Anyone who thinks their “right” to walk in public without a mask is more important than a “few” people losing their lives to #COVID, has never stood by a dying patient’s bedside while holding an iPad so their family can say goodbye. I promise, it will haunt you. #COVID19

Here’s a teaching GIF to help visualize the 3D relationship between a frontal and lateral Chest X-Ray #FOAMed

I suppose why I feel so strongly about families rescinding DNR orders and aggressively resuscitating a love one who made their wishes know, is that it feels like it devalues that person's death, and in so doing, devalues their individual journey. Death is sad. It is hard. 1/

This will be my child ❤️

Continuing to do our part to fight the pandemic and #gotourshots and as we all returned to the frontlines we still put on our #masks #CovidVaccine Columbia Emergency Medicine NewYork-Presbyterian

Saving the world one inconclusive ultrasound at a time

1/ Why are hypodermic needles and IV catheters referenced by gauge numbers? And why does the needle diameter get smaller as the gauge number increases? Let's explore the obscure history of IV sizing in the following #histmed #tweetorial.

Excited for the educational goodness that starts tomorrow! Join me and Mel Herbert Amal Mattu Dr. Jaime Hope Dr. Glaucomflecken Critical Care Guys Jenny Beck-Esmay, MD Michael Weinstock @JessMasonMD Jessie Werner George Willis Chris Colwell, MD Jailyn/Ben Tarlan Hedayati & more for the event of the year!

View "Sound Rounds: Getting to the Heart of Acalculous Cholecystitis" in the latest Empire State EPIC issue. nyacep.org/newsletter-jun…

Come find out what our authors at Columbia Emergency Medicine and ColumbiaEMSono diagnose with #ultrasound! Check the link below! #POCUS for the win! #medtwitter #EMbound #visualdiagnosis Laura Chenevert Nathan Todd Jimmy Truong, DO Bernard P. Chang MD PhD Angela Mills MD doi.org/10.1016/j.visj…

Big T waves can be seen in LVH, hyper-K, or in hyperacute STEMI. A 🧵 showing each of these conditions in the *same* patient (at different times) 1/10

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Roman public latrines looked much like their Greek predecessors: rooms lined with stone or wooden bench seats positioned over a sewer. A tool called a tersorium was “used to clean the buttocks after defecation.” Imagine a loofah, but made of fresh sea sponge, attached to a