This is what fans were like in 1920.

So cool!

This is increasingly the position of many doctors working with PAs. I think they could be a useful addition to a team but not in its current guise seeing patients independently in the absence of medical training - this is a patient safety issue

5 babies dead from whooping cough.

Worst outbreak in 40 years.

Vaccines had nearly eradicated the disease.
As vaccines uptake increases, disease falls dramatically.
As people avoid vaccines, babies die.

It's not rocket science.
Vaccines work.

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Today 16 years ago was #MothersDay ♥️ we received the call for #GiftOfLife 🎁 #Kidney Tx for Harris 🙏

#Gratitude to God, the Donor & her family for giving life to our family & Harris’ vascular surgeon & team

🙏 you have continued #health dear brother♥️

#OrganDonation gives…

Thomas Pilgrim (Thomas Pilgrim) shares his #QuickTake on the risk of cardiac arrhythmia among men climbing Mount Everest, as seen in the SUMMIT study. Check out the full video here: tctmd.com/videos/tctmds-…

EMPRESS-MI will assess the effect of the SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin on cardiac remodelling in patients with LVSD after an acute MI.
doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.1…

Jaclyn Carberry Mark Petrie Colin Berry Kieran Docherty University of Glasgow Heart Failure Research Group UofG SCMH BHF CoRE Glasgow
#HF #MI #SGLT2i

May reminder:

I² estimates between-study heterogeneity: NO❌

I² is a test for between-study heterogeneity: NO❌

I² > 50% means large heterogeneity: NO❌

I² measures percentage of total variability due to between-study heterogeneity: YES✅

bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

This is criminal negligence placing patients at risk to drive an agenda that the public dont want

How do you assess the calibration of multistate models used for risk prediction ? models - our work led by Alex Pate, Matthew Sperrin & Glen Martin provides insight.

Statistics in Medicine - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/si… Niels Peek Richard Riley (R²) Iain Buchan

67 yr male presenting with heart failure (NYHA II), CMR EF 31%, transmural LGE in lateral/anterolat segments.

Angiogram: 3VD (calcified prox LAD, severe LCx/OM1, CTO RCA). Surgical turndown due to airways disease.

Complete, partial or no revasc?

Poll below 👇

#EuroPCR #JACC

We’ve moved from a situation of not enough GP applicants for advertised posts to one of intense competition for jobs. Some salaried posts have 30-40 applicants; GP registrars could face the prospect of unemployment as they near the end of their training.
bmj.com/content/385/bm…

If you are in the LA area and need a dog, please consider sweet Piper who needs a home. She was abused, and so scared of humans. Now being fostered by Danielle Belardo, MD and she is slowly trusting humans again 🥹

Let’s find her a good home please! ♥️

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Proud of our center and our amazing young stars
Abdullah Alsaiedi I عبدالله السعيدي Rasha Al-Bawardy Alex Smith

Bold step forward in JAMA today.

A viewpoint describing whether and when causal language can be used to describe the intent and results of observational studies.

Led by BIDMC Smith Center and CAUSALab epidemiologist Issa Dahabreh.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

I am glad to see JAMA taking the lead in this effort to codify both the methodologic considerations as well as the language around observational studies where there is intent to demonstrate a causal relationship. This is an inportant step.

11 'complaints'-all from PA colleagues to Royal College of Physicians
Reviewed by RCP

Decision:

'No current grounds to proceed with investigating these complaints further'

An excerpt from one of them

My concern is about safety based on lack of scope/regulation etc

Don't make it personal.

Peter Brennan A bit academic to write about #HumanFactors in 🇬🇧 #Surgery

With #CareerBlock For #Doctors

& Role Substitution by
#PhysicianAssociates
#SCPs

Tim Mitchell The Royal College of Surgeons of England The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow AoMRC

ASGBI ASiT The Roux Group BOTA The BMA BJS The BMJ

Today May 7 was Rabindranath Tagore Birthday 163 yrs ago
He won the The Nobel Prize in literature 1913, the first Indian

“This is my delight, thus to wait and watch at the wayside where shadow chases light and the rain comes in the wake of the summer.

Messengers, with tidings…

Dr. Purvi Parwani Srihari S. Naidu, MD Mamas A. Mamas Raj Janardhanan, MD, MRCP, FACC, FASE Juan Lopez-Mattei, MD Jamal Rana, MD Roosha Parikh Gina Lundberg MD FACC FAHA Dr Anastasia Mihailidou FAHA FCSANZ FESC Preeti Cho Rebecca Kozor Looks like some folks in Australia (and elsewhere) need to read this ACC document. The Centenary Institute should invite Pamela S Douglas or @sharronehayes to give grand rounds. acc.org/Latest-in-Card…

Our analysis of patients with chronic kidney disease (first report of dialysis pts) who received Impella assisted HRPCI in Protect III CircInterventions #CirculationIntv #MedTwitter #CardioTwitter

💥Lower eGFR had more severely calcified CAD, greater atherectomy usage but no increased…