A thread on Snake Bite management, focusing on approach in the ER and ICU in a tertiary care center Topics: History and examination in ER Assessment in ICU Investigations ASV Specific Bite management Recovery Surgical Procedures Shifting Out Long-term complications

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I’ve gotten a bunch of DMs asking how I got here. Took some time to really think it through, and here are a few practical thoughts that might help: 1. Do AI. AI is the steam engine of our era. We’re incredibly lucky to be born right when it’s taking off. It would be a HUGE waste

Award for the most judgmental therapist ever goes to..

Pray tell where does she live?

I stole this idea and now use it with every single employee. It’s the best illustration I’ve seen of teaching someone to be high agency. It says there are 5 levels of work: Level 1: “There is a problem.” Level 2: “There is a problem, and I’ve found some causes.” Level 3:

This beauty made my day. As a doctor I’m astounded by how much medicine is dependent on applied mathematics. Every heartbeat your doctor listens to, every breath test you take, every medicine dose prescribed is all calculus working silently in the background. When they measure

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Yeah. Setting up lights for diwali was a whole ritual.

Can't believe he was the FM of our country.

More than 25 years ago, Prof. G. Srinivasan (RRI, Bengaluru), in an astrophysics class, narrated something that has stuck in my mind. I am paraphrasing here. He told us about a conversation he had with Prof. Jocelyn Bell, the discoverer of pulsars (rotating neutron stars).

Congratulations, Dr. Vinitha! Heartiest congratulations on being part of history — the first successful bilateral lung transplantation in a Government Medical College, at Government Medical College, Kottayam. Special appreciation to the entire CTVS, Pulmonology, Cardiac

The observed relationship between vaccines and autism is that the vaccines allow many children to survive to the age when autism can be diagnosed.

'Vaccinated against personal attacks on me' means you are immune to criticism because the 'vaccine' you took worked. You are literally proving the point of vaccines.

We do NOT give 56 vaccines. At least do basic due diligence before posting.

Sunita Sayammagaru 🇮🇳🇬🇧 I respect him too , no doubt. I don't know he has a child with autism. I wish him and his family the very best of health. I shall continue to disagree with him in the same tone that he is putting out posts. Goodness merits goodness.

Should learn from Steve Jobs. Similar vibes.

It keeps getting worse.

A personal story, R went on a short business trip of 5 days to US in 2018, came back with illness. Eventually diagnosed to have westnile meningoencephalitis. Diagnosed after intensive search for etiology, Texas was endemic for westnile virus, that particular week there was an

Beautifully explained.