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Geriatrician @BrighamAging, @BrighamWomens, @HarvardMed | Internal Medicine @BrighamMedRes | Healthy aging, mind-body, medical education | Wife of @mwheeler0
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Jun 1, 2019 24 tweets 7 min read
1/21 “Is there a nurse or doctor on board?”

Clinicians—have you ever responded to one of these?

Last week I left the hospital and boarded a flight for my vacation. I then responded to the mother of all in-flight emergencies… 2/ This was a flight with hundreds of people from Boston, so I estimated there would be at least 15 doctors. Turns out I was the only adult medicine doctor, BUT there was a cardiac nurse with me.