++ Italy's 🇮🇹 number of registered Covid-19 cases grows by 8.1%. First time it is down to single digit. Today's death toll is 601 down from 651 & 793 in the previous two days. Italy went into lockdown two weeks ago. Scientists said it would take two weeks to see some results.

I keep thinking about all the times I grabbed a disposable glove from the box and like 3 gloves would come out and I would just throw away the other 2 gloves like some kind of disposable glove billionaire

Hey American Board of Radiology -- take note of the TOTAL TRANSPARENCY from American Board of Ophthalmology. 👍 Taking a poll from exam takers to gauge exam preference, change to remote exam, regular decision updates. American Board of Radiology you need to do better. abop.org/become-certifi…

1/ A THREAD about #coronavirus and trainees. Firstly, I'm awaiting a response from the ACGME regarding their is official policy protecting trainees from #coronavirus? Given how they govern a tremendous amount of details regarding training, I would expect a strict policy (any)

Since we have lung on our minds from Dr. Sanjay Mukhopadhyay 's AWESOME #CAPVirtualPath lecture, I wanted to share a case that I had been obsessed with, to complement one of his slides! Microliths by comparison are usually larger, and corpora amylacea are not calcified!

For the past 40 years, Republicans have been seeking to starve, strangle, and sabotage the U.S.P.S., hoping to privatize one of the oldest and most important public goods in American history. nyer.cm/isC8OIg

No surprises here! Congrats to my wonderfully brilliant, ever resourceful, two-time resident MVP (in a row!) wife! Just don’t ask her to catch a lizard. Melinda Fang UNC Dept of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Christmas came early! Thank you so much to our #RadOnc program leadership for advocating to repurpose our unused educational/conference funds to purchase these departmental Wacom tablets for resident use! ARRO ACROresident ASTRO RadoncRes

The NUMBER ONE cause of physician burnout is spending too much time on below-grade tasks. Average doc spends 4 hours a day charting. I made a guide to cut that helps docs cut that in half. Here it is:

We are hiring for H&N rad onc. Come join our team! Lots of opportunities. George Q. Yang, MD Moffitt Cancer Center

There is a CNS Radiation Oncology faculty position available, Moffitt main site (Magnolia Campus), with a footprint at the upcoming Speros Proton Therapy facility. Please message me for details or if interested. ASTRO ARRO

We in #radonc must not fall into the narrative that de-intensification of treatment means avoiding RT. Risking triple modality treatment in conditions that can be cured with one or two doesn’t make sense. We need to destigmatize RT. Sx and chemo aren’t walks in the park either.

We're so busy that we have opened another HN rad onc position Moffitt Cancer Center. If interested in joining at team of 4 HN rad oncs, including me, Dr. M Echevarria, George Q. Yang, MD, and soon Niema Razavian, MD, send me your CV.