#Patients

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID provides a look at something Americans don’t often get to see: the influence of drug companies & money on things that don’t reflect the patient’s best interest. Good chance

Maarten van Smeden

MaartenvSmeden

Let's talk about the "risk factors" for COVID-19 for a moment1/n We talk about risk factors all the time. Not just in the medical scientific literature: you will find risk

Londyn Robinson (rheuminate)

londyloo

I AM LIVID: I need all medical professionals to read this take written by Goldfarb, MD former dean of Penn.this is a thread response because honestly: I am speechless, angry,

Kate Smith

byKateSmith

NEWI spoke to the Texas Attorney General about the state's near-total ban on abortion amid the coronavirus pandemic. I wanted to highlight a few of the things from our interview.thread....https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-abortion-attorney-gener

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JoshuaPotash

This taxi driver in Spain took countless patients to the hospital, for free.So today, he got a call to pickup a patient from the hospital.When he arrived, doctors and nurses

Devon Price

drdevonprice

A lot of non-peer-reviewed, very tentative COVID studies get amplified by Twitter &then spread like wildfire, and of course the limitations and criticisms of the studies never get any play

Anase

anaseasom

for my non-Black #medtwitter attendings & senior residents. Many MS3/4s are returning to the wards in the next few days to weeks, continuing on our journey to the MD/DO as

Erin Gilmer, esq. - Health is a Human Right

GilmerHealthLaw

On your health records:Whenever you ask for your records, ask for ALL records and indicate 2 extra things - a copy of everything in the "media tab" and an "accounting

Glenn Campbell

GlennBBC

Testing targets for #coronavirus 3,500 NHS tests a day by end April, with more via academic/commercial work 100,000 tests a day by end April via NHS & commercial partnershipsSuggests Scottish

Jeff Simmons MD

jeffsimmons

COVID-19 = dirty bomb. Hits with a flu like primary blast. Then waves of complications later. Wife was Covid positive 9/5. Flu for 10 days. Diagnosed with PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS

Robert Jones

RJonesSonoEM

Scrotal ultrasound performed related to clinical concern for epididymo-orchitis. Incidental finding noted (see image). Diagnosis/follow up plan? #POCUS #FOAMed #FOAMus #IMPOCUS #MedEd #ultrasound @medpedshosp @ACEP_EUS @HeyDrNik @cianmcderm

Larissa Matukas

larissamatukas

as requested @IrfanDhalla some personal observations on achieving optimal COVID test TAT: balance demand for testing with lab capacity.How to do this:1) only test people who really need testing: symptomatic

Atul Butte

atulbutte

1/8 Today's @UofCAHealth update is out! Great to see another 732 patients getting test results over the past day. And the @UofCAHealth test positive rate continues to drop as testing

Dr. Jaime Friedman

DrJaimeFriedman

Some people didn’t quite understand what I meant by this tweet so here is a tweetorial for you.To be fair, I had 5 words or less.https://twitter.com/drjaimefriedman/status/1264225498038558720 Fever is one of

Jyoti Yadav

jyotiyadaav

Before I start travelling to the remotest districts in bihar amid the strict lockdown and bring you the stories from second Covid wave. Sharing the links of my reports from

Dr. Brian Goldman

NightShiftMD

My first reactions to the report on LTCHs by Brigadier-General CJJ Mialkowski:As a physician, it would go against my professional ethics to work in a place that subjected residents or