#Patients

Ketan Shah

Thinkerks

The world is full of charlatans and snake oil salesmen peddling crap. However, a special place in hell is reserved for those who hold medical degrees and still mislead masses

Nora

nor_whal

i keep seeing people say ‘corona only has a 98% fatality rate, let’s go back to work and let it run its course’ here’s a few reasons why this is

Richard Chu

richard_chu97

The $TDOC + $LVGO merger created the undisputed leader in telehealth but with the industry still in its early innings, finding who will occupy that second spot can pay off

Brainiac

Th3Brainiac

The words in your head//Threaded//(1/5) Why do you hear words in your head?Two mediums where language occurs.Internal Consisting of electrical waves that are channels for neuronal communication process.External Consisting of

Deepti Gurdasani

dgurdasani1

with virologists. What about Spain, South Korea, California, who have much higher capacities - are they also reliant on Roche? The truth is the govt was sleeping on the wheel

Alicia Fernandez

AliciaFMD

@AliciaFMD ,@MarleneMartinMD ,@KBibbinsDomingo experiences caring for Latinx people with COVID-19 in SF.At our county hospital, patients with COVID-19 are overwhelmingly Latinx Spanish speakers. Why? (a thread) Latinx is SF predominantly

Andre Siqueira

siqueira__andre

1/nSou infectologista e epidemiologista. Sempre esperamos poder diagnosticar um agente infeccioso causando doença e dar o tratamento específico. É como tratamos várias infecções bacterianas e parasitárias. Com o coronavírus não

Ben Cormack

CorKinetic

Person centred care threadPerson centred care is not which modality or interventions you use! PCC seems to get discussed mostly in relation to which interventions to use unfortunatelyMcWhinney described it

Katie Hampson

hampson_katie

A few thoughts from almost 20 yrs of contact tracing another deadly virus @rabidbites 1/n Even with modern tech (that I’m hopeful for), contact tracing comes down to manual detective

Dr Taryn Youngstein

TYoungstein

2nd Wave NHS Workforce Morale - A Thread (again) What can we do to prepare for a second wave: 1. NHS Trusts - please pay any COVID-19 monies owing. ASAP.

Candice Williams M.D., D. ABA

drcandicewill

Here’s my take as an attending but previous trainee who hasn’t forgotten yet!!!! Thread....https://twitter.com/kreepklebsiella/status/1248975316632195072 First make sure to be early, know patients and read up. Those are basics. But there

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

1/ There's no shortage of discouraging news out there right now. So I wanted to share a different angle. I am really proud to be part of an amazing community

Alexander Chaitoff

AlexChaitoff

Just finished a long stretch of nights @BrighamMedRes, so perfect time for a #MedTwitter #Tweetorial on what I was paged for most - antipsychotics for delirium.Executive Summary: avoid antipsychotics for

Christina Farr

chrissyfarr

Countries that offer universal health coverage are so misunderstood in the U.S. You can provide care to everyone - so no one goes bankrupt - and still have private insurance/private

Matt O'Brien

ObsoleteDogma

This story about COVID-19 patients who seem like they're doing okay, but still have what, by normal standards, are distressingly low blood oxygen levels matched my own experience. https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/08/doctors-say-ventilators-overus

Matt Siuba

msiuba

Interesting issue in mechanical ventilation of #COVID19 patients, each one here after >10 days of mechanical ventilation.How might we monitor for development of this? Time to pay attention to resistance,