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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️

@theplotdoc.bsky.social
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Here to nerd out and advocate for accurate medical portrayals in fiction. Board Certified ER Doc with a degree in Classics. Writer. PLOT DOC. Disclaimer: Not professional medical/criminal advice. ONLY to be used by fiction writers for make-believe

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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 9h
It’s me. I just care about how you’re doing.
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kind of you to throw a shoutout, Tim!
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Quick Shot: BLEEDING CONTROL The most important thing your characters (and YOU) can do for bleeding is apply direct pressure. Gauze/towels will soak up blood. Pressure will stop it. Apply a ton of pressure to that gunshot wound to the abdomen, then get to the ER #writing #scriptsky #gamedev
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The pretty is so pretty
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bad Trope: TASERS Tasers should NOT make your character unconscious. The electric shock makes muscles contract. If your character is unconscious, they likely had a dangerous heart rhythm or fell so hard they have a brain bleed. #writing #scriptsky #gamedev
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Lipstick Taser!
ALT: Lipstick Taser!
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A “Top Doctor” list does not exist. It is a marketing ploy I get spam about constantly. Docs aren’t graded on patient outcomes or Yelp reviews. They pay to get their name on a list. America’s real Top Doctors are working for Planned Parenthood and County Clinics, not Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Being Pro Choice means I would never want my kids to terminate a pregnancy, but I would be so tearfully grateful if their friends trusted me enough to ask me for a ride to the clinic and so tearfully grateful if their parents took mine. No questions asked. I’m Pro Choices #prochoice
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Shopping!
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This looks so cheap compared to what I just paid last weekend
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There’s coffee in that nebula
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Quick Shot: VOMITING If you want to add an extra ick factor to your scene, your character could start vomiting black material Blood digested in the stomach will look like the leftover coffee grounds. Gives a different chilling vibe than bright red blood Gross #writing #scriptsky #gamedev
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s 100% humidity outside but somehow the air is still distinctly separate from the ocean, which is also 100% liquid
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
No Wernicke’s that I can tell Both were new/increased doses. One was a first time injection.
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You forgot you got a new tattoo?
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Wow…….
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Maybe one day we’ll have an actual name for the day we still refer to only by its date. #neverforget
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Had 4 patients in the ER simultaneously with intractable vomiting from GLP1s. 3 needed admission.
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The tumnus supposed to be good. Would be cool to have an OG Klon What is the IUD pedal in the bottom left?
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I know this is a medicine account, but for all you super nerds here is a physicist explaining how the Picard Maneuver is actually even more brilliant than Starfleet Academy would have you realize arstechnica.com/science/2026...
arstechnica.com
Physicist does the math on Star Trek’s “Picard maneuver”
The trick from Next Generation would be even more effective in real life.
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I don’t want to poke at anyone’s medical woes, but just a reminder Fetterman was a Democrat and it literally took brain damage to turn him into a Trump supporter www.npr.org/2026/09/09/n...
npr.org
Fetterman, already at odds with his party, makes surprise video for GOP convention
The Pennsylvania Democrat has already had a strained relationship with many inside his party. In the video, he spoke about working with Trump but did not outright praise him.
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Immunosuppressed
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Donnie Darko will have a theatrical re-release this year! collider.com/jake-gyllenh...
collider.com
The Best R-Rated Sci-Fi Thriller of All-Time Officially Returns to Theaters
The best cult classic of the 2000s is officially returning with a new release to celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary. Read on for more.
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
For the first time in YEARS, I admitted two patients to the hospital with COVID in the same shift. Make good choices
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
(I love my kids, this is just a science fact)
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
HOT TAKE: Pregnancy is a sexually transmitted parasite
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sure, any trick like that. But the patient wont really LOOK dead, they would just be pulseless in one extremity
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
So classy I still remember their loss to Appalachian State
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I wish I was Leah-level cool
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Did you just get 250 likes in an hour?
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is the awesomest
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
1 minute is not long, but you can say it’s rapidly metabolized and the heart will kick into overdrive once it wears off or something. 1 min is long enough to look really dead but short enough that a recovery is plausible
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
You can “pretend,” but it isn’t about finding some magic heart rate. A rate of 20 is probably enough to keep things barely perfused, but that’s a beat every 3 seconds. If you really want to make a character pulseless, consider pretending there’s a medication that stops the heart for 1 minute.
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
“They slowed their heart rate down to 1 beat per minute to appear dead” is just sloppy writing. 1 beat is not enough to keep the brain alive. 1 beat means zero beats about a minute later. #writing #scriptsky #gamedev
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
PS, it doesn’t count if it’s not strapped, otherwise, your hear is just a catapult for that shell before it hits the ground like a melon
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Or, you know, just breathing
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Wear a helmet No, not just on your motorcycle or when riding a bike in front of your children (role model!), but when you’re climbing a ladder
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I hate being 39
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Please be honest when grandma ends up in the ER after she accidentally gets into your “special” brownies
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Paula Deen's Excited Brownie Smile
ALT: Paula Deen's Excited Brownie Smile
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Definitely the most stressful part of my job, too
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just rewatched this movie last week (while doing chart reviews from home)
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Quick Shot: LOUD NOISES After acoustic trauma, high dose steroids might help prevent long term hearing damage.
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Loud Noises Meme
ALT: Loud Noises Meme
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
So, he’s rooting for the Iranians? A group of outmatched soldiers standing their ground on their home turf against foreign invaders.
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I was the best of dads, I was the worst of dads
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Charles Dickens as plagiarized by a 4yo: “Daddy, you are the best daddy and I love you, daddy!” (… 3 min later) “Daddy, you are the worst! You’re not the daddy I wanted! I’m not gonna be in this family any more!”
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Quick Shot: BLOODY TOENAIL Want your character to look bad@$$? If they have a big collection of blood under their toenail, they can heat a paperclip and slowly burn a hole in the top to drain the blood and relieve the pressure. (caution: don’t try this at home, kids) #writing #scriptsky #gamedev
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 31/08/2026
Archery Feat xkcd.com/3288/
Comic. [person drawing bow and arrow in front of a line of twelve axes, in front of a person seated on the ground with an apple on their head, in front of an archery target with an arrow in the bullseye that has been split by another arrow.] [caption] I want to prove that my new protagonist is a better shot than all those other protagonists.
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Your herodotus is prettier than my herodotus
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I hate that guy! (always a guy)
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Try a double ipa
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The PLOT DOC, MD🩺📝✍️ @theplotdoc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Can confirm: Full Moon causes crazy shenanigans in the ER - Blood Moon opens a portal to an evil hell dimension #medsky #em #er #thepitt
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