Emily Fridenmaker
@emilyfri.bsky.social
Wife | Mom | Appalachian | MD | Pulmonary & Critical Care
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I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
November 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.
Today my patient asked me if my mom made sure I got off to school okay this morning.
November 18, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Today my patient asked me if my mom made sure I got off to school okay this morning.
Last night I dreamed I was attending in the ICU. A trainee was presenting tons of data to me. I asked, “but what did the patient say when you asked them why they came to the hospital?”
In the dream, the trainee had to go ask them because they hadn’t yet.
I usually dream about real stuff, and
In the dream, the trainee had to go ask them because they hadn’t yet.
I usually dream about real stuff, and
Bedside clinical skills have been diminished by an overreliance on technology. A new Review Article presents educational strategies for reinvigorating the bedside encounter and shows how much can be learned from it. Learn more: nej.md/4nUirnP
#MedSky #MedEd
#MedSky #MedEd
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Last night I dreamed I was attending in the ICU. A trainee was presenting tons of data to me. I asked, “but what did the patient say when you asked them why they came to the hospital?”
In the dream, the trainee had to go ask them because they hadn’t yet.
I usually dream about real stuff, and
In the dream, the trainee had to go ask them because they hadn’t yet.
I usually dream about real stuff, and
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#MustRead
"Decreased bedside clinical skills lead to diagnostic error, poor clinical outcomes, increased health care costs, and physician burnout"
"Decreased bedside clinical skills lead to diagnostic error, poor clinical outcomes, increased health care costs, and physician burnout"
Bedside clinical skills have been diminished by an overreliance on technology. A new Review Article presents educational strategies for reinvigorating the bedside encounter and shows how much can be learned from it. Learn more: nej.md/4nUirnP
#MedSky #MedEd
#MedSky #MedEd
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
#MustRead
"Decreased bedside clinical skills lead to diagnostic error, poor clinical outcomes, increased health care costs, and physician burnout"
"Decreased bedside clinical skills lead to diagnostic error, poor clinical outcomes, increased health care costs, and physician burnout"
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A physician at a hospital that I helped start a @3wishesprogram.bsky.social told me they lost a patient with a very strong Irish heritage. Per the family's request, his family was allowed to put a shot of Irish whiskey down his nasogastric tube as part of a final toast!
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A physician at a hospital that I helped start a @3wishesprogram.bsky.social told me they lost a patient with a very strong Irish heritage. Per the family's request, his family was allowed to put a shot of Irish whiskey down his nasogastric tube as part of a final toast!
Coming off of a week of vacation and realizing that I need to change my mental and emotional relationship with work. It just feels all consuming, and the self induced pressure to be perfect and also efficient is wearing me out.
How have you changed your mindset to make work more doable long term?
How have you changed your mindset to make work more doable long term?
November 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Coming off of a week of vacation and realizing that I need to change my mental and emotional relationship with work. It just feels all consuming, and the self induced pressure to be perfect and also efficient is wearing me out.
How have you changed your mindset to make work more doable long term?
How have you changed your mindset to make work more doable long term?
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Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
November 12, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
Watching the second half tonight which is much more crying than cackling.
Introducing my 9yo to Fiddler on the Roof and he is CACKLING. He loves Tevye.
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Watching the second half tonight which is much more crying than cackling.
Candle burning, cat purring, electric blanket on, gray sky outside with leaves falling, Psycho on the TV. Vacation mode activated.
November 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Candle burning, cat purring, electric blanket on, gray sky outside with leaves falling, Psycho on the TV. Vacation mode activated.
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Gotta be honest RFK jr. sprinting away from you is probably the very most he can support your health.
November 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Gotta be honest RFK jr. sprinting away from you is probably the very most he can support your health.
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nobody needs a billion $$.
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
nobody needs a billion $$.
Introducing my 9yo to Fiddler on the Roof and he is CACKLING. He loves Tevye.
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Introducing my 9yo to Fiddler on the Roof and he is CACKLING. He loves Tevye.
