#Patients

Sam Parker 🇺🇲

SamParkerSenate

1. I figured you'd roll out the NIH/VA "study," riddled w/flaws & shortcomings:-Retrospective, not Randomized Controlled Trial. -Small study. -Not peer reviewed. -Was of already-hospitalized pts, which many clinicians feel

Robert Saunders (aka McMullen)

RobertHMcMullen

As chair of the Royal College of GPs, @ClareGerada promoted graded exercise therapy as a safe and effective treatment for ME/CFS. This approach is now being applied to #LongCovid https://twitter.com/trishgreenhalgh/status/131481728865949696

Laura Blakemore

dr_elbows

Captain America as the paediatric registrar - a thread. During ward round a kid starts talking about their favourite Paw Patrol character. When bleeped to A&E to see a kid

ዮሃና | I yield my time

yohannabeee

Angola is the largest prison in the US. It is named after the plantation that once existed there, which was named "Angola" because that is the African nation most slaves

COVID19 Physicians

Covid19Docs

“Harvard is asking 4th years to volunteer without pay, benefits, tuition reimbursement, loan forgiveness, or anything to treat covid patients at a field hospital in Boston. This field hospital is

Olli Dufva

ollidufva

Interesting #ASH19 abstracts on CAR T cells:Analysis of clonal dynamics in CAR T cell-treated patients suggests that long-term persisting clones originate primarily from infused T stem cell memory fraction #CARTcellhttps://ash.confex.com/ash/2019/web

Colleen Farrell, MD

colleenmfarrell

I am an internal medicine resident in NYC giving it my all caring for patients with #covid_19. This is hard for all the reasons you would expect: it is traumatic,

Ben Shapiro

benshapiro

So, in the last 48 hours, we have gotten the following covid news:1. We've reached the other side of the curve in FL, TX, AZ, and probably CA;2. T-cell memory

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

1/ POTUS says he's leaving Walter Reed and going back to the White House: https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/10/05/trump-biden-live-updates/Assuming he got sick Wed/Thurs, he's on day 5 or 6 of COVID. It's too early.

robert rosencrans

rfrosencrans

In #RaceInABottle, Jonathan Kahn exhaustively documented these studies. Tiny, non-random samples extrapolated to millions. Bad statistics + bad theory. I prefer a different subgroup, repeatedly shown to have biologic import:

Michael Buchanan

BBCMBuchanan

NEW: A patient with dementia was physically restrained on 19 separate occasions so that medical attention could be forcibly administered. Security guards were repeatedly called to help nurses and the

How I learned to stop worrying and love the virus

ArchoProbato

[THREAD] The P.1 variant of COVID-19 was 3.4% of sequenced cases in NYC btwn April 12-18. There were ~17,500 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in NYC that week, so if 3.4%

Jay

OneFineJay

Apropos of no drug in particular: off-label prescriptions are common and despite what some people are trying to hammer here, the FDA issues guidance on the use of pharmaceuticals. When

Ken Klippenstein

kenklippenstein

Elon Musk playbook:1. Dismiss COVID-19 fears as “dumb”2. Pledge to donate 1,000 ventilators3. Bask in the free publicity 4. Donate just 40 ventilators, none of which can be used on

kara @ 🏥🤒

aireliani

may is lupus awareness month in the US, and may 10th is world lupus day! here's an educational thread about lupus, written by someone who has lived with it for

Meredith Vanstone

MGVanstone

This summer, I had the pleasure of working with #primarycare leaders across Ontario to formulate some #healthpolicy recommendations for primary care reform after Covid-19. A thread follows. @primarycare2025 #primarycare2025 You