Avalon Swenson, MD
@dr-swagalon.bsky.social
she/her 🐕🦺🐕🦺📚🏃🏻♀️🏕️🚴🏻♀️| PGY-1 UMN IM Residency, aspiring Hospitalist | MD CU Anschutz 2024, BS Bio + BA History UMN 2017 | #BLM | HMED, medical humanities, baking + vegetarian cooking, reading way too much, health equity | #PeloDoctors
Unclear how to explain to my non-medical partner how tired I am mid-year as a medicine intern 🫠
December 31, 2024 at 5:38 PM
Unclear how to explain to my non-medical partner how tired I am mid-year as a medicine intern 🫠
Starting my morning off by telling my partner over coffee why books like From Blood and Ash, Throne of Glass and ACOTAR are socially important in a patriarchal society
December 29, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Starting my morning off by telling my partner over coffee why books like From Blood and Ash, Throne of Glass and ACOTAR are socially important in a patriarchal society
Currently being ruined by #kingdomofash for the second time in my life ❤️🔥
December 27, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Currently being ruined by #kingdomofash for the second time in my life ❤️🔥
Overfilling my cup while I have the time on outpatient #internyear
December 27, 2024 at 4:05 PM
Overfilling my cup while I have the time on outpatient #internyear
Me, sick, being called in to cover for my colleagues night float shift who is also sick (I am sick and on sick coverage)
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December 22, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Me, sick, being called in to cover for my colleagues night float shift who is also sick (I am sick and on sick coverage)
Finally able to make my grandmas gingersnaps this year and Hans, my partner, IMMEDIATELY:
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December 19, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Finally able to make my grandmas gingersnaps this year and Hans, my partner, IMMEDIATELY:
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sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
December 16, 2024 at 4:16 PM
sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY
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My holiday plans:
- boil potatoes until fork tender
- steep garlic and rosemary in milk
- combine in bowl with enough butter to satisfy you on an emotional level
- mash
- boil potatoes until fork tender
- steep garlic and rosemary in milk
- combine in bowl with enough butter to satisfy you on an emotional level
- mash
December 16, 2024 at 3:19 PM
My holiday plans:
- boil potatoes until fork tender
- steep garlic and rosemary in milk
- combine in bowl with enough butter to satisfy you on an emotional level
- mash
- boil potatoes until fork tender
- steep garlic and rosemary in milk
- combine in bowl with enough butter to satisfy you on an emotional level
- mash
Hanging at home with the beans today, exhausted but grateful for these two
December 17, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Hanging at home with the beans today, exhausted but grateful for these two
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December 16, 2024 at 4:45 PM
When you need to break the intern yr rules and carry the whole team alone and teach the med student on your seniors off day *every week* bc the attending won’t help and hits you with “well I don’t write notes or place orders either, that’s the residents job.” #justVAthings
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December 17, 2024 at 1:57 PM
When you need to break the intern yr rules and carry the whole team alone and teach the med student on your seniors off day *every week* bc the attending won’t help and hits you with “well I don’t write notes or place orders either, that’s the residents job.” #justVAthings
I had a patient today break down crying because he felt like most physicians don’t believe him when he says he has pain as a Black man and… I said I believed him and wanted to solve this with him. We need to do better. #MedSky
November 25, 2024 at 3:29 AM
I had a patient today break down crying because he felt like most physicians don’t believe him when he says he has pain as a Black man and… I said I believed him and wanted to solve this with him. We need to do better. #MedSky
Residency Friendsgiving #2. Glad I found my ppl
November 23, 2024 at 11:33 AM
Residency Friendsgiving #2. Glad I found my ppl
Playing the micro aggressions edition of Cards Against Humanity (but it’s Cards Against Microaggressions) at #UMNinternalmedicine IMED from @cudeptofmedicine.bsky.social and as as CU alum I feel proud 🫶🏻
November 22, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Playing the micro aggressions edition of Cards Against Humanity (but it’s Cards Against Microaggressions) at #UMNinternalmedicine IMED from @cudeptofmedicine.bsky.social and as as CU alum I feel proud 🫶🏻
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Looking for #womeninmedicine to follow? 👩🏿⚕️🧑🏼🔬
We now have four starter packs to get you going! 🤗
Comment or DM if you don’t see yourself and would like to be added.
