'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…

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

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

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

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 Lindsay Ryan, MD, MFA nytimes.com/2024/04/11/opi…

'Drinking oat milk is not obviously bad or good, but relative to other ways I can help out, it’s easy...choosing to buy dairy is choosing to cause harm to farm animals, wildlife, and our planet.' -Benji Jones

vox.com/future-perfect…

Military budget: $840 billion
Semiconductors: $52 billion
Police expansion: $37 billion
Climate change: $2 billion

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

DAAAAAMMMNN

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.

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…

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)

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…

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 stand with the hundreds of Wayfair.com employees who are planning to stage a walkout at their Boston headquarters tomorrow. The safety and well-being of immigrant children is always worth fighting for. thedailybeast.com/wayfair-employ…

Wow, what a hilarious premise for a game show. It’s just like medical training, except for the part where they can win a million dollars if they execute their tasks well, and also they only have to stay awake for a measly 24 hours.

-47.5% of resident moms who took >6 weeks of maternity leave don't recommend having children in residency, compared to 68.6% who took <6 weeks.
-51% taking less than 6 weeks said they had to pay back call.
-Longer leave associated with longer breastfeeding

It’s also not healthy to be awake for 28 hours at a time or pee once every 12 hours or have 75% of your meals consist of PACU graham crackers, but...you know.

every woman in this pic tho