#Patients

Megan Ranney MD MPH 🗽

meganranney

The #COVID19 pandemic is decimating not just the current, but also the future, health of Americans. My hospital system's exemplary preparedness efforts - planning ahead, shutting down elective surgeries, etc

Diana Kwon

DianaMKwon

Excited to share this feature I wrote in the November issue of @sciam, about a condition known as functional neurological disorder (FND). Here's a thread https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/decoding-a-disorder-at-the-interface-of

Daniel K. Han

DanHan

It’s amazing to see @MSHSSurgery stepping up to fight #COVID19- Surgeons from all specialities stepping out of their comfort zones to help in ERs and ICUs. 1/ Not everything may

Robson Fletcher

CBCFletch

Here are the (delayed but) latest COVID-19 data for Alberta:• 402 cases detected yesterday (406 net w/adjustments to past days).• 2.64% positivity rate.• 23,402 total cases.• 3 more deaths. 296

Dr Naks ♥️

Tshi_Nakanyane

I wanna just say, again, thst Drs are not superheroes. As much as the pic in frame 1 was depicted to show appreciation for what many Drs across the world

apospodcast

apospodcast

Interesting results... So, here's the story...Before starting the podcast, when I had had enough of being told what to believe, I started writing things down with a view of one

Akathisia Alliance for Education and Research

akathisiaalli

Thanks for reporting on this. But psychosis and akathisia are two different things. Mantel describes it well here:https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/1388469833851936771 "No physical pain has ever matched that morning's uprush of

Indigo Daya

IndigoDaya

“When is it OK to punish patients?”I’ll never forget when a social worker, from a psychiatric unit, asked me this. I was providing training.Of course, the short answer is NEVER.

Spotted Toad

toad_spotted

The simple, accurate, anti-WHO name for the disease is SARS2, full stop. This is not just a political decision. There's a ton of data on SARS1 that's useful to keep

Hilda Bastian, PhD

hildabast

The FDA has said it investigated the blood clot/low platelets cases after J&J vaccine & found no causal association with the vaccine: they're continuing to investigate. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-04-10/johnson-and-johnson-

Dr Louise Hansen 🌷🕊🐀

drlouisehansen

Don’t ostracise drugs users – empathise with them: Dr Gabor Maté was recently awarded the Order of Canada for his work on trauma and addiction. The following is adapted from

Pramesh CS

cspramesh

The power of large, pragmatic randomized trials. Conducted by academic researchers using an adaptive trial design (#MAMS), and you’ve got a winner. Strong reasons why publicly funded research is so

Sam Ghali, M.D.

EM_RESUS

A 17-year-old boy was rushed to the ER by his brothers struggling to breathe...[thread] He was in profound respiratory distress with deep retractions breathing 40 times per minute. It turns

Pete Smith

PeteSmith1983

Apologies to anyone fed up with positive stories coming out of @stokecity but here's another.@tom__edwardss has just dropped off a van load of items for staff and patients at Royal

Eliana Golberstein Rubashkyn 👩‍🔬⚗🧪

ElianaGolber

On January 22 at the beginning of this year I had a suspicion about the protective effect of nicotine on the coronavirus. I have several colleagues in China, I speak

Tony Yates

t0nyyates

Relative to where the government was at the time of the first lockdown in March, it seems much less enthusiastic about 1) doing what is necessary to stop the virus