Fall evenings and hush puppies
November 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Fall evenings and hush puppies
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
Rewatching Stranger Things and season 3 was so good. 😭
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Rewatching Stranger Things and season 3 was so good. 😭
I am scheduled for venofer next month and if I feel like a new person after getting it I’m going to be mad that I waited a decade to do it.
Yikes my ferritin is 8.5 🙊
November 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I am scheduled for venofer next month and if I feel like a new person after getting it I’m going to be mad that I waited a decade to do it.
Emilio Estevez is Martin Sheen’s son?! And Charlie Sheen’s brother?!
November 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Emilio Estevez is Martin Sheen’s son?! And Charlie Sheen’s brother?!
Just finished a consult weekend and I’m wondering what a consult service looks like in New Zealand @caulimovirus.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Just finished a consult weekend and I’m wondering what a consult service looks like in New Zealand @caulimovirus.bsky.social
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The coal miners lost that 1921 battle, but they also laid the groundwork for future labor gains. The Battle of Blair Mountain became a rallying point for labor rights in Appalachia, catalyzing the United Mine Workers of America. The red bandana also stood for multi-ethnic class solidarity.
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The coal miners lost that 1921 battle, but they also laid the groundwork for future labor gains. The Battle of Blair Mountain became a rallying point for labor rights in Appalachia, catalyzing the United Mine Workers of America. The red bandana also stood for multi-ethnic class solidarity.
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In this moment, coal miners turned their red bandanas into a symbol of solidarity — both to distinguish themselves from the enemy and to show that, across racial lines, coal miners were united along class interests
For this reason, they were known as the "Redneck Army."
For this reason, they were known as the "Redneck Army."
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
In this moment, coal miners turned their red bandanas into a symbol of solidarity — both to distinguish themselves from the enemy and to show that, across racial lines, coal miners were united along class interests
For this reason, they were known as the "Redneck Army."
For this reason, they were known as the "Redneck Army."
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Known as the Battle of Blair Mountain, this was the largest labor uprising in US history and the largest armed uprising since the Civil War. For a month, 10,000 coal miners confronted some 3,000 company guards, state soldiers, and strikebreakers. Nearly a million rounds were shot.
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Known as the Battle of Blair Mountain, this was the largest labor uprising in US history and the largest armed uprising since the Civil War. For a month, 10,000 coal miners confronted some 3,000 company guards, state soldiers, and strikebreakers. Nearly a million rounds were shot.
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Tensions ran high in the summer of 1921 when union-sympathizers Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers were gunned down on the courthouse steps by company-hired gunman as part of a company-sponsored terror campaign. In response, 10,000 coal miners marched in Charleston, West Virginia.
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Tensions ran high in the summer of 1921 when union-sympathizers Sid Hatfield and Ed Chambers were gunned down on the courthouse steps by company-hired gunman as part of a company-sponsored terror campaign. In response, 10,000 coal miners marched in Charleston, West Virginia.
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"One intangible advantage of capillary refill time is that performing it brings the clinician back to the bedside to reassess the patient. This act may be itself the holy grail of early sepsis management."
great piece on #sepsis
great piece on #sepsis
💬 Editorial: While capillary refill time shows promise for early #SepticShock management, integrating it into broader, multimodal resuscitation strategies remains key to improving outcomes.
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#LIVES2025 @esicm.bsky.social
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October 29, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"One intangible advantage of capillary refill time is that performing it brings the clinician back to the bedside to reassess the patient. This act may be itself the holy grail of early sepsis management."
great piece on #sepsis
great piece on #sepsis
Feeling a little overwhelmed at all the things I need to be good at—diagnostic bronchs and lung cancer, other therapeutic pulm procedures, MICU, cardiac crit care, neuroICU, MCS, PH, complex ILD, CPETs, neuromusc resp failure, CF, pleural disease…3 years out of training and feel like I can’t keep up
October 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Feeling a little overwhelmed at all the things I need to be good at—diagnostic bronchs and lung cancer, other therapeutic pulm procedures, MICU, cardiac crit care, neuroICU, MCS, PH, complex ILD, CPETs, neuromusc resp failure, CF, pleural disease…3 years out of training and feel like I can’t keep up