#Medicine

Max Blumenthal

MaxBlumenthal

I just read @RichardMNephew's "The Art of Sanctions." Nephew, ex-Obama State Dept sanctions coordinator, clinically & chillingly details how pain is the essence of the US global sanctions regime. Unfortunately,

R. P. Schwartz

Doc_RPS

On a dishwashing accident, three foot surgeries, and the state of our body politic, a thread: Ten years ago this Pesach, I was literally barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen,

shelley angelie saggar

j4lebi

Shamefully, I've not participated in ANY of @MuseumsUnlocked but for Day 126, ‘casts, copies and forgeries' here's my contribution!This is a plaster cast copy of a life mask gifted to

Dr David Robert Grimes

drg1985

An example of the kind of wrong-headed claims that can kill people with #cancer: (1) You cannot cure cancer with diet. Ever. (2) Spinning conventional therapy as dangerous or ineffectual

Damian Fogarty

DamianFog

The Christmas card you’ve been waiting on! The peer-reviewed data on the @pfizer @BioNTech_Group COVID-19 trial has been published yesterday in the @NEJM. Beautiful science and excellent results. I’ll thread

K. Whitney-Daniels

KWhitneyDaniels

I'm seeing a lot about Biden freezing the Trump EO on insulin so it's thread time:This seems counterintuitive but this freeze is actually a GOOD thing for patients. The original

Jon Deeks

deeksj

What was the sensitivity and how many false positives were there from Mass Testing of University students?Results from University of Birmingham and Universities in Scotland don’t make good reading.SENSITIVITY 3%

David Paton

cricketwyvern

The big news about this NEJM piece is that it’s not really news, being consistent with what we already knew:when schools are open teachers do not seem to face higher

Shane Crotty

profshanecrotty

SIX successful COVID-19 vaccines! SIX! Three just in the past week! Extraordinary. The newest one is the Russian (Rus) adenoviral (Ad) vector COVID vaccine. The clinical trial data look really

Wendell Potter

wendellpotter

BREAKING: Big health insurer @UnitedHealthGrp is stiffing our most essential frontline health care workers during #COVID19 -- emergency room physicians -- while enriching its CEO in a way that demands

Meg seanchaibeag

seanchaibeag

Good to see #LongCovid getting more attention, but wow, do I see some alarming medical field biases in this article. (Not remotely @guardian’s fault, to be clear). Thread time! (1/13)https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/05/many-lo

Liam Gender? Fucked!

LiamDel

Aside from hormones/surgery, transitioning used to be almost free. Sometimes it was just the cost of materials and shipping, but often not.The trans community has a long history of providing

Mark Bourrie

MarkBourrie

Since I might have to give legal advice on this stuff, I decided I better parse it all out on Twitter, because that's the best way to understand law. So

Brave Enough MD

RUBraveEnough

Interns! Welcome to the most beloved, heart-stirring , gut-wrenching, beautiful, mind-blowing club on earth: medicine.I’m so glad you’re hereA few words of wisdom & encouragement as you begin the journey

Merlin C.

merlinc2

NYTimes article on HR depts' approach to anti-racism captured problem. Whew! Much of it treats racism as almost primordial & timeless rather than a force mediated by circumstance and history.

Tristan D Rutland

TristanRutland7

Pathological history quiz time!1/ In ancient Egypt, which of the following was commonly used as a medicine: B) Over 100 recipes have been recorded. According to Egyptologist Alison Roberts "Set's

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