#Patients

AM I EVER GONNA SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN?

eigenvectrix

God, Ray Blanchard is fucking disgusting. Here's the paper: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1080/00926238708403899 (don't worry, I specifically chose the way that doesn't get him any royalties) (THREAD) (CW: clinical transphobia; me using

OUTLAW 09

rich_outlaw

WHAT THIS THREAD MEANS FROM CHINESE RESEARCHERS IS THAT THEY DID NOT SEE A HIGH LEVEL OF IMMUNITY IN RECOVERED PATIENTSAND THAT CAN LED TO REINFECTIONS AND THE NECESSITY TO

stuart mcdonald

ActuaryByDay

It’s been a week since THAT thread using Critical Care data (from ICNARC) to challenge the narrative that those getting very seriously ill or dying from COVID-19 were already “at

Ashley Bartholomew, BSN, RN

TheBlondeRN

I’m an RN in El Paso and was recently transferred from the OR to COVID ICU. I resigned from my job last week and I’ve been asked several times, “What

Vlad Vexler

VladVexler

I've just read an article by Dan Neuffer about recovering from #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis, which as @cfs_jo points out , uses language that will worry many #pwme. Long THREAD. I do get

Joshua Briscoe

jcbriscoe1

It's not surprising to me that @nytimes would essentially publish an advertisement for physician-assisted suicide. What does surprise me is how advocates fail to see how culturally formative some of

Christy Harrison, MPH, RD

chr1styharrison

News outlets need to STOP reporting that body size is an independent risk factor for COVID-19. To date, evidence indicates that the percentage of high-BMI folks with critical COVID cases

Gus Hamilton

gushamilton

New (short) paper out - A Bayesian re-analysis of the convalescent plasma (CP) arm of RECOVERY with @DrToddLee @karlahemming @rjlilford and @DavidT_Arnold. Key question: Is CP futile in hospitalised patients

Gabrielle Abissi, MD

GabbyAbissi

For those of you that love a health care worker......be patient with us- we are carrying burdens and worries we can't discuss with you... We feel unsure, we are questioning

Andrew Lee

andrewleedr

I’ve been asked to explain why I thought the high reported number of #COVID19 cases in Sheffield was misleading, so here it is: Essentially, the COVID19 tracker is a type

(((Aaron Viny MD)))

TheDoctorIsVin

1/n Today is day 28 away from wife and daughter. The first half of this separation was spent as leukemia attending @sloan_kettering for both #COVID19 and non-COVID hospitalized patients before

yersinia pastries

riboplasm

i'm doing the bangtan as medical specialties thread because if i want this niche content to exist i'll have to make it myself, and my department chair didn't praise me

Jewhadi™

JewhadiTM

I had a splenectomy when I was 18. I had an autoimmune disorder (ITP for short), that caused my platelets to attack each other. My blood stopped clotting. Having my

Zoe Keller

KellerZoe

#COVID19 Uk/Sweden modeling comparisonSweden has chosen not to lockdown based on different assumptions on the number of cv patients who will end up in intensive carehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/04/03/coronavirus-swedish-experiment-could-prov

#Dear white feminists: I am not the one

Kamalaallday

My first sponsor died of pneumonia exacerbated by AIDS. She was a Mexican woman suffering from addiction so racists like Reagan didn’t GAF about her. She took me in when

Maria Roussakis

medlabmaria

For those of you who may still think that the lab is responsible for most of healthcare mistakes, this thread is for you:Back when I was working in the core