Ebook sale
My first book, In Shock, is on sale for only $2.99 the month of February. Given…(gestures vaguely) all of this… it’s a great time to read about the essential role of compassion in healing and also get ready for After Shock, coming in June. #medsky
NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month.
Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.
ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city.
If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.
You all heard about the new breastfeeding guidelines at #WSM2026!
Now the conference fun is behind us, take some time to have a quick read and refresh your understanding of how to care for breastfeeding patients!
#AnSky #breastfeeding #MedSky #SurgSky
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An announcement from Noah Wyle and the CDC:
I've always thought that the whole "natural immunity is the best way to protect people" thing was a bit like saying "getting pregnant is the best form of birth control."
Anyway, cool to see it's better for the immune system to see vaccine before virus from an effectiveness standpoint too.
A fantastic NYT report: Donors to Trump get pardons, jobs, & access - and benefited from regulatory decisions the Trump admin has made.
SUPER timely as SCOTUS is about to kill agency independence & give POTUS more control over agencies (likely to donors' benefit)
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation:
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...
Neither is herpes, but I’ll keep doing my work without either.
Come over here for a second. Sit down. I want to talk about Thanksgiving.
You know how the release of a new … I don’t know, STAR WARS movie or something will sometimes result in a silly number of increasingly tenuous pieces of writing or video or whatever? Thanksgiving is that, for food people.
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.
It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.
It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.
Transgender care saves lives.
“A team led by researchers at the University of Waterloo found in a simulated study that ChatGPT-4o, the well-known large language model (LLM) created by OpenAI, answered open-ended diagnostic questions incorrectly nearly two-thirds of the time.”
Don’t use AI for medical advice.
#Canada
#AI
“This study shows conclusively that the HPV vaccine prevents the changes that can develop into cancer. It also emphasises the need for continued high uptake of the vaccine"
Another study shows continued effectiveness for the HPV vaccine - #MedSky.
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Let's try something new.
If you donate to a food bank and tell me how much and which one, I'll match your donation.
If it's less than $50, I'll round up.
Tag me, reply here, or DM if you prefer.
Why food banks? Because if we want to survive a general strike, we need to keep people fed.
My absolute favorite thing is boasting about my former medical trainees when they go on to do amazing things!
another great idea! just search diaper bank + your city to find one.
No one should have to go hungry in America.
The unthinkable has happened. Through generations of service under administrations from both parties, America's food assistance program has never been allowed to fail U.S. families—until today, and this Trump shutdown.
Adding one-time donations to the food pantries I support monthly. Also if you’re in the Boston area the city of Boston and the Boston Foundation just set up a fund
if you think your food banks are fine, they aren’t. the demand is overwhelming and the supply is dwindling
Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
i share this mayo clinic video every year because more people need to see and hear how horrific a disease whooping cough is
RFK Jr’s gobbledygook is probably confusing for a lot of people. He talks about kids who have been vaccinated having less brightness in their eyes or having “mitochondrial challenges.” What he ignores is their greater likelihood of survival, as evidenced by any modern cemetery.
Plastic pellets are often mistaken for fish eggs by marine animals, who eat them. Ingesting plastic can be harmful on its own but, as Prof Mudge explains, plastic readily absorbs pollutants, exposing fish who eat them to those chemicals, which may be, in turn, passed to people who eat the fish.
He helped the families of dying children. Spent all night with them even once the child was taken to the morgue. A former colleague tells us on the record that Ayman Soliman is the reason certain poor families who lost their babies at the hospital didn’t have…
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💊🧵Today’s FDA “hearing” on antidepressants confirmed that RFKJ and his FDA want to limit or even remove access to antidepressants, particularly for pregnant people. The hearing focused on selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) but the MAHA report makes false claims about all antidepressants.
Queensland's annual flu epidemic has resulted in the need to close a range of surgical procedures due to being overwhelmed by predominantly unvaccinated serious cases.
It's not too late to get vaccinated team! It's safe and it can help prevent severe disease.
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This is no good no good no good
Our analysis, which shows that more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage after Texas banned abortion, adds to a growing body of reporting revealing that maternal outcomes have gotten worse under bans.
“I represent 67,000 pediatricians, and let me be clear: this bill will devastate children’s health,” said Dr. Susan Kressly, President of @ameracadpeds.bsky.social “Kids are 22% of our population—but 100% of our future. We cannot afford to fail them.”
Call your senators and demand a NO vote.
