How to cancel an influencer: Don’t be influenced.

Today I went to an 84 year old’s birthday party. She owns 3 phones. Here they are:

🧵regarding the CUT and COAG modes of the device commonly referred to as a 'Bovie' or 'diathermy'. Both of these are misnomers, but you know what I mean. We will go over what CUT and COAG mean, the variations thereof, and assorted other topics. (1/ )

Going through device checks. Interesting event. Thoughts on initiation and implication for mechanism of the tachycardia? #EPeeps

The Senning procedure requires tissue rearrangement that is difficult to understand. This beautiful cardiac CT visually demonstrates the fates of the different tissues from an #ACHD double switch patient. A thread 🧵 [1/5]

#100daysofpractice Season 6, day 78 Like a ballroom dancer, I tend to hold my upper body in a frame. The violin itself determines a lot of that. What I realized today is that I also arrange my feet in certain patterns. So I worked on breaking those patterns.

The best thing my students ever gave me. I thought they were just really diligent note-takers the whole semester, but it turns out they were compiling a book of all the craziest things I'd said, all *very much* out of context. It's 152 pages long.

Have any of you read this book (published 1995)? Is it any good? How about his 1986 comparative on the divergence of the US and British health care systems from 1911-1965?

Rhythm? (Dr Ranjan)

For earth day…

I was 3 years into being an attending physician when I found I was unhappy. I told myself once I…. …Pay off my loans …Buy a bigger house …Get promoted THAT is when I’ll be happy. Except I’d get there, and the happiness was fleeting. This is called an Arrival Fallacy 1/

Old fashioned anyone?

18 yo man, gets Holter ECG due to discreet palpitations. No syncope, no dizziness, no other symptoms of heart disease. What would you do: 1. Permanent Pacemaker DDD 2. EPS 3. Nothing

Dessert: Warm chocolate chip cookie dusted with cayenne pepper and ice cold milk.

Why aren’t we all in private practice?

Ok internet…do your thing!

🧵regarding the packing of cavities for hemostasis during surgery: Here I will discuss why using a precise technique for packing for hemostasis is important, what happens when you don't use a precise technique, and a pointer about packing newly drained abscess cavities. (1/ )