Is this progress? reuters.com/world/americas…

Great for patients! Non-Restrictive diet is non-inferior to traditional low microbial protective diet during neutropenia after autologous transplant - data from a multicenter randomized trial ashpublications.org/bloodadvances/… Blood Advances

I don’t agree with this graphic from the paper. Instead I’d say the “minimally effective dose of palliative care” is a human clinician present to the needs of their patient, moment to moment, day to day. #hapc

I revisit this lesson on writing structure every 3-4 months. Gold:

ICYMI: "Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed?" -> great reporting by Nature nature.com/articles/d4158…

Every time we acknowledge the pitfalls of cross-trial comparison

The realities of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada Published online today Cambridge University Press cambridge.org/core/journals/… The 🇨🇦 MAiD regime is lacking the safeguards, data collection, and oversight necessary to protect Canadians against premature death. - Coelho, Maher, Gaind, Lemmens

“The Canadian MAiD regime is lacking the safeguards, data collection, and oversight necessary to protect Canadians against premature death.” The realities of Medical Assistance in Dying in 🇨🇦 by ⁦Sonu Gaind⁩ ⁦Trudo Lemmens⁩, Maher & Coelho cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Important NEW paper on the realities of MAiD in Canada. By Ramona Coelho, John Maher, Sonu Gaind & Trudo Lemmens cambridge.org/core/journals/…

"The cases we discussed here reveal a troubling normalization of MAiD as “standard treatment” for a broad range of suffering, including suffering caused or augmented by socioeconomic factors." cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Imagine your loved one has a severe hypoglycemic emergency. You run to the glucagon kit and find these are the instructions 😲. Thankfully, we now have 1 step nasal and subcutaneous glucagon kits instead of 11 steps 💯 But only 17% of Type 1 Diabetes pts have one at home!

I spend a lot of time teaching medical students. One of my favorite classes to teach is "clinical reasoning," where med students learn to synthesize patient information together with their growing body of medical knowledge to figure out how to diagnose and treat illness.

👀 JULY 28, 3pm ET: Should AI care for us? What are the ethics of integrating AI into caregiving relationships. Join Illah R. Nourbakhsh Carnegie Mellon University @ShannonVallor Mercer Gary #AI #healthcare #medtwitter #robots #ethics 👉 bit.ly/44v0u6r

Oof, this poem

The next month of Ethics and Public Policy Center Searching for Medicine’s Soul (open.spotify.com/show/3ZSnXptlu…) is looking super exciting…episodes coming out soon: