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day seven

• RDS = secondary to surfactant deficiency

- premature, male, growth restriction

- gets worse before better, ~48 hrs

before baby starts making surfactant

- looks grainy on xray

- vs TTN which is a shorter course

• “jitteriness”

• they bring air temp in isolette down to

~27ºC before taking baby out fully (?)

• “refrain from therapeutic exuberance”

• preemies can’t get formula

• mom taking selfies with her baby

while resident rattles off numbers,

like the weight, which has gone up

30 g in two days. it's cool when babies grow

• doc said hypoxic-ischemic is a

compound word… brother that is

hyphenated… WORDS MATTER!!!!

• overseen epic message on fellow’s

computer: “guys I feel like today

is a joke”

• situation w/ teratoma baby is

despicable like ultimate failure of

medicine all the contrived formatting

of presentations + number obsession

coming together = lost forest for trees

like are his teeth even gonna come in?

is it gonna be dry in his mouth all year?

tmrw