that it resembled an elbow joint, only to have the c-arm bump into the arm, displacing the reduction," writes Lisa G. M. Friedman MA, MD in her latest #ResidencyDiary column. "As the hours wore on and the clock ticked past midnight, it would have been easy to quit, fearing that checkmate was inevitable, but we continued our work... (and) as I drove home that morning, I realized I had learned more in that case than any other case that had gone smoothly." Read "Residency Diary: Hard" in #CORR here: ow.ly/7mi150YWKn8 #orthoTwitter #medTwitter #meded #residency #medicine #physician #medstudent #column

"Growing up, I had a wonderful soccer coach who would always yell at me to 'get stuck in,' or to fully commit to a task," writes Lisa Friedman MD in the latest #ResidencyDiary. "(Now,) at the back of my mind lives the constant worry: What if I get stuck in and I cannot do it?" Read about the lessons she's learning as an orthopaedic surgery resident here: ow.ly/GvkB50YzVBi #orthoTwitter #medTwitter #CORR

🚩 Free to read until Jan. 26: "We placed Christopher in traction for his femur fracture. He was engaged in his care, asked thoughtful questions, and was grateful for our help," writes @Shoulder2LeanOn in the latest #ResidencyDiary. "It was hard for me to reconcile the pleasant person in front of me with the understanding that someone had purposefully tried to seriously injure or kill him." Read the column here: ow.ly/b2OH50Y0nxw #orthoTwitter #medTwitter

🚩Free to read through Nov. 22: "The pathway to becoming a competent surgeon is long and hard, as it should be," writes @Shoulder2LeanOn in her latest #ResidencyDiary column. "As much as I want to include (my son) on my surgical learning journey, I carry some things alone." Read more here: ow.ly/meSm50XrXCl #orthoTwitter #medTwitter #meded

"I am not always successful," writes Lisa Friedman MD in her latest #ResidencyDiary column. "When I made an error... my attending turned to me. I braced myself for impact. He then comforted me as he took responsibility for my mistake." Read the full story here: ow.ly/PHsv50WrUnK #orthopedics #surgeon #residency #training #meded #CORR

"I remember the first time I scrubbed into an orthopaedic procedure... It seemed almost magical that they arrived at the right place to fix the fracture, as if the trail just appeared before them," writes Dr. Lisa Friedman in her latest #ResidencyDiary. "Sometimes, I worry that I’ll lose that sense of wonder and excitement as the journey becomes routine with each case I do." Read her column here: ow.ly/FfCs50WW48q #orthoTwitter #medTwitter #CORRR @Shoulder2LeanOn

In her latest #ResidencyDiary column, @Shoulder2LeanOn reflects on what a cantering horse taught her about learning new skills in uncomfortable & sometimes scary situations. Read in #CORR here: ow.ly/w0Tt50VibeE #orthopedics #residency #orthoresident #meded #surgery