Joshua Gentges, DO, MPH
@jgentgesdo.bsky.social
Middle-age Rennie. Islay drinker. Turning Zoomers into Doctors. My posts are solely my own.
It's like a Saturday Night Live game show "Stress or STEMI" "Anxiety or ALS" "Minimal Sleep or Multiple Sclerosis"
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
It's like a Saturday Night Live game show "Stress or STEMI" "Anxiety or ALS" "Minimal Sleep or Multiple Sclerosis"
I'm afraid, Mr. Novak, that your post presents medical students, trainees, and educators in a way that does not hold up to scrutiny. Everyone is working as hard as they can to be the best physicians they can.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I'm afraid, Mr. Novak, that your post presents medical students, trainees, and educators in a way that does not hold up to scrutiny. Everyone is working as hard as they can to be the best physicians they can.
Survey SAYS
a game show with a blue screen that says survey says
ALT: a game show with a blue screen that says survey says
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Survey SAYS
This is a paraphrase of P.J. O'Rourke from "Parliament of Whores"
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This is a paraphrase of P.J. O'Rourke from "Parliament of Whores"
It's a classic
October 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
It's a classic
They look like they're going caroling
October 7, 2025 at 12:58 AM
They look like they're going caroling
Thank you - I'll do this for journal club in November, and also go over what we ACTUALLY do.
September 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Thank you - I'll do this for journal club in November, and also go over what we ACTUALLY do.
Counterpoint: Saying it at all means he shouldn't have a platform larger than a streetcorner. Perhaps he could say it to their faces.
September 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Counterpoint: Saying it at all means he shouldn't have a platform larger than a streetcorner. Perhaps he could say it to their faces.
Bradford-Hill criteria - I'm always suspicious of associations found in observational studies when there's no plausible biochemical mechanism.
September 5, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Bradford-Hill criteria - I'm always suspicious of associations found in observational studies when there's no plausible biochemical mechanism.
May I introduce you to the Trumpian concept, 'the enemy within'?
September 5, 2025 at 10:39 PM
May I introduce you to the Trumpian concept, 'the enemy within'?
That's because you're 'Curmudgeonly Grandpa' and he's 'Weird Uncle'
September 5, 2025 at 10:35 PM
That's because you're 'Curmudgeonly Grandpa' and he's 'Weird Uncle'
Really properly done!
September 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Really properly done!
I think that's my favorite series because Sam Vimes feels like Terry scanned my personality and said "that'll do". Witches probably second for me (headology being half of what I do now)...oh dang it I need a Terry discussion group
August 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I think that's my favorite series because Sam Vimes feels like Terry scanned my personality and said "that'll do". Witches probably second for me (headology being half of what I do now)...oh dang it I need a Terry discussion group
In Thud! where Vimes is trapped under Koom Valley with the Summoning Dark and still manages to read "Where's My Cow" to young Sam...I'm an ER doc who missed a lot of kid's stuff and felt this in my bones. But Carcer is amazing, the elves are great villains, the witches are perfect, etc etc
August 31, 2025 at 12:21 PM
In Thud! where Vimes is trapped under Koom Valley with the Summoning Dark and still manages to read "Where's My Cow" to young Sam...I'm an ER doc who missed a lot of kid's stuff and felt this in my bones. But Carcer is amazing, the elves are great villains, the witches are perfect, etc etc
Milkshake moons, of course, only being found in our Local Galaxy
August 30, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Milkshake moons, of course, only being found in our Local Galaxy
2 hours in: "Dr. _____, did you take your ADHD medicine?"
August 30, 2025 at 12:40 AM
2 hours in: "Dr. _____, did you take your ADHD medicine?"
We teach medical students not to speak in jargon now, and to adapt their patient discussions to the patient's level of medical literacy. It's not that difficult.
August 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
We teach medical students not to speak in jargon now, and to adapt their patient discussions to the patient's level of medical literacy. It's not that difficult.
This is my take on my job. I just get up and do what I want all day
August 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This is my take on my job. I just get up and do what I want all day