Great talk from Aisha Shaikh at #VEITHSymposium - So, what Dialysis Access should we place in chronic hypotensive patients? VEITHsymposium

It’s officially the time of year where touching any metal surface in the hospital results in a static electricity discharge violent enough to stun a pygmy goat

Attention ED providers. When working up patients with arterial occlusive disease/ischemia of the lower extremities, please stop ordering, unilateral CT angiogram of the extremity. Please order CTA of the aorta with bilateral runoff. #comprehensivevascularcare Emergency Physicians

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Pea-soup fog and everything is cold and wet. Perfect OR weather

Getting harder by the day to justify continuing to use this platform. Bit of a shame

Greetings and salutations your eminence, the Journal of Vascular Seismology and Vampiric Incantations (JVSVI) respectfully asks you to submit your work for peer review. (yes I came out of retirement to tweet this)

Good time debating my colleagues Reid Ravin Leigh Ann O'Banion We are all winners when the patient wins.

Logs back into twitter for VAM. Feed filled with self-promotional tweets giving unsolicited medical advice to Deion Sanders about his PAD. Goes back into deep twitter hibernation.

nytimes.com/2023/07/15/hea… I've been waiting years for someone to write an article this good about the overuse of PAD procedures and atherectomy. Thank you Katie Thomas Jessica Silver-Greenberg 🕵🏻‍♀️ Robert Gebeloff

The onslaught of stories about #overtreatment of #claudication continues. Powerful The New York Times article on the cover today . . . And it really hits home. When will it stop??? #WeCanFoBetter #Appropriateness #PADEd Vascular SVS Judith Lin MD MBA nytimes.com/2023/07/15/hea…

Another damning example of gross procedural overuse in the treatment of #PAD from ProPublica. These news articles call out #outliers- but this is becoming a pattern. #WeNeedToDoSomething #Appropriateness Vascular SVS Society of Interventional Radiology American College of Cardiology propublica.org/article/pennsy…

Medicare advantage is systematically destroying one of the few functional parts of our medical system. Asking an 87 year old with CTLI to hope their angio is retro-auth’d is completely unconscionable I’m surprised I don’t hear more pushback about the privatization of Medicare

My partner had her Wells Fargo checking and savings accounts cleaned out by scammers, including a credit card cash advance to increase the balance first. Gave NO personal or security info to anyone. Bank has told us that it is her fault and they will not refund anything (1/x)