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I’m an academic trauma surgeon & I’m here to tell you:
You can wear pink & still look professional. 🩷
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Brittany K. Bankhead MD
8,751 posts
Brittany K. Bankhead MD
@BBankheadMD
Trauma & Acute Care Surgery. Critical Care. Innovation. Travel. Real life. Wife. Mom.
Charleston, SC
Joined November 2013
- My undergrad pre-med counselor told me I’d never get into medical school. That I should find a different career. Today. I am officially a double board certified academic trauma surgeon. Where there’s a will, there’s a freakin’ way. Cheers to you, Karen. 😉
- PSA for your daughters: Girls can wear sparkles and be trauma surgeons, too.
- Being a nanny for a dual-physician household is no joke. But being a nanny for an emergency medicine physician/ trauma surgeon household might be even worse. But. Today. The new nanny understood 👏🏼 the 👏🏼 assignment 👏🏼
- Married in 2008. Divorced in 2021. Signed papers together. Grew as individuals. A lot. Then found one another again. A peace, a truth, a love so sincere that nothing else matters. Realized we wanted to spend the rest of our lives growing together. Cheers to our love story.
- I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “post-Covid” lungs look worse than ANY type of terrible smoker’s lungs we’ve ever seen. And they collapse. And they clot off. And the shortness of breath lingers on... & on... & on.
- Hazards of being a surgeon mom texting the nanny… 🤦🏼♀️
- 🎄 👩🏼⚕️👨🏼⚕️When your parents are doctors: 1. Elf doesn’t move for days;kids wonder if Elf lost his magic. 2. Elf finally moves, between Dad’s day #ER shift & Mom’s night float #SICU coverage, & has a good reason for not having moved the past 2 days. #elfontheshelf #surgparenting
00:00 - To the girls. You can work your butt off doing surgery all night AND dress cute for brunch AND snuggle + sing to your 3yr old before nap time. Those things don’t have to be mutually exclusive. ☺️
- fyi. it’s 2022. so calling the male physician “Dr Jones”, and the female physician “Miss Brittany” on the zoom call is not a good look. 👎🏼
- I call it: “A Surgeon’s Office: Before & After.” You can be a trauma surgeon. 👩🏼⚕️ And have a pretty pink office, too. 💕
- It turns out, you actually CAN: 1. Wear sparkly tennis shoes. 2. Have glittered fingernails. 3. Decorate your office in pink. 4. Be a mom. 5. & still be a Surgeon. #MedTwitter #MedStudentTwitter #AcademicTwitter #ILookLikeASurgeon #Trauma #WomenInScience #WomenInMedicine
- Show me a bigger @TexasFootball fan than this 11 year old boy. 🤘🏼 I’ll wait. @CoachSark @TexasLonghorns @LonghornNetwork @Bijan5Robinson @UTAustin
00:00 - Hello.Trauma surgeon here. It turns out that people get shot, stabbed, in car accidents, kicked by horses, punched at bars, thrown off motorcycles, & fall off roofs… OUTSIDE the hours of 9-5. May want to check your facts, sir. But in the meantime if you need us, we’ll be here.