*clears throat* Hey #MedTwitter, my name is Brielle, an M4 @OhioStateMed applying into #Pediatrics👶 for #Match2025 Patient education, mentorship, med ed, & pipeline programs are my jam! You can also catch me at the gym, telling a funny story, or moonlighting as ChefBoyar Brie

Unmatched resilience and bravery. The best of humanity.

Today, we commemorate the Tulsa Race Massacre and the destruction of the Greenwood District, or Black Wall Street. This is personal to me: my ancestors left Oklahoma for Denver after the attacks. Remembering our history matters, and so does building a better future from it.

“Once I took the surgical cap off, I saw that she had thick, dark, curly hair like my daughters’ hair,” said Dr. Greywoode. While under anesthesia he braided his patient's natural hair in a way where he wouldn’t have to shave it during skull surgery. Black medical directories are essential. #DemsUnited essence.com/hair/black-surge…

The revealing part of this debate is that overrepresentation of some groups is quietly assumed to reflect “competence,” while underrepresentation of others is assumed to reflect inferiority. That is not objective reasoning. That is ideology disguised as meritocracy. Medicine has never selected physicians through a single exam score. Admissions committees evaluate communication, leadership, resilience, judgment, professionalism, empathy, service, adversity, and the ability to function in a diverse society caring for vulnerable human beings. And importantly, the actual evidence does not show that small MCAT differences among already highly capable applicants reliably predict who becomes the best physician. Meanwhile, we do have evidence that physician diversity improves trust, underserved access, preventive care uptake, and some health outcomes. What is striking is the underlying assumption some people seem to carry: that Black physicians are somehow presumptively “less qualified.” Do they ask their White physician what MCAT score they received? Do they request board scores before an appendectomy? Or is this obsession with standardized testing only activated when discussing minority doctors? That is the uncomfortable question sitting beneath much of this conversation.

Medicine being called a “noble profession” has been used for years to guilt doctors into accepting burnout, underpayment, and terrible working conditions.

we are quick to welcome the unbeliever, but very quick to distance ourselves from the believer who is struggling. winning souls is important, but retaining souls matters too.

God could be this intentional about a flower and you think He is not intentional about you?

The fact that the Epstein class was revealed to have killed, raped, and eaten children and babies and it DIDN’T stop the world dead in it’s tracks and create a sense of urgency to remove the current administration is beyond me.

God DID 🙏🏾 Matched I6 at @MarylandCTSurg. Grateful for my mentors @Sakima_Lab and Dr. Jabaris Swain for pouring into my passion for cardiothoracic surgery. The weight is palpable. 🫀 First high school grad → college → Master’s → PhD → soon MD → now CT surgery. #match2026

We're ecstatic to have matched Shane Scott from the Ohio State University ! Welcome to the team! @MarylandSurg #MATCH26 🫀🫁

It's a MATCH! This is the moment our #OSUCOM future doctors have waited for: learning where they've matched for residency. Dreams are coming true at #Match2026! 🩺🎉✨

Aggressively refreshing my timeline this week for the 4th year soon to be interns, this journey is hard but also so special 🥹

they’re saying there’s 30g of protein in spending a night laughing with your friends

pediatrics in 8 words:

As crazy as it sounds, this also applies to your relationship with God. The difference is that ‘conflict’ with God should not look like rebellion or hostility, but relational tension. And relational tension, rightly understood, is one of the most sacred things a person can experience. The Psalms are awash with it. “How long, O Lord.” “Why have you hidden your face.” “I am forgotten like a dead man.” These are not the words of apostates. They are the words of David, a man so close to God he could afford to bleed in front of Him. Job doesn’t curse God, he demands an audience. Jacob doesn’t flee the angel, he grabs hold and refuses to let go until he receives a blessing. And Jesus, the one in whom the fullness of God dwells bodily, carries relational tension to its most devastating height on the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me”, not as a loss of faith, but as the most intimate cry in all of human history. I think silence toward God is not peace, it is distance. And so honest wrestling (conflict) is not doubt, it is nearness. If you never feel tension with God, something is worth examining. Either you are not listening deeply enough to hear what He is asking of you, or you are not being honest enough to admit what it is costing you. Real communion has texture. It includes conviction that stings, questions that go unanswered for seasons, prayers that seem to hit the ceiling, ambitions you loved that get quietly taken from you. None of that is divine hostility. All of it is relational refinement. Now, and this is the part that matters most, the conflict is not symmetrical. With humans, conflict is two flawed wills colliding. Both parties are reactive. Both parties are capable of being wrong. Both parties carry wounds that distort their vision. But with God, only one side of that equation applies. He is not flawed. He is not reactive. He is not insecure. He has no ego to protect and no wound to nurse. So when tension arises between you and God, the conflict is never Him needing correction. It is always you being reshaped. That’s why it hurts the way it does, and heals the way nothing else can.

Most patients don't realize their doctors and nurses think about them in the spaces between visits. While driving home, getting ready for bed, while falling asleep. Our work is a part of us, and we care about you. That's all.

A reminder that “slavery is white history, how we survived it is Black history." ~ Malcolm Jamal Warner

When white death becomes the trigger for reform, the goal isn’t justice. It is restoring comfort and safety for white people.

RT @lqveroni: as we talk about renee nicole good and alex pretti I encourage you to read and talk about keith porter jr., another man who w…