Jimmy Turner, MD (@TPP

Jimmy Turner, MD

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Jimmy Turner, MD

@TPP_MD

Regional Anesthesiologist. Host Money Meets Medicine podcast. Author Physician Philosopher’s Guide 2 Personal Finance (moneymeetsmedicine.com/freebook) Go DEACS

Winston-Salem, NC

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Joined November 2017

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Jimmy Turner, MD
@TPP_MD
May 14
As of today, what happened to me now should never happen to another physician in training. Everything has changed. Here’s the story… I got denied disability insurance when I was a 4th year med student. Tremor and ADHD on my chart. I am now permanently uninsurable, and if I
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Jimmy Turner, MD
@TPP_MD
Jun 24, 2023
As I pulled my resident aside after a tough day doing regional anesthesia, I asked the same first question I always ask when I have clinical competency concerns, “How are things at home?” Most of the time the answer is “fine.” This time the answer was “I have cancer.” 1/
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Jimmy Turner, MD
@TPP_MD
Jun 24, 2023
Replying to @TPP_MD
When we assume that clinical struggles are caused by a lack of studying, effort, or discipline… … we are forgetting that the physicians we teach are humans. With real lives. Real concerns. And real problems. This is where the Doctrine of Charity proves helpful. 3/
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Jimmy Turner, MD
@TPP_MD
Jun 13, 2023
Replying to @TPP_MD
Explaining the trauma we experience to our family is challenging Trying to explain how we’re able to see traumatic things without it ruining us is more challenging I’ve learned that while I need that skill to do my job, I also need to process trauma to be human. #Medtwitter
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Jimmy Turner, MD
@TPP_MD
Jun 24, 2023
Replying to @TPP_MD
The Doctrine of Charity asks us to assume virtuous intent. To assume the best of others. When someone says something, what is the best they could have meant (instead of assuming the worst)? When someone is failing to deliver is there something else going on? 4/
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Jimmy Turner, MD
@TPP_MD
Jun 24, 2023
Replying to @TPP_MD
The next time someone in your life does something that doesn’t measure up… Consider using the Docrrine of Charity. Ask more questions and make less assumptions when things aren’t going well. People don’t care what you think if they don’t first know you care. #MedTwitter
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Jimmy Turner, MD
@TPP_MD
May 25, 2023
I was 3 years into being an attending physician when I found I was unhappy. I told myself once I…. …Pay off my loans …Buy a bigger house …Get promoted THAT is when I’ll be happy. Except I’d get there, and the happiness was fleeting. This is called an Arrival Fallacy 1/
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Jimmy Turner, MD
@TPP_MD
Jun 13, 2023
I was at the beach. It was bedtime, and I was tucking my two kids in bed. As I read The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe to them, that’s when we heard sirens go by the beach house A few minutes later, we heard the helicopter landing in the field behind our house. Strange. 1/
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Jimmy Turner, MD
@TPP_MD
Jun 24, 2023
Replying to @TPP_MD
It turns out this resident had a recent scare from a prior leukemia diagnosis. They were going back and forth to the cancer center to make appointments when their busy schedule would allow. It turns out that the clinical problems were stemming from a non-clinical stressor. 2/
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Jimmy Turner, MD
@TPP_MD
Sep 3, 2024
One time, I pulled my resident aside after a tough day in regional anesthesia I asked the same first question I always ask when a trainee is struggling, “How are you doing? How are things at home?” The answer is usually, “I’m fine” This time the answer was “I have cancer”
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Jimmy Turner, MD
@TPP_MD
Jun 24, 2023
Replying to @TPP_MD
When we ask questions first we show that we care, which is important. People don’t listen unless they know we care. If something is going on, it’s time to practice compassion and offer help. If nothing is going on, then it’s time for real talk (and still offering help). 5/
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Jimmy Turner, MD
@TPP_MD
Apr 27, 2023
Doctors in public: Stranger: “What do you do for a living?” Me: I work down town. “Where?” At the hospital. “What do you do there?” I work in the operating room. “Doing what?” I take care of people. “Are you a doctor or a nurse?” Fine. Yes. I’m a doctor. #MedTwitter
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Jimmy Turner, MD
@TPP_MD
Jun 24, 2023
Replying to @TPP_MD
For those asking: -details were changed when this was written -this was not recent (it was years ago) The point of the story still remains. I wouldn’t put someone’s privacy in jeopardy 👍🏼
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Jimmy Turner, MD
@TPP_MD
Jun 13, 2023
Replying to @TPP_MD
After the patient was on the chopper, I walked back to the house. Once back inside, I expected to keep reading CS Lewis to my kids, just like I would walking in from a shift at the hospital. But that’s when I realized that while this was normal for me, it wasn’t for them. 6/
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