#MedSky
Pack 1: go.bsky.app/J1wqwu5
Pack 2: go.bsky.app/QWPZiaj
Pack 3: go.bsky.app/5iN8fLP
Pack 4: go.bsky.app/9HW9dAu
We now have four starter packs to get you going! 🤗
Comment or DM if you don’t see yourself and would like to be added.
#MedSky
Pack 1: go.bsky.app/J1wqwu5
Pack 2: go.bsky.app/QWPZiaj
Pack 3: go.bsky.app/5iN8fLP
Pack 4: go.bsky.app/9HW9dAu
November 15, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Looking for #womeninmedicine to follow? 👩🏿⚕️🧑🏼🔬
We now have four starter packs to get you going! 🤗
Comment or DM if you don’t see yourself and would like to be added.
#MedSky
Pack 1: go.bsky.app/J1wqwu5
Pack 2: go.bsky.app/QWPZiaj
Pack 3: go.bsky.app/5iN8fLP
Pack 4: go.bsky.app/9HW9dAu
We now have four starter packs to get you going! 🤗
Comment or DM if you don’t see yourself and would like to be added.
#MedSky
Pack 1: go.bsky.app/J1wqwu5
Pack 2: go.bsky.app/QWPZiaj
Pack 3: go.bsky.app/5iN8fLP
Pack 4: go.bsky.app/9HW9dAu
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A lot of AOCs appeal is simply the contrast of wondering why she (rightfully) gets pissed off about stuff but hardly any other elected official in the party does
"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
November 21, 2024 at 2:24 PM
A lot of AOCs appeal is simply the contrast of wondering why she (rightfully) gets pissed off about stuff but hardly any other elected official in the party does
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Name a better qualified doctor than Dr. Oz.
November 20, 2024 at 2:53 AM
Name a better qualified doctor than Dr. Oz.
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The perfect ratio of unread books you own to books you should buy is WHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO BE BUT BUYING BOOKS IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA.
November 20, 2024 at 12:37 AM
The perfect ratio of unread books you own to books you should buy is WHATEVER YOU WANT IT TO BE BUT BUYING BOOKS IS ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA.
After 15 hours at the Mpls VA today I had a quick dinner of Ritz cheese crackers and have now collapsed into bed 🫡 stay tuned for more exciting times
November 21, 2024 at 5:02 AM
After 15 hours at the Mpls VA today I had a quick dinner of Ritz cheese crackers and have now collapsed into bed 🫡 stay tuned for more exciting times
Me using three different desktop applications to work a day on VA wards
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November 20, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Me using three different desktop applications to work a day on VA wards
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Anesthesiologist Surgeon
November 20, 2024 at 1:46 PM
Anesthesiologist Surgeon
I also think it really hit me this AM while sleepily reading the news that Trump wants to…. ???get rid of the department of education???
I…. What? Are we simply going to…. Not educate people? We already are not great at doing that equitably as a country. So what, we just… take it away?
I…. What? Are we simply going to…. Not educate people? We already are not great at doing that equitably as a country. So what, we just… take it away?
November 20, 2024 at 12:12 PM
I also think it really hit me this AM while sleepily reading the news that Trump wants to…. ???get rid of the department of education???
I…. What? Are we simply going to…. Not educate people? We already are not great at doing that equitably as a country. So what, we just… take it away?
I…. What? Are we simply going to…. Not educate people? We already are not great at doing that equitably as a country. So what, we just… take it away?
Made a tofu bake (instead of an egg bake) to meal prep for VA wards for this month and… hot damn ya girl slayed it.
November 20, 2024 at 12:09 PM
Made a tofu bake (instead of an egg bake) to meal prep for VA wards for this month and… hot damn ya girl slayed it.
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I need more than 4 songs on this Bon Iver EP. I need an LP. I need 3 LPs. Preferably made in a cabin in the woods in Wisconsin.
November 18, 2024 at 10:40 PM
I need more than 4 songs on this Bon Iver EP. I need an LP. I need 3 LPs. Preferably made in a cabin in the woods in Wisconsin.