Racial bias in temporal (forehead) thermometers🌡

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23% relative reduction in fevers detected in Black patients w/ temporal compared to oral thermometers

Another medical device that could be failing our patients

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Does anyone have a favorite set of gloves for working with cactuses? My mom is trying to replant a bunch and I'd like to save her hands. #planttwitter #gardening

I'm so grateful to @MGH_StARR and Jatin Vyas for the opportunity to spend a year learning about sepsis and clinical trial design!

New physician grads: do not put your home address down when you register for your NPI number. Make sure you put down the hospital address! Otherwise, your home address will be out there for all to see! (Your NPI information is available easily via google). #MedTwitter

Let's be clear, wealthy women will always have access to whatever doctors, medicines and procedures that they want. Ending Roe is an attack on the autonomy of poor and working class women.

If the Supreme Court does indeed issue a majority opinion along the lines of the leaked draft authored by Justice Alito, the shift in the tectonic plates of abortion rights will be as significant as any opinion the Court has ever issued

1) Members call on the American Thoracic Society to cancel events in Florida and Texas over moves to criminalize healthcare (a thread): forms.gle/1nWPSXu3enw43b…

Every now and then I hear discussion about whether dogs smile, at least in the way we humans do.

As my contribution to the debate, here are some of my favorite photos of sled dogs smiling.

So excited to meet you all!!! 🥳🎉

For HuffPost I wrote about the last 72 hours in Texas and how families with transgender children are more terrified than ever because no one knows if CPS will be knocking on their door unannounced huffpost.com/entry/texas-tr…

Last year, delta overwhelmed hospitals in Idaho, causing 6,300 patient transfers in 4 months. Audrey Dutton and I looked at this period as a case study of the US’s decentralized healthcare system, for Documenting COVID-19 & Idaho Capital Sun: (1/11)
idahocapitalsun.com/2022/03/16/ida…

It's March 2020. Your patient is admitted to the ICU with a novel disease. Their family can't visit so you've only spoken over the phone. PPE is in short supply. So much is unknown, but they still need a code status order. Ring a bell? 🧵 about our latest sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Ten days into residency, I was given a diagnosis. Facing my own mortality was terrifying and humbling; it also filled me with gratitude and a deeper determination to care for others. Grateful to NEJM for giving me a space to reflect bit.ly/3i0oqrB
@nejm @cuttingforstone

'You know what else you could do? You could pressure our own U.S. government [to] actually open our borders to refugees. We lead by example and open our borders to Haitians, to Afghans, and, yes, to Ukrainians.'

My MSNBC monologue on the refugee crisis:

“In the Opinion Video above, nurses set the record straight about the root cause of the nursing crisis: chronic understaffing by profit-driven hospitals that predates the pandemic.”

Mic drop 🎤 ⁦The New York Times⁩ nytimes.com/2022/01/19/opi…

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