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🧵for new residents and students:

Over the last year, I've done 9 threads on different suture materials. Included here are links to each of these. I'll leave this 'pinned' for now. They are:

Prolene, silk, Vicryl, PDS, Ethibond, Nylon, Monocryl, Chromic, and barbed sutures.

For everyone who missed out on the northern lights at least PET scans are the aurora borealis of medical imaging 🤷🏻‍♂️

National Nurses Week 2024 is May 6 - May 12. This year's American Nurses Association theme, 'Nurses Make the Difference,' honors the incredible nurses who embody the spirit of compassion & care in every health care setting. #SCCMSoMe #NursesLightUptheSky

At age 17, she was rejected from college.
At age 25, her mother died from the disease.
At age 26, she moved to Portugal to teach English.
At age 27, she got married.

Her husband abused her. Her daughter was born.
At age 28, she got divorced and was diagnosed with severe…

Learned this in Law & Bioethics class Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics - the passage of #Medicare was relevant to the desegregation of U.S. hospitals: those that remained segregated risked losing federal funds. 'Power to Heal' documentary by filmmaker Charles Burnett blbfilmproductions.com

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#Tele -ICU office. I always marvel at how high-tech the job is: can enter ICU rooms & talk with patients & clinicians in states as far away as Maine & Florida. (Side note: I'm required to announce whenever I step out to empty my bladder)🚽 #criticalcare Int’l Women in Intensive & Critical Care SCCM

#Maryland = state with highest number of handguns used in #homicide . Most guns here (>59%) are from out of state ('Iron Pipeline'). Grand rounds by chief of trauma Dr. David Efron Shock Trauma University of Maryland Medical Center University of Maryland School of Medicine Brandon M. Scott Jeff Salkin Shock Trauma Center Critical Care Fellowship

Our paper was cited in The New Yorker, discussing the dilemma of ECMO.

As medical technology advances and the impossible becomes possible, ironically, end-of-life decision-making becomes more difficult.

Kenneth Prager

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New Research highlights the potential benefit of combining GLP-1 receptor agonists and SGLT-2 inhibitors to prevent cardiovascular and renal events in the treatment of type 2 diabetes
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A comic reflection on the roller coaster of medical training 🎢

How do you possibly capture all the ups and downs, the amazing moments and terrible moments, and every messy moment in between?

May is National Critical Care Awareness and Recognition Month! 🙌 Join SCCM in acknowledging the commitment of critical care clinicians worldwide. Share your celebrations this month using #CritCareMonth & turn your ICU blue on Friday, May 17! 💙 sccm.org/critcaremonth
#SCCMSoMe

In cultures of politeness, dissent is a threat to social harmony. People nod and smile even if they disagree, and silence fuels groupthink.

In cultures of integrity, dissent is a sign of commitment to quality. People voice their views, and respectful debate improves decisions.

Every time I thought my grandmother was wrong, I turned out to be the one who is wrong.

#grandmotherisalwaysright

So much beauty within the human body, even the inner ear AmAcadOtolaryngology Women in Otolaryngology Dr. Sujana Chandrasekhar

The measure of what makes a good medical student and future physician should not be how many publications they have, but how well they understand and care for their patients. trib.al/r3ip6BB

The first randomized trial of medical #AI to show it saves lives
ECG-AI alert in 16,000 hospitalized patients
31% reduction of mortality (absolute 7 per 100 patients) in pre-specified high-risk group
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Nature Medicine

Monthly reminder.