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@medicalaxioms
Jul 28, 2018 • 8 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Daily Prayer of Gratitude

I’m thankful I: (leave off any you haven’t done)
- was born alive
- was cared for and cared for someone (or animal)
- loved and was loved
- made some friends
- learned and grew
- found purpose
- experienced joy
- helped someone who needed it
This is my #bucketlist. I finished it first at about age 5. By 18, I’d done most a few times or more. The last 30+ years have been more and more of the same. Wealth on top of luxury. A miracle of good fortune for which I am grateful and appreciative.
So when it comes to the end of my life, I’m not so desperate for another hour or day. Bring me friends and dog and pie! I already finished what I set out to do with a little planning, contemplation, and review along the way.
I don’t plan on wasting my remaining days. If it was with doing last year, it’s worth doing again. Learning and growing never stop being fun. More dogs and kids are always welcome!

It’s all extra. All above the minimum of what anyone deserves to enjoy in this life.
Before you ask, “Thank who?” I’ll tell you I don’t know. Sadly I don’t have a pushpin god that I can show you on a map. The recipient of my prayers doesn’t have a name, a symbol, a book or a house. I think it’s for tax purposes.
Works the same as any of the other ones. I announce my appreciation for my good fortune, decrease the fantasy that I deserve it or did it all myself. Increase my humility and gratitude. Thus I suffer less from my own many defects of character.
This is why, in summary, I’ll be eating pie with my loves and friends and doggie when the end is zooming in. I’ll also engage in any other unhealthy vices I may dream up and I won’t be interested in hearing from you about it, Dr./ Mrs./ Mr. Healthcare Worker.
(Surely some replies to this thread will may point out my miraculous luck. How of course I should be grateful. No hard feelings for that emotion. Just know some have had better luck than me and appreciated it less. I can only tell you for what I have experienced, I am grateful.)

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Sep 18, 2018
Let’s see if we can come to some consensus about what a doctor looks and acts like. I’m going to share my experience which may be very limited and provincial. Feel free to share your opinions as we go along to help us flesh out this definition.

Gender: any
Skin tone: limited to the available hues available to humans on earth. (Note: tattoos are okay, so we’ll add the visible spectrum)

Country of origin: limited to the countries on earth

Religion: any. (Note: my nurse friend practices Satanism. He’s very nice)
Hair: I’m going to be conservative about this one. Bald to real long. And everywhere in between. But I think a doctor’s hair should be kinda tidy not full on caveman/woman. Need comments here. I’d like to be more specific. I’m not sure if I know what hair doesn’t look doctory.
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Sep 4, 2018
I know I shouldn’t do it and it’s unkind to take advantage of another person’s weakness but when I come across a short-tempered person who is quick to anger I sometimes make them angry on purpose. Then I make them come, sit, lie down, and roll over. It’s just so easy.
When I was younger and (more of a) hothead people did this to me. I never understood the irony that my anger I used to gain power and control actually made me very easy to manipulate.

The light went on when I realized my anger was a response to being hurt.
One of my shrinks suggested I “stop at hurt.” Just pause right there without releasing the adrenaline and preparing to hurt back. It’s not easy. Takes practice.

Now I see the initial hurt is always less then the self destructive rush of anger.
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Sep 3, 2018
Attaching emotion to physical objects that are inherently temporary leads to inevitable sadness. #MuseoNacionalDeBrasil
You have two superior options:
1. Celebrate each day a temporary physical item is not destroyed. “Good morning, coffee cup! It is so great to see you not broken again today!!”
2. Put your effort and emotion into unbreakable eternal projects. Beads on the string of causation.
Here’s a short list of things that won’t be eventually ruined predictably in a fire, flood, or disaster:
- teaching someone
- forgiveness
- love
- helping someone through a hard time

These project lead to other effects and so on. Eternally. Each is indestructible. Causation.
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Sep 2, 2018
There is a line between sickness and health where we stop treating the person like a person, “hi it’s Dr. Reid here, nice to meet you,” and start treating them like a situation or a procedure “hand me that suction, this is a tough one.”
When I was a rookie, this line was way out here towards health. To the the point where the patient might say, “I can hear you. I’m right here.”
With time, I’ve moved the line out to death. Then I heard a bunch of pathologist on #medtwitter talk about how using good manners around the dead is necessary to maintain their humanity. So I’m trying to get rid of the line altogether.
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Aug 10, 2018
If patients are the enemy, call in sick today.
Set to work on your spiritual condition.*
Keep calling in every day until you’ve set it right.
*I use this term a lot and people don’t know what I am talking about.

Spiritual Condition manifests as compassion, forgiveness, empathy, gratitude, generosity. It’s not those things though. It the feeling of wholeness, safety, strength, connectedness, appreciation.
For many humans, spiritual condition is something that happens to them. An accident. “I’m having a good day today!”

Same with bad days. “Everyone is a jerk!” “I’m so unlucky!”

This serves many purposes, mainly that your spiritual condition becomes someone else’s fault.
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Aug 8, 2018
Even more powerful:

- walk up to a colleague you don’t always agree with or who seems not to respect your opinion
- out of the blue, thank them for being a dependable & helpful colleague and all their good work
- walk away leaving them shocked or baffled
- do it again
I enjoy this kind of thing. It is subversive. The Evil Demons who would like to keep shirts playing skins and X fighting O despise this kind of disturbance.

Vanishing grudges and dropped resentments infuriate the Evil Demons who thrive on conflict and hatred.
They want everyone to play their part. Hatfield and McCoy. Mongoose and snake.

It’s jolly fun to ruin the predictable pattern. Wipe the slate clean. Join the world as it is instead of as it used to be.

Let bygones be bygones.
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