Emily Silverman
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first heard Dec 2017
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And then as time went on and this burnout conversation started to mature, and residency programs, I mean, for good reason, really needed to be accountable and start providing more humane working conditions to their residents.
That
As I said, the culture shifted, people started signing out earlier.
I don't know, there was there was a shift and people would talk about this, attendings would talk about this, that the residents sometimes just didn't seem to know their patients as well.
And and this was obviously not
I'm making very broad generalizations right now.
But No,
Right.
And so
Yeah, like this this moment, the milk dud moment, I guess you could call it, like
As you were writing this essay, or it sounds like it was a series of four essays, and talking about this idea that we don't always have to be victimized by the systems.
We have personal agency.
It doesn't mean we have to grind ourselves and be exploited by the residency program, which absolutely, you know, has exploitation in it, but that we can choose moments where we decide.
Like I'm gonna stay late today, I'm gonna circle back and talk to that patient and their family, or I'm gonna go bring a milk dud to that lady, or whatever.
And that if we have agency as we make those choices and and take those actions.
that there is some meaning that can be brought back in.
It's not yoga and meditation and ice cream socials, but it's something else.
And so I was just wondering, could you just talk a little bit about
The Milk Dud Twitter thread and then was that what catalyzed these four essays?
Well I was gonna ask when you wrote these four essays, the one you read from today, you said was essay four out of four, what was the response or reaction like from the community?
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