#Patients

Mama Doctor Jones | Danielle Jones, MD

MamaDoctorJones

Elective terminations in the third trimester are virtually always cases of wanted pregnancies with tragic, lethal fetal complications. This narrative unnecessarily divides and abruptly halts important conversations while pouring salt

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RedRadicals

The Govt has released a new report, relating to surveillance of Coronavirus. The excerpt below, showing the devastating number of cases in care homes, is truly damning of their response.

Joanna Poole 💙

Jopo_dr

Every so often I see people reassured when actively bleeding patients have a systolic BP of 100. To get a ballpark multiply their MAP by 80 and then divide that

Manini af

ManiniAlex

COVID management pearls thread...Some collective wisdom from our EM attending group @SinaiEM - the epicenter of the epicenter #COVID19 This is anecdotal experience based on what is working for us

Regina Marston for Congress CA 42

Marston4ca42

I have an update on my health I wanted to share. After many tests, and discussion about my symptoms and resulting blood clots, my doctor has finally decided I had

Kendall Brown

kendallybrown

Patients with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis are being denied access to #Hydroxycloroquine despite having taken it FOR YEARS & the dangers going off of it cold turkey poses—all because Donald

Umme H Faisal

stethospeaks

Everyday in the opd, we get patients from rural areas who have been getting treatment from alternative medicine practitioners for years at a stretch. They simply refer the patients to

Nathan A. Pennell MD, PhD, FASCO

n8pennell

THREAD: I have heard a lot of self-righteous indignation about how we would be bankrupting the system with adjuvant targeted treatment for EGFR mutation+ NSCLC pts, so let's take a

Danielle M. Wenner

DanielleWenner

This morning I was supposed to have an MRI of my hip @UPMC. I was very nervous as hospitalizations and deaths have been on the rise in Allegheny County, even

Lakshman Swamy

laxswamy

Hi everyone, I'm a ventilator! I have just one job: to breathe when your loved one can't. I'm life support. But it's a big job, and I can't do it

Chris Hopson

ChrisCEOHopson

1/5 It’s neither true nor accurate to say that “hospitals are imploding”. They’re under huge pressure and performance is the worst it’s been for a long time. But staff are

Linsey Marr

linseymarr

Needed some time to digest new paper on masks and coronavirus (seasonal ones, not SARS-CoV-2), flu, rhinovirus. Main points: 1) 4/10 patients shed coronavirus directly into aerosols (

Qaali “Hurricane” Hussein, MD, FACS

QaaliHussein1

Dear #MedTwitter, As physicians, we have a vested interest in public health. When we identify issues which directly affect our patients and increase morbidity and mortality, we speak up. We

Melissa Ingala, Ph.D. 🦇

bat_biomes

So I've just tested positive for COVID-19. I was super careful, did everything right, and I still got it. If you're wondering how that's possible, here's a thread for you

Roz al Ghul ☀️

PolitiKurd

I can’t even begin to unpack all that is wrong with that AP article about the recent study on hydroxychloroquine Only 368 patients & HCQ group includes the oldest

Nitin Arora #WearAMask

aroradrn

So here’s the #CongaWell done for celebratingWhile most ICUs in the country are working on a #NoVisitors policycolleagues and I are having end of life discussions on the phoneMy organisation