Over the past two years, I never thought my blog, CoffeeandScrubs, and my associated Instagram, would blossom the way it has. I feel so fortunate to have amassed the following that I have and I always get the question from aspiring medical bloggers/Instagrammers, “How did you get so successful with your social media and blog?” […]
I Totally Brought Up Social Media in My Residency Interviews
A couple of months ago, I wrote a piece on social media in medicine here on Merck Manual Student Stories. In the post, I discussed how I was planning on displaying my social media when it came to residency interviews. [Background: I currently have a medical/lifestyle blog, CoffeeandScrubs, with an associated Instagram account.] I decided […]
The Doctor Will Facebook You Now
It was 9 am at the VA hospital, and twenty of us sat in morning report exercising our diagnostic minds. A patient case was presented. We heard the presenting symptoms, the relevant history, the physical exam, and the laboratory values. We discussed how each new finding changed the probability of each potential diagnosis. In the […]
