The annual Massachusetts Thoracic Society meeting is off to a great start ⁦Massachusetts Thoracic Society (MTS)⁩. So many great pulmonologists from across the state getting together to catch up. Special thanks to President Kai Saukkonen and President Elect ⁦Finn Hawkins⁩.

First talk! “Artificial Intelligence and Its Potential Impact on Pulmonary Medicine” by Deputy Editor of NEJM AI of Harvard Medical School and BIDMC, Arjun (Raj) Manrai!

Next we had the L. Jack Faling Best Cases of the Year presentations! First up Dr. Mariah Evarts from Boston Medical Center BU Pulmonary Boston University Pulmonary Fellows with faculty expert Dr. Scott Schissel of Brigham and Women's Hospital Mass General Brigham moderated by Dr. Asha Anandaiah of Harvard Pulmonary & Critical Care Fellowship MGH Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine BIDMC Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine!

Please join us for The Mass General Brigham Heart Failure & Shock Course on September 12-14, 2024. Visit the HMS Course Catalog to register!  cmecatalog.hms.harvard.edu/mass-general-b… Khue Ton Jerome Crowley Greg Lewis Jona Ludmir Eriberto Michel Douglas Drachman

In recent years, we’ve seen a disturbing rise in antisemitism locally & across US, especially after horrific terrorist attacks by Hamas on Oct 7th. It’s critical that we stand up for our Jewish neighbors, continue to denounce antisemitism, & call out hate when we see it.#bospoli

I found this statement, In Our Name, by the Columbia University Jewish student community compelling. With the details changed it speaks for what I know are the views and values of Harvard's Jewish community and the Jewish communities at many other universities.

🚨NEW PAPER🚨 It's live! With open access in the The Hastings Center. We argue that despite its promising clinical utility, there good reasons not to use #NRP in donation-after-circulatory-determination-of-death protocols. A 🧵to explain why... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ha…

Roger Foley, a Canadian man with disabilities, says he's been offered euthanasia "multiple times." Listen to him speak out against being devalued as he fights for the support he needs to live.

People who aren’t anti-Semitic don’t show up to a synagogue in a Jewish neighborhood with bear spray and other weapons to fight people.

If going to a predominantly Jewish neighborhood to harass and intimidate Jewish people at a synagogue is not antisemitism, what is? This is hate unleashed and every community leader should be forcefully speaking out. Enough is enough.

Image of the day for new #ICU folks. It’s always a good idea to #POCUS prior to thoracentesis, especially in #dialysis patients.

It should be “unburdened *from* what has been” not *by* what has been, unless ‘what has been’ has done the unburdening. That’s all.

Two months from now, I will be participating in the New England Parkinson's Ride with my Hero, my beloved Mary. She is fighting Parkinson's every day. Our team and the whole NEPR are raising money to find new treatments for PD. Donate here if you can! give.michaeljfox.org/fundraiser/544… Tx

🧵regarding the useful technique of 'straightening the wire' during central line placement when the plastic guide is no longer within reach. If you do a lot of central lines (or a lot of percutaneous procedures), this technique will come in handy over and over again. (1/ )

Limitation of Life Sustaining Therapy in Disorders of Consciousness: Ethics and Practice, in Brain —academic.oup.com/brain/article-… #consciousness #neuroethics #braininjury #neurology

Is this the best review ever written about temp RV MCS? My bias is yes! Congrats to Anthony Carnicelli, MD FACC & Manreet Kanwar for leading this effort w/ outstanding multidisciplinary collaborators. Indications, weaning strategies, anticoag recs, & more. JHLT jhltonline.org/article/S1053-…

"Where they burn [Jewish school buses], they will, in the end, burn [Jewish schoolchildren] too." – Heinrich Heine Terrifying to see Jewish schoolbuses torched in Ya'ara Saks יערה זקס's Toronto riding. Thanks to Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 for investigating. Wake up, Canada. Show up, Toronto Police.

This morning, a fire was set behind the Jewish school my children attend. In 2024. In Toronto. Thankfully nobody was hurt and it was extinguished before causing significant damage. #itsnotalright