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dr. alex

@miaowlex

she/her ◦ pgy-1 ◦ tech → medicine ◦ tck ◦ posts are not medical advice / not the views of my institution

 Texas, USA
Joined January 2012
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some big dude covered in tattoos smoking a cigar infront of my apartment “hey idk if anyone has ever told you but…. you are phenomenal at parallel parking — I’ve seen you a few times like ‘she ain’t gonna make it’ and then you do, incredible”
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first day of gen surg residency and truly still floating I feel so lucky
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Replying to @Ariat
@Ariat Would love if yall made more steel toed waterproof work boots for women or at least made the option to go smaller in the men’s sizes. Love my Kristas but want more pairs
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if anyone wants to let me know how to flip my app to full send gen surgery this late, let me know
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have gotten conflicting info about research yrs/ aways / et al., will meet with home program soon, but love all the advice I can get
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propranolol needs to give its extra “r” to bupropion
Josh Trebach, MD (@jtrebach) profile pictureJosh Trebach, MD@jtrebach9 Apr 2025
we all agree that bupropion should be buproprion right
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no I actually love that my apartment waited til I flipped to nights to demo the unit above me all day long
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worst thing about third year definitely the many hours of random busy work that we have to do on top of working > than full time while also trying to study for shelf exams and step 2 and pretend to know what we wanna do for the rest of our lives and VSLO and ERAS and pubs and
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like I literally just drove an hr to take a shelf, drove an hour back to fiancé’s, have been doing bs busy work for the past 2 hrs and still have like 3 more hrs of work, JUST got next rotation’s schedule with orientation on Monday 1 hr away from actual rotation site….
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constantly ignoring the emails begging me to declare a specialty
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live from Galveston @KPRC2
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pay more, emphasize huge travel component, discuss occupational health care protections (including plans for future pandemics et al.), make program appealing to folks who want families, discuss mentorship within department, hire your fellows
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this just happened again with a different man on the bench across the street from the first bench where it happened
dr. alex (@miaowlex) profile picturedr. alex@miaowlex20 Aug 2023
some big dude covered in tattoos smoking a cigar infront of my apartment “hey idk if anyone has ever told you but…. you are phenomenal at parallel parking — I’ve seen you a few times like ‘she ain’t gonna make it’ and then you do, incredible”
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Replying to @callherdaddy
@callherdaddy yalls guest needs to have her vWF checked
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on ID service for my IM rotation @DGlaucomflecken
Dr. Glaucomflecken “I’m super tired, but not ophthalmology tired. More like infectious disease finishing a consult note tired.”

ALT Dr. Glaucomflecken “I’m super tired, but not ophthalmology tired. More like infectious disease finishing a consult note tired.”

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me as a woman in a red state being told that I should stay here when it literally has the potential to jeopardize MY physical health. Y’all know I can’t help people if the law decides I die because no one wants to get sued, right?
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[fwiw I’m not actually opposed to staying, I am opposed to being told what to do]
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happy November it’s 84°F and 71% humidity in Houston
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Andrew: patient presents with bilateral lacrimation d/t tiktok
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is there a way to get letters third year and have them ready for apps? Like a portal for attendings to submit to?
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have you heard of medical school
Beth McColl (@imbethmccoll) profile pictureBeth McColl
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no bad time to remember that as an adult you can’t actually be in trouble with another adult. they can be annoyed at you, misunderstand you, dislike your choices, dislike *you*- but you’re not in trouble! because you can’t be!
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I still don’t know how to figure out if I like doing something or if I just love the attendings
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today I learned that pulsatile fontanelles are normal and btw I hate that
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