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“Every surgeon carries within, a small cemetery, where from time to time we go to pray – a place of bitterness and regret, where we all must look for an explanation for our failures.”
René Leriche, La philosophie de la chirurgie, 1951
Jennifer F Tseng MD MPH
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Jennifer F Tseng MD MPH
@TsengJennifer
Dr/surgeon/human. Sometimes here or on IG @tsengjennifermd or @tsengjennifer.bsky.social but hopefully in real life = better! Reposts 🚫 endorse
- Today I let 20 medical students go home early
- Replying to @cmclymerI try to live my life so that Charlotte never needs to call me "sweetie" in that particular way.
- A good friend & wonderful MD at height of career died suddenly on the way to the hospital for a patient emergency. Please let’s all vow to take care of ourselves, and each other. Life is short. 😘😢
- Can we just stop with Chairman Chairwoman Chairperson and just use Chair? Thank you for coming to my TED talk. 🪑
- Hello 🇺🇸! We’re cancelling surgeries for cancer & ❤️ disease & other important stuff because we need beds for CoVid patients! People we know & love are going to die unnecessarily until we get #COVID19 under control. Let’s do our part 😷 💉 🧬
- For a bit of happiness here, my stepdad started courting my mom after both losing spouses of 50 years in agonizing ways. Now my phone pings at random times with pictures of 2 older folks being happy in places near and far.
- Replying to @MiscSusanI’d ask in genuine interest, “oh so we use last names here?” And see where that goes.
- My nearly 80 yo mom just dropped some ancient wisdom: “don’t waste any time worrying how bad you look in pictures now, in a couple years, you’ll wish you still looked that good.”
- “When in doubt, go see the patient”
- On 9/11/01 I was helping with a complex case that took all day while the events unfolded. People kept running in and out of the room and the surgeon finally said, “We’re all a mess, the world is a mess, right now we have to save this one person.” I think about about that a lot.
