Esther Choo, an emergency medicine physician at Oregon Health Sciences University, was at a mall in Portland, Oregon, waiting for her son to finish at a birthday party, when she fired off a tweet that briefly transformed medical Twitter: “When I first met B, he’d been dead for 20 min. We got him back, inexplicably. He calls me every year on the anniversary. 10 years now. #ShareAStoryInOneTweet” (@choo_ek). Soon, and without further instruction from Choo, my Twitter feed, typically dominated by debates about drug prices and research integrity and insurance design, briefly lit up with stories.
An internist recalls the early days of residency, admitting a patient dying from AIDS-related complications. The patient, whose father hadn’t spoken to him since the diagnosis, dies quickly. The internist writes, “Your father came up to see you only after you passed. I saw him cry and you didn’t” (@DrJohnAquino).
An oncologist recalls telling a 25-year-old she has acute leukemia. “You listened. Wide eyed. Then you said to me: ‘It must have been so hard for you tell me this.’ I wept” (@EAEisenhauer).
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