Constance Wu, MD@wustance

Chief resident 2024-2025 @UCSF in IM. MD from @HarvardMed and @MIT_HST. Staying at UCSF for heme/onc. Comics are a hobby! Views my own.

Joined October 2016
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Note: All patient details/appearances changed in all my comics for privacy purposes even if inspired by real experiences (not that my art is photorealistic in any way shape or form...)
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#MedTwitter 🦀 Join us for our Heme/Onc VMR on Monday, February 10th at 4PM PST/7PM EST with @s_brond and @wustance! Tune in here: bit.ly/31LWIKg
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I have not drawn anything complete for a looong time… but hoping to get back into it! Since I last posted art, I finished residency, started my chief year, and finished my first time attending! 🎉 Grateful to the students and residents who collaborated with me for patient care.
Picture of residents, students, and attending holding ultrasounds and various food snacks

ALT Picture of residents, students, and attending holding ultrasounds and various food snacks

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Kelsey Natsuhara@KelseyNatsuhara
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📣 Check out the @UCSFCancer breast team at the poster session this morning #ASCO24 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 🟢@laura_huppert #61 ADC sequencing 🟠@UCSFIMChiefs 🌟 resident Samantha Fisch #86 LMD outcomes 🔵Dr Jo Chien #193 ISPY EOP amcenestrant 🔴@hoperugo: #47 on elacestrant & #174 on saci
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Thank you so much @KelseyNatsuhara ! Very happy to be able to attend ASCO for the 1st time and participate in conversations on how to more successfully recruit Asian women to research studies. Very grateful for the mentorship and by @NiharikaDixit16 and the rest of our team!
Kelsey Natsuhara@KelseyNatsuhara
1 Jun 2024
🌟 Don’t miss stellar @UCSFIMChiefs @wustance poster #447 at #ASCO24 Care Delivery session studying under representation of Asian women in breast health research @ZSFGCare 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Mentored by @NiharikaDixit16 and 📸 starring Chief @DrTFriedlander #HealthEquity @UCSFCancer
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As I’m reaching the end of R2 year (!) I am slowly catching up on team drawings (not in chronological order though oops). Here’s a recent one from MICU at Parnassus- great to rotate with team members of all specialties (anesth, crit care, ED) and to work with wonderful 9ICU RNs!
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Fun resurfaced facebook 3/23/18 memory: Thank you comics for my MS2 Intro to Clinical Med course with @ReganHMarsh @LinShenMD @MatthewNehsMD where we followed them around like baby ducklings (hope you're all doing well!)
Portraits of preceptors with medical students (drawn as ducklings) following them around learning the very basics of presentations, notes, and the like

ALT Portraits of preceptors with medical students (drawn as ducklings) following them around learning the very basics of presentations, notes, and the like

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Not a comic but finally finished a crochet project I started end of 2021... for the end of 2022, I present Dr. Pikachu and the PPE-kachus! (Clinic miniatures by Re-ment) @Pokemon
Crocheted Pikachus wearing scrubs and a doctor coat with toy miniatures of clinic supplies/equipment

ALT Crocheted Pikachus wearing scrubs and a doctor coat with toy miniatures of clinic supplies/equipment
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I went to my PCP office lately and made a joke about how I was one of the worst patients ever... and was not corrected 🙃 will try to be better 2023!
Resident has gastric ulcers. She is lectured by her stomach about having ulcers and not doing anything about it- resident responds by incorrectly taking various medications at once

ALT Resident has gastric ulcers. She is lectured by her stomach about having ulcers and not doing anything about it- resident responds by incorrectly taking various medications at once

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Been a while (and I guess Twitter's still up!) but very grateful to my wonderful team during my first month senioring on inpatient medicine... I learned a lot!!
Team pictures from a month of inpatient rotation

