#Patients

mark jeffs

markjeffs75

Earlier this month we reported on how COVID-19 has made waiting times for planned NHS care in Wales worse and how the NHS can take this once in a generation

Ed Beveridge

dredbeveridge

It’s 20 years this weekend since I qualified as a doctor. I’ve worked in the NHS for 20 years (more, if you count medical student days).2020 has been a year

Neil Wilby

Neil_Wilby

BREAKING: We have a fire (mostly smoke) in Ward 47 Lincoln Wing, St James Hospital, Leeds. Massive effort to evacuate bed-ridden patients from acute critical care wing. Hospital security on

Serafina (HAB 178 Hekate)

crippleperks

Non SequitirI wish that the medical establishment was more open about medical PTSD, especially re: incidence in disabled people and children. Nobody told 4/6/12/15-yr-old me or my parents about the

Chris “Wash Your Hands” Root

gueromedico

I’ve worked EMS in NYC since 2010. I’ve been frustrated by the reporting surrounding a recent change to the way we approach cardiac arrest care. I’d like to explain a

Tom Baird

BairdTom

I can understand why a “wait and see” approach sounds reasonable for moving from alert level 4 to level 3. However I think it is based on false reasoning. Let

James Sheppard

jamessheppard48

Less is more? Our new trial suggests #deprescribing #bloodpressure lowering medications is safe in the short-term in older people with frailty and multimorbidity – see thread for details https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstr

ice9

__ice9

A plausible mechanism apparently exists for the tendency of COVID-19 to be more severe in patients with type-A/AB blood, compared to B or especially O:Anti-A antibodies (present in types B/O)

Covid19MC

covid19mc

1/ We have updated our model and have predictions for Ontario’s second wave from the COVID-19-Modeling Collaborative. #onpoli #COVID19 2/ We considered 4 potential second wave epidemic curves, from best

Jennifer Brea🦒

jenbrea

I am going to write something that will be difficult to understand unless you have been unable to work, severely incapacitated, homebound, or bedridden due to a viral infection for

Ahmad Shoeb Hashmi

Ashashmiii

*Dentists are not Doctors*Here are some points which I would like everyone to think about.1.Core Subjects learnt in MBBS are Anatomy,Physio,Biochem,Pathology,Phar-macology,Medicine,Surgery.Even BDS needs to learn them during first 3yrs out

Hemani Bhandari

HemaniBhandari

#DelhiThread - a week on, situation at oxygen gas filling plant in Naraina.Pawan from Baljeet Nagar was waiting since 10pm on Monday night. Was able to get oxygen filled only

Bel Trew

Beltrew

Massive massive explosion just rocked #Lebanon. We are in the mountains and heard first explosion then the blast wave which literally pushed us fall to our knees. No idea. But

Sri Krishna

tellkrish

Does SARS-COV2 infect your immune cells during COVID-19? Let’s talk about COVID-19 caused lymphopenia in blood, and how this is different from immune suppression that you observe in other diseases

Nurse Anxiety Queen

BabyyBlondeGirl

Ok, I was talking with my sister (social worker) about exposure therapy. I said that I don’t believe many people (patients & mental health professionals) know about exposure therapy, she

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

Many Africans have a strong dislike and distrust of Western medicine, this is after decades of abuse by Western medical teams, doctors, international health organisations and pharmaceutical companies. Here are