Exciting opportunity to join our wonderful division at an exciting time! Spread the word Avraham Z. Cooper, MD 🩺 Grant Turner, MD, MHA, FACP, FCCP @IOEmeruwa David H Chong Kristin Burkart Anna Podolanczuk Adam Gaffney Laura Myers MD MPH

Real Health System Email (capitalization mine, for emphasis): We understand you are feeling overburdened by after-hours work so we have set up two town halls from FIVE TO SIX PM to discuss solutions I mean... ...sigh

Medical training as a ventilator mode: Pressure Controlled Volume Guaranteed Thoughts Avraham Z. Cooper, MD 🩺 @LekshmiMD ?

"In counseling these patients on the benefits of continued admission, the primary goal is not liability protection but rather harm reduction." freshlook.annals.org/2021/11/i-need…

Check out important work by @UCSFPCCMFellows Dr. Baugh. Race-adjustment of pulm fxn hides true decrements and does not correlate with symptoms. Universally-applied equations do better. Thread on main takeaways from 1st author @ucsfcvp UCSF School of Medicine atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…

Insurance company vs single-payer healthcare -- you decide

🥳 Exciting news! Huppert’s Notes is now an app - available on the Apple App Store and Google Play! To celebrate its release, we are giving away codes for free downloads to 20 people who retweet this tweet by this Fri 2/4! Help us spread the word!

What a stirring reflection on what you and your family went through @LekshmiMD You deftly balance the personal experience with the need for collective action. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and perspective. UC San FranciscoPCCMFellows UCSF Critical Care Medicine @UCSF #COVID19

Ended the week by walking one of our COVID ARDS survivors back into the ICU to meet with some of the terrific RNs, RTs and PTs who had cared for him. No mask—N95 or otherwise—could hide the smiles on everyone’s faces as we celebrated his recovery. UC San Francisco @LekshmiMD Kathleen Liu

So wonderful to work among amazing colleagues united in purpose UCSF Health as described here: ourtownsfoundation.org/american-insti…

Striking findings. Firearms in the house do not increase safety but more than double the risk of homicide. The overwhelming majority are women. acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…

Wow that Severence season finale. What a show.

I'm CA's Acting Surgeon General. Today, I'd like to publicly share my journey with bipolar disorder. Stigma festers in the dark and scatters in the light. By speaking out, I hope to help dispel stigma. To help anyone struggling know they’re not alone — and to have hope. 1/

On Day 2 of our @ucsf critical care ultrasound course, Cardiologist Christopher Barnett MD, MPH, FACC leads a case-based review of bedside cardiac ultrasound findings before an afternoon of scanning with standardized patients. UCSF Critical Care Medicine UC San FranciscoPCCMFellows @LekshmiMD

Actively recruiting a 4th member of our section of critical care cardiology at UCSF! Sam Brusca @cardscrit Upload your information now! aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF03673

Wonderful opportunity to join the team UC San Francisco as an interventional pulmonologist. Please feel free to reach out if interested aprecruit.ucsf.edu/JPF04329

In this week's JAMA, my husband Ethan Sanford writes about the deaths of our daughter Ceci and his patient Terry. About how grief has informed his practicing of medicine and living a fuller life. Please read about our girl and share. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Losing Ceci | Humanities | JAMA | JAMA Network ⁦Ethan Sanford⁩ you’ve turned a staggering loss into a beautiful reflection with lessons for us all, as caregivers and human beings. Hugs to you and ⁦Dr. Nina Niu Sanford⁩ jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Very excited to share this case of a patient we cared for at UC San Francisco UCSF Critical Care Medicine I remember learning about pulmonary complications of stem cell transplantation from Bernie Sunwoo when I was a @UCSFPCCMFellows and now her thoughtful approach is available to all in NEJM #MedEd

This editor's comment from JAMA Internal Medicine is the best hook for our viewpoint exploring how #AI might speak for incapacitated patients at the end of life Teva Brender Alex Smith, MD "very interesting, somewhat scary, and probably inevitable" Full text: jamanetwork-com.ucsf.idm.oclc.org/journals/jamai…