It's been a long time since I've read something that was so well written and that made my mind feel like it was imploding. This essay on emotional intelligence will make you question everything.

I love everything Viet Thanh Nguyen writes and was yet again so compelled by this. Thank you for every book and essay you write. nytimes.com/2022/01/29/opi…

Northern saw-whet owl w/ white-footed mouse. 0.5s exposure at dawn. Owl fell asleep w/o eating so the meal was for later. This species winters here in evergreens & roosts low. Smaller / younger trees can be best. They may linger a while in an area w/ the right prey! (Connecticut)

Just an insane decision. And note that this lawsuit is being brought under the California Environmental Quality Act, though everyone, on all sides, knows the issues here aren't environmental. So please, stop telling me how CEQA has already been fixed. sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…

First results are out: We're up by over 27 points. We won. Thank you so much to San Francisco voters, & to all of our staff, volunteers, donors, endorsers, & everyone who worked so hard over the last 6 months.

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The caterpillar of the fruit-piercing moth has evolved a unique defense against potential predators: it overwhelms them with the sudden realization that they are but another drifting speck in a vast, beautiful, bewildering cosmos 📷 Arabinda Pal bit.ly/38u2AeL

End-stage poverty as a construct is so powerful. Implies that there's a trajectory + points where we can intervene (if we choose to as a society) -- just like ESRD, ESLD -- and encapsulates the far-reaching health consequences of poverty. TY @lindsayryanmd nytimes.com/2024/04/11/opi…

In their new Forefront article, Anjali Dixit, MD, MPH, Pooja Lagisetty, + Dr. Sean Mackey from Stanford Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, + Stanford Pain Medicine discuss the need for the research + clinical communities to understand medication-managed opioid use disorder as a chronic condition. bit.ly/3UjTTJg

Owing to concerns for aspiration and delayed gastric emptying, GLP-1 drugs are recommended to be withheld before surgery. New data suggest this may not be necessary jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/… JAMA Anjali Dixit, MD, MPH Stanford Anesthesiology

Preoperative use of GLP-1 receptor agonists in patients undergoing emergency surgery was not associated with a higher risk of postoperative respiratory complications vs those not taking GLP-1 receptor agonists. ja.ma/3JurB8J

"Canceled surgeries are sometimes never rescheduled." -- Anjali Dixit, MD, MPH, of Stanford Anesthesiology, questioning the clinical utility of pausing GLP-1 agonists before #surgery. medpagetoday.com/surgery/anesth…

Published in JAMA: Among patients with #diabetes undergoing #emergency #surgery🏥, the risk for #respiratory complications afterward was not heightened with glucagon-like peptide-1 (#GLP-1) receptor agonist use. Endocrine Today Read more⬇️ healio.com/news/pulmonolo…

Thanks Healio Pulmonology Healio for highlighting our work on GLP-1 receptor agonists and postoperative complications!

New research by Michael Avidan in JAMA shows that higher doses of general anesthesia do not heighten the risk of post-op delirium in older adults. This dispels myths about anesthesia's neurotoxicity & advocates for safer surgical approaches: medicine.wustl.edu/news/multicent…

The BJA is pleased to announce a Special Issue on Women in Anaesthesia Research that will feature original research by women on any topic in anaesthesia and related specialties. The deadline for submission of manuscripts is 31 October 2025. bjanaesthesia.org/news-do/women-… #specialissue

Use of SGLT-2 inhibitor medications in the 48 hours prior to emergency surgery was not associated with elevated risk of postoperative diabetic ketoacidosis. ja.ma/4k5PzIj Anjali Dixit, MD, MPH

Our newest paper just posted to PubMed! Disparities in #regionalanesthesia for total joint arthroplasty pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40385291/ Link to read full article: link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s… Juan Pablo Forero, MD Anjali Dixit, MD, MPH Eric Sun

Available free from PMC: Association of Patient Race and Hospital with Utilization of Regional Anesthesia for Treatment of Post-Operative Pain in Total Knee Arthroplasty Anjali Dixit, MD, MPH Stavros G Memtsoudis Stanford Anesthesiology ASRA Pain Medicine ESRA | European Society of Regional Anaesthesia share.google/mLI1Hki1ONczK6…