ALT Team pictures from a month of inpatient rotation
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Last Friday night Yeah we slept on tabletops, ordered enoxaparin shots Thought through admits but I forgot, last Friday night Yeah, we roamed through all the wards and got lost in the ER So we hit the caffeine hard, last Friday night Do it allllll again (A doodle re: PGY2)
A group of residents during a quiet moment in the night- the long call seniors are watching videos, the cards overnight senior is scrolling through her phone, the admitting intern is asleep on the table, the overnight medicine senior is asleep on the desk, and the cross-cover intern is the only one diligently clicking through epic

ALT A group of residents during a quiet moment in the night- the long call seniors are watching videos, the cards overnight senior is scrolling through her phone, the admitting intern is asleep on the table, the overnight medicine senior is asleep on the desk, and the cross-cover intern is the only one diligently clicking through epic

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I am on a month of float, which is widely regarded as one of the worst months for both physical and mental well-being… hooray! One of the interns asked me to draw a sequel to “Fox’s first night” when they were on their last night, and so I scribbled this.
Sequel to a childrens book about cross cover- the fox, who is cross covering at night, is at their wits end at the end of it

ALT Sequel to a childrens book about cross cover- the fox, who is cross covering at night, is at their wits end at the end of it

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I used to post my comics only on facebook and today fb reminded me that I drew my favorite comic from medical school this time 3(!) years ago on my gyn onc rotation. (My comics were way more scribbly back then)
Comic: medical student thinks she has free time after being allowed to leave early, but then chooses to stay with a patient post-operatively, but finds it worthwhile. As part of their conversation later, patient comments on the fact that medical students don't get much free time.

ALT Comic: medical student thinks she has free time after being allowed to leave early, but then chooses to stay with a patient post-operatively, but finds it worthwhile. As part of their conversation later, patient comments on the fact that medical students don't get much free time.

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Finding joy in the little things in the hospital 😊
Picture of intern "sneaking" ice cream in to patient on comfort care, then getting a page from nurse that says "Patient said to: Get my doctor. I want my sorbet. She knows what I'm talking about." ? -The RN

ALT Picture of intern "sneaking" ice cream in to patient on comfort care, then getting a page from nurse that says "Patient said to: Get my doctor. I want my sorbet. She knows what I'm talking about." ? -The RN

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It's been a while since I've made any comics, but I finished my first inpatient rotation as a PGY2! Turns out when asked to make decisions, there's a fine balance between showing utter terror and showing appropriate humility/acknowledging limitations in my knowledge.
A second year resident screaming internally in fear when an intern asks them to help with a sick patient, but trying to show no fear externally

ALT A second year resident screaming internally in fear when an intern asks them to help with a sick patient, but trying to show no fear externally

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It was so fun to be part of skits, and to also make my 2nd children's book! For context, UCSF IM night crosscover/admitting roles = animal names... without context it is very confusing to hear us tell stories about bats, wombats, badgers, wolves, quails, birds! @UCSFIMChiefs
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When your imposter syndrome is negated by your sheer exhaustion. (Aka live footage from my days off 🙃)
Intern with imposter syndrome struggling to get out of bed to be productive, and then giving up/changing her mind after realizing she's worked 80 hours this week

ALT Intern with imposter syndrome struggling to get out of bed to be productive, and then giving up/changing her mind after realizing she's worked 80 hours this week

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There have been a lot of ups and downs lately, but there have been many small victories to celebrate as well, especially as I've gotten to know patients better as a PCP😊 (not real patient appearances. P.S. handiwork really is that of e-consult teledermatology)
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No change. Their eyes lit up, they got up. "Wait!" I blurted. Inside my head: things were still bad, very bad, should I make it clearer? But... I had already warned them; their hope and their loved one were just persevering for one more night. "Get some rest." (Not exact details)
An intern pondering whether being transparent with a patient's family to prepare them for a likely bad outcome was doing them good or just destroying hope

ALT An intern pondering whether being transparent with a patient's family to prepare them for a likely bad outcome was doing them good or just destroying hope

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Finishing intern year has been super busy, but guess which internal medicine intern got to visit the OR recently? Very reminiscent of this animation from MS3 featuring my friend (we had a gown shortage for a few days during our surgery rotation).

ALT Animation of medical student trying to see a surgery by popping around and around the operating table

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