"It's not just #COVID19 that is killing people, it's underprivilege, it's lack of access, it's years of living with health conditions that haven't been properly managed because of the colour of your skin, or your ethnicity, or your social group"- Mike Ryan #HealthForAll

US surgeon Nicholas Senn (1844-1908), of retractor fame, proposed using hydrogen gas to identify bowel perforations. In addition to animal models, he tested this on himself by having an assistant pump 15 litres of gas up his anus, and described the experience in great detail.

🇹🇷 Turkey 🇨🇴 Colombia 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇺🇬 Uganda 🇩🇪 Germany These five countries generously host the majority of the world's refugees. See how UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to save lives, protect rights and build a better future for the most vulnerable. unhcr.org/en-us/what-we-…

Proud dad moment today. My 10yr old son saw a new kid sitting by himself. Another friend and he decided to hang out with him over lunch. He got this lovely note at the end of the day😢❤️

Fauci today at the press briefing:

For those of us who carefully sort and deposit our scrub tops and bottoms in the ScrubEX... ... they all wind up in the same bin below!!!

Across the 🌏 from Aga Khan University to UTSW Media Relations ! Feels good to realize and live your dream with friends! #IMatched UTSW Surgery and Syed Faaiz Enam, MBBS, PhD at UTSW Neurology.

A Randomised Clinical Trial Evaluating the Efficacy and Quality of Life of Antibiotic Only Treatment of Acute Uncomplicated Appendicitis: Results of the COMMA trial journals.lww.com/annalsofsurger…

The Sound of Emptiness - All who have ever heard it can relate to this! Powerful words by my amazing wife Iman Qaiser, MD, published in JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine. #MedTwitter doi.org/10.1007/s11606…

Happy doctors day!

Students of a school are busy in their annual exam in Hoper valley of #GilgitBaltistan.

Stop and smell the flowers

"When I think of #HealthEquity - the word 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 comes to mind - healthcare needs to be accessible & available, not based on where you live or how wealthy you are or what nationality you are or ethnicity or who you love" -Dr Maria Van Kerkhove

Protection from natural immunity in follow-up of over 25,000 healthcare workers: If you've had covid, there's an 84% lower risk of (re)infection for at least 7 months. 93% reduction in symptomatic infections. No effect of B.1.1.7. All good! New The Lancet thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Stocked and ready! First Ramadan working as a resident UTSW Surgery ! Should get some extra points this year .. !! #ramadankareem to all observing! UTSW Surgery Residents #MedTwitter

In 1876, Joseph Lister spoke in Philadelphia on sterile surgery. This inspired medicated plaster maker Robert Wood Johnson, who was in the audience, to form a company to make sterile sutures and dressings, starting in 1887. The name? Johnson & Johnson.

India is in the throes of a horrendous COVID surge Horrendous They are struggling to get more people vaccinated We are sitting on 35-40 million doses of Astra Zeneca vaccine Americans will never use Can we please give or lend them to India? Like may be now? It'll help. A lot