A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
๐จ NEW: One of the largest COVID-19 vaccine studies ever (28 MILLION people in France) just dropped.
Results?
โข 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19
โข 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality
โข No increase in 4-year mortality
#BlueSky #MedSky #IDSky #SciSky #NewsSky #PedsSky #ObSky #NurseSky
Several former ED colleagues and friends venting and asking for my therapist's name (I refer to her a lot), this system is destroying amazing experienced nurses. Thankful I left emerg, but feel for my former colleagues, friends, and especially patients.
Stepping into my next Era at the same time as Taylor Swift just affirms this was the right choice.
Pediatric pulmonologist here. I want my COVID booster - to protect my patients and myself.
Sorry should have tossed the URL in as well
abforabortion.ca
The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth.
The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth.
Read that back.
Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
Not normally one to analyze things, but I had two close bird encounters today. A pigeon was in my garage before my ER shift, a white owl flew right in front of my car driving home. "Let go of the old and welcome the new, for transformation is the path to spiritual evolution" seems most fitting.
Did a visit for a symptom crisis. Little kid the same age as my daughter came down and said "dad what stage is moms cancer again?". The dad answered honestly and said "4". Little one then says "I am going to go and Google how to destroy it and make her feel better". Life isn't fair.
The learning curve is steep with this new gig, I just want to be competent at doing my job. I am used to being the person others come to for help. It's hard being new and vulnerable.
Feeling a lot of anxiety and mom guilt today. But I know in the end this will be worth it. I can already feel some of the passion I once had for nursing returning.
do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you
Big life (career) change coming up. I am terrified and doubting my choices but also acknowledging change is scary and growth comes with stepping out of our comfort zones. Going into it with the wisdom of Taylor Swift "babe you gotta fake it til you make it" and hopefully soon adding "and I did".
A very enlightening lit review with great insights into ED crowding and misassumptions about causes and remedies ๐๐ป๐๐ป
A study led by @mskcancercenter.bsky.social's Corita Grudzen and NYU Grossman's Keith Goldfeld evaluated whether providing #palliativecare training to emergency department teams would decrease the number of hospitalizations of older, seriously ill adults. @jama.com
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
Facing death differently: revolutionising our approach to death & grief
support for end-of-life care & bereavement remains inadequate
Need a community centred, public health approach to the social processes of dying & grieving, backed by properly funded palliative care
CDC warns of high respiratory virus activity as cases increase across the U.S. The CDC estimates there have been over.1,500 deaths from the #flu so far this year.
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Watch: For 10 years, Patrick Hanley has collected stuffies to hand out to kids at Calgary's South Health Campus on Christmas Eve.
calgary.ctvnews.ca/video/c30549...
A coworker.
Fitting after the shift we just endured.
Staff crying at the fact people have been waiting for 8+ hrs with not enough staff to reassess.
It is not our fault. I promise every nurse was doing their absolute best but we just could not keep up.
It's not fair to anyone.
We deserve better.
This is a pretty accurate depiction. Healthcare has been in trouble for a while and it is just getting worse.
H5N1 is showing signs of adapting to humans with recent mutations (A134V, N182K, E186D) enhancing its ability to bind to human-like ฮฑ2-6 receptors in the upper respiratory tract.
This raises serious concerns about the virusโs potential to become more transmissible among humans.
The more someone has to continually do everything and carry the load...the more they realize they can do it on their own, and eventually comes the realization they might be better off just doing it alone instead of carrying dead weight and resentment.
Channeled my inner Andrea Swift and went to every dress rehearsal and every performance for my daughter's (grade 1) winter concert.
I loved every minute.
Most of the moms didn't even want to go to one performance and complained a lot.
My mom rarely came to my concerts.
I will always be there.
I am tired. It might be time for a little mental health break from work, my only concern is if I do it I might not go back. The constant on edge feeling of patients lined up out the door waiting over an hour just to triage. Deteriorating in line or waiting. How did it get this bad?
Advocated hard for the mental health of my co-workers today and will continue to check in on and support them. Working in healthcare is hard and we need to do better to support mental health for healthcare workers. Also I am so lucky to work with such an amazing team.
This paper re palliation in advanced heart failure caught my eye. In particular, table 6 summarises the potential symptom benefits both of continuing and of stopping (4th column) each class of heart failure medicine
doi.org/10.1177/1049...
Paper submitted. Now I can binge the new JonBenet docuseries.
Looks like the Government of Alberta is quietly doing a survey on MAiD.
Iโd like to ask you to fill out the survey and make sure your voice is heard.
#MAiD #Alberta #yeg #ycc
www.alberta.ca/medical-assi...
Compassion isn't a cup of tea or a shoulder to cry on
Instead, it's about parking your own biases & leaning into difficult conversations.
It's listening to hear, empathising, valuing & acting to help alleviate someone's challenge or distress.
"Compassion is a verb" (Mary Freer)
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